Achaemenes

600 BC–

5th-century BC Achaemenid satrap of Egypt

satrap

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Achaemenes:

• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
• Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
• Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
• Aesop (619 BC–563 BC)
• Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
• Thales (624 BC–545 BC)
• Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)
• Sappho (650 BC–569 BC)

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