Seleucia

City · 305 BCE – 165 CE · in the Middle East

Capital of Parthian Empire (239 BCE–224).

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• Cyrus the Great (c. 600 BCE – 530 BCE): Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, which he expanded from Anatolia to Central Asia by conquering Media, Lydia and Babylon.
• Campaigns of Alexander the Great (334–323 BCE): Alexander of Macedon crossed into Asia in 334 BCE, defeated Darius III at Issus and Gaugamela, conquered Egypt and the Persian Empire, and campaigned as far as the Indus valley before dying in Babylon in 323 BCE.
• Cleopatra (69 BCE – 30 BCE): The last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, she allied with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony; her death after defeat by Octavian ended the dynasty and Egypt became a Roman province.
• Jesus (c. 4 BCE – 30 CE): A Jewish preacher from Galilee whose teachings and crucifixion in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate became the foundation of Christianity.
• Uruk (c. 5,000 BCE – c. 700 CE): Sumerian city on the Euphrates that by about 3100 BCE was probably the largest city in the world, centre of the first urban civilization.
• Fall of Babylon (539 BCE): Cyrus the Great's Persian army took Babylon, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire; Cyrus later allowed deported peoples, including the Judeans, to return home.
• Persepolis (c. 518 BCE): Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire begun by Darius I, famous for its columned halls and reliefs; Alexander the Great burned it in 330 BCE.
• Alexandria (331 BCE): Founded by Alexander the Great on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, it became the capital of Ptolemaic Egypt and a leading centre of Hellenistic learning.

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