Achaemenians

Iran in the age of Achaemenian Dynasty
from ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA

Achaemenians or Achaemenids was a royal  house  of  Persia.  This  dynasty  of  Persia  (contemporary Iran)  ruled  Egypt  as  the  Twenty-seventh  Dynasty  (525-404  B.C.E.)  and  as  the  thirty-basic  dynasty (343-332 B.C.E.).  The  Achaemenians  were  descendants  of  Achaemenes,  the  ruler  of  a  liege  kingdom  in  the  Median Empire  (858-550  B.C.E.).  Cyrus the Great (590-529 B.C.E.), a related of the dynastys founder, overturned the Median line ruling Persia and expanded his control of connected lands. His son, Cambyses, taken Egypt in 525 B.C.E. The  Achaemenians  taken:  Darius I, who  came from a alternative branch of the royal line; Xerxes I; Artaxerxes I Longimanus; Xerxes II; Darius II Nothus; Artaxerxes II Memnon;  Artaxerxes III Ochus Arses; and Darius III Codomanus,  who  fell  before  the  regular armies  of Alexander III the Great about 330 B.C.E.

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