Darius the Great: Difference between revisions

Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing [[satraps]] to govern it. He organized a new uniform monetary system, along with making [[Official Aramaic language|Aramaic]] the official language of the empire. He also put the empire in better standing by building roads and introducing standard weights and measures. Through these changes, the empire was centralized and unified.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Worlds Together, Worlds Apart concise edition vol.1|last = Pollard|first = Elizabeth|publisher = W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.|year = 2015|isbn = 978-0-393-25093-0|location = New York|pages = 132}}</ref> Darius also worked on construction projects throughout the empire, focusing on [[Susa]], [[Pasargadae]], [[Persepolis]], [[Babylon]] and [[Persian Egypt|Egypt]]. He had the cliff-face [[Behistun Inscription]] carved to record his conquests, an important testimony of the [[Old Persian language]].

 

 

==Etymology==