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History:
The Persians settled on
relatively poor and remote lands where they were little troubled by first
the Elamites to their west, then the Assyrians who destroyed the Elamites
around 640 BC, then the Medes (to their north) and resurgent Babylonians
who conquered Assyria in 609 BC. Throughout this period, the various petty
Persian kings were vassals of the richer and more advanced Medes.
Cyrus II became king of the
small Persian kingdom of Anshan in 559BC. Within ten years he had
subjugated the eastern part of Persia and established a reputation among
even his rivals as a natural leader to whom men gravitated. When the
Median king attempted to reassert control over Persia around 550 BC, the
Median army revolted on the battlefield, handing over their king to Cyrus
and surrendering their own capital at Ecbatana. The Median Empire,
stretching across northern Mesopotamia into Anatolia, underwent a nearly
bloodless change of management. Cyrus II was now Cyrus the Great, founder
of the Persian Empire.
Bonuses:
The Persians
have four major bonuses. They have +30% hunting, -30% farm production, war
elephant and elephant archers are 50% faster, and +50% trireme fire rate.
Strengths:
The war
elephants of the Persian are like the Hittites heavy catapults in that
they are both like tanks.
Weaknesses:
The Persians
lack the academy. So therefore they lack the more advanced infantry units. |
