They divided the empire into 20 provinces with Persian governors but left the cities, tribes and principalities under their traditional rules, blending normal rule with overall control and protection.
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.
Yes. The first Achaemenid ruler was Cyrus II (The Great), who founded the Persian Empire by uniting the two original Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians in the 6th century BC.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
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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.
It expanded the Persians.
An empire.