The Persians

The speakers of Iranian languages may have migrated into that part of Asia as early as 1500 B.C. Presumably they were originally a nomadic tribe who filtered down through the Caucasus to the Iranian plateau. They apparently subjugated peoples already there and mingled with them, but their dominance of particular areas is recorded in the place names Parsua and Parsumash. The Assyrian rulers were by the 9th cent. B.C. sending expeditions against them, and the recurrence of those campaigns is evidence of the strength of the early Persians.

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0860309.html

Origins of the Persian Empire

http://www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/2000/2/002what.html

What Medo-Persian Empire?

http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/middle_east/persia.html

http://www.ancientgr.com/archaeonia/history/classical/persian_wars.htm

  

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/PERSIANS.HTM

http://www.san.beck.org/EC6-Assyria.html

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/the_rising_persian_empire.htm

Egypt and the rising Persian empire

  

http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/MiddleEast/Persia.html

The Persian Empire 550-330 BC

http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/persia/

Ceramics of the Persian Empire

http://www.asia-minor.org/Persian%20empire.htm

http://members.aol.com/robinsash/persia/persia.htm

Persia

http://www.pinn.net/~sandy/RulersCoins/persianPic.htm

http://irantarikh.com/persia.htm

http://www.hekmats.com/persianempire.htm

Persian Empire

http://www.cappadociaonline.com/persian.html

http://joseph_berrigan.tripod.com/ancientbabylon/id35.html