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Ashurbanipal

Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria from about 669-627 B!.C!. Succeeding his father Esarhadon, Ashurbanipal expanded Assyria to its broadest, when its territory included Babylonia, Persia, Egypt, and Syria!. Ashurbanipal was renowned also for his library at Ninevah containing more than 20,000 clay tablets written in the wedge-shaped letters called cuneiform!.
Cyrus
Cyrus was an Achmaenid who ruled (from 559-529) the Persian Empire, extending from Lydia through Babylonia!. He was the son of Cambyses I, king of Anshan, a Persian kingdom, and a Median princess!. At the time, as Jona Lendering explains it, the Persians were vassals of the Medes!. Two of Cyrus' daughters married Darius the Great!.
Cyrus conquered the Median Empire, becoming the Persian king by 546 B!.C!. That was also the year he conquered Lydia!. Cyrus defeated the Babylonians in 539, and is called the liberator of the Babylonian Jews!. Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae, led an attack that killed Cyrus!. He was succeeded by his son Cambyses II, who expanded the Persian empire into Egypt, before dying after 7 years as king!.
Read the translated Cyrus Cylinder!.
Darius
An in-law of Cyrus, Darius ruled the Persian Empire from 521-486!. He expanded the empire, conquering the Indus Valley and attacking the Scythians, but he never conquered them or the Greeks!. Darius suffered a defeat in the Battle of Marathon, which the Greeks won!. He built the Persian Empire's religious and administrative center in Persepolis!.
Nebuchadnezzar II
Nebuchadnezzar was the most important Chaldean king!. He ruled from 605-562!. Nebuchadnezzar was best remembered for turning Judah into a province of the Babylonian empire, sending the Jews into the Babylonian captivity, and destroying Jerusalem, as well as his hanging gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world!. He also expanded the empire and rebuilt Babylon!. Its monumental walls contain the famous Ishtar Gate!. Within Babylon was an impressive ziggurat to Marduk!.
Sargon II
King of Assyria from 722-705, Sargon II consolidated the conquests of his father, Tiglath-pileser III, including Babylonia, Armenia, the area of the Philistines, and Israel!.
Sennacherib
Assyrian king and son of Sargon II, Sennacherib spent his rule (705-681) defending the kingdom his father had built!. He was renowned for enlarging and building up the capital (Ninevah)!. Sennacherib's sons assassinated him!.
Tiglath-Pileser III
Tiglath-Pileser III, predecessor of Sargon II, was the Assyrian king who subjected Syria and Palestine and merged the kingdoms of Babylonia and Assyria!. He introduced a policy of transplanting the populations of conquered territories!.
Xerxes
Xerxes ruled Persia from 485-465 when he was killed by his son!. He is well known for his attempted conquest of Greece, including a successful attack on Thermopylae and a failed attempt at Salamis!.

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Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, shah of Iran (1941–79)
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shah, persian for "king" is the monarch's title

is also the derivation from which the word "chess" comes from!.Www@QuestionHome@Com