Mesopotamia comic strip DOMINIC PETRONE
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- Hi im stickman the historian, im here to tell you about the rise of the persian empire. As you can see these are the persians running into babylon! This happens in 539 B.C.E. The persians became the largest empire the world had ever seen.
- It looks like the persians won this battle. Did you know that the persian empire would get its name changed a couple times? It all depended on who their leader was at the time. This empire dominated for a thosand years, now thats domination! Lets check out one of The Persian Empires rulers...
- Now lets talk about Cyrus the Great. For years the Persians had been ruled by the Medes but in 550 BCE, Cyrus the Great led the Persians to victory over the Medes and their freedom. Cyrus then died in batlle in 530 B.C.E then his son went on to rule and follow his fathers dream. Did you know how large these rulers made the Empire?
- Im one of the immortals. I'm part of the standing army fighting for Cyrus.
- The Persian empire was HUGE! In total it was over 3,000 miles long. This was from east to west. Cyrus then pushed south into Lonia which was occupied by the greeks, this will be important later. Other rulers also made this already large emipre even larger.
- Now, these rulers had goverments that were unfair. However, Darius the Great came along and fixed a few things. He gave the people the choice to keep thier own laws and traditions. He also simplified the political structure and the finances which increased the wealth of the empire.
- This road was called The Royal Road. It was made for messanging and travel, aswell as trading.
- Some thing that was nice was each culture was allowed to keep their own religion, although the Persians followed the teaching of the prophet Zoroaster. This religion was called Zoroastrianism and believed in one main god called Ahura Mazda. The things we went over today make up the persian empire. I hoped you enjoyed happy learning.
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