Who united the Persians and Medes to create the Persian Empire?

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David Drayer
Jun 15, 2017

Cyrus the Great.

Explanation:

Cyrus the Great was a Persian King, Cyrus crated an alliance with Darius King of the Medes to create the Persian Media Empire. Together this alliance conquered the Babylonian Empire. The Medes were definitely the junior partners in the Empire which became known as simply the Persian Empire.

Though Darius the king of Medes was put in charge of the conquered city of Babylon, as recorded in the book of Daniel Chapters 6, and 9. Cyrus was the main leader of the combined kingdoms.

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