Persia

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Persia
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Ninevah 645-635 BC
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Lachish siege relief, Ninevah 700-692 BC
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THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
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The Achaemenids

• c700 BC Achaemenes.
• 559-530 Cyrus the Great.
• 529-522 Cambyses.
• 522 Smerdis.
• 521-486 Darius I

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Darius the Great 522 - 486 BC.
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I am Darius the great king, king of kings, king
of countries containing all kinds of men, king in
this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes,
an Achaemenid, a Persian, son of a Persian, an
Aryan, having Aryan lineage.
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The seal of Darius
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Persepolis
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King Darius This country Persia which Ahuramazda
gave to me is a good country, full of good
horses, full of good men. By the favour of
Ahuramazda and of me, king Darius, this country
fears no other country.

• Persepolis inscription.

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