Brief history of king Cyprus the great
Time has erased much of our history, and the vast majority of people who have ever lived on Earth are gone, with neither their bones nor their names surviving to the present day. But history does remember some people, for good or for bad. Some peoples names survive with their reputations intact—even enhanced, while others are less fortunate. History, as we know, is a very debatable subject and the further back we go, the more debatable it becomes. Those people who once lived and breathed in the distant past are not with us to tell us who they were. All we have are their names to identify them and their stories to study. Let us now travel back approximately 2,600 years, to the Middle East, where in present-day Iran a baby boy was born, a boy who would survive the various dangers of childhood to grow into a man; a man who would become the most powerful ruler of his time; a ruler who, with a mixture of conquest and diplomacy, would create a huge empire and allow his subjects to liv