MASSIVE EXPANSION FOR CAMPAIGNS OF TAMERLANE (PLUS MAP IN LAPTOP)

TO DO LIST

• visit here for images of the coins of afsharid kings and coin of abass III!
• information of elam and elamite kings here including a possible king portait!!: https://books.google.ca/books?id=mc4cfzkRVj4C&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=Kul-e+Farah+elamite+text&source=bl&ots=iyn8E_XVzH&sig=4Y0XAGUDm2Hh-8AaOOuXxVOAlhw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAWoVChMIqJT5mrbrxwIVhQWSCh0fvgVu#v=onepage&q=Kul-e%20Farah%20elamite%20text&f=false
• Make an image of Choga zanbils reconstruction. get from here: http://i0.wp.com/www.kavehfarrokh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Choqa-zanbil-Model.jpg . then add to article.Choga Zanbil
• Make article about Cyrus's siege of Babylon, + this image: File:The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean Wellcome V0034440.jpg
• make list of Ancient persian reliefs. be sure to include: Eshkaft-e Salman and Kul-e Farah (elamite)
• make list of ancient Persian inscriptions. Include the 2 Elamite sites mentioned above.
• Create article: list of achaemenid tombs. also include incomplete tombs, like the unfinished tomb of persepolis, and the qadamagh rock cut tomb. Note that Livius allows wikipedians to use their images along with flickr
• make a coloured version of Cyrus I's portrait. Background too?
• add Persian role into Cylinder Seal article. Add images of famous darius seal. Make a seperate section for its achaemenid use, and its pre cyrus achaemenid uses (Cyrus I)
• there r Lotta images from guy who uploaded achaemenid soldier image from qavam house. Search qavam house, click on the pic of achaemenid soldier, go down into details and see other images the dude uploaded near the categories thing.
• find better image of artaxerxes I
• make article about achaemenid falcon standard. make it like: Vergina Sun article
• add thid image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/7422018714/in/photostream/ to fath ali shah, and taq bostan article
• Remove statements on greek articles that persians were slave holders. make sure to have legit references. Also add negative information to greek articles
• add negative information about alexander the great to his article. he is evil. make sure you add references so they dont bug u and waste ur time
• upload images from this livius gallery: http://www.livius.org/category/persia/ (images are cc by sa 4.0 BTW
• make images for battles of cyrus the great and other persian empire related battles
• Add Pantea Arteshbod romance into cyrus the great article. Also add other information from Xenophon's Cyropedia in there
• EXPANSION for Cyrus article. More details are needed.
• get article: list of kings of persia protected from vandalization by requesting it be protected via: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Expand article : Wars of Cyrus the Great
• help expand kura river (russia) article with translation from russian version
• make non copyvio version of Apranik article using the code bellow this to do list. also create an article for Azad Deylami
• Make images for the woman generals and commanders u made articles abouT from: http://www.persepolis.nu/queens.htm
• Make COLOURED drawing for wikipedia. (in achaemenid empire articles). Takabara image needs illustration too! All images to draw are in Paint
• finish dem rep
• FINISH LIST OF KINGS BY AMOUNT OF TERRITORY CONQUERED STAT
• Translate farsi wikipedia version of article: Cyaxares, into english (to expand the cyaxares article)
• Add cyrus's role into article about etementaki temple
• Make a no copyvio article about the battle of pasargad hill including the infobox below:

• Find a high rez image of the releif of darius II and add it to its article.
• REMEMBER: order of the achaemenid tombs from left to right: Darius ii, artaxerxes, darius, xerxes.
• Find any images or coins for achaemenid king articles that dont have an image
• Translate farsi wikipedia version of article: Astyages, into anglish (to expand astyages article). + add painting of astyages sending harpagus to kill cyrus.
• PERHAPS.. PERHAPS. use the farsi version of wikipedia article: cyrus the great, to expand the article
• Do the same with cyrus I
• do the same with Cambyses I
• Create article about the unfinished tomb at persepolis. use this image: https://oi.uchicago.edu/gallery/royal-tombs-and-other-monuments#8B5_72dpi.png to describe its incompleteness. use this: http://oi.uchicago.edu/gallery/royal-tombs-and-other-monuments#8B5_72dpi.png and this to show its proximity to persepolis: http://oi.uchicago.edu/gallery/royal-tombs-and-other-monuments#8B2_72dpi.png

Etmology

In Persian Apranik means Daughter of the Elder.

References

Cyaxares or Hvakhshathra ( Old Persian: ^[4] Uvaxštra, ^[5] Greek: Κυαξάρης; r. 625–585 BC), was the third and most powerfull king of Median empire. He was the first king to expand Iranian dominance in the region.

His father’s death allowed Madea, king of the Scythians to invade and conquer the then small Median kingdom. Cyaxares invited Madea to a feast, where he made them drunk and killed them thus ending 28 years of Scythian control. After that he assured the Scythians would no longer be a threat to Media. He then created a massive army by uniting all the Median tribes. He then used Scythian prisoners of war, as soldiers in this large army. He then made an alliance with the Babylonians and they both attacked Assyrian lands. In 614 BC he crossed the Zagros Mountains, and captured Assyrian lands. He then met with king Nabopolassar of Babylon and made an alliance between Media and Babylonia. In 612 BC they attacked Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, captured it and officially brought an end to the Assyrian Empire. He then put his focus into Greece and Lydia. He fought king Alyattes of Lydia and made an agreement that the Halys river should be the border between the two. The war between the Lydians and Medians ended in 585 BC because of a sudden eclipse. Cyaxares died in the same year or the year after and was succeeded by his son Astyages who was in power for 35 years until he was overthrown by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC.

Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC)

Tomb name	Image	Attributed to	Location	Architecture	Constructed
Gur-e Dokhtar		Cyrus I	Bozpar	Base-isolated	600 BC
Prison of Solomon		Cambyses I	Pasargadae	Base-isolated	570 BC
Tomb of Cyrus the Great		Cyrus the Great	Pasargadae	Base-isolated	540 BC
Toll-e Takht		Cambyses II	Toll-e Takht Citadel, Pasargadae	Base-isolated	520 BC
Ka'ba-ye Zartosht		Bardiya	Naqsh-e Rustam Necropolis	Base-isolated	530 BC
Tomb of Darius I		Darius I	Naqsh-e Rustam Necropolis	Rock-cut tomb	490 BC
Tomb of Xerxes I		Xerxes I	Naqsh-e Rustam Necropolis	Rock-cut tomb	460 BC
Tomb of Artaxerxes I		Artaxerxes I	Naqsh-e Rustam Necropolis	Rock-cut tomb	420 BC
Tomb of Darius II		Darius II	Naqsh-e Rustam Necropolis	Rock-cut tomb	405 BC
Tomb of Artaxerxes II		Artaxerxes II	Persepolis	Rock-cut tomb	350 BC
Tomb of Artaxerxes III		Artaxerxes III	Persepolis	Rock-cut tomb	330 BC
Unfinished tomb of Persepolis		Darius III	Persepolis	Rock-cut tomb	incomplete

This is a list of the largest amounts of territory conquered by Kings. This list does not include territory conquered by generals.

Rank	King	Portrait	Max. land area (Million km2)	Max. land area (Million km2)	Map of territory conquered
1	Genghis Khan		19.5	12.1
	Sargon the Great		0.25	0.15
	Cyaxares		2.7	1.6
	Ashurnasirpal II		0.09	0.05
	Shalmaneser III		0.3	0.18
	Tiglath-Pileser III		0.5	0.31
	Esarhaddon		1.2	0.7
	Cyrus the Great		6.0	3.7	File:Cyruses rule of the perisan empire.png
	Alexander the Great		5.2	3.2
	Darius the Great		2.0	1.2	File:Conquests of Darius of Persia.png
	Cambyses II		0.5	0.3	File:Invasion of Cambyses.png
	Artaxerxes III		0.5	0.3	File:Conquests o artaxerxes iii.png

Category:Lists of monarchs

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