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 ...

Some of the people named in the texts—Maraza ... “It’s clear that subsequent Persian kings in the Achaemenid Dynasty decided to add their own marks to the terrace site through massive ...

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 ...