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SUMMARY:From Ezra to Ashoka:
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will take place online. Registration is requi
 red\; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will b
 e provided via confirmation email to registered participants. In the m
 id to late sixth century BCE\, the Achaemenid Persian kings Cyrus\, Ca
 mbyses\, and Darius brought populations from the eastern Mediterranean
  to Central Asia under the rule of a single empire. The fledgling Acha
 emenid government faced a novel problem: administering a state of unpr
 ecedented scale. In this talk\, I will argue that the Achaemenids embr
 aced multilingualism as a tool for governing this diverse empire.
LOCATION:Online
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