Who is cyrus the great?
Cyrus II of Persia, also known as Cyrus the Great or Cyrus the Elder, (ca. 576 or 590 – July 529 BC), founded the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty of Anshan by unifying two Iranian tribes: the Medes and the Persians. In two historical documents discovered in Babylon and Ur Cyrus identifies himself as the “King of Iran”. Cyrus is the first king whose name was suffixed with the word “Great” (or Vazraka in Old Persian), a title adopted by his Acheamenid successors as well as by the overthrower of the Achaemenid dynasty two centries later Alexander.
