Why didn't Darius just go through the Caucasus? Did he fear

Logistics, the Persians had a pretty good navy and could easily secure the Hellespont.

There's no fucking reason to. The Caucuses are about as difficult to cross as the alps, crossing them is something you'd want to avoid at all cost

>>3322482
Excuses

>>3322555
How did the Scythians cross them all the time then? Did the churka fear the Iranic warrior?

>>3322473
You do realize I hope that the Black Sea coast was fully inhabited right? And so was the Caucasus? He would have had to fight his way through a hundred of tribes and a dozen petty kingdoms before reaching Greece.

Is the Scythian campaign's extent even legit? To my knowledge all we have on it is Herodotus's word, which is iffy at the best of times.

>>3325111
Cyrus just prolly died of Illness instead of Death by Snusnu.

>>3325111
>To my knowledge all we have on it is Herodotus's word, which is iffy at the best of times.

I hate this meme. The guy reported what he heard. What possible reason would someone have to make up a campaign by the Persian army against the nomadic tribes of the Euxine?

>>3325111
It does admittedly seem like a waste of time.

>>3325111
Then how did Cyrus die?

>>3328034
Depression over the rise in Nabatean date prices.

Also, it's unlikely he was a king, considering the limitations of contemporary logistics, he was probably a village elder.

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>>3322473
Who did he fear?

Well Assyrians feared the Urartu (Ararat) as the cat fears the mouse, they just couldn't handle it, they were the Armeno-Caucasus warriors and civilizers, Etrscans were their spawn, they ha dsurvived after the fall of the Hittitic celts