Introduction

The episode this time is the story. It's time to talk about how Persia went from pretty much nothing to being the granddaddy of all the empires in the ancient world. This happened over like a hundred years. They came out of nowhere. And I think one way to look at it is that all the big competitors for who would wear the crown of most important empire next just beat each other up so much between the late six hundreds and the mid five hundreds. We'll see if you're persuaded by it or not.