2007-01-18 08:36:12 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Cyrus the Great, or Cyrus the Persian. In around the 500's BCE (Before Common Era, or Before Christ-- if you're Christian), he started the Achaemenid Empire, the first great Persian Empire. His descendants ruled Persia and much of Asia until the 300's BCE when Alexander the Great (Greek / Macedonian) defeated Cyrus's descendant Darius III .
2007-01-18 08:43:01 · answer #1 · answered by DinoDeSanto 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I want to say Darius I, but believe someone before him of the Parthian people may have. Will have to Google it.
2007-01-18 08:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
x x is right, it was Cyrus. He founded the empire, Darius expanded it, Xerxes lost it.
2007-01-18 12:22:57 · answer #3 · answered by Dilettante 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think it was xerses(spelling?)
2007-01-18 08:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋