Editing Dacians (section)

===Relations with Persians===

Herodotus says: "before [[Darius I|Darius]] reached the Danube, the first people he subdued were the Getae, who believed that they never die".{{sfn|Herodotus|440 BC|loc=4.93–4.97}} A persian clay tablet found at [[Gherla]] mentions Darius and although the Persian army probably did not reach the modern findspot of the tablet, the object is probably evidence of the Persian campaign to Dacia.{{sfn|Brodersen|2020|pp=46–47}}

It is possible that the Persian expedition and the subsequent occupation may have altered the way in which the Getae expressed the immortality belief. The influence of thirty years of [[Achaemenid Empire|Achaemenid]] presence may be detected in the emergence of an explicit iconography of the "Royal Hunt" that influenced Dacian and Thracian metalworkers, and of the practice of [[Falconry|hawking]] by their upper class.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}