The Persian Empire was founded by Aryan Persian nereus II in 550 BC. In a short period of half a century, this country established by nomadic people conquered the vast areas from the Aegean Sea in the west to India in the east, the Caucasus in the north and the Nile in the south, including Thrace in the Balkans, and became an empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. The city-states of Asia Minor colonized by the Greeks also fell into the hands of the Persians.

Persian court in Darius' time

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