Persian Empire AP World
At the dawn of the Classical Era, the Persian Empire was the most dominant empire on earth. To this day, (as a % of earth's population) the Persian Empire was the largest in history. The Persian Empires emerged in Southwest Asia (Middle East).
The AP expects you to know ALL THREE:
Just because the AP asks you to know all three Persian Empires... don't worry. When it comes to the Classical Empires, the Persian is not one of the "Major" empires (those would be Rome, Guptan India, and Han China). That being said, here is the key information on the Persian Empires.
The AP expects you to know ALL THREE:
- ACHAEMENID (550-330 BCE)
- PARTHIAN (247 BCE-224 CE)
- SASSANID (224-651 CE)
Just because the AP asks you to know all three Persian Empires... don't worry. When it comes to the Classical Empires, the Persian is not one of the "Major" empires (those would be Rome, Guptan India, and Han China). That being said, here is the key information on the Persian Empires.
- ACHAEMENID
- PARTHIAN
- SASSANID
- CYRUS THE GREAT
- EDICT OF RESTORATION
- ROYAL ROAD
- SATRAPY
- DARIUS
- ZOROASTRIANS'
- RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
Story of Persian Empire- Click on this link to learn about Persian Empire
The Persian Empires of the Classical Era- The Alcaemenid and the Parthian , are noteworthy because of their size and organization and their contacts with neighboring civilizations like the Hebrews, Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans.
- The first great Persian Empire (Also referred to as the Achaemenid Empire) was centered in modern Iran and was the larger of the two discussed here. It stretched from Western India across modern Turkey almost to Greece.
- The Persian Empire was so large that the king used regional leaders known as satraps to watch over portions of the empire and report back to him.
- The Persians had one of the world's first highway systems. it was used by the empire's armies to move rapidly from place to place and by the king's messengers.
- In a pattern that was repeated over many centuries and in many regions around the world, the Persian Empire overextended itself and became vulnerable to attack from the outside.
- After about a century, a ew Persian-based empire arose, the Parthian Empire, and it defeated what still remained of Alexander's divided kingdom. The Parthians' biggest rival to the West was a new Mediterranean power based in Rome, with whom they had many clashes.
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Clip on Persian and the Greeks. (This gives pretty much everything you need from the Persians...)
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