THE PERSIAN EMPIRE: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED TOLERANCE
Episode 3 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Persian Empire — the largest empire the world had yet seen, governing perhaps 44 percent of the world's population at its peak and built on a governing philosophy unlike anything that had come before it: let the conquered peoples keep their gods, their customs, and their local institutions.
This episode covers Cyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder, Darius I and the Royal Road, Xerxes and the invasion of Greece told from the Persian perspective, and the 150 years of Persian history after the Greek wars…
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