Periodic Reporting for period 4 - Persia and Babylonia (Persia and Babylonia: Creating a New Context for Understanding the Emergence of the First World Empire)

The Persian Empire (539-330 BCE) was the first state of its size in history. At its height, it stretched from present-day India to Libya. Although it would take 2,000 years before significantly larger empires emerged in early modern Eurasia, imperial rule was to be a lasting...