Persian Empire

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

After the battle, the Athenians realised that the Persians were about to capture Athens which was undefended in their absence at the battlefield. The Athenian army ran back the 26 miles to the city to defend it, and this run by 18,000 Athenians was the model for today's marathon run at sporting events. Of course today's runners don't do it in sandals carrying weapons and armour.

The battle was between a Persian expeditionary force and the city-state of Athens. The Medes (Persian allies) were part of the Persian force, so Median garb refers to the clothes worn by the Mede soldiers.

He describes his rise to power over the Persian Empire, his stabilisation of it, and his relationship with the Greek cities of the Eastern Mediterranean.

The ancient Persian empire was located where Iran is today. Babylon was its capital city.

Formation of a Macedonian empire led by him, and after his early death, to the splitting up of the empire into separate kingdoms by his warring generals, which we today call the Hellenistic kingdoms.

The Persians would have won if Sparta and Athens had not united to fight the Persian Army

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Not at all. The Sparta was a limited democracy, the citizens voted in assembly on motions put to them by the council, the ephors did the day to day running. Persia was a kingdom ruled by a king and his council, with provincial governors doing the practical ruling.

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AS with much of ancient history, historians debate how, when and why even major events in the ancient world are in question. This is the case with the ancient Persian Empire.

A few things seem clear:

A. Around 560 BC BCE, Cyrus the Great leads his Persians against the Medes and establishes an empire;

B. Persians are said to have entered the nation now called Iran from the North as early as 1500 BC BCE. They were Indo -Europeans and descended from Aryan peoples;

C. They created a noteworthy empire which reached its peak around 500 BC; and

D. Alexander the Great destroys the Persian Empire in 330 BC.

On the Plain of Marathon 26 miles north of Athens.

The only territory that has been under the control of all three of those empires (Kush, Assyria, and Persia) at some time in their histories is EGYPT, not Sudan. Assyria was never able to penetrate beyond Upper Egypt, meaning that they never controlled Sudan.

Persian infantry was unarmoured - they could not stand up to Macedonian and Greek armoured formations.

The Persians first tried hiring Greek armoured infantry, but after winning the battle of Granicus, Alexander had the captured Greek mercenaries massacred as a warning for Greeks thinking of hiring themselves out to Persia.

At the final battle of Gaugamela, the Persians had trained their own heavy infantry (Kardakes) but they were too raw and inexperienced to stand up to the seasoned phalanx of Alexander's army.

The movie Prince of Persia: Sands of Time began filming in July of 2008. It was released on May 28, 2010.

539 BCE.

There was a king, who titled himself king of kings. The empire was divided into satrapies (provinces) ruled by a Satrap (governor) appointed by the King. Within the satrapy there were tribal and city rulers, generally governing according to their traditional mode.

The Persian Empire lasted from the second half of the 6th Century BCE until Alexander the Great took over the empire 200 years later.

He established stability in the Persian Empire which his predecessors Cyrus and Cambyses had conquered.

The Persian Empire was a massive empire where peoples under Persian governance had numerous different major religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the Hellenic Pantheon, the Levantine Pantheon, the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon, and the Mesopotamian Pantheon. By contrast, all of the Greek city states believed in the same Hellenic Pantheon and so no tolerance of other religions was necessary for societal stability.

Before the spread of Islam in the 7th Century CE,\, there were two forces that controlled Middle East and Europe. These lands were ruled by Romans and Persians. During the time of rise of Islam these two empires were engaged in heavy warfare, and both lands especially the Persian Empire was devastated and left in ruins. It wasn't too difficult for the new Muslim army to defeat this tired and devastated empire.

Once Muslims conquered the Persian Empire, the Muslim religion spread rather quickly. The reasons for this could be many, but here are two logical ones.

1) Before the fall of the Sassanian Persian Empire, the Zoroastrian priests had much power in the state and they had become very corrupt. The people of the land were tired of these corrupt priests and were ready to embrace a new religion.

2) The tax imposed on non-muslims by the Muslim rulers were heavy, therefore it was to the benefit of the people to embrace the new religion in order to not pay the taxes. Many of the local elites also saw this as a way to gain power in the new empire.

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No, the Persian Empire went as far west as Libya. Carthage was in today's Tunisia.

His father (Niccolò) was a merchant, so Marco was accompanying him to learn the trade. Additionally, since the journey would take years, Marco would not have contact with his father otherwise.

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