C.E. with its mighty army joining that of Babylon to destroy the Assyrian Empire. In 546 B.C.E., Cyrus the Great, after conquering Lydia and subduing its king Croesus, quickly acquired domination over many of the Greek polis or city-states on the western coast of Anatolia, a region which King Croesus of Lydia had previously subdued.
In 539 B.C.E. Cyrus the Great invaded the Babylonian Empire and annexed all of Chaldea, taking its king Nabonidus captive and then naming himself as the king of Babylon, Akkad and Sumer. Soon after, Cyrus the Great gained control of the vast Arabian Peninsula and attempted to invade the Egyptian Kingdom. Not surprisingly, all of this expansion of the Persian Empire was not taken very lightly by Cyrus' numerous enemies; thus, by the early 5th century B.C.E., Cyrus the Great and his Persian Empire came into conflict with the powerful Greek city-states of Ionia which soon erupted into the Persian Wars which took place in the 490's and in 480 to 479 B.C.E. with King Darius, the son of Cyrus the Great, as the leader and absolute ruler of the Persian Empire. Undoubtedly, Cyrus the Great was one of the most skilled military leaders of all time and although his military victories were often extremely bloody and violent, he nonetheless respected the cultures and traditions of those he conquered during his reign as the leader of the Achaemenid Empire.
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As one of the greatest and most influential figures in world history, Confucius (ca. 551 to 479 B.C.E) was a Chinese philosopher, educator and writer, best-known for his teachings in the "Analects" which formed the basis for his views on the importance of education and on how human beings should conduct themselves within...
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