They gave the Jews the freedom to practice their religion and rebuild their Great Temple. Simple things like that were very much appreciated by the Jews.
The Persians he promoted to take leadership roles over the heads of dissident Macedonians.
The Persians did win independence from the United Kingdom in 1976.
Yes.
No, they did not.
538 b.C.e.
Babylonians, Persians, Romans.
The Ionian Revolt.
The Persians, for a relatively brief time, had a vast kingdom which overlapped most of the areas in which Jews lived at the time. At first, they were cordial, as long as the Jews paid their taxes. Under Ahasuerus (Xšayārša; Xerxes), however, they were in peril when he granted wide power to the Jew-hating Haman. After the Jewish Queen Esther orchestrated Haman's destruction, the Jews rose to importance under the Persians, with the Jewish Mordecai serving as viceroy.
Peace.
Marathon , Greece
They lost, and made peace in 449 BCE.
Marathon, Greece .