World History › Section C · The ancient Near East › Topic C.3
The Persian Empire
After Assyria fell, a people from southwestern Iran built the largest empire yet known and ran it with roads, governors and a calculated tolerance. This topic follows Cyrus, Darius and the system that held the empire together for two centuries.
In this topic
- From vassals to empire
- Cyrus, Cambyses and the tolerance pattern
- Darius I and a contested throne
- Worked example: reading the Behistun inscription
- Satrapies: governing a continent
- Roads, canals and qanats
- Power seen and defended
- Zoroastrianism: the cosmic struggle
- Worked example: was Persian tolerance kindness or strategy?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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