The Persian Empire is a slave empire centered on the ancient Persians in the Iranian Plateau in West Asia. The Achaemenes family ruled the empire, so it was also called the Achemane dynasty. It was the first monarch kingdom in ancient Persia to expand its territory to most parts of Central Asia and West Asia, and the first great empire across Europe, Asia and Africa. In 330 BC, under the attack of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Persepolis, the capital of the empire, fell, Darius Iii was killed in flight, and the empire perished.

The Persian Empire rose in an ancient country on the Iranian plateau. Persians belong to a branch of Indo-European language family. At the end of 2000 BC, they moved from Central Asia to the southwest of the Iranian Plateau (Ruiqu), and there were ten tribes (six ploughing and four herding). Once under the rule of Medea. After decades of territorial expansion, in 550 BC, Cyrus II overthrew the rule of the Medes and established the Persian Empire.

In King Darius I.

Persian empire territory

During his reign (from 522 BC to 486 BC), the Persian Empire reached its peak, with its territory stretching from the Indus Valley in the east to the Balkans in the west, Armenia in the north and Ethiopia in the south, including 70 nationalities, with a population of about 65.438+0.8 million and a land area of nearly 7 million square kilometers. It is the first great empire in the world that spans three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. After the Persian War in 492 BC, the Persian Empire gradually declined from its peak. In 334 BC, King Alexander III of Macedonia, who rose in the Balkans of Europe, invaded the East and conquered the whole of Persia. [ 1]

In Persia, many empires were established, prospered and declined in history. Achaemenid Empire, also known as Persian "First Empire". In 559 BC, Cyrus II unified the ancient Persian tribes and established the Achemani dynasty. Cyrus II defeated the kingdom of Medea, which ruled Persia at that time, 550 years ago, making Persia a powerful empire.

In 539 BC, Cyrus II occupied Babylon. [1] In Cambyses Ⅱ's time, the post-dynasty of ancient Egypt was conquered in the first 525 years. [1] After arriving in Darius I, the imperial territory has been developed unprecedentedly. In May19, Darius invaded the Indus Plain in the east and the Danube Delta, Thrace, Macedonia and Greece in the west, but he failed because of the marathon (the first 490 years). His son Xerxes I later fought against the Greeks again (480 BC), but unfortunately he didn't finish all the work in the end. [ 1]

Achaemenid Empire was the largest empire in the world at that time. [Editor] During the Hellenistic period (330 BC-BC 14 1 year/BC 129), the army of Alexander III of Macedonia defeated Darius Iii in 334 BC-330 BC, and Persia became a part of the Macedonian empire. Alexander's empire soon fell apart. After the war of successors, General Alexander Seleucia I finally became independent from the Seleucia Empire in 3 12, and ruled the Persian region centered on Seleucia and Antioch. [ 1]

During this period, Persia became the hub of communication between the East and the West: the Silk Road thus connected Central Asia with India, Buddhism spread from the Peacock Dynasty in India, and Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism westward. [ 1]

In the late Seleucid Empire, after the independence of Pattaya and Daxia (Bactria, now northern Afghanistan) in the east 247 years ago, the east was disturbed by Daxia and rested in the western expedition of the empire. /kloc-After 0/90 years ago, the west was conquered by Rome and the United States, and eventually lost a large area of Iranian plateau and Mesopotamia during the Arshak dynasty Mitridati I, and was completely destroyed by Rome in the first 63 years.