Word: antiochus
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Darius of Persia first came into the valley of Kabul in the 6th Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
...native Ethio pian war dead climaxed when the Dean of Winchester said the Italian people ''have been seized by a spirit of evil of a superhuman nature. . . . The ruler of Italy supposes himself to be a Caesar, but he is the true type of the Assyrian Emperor Antiochus, surnamed 'The Brilliant' and nicknamed 'The Madman...
...Battle of Magnesia in 190 B.C. two potent Roman legions worsted the hordes of King Antiochus, won the decisive victory which placed all Asia Minor under the Pax Romana...
...interested in political science, for he is the one historian who realized the importance and influence of the political institutions of a country. He takes for the starting point in his history the period of the three great wars, namely--Rome and Carthage, the Leagues in Greece, and Antiochus and Ptolemy. His forty books, of which five are completely extant, are the first books of universal, connected history, treated in a chronological order. As Thucydides was an artist, so was Polybius a teacher. The historical value of the writings of Polybius cannot be too highly valued because of their accuracy...