Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire ... but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.

Cyrus vs. Alexander: Battle of the Greats Welcome to WatchMojo, and in today’s installment of Versus, we’re pitting Cyrus and Alexander — two of history’s greatest conquerors ...

According to Herodotus and later Greek authors, it was this shift in behavior that triggered the decadence of the Persian Empire and the corruption of its great kings. Cyrus grants freedom to the ...

Victory of Cyrus over Lydia's Croesus at the Battle of Thymbra, 546 BC Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Walter Hutchinson, 1877 Cyrus lives. Founder of the Persian Empire, the biggest multiethnic empire ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map ... Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.