At an unknown date the Indo-European
people began their march into Europe and
into India.
The year 1000 B.C. is usually given for
Zarathustra, the great teacher of the Persians,
who gave an excellent moral law.
650-B.C. The Indo-European Medes found
a state along the eastern boundaries
of Babylonia.
550-330 B.C. The Kingdom of the Persians.
Beginning of the struggle
between Indo-Europeans and Semites.
525-8.C. Cambyses, King of the Persians, takes Egypt.
520-485 B.C. Rule of Darius, King of the
Persians, who conquers Babylon
and attacks Greece.
485-465 B.C. Rule of King Xerxes, who tries to establish
himself in eastern Europe but fails.
330 B.C. The Greek, Alexander the Great,
conquers all of western Asia and
Egypt and Persia becomes a
Greek Province.
The ancient world which was dominated by Semitic peoples lasted almost
forty centuries. In the fourth century before the birth of Christ it
died of old age.
Western Asia and Egypt had been the teachers of the Indo-Europeans who
had occupied Europe at an unknown date.
In the fourth century before Christ, the Indo-European pupils had so far
surpassed their teachers that they could begin their conquest of
the world.
The famous expedition of Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. made an end to
the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia and established the supremacy
of Greek (that is European) culture.