From today's Libya to Pakistan.
From Libya in the west to Central Asia in the east.
Persians
About 90 percent of the world - the Americas, eastern Asia, most of Africa, Europe, Oceania.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
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
Persians
No.
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.