It attempted to impose peace and promote prosperity on the empire, stretching from Libya through the Middle East to today's Pakistan.
An empire is an empire, a war is a war.
The Persian Empire was important to Western Asia, the Mauryan Empire was important to India.
He built it by taking over the Babylonian and Lydian Empires, and consolidating these and Persian-Mede territory.
They were so important because it led to the destruction of the Persian Empire.
It covered the Fertile Crescent and Egypt, and so had the resources on which to advance prosperity and stability.
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..
He conquered the Persian Empire, and for better and worse, made it into an empire of his own.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a person.
It dominated the Fertile Crescent and its resources.
Persian Empire
The Persian Empire absorbed the Babylonian Empire.