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The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (1st Edition) by Amélie Kuhrt, Amã Lie Kuhrt Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-415-55279-6 / 0415552796 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-55279-0 / 9780415552790 The Achaemenid dynasty (550-330 BC) ruled over the first and largest 'world empire' in history: the Persian empire extended from the Babylonians in the east to the Jews and Greeks in the west, with fingers of control in the fringes of the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere. Its sheer size was a facto |