THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE

• PRESENTED BY
• MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH
• ZABAD AHMED
• SUMMYYA IRSHAD
• MANAHIL KHAN
• FAHAD MANSOOR
• HANIYA ALI
• FATIMA HABEEB
• VANIA FATIMA
OVERVIEW OF ACHAEMENID MILITARY

Cyrus-1 Darius Artaxerxes

(Median empire)

Cambyses-11
Xerxes Alexander
(Graeco-persian
(Egypt) war)
WARS OF ACHAEMENID
EMPIRE
• CONQUEST OF LYDIA AND BABYLON:

• The strategy worked; the Lydian cavalry was

routed. Cyrus defeated and captured
Croesus and Lydian kingdom in 546 BC.
• Croesus' army was about twice as large and
had been reinforced with many new men, but
Cyrus still utterly defeated it.
• Cyrus met and routed the Babylonian army
in battle near Opis, After this, the people of
Sippar opened their gates to him without
resistances. The Babylonian king Nabonidus fled.
Thus, captured it.
IONIAN AND MARATHON BATTLES

• IN 493 BCE, THE PERSIAN DEFEATED IONIANS AND

SOLD SOME OF ITS PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY.

• SEND MESSENGERS TO GREEK CITY STATES, THEY WERE

NOT RECEIVED WELL AND KILLED INTO PITS AND WELL
• DARIUS, IN 490 BCE SENT SOLIDERS TO PLAIN OF
MARATHON, BUT GREEKS WON.
BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE AND
SALAMIS
• KING XERXES IN 480 BCE, FOUGHT COMIBNED ATHENIAN
AND SPARTAN FORCE IN THERMOPYLAE.
• SPARTIAN LEADER LEONIDAS SENT ALL HIS TROOPS BACK
LEAVING, 300.

• IT TOOK XERXES ONLY TWO WEEKS TO BURN ATHENS TO THE

GROUND.
• MYSTIC LEAS, ATHENIAN NAVY LEADER WON THROUGH
STRATEGY AT SEA, GREEK WERE MASTER OF SEAS.
CHANGINGS OVER TIME
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