They were subsidiary to Media and took it over, then used this combined power to create their empire.
When Alexander the Great was crowned king he began his campaign to create his empire. He fought and defeated the Persians and extended his empire into India.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
The Persians
Persians
No.
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and converted it into an empire of his own, not to destroy the Persians but to convert them to Greek culture.
The Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE.
He was not mean to the Persians - he led them to form the greatest empire of the time.
An empire.
It expanded the Persians.