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Achaemenid period (553 bce - 330 bce) (1216 words) |
 | In the middle of the sixth century BCE, the Achaemanid clan of the Persians was headed by Cyrus, who ruled, under Median domination, as sub-king of Parsa, or Persis. |
| In 553 BCE Cyrus led a revolt that resulted in the overthrow of the Median ruler and the rise to the power of the Achaemenids. |
| A more ambitious to subjugate the Greeks was attempted by Xerxes, but after a navel disaster at Salamis in 480 BCE and a decimation of the land forces at Plataea the next year, the invading forces were withdrawn to the shores of Asia Minor. |
| The Wargamer - Battle of Megalopolis 330 BCE (635 words) |
| The Battle of Mice – Megalopolis 330 BC Antipater vs. |
| When Alexander arrived in Susa, in December of that year, the outcome of this obscure war was still unknown: from Susa he sent Antipater 3000 talents to continue the war effort. |
| The final news of Antipater's victory must have reached Alexander in summer 330 BC when he dismissed his allied troops – or even much later in spring 329 BC when he crossed the Indian Caucasus into Bactria. |
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