Cyrus the Great (Vαͽnα Ηραϗ)

Cyrus II of Persia ( Persian:  Kuρuͽ) commonly known as  Cyrus the Great and also known as  Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the  Achaemenid Empire.  Under his rule, the  empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the  ancient Near East,  expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of  Southwest Asia and much of  Central Asia and the  Caucasus. From the  Mediterranean Sea and  Hellespont in the west to the  Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> Under his successors, the empire eventually stretched from parts of the  Balkans<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> ( Bulgaria<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">- Pannonia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">) and Greece <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> in the west, to the City of Dehli, India <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> in the east. His regal titles in full were The Great King, King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, and King of the Four Corners of the World. He also proclaimed what has been identified by scholars and archaeologists <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> to be the oldest known declaration of  human rights<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">, which was transcribed onto the  Cyrus Cylinder<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> in 539 B.C..

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">The reign of Cyrus the Great lasted 36 years. Cyrus built his empire by conquering first the Median successor state, the  Lydian Empire<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> and eventually the  Neo-Babylonian Empire<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">. Either before or after Babylon, he led an expedition into central Asia, which resulted in major campaigns that were described as having brought "into subjection every nation without exception". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> Cyrus did not venture into Egypt, as he refused to lead more expeditions after the death of his wife in 530 B.C.. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;"> He was succeeded by a distant relative and high general Darius <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">, who managed to add to the empire by conquering  Egypt, the Indus Valley, Scythia and Thrace/Makedon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:22.399999618530273px;">during his rule.

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