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Similarities Between Persian Empire And Modern America

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The similarities of how modern America and the Emiries have in common with rights. Starting with the Persian empire and how it involved its laws and its ways of how we think in a community as citizens with freedom and how it impacted in modern America. The Persian Empire was located on the Iranian Plateau. Their location was very highly elevated, with no rivers, very arid extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters. Because of this they had grass lands of lots of sheep, goats and cattle. Persians were nomadic pastoralists/ rather than the horticulturalists. Persians are just like Americans. Persia is the first to ever protect human rights as like America was founded on the belief to protect human rights. Protecting human rights is important for the reason that it keeps people happy, there are less rebellions, more people will want to live and help protect it, and people are more likely to keep laws. Persia had lived in the words of “It was never about being Persian, it was about being good.” While America, “Commitment to justice, fairness, and openness philosophy of the United States. Where there is no tyranny of kings, where everyone is equal.” Persia invented human rights. They wanted to have that happiness and freedom within everyone no matter whether you were a …show more content…

There were Babylons also and they were inventors. A family of languages from Mesopotamia includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Akkadian. Babylon invented banks and they were temples. They were restricted, no one would rob it and it was protected by the gods. People could go to the bank to get a loan that they would have to pay back with the interest percentage and that was common interest. Babylon also invented wages and created the code of Hammurabi, 10 shekels also established the rent amount paid to use property for a set

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