Rise of the Persians
The Ancients
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What's Going on in Ecatana?
Ecatana was never a stone city in the way the mesopotamians built their cities. Herodotus talks about this being ou a really splendid sort of median city, is what he calls it. He says that there were seven concentric walls built around this vast city. But there's no archaeological evidence for any of this. And so they started to look south into persia and to see what they could get ou of there. This made the persians very uncomfortable. They became rapacious for more land and more wealth as well. All indications are that he wants to build himself an empire. The rise of cyrus over three generations leads to the final repulsion of
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