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Fixed the date, as the conquest was finished in the early 320s and not in the late 330s.
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.
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 fully conquered by [[Alexander the Great]] by 327 BC.
==History==
==History==
===Early Years===
===Early Years===