Land of Iran

The Great Persian Empire was introduced as the Persian Empire, the great empire in the ancient world, in its greatest territorial extent with the Kingdom of Cyrus the Great (522-486 BC). This territory extends from the Indus River valley to the southeast of Europe and from the western edge of the Himalayas to the north. East Africa. In this book, Matt Waters provides a detailed historical review of the Achaemenid period, considering the multiple interpretations of the problems that historians face in constructing and understanding it. Sources and archaeological evidence. Waters tells the story of the Achaemenid Persians in the context of their predecessors in the middle of the first millennium BC and then their successors after the conquest of Macedonia, creating a compelling account of how the empire maintained its vitality for more than two hundred years (c. 550 until 330 BC) and left a great influence in the Middle East, Greece and Europe.