#ancient persia notes

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Darius III

-- originally named Artashata

-- called Codomannus by the Greeks

-- last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia

-- born in 380 BCE

-- died in July of 330 BCE in Bactria

-- married to Stateira I

-- empire was unstable

-- Alexander the Great began his invasion in 334 BCE

-- battled Alexander at the Battle of Gaugamela

-- killed by his cousin and satrap, Bessus

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