The Medes were allies of the Persians.
Cyrus the Great allied the Persians and Medes and used the combined power to takeover the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires.
Inhabitants of present-day Iran.
Their rulers, the Medes.
the Medes and Persians
They were defeated by the medes and the Persians in 539.
The Medes.
Cyrus the Great, who founded and ruled the Achaemenid Empire, was the one who unified the Medes and the Persians. He established his kingdom by uniting these two original Iranian Tribes.
The Persians and the Medes, under King Cyrus the Great.
The Medes and the Persians conquered the Assyrians together.
They absorbed the Medes, their previous rulers.
Cryus The Geat. Cyrus II is different. :)