Chapter 7
The founder of the Achaemenid empire was
Cyrus
the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.E. proved to be
a Persian loss
which empire normally displayed the greatest degree of toleration toward its subject peoples
achaemenid
the persian legal code was designed to
codifly the laws of the subject peoples
The leader of the Lydians who fell to Cyrus
croesus
the persian king who regularized tax levies and standardized law was
darius
neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom..
herodotus on persian courier service
The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid empires employed a form of
imperial admin copied from the Achmens
the center of the persian communications network
royal road
Pasargadae was
the capital of the persian empire before persepolis
The major early turning point in the rise of the Persian empire
victory of Cyrus over Lydia
The magnificent capital of the persian empire constructed by darius was
persepolis
Satrapies were
persian administrative units
the qanat
persian underground canals
In organizing their empire, Persian rulers relied heavily on techniques of administration from the
Mesopotamians
the population of the achaemenid empire under darius was
35 million
What is the chronological order of the Persian empires
Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids
The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors
Darius
In 525 B.C.E. the Persian emperor Cambyses captured
Egypt
The decisivce victory of Alexander of Macedon over the Persians was called the battle of
Guagamela
The Medes and the Persians were originally
Indo-European tribes
darius received high praise from these people for his decision to allow them to return to their capital city and rebuild their temple.
jews
darius picked up the idea of a standardized government-issued coinage from the
lydians
the persian eyes and ears of the king
were spies
the king who failed to follow the normal persian governing polisy of toleration was
xerxes
