He allowed the Judean upper class, which had been deported to Babylon, to return to Judea to try to reclaim their ancestral estates. Half preferred to stay in Babylon where the y had become well established. Those who returned had mixed success - some could not prove their claim to lands, others succeeded.
The Persians, under Cyrus, announced that those who wanted to return were free to do so. Many had established themselves well in Babylon and did not return.
The leader of the Persians was Xerxes I
Cyrus did not defeat the Persians. Cyrus, as a Persian himself, actually gave them an empire.
Cyrus, king of Persia, issued an edict inviting the Jews to return to their land from the Babylonian Captivity.
king Cyrus was the ruler who united the Persians into a powerful kingdom
During the 500s B.C., a group of people called the Persians swept across southwest Asia. The Persians defeated the Chaldeans and took over Babylon. In 538 B.C. the Persian King Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
He was not mean to the Persians - he led them to form the greatest empire of the time.
He expanded Persia from being a client state of Mxxx into an empire covering the Middle East and Central Asia. They established 20 provinces with a Persian governor, tho supervised the local traditional governing bodies.
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Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the great
King Cyrus