Nile, Tigris, Euphrates were the largest, but there were dozens of others visible in a map of the Middle East, Pakistan and Central Asia.
The Persian Empire conquered the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys as well as the Jordan River Valley and the Nile River Valley.
The Ancient Persian Empire originated in what is modern-day Iran.
The Persian Empire included a vast territory that stretched across parts of present-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It was one of the largest empires in ancient history.
There was no concept of universal citizenship. The Persian Empire included a wide variety of peoples organised variously into, and members of, their traditional city-states, tribes, principalities. These were ruled by Persian provincial governors and overall by the king and his council.
The Persian Empire was not a Mesopotamian empire - it included Mesopotamia as merely one of it's twenty provinces which stretched from Libya to today's Pakistan..
Persian Empire, Phoenician trading empire.
Assyria and Babylon.
The Ancient Persian Empire originated in what is modern-day Iran.
The Persian Empire included a vast territory that stretched across parts of present-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. It was one of the largest empires in ancient history.
The ancient Persian empire was located where Iran is today. Babylon was its capital city.
There was no concept of universal citizenship. The Persian Empire included a wide variety of peoples organised variously into, and members of, their traditional city-states, tribes, principalities. These were ruled by Persian provincial governors and overall by the king and his council.
Alexander the Great.
A strength of the Persian Empire was that the people were happy. A weakness of the Persian Empire was there were too high of taxes.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a Mesopotamian empire - it included Mesopotamia as merely one of it's twenty provinces which stretched from Libya to today's Pakistan..
Persian Empire, Phoenician trading empire.
Alexander the Great.
First Susa, then Persepolis.