Dates
The period of time that the Persian Empire lasted.
What is two centuries?
The first ruler of Persia, and his reign of Persia had begun when he united the collection of tribes that had previously existed in the area.
Who is Cyrus The Great?
The Persian Empire’s religion was founded around 1000 B.C.E., and was named after its founder.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The name of the Persian Empire's provinces, ruled by regional leaders.
What are satraps?
The Persian Empire was the first nation to stretch across this number of continents.
What is three?
Zoroaster, the famous Persian religious figure lived between these dates.
What is significant about 1500 B.C.E. and 500 B.C.E.?
The Persian Empire was conquered by this leader of the Macedonian Empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Zoroastrianism taught this for their religion.
What is the fact that the god Ahura Mazda, the deity of justice, and Angra Mainyu, the god of discord, were always at war, and the purpose of humanity was to choose a side between the two gods, and being defined by the side you chose?
The Persians allowed the Israelites to do this.
What is allowing a nation to return to their homeland?
The Persians conquered this nation, who were ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, which led to the conquering of the famous city of Babylon.
Who were the Assyrians?
The Persian Empire lasted between these dates.
What is significant about 559 B.C.E. and 331 B.C.E.?
Although the two most famous Persian Kings are, by far, Cyrus II and Xerxes I, this ruler was on the Persian throne when the empire had reached its peak.
Who is Darius I?
Early Persian art was found here, and it was also an ancient cemetery for previous kings.
What is Naqsh-e Rustam?
Rather than fully enslaving them, and requiring the invaded to follow their culturalistic and religious practices, the Persians allowed them to follow their own beliefs, as long as they gave them this.
What is money?
The Persian Empire controlled nearly all of Asia Minor between these two bodies of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea and the Indus River Valley?
The Battle of Marathon was at this time and was against Athens, and is what a famous 42.195 kilometre race today was named after, as most of you know, if you did your reading.
What is significant about 490 B.C.E.?
The last official monarch of the Persian Empire was named this, until he was assassinated by his bodyguard, who then usurped the throne, and became Artaxerxes V, and had ruled until Alexander the Great had him executed, and then took the throne.
Who was Darius III?
Oftentimes, Persian art depicted this.
What are soldiers and kings riding into battle to acclaim victory?
Darius the Great achieved this goal by establishing a postal service, and building roads and canals.
What is realizing that such a large landmass would need to be organized properly in order to maintain the land?
This was how long the Persian Empire stretched at its height.
What is over 4828.032 kilometres?
Nomadic tribes settled at this time, who would eventually be united to form the Achaemenid Empire.
What is significant about 2000 B.C.E.?
This cylinder is a clay cylinder that recorded Cyrus the Great’s humanitarian beliefs. Several of the principals he recorded were adopted by the UN when they wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What is the Cyrus Cylinder?
It is a multilingual text carved by the Persians on Mount Behistun, and assisted historians, similar to that of the Egyptian Rosetta Stone.
What is The Behistun Inscription?
Because Darius the Great’s son, the famous seven-foot tall King Xerxes, had drained the Persian Empire’s of this, attempting to invade Greece, which left them with defenseless to fight off the invading Macedonians.
What are resources?
This nation were the first nation the Persian Empire had defeated. This kingdom actually controlled the Persian Empire as a vassal state when they first formed.
What is the Kingdom of Media?