And the whole reason why we even call it a Persian Empire is because Cyrus the Great was from Pars. Persian is really referring to the idea that the ruler, the dynasty that gets established, was coming from Pars. It turns out, and I talk about it in other videos, the Persians did not refer to themselves as Persians. They viewed themselves more as the Aryan people. In a lot of ways, Iran, or Airan, or Aryanam, or Aja, and these types of words are more accurate for how the Persians viewed themselves. But needless to say, in 549, Cyrus the Great is able to conquer the Median Empire, and he keeps going. And what he establishes, this empire, this dynasty, is called the Achaemenid Dynasty.