The Rise of the Achaemenids and Establishment of their Empire" The Median
and Achaemenian Periods Cambridge History of Iran 2 London.
By the middle of the 6th century BCE, the Achaemenids overthrew the Medes and incorporated Arachosia, Aria, and
Bactria within its eastern boundaries.
Each of the periods of Elamites, Achaemenids, Parthians and Sassanids were creators of great architecture that,
over the ages, spread far and wide far to other cultures.
It was CyrustheGreat and DariustheGreat who, by sound and far-sighted administrative planning, brilliant military manoeuvring, and a humanistic world view,
established the greatness of the Achaemenids and, in less than thirty years, raised them from an obscure tribe to a world power.
It was Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great who, by sound and farsighted administrative planning, brilliant military maneuvering, and a humanistic world view,
established the greatness of the Achaemenids and, in less than thirty years, raised them from an obscure tribe to a world power.