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building projects Darius started
Royal roads; helped get messages long distances in the empire through many men waiting on horses at checkpoints. Rebuolt Susa on three mounds, the Apdana, Royal city and the Acropolis, persepolis, and the egyptian irrigation system
Explain Thrace and Scythian expedition
Darius launched full scale invasion into Europe, crossed rivers in boats and rafts. Herodotus says army was 700,000 men. Made a bridge over river Danube. Scythians split up making it hard for Persians. The Persians were forced to retreat back to the bridge, they argue with the Greeks guarding it and tell them to rebel, darius returned home and left advisor to capture thrace and didn’t get scythia
Ionian revolt
499 BC, Aristagoris falls out with Satrap and convinces his city Miletus, and others to rebel against Persians. Athenians offer 20 ships to help. Eretria offers 5ahips, Greeks take and burn Sardis to ground. Greeks return to coast but are killed by Persians so Athenians withdraw. Final fight at Lade, Persian fleet of 600 defeated greek of 353 after they bribed Samian fleet.
3 reasons to invade mainland Greece for Xerxes
Revenge on Athens, live up to predecessors, acquire new territory
what two religious things does udjahorresnet say Camybses did in babylon
buried the apis bull with full funeral ceremonies and purified temples and supported worship of gods
death of cyrus
530 BC - All the persian advisors say they should fight on the persian side of the river except for croesus who warns him that his good fortune won’t last. Cyrus decides to fight tomyris, captures her son spargapises who kills himself in captivity. Tomyris was enraged and fights a second battle which she wins and cyrus dies. She beheads him and puts his head in a leather bag filled with blood
accession of darius according to darius
bisitun inscription shows him trodding on people, guamata was pretending to be cambyses’ dead brother Bardiya, cambyses died of natural causes and then darius challenged guamata as he was the only one who would stand up to him, so he killed him
darius and babylonian revolt
Darius defeated the rebels in two battles in December 522 killing Nidintu-Bel in the process. Arakha emerged the next year who also claimed to be son of Nabonidus. This rebellion was put down by a leading Persian Intaphernes in November 521.
xerxes preparation for invasion of greece
says he had 2.3 mill men, probably just 60,000-80,000, took 4 years of preparation and had to set up depots all over the place, building canals and a bridge across the hellespont
athens and persia relationship before ionian revolt
sparta had tried to reinstate hippias as tyrant of athens, athens went to persia for help and ambassadors gave earth and water but were criticized on their return, hippias defected to persia and persia ordered athens to reinstall him and they refused, basically declaring war on persia
mardonius expedition in 492
darius sent fleet to north mainland greece with mardonius leading it, the persians were destroyed in mount Athos, they won a victory after against some Thracians but they lost so many men that it was not successful