Darius I, an Achaemenid king who rules …
Years: 621BCE - 478BCE
Darius I, an Achaemenid king who rules from 522 to 486 BCE, consolidates Persian rule of present Afghanistan through the provinces, or satrapies, of Aria (in the region of modern Herat), Bactria (Balkh), Sattagydia (Ghazni to the Indus River), Arachosia (Qandahar), and Drangiana (Seistan).
Constant bitter and bloody revolts of tribal peoples living in Arachosia (Qandahar and Quetta) plague the Persian empire.
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- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age, Near and Middle East
- Iron Age India
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Persian Conquests of 559-509 BCE
