Persian Empire

Cyrus the Great, added to by Cambyses and Darius.

Establishing internal and external security, encouraging prosperity and establishing 20 provinces with Persian governors to promote and progress this.

They did - they provided the second strongest Greek contingent at the battle of Plataea, and after the Persian invasion was repelled, took over leadership for the next 30 years until the Persians agreed to peace.

He first got rid of a pretender king Bardiya after King Cambyses died.

Then he divided the empire into 20 provinces and established a Persian governor in each, responsible for internal and external security and collection of taxes. These were overseen by the king and his council and supported by the regular army forces. He also levied from the cities and provinces fleets of warships which formed the naval protection for security and trade.

The endless wars fought between the Greek city-states were spilling over and disrupting the Persian Empire, which had several hundred Greek city-states within it. Persia decided to bring them all nder control, and used their usual tool of bribing the upper class to agree. This worked for many of them, but the rest resisted and Persia invaded to impose tyrants to keep the cities at peace under a Persian provincial governor.

He used the same techniques of retaining local government with provincial governors appointed by him. It's just that he had a much vaster area to control.

He added an area in Central Asia, Thrace and Macedonia.

The Persians burnt down Athens including the foundations of the new Acropolis being constructed as payback for Marathon after Persia tried to invade Greece to gain more territory and was defeated.

The Athenians had previously helped the Ionian Greeks of the Greek city of Sardis, revolt against the tyrannical satrap of Persia and Persian subjugation in which the Persian temple of Cybele was burnt down. The Ionian revolt delayed Persia's attack on Greece and fuelled Persia's lust for more and more land. Xerxes then used the revolt as a pretext to invade mainland Greece.

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There was a group of hold-outs defending it and there was also payback - the Athenians had earlier been involved in the looting of the Persian provincial capital of Sardis in Asia Minor, where they destroyed the statues of the gods. But they wanted the city as quarters for their army.

20.

All - he took over all of the Empire and made it his own.

Cyrus, the first king of the Persian Empire was known as a just and noble king. He let go of the Israeli from Judea who were taken captives by the Babylonians to return when he took them out. After him came his son Xerxes who was in war with the Greeks and the other kings after him were involved in battles until Darius III lost to the Greek therefore the beginning of the Greek Empire.

It covered Southwestern Asia. Persia itself is Iran.

About 2,000, one for each aspect of life and the environment.

Cyrene.

He secured the borders, provided provincial government, internal and external security, and promoted trade and prosperity.

Greek soldiers, particularly the hoplites, had several advantages over Persian forces. They were heavily armored and fought in a phalanx formation, which provided strong defensive capabilities and unity in battle. Additionally, Greek soldiers were often citizen-soldiers with a strong sense of duty and motivation to protect their homeland, while Persian troops were more diverse and included mercenaries. This combination of superior tactics, armor, and morale contributed to the Greeks' success in key battles against Persia.

It attempted to bring peace and progress in a large area from Egypt to Central Asia, building on the efforts of its predecessors, the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. It introduced Aramaic as the lingua franca to facilitate communication.

After a couple of hundred years it was taken over by Macedonian king Alexander the Great.

That was the easy way, and prevented local uprisings.

Through Persian provincial governors supervising local governments.

It left the cities, tribes and peoples to continue with their traditional religions. Persian government was not intrusive into local practises, leaving religion, local government, dress etc to continue, and concentrated on providing security and promoting prosperity.

There were many battles. The Greeks used better strategies and tactics. They were also operating on internal lines, the Persians on external lines.

Its defeat and takeover by Alexander the Great.

No - Cyrus the Great.

Alexander the Great took it over.