Persian Empire

a few of the natural borders of the Persian empire is the middle east, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Persepolis, etc.

another is that he reunited Athens and Sparta, but didn't conquer them.

2.6 million square miles, from today's Libya through Egypt, Asia Minor, the Middle East, to central Asia.

It did not devastate Egyptian civilisation. Egypt had been in decline for centuries and been previously taken over by Libya and Nubian kings and then Assyria. Internal problems followed when Assyria lost control. The Persian takeover was a step in re-establishing order until Macedonia took control and one of Alexander the Great's Macedonian generals who established himself as King Ptolemy I.

In the absence to today's methods of communication, it established a system of roads with posting houses along the way which provided horses and messengers to pass information rapidly. It also used sea transport transmission to areas with water access.

The Persians believed that trade forced people to lie, cheat, and be greedy

The provincial Governors called Satraps, and his central councillors.

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It depends on how the question is intended.

If the question is about the borders of the Empire, you can get a map of the Eastern Hemisphere and look at Egypt and Turkey in the west and Central Asia and Pakistan in the East. That area spanned the Persian Empire. Please see the Related Link with such a map.

If the question is referring to buildings and cities within Persia, they would have been very impressive to the people. The buildings would be large boxes with large open spaces, collonades, and detailed carvings. Please see the Related Link with reconstructions of Persepolis, the Persian capital.

Susa, Persepolis, Babylon, Susa, Memphis, and a hundred Greek cities in Asia Minor.

Persia and its associate Media expanded the Empire to stretch from today's Libya in the west to Pakistan in the east. It held this empire together for two centuries by maintaining internal and external security by mobilising local forces, reinforced by Persian-Median central forces. It also maintained a strong naval force even though it had no maritime forces by mobilising the navies of Phoenecia, Egypt and the Greek city-states within its borders.

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The Greek city-states within the Persian Empire in Asia Minor were restive, and two of their mother-cities in Mainland Greece, Eretria and Athens, provided military support to them. During this in 498 BCE, forces from the two cities over-reached by burning down Sardis, the Persian provincial capital of Asia Minor.

Persia mounted an amphibious punitive expedition against the two cities, capturing Eretria, but repulsed by Athens at Marathon in 490 BCE.

Persia realised that these interventions would continue, and decided to incorporate the mainland Greek cities within its empire to keep them quiet. The invasion was defeated in a series of battles at Salamis, Plataia and Mykale 480-479 BCE, and sporadic warfare ensued for the following 30 years until Persia gave up and agreed to a peace in 449 BCE under which both sides undertook to stay out of each other's territories.

In an era before electronic communications, news and orders had to be transmitted by boat or foot or mounted messenger. With the Empire spread over several thousand miles from Egypt/Libya to today's Pakistan, it was important to pass messages as quickly as possible so a system of horse posting stations, riverine and seagoing boats speeded up communications, reducing the time of transmission from weeks to days.

At the decisive battle of Plataea, Sparta provided 35,000 soldiers, twice the size of the next largest contingent of Athens.

It established a territory from Asia Minor to the Indus River. Within this territory it attemped to maintain peace, prosperity, security and used local government to rule, under Persian provincial governors (satraps).

More than five -

Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of the Central Asian countries.

the princess of Persia is a secret. Her name cannot be said here.

Persepolis

It did not change the way all empires were ruled, only the Persian Empire.

It led to a greater devolution of local power and incredible non-Persian loyalty and friendship among the conquered gentry. This allowed Cyrus to use royal funds to improve the empire as opposed to using it to constantly suppress minorities.

It provided internal and external security, retained the traditional forms of government, with Persian provincial governors and central government for overall control, and by keeping taxes low.

It stretched from Libya-Egypt in the west, through the Middle East, to Central Asia and today's Pakistan in the east.

Africa - Egypt and Libya.

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