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How Did The Persian Empire Change Society

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The low arrow improved Stone Age humans ability to hunt ability to hunt but did not change the basics of their daily lives. Another technological development however, did fundamentally change society. A central development that created society as we known it today occurred when human beings learned that they could exercise control over the land ( through cultivation by hoe) and animals through domestication for carrying, riding, pulling, and the systematic practice of egg gathering and milking). This development moved human beings from the Stone Age of what we call the age of agriculture, a period beginning about 11,000 years ago and characterized at first by the storing of could crops and then by the cultivation of land, domestication of animals, …show more content…

The Persian empire arose in lower Mesopotamia, an in the fourth century B.C. The Macedonia conquered the various city-states that made up the world of Greece. The Macedonians had no polls and were ruled loosely by a king. A council of aristocracy served as a cheek on the Kings, Kung Phillip II, had conquered Athens and other Greek city-states. Phillip was assassinated in 336 B.C., and his rule was assumed by his son Alexander the Great who was not yet twenty years old.
The Persian empire, not the development of the Persian civilization. “ The reason is that Persian legacy was not cultural; its legacy was primarily the creation of an empire. Alexander’s empire did not end the cultures and civilizations that make up the Persian empire and although conquered militarily, Greek culture. Even the Persian empire did not last long. After alexander’s sudden death in 323 B.C. The empire quickly collapsed. It is the Greek, not the Persian, cultural legacy that most strongly influenced modern …show more content…

The code set up an “eye for an eye” system of retribution, combined with humanitarian rules such as prohibition against defrauding the helpless. This group was the Semites even though the Semites won their war, they did not win the cultural competition, and their culture was soon absorbed into the Sumerian culture. The Semites were absorbed into the Mesopotamian culture, another similar to the Mesopotamian was flourishing in Egypt, like Mesopotamian society Egyptian society was ruled by a king-God. Because of the geography of the area, Egypt was free of hostile invasions the sea and dessert made it difficult for attackers to menace Egypt. This freedom from invasion combined with the warm predictable climate and the fertile farmland of the Nile led to an extremely productive society that generated significant agricultural surpluses. Egypt were laid to an uneasy rest are evidence both of the power of the King-gods and of the surpluses generated by that

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