Who knows ? Who is Cyrus The Great?
Leader of Persia around 550 bc and founder of the Persian Empire.
Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia, was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty. 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, parts of Europe and 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.The reign of Cyrus the Great lasted between 29 and 31 years. Cyrus built his empire by conquering first the Median Empire, then the Lydian Empire and eventually the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Either before or after Babylon, he led an expedition into central Asia, which resulted in major campaigns that brought "into subjection every nation without exception
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Cyrus the Great was Cyrus the Awesome's oldest son. The nephew of Cyrus the Super Bad.
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Cyrus is especially remembered in the Jewish Faith as he allowed the Jewish people,captured en masse and put to work as slaves in Babylon,to return to Israel.
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