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History Explained | Cyrus the Great: The Greatest King of Persia

Cyrus II was a relentlessly ambitious Persian king who founded the Achaemenid Empire. Its reach would stretch from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River, making it the largest empire the world had ever seen.

His insistence on treating his subjects with mercy, kindness, and compassion earned him the name, “Cyrus the Great”!

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