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Summary: Persian King Darius
Darius practiced religious tolerance, didn’t allow slavery. Darius respected other people faiths. Darius I was a Persian king. A great conqueror and the chief organizer of the Persian Empire, he is known for the unsuccessful attack on Greece which ended at marathon. The story of his successes was engraved in three scripts, and languages(Persian, Babylonian, and Elamite),accomplished by a sculptured relief, into a high rock wall of the bisitun mountain, a few miles east of modern Kermanshah.
Xerxes lacked the tolerance that Darius showed in dealing with the religion of his subject, and it’s likely that he was more wary of appearing as a representative of the gods of the subject people, but I’m not sure that he would have treated them harshly
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