When historians know that Darius was his father, and that Darius was the son of Hystaspes?
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Darius was not a name, it was a title like Pharoah. The word in Hebrew is Dar‘yavesh which has its origin in the Persian language and means "lord". So most likely it was "lord Cyaxares"\n\nThree biblical kings had this title:\n\n1. The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1. This was probably the Cyaxares I. known by this name in secular history, the king of Media and the conqueror of Nineveh.\n\n2. The king mentioned in Ezra 4:6, possibly the Cambyses of secular history, the son and successor of Cyrus (B.C. 529).\n\n3.The son of Darius Hystaspes, the king named in the Book of Esther. He ruled over the kingdoms of Persia, Media, and Babylonia, "from India to Ethiopia." This was in all probability the Xerxes of secular history, who succeeded his father Darius (B.C. 485). In the LXX. version of the Book of Esther the name Artaxerxes occurs for Ahasuerus.
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Glad to see you used the correct name of Joshua not the Greek 'Jesus'. The most likely date is April 5th the Year 34CE
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There are two versions. The Greeks including Herodotus claim he killed himself.  Darius in the Behistun Inscription says he died in an accident.  Since we can't cross exam the witnesses, we can only assume both sides have an advantage in their version.  Since the the participants were Persians, I would have to give them a slight edge.
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They are both in Iraq with Bagdad in the middle. They go all the way back to Biblical times when Iraq was the Babolonian empire and Iran was the persian empire.
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Mercury's parents were deeply involved in Zoroastrianism, and words like "Bismillah" do have a meaning in that religion....but I can't answer the last part of your question.
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Macedonia - ancient, rather than modern.
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Well, I would like to quote the bible on this one:\n\nDaniel Defeats the Priests of Bel \n1 When King Astyages was buried in the tomb with his ancestors, Cyrus the Persian took his place as king.  a 1 King Astyages ... king: Astyages was the last king of Media. He was defeated in battle in 550 B.C.c* by his grandson Cyrus the Great, the king of Persia, who then became king of the Medes and the Persians and ruled until 530 B.C.\nc*&#92;f* 2 Daniel was a friend and advisor of King Cyrus, and the king honored him more than anyone else. \n 3 3Is 46.1; Jr 51.44.Every day, the Babylonians took food to the idol of their god Bel.  b 3 Bel: Another name for Marduk, the chief god of Babylonia. Bel means “lord.”They brought six hundred pounds of the best wheat flour, fifty gallons of wine, and the meat from forty sheep. \n4 King Cyrus believed that Bel was a powerful god, and he worshiped the idol every day, but Daniel worshiped only his own God. One day, Cyrus asked Daniel, “Why don't you worship Bel?” \n5 Daniel answered, “I refuse to worship idols—they are made by humans. Instead, I worship the living God, because he created heaven and earth, and he rules everyone who lives.” \n6 “But, Daniel,” the king replied, “isn't Bel a living god? Haven't you seen how much he eats and drinks each day?” \n7 Daniel laughed and said, “Don't be fooled, Your Majesty. That idol is merely clay on the inside and bronze on the outside! It never ate or drank anything.” \n8 This made the king angry. So he called in his priests and told them, “Prove to me that Bel  c 8 Prove to me that Bel: Greek “Tell me who.”is eating all this food! If you can't, then you will die. 9 But if you can prove that Bel really is eating the food, then Daniel will die, because he has insulted the god Bel.” \nDaniel said, “Your Majesty, that sounds fair enough to me.” \n10 Now there were seventy priests of Bel, and they and their wives had lots of children. \nThe king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel, 11 and the priests said, “Your Majesty, we will go outside now. Please set out the food and the wine yourself, then shut the door. Drip some hot wax along the edge of the door and press your ring into the wax to leave your special mark. This will show that only you are allowed to open the door.  d 11 Drip some hot wax ... open the door: The king's ring had a special design on it, and he pressed the ring into the soft, hot wax. Then, after the wax cooled, the door could not be opened without breaking the wax.12 When you come back in the morning, if you find that Bel hasn't eaten everything, then you can put us to death. But if the food is gone, this will prove Daniel has been lying, and you can put him to death.” \n13 The priests were not worried at all. They had a secret trap door under the table, and that was how they sneaked into the temple every night to eat the food. \n14 The priests left, and the king arranged Bel's food on the table. Then Daniel told his servants to scatter ashes over the temple floor. The king was the only other person who saw them do this. They shut the door as they went outside, and the king placed his special mark on some hot wax along the edge of the door so that they could tell if the door had been opened. Then they all left. \n15 Later that night, the priests and their wives and children went to the temple as they always did, and they ate and drank everything. \n16 Early the next morning, the king brought Daniel to the temple 17 and asked him, “Daniel, has the wax been broken? Has the door been opened?” \n“No, Your Majesty,” Daniel answered. \n18 As soon as the door was opened,  e 18 door was opened: Greek “doors were opened.”the king looked at the empty table and shouted, “Bel, you are a great god, and you always tell the truth!” \n19 Daniel just laughed. He kept the king from entering the temple and said, “Look at the floor—I wonder who left all those f
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Both were Greek city-states.  They fought wars against each other in the old Greek epics and histories.  Go to history.com and research it if you want more specifics.
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menelaus was the husband of Helen of Troy, the one she ran away from.  he was the king of sparta
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Akhenaten)\n1352-1336 B.C.\n18th Dynasty
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I think it is likely there was, as most myths have some basis in reality.  However, who he actually was is lost to the mists of time.  Check out the link for interesting details, especially about the evolution of the legend.
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yes, i knew this.  my brother wrote a couple of novels and discovered this while doing research.  things like this weren't in my history books in school!\n\nhttp://miltizme.blogspot.com
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The Rhind Papyrus was an Egyptian document and hence its author must have been some Egyptian priest or scholar. Actual author is unknown
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Let's face facts.\n\nJesus is the Son of God.
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This article says his parents were both Persian.  He does look 100% Iranian (Persian).
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Zarathushtra (Avestan Zaraθuštra), usually known in English as Zoroaster (after the Greek version, Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) was an ancient Iranian prophet, and the founder of Zoroastrianism, which was the national religion of the Sassanian Empire of Persia, and played an important role in the earlier Achaemenean and Parthian regimes. In Persian, the name takes the form Zartosht.\n\nI'm not a christian, i just like showing off
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Mr Williams and Mrs Williams\n\nSeriously his full name was Stanley Tookie Williams III,\n\nAs he was the third it would be a good indication that both his Father and Grandfather's first name was Stanley! \n\nCan not help you with his mother's name though.