He absorbed Media into partnership. This was not an empire. The empire came later when they expanded through Central Asia, the rest of the Middle East and North Africa.
He established secure boundaries and divided the empire into 20 provinces each with a governor responsible for internal and external security, overseen by himself and his council.
He established secure boundaries and divided the empire into 20 provinces each with a governor responsible for internal and external security, overseen by himself and his council.
He divided the empire into 20 provinces, each with a Persian governor responsible to the king and his council for internal and external security, taxes and advancing prosperity. Local areas retained their traditional governance under their provincial governor.
By leaving local government in the hand of reliable local despots, establishing twenty Persian provincial governors to control them, and enciuraging prosperity to keep the people happy. As well, they provided external security to protect from intruders trying to move in.
:3They expanded his territory and built a grand capital at Cuzco.
Darius further refined what Cyrus had previously established - Satraps who were essentially provincial governors . ~ See related link below .
He established secure boundaries and divided the empire into 20 provinces each with a governor responsible for internal and external security, overseen by himself and his council.
He established secure boundaries and divided the empire into 20 provinces each with a governor responsible for internal and external security, overseen by himself and his council.
policies of toleration, tribute, allow people to keep culture/religion, keep leaders, and etc.
policies of toleration, tribute, allow people to keep culture/religion, keep leaders, and etc.
He divided the empire into 20 provinces, each with a Persian governor responsible to the king and his council for internal and external security, taxes and advancing prosperity. Local areas retained their traditional governance under their provincial governor.
They left local government to the peoples they ruled, establishing Persian provincial governors to oversee and protect them, with central control by the king and his council.
the methods that the umayyads used to unify their empire was the common language and the coinage!
Mauryan empire.
his laws
Abd al Mallik unify the empire by making Arabic the official language of government in all Muslim lands
kushan