Achaemenid Empire Was The World’s Largest Ancient Empire

Angela Sutherland  – AncientPages.com –The Achaemenid Empire (First Persian Empire) became the world’s largest empire thanks to Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius I, and Xerxes I.

It was founded by Cyrus the Great, one of the most outstanding figures in human history.

Croesus vanquished, standing in front of Cyrus. Edmund Ollier Publication date 1882 – Cassell’s illustrated universal history. Public Domain

By 546 BC, Cyrus the Great had defeated the Lydian king, Croesus, and had secured control of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, Armenia, and the Greek colonies along the Levant. Moving east, he took the land of the Arsacids, known as Parthia, Chorasmis, and Bactria.

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