The Quiz: What modern-day country is located where the Persian Empire began?
Ethiopia
Iran
India
Hungary
Cyrus the Great was born in what is now Iran and came to power by bringing the small tribes of the Iranian plateau into his empire. Though at its height the Persian Empire stretched from Europe’s Balkan Peninsula to the Indus River Valley in northwest India, the empire’s capitals were almost always located in modern-day Iran.
The correct answer to this quiz is Iran.