Persian Empire

First Susa, then Persepolis.

Best is Herodotos The Histories.

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis, Susa, Sardis, Halicarnassus, Jerusalem, Tyre.

The assault by Alexander the Great, who replaced the empire with his own Macedonian Empire. It was split up into several Hellenistic kingdoms after Alexander's death.

The last ruler of Persia was someone and she was taken over by a large 8-year old pony.

Egyptians, Greeks, a wide range of Semitic peoples, and other Indo-Europeans and Asiatics.

For a century and half a Persian governor attempted to impose a fragile peace between the warring peoples of what is today's Pakistan. Even it's successor Alexander the Great had little success at controlling the area, had his attempt to take over India proper frustrated and went home - which is just as well for him as Chandragupta was heading west in his conquest of India, and with a thousand war elephants would have annihilated Alexander's army.

Persian influence on India was limited to the west of the sub-continent, and left no significant real influence.

Retaining local governments under the oversight of Persian privuncial governors who provided internal and external security and kept taxes modest.

Strong government and cultural tolerance. It also had a very good mailing system.

satrapiess are what we call today's provinces. Darius the great introduced them. he also divided the state into 20 starapies which were taken care of by satraps.

King Darius I (the Great).

Alexandria was not the capitol of any empire, it was the capitol of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, but was never part of Persia

ca. 550 BCE-336 BCE

The Persian Empire was not a Mesopotamian empire - it included Mesopotamia as merely one of it's twenty provinces which stretched from Libya to today's Pakistan..

Cambyses

the brick, windmill, and firs taxation system, ice cream, and the first distillation of alcohol.

Alexander the Great.

Xerxes the Great was king of the Persian Empire.

The Mediterranean Sea.

The Black Sea.

The Aegean Sea.

Persia is the former name of the country now named Iran.

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

Coins have been found in the Persian empire, suggesting that they bought and sold. They also thought that trade makes people greedy, and encouraged it among their captives.

Yes, under the Persian King Darius, Afghanistan was part of the Persian Empire because of his conquests for expanding the empire.

It grew under three kings - Cyrus the Great, his son Cambyses, and Darius the Great.

I assume you are referring to Darius the third. Darius III formed paranoia over the years, and by the time Alexander invaded, he was crazy. He suspected many of his generals of treason. For instance, when one general made a tactical retreat, Darius III suspected him of turning on his nation and had him killed. Four of the seven major generals of Persia were killed by Darius, crippling the Empire's military movement. By the time Darius III died, much of the organization had collapsed, due to his mental illness. With no organized government, the provinces of Persia governed themselves. During this period, however, there were many self proclaimed kings, such as Alexander, Bessus, Smerdis, etc. However, none actualy managed to take a hold over the Empire, only over the city they resided in.

However, Persia soon recovered, and around 247 BC, the empire re-emerged under the Parthian dynasty.