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They established 20 provinces with Persian governors responsible for internal and internal security, overseen by the king and his council. The governors were also responsible for promoting prosperity and improving infrastructure in their province.
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Why might the Persian empire have been a threat to greece?
Greek cities interfered in the Persian Empire in support of the Greek cities within the Empire. This led the Persians to think that the only way for peace was to absorb the Greek cities into the Empire. A fifty-year war ensued.
What is the Persians about?
A fifty-year struggle of the Persian Empire trying to incorporate a couple of hundred Greek city-states within its empire to bring peace and prosperity to the eastern Mediterranean. As with all wars, it brought death and destruction.
What was the purpose of the government of the Persian Empire?
To promote peace, security and prosperity.
What bests describes the Persians?
They tried to impose peace, promote internal and external security, and advance prosperity, while leaving the various citiy-states, petty principalities and tribes to continue their own cultures and governance.
What did the Persians want from Greeks?
There were hundreds of Greek cities within the Persian Empire, and their mother cities in peninsular Greece helped them rise against their Persian overlords. The Persians decided to take over peninsular Greece and absorb it within the empire to stop this disruption to peace.
How would the Persians rule would be a be described as?
The Persian rule would best be described as trying to promote peace, security and prosperity.
Why was the battle of marathon so pivotal?
Its failure convinced the Persians that the only way to keep the Greek cities quiet and stop disrupting the peace in its empire was to bring them within the empire. This led to the persian invasion of peninsular Greece a decade later.
What are some similarities between the Persian and Athenian empire?
They both were established to promote peace and prosperity and defence. However the Persians tried to do it for real, the Athenians did it for their own profit, lavishing the proceeds of an annually enforced tax on its own city and citizens.
Describe what happen to the Persians as the golden age of Athens began?
They had given up trying to force the Greeks to live peacefully and concentrated on promoting peace and prosperity within their empire, and stopping the Greeks disrupting this.
What was the struggle of the Greco-Persian War?
Persia tried to bring the Greek city-states which were outside its empire under its control to stop them interfering within the empire. After 50 years of lack of success, the Persians agreed to peace and left them to continue their internal wars.
What two things led to the Persian Wars?
1. The mainland Greek cities supported revolutions by the Greek cities in Asia Minor within the Persian Empire. 2. The punitive expedition against Athens failed at Marathon, so the Persians decided that the only way to put an end to continuing disturbances was to incorporate mainland Greece within their Empire and so stop disruptions to peace within the Empire.
What is Persian war about?
Persia faced a revolt by the Greek city-states within its empire, known as the Ionian Revolt. Greek cities outside the empire attempted to intervene, so the Persians decided that the only path to stability was to bring these cities in mainland Greece within the empire where they could be controlled. This whold provess lasted for 50 years with little success, so the Persians agreed to peace, and the Greek cities could then get back to their usual occupation of fighting each other.
