This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Persian Empire
This is part of Get To Know The Peoples Of The World
- (Circa pre-6th Century B.C.E.) Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland
- (Circa 7th-6th Century B.C.E.) The Rise of Persia and the First Greco-Persian Wars: The Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire and the Battle of Marathon by Manousos E. Kambouris