Persia was a vassal state of Media. He absorbed Media into Persia,and together he led them to defeat the Babylonian Empire, absorbit, and went on to take over all of the Middle East, and CentralAsia. This left his successors to consolidate this empire by addingEgypt, Thrace and western India, and develop stable government ofthe empire which lasted for 200 years until it was taken over byAlexander the Great’s Macedonia..

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