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.
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.