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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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Which Persian leader set up local leaders to oververse his empire?
Cyrus the Great.
The local leaders were tasked to keep their city/tribe/area under control according to local laws. They were overseen by Persian provincial governors responsible to the king to ensure the local rulers were effective, and to maintain internal and external security: they were also required to collect and remit taxes.
What was the structure of the Persian Empire?
Indigenous local government, Persian provincial governors, and a central control by king and his council.
What was crucial to maintaining the Persian empire?
Maintaining good and fair government, providing internal and external security, and maintaining prosperity and taxing fairly.
Who unified the Persian Empire after his father had established it?
Darius the Great consolidated the Persian Empire after it had been established by his father-in-law Cyrus the Great and his brother-in-law Cambyses II.
Why were there fewer revolts in the Persian Empire than in most of the region's earlier empires?
It was smaller than most earlier regions
How did Darius treat those he conquered?
The purpose of the Persians was to create a peaceful, secure and prosperous empire. When they took over areas, they would leave local rulers to continue to control the city/tribe/people and establish a Persian provincial governor to oversee them, and also keep the peace and defend against external intruders.
They would also impose a tax to finance this defence and to undertake public works. It is interesting that when the european Greeks liberated the Greek cities of western Asia Minor, they had to settle on tax systems for the cities. The Athenian general Aristeides, who was appointed to do this, ended up using the Persian tax model, which he found to be very fair.
Is Achaemenid Empire and Persian empire are the same?
The Achaemenid dynasty ruled the Persian Empire 559-430 BCE, after which it was taken over by the Macedonian King Alexander the Great.
How was the Persian Empire under Darius?
Under King Darius the Great, it was at its peak of peace, prosperity and extent.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
Greece is credited with the concept of democracy upon which our western civilization is based. However the Romans spread the civilization throughout much of the western world.
What country's old name was Persia?
Iran used to be called Persia. It changed its name in the early 1920s. (Prussia, which sounds similar, is an entirely different country, formerly located in the eastern part of, what is now, United Germany
How long does a Himalayan Persians live?
they can live a normal cat life span unless they have a disease or sickness.
What was the significance of the Persian Empire?
It provided a degree of peace, prosperity and security for a large area, stretching from today's Libya to Pakistan, for a couple of hundred years.
It alos provided a target for the ambitions of Alexander to become Great.
How long in miles was the distance between the Persian Empire and the city of Jerusalem?
The city of Jerusalem was within the Persian Empire.
Who got Asia Minor and part of the Persian Empire after Alexander the Great died?
The Persian Empire did not exist after Alexander the Great died - it was his Macedonian Empire.
An his death, his generals who were ruling the provinces converted them into kingdoms of their own (the Hellenistic Kingdoms), starting with Ptolemy in Egypt. Seleucus took Syria and to the east, while Asia Minor was taken by Antigonus.
After seeing off the Persian threat, the Greek cities were able to return to their habitual shifting alliancces and disputes. The diffrence this time was that Athens, had organised the anti-Persian defensive Delian League to ensure the cities of Asia Minor and the Islands were free from the Persian threat. When peace was finally formalised after 449 BCE Athens shifted this Delian League treasury from the island of Delos to Athens and then began to spend it on itself, building the Parthenon etc and putting nearly half its population on the payroll, and paying for its fleet to continue collecting League contributions by force if necessary.
This League therefore became effectively an empire of Athens, and Athens was thus enabled to use its power to intervene in other cities' affairs outside its empire. Sparta was prevailed on to lead a Peloponnesian League as a counter (most were Dorian cities in peninsular Greece - the Peloponnese). So the threat of Persia was replaced with threat of war between two powerful internal Greek coalitions, which came devastatingly into play with outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE. Paradoxically, this war was decided against Athens after 27 years by the late intervention of Persia on the side of the Peloponnesians.
