With 20 provincial governors under control of the king and his council. The city-state, tribal and principality rulers were left in place, under control of the provincial governors.
They retained traditional local government, while the empire provided security and encouraged prosperity.
Gaining an empire is its own reward.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
Persians
The Persians
No.
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and converted it into an empire of his own, not to destroy the Persians but to convert them to Greek culture.
The Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE.
He was not mean to the Persians - he led them to form the greatest empire of the time.
It expanded the Persians.
An empire.
They divided the empire into 20 provinces with Persian governors but left the cities, tribes and principalities under their traditional rules, blending normal rule with overall control and protection.