In the sixth century B.C, the land that we now call Iran was the center of the largest empire in the world. The kings of Ancient Persia( such as Cyrus the Great) were the leaders of a great civilization that made amazing advances in laws, goverment and communication. Founded in 550 B.C by King Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire spanned from Egypt in the west to Turkey in the north, and through Mesopotamia to the Indus River in the east. Unlike most empires at that time, the Persian kings were benovelent rulers, and allowed a diverse variety of diffrent people with diffrent ethnic backgrounds. The Persian empire was split into three diffrent empires with three diffrent time periods but the first empire was called the Achaemenid Empire. It began with King Cyrus the Great and ended with King Darius III.
The Acheamenid Empire's first ruler was Cyrus the Great. According to Herodotus, a Greek historian, Cyrus was the son of an Iranian nobleman and a Median princess who was the daughter of the Median king Astyages. In 600 B.C, the Medes ruled the Persians. After the birth of Cyrus the Great, Astyages (the King of the Medes) had a dream that was interpreted as a sign that his grandson would eventually overthrow him. He ordered his steward Harpagus to kill Cyrus but he was morally unable to kill a newborn so he summoned the Mardian Mitradates ( a royal bandit herdsman from the mountainous region bordering the Saspires) and ordered him to leave the baby to die in the mountains. The herdsman and his wife (whom Herodotus calls Cyno in Greek, and Spaca-o in Median) took pity and raised the child as their own. However many historians dispute this and there is very little evidence about King Cyrus's childhood but King Cyrus did mange to ove...
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...ti-colored and multi-raced people, which was something that almost none of the other ancient empires had. It was a peaceful empire and was admired by many people. It had amazing acheivements in goverment, military and communication. It was the largest empire in the Ancient World and was an amazing empire, for the 250 years it lasted. The Persian Empire will be remembered as the largest empire in the ancient world and the most tolerant.
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