Xerxes I of Persia became king of Persia in 486BC and continued his father's campaigns against Greece in the Persian Wars.
Atossa, the daughter of a ruler from Media.
No one surrendered. The remainder of the Persian fleet, defeated at Salamis, withdrew to Mykale in Asia Minor. Persian King Xerxes I took half his army home as a poor country such as Greece could not support it through the winter.
Alexander the Great conquered Phoenicia as part of his drive to take over the Persian Empire.
Control over lands stretching from Libya to Central Asia.
Darius I.
Darius I.
Zoroastrianism
Darius III.
Son of Cyrus, Ruler of the Persian Empire.
Darius was the Persian ruler beginning in 521 BC.
King Darius I (the Great).
Darius I .
Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius the Great.
Xerxes son of Darius
Darius the Great
He built it on the base of the previous Babylonian Empire one.