Rise of Empires Hero - Darius I

Darius I once traveled to Egypt, leading a tough army made up of tens of thousands of soldiers. He came to power when Cambyses II died unexpectedly. At the age of 28, he became a great monarch of the Persian Empire. In less than a year, he launched eighteen battles to eliminate the leaders of eight major rebel forces one after another and reunited the vast Persian Empire. He invaded Scythia. With the help of Egyptian and Greek engineering techniques and Phoenician ships, his Persian army built a giant pontoon bridge across the Bosphorus and conquered the divided Thracian tribes eventually. In the Greco-Persian Wars, however, Darius sent Mardonius to lead a fleet to Greece, but midway he was caught by a huge storm at Cape Athos. The fleet suffered great losses. And so he ruled the Persian Empire for 37 years despite all the ups and downs and left his name in history.