The Persians had used their usual preliminary of bribery - their emissaries had been through the Greek city-states offering bribes to the aristocracies to accept Persian rule within which they would retain of their own city-state. It worked with the northern ones, but the southern ones resisted.
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the Aztecs conqoued most of the smaller tribes that you don't really here about because they were easy to defeat and so that is why
Octavian had both political and personal reasons to defeat Cleopatra. As far as the political reasons, Cleopatra was the enemy; Rome had declared war against her and put him at the head of the Roman army, so she had to be defeated. On personal issues, Octavian's sister had been married to Antony. Cleopatra seduced Antony away from his sister and their children. The insult to the family honor had to be avenged.
The spanish defeat the Incas in 1528.
He can't defeat the God of Israel.
The Judeans did not defeat Persia, the Persians under their king Cyrus the Great took control of Judah which was already under control of the Babylonians whom Persia replaced as ruler. The Babylonians had already deported the entire aristocracy of Judea. Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed them to return and try to reclaim their ancestral estates.