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What Cyrus the Great practiced?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

He expanded Persia from a tribal group under control of the Medes into an empire, taking over the Medes, and using the combined power to successively take over the Lydian and Babylonian Empires and expand into Central Asia and northern Greece. He allowed the local peoples to practice their normal goverance, cultures and religions, while himeslf a follower of Zoroaster.

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8y ago

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