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Also Known As Arsaces • Artaxerxes II Mnemon • Artakhshathra II
Flourished c.450 BCE - c.351 BCE
House / Dynasty Achaemenid Empire
Notable Family Members son Artaxerxes III • brother Cyrus the Younger
Role In Battle of Cunaxa
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Cyrus The Younger
Persian prince
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Tissaphernes
Persian satrap
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
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Li Keyong
Turkish-Chinese general
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
Shāpūr II, gold coin, 4th century; in the British Museum, London.
Shāpūr II
king of Persia
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Cambyses II
king of Persia
Alexander and Darius
Darius III
king of Persia
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Megabyzus
Achaemenian general
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Mardonius
Persian general
Bahrām VI Chūbīn, coin, 6th century; in the British Museum
Bahrām VI Chūbīn
king of Iran
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Pharnabazus
Persian statesman
Painting of Oliver Cromwell in black armor with a white sash, standing outdoors as a young attendant in red helps adjust his armor.
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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An Lushan
Chinese general
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Stenka Razin, detail of an engraving from “A Relation Concerning the Particulars of the Rebellion Lately Raised in Muscovy by Stenka Razin” (London, 1672)
Stenka Razin
Cossack leader

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