HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sasanian Empire
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Persia: crossroads of empire: introduction: the age of classical empires. A landmass, a continent. (east asia, west asia: four persian empires (iran) Cyrus he united the first persian empire and defeated the babylonians. He presented himself as a traditional mesopotamian ruler. He restored temples and conquered and many intermarriage alliances to expand the empire. Darius was not a direct relative, but he was the strongest military ruler, he created and extended an administrative structure. Xertes had the least impact, was engaged with many wars with greeks, Persia was conquered by alexander the great from macedonia. The seleucids ruled the part known as iran. The greek influence was present through art and architecture. Seleucid claimed he was a descendant from alexander the great. Nomadic (wanderers) people from north west iran. They often traveled with animals, and were herders of animals. They restored persian rule in central iran and got rid of the foreigners.
