The king of Iran arranged for a teacher to teach his son
Cyrus II of Persia (Old Persian: Kūruš; c. 600–530 BC) commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Median Empire and embracing all of the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanding vastly and eventually conquering most of West Asia and much of Central Asia to create the world’s then-largest polity and the first superpower of the… Read More »