p2ch7states

Name: Amy Gilson

 * **Themes** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Political Structures and forms of governance || * The government of the Achaemenid empire depended on a finely tuned balance between central initiative and local administration.
 * The Achaemenid empire delegated governors to be agents of the central administration and to manage affaris in the various regions.
 * The Parthians established themselves through an organization of leaders who met in councils and together determined the design for the allied groups. ||
 * Empires || * The Achaemenid empire: 558 - 330 BCE
 * The Seleucid empire: 328 - 83 BCE
 * The Parthian empire: 247 BCE - 224 CE
 * The Sasanid empire: 224 - 651 CE ||
 * Nations and nationalism || * Darius vastly broadened the empire and made Persepolis the capital, which soon became the nerve center of the Achaemenid empire. ||
 * Revolts and revolutions || * The Ionian Greeks rebelled against the Persians when they fell under their control causing a series of battles known as the Persian Wars. ||
 * Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations || * Darius directed legal experts to study and systemize the laws of his subject people. ||