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.
Cyrus did not defeat the Persians. Cyrus, as a Persian himself, actually gave them an empire.
He was not mean to the Persians - he led them to form the greatest empire of the time.
king Cyrus was the ruler who united the Persians into a powerful kingdom
The Persians and the Medes, under King Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great led the Persians, then subject to the Medes, into dominating them, and with this combined strength took over the Babylonian Empire and turned this into an empire of his own.
The Persians under their king Cyrus the Great.
Cyrus the Great - he progressively created these provinces to govern the territories as he absorbed them.
The House of Achemaenid Persians and its founder Cyrus brought together the Median Empire which was the successor of the Neo Assyrian Empire and the later known as Persian Empire by acts of war.
Through a council, provincial governors and local regional/city governments
Back in 539BC, the Persians conquered Babylon.
When Babylon was an empire, the cusite or modern Ethiopians did not conquer any of it. The empire was conquered by the Persians. The king was Cyrus the great.
The leader of the Persians was Xerxes I