9 24 Class Notes Persian Empire o Medes Didn t consolidate power like Hittites Unified by threat by Assyrians 550 BC taken over by Persians and unified Caspian Sea modern day Iran o Cyrus the Great 559 530 BC Conquered the Medes Liberated the Jews from Jerusalem Didn t believe in torture and slaughter Took over Lydia Sardis Died on battlefield Successor Cambyses Did not believe in primogeniture first born Subdued the Egyptians Nubians o Darius the Great 522 486 BC Xerxes Established system of roads Royal Road System of relay messages communication Divisions of state districts o Satraps noble administrators and judges o Religion 600 BC Prophet Zoroaster Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda Ahriman chief God and creator of all living things People possessed free will and free moral thought Zend Avesta collection of religious texts Moral house of Psalm o Persian Wars 499 BC Ionian revolt Herodotus wrote of Eretria Those 20 ships Greeks Persians get revenge on Greeks burn town of Miletus Marathon 481 BC Themistokles Athenian Invested in fleet Spartans united front against Persians o Thermopylae o Spartans o oracle of Delphi wooden walls o Challenge w fleet of ships
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