Ancient Persia : a concise history of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE / Matt Waters, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (c. 522-486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the western Himalayas to northeast Africa. In this book, Matt Waters gives a detailed historical overview...
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Table of Contents:
- Tracking an empire
- Forerunners of the Achaemenids : the first half of the first millennium BCE
- Persia rising : a new empire
- From Cyrus to Darius I : empire in transition
- Darius, the great king
- Mechanics of empire
- Xerxes, the expander of the realm
- Anatomy of empire
- Empire at large : from the death of Xerxes to Darius II
- Maintaining an empire : Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III
- Twilight of the Achaemenids.