Chapter 59
High king of the Medes and the Persians. He tried to have the baby Cyrus killed, out of fear for his own position.
Who was Astyages?
Astyages's cousin and chief official.
Who was Harpagus?
The name of the trading post the Phocaeans built for themselves on the island of Corsica, or as the Greeks called it, Cyrnus.
What was Alalia?
The name for the eastern lands that lay on the other side of the Tiber outside of Rome.
What was the Janiculum?
Wife of Astyages and mother of Mandane.
Who was Aryenis?
Daughter of Astyages and Aryenis, and mother of Cyrus II.
Who was Mandane?
Anachronistic name for the tribes who roamed around in western central Europe between 600 and 500 BC. Referred to later as ___________ or ______________, by the Greeks and Romans in 600 and 500 BC they were merely a scattering of tribes with no ethnic identity.
Who were the Celts/Gauls?
King of the Etruscan city of Clusium, led an attack against Rome to reinstate Etruscan dominance after the fall of Tarquin the Proud.
Who was Lars Porsena?
Named co-regent by his father Nabonidus, and put in charge of Babylon while the king traveled to Arabia in order to worship the moon-god Sin.
Who was Belshazzar?
Army officer who helped negotiate the treaty between the Medes and the Persians, and ended up as a king of Babylon after the multiple short reigns of Nebuchadnezzar II's kin.
Who was Nebonidus?
A city on the northern coast of Africa at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. __________ was about three hundred years old in 550 BC, and was ruled by Mago, the first ____________ monarch of whom we have any historical record.
What was Carthage?
Colony built by the Phocaeans on the coast of southern France. The colony acted as a trading post to the west, where the Phocaeans could exchange goods with the Celts.
What was Massalia?
Persian vassal to king Astyages, and was chosen by the Median king to marry his daughter, Mandane. With Mandane, _____________ fathered Cyrus II.
Who was Cambyses?
The new capital city Cyrus II built for the administration of his new empire.
What was Pasargadae?
A name for the civilization of people who spread from modern Austria across to the southern Loire River who buried their dead in a very particular style. The name _____________ comes from the best-known of these burial sites south of the Danube.
What is Hallstatt?
A ship with 50 oars and a square mainsail that was particular to the Phocaeans. Perfect for trade because it carried a large crew.
What was a Penteconter?
Son of Alyattes, ruled over the Lydians of Asia Minor. ______________ extended the Lydian empire: he made the Phrygians subject to Lydia, and allied Lydia with the Greek Ionian cities on the coast.
Who was Croesus?
What happened in Astyages's second dream?
A vine grew from his daughter, Mandane, and curled itself all around his territory.
Roman soldier who single-handedly held off Etruscan forces lead by Lars Porsena on the bridge that connected the Janiculum to the city. ____________fought courageously until Roman demolition forces arrived to destroy the bridge: Roman legend claims he went down with the bridge, plunged into the Tiber, and then swam across.
Who was Horatius?
One of a set of many huge rings of standing stones found in England used for something that had to do with the sky. Construction began sometime around 3100 BC and continued over the next two thousand years.
What is Stonehenge?