【波斯】-阿契美尼德-居鲁士 (apr 21, 559 BC – feb 28, 330 BC)
Description:
• 559–529 BC Cyrus the Great• 336–330 BC Darius III
Preceded by Succeeded by
Median Empire 美狄亚
Neo-Babylonian Empire 新巴比伦
Lydia 利迪亚
Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt 埃及26朝
Gandhara Kingdom 坎大哈
Sogdia 索格蒂纳
Massagetae 马萨格泰
he Persian Empire started as a collection of semi-nomadic tribes who raised sheep, goats and cattle on the Iranian plateau.
Cyrus the Great—the leader of one such tribe—began to defeat nearby kingdoms, including Media, Lydia and Babylon, joining them under one rule. He founded the first Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire in 550 B.C.
The first Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great soon became the world’s first superpower. It united under one government three important sites of early human civilization: Mesopotamia, Egypt’s Nile Valley and India’s Indus Valley.
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Date:
apr 21, 559 BC
feb 28, 330 BC
~ 229 years