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===Middle Eastern Empires=== Meanwhile in the Middle East and what is now Iran, a series of states would rise and fall. Greater than anything that had come before. The first of these was The Assyrian Empire. They came to power during the Bronze Age Collapse and spread like wildfire over the Middle East and Levant. On the whole, they were pretty nasty. From the ashes of the Assyrian Empire, Babylon rose like a phoenix. It rose against against the Neo Assyrians in 626 BCE and by with the help of the Medes to the east toppled it by 606 BCE. Once that was done, they pushed westward to the Levant under Nebuchadnezzar II. This earned him a fair deal ire from the locals and the Old Testament is not kind to him or Babylon because of it. For all that, it was a rather shakey regime hat did not last long. The Greatest of these was the Achaemenid Empire, more commonly known as the Persian Empire. Emerging in what's now Iran under the leadership of Cyrus the Great, it rose and conquered Babylon and spread it's influence beyond the Assyrians. As it went it built a network of roads, introduced coinage, set up an excellent post system and imposed peace and order across as much as 50% of the Total Human Population. Despite this, it still let people mostly handle their own affairs and unlike a lot of ancient empires the Achaemenids made little use of slavery. The writers of the Old Testament were rather positively inclined to the guy. The Greeks on the other hand were not well disposed to the Achamenid.
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