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Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Cyrus the Great overthrew the Median Empire, conquered Lydia and Neo-Babylonia, and united the ancient Near East under the Achaemenid Persian Empire — the largest empire the world had yet seen.

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Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Cyrus the Great overthrew the Median Empire, conquered Lydia and Neo-Babylonia, and united the ancient Near East under the Achaemenid Persian Empire — the largest empire the world had yet seen.

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