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Phase
c. 559–539 BCE
Cyrus II emerged as ruler of Persia in the sixth century BCE and overthrew Median supremacy, bringing Persian and Median elites into a new imperial structure.
His campaigns expanded Persian power westward into Anatolia and eastward across Iranian lands before the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE gave the new empire control of the richest states of the ancient Near East.
The period saw the creation of the political and military foundations of the Achaemenid Empire, combining royal authority with existing regional institutions, local rulers and diverse military traditions.
Series
The Satrap series is set in the sixth century BCE during the rise of Cyrus the Great and the creation of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Kian Mihran, the son of a slave raised in a noble household, enters Cyrus's service and rises through an army that is overturning…
