It stretched from Libya I the west, through Egypt, the Middle East and Central Asia to today's Pakistan.
They divided it into 20 provinces (satrapies) with a Persian provincial governor (Satrap) in control supervised by the king and his council.
The word for a governor of a Persian province is "satrap." In the ancient Persian Empire, satraps were appointed to oversee various regions, ensuring local governance and collecting taxes on behalf of the central authority. This administrative system allowed the Persian Empire to manage its vast territories effectively.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a person.
Persian Empire
They divided it into 20 provinces (satrapies) with a Persian provincial governor (Satrap) in control supervised by the king and his council.
By leaving local government in place, overseen by Persian provincial governors (Satraps) with central control by the king and his council.
King Darius I
The word for a governor of a Persian province is "satrap." In the ancient Persian Empire, satraps were appointed to oversee various regions, ensuring local governance and collecting taxes on behalf of the central authority. This administrative system allowed the Persian Empire to manage its vast territories effectively.
If it is on size then it was Alexander's empire because it was so vast that it stretched from Italy to the present India(eastawards). This ws truly very vast. If on good army power and maitenance then it would be Julius Caesar's Roman Empire(after alexander). If not, probably the Persian empire.
The Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire was not a person.
Persian Empire
The Persian Empire absorbed the Babylonian Empire.
Alexander the Great defeated the Persian empire
The Persian Empire absorbed the Baabylonian Empire.
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.