Cryus The Geat. Cyrus II is different. :)
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.
The Persians and the Medes, under King Cyrus the Great.
king Cyrus was the ruler who united the Persians into a powerful kingdom
No - Darius I was not a Mede, he was Persian. And Persians and Medes were not black, they were Indo-European.
The Medes were partners, under the leadership of the Persian king.
By using traditional local government, overseen by Persian provincial governors controlled by a king and his council.
Darius was king of the medes, you will find that written in the book of Daniel. Daniel chapter 9 reads: "in the first year of Darius the son of Ahasurerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans" Its important for you to understand who the Medes are
Cyrus the Ruler of Persia gained an easy victory to Median King and combined the customs and laws of the two peoples, united their kingdoms and expanded their conquest
The Persians had been dominated by the Medes, but king Cyrus took over Media and joined their forces together which enabled him to take over the Babylonian Empire. With this even greater power, he was able to expand through Western Asia, and into Central Asia.
Mardonius there chose out first all the Persians called Immortals, save only Hydarnes their general, who said that he would not quit the king's person; and next, the Persian cuirassiers, and the thousand horse, and the Medes and Sacae and Bactrians and Indians, alike their footmen and the rest of the horsemen.
the Persians were a disparate group of Indo-European tribes, some nomadic, some settled, that were developing their own culture and religion unique from that of the great cities to their west.
Under King Nebuchadnezzar's command, his men( the Chaldean army) attacked the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the city of Babylon.