History Summarized: Cyprus Breaks All The Rules

Cyprus plays by their own rules (except when they're playing by Persia's rules but we'll get to that)
SOURCES & Further Reading:
“The Greeks” by Roderick Beaton“Greece” by Christopher Mee & Anthony Spawforth for Oxford Archaeological Guides
Great Courses Lectures “Challenges in the West: 513 - 493” from “The Persian Empire” by John W. I. Lee, and “Ionia and Early Greek Civilization” from “The Great Civilizations of Asia Minor” by Kenneth W. Harl
“History of Cyprus” from Encyclopedia Britannica
“Ancient Cyprus” by Antonios Loizides for World History Encyclopedia.
“Cyprus - The Island of Copper” by Colette Hemmingway for The Met
MUSIC:
"The Sacred Land of Artemis", "The Hills of Attika", "Naxos Island" from Assassin's Creed Odyssey OST by The Flight
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