After a two-week siege, the city fell and was overwhelmed by Persian forces. Instead, they advanced and placed the Lydian capital at Sardis under siege. As winter neared the Lydians withdrew their army, but the Persians did not follow suit. Croesus struck coins with his likeness on them, and he was, at one time, the richest man in the primitive world, having literally thousands of pounds of Gold that he had turned into coins.Ĭroesus led his army into battle against the Persians.
Croesus was well-known in the primitive world as a fierce warrior, and he first struck gold coinage. To the East, the Lydians, under the leadership of King Croesus, envied the Persian Empire and sought to conquer some of their lands. They were explorers and warriors and were not afraid to take the lands and subjugate the peoples that they met. (The Massive Persian Empire around 500BC)
The Persian Empire extended from Egypt in the South and West to northern India in the North to Central Asia in the East. The Persian (or it is also known as the Achaemenid Empire) was the largest empire in the known world around this time period of approximately 500 BC. History has not been kind to King Darius or to the Persian Empire itself.
