After reviewing knowledge of Iron Age Iran, the authors look in detail at the highly developed social institutions of the Achaemenid Empire, most notably at state administration, agrarian relations, monetary systems, slavery and trade. A wide-ranging discussion of that culture covers such topics as the religion of the Ancient Iranians, ethnic and cultural contacts with the Achaemenid Empire, and superstitious and scientific practices in the ancient Near East during the sixth to the fourth centuries B.C.
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After reviewing knowledge of Iron Age Iran, the authors look in detail at the highly developed social institutions of the Achaemenid Empire, most notably at state administration, agrarian relations, monetary systems, slavery and trade.
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This is a very useful book for those with an intermediate level of knowledge and understanding of Ancient Persia. It is an excellent companion to their other book on the Political History on the same topic. Although it is well referenced, it is a smooth read.
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This book is an extremely helpful collection of information regarding what we know of Achaemenid Persian institutions, their development across the dynasty's period, and how the empire was organized under the Achaemenids. Utilizes a variety of documents, Persian and Greek (with due caution), et al., in order to reconstruct the efficiency of an empire that has often been overlooked or under-appreciated in the West due to the unconscious assumption of Greek biases from Greek sources such as Herodotus.
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Questions of the time and routes of the movement of the Medes and Persians into Iran and of their gradual settlement there have already been discussed in the scholarly literature for more than a hundred years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Asia Minor, Old Persian, Iron Age, Alexander the Great, Cyrus the Younger, Behistun Inscription, Near East, Central Asia, New York, Curtius Rufus, New Haven, Vanden Berghe, Lake Urmia, Naqsh-i Rustam, Nush-i Jan Tepe, British Museum, State Hermitage Museum, Younger Avesta, Black Sea, Book of Ezra, Old Iranian, West Asia, Metropolitan Museum, Surkh Dum, Persepolis Fortification Browse Sample Pages:
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Questions of the time and routes of the movement of the Medes and Persians into Iran and of their gradual settlement there have already been discussed in the scholarly literature for more than a hundred years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
throne hall, central temple, burned building, archaeological revolution, private legal documents, royal economy, fortification tablets, corvée obligations, one shekel, military colonists, royal pantheon, monetary taxes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Old Persian, Iron Age, Alexander the Great, Cyrus the Younger, Behistun Inscription, Near East, Central Asia, New York, Curtius Rufus, New Haven, Vanden Berghe, Lake Urmia, Naqsh-i Rustam, Nush-i Jan Tepe, British Museum, State Hermitage Museum, Younger Avesta, Black Sea, Book of Ezra, Old Iranian, West Asia, Metropolitan Museum, Surkh Dum, Persepolis Fortification Browse Sample Pages:
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