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Darius the Shopkeeper
Darius is a little bit more like a, in a white collar worker, like a desk job guy. Herodotus says that cyrus was the father, cambyses the tyrant, and darius the shopkeeper. Darius may have been the most capable amongst, you know, the nobility of persia,. because he seems exactly what the empire needs at this time. He's credited with starting the satraps and the satrapes, but he certainly reorganized the empire in a lasting way.