Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.

Shahanshah is usually translated as king of kings or simply king for ancient rulers of the Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanid dynasties, and often shortened to shah for rulers since the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century.

After gradual decline of its strength, Phoenician city states on the Lebanese coast were conquered outright by the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, which organized it as a satrapy, though many of Phoenician colonies continued their independent existence-most notably Carthage.

Achaemenid ( 6th to 4th century BC ), an Iranian dynasty, controlled and / or influenced the Omani peninsula.

The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae ( from, ) was a Greek Macedonian royal family, founded by Seleucus I Nicator (" the Victor "), which ruled the Seleucid Kingdom centered in the Near East and regions of the Asian part of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire during the Hellenistic period.

* 652 BC — First recorded mention of King Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty

* 580 BC — Cambyses I succeeds Cyrus I as king of Anshan and head of the Achaemenid dynasty.

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of Anatolia as a prelude to operations further west, to be carried out by his successors.

* c. 600 BC — Birth of King Cambyses I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty.

* 652 BC — First recorded mention of King Kuras of Parsumas, possibly the same as King Cyrus I of Anshan, head of the Achaemenid dynasty

This decade witnessed the continuing decline of the Achaemenid Empire, fierce warfare amongst the Greek city-states during the Peloponnesian War, the ongoing Warring States Period in Zhou dynasty China, and the closing years of the Olmec civilization ( lasting from c. 1200 – 400 BC ) in modern-day Mexico.

It was already the capital of the Sogdian satrapy under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia when Alexander the Great conquered it in 329 BC.

* Darius I, one of the greatest rulers of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, dies and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes I.

It includes rulers of the first Persian Empire, the Achaemenid dynasty, who unified Persia and created a vast intercontinental empire, as well as rulers of succeeding dynasties.

* Alexander becomes the master of the Persian Empire, ending the Achaemenid dynasty.

Category: Pharaohs of the Achaemenid dynasty of Egypt

For the ancient Persian dynasty, see Achaemenid empire.

Harran became part of the Median Empire after the fall of Assyria, and subsequently passed to the Persian Achaemenid dynasty in the 6th century BCE.

Further construction of the buildings on the terrace continued until the downfall of the Achaemenid dynasty.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

These people may have assisted the Scythians when King Darius the Great led a Persian invasion into what is now Southern Russia to punish the Scythians for their raids into the Achaemenid Empire.

File: Model of a chariot from the Oxus Treasure by Nickmard Khoey. jpg | Room 52-A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, circa 5th to 4th century BC

When the Babylonian Empire empire was absorbed into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the name " Chaldean " lost its meaning as the name of a race of men, and came to be applied only to a social class.

600 BC or 576 BC – 530 BC ) – also known as Cyrus II – the grandson of Cyrus I, an Achaemenid ruler and the founder of the Great Persian Empire

Afghanistan was inhabited by the Aryan tribes and controlled by the Medes until about 500 BC when Darius the Great ( Darius I ) marched with his Persian army to make it part of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire.

They often provided the naval forces of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and their heartland in the Levant was still dominated by powers rooted east in Mesopotamia or Persia.

The district Aria of the Persian Achaemenid Empire is mentioned in the provincial lists that are included in various royal inscriptions, for instance, in the Behistun inscription of Darius I ( ca.

The endonym Śfard ( the name the Lydians called themselves ) survives in bilingual and trilingual stone-carved notices of the Achaemenid Empire: the satrapy of Sparda ( Old Persian ), Aramaic Saparda, Babylonian Sapardu, Elamitic Išbarda.

** Persian Babylonia, Achaemenid Assyria ( 6th to 4th c. BC )

Aramaic, which had already become common in Mesopotamia, then became the official provincial administration language of first the Neo Assyrian Empire, and then the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

The art of Mesopotamia rivalled that of Ancient Egypt as the most grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the 4th millennium BC until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in the 6th century BC.

Little is known about the Achaemenid Persian invasion of modern-day Pakistan as historical sources and evidence are scant and fragmentary containing little detail.

Crushing the Persian Achaemenid empire, Alexander the Great, the Greek king from Macedonia, eventually invaded the region of modern Pakistan and conquered much of the Punjab region.

In 550 BC, the Achaemenid Empire established the first Persian Empire in Pars ( Persis, or modern Fars ) in the southwestern region of the Iranian plateau.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

Picture depicting the Achaemenid Persian empire in relation to the Persian Gulf.

Between 625 BC and 226 AD, the northern side was dominated by a succession of Persian empires including the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires.

Under the leadership of the Achaemenid king Darius the Great ( Darius I ), Persian ships found their way to the Persian Gulf.