Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West is a work of narrative history by the famous historian and novelist Tom Holland. Persian Fire chronicles the rise of the Persian Empire and its first great kings - Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, as well as the struggle of Darius and Xerxes to pacify the quarrelsome city states of what would become Greece. This was a project that ended badly for the Persians. Buy it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aBYeiy The narrative really beings with the roots of the Persian people itself. The Persians were the ancestors of Aryan horse people who inhabited the mountains east of the early empire builders of Babylon and Assyria. Eventually, the empire of Medes would arise and conquer much of the fertile crescent. The power of Media eventually brought it into conflict with the people who became known as the Persians. It was this conflict with Media that kick started the power of Persian and their rise of t...
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