Founding an Empire

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From the wind-swept plains of Anshan to the terraced palaces of Persepolis, Founding an Empire follows how a cluster of royal ambitions became the ancient world's most sophisticated superstate. Opening with Cyrus the Great's audacious conquests and his radical politics of legitimacy-liberation, local autonomy, and measured mercy-the narrative moves through Cambyses II's Egyptian campaign at the edge of the known world and into the turbulence of suc...