If We Could Go Back In Time - The Persian Empire. Tuesday's Edition
Changing the arc of history. Series 23 #2
Cyrus the Great built the largest empire the ancient world had yet seen. It reached from Lydia and Ionia in the west through the Levant and Mesopotamia to the Indus in the east, and he ruled this empire by earning the people's respect rather than crushing them.
When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, he allowed the Babylonians to keep their gods, thei…
