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The 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty is also called the Achaemenid Empire and it existed from 559 to 330 BC. The 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty comprised the Persian Empires where a major part of the Greater Iran was under their control. In the 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty, the Persians had extended their reign and the total land area that was under their control was 7.5 million square kilometers. Territorially, it is regarded the largest empire.
In the 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty of Egypt, the Persians had their influence in three continents and these also included the territories like Central Asia, Asia Minor, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Thrace and also a major part of the Black Sea coastal regions. They had also brought under their control the regions of Iraq, Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia, Israel, Syria and Lebanon. They had conquered the major part of Egypt as far as west Libya.
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The empire in the 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty started off as a Medes tributary and extended the Median empire to Asia Minor and Egypt. Under the reign of Xerxes it half conquered Ancient Greece. The empire of Achaemenids was overthrown by Alexander the Great in the 330 BC. Xerxes I was the son of Darius I, and he conquered Macedonia and Thessaly of Greece before being resisted by the Greek forces at Thermopylae. This followed with a battle of Thermopylae and the Persian won conquering Artemisium and Aegean Sea.
Xerxes also sacked Athens which was evacuated already. He fought another battle wth the Greeks at the Isthmus of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf and the Greeks were victorious when Xerxes had to retreat.
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By the 5th century BC the control was powered by Achaemenid kings over the territories. Xerxes’s son Artaxerxes I died in Susa and was succeeded by son Xerxes II who was assassinated. Darius II took hold and after him Artaxerxes II Mnemon took over the empire. He was the longest reigning of all the Achaemenid kings. After that the kingdom fell.
This second phase of the Persian occupation ended when Alexander the Great, refused to conquer. Then there was the battle of Issus, between Darius III and Alexander the Great. Darius had brought about a new system of economic transaction where the silver and gold coinage systems were introduced. This was followed by extensive trade in the 1st Achaemenid Persian Dynasty. This is one of the significant periods in the history of the Pharaos in Egypt.
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