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Kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses II and Darius the Great formed and consolidated the Empire.
Solon and Pericles were the most important.
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What best describes the Persian Empire is an empire that we're very strong and fought many battles. Also they we're an empire that had an enormous empire! The biggest of the time, that stretched over the vast lands of Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a little tiny bit of India. They also had some magnificent leaders, that rulers for many years. So obviously the Persian Empire was a great period of history.
There are five major ancient periods of the Persian Empire A/ The Medean Empire from 756 to 559 BCE and rulers Deices, Phraortes, Madius, Cyaxares and Astyages. B/ The Achaemenid Empire from 550 to 330 BCE first ruler Cyrus who defeated Astyages and established the Achaemenid House that interfered with the political developments in the Helladic region and were defeated by Alexander the Great. The most famous leaders of the Achaemenid were Cyrus II the Great, Darius I who invated Greece [battle of Marathon], Xerxes I who invated Greece [battle of Thermopylae and Salamis] and Darius III who lost the Empire to Alexander III the Great. C/ The Hellenistic Persia from 330 to 250 BCE under the rule of the Seleucid Dynasty D/ The Parthians and the Arsacid dynasty from 250 to 226 BCE. E/ The Sassanid Empire from 226 BCE to 651 AD/ CE and the Sassanian Dynasty. After that year Persia was conquered by the Muslims and it will be part of the Ottoman Empire and later part of the Mongolian Empire.