HIST 3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Satrap, Galway United F.C., List Of Mortal Kombat Characters
15 Mar 2018
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Cyrus the great, free the jew and create a law. Most high ranking people were medes and persians. Achaemenian army had no slaves in their army. Darius, cooperated various people, not only persian. Persian armies had separate detachment, each army was separate. (e. g. Aramaic was the official language during achemedian dynasty. Achaemenian did have slaves, but did not use slaves in army most of the time. Darrius became a king of all people. (notion of persian kingship). They claimed the achaemenian clan was given the right to be king by gods: (shadow of god: mithra, anahita, ahura mazda. They bring the notion of universal empire; all world should belong to achaemenian. (shadow of god over people)- the shah of achemedian. They believed the shah must be absolute ruler. (manage to convince the people and elite) They mention if the shah doesn"t have absolute rule, they will be hold back (weak) and can"t rule everyone equally).
