Land purchase.
The Persians. Huge and cultured empire.
The Persians empire trade partners were the Greeks.
NO!
The Safavids, Persians and Iranians
Roman Empire ruled most of the known land at the time.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
Persians
No.
The Persians
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.
The Babylonian Empire fell to the Persians in 539 B.C.E.
The Babylonian Empire.