Cities
The Scamander River flows through the plain in front of this famous city. If you don't believe me, ask Achilles.
What is Troy ?
The fall of this king's empire came in 546 BC after he misinterpreted the Delphic Oracle and went to war with Persia.
Who is Croessus ?
It was in this year that Athens first defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
What is 490 BC ?
The Babylonians asserted that the voice of authority issued from the city of Babylon alone because THIS god dwelt there.
What is Marduk ?
This way of interpreting the material world assumes that gods inhabit all aspects of nature.
What is ANIMISM ?
This city famously refused to provide military support to the Ionian Revolt.
What is Sparta ?
Babylon fell in 539 BC when, according to Herodotus, my armies used a drained river-bed to march into the city.
Who is Cyrus ?
The Greeks conventionally 'tell time' based on the first Olympics, which occurred in this year.
What is 776 BC ?
It was in Babylon that THIS ruler created the earliest complete legal code.
who is Hammurabi ?
This is the first word of the Iliad.
What is MENIS ?
Utanapishtum told his people that he was leaving them to be with his god Enki in this spring-fed Sumerian city.
What is Eridu ?
According to Herodotus, the great city of Sardis was conquered by the Persians after this fell from its walls.
What is a helmet ?
It was in this year that Leonidas led his 300 Spartans into the pass of Thermopylae.
What is 480 BC ?
In the Book of Daniel, a mysterious hand writes 'Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin' upon the wall at Balshazzar's feast, telling him that these people were about to remove him from the throne of Babylon.
Who are the Persians ?
It was this word inserted into the Pythia's response that helped Themistocles convince the Athenians to evacuate the city and fight here instead.
What is Salamis ?
The Hittites were rediscovered by archaeologists in this modern Syrian city.
What is Aleppo ?
After Enki killed Apsu, the Tablets of Destiny were given to this god, Tiamat's new husband.
Who is Kingu ?
By this date it was clear that Xerxes was preparing a third invasion of the Greek mainland, for it impelled the Greeks to create the Hellenic League... and convinced Athens of the necessity of building a trireme fleet of its own.
What is 483 BC ?
In the 90s Michael Straczynski founded one of the first cyberspace communities when he created this popular sci-fi TV series.
What is 'Babylon-5' ?
King Leonidas famously responded with these words when told to lay down his arms at Thermopylae.
What is 'Molon Labe' or 'come and take them' ?
When Biblical writers envisioned the Apocalypse, it was this city that they had in mind, which is why they write of Armageddon.
What is MEGIDDO ?
Zeus himself wept when he fell at Troy, killed by the spear of Patroclus, which is not surprising considering he was Zeus' son.
Who is Sarpedon ?
The world's oldest surviving law code, attributed to the Babylonian Emperor Hammurabi, comes from this general time period.
What is c.1750 BC ?
Because Cyrus, an ANOINTED king, liberated the Jews after his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC he is considered this in Hebrew.
What is 'messiah' ?
The word 'WORD' in the opening line of the Gospel of John -- 'In the Beginning was the Word' -- is the English translation on this most Greek word.
What is LOGOS