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World at War
Achaemenid Persian Conquests
559–486 BC
Middle East / Egypt
Status: ended
Casualties: Hundreds of thousands across decades
Cyrus the Great in twenty years went from vassal to ruler of the largest empire the world had seen — Media, Lydia, Babylon. Cambyses took Egypt; Darius pushed to the Indus and across the Bosporus. The first empire to span three continents.
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Belligerents
- Persia (Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius)
- Media
- Lydia
- Babylon
- Egypt
- Scythia
Casualties
Hundreds of thousands across decades
From World at War, an interactive atlas by Jairus Pereira.
Figures are approximate, drawn from Wikipedia, UCDP, ACLED and academic sources — a design
artefact, not an authoritative register. Contact.