Political Structure Of Persepolis

Significance- The biggest city to exist at the time wit the most complex governing, city structure, and buildings of the era, a massive monument to Darius ' empire.

Darius the great beginning construction in 518 BCE established Persepolis, the capital of ancient Persia. The reasons to its establishment is still consider a mystery but what we do know is that it was very important during

The similarities and differences between the design, construction and environmental performance of a typical Mesopotamian ‘courtyard’ and a Roman ‘peristyle’ house

According to Document 7 which shows the Persian Empire, the capital city, and the Royal Road you can see how the Persian Empire was surrounded by many bodies of water and nice land. The Persians took advantage of the bodies of water and land which eventually led to cultural diffusion. The map that

In 1950, V Gordon Childe drew up a list of traits of to what he considered to be the common characteristics of early civilizations. According to Fagan & Scarre, a recent archaeologist Charles Redman divided Childe’s list into primary and secondary characteristics. The primary characteristics included cities and states, together with full-time specialization of labor, concentration of surplus, and a class-structured society. For the secondary, the characteristics included symptoms or by-products of these major economic and organizational changes: monumental public works, long-distance trade, standardized monumental artworks, writing, and the sciences (arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy)(Scarre and Fagan 2003). One of the most common characteristics involve was a large, dense population living in a city. This essay well state and describe two early cities in Mesopotamia and explore the layouts and characteristics of these two cities. Also, whether each city is unique or share common characteristics with each other. The two cities are Maskan-shapir and Ur.

The Acropolis (Athens, Greek) is a city on the hills with four magnificent buildings around. The city built 495-425 BC near the Athens, city of Athens. The meaning of the Acropolis is come from an Acro means highest point and the polis means city. Persians in 490 BCE and again in 480-479BCE destroyed the city in the early Classical period and Athens becomes the dominant political power in that time and a great see and trading power. The Acropolis is a proof of human and Greek ancient who they were created, these huge architectural buildings with a lot of work and creativity this city is a great example of architectural ancient Greek history.

Xerxes had retired to Susa and Persepolis. He began to deplete the large amount of resources he had gathered by taxation by launching a large construction program. Darius architects had begun a giant Terrace of Apadana, a palace, and a treasury, in the capitol city of Persepolis. When Xerxes became king, he laid the enameled brick facing on the exterior of the Terrace of Apadana, and he finished the palace his father had begun. He built other monuments, including his old palace which was built southeast of his fathers, and similar to it in design, and a building called the Harem by archaeologists. This building is mysterious because it is a line of small identical rooms, speculated to have been used as Xerxes treasury. He also helped construct the Hall of a Hundred Columns, or Throne Room, but was only able to finish paving the base of the walls. All of these construction projects and buildings began the evolution towards a more large and pretentious style than that of

Some of these workers may have been prisoners of war brought to the center of the empire to work on construction projects, maintain and expand the irrigation network, and farm the royal estates. on certain occasions the kings returned to one special place back in the homeland. Darius began construction of a ceremonial capital at Persepolis (An artificial platform was erected, and on it were built a series of palaces, audience halls, treasury buildings, and barracks.

Pericles was an important man for Athenians. Indeed, he was so influential to Athens that Thucydides claimed him as “the first citizen of Athens”. He, Pericles, led countrymen for the first two years of the war and made the “Delian League into an Athenian empire”. Pericles’ thoughts regarding the war were more obvious after his death than while he was still alive. He had said that Athens in one-way or another forgot to take care the most important things. For example, he said, “Athens will be victorious if she bided [Athens] and took care of her navy” meaning that during the course of the war Athens as a city itself forgot how to take care of the things that made Athens an influential and precious city. In addition, Thucydides claimed that Pericles’ successors were a big factor of the position of Athens while approaching the war. His successors instead of helping Athenians confront the war as an important case of matter, did the opposite. Instead, they took care of “private business”, which were only beneficial for their private ambition. However, such bad decisions and

Was Athens A Democracy? In “Document A: Pericles”, Pericles says “Our constitution favors the many instead of the few.” However, only 12% of the population could vote. Is that the majority? A democracy is a system of government where one can vote on decisions made for the community and environment.

Persepolis, built in 550 BC by Achaemenid King Darius ‘the great’, was known in its day as the richest city under the sun. The capital of the largest empire the world had ever seen, it was built on an immense half-artificial, half-natural terrace, where the King created an impressive palace complex. The importance and quality of the monumental ruins make it a unique archaeological site.

Athens reached its peak with Pericles (460 BC - 429 BC). Pericles belonged to the aristocratic family of the Alcmeonides, he was the son of the commander of the Athenian fleet of the battle of Micale. Pericles was a politician with the Democratic party, he ruled Athens with the support of the people and made it a rich and powerful city. It was Pericles, through his reforms and his idea of using the Delian League treasure to finance his administration, to turn the League into an Athenian dominion or empire. "He increased Athens’ power through his use of the Delian League to form the Athenian empire and led his city through the First Peloponnesian War (460-446 BCE) and the first two years of the Second Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE).

The Similarities and Differences Between the Design, Construction and Environmental Performance of a Typical Mesopotamian ‘Courtyard’ House and a Roman ‘Peristyle’ House.

oligarchy, and democracy. I will discuss what type of governments each refers to and finally

Greece was organized into many different city-states. All city-states differed from each other in some ways but all shared some characteristics too. “City-state is an independent or nearly independent state in which political and cultural activities are concentrated in a single urban center” (Legon). They were the main city with an area of land around them. Every city-state had their own coins, government, and laws. The most common governments in the city-states consisted of monarchies, oligarchies, dictatorships, and sometimes democracies. Greek city-states all were very similar but had differences.