Cambysessaxon

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= C ambyses, second king of Persia.= ===When Cyrus died in the year 530 B.C. his son Cambyses, named after Cyrus's father, succeeded the throne and expanded the Persian Empire by taking Egypt. Cambyses fatal flaw during his reign as king was he neglected to follow his father's wise example, which was embrace the Egyptian religion, instead he scorned it, ordering his guards to tear down and burn images of the Egyptian gods. He only ruled for 8 years then he died. After Cambyses death, widespread chaos rebellions broke out all over the empire. Persian control lost its strength that it had a decade earlier, now it's extremely fragile.===