This is the extent of the Persian Empire at around 500 BCE under Darius the Great. And in future videos, we'll talk more about Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great and the various Shahs and Shahs, king of kings of the Persian Empire. But you can see it was a massive empire. Not only did it contain modern Iran, which is really the heart of the Persian Empire, but much of the modern Middle East, including Turkey. You have Egypt here. We go into Central Asia and also Afghanistan and even parts of Pakistan. But before talking more about how it was established and who established it, I'm gonna dig down a little bit into the word Persia.