Who Is Cyrus The Great

Cyrus II was known as Cyrus the Great. He was the founder of the Persian Empire. His reign was from 559 BCE to 530 BCE. He was also the first ruler and founder of the Achaemenian Empire. This empire was centered on Persia and compromising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River (Frye). The ancient Persians called Cyrus “The father of his people” and he was talented and an ideal monarch. After the Persian tribes were united by Cyrus his armies conquered the Lydian and they annexed their gold mines, land, and trading routes. He then overpowered the Greek city states of Anatolia. In Babylon the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II exiled the Jews. Cyrus freed the Jews from their captivity and they were able to return to
This religion is accepted by Muslims around the world as the last of the prophets of God. Muhammad was born in Mecca around 570 CE in a tribal family, he was a trader. In 610 CE Muhammad decided to go on a month long spiritual retreat in the hills near Mecca because he had a revelation that converted him into a proselytizers of a new faith. On this retreat he believed that God came to him in a vision and commanded him to recite revelations. Revelations in the beginning where short and powerful, there was only one God. Muhammad wanted his fellow Meccans to carry to message on to people who didn’t believe. He had a small group of followers and he wanted them to only horn one true God, leave false deities behind and care for the less fortunate. Muhammad most insistent message was the oneness of God. The five pillars of Islam are 1. Proclaim the phrase “There is no God but God and Muhammad is His Prophet”. 2. Pray five days daily facing Mecca. 3. Fast from sunup until sundown during the month of Ramadan. 4. Travel on a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime if their personal resources permitted. 5. Pay alms in the form of taxation that could alleviate the hardships of the poor (Pollard, Rosenberg,