organization of persian empire?

Question

why was the persian king able to govern such a vast empire so successfully?? & how did he organize such an empire?

Answer 1

One way they did it was to setup their Empire into 20 satropies or provinces. The governors were all Persian, but the local people still govern themselves on the local level. They also had a repsect for the other cultures they conquered and were tolerant of their customs. They did not try to take anything from those cultures, other than taxes. The Persians had setup a very affective bureaucracy and a very good infrastructure. They had very good roads for communications.

Answer 2

Empires such as they were in ancient times were governed mostly on the local level by kings of each large city.
When the Persian empire expanded the King used his vast education to decide to put his friends and yes even his enemies in charge of the cities Persia conquered.
He would put his enemies far away in area's where expansion was not planned for a while. While keeping those completely loyal to him on the expansion trail. The city governments were all pretty much crude oppressive and harsh, but because they were less so than the power that was removed, the citizens were happy for the improvement. Happy people are easy to govern. The king of Persia had all of his ducks in a row so to speak.

Answer 3

if you r referring to the ****** up 300 movie, i have to tell you it's pulp fiction: there's no possible way to make a one million man army at that time in history. And on the contrary, Khashayarshah was DEFENDING persia when the spartans attacked with at least 10 times more troops. And they LOST! and that's when khashayarshah counterattacked and took a lot of what we now know as turkey and caucasia.

and the reason the persian empire fell was because the kings just couldn't realise that the more you expand, the more you have to take care of. so they just took village after village, not thinking that this could cause an anarchy, or an easy attack from a rival faction. so that's why they fell. and now we have iran: a third-world country full of baboons and shitheads.

Yes, I'm Iranian.

Answer 4

The secret of his success was that he ruled on the basis of human rights. Cyrus was the first one who had the charter of freedom of thought.The people understood the point and so they were pleased with him.This was the time when those Europeans and Americans (who are so-called civilised) were primitive. This is a plain truth that noone can deny. It doesn't matter how many movies they produce against Iranians cuz they never can neglect the evidences present during the whole history.
Never forget that!