Key term for OCR GCSE Ancient History, used in Cambyses II and Darius.
The royal dynasty to which Darius claimed to belong, named after an ancestral figure called Achaemenes, used to link himself to Cyrus the Great.
Achaemenid appears in OCR GCSE Ancient History revision content for The Persian Empire, especially Cambyses II and Darius and Cambyses II and Darius.
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