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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