hed himself as the next Achaemenian emperor. At this time, while the brothers were fighting for taking the power, the Empire started breaking a part. Gradually the Greek cities in Ionia, Egypt, Pheonicia, and Syria broke away.After Darius II, first his oldest son Artaxerxes II and then Artaxerxes III ruled over the Achaemenian Empire. Although Artaxerxes III was a powerful emperor, he couldn't save the Empire from getting a part. He made a last attempt to reunite the Empire ,but he did not succeed. The last Achaemenian ruler was Darius III. He revolutionized the economy by replacing it on silver and gold coinage system. However , he was Weak in power and in 332 B.C he surrendered the Empire to Alexandre the great who was the first accepted leader by fractious Greeks. Alexander first took over Egypt and Babylon and then he captured Susa ,Ecbatana, and Perspolis ,which were the heart of the Achaemenid Empire, and burned them down. The monuments which had been built to testify the absolute power of the Achaemeninan empire were razed to the ground in just one night by Alexander's army.The Acheamenid Art and architecture found in perspolis is at once distinctive and highly ecletic. The Achaemenid took the art form and cultural and religious traditions of many of the ancient middle eastern people and combined them into a single form. Today, the remaining monuments and tombs in Iran ,mostly in perspolis , are the evidences of the Achaemenide power as well as they reflect the length of Iran's history and culture....
