Melany Perez Western Civ. 2/19/13 The Origins of the Persian Empire * Basically the rise of the Persian can be accredited to one man: Cyrus the Great. * He was a very powerful king who had the idea of expanding the Persian kingdom by conquering all the land around him. * He ended up creating one of the biggest empires that lasted over two hundred years. * He’s impact on the Persian Empire allowed other emperors after him such as Darius to continue expanding the empire.
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Athenian general‚ whose abilities as a tactician and strategist thwarted the Persian invasion force‚ effectively saving the entire Greek culture from the armies led by Xerxes. Described by ancient writer Thucydides as ‘a man who showed an unmistakable natural genius… and deserves our admiration’‚ Themistocles was the most influential leader of the Athenian war effort against the Persians. It was he who realized that the Persian threat was imminent and catastrophic‚ and it was his radical advancement
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System Introduction The Persian alphabet‚ like the alphabets of many Muslim nations‚ is based on the 28letter alphabet of Arabic. It has 32 letters and is written from right to left. Four of these letters are devised exclusively for Persian. We shall see these letters later. The Persian alphabet does not use capital letters. It does‚ however‚ use a modified version of the Western punctuation system. Unlike the alphabet‚ the Persian numbers are written from left to right. Persian uses the same figures
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During the Greco-Persian war (500 B.C. - 449 B.C)‚ many battles took place in this bloody war. Battles were fought on land and at sea. Sea battles played a major role during the war. The Athenian Fleet was among the most sophisticated and powerful navies to date that time. The Persian Armada seemed unbeatable with its vast number of ships and soldiers. The Athenian Navy had a higher kill ratio than the massive Persian Fleet. The Persians and the Athenians both used that same type of ship for sea
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Similarities between Conflicts: Second Punic war and Second Persian War The Second Punic War was led by Hannibal during 218 – 201 BC in Greece and the Second Persian War was led by Xerxes During 480 – 479 BC in Greece. Both have similarities and differences between wars. The second Punic and second Persian wars are similar in their background causes but different in their foreground causes. The conflicts have similar structural causes such as social factors‚ vengeance and geographical proximity
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490 B.C. Persian leader‚ darius I‚ sent 25‚000 men to fight 10‚000 Greeks. The Persians were light armored and lacked training‚ they were no match to the Greeks disciplined phalanx Athens won a crushing victory killing more than 6000 men and only losing less than 200 men The battle took place in a plain north east of Athens called marathon Ionia of the coast of Anatolia is a place where Greeks have been long settled‚ however around 546 B.C. the Persians conquered the area. Later the Ionian Greeks
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CONTEXT A. BACKGROUND ON THE AUTHOR Firdausi Tousi‚ (935–1020) is considered to be one of the greatest Persian poets to have ever lived. Among the national heroes and literary greats of all time‚ Firdausi has a very special place. His life-long endeavor‚ dedication and personal sacrifices to preserve the national identity‚ language and heritage of his homeland put him in great hardship during his lifetime‚ but won him fame and honor for one of the greatest poetic masterpieces of all time:
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The Persian Empire held together a huge empire using a combination of effective ruling techniques. The Persians succeeded where most of the ancient world failed. Persia became successful because of its tolerance‚ their government‚ and their prosperous economy. Persia sought out to create a kinder kingdom and did not destroy local cities and states for their own selfish gain. Cyrus the Great ruled like no other leader in his time. He created tolerance for other people’s beliefs of religion‚ traditions
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Persian wars Now to the Persian wars. The Persian wars are a series of battles between Persia and Greece. The Persian Empire at the time stretched from the Indus valley to the Asia Minor and Egypt and was starting to get into Greece and Europe. A few city-states started to send solders to help their fellow Greeks. Nine years later Darius‚ the emperor of Persia at the time‚ started to take his revenge. The first invasion of Greece was in the plains of Marathon near Athens‚ a great and scholared city
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Hussein “The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.” Reason for Listening: The Persian Gulf war otherwise known as desert storm has shaped American influence and popularity around the world but also created continuing instability. The Persian Gulf war created chaos in the region for the benefit of the oil hungry countries in the world. First Main Point Warming cold war tensions left the door open for the United States involvement into the long lasting ally of the Soviet Union
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