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Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes.
The Judeans did not defeat Persia, the Persians under their king Cyrus the Great took control of Judah which was already under control of the Babylonians whom Persia replaced as ruler. The Babylonians had already deported the entire aristocracy of Judea. Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed them to return and try to reclaim their ancestral estates.
Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, 6th Century BCE.
This changed over the centuries. Sparta was ruled by two kings, a council. and an assembly Athens was ruled first by a king, then an aristocracy, then by a tyrant, then by an assembly of the people. Persia was ruled by a king and his council.
KING CYRUS THE GREAT brought Persia onto the global scene by defeating the Medes and incorporating them into a Greater Persia.
Persia had possession of Athens during the invasions of the summer of 480 BCE and the summer of 479 BCE. Cyrus died 50 years before that. The Persian king during those two short periods was Xerxes the Great.
Cyrus the Great was the founding king of the Persian Empire, who expanded Persia 's control from Asia Minor to Central Asia.
Persia had a king. Athens had a direct democracy.
Xerxes was king of Persia and battled against Sparta and Athens. etc
Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes.
King Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus, king of Persia.
Cyrus, King of Persia.
The Judeans did not defeat Persia, the Persians under their king Cyrus the Great took control of Judah which was already under control of the Babylonians whom Persia replaced as ruler. The Babylonians had already deported the entire aristocracy of Judea. Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed them to return and try to reclaim their ancestral estates.
Hippias, the tyrant of Athens who was expelled, and went to Persia for help. King Darius I sent him with the Persian punitive expedition against Athens in 490 BCE to take control of Athens again and keep it quiet. The expedition failed at Marathon, and Hippias died there.
Cyrus king of Persia.
From his accession in 559 to his death in 530 BCE.