The Early Medes and the Median Empire (History of Ancient Iran)
History with Cy
English - June 19, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBCourses Education Society & Culture Places & Travel history ancient history medieval history world history country history ancient mesopotamia ancient greece ancient persia medieval europe ancient anatolia Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this video podcast, we'll take a look at one of the most overlooked peoples of ancient history, the Medes, and reconstruct their early history using Assyrian, Babylonian and Greek sources, namely Herodotus (the Medes don't have any primary sources of their own). It was the Medes and the Median Empire that laid the foundation upon which the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great and his descendants rested upon.
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