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VII. Iranian Empires and their vassal states

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Author(s): Rollinger, Robert | Wiesehöfer, Josef | Schottky, Martin
VII. 1. Media Establishing a list of Median kings is hampered by grave difficulties, as the notion of Median kings simultaneously implies that of a Median kingdom. The historical existence of this kingdom is presented as a fact in the classical sources. Ever since the publication of the work of Herodotus [1], the history of the Near East was conceptualised as a sequence of World Empires, in which there was a direct succession from the Assyrian kingdom to the Median and the Median to the Persian. Ct…