The Persian Empire

Compilation by John W. Lee

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  1. 1.
    Rethinking the Persian Empire
  2. 2.
    Questioning the Sources
  3. 3.
    The World Before Cyrus
  4. 4.
    Cyrus and Cambyses — Founders of the Empire
  5. 5.
    Darius I — Creator of the Imperial System
  6. 6.
    Persian Capitals and Royal Palaces
  7. 7.
    The Great King — Images and Realities
  8. 8.
    Royal Roads and Provinces
  9. 9.
    East of Persepolis
  10. 10.
    Challenges in the West, 513–494 B.C.
  11. 11.
    Across the Bitter Sea, 493–490 B.C.
  12. 12.
    Xerxes Becomes King
  13. 13.
    Xerxes’s War, 480–479 B.C.
  14. 14.
    Cultures in Contact
  15. 15.
    Achaemenid Religion
  16. 16.
    From Expansion to Stability, 479–405 B.C.
  17. 17.
    The War of the Two Brothers
  18. 18.
    Persian Gold
  19. 19.
    City and Countryside
  20. 20.
    Women in the Persian Empire
  21. 21.
    Artaxerxes II — The Longest-Ruling King
  22. 22.
    Persia and Macedon, 359–333 B.C.
  23. 23.
    The End of an Empire, 333–323 B.C.
  24. 24.
    Legacies of the Persian Empire

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