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What was one important way that the Persians controlled their empire?
Through slavery and threat to kill their friends or family.
How did Persians control their empire?
One important way the Persians controlled their empire was through delegation. After a territory or country was conquered, the Persian king would set up an authority of that country who would rule semi-independently but differ to the Persian king.
Who were the people who established a great empire that stretched all the way from Egypt to India?
Persians
Who were the people that established a great empire that stretch all the way from Egypt to India?
Persians
Why was the way the Persians ruled their empire different from other ancient empires?
They used the same technique as had other empires - conquest.
What were the Persians most recognized for?
Attempting to establish peace, security and prosperity in their empire while allowing the various peoples to continue their own way of life.
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 was the main conflict between the Persians and Greeks the Greeks had land that the Persians wanted the Persians had land that the Greeks wanted the Greeks believed in freedom and self-gove?
The Persians wanted peace and prosperity in their empire. It included the Greek cities of Asia Minor, who were restive and were stirred up and supported by Greek cities of mainland Greece. The Persians concluded that the only way to get peace was to incorporate the mainland Greek cities in their empire and appoint Greek tyrants to each city to keep them quiet. Some of the cities joined the Persians, the southern city-states resisted, putting aside temporarily their usual fighting between themselves and spent 50 years warding off the Persian Empire. The Persians became tired of this and agreed to stay out of Greece, and left the Greek cities to go back to their usual fighting amongst each other. Athens kept hold of the Greek cities which had supported them in the defence against the Persian Empire and converted them into an empire of its own.
What event marked the fall of the Persian Empire?
The mongols invaded their home city, but the third crusaders had to fight their way through to get to the Holy Land, so they attacked the Persians to get through.
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.
Who eventually conquered the Persians Greeks and Egyptians?
The Persians were conquered quite brutally at three distinct points in history:They were conquered by Alexander the Great of Macedon who destroyed the Achaemenid Persian Empire and added all of its lands to his own in the 300s B.C.E.They were conquered by the Arab Muslims who destroyed the Sassanid Persian Empire in the 600s C.E. and resulted in the territory becoming prominent in the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbassid Caliphates.The Persians were overrun in the 1200s C.E. by Hulegu Khan of the Mongol Empire who founded the Ilkhanate or Middle Eastern Khanate.
What is the overall importance of the Persian War?
The inability of the Persians, over the fifty years of war, to impose peace in the Eastern Mediterranean left the way open for the rise of Macedonia and its eventual conquest of the Persian Empire.
