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Achaemenids
Achaemenids from beginning to end

Achaemenids from beginning to end Achaemenids is Iranian pro-islamic dynasty. kings of this dynasty were presian and Achaemenes as their apical ancestor was from pasargad tribe of Persian. At the...

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thesassanids
The Sassanids & the Second Persian Empire

Like the Achaemenids before them, the Sassanid rise from small-time dynasty to empire was nothing short of staggering. Beginning in the province of Fars, Ardashir I (r 224–41) led a...

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parthians
The Parthian Takeover

The Parthians had settled the area between the Caspian and Aral Seas many centuries before. Under their great king Mithridates (r 171–138 BC), they swallowed most of Persia and then...

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biston
Alexander the Great & the End of Persepolis

Young and charismatic like Cyrus before him, it was Alexander the Great of Macedonia who finally ended the First Persian Empire. Having defeated the Greeks and Egyptians, Alexander saw off...

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Cambyses
Cambyses & Darius

In 525 BC, Cyrus’ son, Cambyses, captured most of Egypt and coastal regions well into modern Libya. It was later recorded that Cambyses had quietly arranged the assassination of his...

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Cyrus
The Achaemenids & the Rise of Cyrus

In the 7th century BC the king of one of the Persian tribes, Achaemenes, created a unified state in southern Iran, giving his name to what would become the First...

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Recents
    • Tahirid dynasty
    • 46 years of zand dyansty, how it passed?
    • Afsharid dynasty and King Nader
    • Achaemenids from beginning to end
    • The Sassanids & the Second Persian Empire
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