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| Medes and Persians? | related peoples who migrated from central asia to persia
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| Cyrus(not miley)(launched) (founded)( timeline)? | Launched persian emperial venture
Founded achaemenid empire
Became king of Persian tribes in 558 B.C.E.
All of Iran under his control by 548 B.C.E.
In 546 he conquered Lydia (in anatolia)
539 He seized Babylonia
Died in 530
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| cambyses? | son of cyrus and captured egypt...
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| Darius? | The greatest Achaemenid emperor
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| persepolis? | capital of dariuses empire
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| Achaemenid administration | Emperors appointed satraps to oversee satrapies - 23
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| Persian economic policy (Who? Taxes? Money?) | Darius replaced gifts with formal quantities of silver, horse, and slaves
Issued standardized coins
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| Persian legal codes | Legal scholars studied local codes and tweaked them to meet imperial standards
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| Persian roads (Notablelength? Techniques length?) | royal road 1600 miles
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| Persian couriers (Stationed? Speed) | Stations every 25ish miles along the royal road
2 weeks
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| Xerxes (Successor? Relations?) | succesor of darius
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| The Persian Wars (Whatwhen? Aid? Initiates? Darius?) 500 BC - rebellion of Ionian greeks | Greek cities send forces to aid persian greeks
Begins sparring
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| Darius tries to take over greece . | at battle of marathon
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| Alexander of Macedon (When what effect? Portrayedretained? Fate?) | Won the battle guagemala and ended the Achaemenid Empire.
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| The Seleucid empire (Founded? Retained? Innovated? Challenge why?) | Founded by seleucus - general in Alexanders army
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| The Parthians (Modeoflife? Where? Organized? Innovations?) | Organized into clans
Fed horses alfalfa
much stronger
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| Parthian Empire (Where? Began? Notable figures) | Based in Iran, extended to mesopotamia
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| Parthian Government (Resembled? Differences? Consequences | Mainly followed Achaemenid example
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| Fall of parthians (Internal external when?) | Faced pressure from romans around 100, Internal rebelliion brings down around 300
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| The Sassanids (Replacedwhen? Adopted? Innovations? Conflictd? End?) | toppled Parthians; ruled 224-651 C.E.
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| Early persian Social structure (Based? Classes? Important? Leader?) Steppe | Warriors, priests and peasants. Family and clan relationships are extremely important. patriarchy
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| Imperial Bureaucrats (Arose? Replaced? Subclasses?) | Imperial Administration calls for class of educated 'crats
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| Free classes (Proportion? City? Country? | The majority of society.
In the city: artisans, craftsmen, merchants, civil servants, priests.
In the country:
landowners or free laborers
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| Slaves (Sources? Restrictions? Worked?) | prisoners of war, crimnals and debtors.
Couldnt move or marry.
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| Quanat (What? Function? Located?) | Underground canals - allowed water distribution and minimized evaporation. All over iranian plateau
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| Persian Agriculture and diet (Grains? Beverages? Amount? Grown?) | Barley and wheat - Most common grains
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| Wine and beer | Most common beverages
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| Trade in persia (Routes? Production? Began | Land routes, red sea, arabian sea, persian gulf
Production was often specialized in different regions
Long distance trade starts Alexander the great
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| Early Persian Religion (Clorified? Used? Rituals | Centered on cults that glorified nature, used ahoama, conducted sacrifices, glorified stregth
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| Zarathustra (Founder? Background? Believed?) | Founder of zoroastrianism, an aristocratic priest who became disenchanted with traditional religion.
Thought that Ahura Mazda had chosen him to be prophet
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| The gathas (Composer? Transmission? Form?) | Zathuras compositions that were preserved orally. Hymns which honored various deities.
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| Zoroastrian Teachings (God/number? Conflict? Judgement?) | Polytheists. Recognized Ahura Mazda as supreme. Believed that Ahura Mazda was engaged in conflict with Angra Mainyu (destructive spirit). Humans will be judged based on their thoughts, words, and deeds and go to heaven
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| Popularity of zorostrianism during achaemenid (Drew? Emperors | Drew persian elites starting in 600 BCE. Rich people donated land for temples. Cyrus and Cambyses may have been Zoroastrians. Darius associated himself with Ahura Mazda
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| Sassanid Zoroastrianism (Why? Actions? Contributions | Because they were so Achaemenidian, they thouroughly embraced Zoroastrianism. They often persecuted other competing religions
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| Zoroastrian decline (Who when? Actions? Fate?) | Islamic conquerors - 700 CE.
Placed financial and political pressure on temples.
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