Compare And Contrast Persian Empire Vs Roman Empire

When we think of the two large and power empires that experienced many interesting and salient occurrences, they are going to be the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire. The Persian Empire and the Roman Empire ended up with some noticeable similarities that were their tolerance to other people’s beliefs and their regional governments. First of all, because of their expansions, they were both very multicultural, and the two empires confronted a large numbers of diversity of ethnicities, cultures, and religions. Therefore, as long as they wouldn’t rebel and paid taxes, the convenient way to maintain the empires’ peace and stability was to allow conquered people to keep living in their own lives. For example, especially Greek, in the 200s

Their empires were enlarged rapidly, and it was difficult to control by a central governor, so they were divided into provinces that were managed by some governors. For instance, with the Roman Empire, in 27 B.C, the agreement between Augustus and the Senate about governance for provinces. The senate controlled some provinces that were not threatened by any situation, and Augustus would rule the remainder (Gale, EVANS, J. A. S). On the other hand, the Persian Empire’s traditional title was “king of kings” that meant the king was still ruling the entire empire, but the Persian Empire had their own Satrapies and Satraps. At the beginning of the reign of Darius the Great, there were only 20 satrapies, and this amount was rapidly increasing at the time the empire was developing (Gale, Persian Empire). There is a proverb in our country: “A stranger nearby is better than a far-away relative,” so these methods would be effective in order to control the empires. In conclusion, the Persian Empire and the Roman Empire had many noticeable similarities, but the most two important issues that I was interested in were the attitudes to their population and the regionalization of