Cyrus the Great did not conquer Greece. He was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire and focused on expanding his territory in Asia, including parts of modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Mesopotamia. While his empire eventually included territories that bordered Greece, the full conquest of Greece did not occur until later under his successors, particularly Darius I and Xerxes I during the Greco-Persian Wars.
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