id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1221 Xerxes I - Wikipedia .html text/html 7071 1168 73 This account of education among the Persian elite is supported by Xenophon's description of the 5th-century BC Achaemenid prince Cyrus the Younger, with whom he was well-acquainted.[24] Stoneman suggests that this was the type of upbringing and education that Xerxes experienced.[25] It is unknown if Xerxes ever learned to read or write, with the Persians favouring oral history over written literature.[25] Stoneman suggests that Xerxes' upbringing and education was possibly not much different from that of the later Iranian kings, such as Abbas the Great, king of the Safavid Empire in the 17th-century AD.[25] Starting from 498 BC, Xerxes resided in the royal palace of Babylon.[26] He is the leader of the Persian Empire in the video game Civilization II and III (along with Scheherazade), although Civilization IV replaces him with Cyrus the Great and Darius I.[citation needed] In the Age of Empires, Xerxes featured as a short swordsman. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1221.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1221.txt