Chapter7Outline
Outline 7 The Empires Of Persia
Chapter Thesis: The Persian Empire was an enormous realm shaped from the victory of conquering Lydia; these conquests, however, yielded a large empire with administrative and political problems for its rulers, yet a series of Persian-based empires governing the territory between India and the Mediterranean Sea brought centralized political organization to all of the distinct societies found over the vast land, and with this, the organization of the many territories compiled in the Persian Empires had important social, economic, and cultural implications.
I. The rise and fall of the Persian Empires
A. The Achaemenid Empire
1. The Medes and the Persians
a. Indo-European speakers shared similar cultural traits with the Aryans
b. They were mostly pastoralists and had equestrian skills
c. They were expert archers
d. Organized themselves in clans
e. Before 1000 B.C.E., they migrated from central Asia to Persia
f. They challenged the Assyrian and Babylonian empires in the sixth century
2. Cyrus and His Conquests
a. He became king of Persian tribes in 558 B.C.E.
b. He was also called Cyrus the Shepherd because of where he came from in the mountainous areas of southwestern Iran
c. The Persian Empire was also known as the Achaemenid Empire because it’s rulers claimed descent from Cyrus’s Achaemenid clan.
d. By 548 B.C.E. all of Iran was under his control
e. He established a huge empire that stretched from India to the borders of Egypt
f. His reign was from 558-530 B.C.E., when he was mortally wounded while protecting his empire from nomadic raiders.
3. Darius
a. Cambyses, Cyrus’s son, ruled the Persian Empire from 530-522 B.C.E. and conquered all of Egypt by 525 B.C.E.
b. His empire was extremely diverse with over seventy distinct ethnic groups located in it
c. He ruled from 521-486 B.C.E. and in is reign he created the largest empire in the whole world with a population of about thirty-five million
d. In 520 B.C.E. he built a new
Chapter Thesis: The Persian Empire was an enormous realm shaped from the victory of conquering Lydia; these conquests, however, yielded a large empire with administrative and political problems for its rulers, yet a series of Persian-based empires governing the territory between India and the Mediterranean Sea brought centralized political organization to all of the distinct societies found over the vast land, and with this, the organization of the many territories compiled in the Persian Empires had important social, economic, and cultural implications.
I. The rise and fall of the Persian Empires
A. The Achaemenid Empire
1. The Medes and the Persians
a. Indo-European speakers shared similar cultural traits with the Aryans
b. They were mostly pastoralists and had equestrian skills
c. They were expert archers
d. Organized themselves in clans
e. Before 1000 B.C.E., they migrated from central Asia to Persia
f. They challenged the Assyrian and Babylonian empires in the sixth century
2. Cyrus and His Conquests
a. He became king of Persian tribes in 558 B.C.E.
b. He was also called Cyrus the Shepherd because of where he came from in the mountainous areas of southwestern Iran
c. The Persian Empire was also known as the Achaemenid Empire because it’s rulers claimed descent from Cyrus’s Achaemenid clan.
d. By 548 B.C.E. all of Iran was under his control
e. He established a huge empire that stretched from India to the borders of Egypt
f. His reign was from 558-530 B.C.E., when he was mortally wounded while protecting his empire from nomadic raiders.
3. Darius
a. Cambyses, Cyrus’s son, ruled the Persian Empire from 530-522 B.C.E. and conquered all of Egypt by 525 B.C.E.
b. His empire was extremely diverse with over seventy distinct ethnic groups located in it
c. He ruled from 521-486 B.C.E. and in is reign he created the largest empire in the whole world with a population of about thirty-five million
d. In 520 B.C.E. he built a new