Persian Empire

The year is unknown. It dates from the second half of the 6th Century BCE.

They allowed the local practices to continue under supervision of Persian provincial governors.

Biblical Persia is roughly where the Islamic Republic of Iran is today. However, Biblical Persia was larger than today's Iran, expanding into parts of modern Kuwait, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

From Libya to Central Asia.

Alexander the Great's 10 year military conquest was terminal.

Cyrus the Great.

They used water transport whever they could because it was faster and could carry large volume compared to one-ton carts going at snail's pace.

cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes.

he divide the empire into two provinces because King Darius appointed Satraps or governors to rule various provinces in his empire for easier governance. By appointing Satraps, he was free from mundane daily bureaucratic issues of ruling an empire that streched from the northern borders of India, the entire Middle East and all the way to Libya and parts of Greece.

The Greek city-states in Asia Minor were tricked into revolt by the Greek tyrant of Miletus to protect himself against Persian retaliation for his misconduct.

It stopped any further Persian expansion of control to the west and developed the virtue of freedom over tyranny.

Cyrus the Great.

Of course he did. That is why he is called "The Great." Actually, he founded the Achaemenid Empire beginning with Persia and expanding form there. From the Mediterranean sea and Hellespont in the west to the Indus River in the east, Cyrus the Great created the largest empire the world had yet seen.

He was king of Persia. He established the Persian Empire by capturing the Middle East and central Asia.

He also had a son Cambyses who added Egypt and Libya to the empire and a son-in-law Darius I who added Thrace and today's Pakistan to it, both after he was killed busily trying to expand the empire.

The previous empires in western Asia - the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires were in decline. Persia, by uniting with Media, had superior unified force and was able to capitalise on this decline, taking over western Asia progressively and then central Asia, meeting no unified opposition. They copied their predecessors by leaving/putting in place local administrations, and supervised these through provincial Persian governors. And the king and his council kept overall direction, and the control of internal and external security.

A system of roads to facilitate communications and trade.

They appointed provincial Persian governors who oversaw the local governments and provided internal and external security forces.

In the Behistun Inscription, Darius justifies his assumption of power by claiming that the crushed rebellions were orchestrated by several impostors and their co-conspirators in various cities throughout the empire, each of whom falsely proclaimed kinghood during the upheaval following Cyrus's death. Darius claims himself to be the true ruler of the Persion Empire through the "grace of Ahura Mazda."

Darius the King says: These are the countries which came to me; by the favor of Ahuramazda I was king of them: Persia, Elam, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Egypt, (those) who are beside the sea, Sardis, Ionia, Media, Armenia, Cappadocia, Parthia, Drangiana, Aria, Chorasmia, Bactria, Sogdiana, Gandara, Scythia, Sattagydia, Arachosia, Maka: in all, 23 provinces. - It was the greatest empire the world had ever known, and for two centuries its capital was the capital of the world.

The Persian Empire was important to Western Asia, the Mauryan Empire was important to India.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt,

Libya, etc.