Persian Empire

From Gallipoli through Thrace, Macedonia and Thessaly into mainland Greece.

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Prior to the conversion to Islam, the predominant religion of Persia was Zoroastrianism.

The Spartans were in the middle of a religious festival. As soon as it was over they sent the promised force immediately.

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Temporary pontoon bridges across the Hellespont, linking Asia and Europe. Also the buildings making up his new capital at Persepolis.

Dometius of Persia died in 363.

The Persian Empire had no one to rebel against, it was the strongest power in the region until it was taken over by Alexander the Great.

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He sacked Thebes in around 336/335 B.C. He then went on to conquer Persia and sacked Persepolis a few years later.

He established 20 provinces and appointed 20 Persian governors to them, responsible for security, taxes and promoting prosperity, under supervision of the king and his council.

The Persians went back to running a peaceful, prosperous empire, while the Greek city-states went back to their customary inter-city warfare.

The Persians wanted a peaceful world, and their aim was to put an end to the incessant fighting between the Greek cities which spilled over into the Persian empire's Greek cities. So perhaps Greece would have been spared the endliss ongoing wars which ravaged it if a Persian peace had been imposed.

Of course the Greek cities which banded together to repel the Persians wouldn't see it that way.

From a purely military perspective, the Persian army was also much larger and much more formidable than any Greek force that could be assembled to meet them. Surrendering in advance of the conflict would have prevented all of the possibly pointless loss of life from opposing the Persians.

After defeating Babylon, Cyrus the Great of Persia allowed the Jews (and other people) to return to their homeland in 538 BCE.

The Persian failed invasion of mainland Greece 480 to 479 BCE.

The Persian ships were larger and relied on closing to enemy ships to board. The Greek ships were lighter and more manoeuverable, and relied on ramming and sinking the opposition.

No. Persia was not conquered. At times the Roman held the modern day area of Iraq, but did not hold on to it for very long. Armenia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and the part of the northern part of the coast of the red Sea were the eastern frontier areas most consistently.

Augustus' bother Nero Claudius Drusus campaigned north-western Germany and reached the river Elbe, but this was lost. It was then decided that the rivers Rhine and Danube would be the border of the empire. This included Southern Germany, which was the area which was the northernmost part of the empire consistently.

He didn't untie the Persian Empire, he took steps to tie it together, establishing Aramaic as the lingua franca and a system of 20 provincial governors to control the empire, overseen by him and his council in the capital Persepolis.

Alexander the Great.

Sea transport and a system of tracks with way stations for mounted couriers.

They destroyed scared temples, as well as animals that were native to Egypt. They also imposed heavy taxes on the Egyptian people.Ê

He allowed the Judeans return to Judea to let them attempt to claim the ancestral land they lost when Babylon deported them to Babylon to stop them leading rebellions against its rule.

The Aegean Sea (supplemented by the resistance of the southern city-states of mainland Greece to Persian takeover).