Cyrus II Cambyses I

• General Notes
  • The founder of the Persian Empire, Cyrus took over the decayed      Babyloni an Empire with the help of a revolt in southern Babylonia in  538 BC.  Re alizing how difficult it was to keep restless uprooted    populations subju gated, Cyrus sent homethe peoples whoh By 550  B.C., King Cyrus the Great of Persia had hacked a humongous     empi  re fromthe Mediterranean Sea to India, and his winning streak     got  him to believing hisown PR.  After whipping the Assyrians, he      looked around fo r an even badder opponent.  Everyone Cyrus proclaims  friendship toward the worldThe conquest of the     ancient world of  Asia was begun by Deioces, carried on for 4 or 5     generations,   and was finallyachieved under the leadership of King     Cyrus II of  Persia  (559-530 BC) in 538 BC with the stormi (s??rs) (KEY) , d. 529  B.C., king of Persia, founder of the greatness  o f the Achaemenids  and of the Persian Empire. According to     Herodotus, he  was the  son ofan Iranian noble, the elder Cambyses,     and a