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Herodotus and the Seven Seven Conspirators

Kambisys had a brother named Bardia and Cyrus could see this could be a difficult succession Okay, so we sent Bardia way east and had him govern Bactria and some other very important eastern provinces And He sort of positioned the direction of conquest in the army for kambisys in the early going toward Wait, did I do that backwards? Yeah toward the west to go out toward Egypt. Kambisys does a big campaign to Egypt that Herodotus didn't like we got to talk about Herodotus Oh, there's so much okay. We'll get back to that in just a second.

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