Julia Davis
The Achaemenids Empire 538-330 BCE
Achaemenids Empire
--Facilitated trade and communication
--Many cities became wealthy along this road due to trade
--The Imperial Government organized a messenger system along this road and built postal stations that kept a supply of ready-to-use horses.
Cyrus the Great
--Started a rebellion, and overthrew the Median kingdom in just three years.
--Known to be a tough, outstanding military strategist.
--respected the religions of the lands he conquered
--conquered the Lydians in Anatolia, the Neo-Babylonians, and much of Southwest and Central Asia
--first king of the Persian Empire
--brought all of Iran under his control, began to look for more places to expand
--died protecting the northeastern frontier from nomadic raiders
--began the tradition that forbade slave labor
--people were given equal rights
--conquered Egypt in 525 BCE
--Death: 522 BC
--Date of birth: UNKNOWN
- Over 10 million people inhabited
- Persians built a network of roads (such as the Royal Road)
--Facilitated trade and communication
--Many cities became wealthy along this road due to trade
--The Imperial Government organized a messenger system along this road and built postal stations that kept a supply of ready-to-use horses.
Cyrus the Great
--Started a rebellion, and overthrew the Median kingdom in just three years.
--Known to be a tough, outstanding military strategist.
--respected the religions of the lands he conquered
--conquered the Lydians in Anatolia, the Neo-Babylonians, and much of Southwest and Central Asia
--first king of the Persian Empire
--brought all of Iran under his control, began to look for more places to expand
--died protecting the northeastern frontier from nomadic raiders
--began the tradition that forbade slave labor
--people were given equal rights
- Cambyses II (reigned 530-522 BCE)
--conquered Egypt in 525 BCE
--Death: 522 BC
--Date of birth: UNKNOWN
Darius the Great (521-486 BCE)
--Included wide reception halls, luxurious royal residences, and a well-protected treasury.
--central capital of the Persian Empire
--filled with advisors, ministers, diplomats, accountants, translators, bureaucratic officers
--assigned a military official and tax collector to govern the provinces and oversee affairs in the various regions
to the Achaemenid Empire, and did not break into its own independent regional kingdoms, or threaten the empire..
- Third ruler of the Persian Empire
- Pushed his armies into northwestern India and as far as the Indus River creating the largest empire in the world.
- Captured Thrace, Macedonia, and the western coast of the Black Sea
- Zoroastrianism beliefs
- Built Persepolis to impress citizens with his power (served as the "nerve" center of the Persian Empire)
--Included wide reception halls, luxurious royal residences, and a well-protected treasury.
--central capital of the Persian Empire
--filled with advisors, ministers, diplomats, accountants, translators, bureaucratic officers
- Standardized laws, metal coins (from Lydia), taxes
- Organized military forces
- Divided the empire into 23 satrapies that were governed by satraps
--assigned a military official and tax collector to govern the provinces and oversee affairs in the various regions
- Created imperial spies ("Eyes and Ears of the King")
to the Achaemenid Empire, and did not break into its own independent regional kingdoms, or threaten the empire..