.: Xerxes

Xerxes was appointed like successor the Darío I for at the front the all their stepbrother, older that he, and that born before that Darío promoted to the throne. After being crowned in October the 485 B.C., Xerxes is faced victoriously to the rebellion in the Egipto, Initiated in 486 B.C., Stopping his brother Aquemenes like satrap this province, on which practised to control very repressive.

The predecessors the Xerxes, especially his father, they were not very lucky in the attempt the harmonize the ancient civilizations submitted with the government persa. This one was probably the right that which Xerxes was deciding abolish for good the kingdom the Babilonia in 484 B.C. and remove the golden statue the Bel, killing to the priests that treated the prevent. This proceed unleashed two revolts, in 484 B.C. and the 479 B.C., that were suffocated energetically.