The author Amy Chua shows to the reader the different empires and how they expanded and fell. She explains in each chapter how tolerance is the key to successes for every hyper power.…
Cyrus (Kurush), the son of a Persian chieftain and a Median princess, united the various Persian tribes and overthrew the Median monarch around 550 B.C.E.…
The Achaemenids was the Great Persian Empire that was founded in 559 BC. The founder was Cyrus the Great and his empire lasted over two centuries. Cyrus was tolerant, especially through religion. This is how the Persians were able to survive. A strategy Cyrus used to gain the trust of people he conquered was going to honor the temple, cults, and local gods of their culture. The Persian world…
The Persian King Cyrus was part of one of the most powerful kingdoms leading after the “Dark Age”(textbook, p.37). His great ruling was primarily in Babylon but his ruling emerged all around the world; “(as to…
Persia had 3 kings: Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius I. Persia also had "governors" that were called Satraps. Also in Persia was the capital city, also known…
The great Persian empire ruled from 559 to 330 BCE founded Cyrus the great. Cyrus was very tolerant towards religion and explored alternative cultures as well as allowing the conquered people to join him. In 550 BCE, Cyrus defeated Astyages (his grandfather) and took over Assyria, Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia and Cappadocia. In 539, Cyrus became the ruler of the largest empire to ever exist after conquering Lydian, Median, and Babylonian. Cambyses took over the empire after Cyrus died and ruled from 530-522 BCE, expanding the empire. Darius the great ruled from 522-486 BCE. Darius helped the empire increase in tolerance. He encouraged the people to do what they wanted. When he conquered people he encouraged them to join him and benefitted off them joining by increasing diversity throughout the kingdom and used their skills and…
The rise and fall of the Persian Empires The Achaemenid Empire Medes and Persians migrated from central Asia to Persia before 1000 B.C.E. Indo-European speakers, sharing cultural traits with Aryans Challenged the Assyrian and Babylonian empires Cyrus the Achaemenid (the Shepherd) (reigned 558-530 B.C.E.) Became king of Persian tribes in 558 B.C.E. All of Iran under his control by 548 B.C.E. Established a vast empire from India to borders of Egypt Cyrus's son, Cambyses (reigned 530-522 B.C.E.), conquered Egypt in 525 Darius (reigned 521-486 B.C.E.); largest extent of empire; population thirty-five million Diverse empire, seventy ethnic groups New capital at Persepolis, 520 B.C.E. Achaemenid administration Twenty-three satrapies (Persian…
Alexander, son of king Philip II and Olympias was born in 356 B.C.E, and at age 19, became king of Macedon. With a great army at his disposal and his brilliant military mind, he started his conquest. From 337-323 B.C.E Alexander conquered Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and a large part of Asia. Alexander ruled from Macedonia to the northern part of India. He defeated the Persians numerous times with his incredible military strategies, even when his armies were outnumbered by almost 200,000 Persian soldiers. The sheer size of his empire was unlike anything ever seen before but when he died in 323 B.C.E, the three main areas he conquered (Greece/Macedonia, Egypt, and Mesopotamia/ Asia) were split up and became their own kingdoms. The area that was once Greece and Macedonia became the Antigonid Kingdom, the Egyptian are became the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Asia/ Mesopotamia area became the Seleucid Kingdom.…
The Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, was the largest empire of the ancient world, stretching from the borders of India and China in the east to large parts of Greece and Libya.The empire was divided into provinces called satrapies.They respected the people they conquered.The timeframe is 550-330 b.c..Persian government was a monarchy system in which the kings had the final say so in how things were supposed to be handled. The first king through 559-529 BCE and the last king ruled from 336-330 BCE. The empire was divided into twenty provinces each ruled by a governor.The economics were that they had a road system and has developed the use of coins, a system of weights, and a measurement system.They also switched to a barter system but China did it first.Also each satrapy paid taxes based on wealth and resources.A satrapy system was an administrative group. A satrap (governor) administered the region, a general supervised military, and a…
Darius helped expand the empire’s boundaries. Darius led the army into northwest India, and immediately took control over the territory. After this conquest, Darius aimed westwards, and brought Thrace and Macedonia under his control, along with the people. This had a major impact on the Persian Empire because with more land and more people to rule over, social beliefs and cultural ideas will spread rapidly, and influence other countries as well.…
Throughout the history of the world, power has been given to people like monarchs, dictators, military generals, and even presidents. Like most things some handle the power extremely well while others abuse it. The abuse affects the people of the area and history is changed when the person takes their power to an unfathomable level. Power abuse can be dated back to the beginning of what we can recall.…
The Persian Wars were, simply put, a series of attacks and counter-attacks between the Greeks and Persians as a dispute of land and territory. The turning point in the Persian Wars was the battle of Mycale, in which the Athenians won because the Ionian allies to the Persian Empire deserted the Persians. This ended the Persian invasion of mainland Greece after the Persians decided to focus on issues elsewhere. Athens went on the offensive to take back the Ionian cities. After they took back Sestus, Athens started the Athenian Empire and started on a campaign with allied states to take back more Ionian cities. Shortly after the battles at Cyprus and Salamis in which Cimon, leader of the Athenian Empire, died, and the battles on both sides ended with the signing of the Peace of Callis in 449 B.C.E. Later, Alexander the Great started another raid on the Persians after his father, Philip II, died. Alexander the Great stated that his purpose was revenge for Xerxes of Persia’s attack on Greece. Alexander the Great was a brilliant general, and there’s no telling how immensely powerful his empire would have become had he not died suddenly at the age of 32. His death threw his empire into turmoil, each general…
Cyrus the Great is most well-known for his conquests, tolerance, and his government style. His conquests showed that the Achaemenid Empire and later the Persian Empire’s dominance during it’s time. “He became the King of the Persians in 559 B.C.E. and captured the capital of Ecbatana, starting the Achaemenid Empire. This united the Medes and Persians under his own rule.” His victory in…
Power is the ability to influence people to perform in a specific way. The ambition of having power, has made humans influence other peoples’ lives and nature. For example, writer David Hume presented and criticized the “is-ought problem—the notion that we can derive what ought to be from an example of what is” (Barash 283). People are not satisfied with what is natural, so they want to go furthermore and try to change it, using any sources they have within their reach. We are unstoppable, the more we have the more we want.…
The Achaemenid Empire was the largest Empire in Ancient history. It began as a small state located in modern day Iran. It is called the Achaemenid Dynasty is because of the Achaemenes who created the state. It is not until Cyrus the Great came into power in 559 BC did the expansion of Persia begin. He conquers the median empire that controlled Persia at that time and thereafter he and his successors go on to conquer most of the Middle East and Asia Minor, expanding out 8 million km². They even conquered part of Greece another formidable country at the time, but had to retreat after a loss at the Battle of Plataea. After this invasion of Greece is when we start to see a decline of power in the Empire until its eventual fall when King Darius the III died in 330BC.…