The Persian Empire was an absolute monarchy which was divided into provinces called satrapies. Each satrapy was allowed to maintain a certain degree of ethnic and religious autonomy, provided that they respected the authority of the sovereign. Each of the satrapies also had to contribute to the massive Persian armies which were used to bring all non-Persians under Persian rule.
There was no Greek empire. The independent Greek city-states were quite varied in political temperament. There were cities like Corinth which were ruled by several wealthy families as an oligopoly. The overwhelming majority of the population in Sparta were non-Spartans called helots who were serfs and servants of the dominant Spartan population. Athens was a direct democracy, convening meetings of all the citizens to decide laws. Any Athenian would have the right to speak and debate. There were other states, like Argos, that were ruled as hereditary monarchies. When Alexander the great rose in the Greek region of Macedonia, he was able to create a Hellenistic Greek empire that on his death split up between his dictator-generals and ruled as regional kingdoms with a strong emphasis on spreading Hellenic Culture.
The Persian Empire and an alliance of Greek city-states.
The Persian Empire was a massive empire where peoples under Persian governance had numerous different major religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the Hellenic Pantheon, the Levantine Pantheon, the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon, and the Mesopotamian Pantheon. By contrast, all of the Greek city states believed in the same Hellenic Pantheon and so no tolerance of other religions was necessary for societal stability.
A coalition of southern Greek city-states defeated a Persian fleet of Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ships at the naval battle of Salamis.
Alexander the Great of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia in the northern Greek peninsula.
It was a Macedonian - Alexander the Great.
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
It was not a Greek who conquered Asia Minor and the Persian Empire, it was the Macedonian king Alexander the Great
The conflict led to ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia's takeover of the Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire versus coalitions of Greek city-states led first by Sparta, then by Athens.
The Macedonian Greek Empire of Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and incorporated all of its lands.
The Persian Empire and a coalition of Greek city-states.
The Persian Empire versus varying combinations of Greek city-states.
The Greek city-states occupied by, or threatened by, expansion of the Persian Empire in the eastern Mediterranean littoral.
There was no Greek empire - the Greek world was a collection of over 2,000 independent city-states. King Alexander of Macedonia took controp of the mainland Greek cities, then invaded the Persian Empire and took it over.
The Persian Empire was comprised of 20 provinces ruled by the king and his council. There was no Greek empire until Persia was conquered by a united Greek alliance under Macedonian Hegemony. In Greece, there were over 2,000 independent city-states, each with their own government, who formed loose and changing alliances and shared the same Hellenic culture.
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