Period II: Organization & Reorganization of Human Societies, c

Medes; defeats Egypt, Babylonians, Lydians, Elamites; called it the Achaemid Empire (def: “ancestor”); dies of flu & son Cambyses takes over (later Cambyses would die from gangrene after an injury taken on while trying to stop a rebellion)--Cyrus Cylinder—”first charter of human rights”— ................
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