During this period, the Persians were tribes to the east of thePersian Gulf, under the control of the Medes. They were farmersliving off their fields and flocks with negligible resources totrade with. It was only at the end of this period that they gainedcontrol of the Medes, took over Babylonia, Assyria and the MiddleEast, and became a trading power as well.

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