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Darius III was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BCE to 330 BCE. It was under his rule that the Persian Empire was conquered during the Wars of Alexander the Great. Artaxerxes III of Persia and all of his sons except one, Arses, were killed off through the assassination plots of a vizier named Bagoas, who installed Arses... [
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