In 112 BC, Jugurtha, the adoptive son of the Numidian King Micipsa, usurped the Kingdom's throne. Numidia had been a loyal client state to the Roman Republic. The Republic could not let this coup go ...
BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...