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The Achaemenid Persian Empire

2021
Abstract The Achaemenid Persian Empire was history’s first hyperpower, ruling much of the known earth from the reign of Cyrus the Great in the mid-sixth century to the defeat of Darius III by Alexander of Macedon in 331 bce. The Achaemenid Empire’s evident debt to its predecessors in Elam, Assyria, and Babylonia may be contrasted with a ...
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The Achaemenid Empire

2009
Abstract The Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was the largest of all ancient Near Eastern “world empires,” spanning from Egypt to Central Asia and the Indus region. Its formation began after 550 B.C.E. when the petty king Cyrus of Anshan/Fars in southwestern Iran and his son Cambyses conquered the mighty Medes and the empires of Lydia ...
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Phoenicia Under the Achaemenid Empire

2019
This chapter covers several aspects of Achaemenid Phoenicia, including literary sources, epigraphy, numismatics, and material culture. Achaemenid Phoenicia was characterized by a continuity of material culture from the Neo-Babylonian period. The extant sources—literary, epigraphic, and numismatic—evince a conglomerate of independent city-states ...
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Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire

2015
Abstract The present contribution treats taxation in the Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire, which lasted from 538 to 330 b.c.e. Its focus lies on information derived from the cuneiform texts discovered in Babylonia and Iran. Until very recently, Greek authors, in particular Herodotus, were used almost exclusively as sources of ...
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The Achaemenid empire and the sea

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2012
This article looks at the conquest of the sea as a way of projecting world rule during the Achaemenid period. It starts by tracing the ancient Near Eastern tradition whereby successive rulers had to prove themselves by conquering the sea, from mythical kings such as Gilgames and Sargon of Akkad down to Cyrus the Great and his successors.
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The Achaemenid Empire: a Babylonian perspective

Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 1988
For over 2000 years views of the Persian empire founded by Cyrus c. 550 B.C. and conquered by Alexander in the space of ten years between 334 and 323 have been constructed on the basis of Greek literary sources (in which I would include historical works, such as Herodotus' histories) and some sections of the Old Testament.
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Attic Pottery in the Achaemenid Empire

American Journal of Archaeology, 1977
Attic pottery in the sixth to fourth centuries B.C. achieves a fairly broad range within the Persian Empire, taking in Anatolia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, the Nile Valley down to Nubia, and, in a limited quantity, appearing at the distant capitals of Babylon and Susa.' Within this range, the same types of Attic pots turn up from site to site, most of ...
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The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550-330 B.C

2023
The Achaemenid Persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. Its formation began in 550 B.C., when King Astyages of Media, who dominated much of Iran and eastern Anatolia (Turkey), was defeated by his southern neighbor Cyrus II ("the Great ...
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The Achaemenid Empire’s Contributions to Public Administration

International Journal of Public Administration, 2014
The Achaemenid Empire established the world’s first complex administrative system of government in 559 B.C. There are numerous administrative accomplishments by the Achaemenids that have not successfully been duplicated in modern times, despite the Pony Express, the Suez Canal, and perfected recycling systems.
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