CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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Which event best replaces the ‘’?” in the diagram below?
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Xerxes invades the Greek peninsula
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Cyrus conqueres the city of Babylon
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Piankhe becomes a Nubian pharoah
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Moses receives laws on Mount Sinai
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -CONQUEST OF BABYLON Cyrus met and routed the Babylonian army in battle near Opis, where the Diyala flows into the Tigris. After this, the people of Sippar opened their gates to him without resistance. The Babylonian king Nabonidus fled, and Cyrus sent his servant Ugbaru, the governor of Gutium, to capture Babylon.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Fall of Babylon denotes the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BCE.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 539 B.C., less than a century after its founding, the legendary Persian king Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon. The fall of Babylon was complete when the empire came under Persian control.
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