CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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In the 500s b.c., Persia ____
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organized an army made up of slaves.
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built an empire about the size of the continental United States.
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organized city-states throughout its land.
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seized power from the Greeks and ruled the Mediterranean area.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Achaemenid Persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -500-400 BCE, Darius the Great and his son, Xerxe I, ruled the Persian Plateau and all of the territories formerly held by the Assyrian Empire, including Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Cyprus. It eventually came to control Egypt, as well.
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