I would say simply the geography but they could also see where they founded their civilization. They could learn about how the romans viewed themselves and the outside world.
Cyrus' conquest was relatively humane compared to empires preceding his, such as the Babylonians and Assyrians. He allowed many areas of his empire a great deal of autonomy, rather than centrally controlling things. This distributed leadership allowed Persia to cover a greater geographical area than previous empires in that era and still be fairly stable, since most of its subjects were content to remain under Persian rule. Persian law was more codified and less arbitrary than previous empires; the king's seal declared approval of law which could only be reversed by further approved decrees -- not quite rule of law but going in that direction.
The correct answer is B) Sargon of Akkad.
The events referred to in the inscription above can be most accurately said to have been impossible without the accomplishments of Sargon of Akkad.
We are talking about the first Emperor of the Akkadians, Sargon the Great. He was the "terror" of many Sumerian city-states. He was feared and respected for all the above-mentioned accomplishments. Babylonian and Assyrian recorded history wrote about Sargon that he was a great ruler that led his warrior troops to conquer many regions of Mesopotamia. This literature renown him as a man that overcome poverty in his childhood and became a great Emperor.
He proposed the idea of popular soverenty, which means the people vote on issues that concern the state they live in.
