Persia

(noun.) an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.

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• It reached out far beyond the utmost limits of the empire, into Armenia, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Germany, India, and Turkestan. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Over most of the area of Western Central Asia and Persia and Mesopotamia, the ancient distinction of nomad and settled population remains to this day. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In Smyrna we picked up camel's hair shawls and other dressy things from Persia; but in Palestine--ah, in Palestine--our splendid career ended. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Nevertheless, Manich?ism held its own in Persia with Nestorian Christianity and orthodox Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism) for some centuries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They had no knowledge of geography beyond the range of the Mediterranean basin and the frontiers of Persia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have already mentioned the very recent Kharismian empire of Turkestan, Persia, and North India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Xerxes was murdered in his palace about 465 B.C., and thereafter Persia made no further attempts at conquest in Europe. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The war between Persia and the Byzantine Empire was only formally concluded about the time of the beginning of Abu Bekr's rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Tibet was invaded and devastated by Mangu, and Persia and Syria invaded in good earnest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Persia, with its cloth of gold, marble halls, and infinite wealth, is now a tomb. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their personal bearing, he says further, is quieter and more dignified than that of the townsmen of Turkestan and Persia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He represented himself as the loyal friend of Persia, and Darius was not disposed to be too critical. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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