20. Persia - An Empire in Ashes
These accounts he compiled into nine books, he called histori, which in ancient Greek meant researchers or inquiries but is the origin of our word history.

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These accounts he compiled into nine books, he called histori, which in ancient Greek meant researchers or inquiries but is the origin of our word history.
As the Greek historian Herodotus recounts, These Phoenicians, who came with Cadmus, brought with them to Greece, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet.