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The Persian Empire

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Overview

Syllabus

  • 01: Rethinking the Persian Empire
  • 02: Questioning the Sources
  • 03: The World before Cyrus
  • 04: Cyrus and Cambyses - Founders of the Empire
  • 05: Darius I - Creator of the Imperial System
  • 06: Persian Capitals and Royal Palaces
  • 07: The Great King - Images and Realities
  • 08: Royal Roads and Provinces
  • 09: East of Persepolis
  • 10: Challenges in the West, 513 - 494 B.C.
  • 11: Across the Bitter Sea, 493 - 490 B.C.
  • 12: Xerxes Becomes King
  • 13: Xerxes's War, 480 - 479 B.C.
  • 14: Cultures in Contact
  • 15: Achaemenid Religion
  • 16: From Expansion to Stability, 479 - 405 B.C.
  • 17: The War of the Two Brothers
  • 18: Persian Gold
  • 19: City and Countryside
  • 20: Women in the Persian Empire
  • 21: Artaxerxes II - The Longest-Ruling King
  • 22: Persia and Macedon, 359 - 333 B.C.
  • 23: The End of an Empire, 333 - 323 B.C.
  • 24: Legacies of the Persian Empire
  • By This Professor

Taught by

John W. I. Lee

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