Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

This disaster was the start of the Third Century Crisis, a period of military and economic collapse which came close to destroying the empire.

Micah's career corresponds to the period when, after a long period of peace, Israel, Judah, and the other nations of the region came under increasing pressure from the aggressive and rapidly expanding Assyrian empire.

Jonah had already uttered his message of warning, and Nahum was followed by Zephaniah, who also predicted ( Zephaniah 2: 4-15 ) the destruction of the city, predictions which were remarkably fulfilled ( 625 BC ) when Nineveh was destroyed apparently by fire, and the Assyrian empire came to an end, an event which changed the face of Asia.

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When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.

One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that " The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

The movement came to the forefront without major confrontations until tensions during Russia's failed war against Japan led in 1905 to a general strike in Finland and revolutionary upheaval in the empire.

In the 14th century, the Hindu Java-based Majapahit empire came into possession of the peninsula.

A century later it came into increasing conflict with the expanding neo-Assyrian empire, which first split its territory into several smaller units and then destroyed its capital, Samaria ( 722 ).

The year Heraclius came to power, the empire was threatened on multiple frontiers.

After the collapse of the Ottoman empire at the end of World War I, Jericho came under the rule of the British Mandate.

The Ottoman Turks formed an empire starting from the 14th century which came to encompass the Balkans, Middle East and North Africa.

At the end of the 10th century, much of what is now Republic of Macedonia became the political and cultural center of the First Bulgarian Empire under Tsar Samuil ; while the Byzantine emperor Basil II came to rule the eastern part of the empire ( what is now Bulgaria ), including the then capital Preslav, in 972.

A noble spirit, he eventually came to renounce his father's empire.

The Assyrian empire then came to an end by 605 BC, the Medes and Babylonians dividing its colonies between them.

The next great change in Ottoman calligraphy came from the style of Hâfiz Osman ( 1642 – 1698 ), whose rigorous and simplified style found favor with an empire at its peak of territorial extent and governmental burdens.

Its empire began as a small group of city-states, called the Delian League — from the island of Delos, on which they kept their treasury — that came together to ensure that the Greco-Persian Wars were truly over.

As in Greece, the republican era came to an end in the 4th century with the rise of a monarchical empire.

With defeat came enforced baptism and conversion as well as the union of the Saxons with the rest of the Germanic, Frankish empire.

The Seleucid Empire (; from, ) was a Greek-Macedonian state that came into existence following the carve up of the empire created by Alexander the Great following his death.

Cook believes that both contemporary Jews and contemporary Christians need to reexamine the history of early Christianity, and the transformation of Christianity from a Jewish sect consisting of followers of a Jewish Jesus, to a separate religion often dependent on the tolerance of Rome while proselytizing among Gentiles loyal to the Roman empire, to understand how the story of Jesus came to be recast in an anti-Jewish form as the Gospels took their final form.

He came to terms with it by becoming fiercely anti-imperialist, believing that once India had gone the whole empire should follow it.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

By the end of the reign of Naram-Sin's son, Shar-kali-sharri ( 2217 – 2193 BC ), the empire had weakened.

He presumably completed the work before 391, since at 22. 16. 12 he praises the Serapeum in Egypt as the glory of the empire, and the temple was destroyed by Christians at the end of that year.

Ahmad Shah's successors governed so ineptly during a period of profound unrest that within fifty years of his death, the Durrani empire per se was at an end, and Afghanistan was embroiled in civil war.

By the end of his sole rule ( AD 14 ), Augustus had expanded the empire to the line of the Danube river, which was to remain its central / eastern European border for its entire history ( except for the occupation of Dacia 105-275 ).

The city was the second-largest in the empire, behind only Constantinople, and, although migration was not the primary source of Cairo's growth, twenty percent of its population at the end of the 18th century consisted of religious minorities and foreigners from around the Mediterranean.

Although the empire was again subdivided and a co-emperor sent to Italy at the end of the fourth century, the office became unitary again only 95 years later at the request of the Roman Senate and following the death of Julius Nepos, last Western Emperor.

However, the empire began to collapse toward the end of the 7th century BC, and was obliterated by an alliance between a resurgent New Kingdom of Babylonia and the Iranian Medes.

Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.

The term Honvédség continued in use as the name of the Hungarian military after the end of World War I and the dissolution of the empire.

The defeat of Marathas by British in three Anglo-Maratha Wars brought end to the empire by 1820.

Portuguese decline in Asia was accelerated by the attacks on their commercial empire by the Dutch and the English, which began a global struggle over empire in Asia that lasted until the end of the Seven Years ' War in 1763.

From the beginning of the republic and in the majority of civil cases towards the end of the empire, there were tribunals with the characteristics of the jury, the Roman judges being civilian, lay and not professional.

Although he spoke very little Czech himself, Gödel automatically became a Czechoslovakian citizen at age 12 when the Austro-Hungarian empire broke up at the end of World War I.

By the end of the 5th century the western section of the empire was divided into smaller political units, ruled by the tribes that had invaded in the early part of the century.

Umar Tall's mujahideen readily defeated the Bambara, seizing Ségou itself on March 10, 1861 and declaring an end to the empire.

At the end of the 19th century, there were about 500, 000 Molokans within the Russia empire.

The treaty not only signalled the end of the perennial, destructive wars that had ravaged Europe, it also represented the triumph of sovereignty over empire, of national rule over the personal writ of the Habsburgs.