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The king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Frustrated and enraged, Xerxes ordered that the Hellespont (Dardanelles) received three hundred scourges with a chain. Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), volume II, 1881.
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The king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Frustrated and enraged, Xerxes ordered that the Hellespont (Dardanelles) received three hundred scourges with a chain. Chromolithography. La Civilizacion (The Civilization), volume II, 1881.
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27.5 x 39.6 cm | 10.8 x 15.6 in (300 dpi)
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1881 • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH • 480 BC • 5TH BCE • 5TH CENTURY B. C. • 5TH-CENTURY BC • ACHAEMENID PERIOD • ACHAEMENID • AHASUERUS • ANCIENT AGE • ANCIENT HISTORY • ANCIENT PERSIA • ANCIENT • ANGER • ANGRY • ANNOYING SOMEONE • ANT. OR.: ACHAEMENID PERIOD • ANTIQUE • AQUEMENIDA • AQUEMENIDAS • ARRANGÉ • ATHOS ISTHMUS • ATHOS • BAD STORM • BOTHERING SOMEONE • CAMPAIGN • CANAL • CANALE • CASTIGATE • CHANGING ROOM • CHROMOLITHOGRAPH • CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY • CIVILISATION • CIVILIZACION • CIVILIZATION • CIVILIZATION, THE • CLASS • CLOTHING • CLOTHING: TUNIC • COAST • COASTAL • COASTLINE • COLOR • COLOUR • CONQUER • CULTURE • DARDANELLES • DESTRUCTION • DRAWING • DRAWN • DRESSED • DYNASTY • EDUCATION • EMPIRE • ENRAGED • EPOCA • EPOCH • ERA • EUROPE • FIFTH CENTURY B. C. • FIFTH CENTURY BC • FLAGELACION • FLAGELLATION • FLEET • FLOG • FLOGGING • FURIOUS • FURY • GRECO-PERSIAN WARS • GREECE • HABIT • HELLESPONT • HISTORIA UNIVERSAL • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HUNDRED YEARS WAR • INSULT • INVASION • KING • LA CIVILIZACION • LARGE, • LASH • LASHING • MARINE • MARITIME • MENSWEAR • METEOROLOGICAL_DISASTER • MONARCH • MOUNT ATHOS • MYTH: PERSIAN • NAVIGABLE • NAVY • OCEAN • OFFENDED • OFFENSE • OLD • ORDER • ORDERING • PERIOD • PERSIA • PERSIAN ART • PERSIAN EMPIRE • PERSIAN MYTH • PERSIAN WARS • PERSIAN • PERSIANS • PINISH • POINT TO • POINTING • PUT IN ORDER • RELIGIOUS ORDER • REVENGE • ROBE • ROCK • ROCKY COAST • ROCKY • ROUGH WATER • S. V A. C. • SCENE • SCOURGE • SCOURGEING • SCOURGING • SEA • SEASHORE • SEASIDE • SECOND PERSIAN INVASION OF GREECE • SEVERE STORM • SHORELINE • SIGNAL • STAGE • STONE • STONES • STORM • STORMS • TAILOR • TEMPEST • TEMPORAL • TEMPORARY • THEATER • THEATRE • THUNDERSTORM • TROOPS • TUNIC • TUNICA • VENGEANCE • VERY ANGRY • WAR • WATERWAY • WAVE • WEATHER: STORM • WEATHER: THUNDERSTORM • WHIP • WHIPPING • XERXES CANAL • XERXES THE GREAT • XERXES
