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625 BCE - 585 BCEMedian army organized during the reign of Cyaxares of the Medes.
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c. 550 BCE - 530 BCEAchaemenid Army organized under Cyrus the Great of Persia based on Cyaxares' model.
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522 BCE - 486 BCEThe Achaemenid Persian military is expanded and refined under the reign of Darius I the Great.
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486 BCE - 465 BCEAchaemenid Persian military expanded further under the reign of Xerxes I.
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247 BCE - 224 CEUnder the Parthian Empire, cavalry becomes the dominant force of the military in the region.
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224 CE - 240 CEReign of Ardashir I who founds Sassanian Empire and reorganizes the military drawing on all the models of the past and present.
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224 CE - 651 CEUnder the Sassanian Empire, the Persian military becomes the greatest fighting force in the ancient world, repeatedly defeating Roman Empire.
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651 CESassanian Empire falls to invading Muslim Arabs; Persian army and navy are disbanded.