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Persia, a province of the Median empire, absorbed Media and, with this combined strength, King Cyrus (the Great) set out to take over the Babylonian empire, absorbing it into his growing empire.)
By first incorporating Media, then using the combined forces to take over the Babylonian Empire.
Cyrus, the Persian ruler, was called the Great because he was the founder of the Persian Empire. He also conquered many empires that included the Median Empire and the Neo-Babylonian Empire. His reign lasted from 559 to 530 B.C.
Persia did not have an empire before it took over the Babylonian Empire. It was a subsidiary kingdom to the Medes. Under King Cyrus the Great, took Media over, and this combined force was able to defeat the Babylonians and absorb them, which was the beginning of the Persian Empire. After that the Persians moved on into Asia Minor the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and under King Cambyses took Egypt and Libya.
He built it by taking over the Babylonian and Lydian Empires, and consolidating these and Persian-Mede territory.
Daniel
Succesively, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire and the Macedonian empire of Alexander the Great.
Persia, a province of the Median empire, absorbed Media and, with this combined strength, King Cyrus (the Great) set out to take over the Babylonian empire, absorbing it into his growing empire.)
He was the king of the Babylonian Empire.
After uniting Persia and Media, he conquered the Babylonian Empire.
The Assyria Empire took over the Babylonian Empire when it fell.
The Persians under their king Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great led the Persians, then subject to the Medes, into dominating them, and with this combined strength took over the Babylonian Empire and turned this into an empire of his own.
By first incorporating Media, then using the combined forces to take over the Babylonian Empire.
About 550 BCE when Cyrus the Great took over Media and used the combined power to take over the Babylonian Empire.
The Persian Empire, under Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great was ambitious - first overcoming Persia's overlord Media, then using this combined power to take over a Babylonian Empire ripe for the plucking.