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Persian Empire
At different times, under different ruling families, there were several different Persian Empires. Usually, the term refers to the Achaemenid dynasty empire founded by Cyrus the Great (559BC - 530BC) which was eventually conquered by Alexander the Great. To rule such a large empire, new groundbreaking systems were set up which influenced all who came after.
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Wrote the history of Persia entitled Book of Kings?
The Bible is primarily a book about the people Israel. Any other peoples or nations that come in contact with the descendants of Abraham are noted. Persians are descendant from Elam, a son of Shem (Genesis 10:22). The Persian Empire is noted specifically in Ezra 4:9. A very famous King of Persia was Cyrus who was referred to as God's anointed in Isaiah 44:28-45.
Today, Iran is considered the peoples of the Persian Empire, however, a read of migrations will reveal how some of the Elamites as well as Medes - a closely associated tribe of peoples - have been located in southeastern Europe (Balkan peoples) and parts of western Russia.
How did the battle of Thermopylae Pass end?
According to Herodotus, the Spartan king Leonidas sent most of his small army away to avoid their annihilation, but he remained with his three hundred Spartans, the Thebans, and a few volunteers from the other city-states, and they were killed to the last man. They had held the pass for only two days, but their sacrifice provided an example of resistance which finally rallied Greece to action. It should be remembered that Herodotus has been called the first historian, yet it is possible that he was writing historical fiction, and embellishing the events to make them more dramatic. It is now estimated that the Persian army was about one-tenth as large as Herodotus claimed. Even so Greeks at Thermopylae were still badly outnumbered, although they held every other advantage. Thermopolae Pass is much wider today because of erosion, but at that time it was only a few hundred yards in width. The battle also lulled the Persians into a sense of invincibility which later proved to be untrue.
Persian and Greek similarities?
Both had well thought out strategies and military tactics, and large effective armies and fleets.
Both relied on amalgamating separate forces. Both had large Greek components to their armies and navies, the Macedonians who were Greek, led a unified Greek army and the Persians paid Greek mercenaries.
What happened at the Battle of Thermopylae?
The battle of Thermopylae is one most gory battles of the Persian wars in the battle the Spartans held off the Persians with the help of 7,000 other helpers, then a hunchback named Ephialtes told the Persians about a passage way to go around back to the Spartans. The next morning thousands of ailed forces left 300 Spartans to hold them off even though they knew they were going to die
Who was the Persian ruler that freed the Jewish people in Babylon?
Cyrus the Great after taking over the Babylonian Empire, gave the aristocracy of Judea, who had been deported to Babylon by the Babylonians to stop them promoting revolts against their rule, the option of returning to try to reclaim their estates. Some took the offer, some decided they were better off where they were, half returned to Judaea where some were successful in reclaiming estates and resettled, others failed.
What is Darius I's motivations for invading Greece?
He launched a punitive expedition against the city-states of Eretria and Athens for sending contigents to Asia Minor during the Ionian revolt. While there, they sacked the Persian provincial capital and destroyed the statues of the gods. His object was to appoint local tyrants in the two city-states to keep them under control and stop them stirring up discontent in the Greek city-states within the Persian Empire.
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In biblical times, the Persians were followers of Zoroastrianism. This faith had arrived in Persia from what is now eastern Iran some two hundred years before the Babylonian Exile, probably originating in southern Russia over a thousand years earlier. Some scholars see Zoroastrian influences in post-Exilic Judaism.
Both civilizations included people who worshipped many different gods. lol you guys rely on us and we fail too often
Who does Herodotus favor most the Persians or the Greeks?
He attempted to give a neutral account of both sides, delivering his work as a series of paid lectures in Athens after the Greeks and Persians had agreed to peace.
What did the Persians base their empire on?
It was divided into 20 provinces (satrapies); which had many tribes, cities and princelings who retained their own usual form of government but were responsible to their provincial governor (satrap). The Satraps were overseen by the king and his council.
The satraps were responsible for internal and external security, promoting development and prosperity, and ensuring the various sub-groups collected and paid taxes, of which part was remit to the Persian king.
What are some accomplishments of King Darius?
He added some extra territory to stabilise the frontiers, formalised the provinces to provide control of the local governments, brought in Aramaic as the lingua franca to facilitate communication, and set a fair tax regime.
What did Alexander the great do after he defeated the Persians?
That is a mystery. He also gave the kingdom of his own ally the King of Taxila to Poros.
One explanation is that Poros really defeated Alexander rather than vice versa, or at least it was a draw and Alexander was paying his way out. He also did some extra conquests for Poros.
Whether his victory was cover up propaganda by contemporary and later historians is uncertain, but it is hard to cook up a rational answer to these questions other than that.
PERSIA is the historic name for the various empires that emanated from and controlled modern-day Iran, in the Middle East. The most famous Persian Empires are those of the Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanids, Khwarezmians, Safavids, and Qajjars. Under the Pahlavi Dynasty, which directly succeeded the Qajjars, the country was renamed as Iran.
PRUSSIA was a historic German state found in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia in what is today northeast Poland and Russian Kaliningrad. It was always ruled by the royal House of Hohenzollern and expanded south and west from its capital in Königsberg. Eventually, it came to dominate the Western third of modern Poland and the northeast quarter of modern Germany, shifting its capital to Berlin in 1701. The Prussians led by Otto von Bismarck achieved the unification of Germany in the 19th century and Prussia was incorporated into the German Empire or Second Reich in 1871. After German defeats in both World Wars, the eastern two-thirds of Prussia was ceded to Poland and the Soviet Union.
What country was Media in biblical times?
Turkey was Media in biblical times. However, the principal locations of the Median Empire were in Iraq and Iran.
What is darius bureaucracy of Persia?
it's an ancient form of government, involving a central administration.
Who expanded the Athenian navy to fight Persia?
Themistocles. He persuaded the people to use a large strike of silver In the mines to pay for the fleet rather than dividing it up amongst themselves, foreseeing the increasing threat of a Persian invasion in retaliation for the defeat inflicted at Marathon.
Quote:"To the Israelites we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and of collective conscience, and social responsibility. The world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift." (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).
This was unlike idolatry, which had tended to go hand in hand with cruel, licentious and excessive behavior, since the caprices which were narrated concerning the idols were adopted as an excuse to imitate those types of behavior.
Another quote:
"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
What were the the main achievements of the Persians and what has been their lasting influence?
Persia absorbed the various cultures of its empire but left little behind other than today a minor Farsi language and a minor religion of Ahura Mazda (Zoroastrianism) today the Parsees.
They established an empire from Libya to Central Asia, which established stability and prosperity for a couple of hundred years until dismantled by Alexander and his successors, and various other peoples later. Only vestiges if their religion remain in the Parsees and the Iranian language,
They wanted to establish a peaceful, stable, secure and prosperous empire. Its takeover by Alexander the great ended its influence.
What geographical feature separated most of Greece from the Persian empire?
The Aegean Sea separated it from mainland Greece, however there were over 100 Greek city-states within the Persian empire in Asia Minor and the Islands, and those cities were the bone of contention which gave rise to the Greek-Persian Wars.
What do the Vandals Persians Goths have in common?
All of those three groups were, at one time, enemies of the Roman Empire.
Where can you watch Prince of Persia sands of time?
Although I cannot include a link, ch131 has the movie Price of Persia: Sands of Time. (No downloading)
