With the defeat of the Achaemenid armies at the Granicus ... Alexander was forced to contend with the Uxian people. This semi-nomadic non-Iranian tribe lived in the Zagros Mountains and nearby ...

The Achaemenid empire (ca. 550-330 B.C.) was the first world ... documents how the administration successfully annexed the region and its populace into the Persian Empire. 2. Textual sources and the ...