In the Bible these people are said to have descended from Japeth.
In the Bible these people are said to have descended from Japeth. Originally disjointed tribes who were first mentioned in the 9th-century, Deiocus, a tribal chief, united them. Unlike the Assyrians, whose capital at Nineveh they captured in 612 BC, they were not a Semitic people. They were finally defeated in 549 BC when the last king, Astyages, was deposed by Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenids and their "Place of Assembly", Ecbatana, was taken over. For 10 points, name this Middle Eastern empire whose most famous ruler was the warlike Cyaxares.
In the Bible these people are said to have descended from Japeth.
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