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| an abandoned Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the tigris river and capital of the Neo Assyrian empire. |
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| someone who owes a high position in an organization or government, participate in the exercise of authority. |
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| networks of staging posts |
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| riding horses to take messages to other people. |
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| individual public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign. |
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| son of Cyrus, in 525 BCE sounded the Egyptians and nub rains. |
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| main highway it spanned the egyptians and it spanned some 1,677miles. |
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| ancient city of the Elmatic Persian and parthian empires of Iran located in the lower Zaqros. |
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| was the source of all justice , he held the power of life and death over everyone. |
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| not liable to death, living forever (god, goddess) |
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| persian king who ruled in the 4th century BC he had 115 sons |
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| deep or seemingly bottom less chasm, regions of hell conceived of us as a bottomless pit. |
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| "wise lord" the supreme god who brought all things into king. possessed qualities Good thought right and piety. |
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| the sacred book of Zoroastrianism |
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| prophet, a thinker and preacher author of religious texts, he introduces new spiritual concepts to persian people, stressed devotion to ahurmazda alone. |
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| land between two rivers ( tigris and euphrates) |
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| where settled agriculture first developed |
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| temple in the form of a step-pyramid built in the center of a mesopotamian city to honor the gods. |
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| city with its surrounded territory forming an independent state. |
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| system of government in which priests rule in the hand of God. |
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| an extensive group of states under a single supreme authority. |
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