Persian Empire

They created 20 provinces, each with a Persian provincial governor. These governors supervised the local rulers, provided internal and external security, and organised collection of taxes. The king and his council supervised the governors (satraps).

Statira principessa di Persia was created in 1655.

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He established the Persian Empire, taking Persia from being a vassal state of Media to an empire covering the Middle East and western Asia from Asia Minor to central Asia.

Darius I's rule had a profound impact on Persia, as he expanded the empire to its greatest territorial extent, incorporating diverse cultures and regions. He implemented administrative reforms, establishing a system of satrapies (provinces) that improved governance and tax collection. Darius also promoted infrastructure projects, such as the Royal Road, enhancing trade and communication across the empire. His policies fostered a period of stability and economic prosperity, solidifying Persia's status as a major power in the ancient world.

The Greek world had a fairly uniform religion and set of gods.

The Persian Empire, stretching from Egypt to central Asia, covered a wide variety of peoples and religions, and it was not the Persian policy to incite religious revolts when they were trying to establish a peaceful and prosperous empire.

In "Persepolis," Marjane Satrapi explores the duality of captivity and freedom through her experiences growing up in post-revolutionary Iran. The oppressive regime restricts personal freedoms, particularly for women, while Marjane grapples with her identity and the constraints imposed by society. Her journey to Europe represents a quest for personal freedom, yet it also reveals the emotional captivity she feels due to cultural dislocation. Ultimately, Satrapi illustrates that freedom is complex, often intertwined with loss and longing.

Pie is assume • Cyrus oversaw a period of great peace and prosperity throughout his empire.

• The empire extended from the eastern edge of europe to the western rim of the Indus river valley.

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The Persians did turn on the Babylonians because they wanted to enlarge their territories.

Alexander's soldiers on horseback, cavalry, were a strong force. They crushed the local Persian forces, leading to the final downfall of the Persian Empire.

The Kushan Empire began to decline under King Kanishka, who ruled in the 2nd century CE. However, it was during the reign of subsequent rulers, particularly in the 3rd century, that the empire fragmented due to internal strife and external pressures. The empire ultimately fell apart as various regional powers, including the Sassanids and emerging Indian states, took control of different territories that were once part of the Kushan Empire.

Twenty provinces (Satrapies) each controlled by a Persian governor (Satrap) responsible to the Persian king and his council for supervising the province's indigenous rulers, keeping external and internal security, establishing prosperity and collection of taxes.

The mother to King Darius one was called Rhodugune.

They banded together as a cohesive force, producing a combined navy which outmanoeuvred and defeated the Persian navy; and then without the threat of naval attacks on their cities, they were able so send out their armies to combine and defeat the Persian army. The Persian army was also weakened as, after losing the ability of their navy to protect their resupply fleet coming from Asia, they then had to send half their army home as they could not feed it, and this evened up the size of the opposing armies. And the Greek army had armoured warriors which outclassed the unarmoured soldiers of the Persian army.

It all hung on the elimination of the Persian fleet at Salamis.

Darius adopted the religion promoted by Zoroaster (Zarathustra), who simplified the Persian pantheon of gods into just two opposing ones - Ahura Mazda (Illuminating Wisdom) and Angra Mainyu (Destructive Spirit).

Zoroastrianism still has about a million adherents in Persia, Pakistan, India, and scattered through the world, with the US home to the second largest number. In India they are known as Parsees.

Persia was a tribal grouping in the Middle East which was subject to Media. In the mid-6th Century BCE, under its king Cyrus the Great, it absorbed the Medes.

With this combined strength Persia progressively absorbed the entire Middle East and Central Asia. Cyrus' son Cambyses added Egypt, and Darius I added western India and Thrace by the early 5th Century BCE.

In a pre-mechanical and pre-electronic world, communication was by land and sea couriers.

It therefore established river and sea transport for those cities near water, and for the others, post-houses which held relays of horses for couriers to use carrying messages.

Of course these transportation routes also carried commercial and military traffic.

Persia did not have an empire before it took over the Babylonian Empire.

It was a subsidiary kingdom to the Medes. Under King Cyrus the Great, took Media over, and this combined force was able to defeat the Babylonians and absorb them, which was the beginning of the Persian Empire.

After that the Persians moved on into Asia Minor the rest of the Middle East, Central Asia and under King Cambyses took Egypt and Libya.

From 550 BCE when Cyrus the Great began to take over the Middle East to 331 BCE when it was taken over by Alexander the Great.

Achaemenid Persian leaders had incredible tolerance for the religions and local character of the peoples that they conquered. As long as they acknowledged the political sovereignty of the Persians, they were free to worship as they wanted, live where they wanted, work in the fields that they wished, and speak their local languages.