FOR ALMOST 1,200 YEARS, FROM 550 b.c.e. TO 651 c.e., THE. Persians dominated an area that stretched from the Black Sea (which is north of modernTurkeyand bordered by Eastern Europe) intoCentral Asia. Throughout its long history,Persiahad contact with and often battled many of the other great empires of the past. The Persian homeland was centered in the southwest of modernday Iran, along the Zagros Mountains. From there, the Persians conquered the various kingdoms of Mesopotamia, in the region between the Tigris and EuphratesRiversin what is now Iraq. They then spread their influence over Egyptand the fringes of southern Europe. This made them the first empire builders to control part of three continents. To the east, Persian rule extended as far as India. [download]
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