They took over the ready-made civilisations of Assyria and Babylon.
As part of establishing its empire, Persia, and ally Media, took over the Babylonian Empire, included in which was Assyria.
When the Assyrians took over Israel, they sent the ruling class to rule in Assyria, and from Assyria brought in a new ruling class. The common people remained. The object was to have aristocracies unsympathetic to the people, and so avoid uprisings and instability.
When the Assyrians took over Israel, they sent the ruling class to rule in Assyria, and from Assyria brought in a new ruling class. The common people remained. The object was to have aristocracies unsympathetic to the people, and so avoid uprisings and instability.
The Medians and the Chileans overthrow the Assyrian empire.
Control over Mesopotamia and Assyria, then over Asia Minor.
The Persians first took over the Medes, and used the combined strength to takeover progressively Babylon, Assyria, then the Levant, Asia Minor and Central Asia.
In the month Âbu the army of Assyria prepared for battle in Gablini and Nabopolassar went up against them. On the twelfth of the month Âbu [24 July 616] he did battle against the army of Assyria and the army of Assyria retreated before him. He inflicted a major defeat upon Assyria and plundered them extensively. He captured the Manneans, who had come to the Assyrians' aid, and the Assyrian officers. On the same day he captured Gablini. -THE COLLAPSE OF ASSYRIA (616-607 B.C.)-
The Persians were tribes who settled in the south of today's Iran. Initially they were subjects of the Medes, but asserted dominance over them and with this combined strength took over the Babylonian Empire, Assyria and then the whole of the Middle East, Egypt and Central Asia. This lasted for two hundred years until Alexander the Great invaded and took it over, converting it into an empire of his own.
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Babylon conquered Assyria.