Cyrus the Great allied the Persians and Medes and used the combined power to takeover the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires.
The Persians and the Medes, under King Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great dominated the Medes, and the combined power launched the spread of the Persians into their own empire.
The Persians had been part of the Median empire, he took it over and made the Medes his partner in establishing the Persian Empire through the Middle East and Central Asia.
No - Darius I was not a Mede, he was Persian. And Persians and Medes were not black, they were Indo-European.
The raised the Persians from being subsidiary to the Medes into an empire stretching through the Middle East to Central Asia.
The Medes were allies of the Persians.
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. :)
Cyrus the Great dominated the Medes, and the combined power launched the spread of the Persians into their own empire.