Cyrus the Great
The Ancients
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The Dynasty of Cyrus
Whether we get to a genuine Cyrus remains to be seen, but I think we can get glimpses of the real man and the motivation behind him at certain moments in the narrative. So the early sixth century BC, before Cyrus becomes king, what is the geopolitical situation of ancient Iran when he is born? Okay, so the Iranians being this nomadic people from Eurasian steps had moved in to the Iranian platform around about 1,200 BCE. There they had quite easily amalgamated with indigenous peoples in the Zagros mountain area, in the north and in the south. And it's clear that the elamites and the Persian tribes intermingled, possibly intermarried; there was
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