Jerjes!

The successor of Darío faced in the second year of his reign the rebels of the Egyptian Delta, obtaining a forceful victory. The Egyptian province was still had entrusted by his brother Aquemenes, raising the hardness the relations with the Egyptian subjects. Once suffocated the revolts, Jerjes continued with the struggle against the Greeks. After the victory before Leónidas of Sparta and the entry in the Athenian Acropolis, which temples were plundered and inflamed, the defeats they happened, being some so forceful as in Salamina, Orchestra or Eurimedonte. This situation provoked that Jerjes was resigning his Greek colonies in the Asia Minor and his desires of entrometerse in the Greek politics. Jerjes was murdered in 465 B.C. leaving his son Artajerjes as successor.