1. Persian Empire The FRAME Key Topic is about . . . Main Idea Details
What was significant about how the Persians treated those they conquered?
Main Idea
Details
Persian Empire

2. Persian Empire The FRAME
Key Topic
is about . . .
What was significant about how the Persians treated those they conquered?
Main Idea
Details
Persian Empire
Where was Persia located, how they governed their empire, and what beliefs they held
Geography

3. Geography of Persia
Built on Central Asian and Mesopotamian Civilizations

4. Geography of Persia
Developed the largest empire in the world

5. Map of Persian Empire:

6. Map of Persian Empire:
Persian Empire
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Nile River

7. Persian Empire The FRAME
Key Topic
is about . . .
What was significant about how the Persians treated those they conquered?
Main Idea
Details
Built on Central Asian and Mesopotamian Civilizations
Developed the largest empire in the world
Persian Empire
Where was Persia located, how they governed their empire, and what beliefs they held
How did Persia Govern?
Geography

8. How did Persia govern its empire?
Developed an imperial bureaucracy

9. How did Persia govern its empire?
Constructed a road system (Royal Road)
Practiced tolerance towards conquered people

10. Persian Empire Map of Persian Empire: Royal Road Mesopotamia Egypt
Nile River

11. Persian Empire The FRAME
Key Topic
is about . . .
What was significant about how the Persians treated those they conquered?
Main Idea
Details
Built on Central Asian and Mesopotamian Civilizations
Developed the largest empire in the world
Developed an imperial bureaucracy
Constructed a road system (Royal Road)
Practiced tolerance towards conquered people
Persian Empire
Where was Persia located, how they governed their empire, and what beliefs they held
How did Persia Govern?
Geography
Zoroastrianism

12. Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism= Religion of Persia
Named after founder Zoroaster
Believed in two opposing forces in the universe: one good, one bad

13. Persian Empire The FRAME Named after founder Zoroaster
Key Topic
is about . . .
What was significant about how the Persians treated those they conquered?
Main Idea
Details
Built on Central Asian and Mesopotamian Civilizations
Developed the largest empire in the world
Developed an imperial bureaucracy
Constructed a road system (Royal Road)
Practiced tolerance towards conquered people
Zoroastrianism= Religion of Persia
Named after founder Zoroaster
Believes in two opposing forces in the universe
Persian Empire
Where was Persia located, how they governed their empire, and what beliefs they held
How did Persia Govern?
Geography
Zoroastrianism

14. Persian Religion= Zoroastrianism
Judgment Day
Individuals would be held accountable for their actions
Those who were good would enter paradise
Those who were bad would be condemned to suffer
Zoroastrianism also promoted the concepts of:
Angels and demons, saviors or messiahs, baptism, and bodily resurrection
Scholars believe Zoroastrianism had a strong influence on Islam, Judaism, and Christianity

15. Similarities between mithra and jesus
Believed to be born on Dec. 25th
Traveled and taught with 12 companions
Born of a virgin
Resurrected from the dead

16. Zoroastrianism today
Religion largely vanished from Persia with the Muslim conquests of the 7th Century C.E.
Today there are slightly less than 100,000 practitioners
Most followers live in modern-day India
These individuals are known as Parsees (Persian) and the religion is referred to as Parsiism