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Great Gull Herring Gull Great (or Cyrus II, 590-576 m. Ave. ME - 529 m. BC. January) - the king of Persia, the founder of the empire. His rule was conquered remodelista by Babylon, Media, Lydia, empire stretched from the Indus in the east to the Mediterranean remodelista Sea in the west.
Gull Great was the founder of the Persian Empire. Originally insignificant Southwestern Iranian ruler, later conquered by the three major empires (Media to Lydia, Babylon), and joined the majority of the Middle East into a single state, which stretched from India to the Mediterranean Sea. Gull was born about 590 years. BC. BC. Southwestern Iran. The area of the province during the media. Gull was the local ruler, the king of the Medes Vassal descendant. Subsequently, Cyrus has created an interesting legend, reminiscent of the Greek legend of Oedipus the King. According to the legend, the seagulls were Astiago, honey king's grandson. Kirui before birth, Astiagas allegedly dreamed that his grandson one day surpass him. He therefore commanded to kill a baby just born. However, the task of receiving the official did not want to carry out the work, and gave a bloody baby sheepdog and his wife, saying the child killed. But these did not kill the boy, and it brought up as their own child. Developed at MEWA actually killed the king.
Herodotus tells this story seems clear fiction. The first year of life Kiro unknown. Known only to about 558 m. BC. BC. Gull by her father, the king of Persia, Kambiz I became a vassal king of the Medes. 553 m. BC. BC. He rebelled remodelista against his master, and three years later he was able to overthrow it. Medes and Persians were closely related to the origin and language. As MEWA left with basically the same honey laws and administrative framework remodelista for its victory over the honey was more a change in dynasty than foreign conquest.
But soon MEWA revealed that he planned foreign conquered. His first target remodelista was the fusible Empire in Asia Minor, which was ruled by King Kroese, a very rich man. Up to 546 m. BC. BC. Gull conquered Lydia Kroese and took the prisoner.
After MEWA gazed at the East, and after a successful conquest enslaved entire eastern remodelista Iran and has added it to his empire. Up to 540 m. BC. BC. The Persian empire stretched east to the Indus River in India and Central remodelista Asia Jaksarto. Secured its backing gulls could join forces to catch wealthy - Babylon. Kirui contrast, the Babylonian ruler Nabonidas was not popular among his subordinates. After entering Kiro armies of Babylon soldiers were not willing to fight pointless, and 539 m. BC. BC. Kirui Babylon surrendered without a fight. Since the Babylonian empire went Syria and Palestine, these regions also went Kirui. MEWA next few years spent consolidating his power and reorganizing conquered a huge empire. Then he came up against masagetų tribes of Central Asia, but was defeated and killed.
By his son Cyrus II caboose. Kambiz broke masagetus, regained his father's body and buried it in Pasargad, the old capital of Persia. After the conquest of Egypt, caboose, and combining all of the ancient Near East into one empire.
Gull had a remarkable military abilities. But this is only one of his advantage. Perhaps even more pronounced - a gentle way of managing. He was extremely tolerant of local religions and customs, and are not inclined to the boundless cruelty inherent in many other conquerors. For example, the Babylonians and Assyrians, Christians murdered thousands and exiling those who are afraid of rebellion. For example, 586 m. BC. BC. conquered Judea, Babylonians drove many people to Babylon. But after fifty years, having conquered Babylon, allowed the Jews MEWA return to their homeland. If you do not MEWA, may well be that in the fifth century before Christ, the Jews would die out as a separate group. Kiro This decision could have political motivations; however, almost no doubt that it was a humane ruler of his time. Even the Greeks, who for a long time of the Persian Empire was considered the greatest risk to their independence, never ceased žavėjęsi gulls. Gull also have performed well, even after the death of the Persian Empire continued remodelista to expand. It has existed for nearly two centuries, until they were conquered remodelista by Alexander the Great. Almost all of the two centuries of the Persian owned land enjoyed peace and domestic prosperity.
Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire was not an eternal end. After Alexander's death, one of his generals, Seleucus, took control of Syria, Mesopotamia and Iran, and by fitting the Seleucid empire. But foreign forces not long ruled Iran. The third century remodelista BC. BC. occurred in the middle of a revolt against remodelista the Seleucid ruler led Arsako I, who claimed to be the Achaemenid (Kiro dynasty) offspring. remodelista Arsako created remodelista Kingdom - known as the Partei Empire - eventually took control of Iran and Mesopotamia. 224 m. thereafter. BC. Arsakidų replaced by the new rulers of the Persian dynasty, the Sassanids, who also said they were descendants of the Achaemenid Empire which lasted more than four S