Cyrus the Great.
It expanded the Persians.
the Persian empire
Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
After Persia absorbed Media in 550 BCE, the combination progressively expanded through the Middle East and established an empire.
Cyrus the great; Persian Empire
Yes - the Empire stretched from Libya to Central Asia.
Darius the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great.
The Persian Empire was not a Mesopotamian empire - it included Mesopotamia as merely one of it's twenty provinces which stretched from Libya to today's Pakistan..