The Persian Idea of Kingdom This paper is dedicated to Persian or, if to say more precisely, it is dedicated to the Persian idea of kingdom. This paper refers to the Persian customs and beliefs. The term Persian Empire is used for describing a series of historical empires that once rules over the Iranian plateau. Throughout its own-recorded history Persian Empire has been known as Iran. Before talking about Persian idea of Kingdom I want to discuss the main features of antique imperialism and in such way to exclude possible pitfalls which have bad tendency to appear throughout the paper. So according to Michael W. Doyle and other respectable scientists five distinguished features of antique empire can be outlined: a) The ability of an imperial center to extract enough tribute from the agrarian basis of society in order to be able to finance administration, army (and cult); A military and infrastructure technology, which allows the projection of central power to remote peripheries of the empire; The dominance of a master race in the imperial center, which justifies its control of subjugated foreign peoples by universal imperial ideology; The collaboration of the elites of those foreign peoples who are invited and only seldom forced to take over this imperial ideology and its symbolism; Relatively variable frontiers, which have to be stabilized from case to case by a skilful management of thebarbarians outside.
The Term Paper on Alexander The Great Persian Empire
Alexander the Great By Tina Leacock Long before the birth of Christ, the land directly above what we know as Greece today, was called Macedonia. Macedonia still exists, but it is now Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and modern Greece. Macedonia was considered to be part of ancient Greece, but the people of these two countries could not be more different. No people in history ever gave so much to the human ...
(The Persian Empire) The Persian Empire had all above-mentioned features as in each Empire the problem of kingship was probably the most important one. Just imagine those enormous territories and all the difficulties connected with the reign position. That is why proclamation of a king was the simplest way of establishing sovereignty. The ruler of the empire had to comply with many ideological traits and standards. The kingship was similar to the Aryan ethnic and cultural notions about descent ruler. But in the same time Persians stand out of all peoples on account of their special abilities.
Scientists state that Persian kingship differs from the neighbors and predecessors. It can be explained because of Persian beliefs. For Zoroastrians the righteous moral life is one of choice. People made choice and in such way predict their future life. In Zarathushtra’s, and later Zoroastrian moral theory, human beings must actively choose the Good. Persians believed that they are not destined, nor did they believe that previous lives foreordain whether person will be good or evil. For Persians the root of all human power was choice. Considering this we understand that Persian ideas of kingship excels others in power (king of kings), not the least thanks to the fact that an up to now unequalled number of lands or peoples acknowledges the rule of the Persian king. (The Persian Empire) And also the kingship itself was characterized by a special relationship between the ruler and the gods, though the king was not attributed divine descent or godlike qualities Auramazda and the other gods that are (The Persian Empire) Such divine relationships between rulers and Gods can be seen in the in other Empires throughout the history.
For example in Egypt rulers were presented as gods themselves. In Persian Empire the law of the king was divine. Darius (or Xerxes), for example, was elected by the favor of Auramazda and successfully riles the empire. Notable is that king in Persian Empire as Auramazda representative on earth was vested with a kind of royal charisma (*farnah) (The Persian Empire) Due to the Persian believes kings had an ability to tell right from wrong. He could judge, punish and reward on his own decisions. Notable that Persian kings was very flexible when things concerned adapting their behavioral to the royal ideologies of neighborhood cultures. Persian idea of kingship can characterized as Order, not chaos, peace, not tension, good conduct of the subjects and royal generosity, not disloyalty and kingly misbehavior dominate the imagery of the royal residences (The Persian Empire) Bibliography The Persian Empire. .
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History 110-2 Brian Greenwald Test 1 1. Hatshepsut Hatshepsut was born right around 15 th century BC in ancient Eygpt. She was the daughter of the Pharaoh, Tuthmose I and his wife Aahmes. Upon the death of her two brothers, Hatshepsut was in an exceptional position to gain the throne when her father passed away. However, Tuthmose II was the son of Tuthmose I, though a son not with Aahmes but with ...
