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The '''Achaemenid Empire''' (Old Persian ''Hakhāmanishiya'') (559 BC–330 BC) was the first in a series of [[Persia]]n [[empire]]s to rule over [[Greater Iran]], and many other parts of the [[Middle East]]. At its greatest expanse, the Achaemenid Empire ruled over parts of present-day [[Afghanistan]], west [[Pakistan]], northern [[Egypt]], all of [[Iraq]] ([[Mesopotamia]]), [[Syria]], [[Turkey]] (Asia Minor), [[Jordan]], [[Israel]], and northern [[Saudi Arabia]]. The empire was the largest in [[Classical Antiquity|classical antiquity]].
The '''Achaemenid Empire''' (Old Persian ''Hakhāmanishiya'') (559 BC–330 BC) was the first in a series of [[Persia]]n [[empire]]s to rule over [[Greater Iran]], and many other parts of the [[Middle East]]. At its greatest expanse, the Achaemenid Empire ruled over parts of present-day [[Afghanistan]], west [[Pakistan]], northern [[Egypt]], all of [[Iraq]] ([[Mesopotamia]]), [[Syria]], [[Turkey]] (Asia Minor), [[Jordan]], [[Israel]], and northern [[Saudi Arabia]]. The empire was the largest in [[Classical Antiquity|classical antiquity]]. It was conquered by [[Alexander the Great]] in the late 330s BC.
==History==
==History==