In the ancient world, the Persians, like all dominant powers, enforced taxes upon conquered peoples in order to fund numerous public functions. Of these, the building or repair of public works, wages for imperial administrators, and maintenance of military forces (whether for occupational duties or new conquests) were among the most important.
in governing conquered people the persian were much more humane than the assyrians.
That was the easy way, and prevented local uprisings.
The Babylonian Empire was taken over by the Persians in 539 B.C.
The Persians conquered the Chaldeans during the Babylonian Captivity.Thousands of Jews marched to work as slaves
During the 500s B.C., a group of people called the Persians swept across southwest Asia. The Persians defeated the Chaldeans and took over Babylon. In 538 B.C. the Persian King Cyrus permitted Jews to return to Judah.
Their rulers, the Medes.
They were first conquered by the Persians
The Medes.
in governing conquered people the persian were much more humane than the assyrians.
The Parthians.
Darius the Great.
It did when the Persians conquered Babylon.
They absorbed the Medes, their previous rulers.
At first, they treated them with fairness but much more crule as the empire went on.
The Persians conquered the Babylonian Empire in 539 BCE.
The Persians conquered Phoenicia under Cyrus The Great, in 539 BCE.
Yes, the Romans had allies but they never conquered the Persians.