It is further clear that both he and his allies preserved undiminished both their territories and their independence.

The territorial basis of the treaty was thus what in modern diplomatic language is called the status quo; matters, in other words, returned to the position in which they had stood before the war broke out.

The only difference was that Cyaxares gained a friend and an ally where he had previously had a jealous enemy; since it was agreed that the two kings of Media and Lydia should swear a friendship, and that, to cement the alliance, Alyattes should give his daughter Aryenis in marriage to Astyages, the son of Cyaxares.

The marriage thus arranged took place soon afterwards, while the oath of friendship was sworn at once.
According to the barbarous usages of the time and place, the two monarchs, having met and repeated the words of the formula, punctured their own arms, and then sealed their contract by each sucking from the wound a portion of the other's blood.
By this peace the three great monarchies of the time--the Median, the Lydian, and the Babylonian--were placed on terms, not only of amity, but of intimacy and (if the word may be used) of blood relationship.

The Crown Princes of the three kingdoms had become brothers.