CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Cambyses
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Darius
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Cyrus
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cyrus’s son, Cambyses II, added to the Achaemenid Empire by conquering Egypt.
Detailed explanation-2: -Achaemenid king of Persia (reigned 529–522 BCE), who conquered Egypt in 525; he was the eldest son of King Cyrus II the Great.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cyrus led a revolt against the Median Empire and by 549 BC he had completely conquered Media. He now called himself the “King of Persia.” Cyrus continued to expand his empire. He conquered the Lydians to the west and then turned his eyes south to Mesopotamia and the Babylonian Empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Herodotus’s historically dubious account of Cyrus’s upbringing, Cyrus overthrows his grandfather Astyages and unites the latter’s Median kingdom with the Persian one he inherited.