Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the dynasty that ruled the Persian Empire.
- noun A member or subject of this dynasty.
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- adjective relating to the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the
Achaemenid Empire ), founded byAchaemenes - noun a member of the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the
Achaemenid Empire )
Etymologies
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Examples
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His kingdom was known as the Achaemenid (ə-kē'mə-nĭd) (or Persian) empire.
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Considered the first work of history in Western literature, the Histories tells the story of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Pierre Briant's "Alexander the Great and His Empire" may be short, but it is of a wholly different order of seriousness from that of Mr. Freeman: an analysis less of Alexander himself than of his record as a state-builder and in particular of the debt that he owed to his Achaemenid predecessors.
The Greatest of Them All Tom Holland 2011
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When the Chaldean empire was absorbed into the Achaemenid, the name Chaldean lost its meaning as the name of an ethnic group, and came to be applied to a class.
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Sure, Persia once controlled the territory which is now modern day Turkey, which does border the Mediterranean, but that was between 550 and 330 BCE, when the Achaemenid Empire controlled most of the civilized world.
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Achaemenid: The Persian royal house from the region near Persepolis.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Achaemenid: The Persian royal house from the region near Persepolis.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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When Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, first encountered Greeks on his western boundaries, he sneered at the race of shopkeepers who hung about the agora cheating one another all day.
The Greeks' Daring Experiment James Romm 2012
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Achaemenid: The Persian royal house from the region near Persepolis.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Considered the first work of history in Western literature, the Histories tells the story of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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