Time Line of Media

• Kingdoms of Media and Parsa founded by migrating Aryans (c. 1000 B.C.)

• Medes capture Ashur (614 B.C.)
• Medes ally with Babylonia to conquer Assyria (612 B.C.)

• Medes attack Urartu and destroy Rusahinili (590 B.C.)
• Media enters into conflict with Lydia (590 B.C.)
• war between Media and Lydia ends when a solar eclipse prompts a peace settlement (585 B.C.)
• Cyrus the Great of Parsa rebels against the Medes and founds the Persian empire (559 B.C.)
• Persia conquers the Medes (550 B.C.)