Description: Map of the kingdoms of Lydia, Media, and Babylonia. Persian King Cyrus the Great created a Persian Empire that included all three of these kingdoms. ÒThrough his energy and soldiery genius, he soon built up an empire more extended than any over which the scepter had yet been swayed by an Oriental monarch, or indeed, so far as we know, by any ruler before his time. It stretched from the Indus to the Persian gulf, thus embracing not only the territories of the Median kingdom, but also those of the allied kingdoms of Lydia and Babylonia.Ó —Myers, 1896
Source: P. V. N. Myers, A General History for Colleges and High Schools (Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1896) 74
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman. |
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