1a+-+Persians


 * The Persian Empire is located from present day Greece to India.
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 * It was the largest empires of ealry civilizations
 * Darius divided Persia into provinces, called satrapes, and were conrolled by the satraps.
 * Satraps are governors of provinces in the Persian Empire
 * Economic life
 * Darius set up a set of weights and measures as their money system
 * He changed the economic system from a barter system to a money system.
 * barter system: exchanging one set of good or services for another set of goods or sevices
 * money system: exchanged coins for a set of goods or services
 * A New Religion
 * Zoroaster started a new religion that rejected the old Persain gods.
 * This religion taught a single wise god ruled the world and the name is Ahura Mazda
 * They had a book of teachings called the "Zend-avesta" [[image:http://www.mideastweb.org/Middle-East-Encyclopedia/Ahura_Mazda.jpg width="206" height="244" align="right"]]
 * During this time period, Islam and Christianity also emerged.
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Ahura Mazda --->