Persian Empire

The Persian Empire included many religions. Most had no concept of life after death, being centred on daily life.

Those who sought a life after death became members of mystery cults, but entry to these was costly and operated at cult centres which few people could afford to access, in both money and travel barriers.

Some mystery cults began to travel to the customers and so more could join in. They included the mystery cults of Mithra, Jesus, Isis, Osiris etc. The Jesus cult (now Christianity) was particularly successful as it travelled to all countries, was cheap and even women and slaves could join.

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From today's Libya to Pakistan in the east.

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The Assyrian, Babylonian and Hellenic.

The Persian Empire was not a person.

The king with a council, provincial governors appointed bythis, and traditional local government headed by selected reliable local tribal chiefs, tyrants and princelings.

Such gifts would mean that the greekshad accepted Persian rule

By leaving local government in the hand of reliable local despots, establishing twenty Persian provincial governors to control them, and enciuraging prosperity to keep the people happy. As well, they provided external security to protect from intruders trying to move in.

The Greek city-stated did not have a 'victory' - they wore down over 50 years the Persian resolve to establish peace in the eastern Mediterranean by incorporating all the mainland Greek city-states into their empire in order to control their hostile activities. After 50 years, the Persians gave up and left the Greek cities to go back to their habitual fighting amongst themselves.

The factors of this Greek success against Persia were:

Setting aside their habitual fighting between each other and uniting at crucial periods of the 50-year struggle against Persia.

Superiority in naval strategy and tactics.

Coordination of land and sea power at crucial periods.

Being the underdog drove them to desperate defence.

In the 5th century BC, Darius 1, or Darius the Great ruled Persia. At the time, it was a true empire. He installed distributed governing, by dividing the country and assigning Satraps to rule the parts in his name. He also uniformed the monetary system, the language and he pretty much wrote the Imperialist 101. Clever chap, really.

Firstly their ships through the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Persian Gulf and the rivers flowing into them.

Inland, by roads, with posting-houses where couriers changed horses, to deliver messages.

There was the satrapi system which divided the Persian Empire into smaller, more manageable governates and a "pony express" system that allowed royal messengers to deliver information across the empire in 7 days as opposed to the 90 days it would take a man to walk from one end to the other

The governing system of the Persian Empire, resting on traditional local government, provincial government and central imperial government.

Macedonia conquered it through superior strategy and tactics.

First by conquest, then by maintaining peace internally and providing protection externaliy.

Each of the Persian provincial governors was responsible to provide infrastructure. Such roads and waterways, canals, irrigation etc were coordinated on an empire-basis to ensure they linked up. A communications road also provided an east-west link.

Old Persian syllabic script.

Yes. The first Achaemenid ruler was Cyrus II (The Great), who founded the Persian Empire by uniting the two original Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians in the 6th century BC.

The 'Immortals' played an important role in Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 547 BC. Immortals participated in the Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC & were amongst the Persian occupation troops in Greece in 479 BC.

During Alexander's successful invasion, Persia was not conquering anything, it was on the defensive.

Iran was Persia.