The king with a council, provincial governors appointed bythis, and traditional local government headed by selected reliable local tribal chiefs, tyrants and princelings.
Hekmataneh.
It was a kingdom. ruled by the king and his council. It was divided into 20 provinces with Persian governors. Local government was by the normal ones of the different peoples - city-states, tribes, principalities.
Indigenous local government, Persian provincial governors, and a central control by king and his council.
It was merely a Persian religious sect which did not have a political influence. The Persian Empire was divided into 20 provinces (satrapies) with a Persian governor (satrap), overseen by the king and his council, an entirely practical approach, not a religious one.
The governing system of the Persian Empire, resting on traditional local government, provincial government and central imperial government.
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.
Alexander conquered the Persian Empire.