By using traditional local government, overseen by Persian provincial governors controlled by a king and his council.
It expanded the Persians.
The Babylonian Empire was taken over by the Persians in 539 B.C.
The Babylonian Empire.
The Silk Road
they were a unified empire that extended for over 1600 miles.
Cyrus the Great, who founded and ruled the Achaemenid Empire, was the one who unified the Medes and the Persians. He established his kingdom by uniting these two original Iranian Tribes.
By road and water transport.
allowing people to keep their local traditions
He had Greeks and Persians marry.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
Persians
No.
The Persians
Cryus The Geat. Cyrus II is different. :)
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.