The Persian Empire
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In Mesopotamia, where Sumer had once flourished, warring city-states continued to vie for supremacy.
Cyrus, king of Persian Achaemenids, conquered the kingdom of Medes and the city of Babylon, creating the Persian Empire.
Cyrus' son Cambyses went on to conquer Egypt, so that the pharoahs were now controlled by Persia.
By 490 BCE, a king named Darius ruled over the Persian Empire, adding to it with territory in the Indus Valley.
Darius wanted to add the Greek city-states to his empire and so the two civilisations went to war.
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