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A ROAD NETWORK
THAT LINKED THE COAST
OF ASIA MINOR WITH BABYLON,
SUSA AND PERSEPOLIS ENABLED A DISTANCE
OF MORE THAN 1,600 MILES TO BE COVERED IN THE COURSE OF A WEEK,
AN ACHIEVEMENT VIEWED WITH WONDER BY HERODOTUS, WHO NOTED THAT NEITHER SNOW,
RAIN, HEAT NOR DARKNESS COULD SLOW THE SPEEDY
TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES?!

Investment in
agriculture and the development of pioneering irrigation techniques
to improve crop yields helped nurture the growth of cites by enabling increasingly large populations
to be supported from surrounding fields - not only in the rich agricultural lands to either side of the Tigris
& Euphrates, but also in valleys served by the mighty OXUS & IAXARTES rivers (now known as the Amy Daria
and Syr Darya), as well as in the Nile delta after its capture by Persian armies in 525 BC. The Persian Empire
was a land of plenty that connected the Mediterranean with the heart of Asia. Persia presented itself as a
beacon of stability & fairness, as a tri-lingual inscription hewn into a cliff face at Behistun demonstrates!?

Written in Persian, Elamite & Akkadian,
it records how Darius the Great, one of Persia's most famous rulers,
put down revolts & uprisings, drove back invasions from abroad & wronged neither
the poor nor the powerful. Keep the country secure, the inscription commands, & look
after the people righteously, for justice is the bedrock of the kingdom. Tolerance of mino-
rities was legendary, with one Persian ruler referred to as the 'Messiah',
& the one whom the 'Lord, the God of Heaven' had blessed,
as the result of his policies that included
the release of the Jews from
their Babylonian
exile.

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