After Cyrus II took over the Babylonian dynasty, perhaps for political purposes, he liberated the imprisoned Jews, and ordered the reconstruction of the Temple and Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall was built around this time, and he also sent troops to suppress the indigenous Jewish descendants who remained in the area, and Persia became the de facto controller of the Holy Land.
The rebuilt new Jewish kingdom, which was a loyal ally of the Persian Empire, gave Cyrus II a high opinion, honoring him as the "Messiah", and supporting many garrisons for Persian rule in Egypt.
The biblical-Ezra king is Cyrus II, and this may be the beginning of the love-hate story between Iran and Israel!
The Persian threat always came from both the east and the west, but it was not capable of fighting on both fronts at the same time, and after the stabilization of the western front, and in order to better take Egypt later, Cyrus II decided to devote his energies to dealing with the nomads in the northeast, but this would be the most fatal wrong decision he made.
In 530 BC, he sent an army to conquer the Masaghtai on the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the vast steppes of Central Asia, and they were led by the widowed queen Tomiris, and the society of the Masaghtai was polygamous, so this queen was definitely not easy to mess with.
It is said that Cyrus II first saluted and then soldiered, and at first hoped to avoid war by "peace", but the queen obviously did not like to be restrained and refused Cyrus's proposal, so Cyrus II then clashed with them, in the first battle, Cyrus II easily won the victory by luring the enemy deeper, and captured the son of the queen who was still feasting at the time, the prince committed suicide in shame, and the angry queen sent emissaries to tell Cyrus: "Since you are bloodthirsty and thirsty, I will tell you to drink the blood!" ”
Then, the brave and warlike Masaguetes then launched a brutal battle against the Persians, the result of which was that the Persian army was almost completely destroyed, Cyrus II was killed, and queen Tomiris found Cyrus's body, cut off his head, put it into a leather bag full of blood, and fulfilled his oath once, so that Cyrus "drank blood", and the great Cyrus II also ended his life of conquest.
This defeat slowed the Persian Empire's conquest of the Middle East, so after Cyrus II, who would be able to shoulder this huge empire, and what stories would happen in the future of this empire?