1, His outpost on the Dardanelles was within the Persian empire.

2, In what ways did the Persian Empire restrict the freedom of its subjects?

3, The Persian Empire didn't do it.

4, In 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire.

5, A thousand nations of the Persian Empire descend upon you.

6, At this point, the Persian Empire was divided into two halves –East and West.

7, Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire, called himself "King of Iran".

8, Because they lived on the edge of the Persian Empire, they were ruled by the king of Persia.

9, Mausolus was a satrap, or governor, in the Persian Empire, and his fabled tomb is the source of the word "mausoleum."

10, The Tajikistan were part of the ancient Persian Empire that was ruled by Darius I and later conquered by Alexander the Great (333 B.C.).

11, The Persian Empire stretched from Egypt to India, but conducted business in Aramaic, a desert tongue of the Fertile Crescent.

12, Armenia, in fact, was once part of the Persian Empire.

13, I'm proud of Iran for it's glorious history (Persian Empire).

14, Oman constituted one of the Satrapies of the Persian Empire around 563 BC.

15, Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian Empire in the 6th century BC.

16, In 480 BC,(http:///persian empire.html) Athens lay in ruins conquered by the seemingly unstoppable Persian Empire.

17, In the battle of the Granicus in 334 BC, the first of three major battles fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire, Alexander came close to dying in combat.

18, For thousands of years the present area of Uzbekistan was a part of the Persian Empire.

19, For 2,500 years it was always part of somebody's empire, beginning with the Persian Empire in the fifth century B.C.

20, At the time we were still hundreds of years behind Persian Empire and Roman Empire in such fields as medicine, astronomy and mathematics.

21, Nowruz is celebrated in many countries, like Afghanistan, that were once part of the powerful Persian empire.

22, Iran has been a state since the creation of the Persian empire in the sixth century BC.

23, King of Persia (33'-330) who was defeated in several battles by Alexander the Great. His murder by a Bactrian satrap effectively ended the Persian Empire.

24, Perhaps John wants his audience to also think of Dan 8, where a two-horned ram represents the Medo Persian empire (8:20).

25, The Great Persian King Darius I announced that the official language of the western half of the Persian Empire was to be Aramaic.

26, This battle was fought between the united Greek kingdoms against the Persian Empire during the Greco-Persian Wars.

27, Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, ruled Persia for 30 years. During his reign, the Persian Empire encompassed much of the Middle East, including Iran, Israel and Mesopotamia.