When Alexander the great took it over by force 334-331 BCE.
It ended because many Persians converted to islam
The Persians went back to running their empire responsibly and peacefully. The Greek city-states went back to fighting each other.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
The Persians
Persians
No.
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and converted it into an empire of his own, not to destroy the Persians but to convert them to Greek culture.
The Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE.
He was not mean to the Persians - he led them to form the greatest empire of the time.
An empire.
It expanded the Persians.