Persian Empire

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A swathe of the world controlled by a Persian king which stretched from today's Libya, through Egypt, the Middle East, to Central Asia and today's Pakistan in the east. It lasted from the mid-500s BCE until taken over ny Alexander the Great in the 330s BCE.

The Greek historian Herodotos of Halicarnassos used the term after the name of the Indus River.

He was copying the earlier Old Persian and Sanskrit words.

King Xerxes I was born in 519 BCE.

It depends what you mean by "The Persian Empire". There were many. Here is a list of some of the main ones:

Median Empire(728-549 BCE)- Overthrown in 549 BCE by the leader of a new group arriving on the Iranian Plateau: Cyrus the Great.

Achaemenid Empire(549-330 BCE)- The world's first superpower and empire; Overthrown by Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 330 BCE

Seleucid Empire(312-63 BCE)- Founded by a military general of Alexander the Great after his death. In this society, Greek was the language of law and profession.

Parthian Empire(247 BCE- 224 CE)- Formed after a Persian leader rebelled against the Greco-Seleucid government. Fought many wars against the Roman Empire and managed to withstand nearly all attacks. Once this empire took the Roman emperor prisoner and skinned him alive, keeping his stuff body in the Royal Parthian Palace.

Sassanid Empire(224- 671 CE)- Founded after the Parthians were overthrown. This empire fought against Byzantine and was the last Zoroastrian Persian Empire. This one ended when the Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula invaded and forced everybody to convert to Islam, although much of the time people were just pretending to be Muslim in order to not be executed.

After these 5 ancient empires, the Arab caliphates ruled Persia until roughly

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An imperial government headed by the Sassanid dynasty, which ruled over the Middle East and Central Asia.

Iran.

It provided stability and progressed prosperity for Western Asia.

Covering a wide area from Libya to Central Asia, it had diverse and restive peoples and had internal and external security problems -provided a tempting target for eastern Europeans to take over.

Europe, Asia and Africa.

It was: Cyrus the Great. He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty.

In 50 BCE, when Cyrus the Great began expansion after incorporating Media under Persian control.

Between northeast Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and today's Pakistan.

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

empire which comprised Iran, Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, and parts of Asia minor and India
Persia originated in central Asia. Eventually it included a huge empire stretching from Western India to Greece in the north and Egypt in the south, including the entire area of Mesopotamia.

They adopted the customs of other cultures, which made it easier to maintain control of their vast empire.

It embraced the Fertile Crescent and Egypt, the centres of civilisation and which was the basis of prosperity and civilised development. These areas were also the productive areas which provided the surplus of food and produce which allowed the resources to spend on more than just subsistence, and so the development of civilisation.

When Xerxes I's father Darius I died, he took first suppressed a rebellion in Egypt, then took over his father's project of absorbing the Greek cities of mainland Greece into the Empire to stop them interfering in the Empire and disrupting peace. He bribed the Greek city-states to submit, and led an expedition to suppress those who would not submit.

This invasion failed so he set about consolidating the Empire as it was. The Greek cities in Asia Minor were led by Athens to form the Delian League, and this was successful in keeping Persia at bay for the rest of Xerxes' lifetime.

Egypt-Libya, western Asia Minor, Thrace-Macedonia, Persia-Central Asia.

There is no longer a monarchy in Iran. In 1979 there was a revolution where the of Iran fled the country and Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power after his exile in Iraq/France. Iran is currently an Islamic Republic and does not have a king (Shah).

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he was called the Shah.

Persians are practicing the religion of Islam.

With the Persian threat still there, Sparta wanted to bring the Asian Greeks back to the mainland. Athens instead took the fight to the persians and organised a 200-city league for self protection. Cities gave either ships or money. Most took the easy way and gave money.

Athens maintained a large fleet with this money, and when peacewas agreek with Persia thirty years later, kept the money collections going, by force where necessary, and so established an empire. years

Where possible they used sea transport which, in an era of no mechanical transport, was capable of faster movement and carriage of cargo and people than land transport, as carts were limited to a few miles a day. In areas inaccessible to the sea, some tracks (mistakenly called 'roads' today) with staging stations were set up to enable couriers to speed up horse-borne communications.