persian political organization (greeks, romans, chinese) - administration made up of persian governors (satraps) in each of the 23 provinces - imperial

spies (eyes and ears of the king) - imperial bureaucracy (administrators, tax collectors, records keepers, and translators) provided model for subsequent regimes in the region, later in the Islamic world - taxes, coinage, canal, royal road (carry messages in week or two) greek political life - allowed varying amounts of political involvement - citizenship, or free people running the affairs of state - equality of citizens before the law - early history, only wealthy and well born had rights of full citizenship (speaking and voting in assembly, holding ofce, ghting in the army) - later on more people gained rights - in Athens, class conict brought change and in 594, Solon emerged to make Athenian policies more democratic (abolishing debt slavery, opening public ofce to more men, opening Assembly to all citizens) - women, slaves, foreigners, were all excluded Solon brought reforms -594 Solon reformed Athenian political life to be more democratic. he abolished debt slavery, opened the public ofce to more men, and opened the Assembly to all citizens classical greek 500 BCE - 499 ionian greek cities revolted and found support from athens on greek mainland - poorer classes insist on citizenship because of contributions to war effort - golden age of greek culture, the parthenon (temple for athena), greek theater (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), socrates (philosopher) - incipient empire, athens created imperialism of its own difference in political culture between greeks and persia - persians has huge and centralized government, greece had small competing citystates - persians were governed by huge and unapproachable monarch, greece had public participation in political affairs Satraps - persian governors placed in each one of 23 provinces The hellenistic era was ____ Greek culture vs. Persian civilization true about Chinese and roman Persian and Mauryan dynasty similar characteristic of all classical empires foreign religion absorbed into china effect of germanic tribes entering into roman empire

limitations of greek democracy factors made formation of an empire less likely elements united greece during classical era what ways the roman empire a hellenistic state features do all empires share legacy of fth century BCE greece to the hellenistic kingdom hellenistic be regarded as an empire in cultural terms, though it wasnt a political state