Re:The Making of Darius (1987)
by nine_k on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:09PM
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Volgograd, née Stalingrad, was a site of a major battle of WWII, which makes it a part of Western history. That same logic makes the Japanese city of Hiroshima a major part of Westetn history, too. But these events are not yet a century old.
Wars between ancient Greece and ancient Persia are 25 or so centuries old. An excited description of the Persian emperor Cyrus by Xenophon, a Greek, is about as old; that book was a bestseller in Europe for several centuries. Persia interacted with the European West a lot.
Ancient Egypt is also a major part of Western history, for a really long list of reasons. (Arabian Egypt, not so much, of course.)
Re:The Making of Darius (1987)
by Gordonjcp on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:39PM
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25 centuries - 2500 years - isn't that long ago. That's well into the Iron Age, with signs of early industrial processes - moulds and jigs for making iron tools and weapons - cropping up in some sites.
Wars between ancient Greece and ancient Persia are 25 or so centuries old. An excited description of the Persian emperor Cyrus by Xenophon, a Greek, is about as old; that book was a bestseller in Europe for several centuries. Persia interacted with the European West a lot.
Ancient Egypt is also a major part of Western history, for a really long list of reasons. (Arabian Egypt, not so much, of course.)