WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -A governor of an ancient Persian province was called a satrap. These areas ruled by satraps were called “satrapies.” The Persian emperor Cyrus the Great first chose satraps to rule individual provinces, around 530 BCE. Each satrap controlled a specific amount of land, collecting taxes and maintaining law and order.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Diadochi ruled their satrapies until, one by one, they were conquered by the Parthians.

Detailed explanation-3: -Satraps were the local representatives of royal power in the Achaemenid Empire who managed the interface between state and subject.

Detailed explanation-4: -The administrative structure of the Persian Empire included governors of provinces, or satrapies. Such a governor was a satrap (pronounced SAY-trap). The English word comes from the Greek satrapes, which in turn was derived from the Persian xshahthrapavan.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Western Satraps or Kshatrapas (35–405 CE) of the Indian subcontinent were Saka rulers in the western and central part of the Sindh region of Pakistan, and the Saurashtra and Malwa regions of western India.