Mede

Examples

• He was presently succeeded by Darius the Mede (521 B.C.), the son of Hystaspes, one of the chief councillors of Cyrus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By all the laws of the Medes and Persians, said Maurice, kissing her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• This was probably the eclipse of 585 B.. wh ich interrupted a fierce battle between the Medes and the Lydians. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Macedonia does, indeed, arise in the background of this incurably divided Greece as the Medes and Persians arose behind the Chaldean Empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nebuchadnezzar the Great, on the other hand, marries a daughter of Cyaxares, who has become king of all the Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Medes and Persians formed an alliance with the nomadic Semitic Chaldeans of the south for the joint undoing of Assyria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They are spoken of in the inscriptions as the dangerous Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After 479 B.C. (Plat?a) the spirit seems to have gone out of the government of the Medes and Persians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius fled to the north into the country of the Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Aryan Scythians are for the Semitic Assyrians; the Aryan Medes for the Semitic Babylonians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the ninth century B.C. a people called the Medes, very closely related to the Persians to the east of them, appear in the Assyrian inscriptions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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