id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3587 Amyntas I of Macedon - Wikipedia .html text/html 1181 269 64 Amyntas I of Macedon Wikipedia 540 – 512/511 BC) and then a vassal of Achaemenid king Darius I (c. 540 – 498 BC) was king of the ancient kingdom of Macedon (540 – 512 / 511 BC) and then a vassal of Darius I from 512/511 to his death 498 BC, at the time of Achaemenid Macedonia. Amyntas was a vassal of Darius I, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, since 512/511 BC.[2] Amyntas gave the present of "Earth and Water" to Megabazus, which symbolized submission to the Achaemenid Emperor.[3][4] One of the daughters of Amyntas, named Gygaea, was married to the Persian General, called Bubares, possibly as a way of reinforcing the alliance.[3][5] Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550–330 BCE. Amyntas III Alexander III (Alexander the Great) Artaxerxes III Ochus Darius III Achaemenid Macedon Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3587.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3587.txt