Cyrus the Great
Biography
Cyrus took Media, Lydia, and Babylon 539, the largest empire yet. The Cyrus Cylinder, repatriation of exiles, Jews returned to rebuild the Temple, hailed as early charter of tolerance. Persian post roads, satrapy governance, the model for all after. He died fighting the Massagetae, Tomyris legend, his tomb at Pasargadae simple, still standing, revered by Alexander who restored it.
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