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Who were the gods worshiped by the Persian Empire?
An overall pantheon of over 2,000 gods and godesses who were recognised variously in different provinces of the Empire.
From what people did Romans adopt some gods?
Sometimes they started worshiping the gods and goddesses of people they conquered--they took on the Greek religion, Christianity, Egyptian and Persian religions.
Why did the Persians hate the Athenians?
In the early stages of the Ionian Revolt of the Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persian rule, Athens sent a contingent to help the Athenians, and when they captured the Persian provincial capital of Sardis, they burnt the city down and destroyed the statues of the Persian gods. When the Persians captured Athens 20 years ater, they destroyed the Athenian gods as a mark of retaliation.
Where did Alexander the Great avenge the Persian destruction of the Greek temples by destroying the royal palaces?
He burnt Persepolis, but although he claimed it as a reprisal (it had happened in Athens 150 years earlier(!) in 480 BCE when the Persians destroyed the gods in reprisal for Athens destroying their gods in the Persian provincial capital of Sardis), he was really destroying the capital of the Persian Empire which he was taking over, and wanted to establish a new capital of his own at Babylon, and not leave a Persian rallying point.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian empire and those of the Greek civilizations?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian empire and those Greek civilizations?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
Who were the Persians led by when Athens was destroyed?
Xerxes the Great. He didn't destroy the city as he used it as accommodation for his army in 480 and again in 479 BCE. He destroyed the walls, and also destroyed their gods in retaliation for the destruction of the Persian gods which the Athenians had carried out when they raided the Persian provincial capital of Sardis in 498 BCE.
What was one similarity between the religious practices of the Persian Empire and those of Greek civilization?
Both the Persian Empire and Greek civilization had multiple gods responsible for different aspects of human life.
Did the Persians burn Athens to the ground?
No, they wanted to use Athens as a base, so they contented themselves with destroying the walls, and breaking the statues of the gods in retaliation for the Athenians having destroyed the Persian gods in the Persian provincial city of Sardis in Asia Minor when Athenian forces had invaded it 18 years earlier during the Ionian revolt.
Why were the athenians turn first to rebuilding the agora following the Persian war?
They turned first to rebuilding the defensive walls of the city for security, and adding to them with extra walls linking the city to its post. They also re-established the gods at the centre of their religious life - the Persians had wrecked them in retaliation for an earlier Athenian destruction of Persian gods at Sardis when Athens was involved in a Greek raid on the Persian provincial capital. The agora, being a market paddock, did not need rebuilding.
Why did Athenians turn first to rebuilding the agora following the Persian war?
They turned first to rebuilding the defensive walls of the city for security, and adding to them with extra walls linking the city to its post. They also re-established the gods at the centre of their religious life - the Persians had wrecked them in retaliation for an earlier Athenian destruction of Persian gods at Sardis when Athens was involved in a Greek raid on the Persian provincial capital. The agora, being a market paddock, did not need rebuilding.
What was a similarity between the religious practices of the Persian Empire and those of the Greek civilization?
Both were polytheistic - having many gods with different areas of power.
