For 10 points, name this first ruler of Achaemenid (uh-KAI-mun-ihd)
This ruler constructed his capital at Pasargadae and won the Battle of Opis in his campaigns against Nabonidus, a ruler of the Chaldean dynasty. After the Battle of Thymbra, this man defeated the Lydian Empire and took Croesus captive. This ruler also ended the Babylonian Captivity of the Jews, and this father of Cambyses II ended the earlier Median Empire to create an empire which would later be ruled from Persepolis. For 10 points, name this first ruler of Achaemenid (uh-KAI-mun-ihd) Persia.
This ruler constructed his capital at Pasargadae and won the Battle of Opis in his campaigns against Nabonidus, a ruler of the Chaldean dynasty.
{Cyrus} the Great [or {Cyrus} the {Elder} or {Cyrus II}]