Cyrus The Great Influence

In 559 BC Cyrus the Great came to power. It was the beginning of the Achaemenid Dynasty. Cyrus overthrew Babylon to start his mighty empire. By 554 BC Cyrus has crushed all rivals and took over all of Persia. Cyrus had the biggest empire ever made at the time and also he ruled on mercy and did not enslave all his people he conquered, and that was the first king in history to do that. Cyrus The great was also know for arctic he built great statues to honor himself and the gods. Cyrus was also one of the first kings in history that would actually write down his laws which was called “ The Cyrus Cylinder” I will talk about this more later in the paper. One of the biggest things Cyrus did was free the jews and gave them jerusalem back. Introducing this Cyrus the Great was the most Influential king in the persian Empire.

Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Some schoolers say that he might have not been the first Cyrus but he is the most well known. Schools say he

In the hebrew bible. The book of ezra chapter 1 it reads “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. “ ( Ezra 1 1-2). The story then goes on to say that he let them build his temple and the got to say there until Cyrus the great died and eventually got taken over by another muslim group. However the significance is that cyrus let the jew free and that put a good example in the air so even other kings did the