The law of the state would still be "the law of the Medes and Persians." Official employments would be open to the people of both countries.

Even the fame and glory of empire would attain, in the minds of men, almost as much to the one nation as the other.

If Media descended from her preeminent rank, it was to occupy a station only a little below the highest, and one which left her a very distinct superiority over all the subject races.
If it be asked how Media, in her hour of peril, came to receive no assistance from the great Powers with which she had made such close alliances--Babylonia and Lydia--the answer would seem to be that Lydia was too remote from the scene of strife to lend her effective aid, while circumstances had occurred in Babylonia to detach that state from her and render it unfriendly.

The great king, Nebuchadnezzar, had he been on the throne, would undoubtedly have come to the assistance of his brother-in-law, when the fortune of war changed, and it became evident that his crown was in danger.

But Nebuchadnezzar had died in B.V.