TIMELINE
Mar 02, 2020
2 minutes
559 BC
Cyrus II becomes king of the vassal state of Persia.
In 550 he deposes his grandfather Astyages, king of Media. The legendarily rich Croesus is overthrown by Cyrus II four years later. Babylon submits in 539.
530 BC
who died from battle
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