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The Qin Dynasty and the Transition from Ancient to Imperial China. The Han Dynasty, 202 BCE - 220 CE ... The Gupta Empire is the pre-eminent example of such a power during the period 300 ... the Gupta era is often labeled as a classical age for India. A period in the history of a civilization's being labeled as classical generally means it

The Iron Age. The period between the end of the Late Bronze Age, around 1200 BCE, and the destruction of the First Temple in 586, is called the Iron Age. ... includes within Iron Age I, the period of the 20 th Dynasty in Egypt until the end of the period of Egyptian rule in Canaan (1200 until Ramesses IV or VI, around 1140-1130). This period

The Achaemenid dynasty finally fell to the invading armies of Alexander the Great of Macedon in 330 B.C. Subsequent rulers sought to restore the Persian Empire to its Achaemenian boundaries, though the empire never quite regained the enormous size it had achieved under Cyrus the Great. Darius the Great, the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire, ruled over the Persian Empire when it was at its largest, stretching from The Caucasus and West Asia to what was then Macedonia (today’s Balkans), the Black Sea, Central Asia and even into Africa including parts of Libya and Egypt. (The griffon is a mythical creature with the wings and head of an eagle and the body of a lion, and a symbol of the Persian capital of Persepolis.) May 30, 2023 | Original: January 25, 2018 Table of Contents The Persian Empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modern-day Iran that spanned several centuries—from the sixth century B.C. to the 20th century A.D. The first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great around 550 B.C., became one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Europe’s Balkan Peninsula in the West to India’s Indus Valley in the East.