The Achaemenid Empire, the First Persian Empire, was an ancient state that existed in the 6th-4th centuries BC. e. in the territory of Western Asia and northeast Africa, created by the Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids. By the end of the VI century BC. e. the borders of the Achaemenid state stretched from the Indus River in the east to the Aegean Sea in the west, from the first threshold of the Nile in the south to Transcaucasia in the north

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