Settlements date back to
7000 BC and consolidated in 625 BC.
Persia was an Empire was
established in 550 BC with its capital in modern day Iran..
The first dynasty of the Persian Empire was
created by Achaemenids,
established by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC
with the conquest of Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires.
It covered much of the Ancient world when it was conquered by Alexander the Great in 331 BC.
At its height, the Persian
Empire stretched from Europe’s Balkan Peninsula—in parts of what is present day
Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine—to the Indus River Valley in northwest India and
south to Egypt.
In 500 BC the Persian
Empire stretched from India to Greece and from the Seas to include Southern
Russia.
The Persian Empire was
conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 BC.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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