Of cour the population of this great Persian empire was not a population of Persians, The Persians were only the small quering minority of this enormous realm.
The rest of the population was what it had been before the Persians came from time immemorial, only that Persian was the administrative language.
Trade and finanbsp;were still largely Semitibsp;Tyre and Sidon as of old were the great Mediterranean ports and Semitibsp;shipping plied upon the as.
But many of the Semitibsp;merts and business people as they went from plabsp;to plabsp;already found a sympathetibsp;and ve on history in the Hebrew tradition and the Hebrew scriptures.
A new element whibsp;was increasing rapidly in this empire was the Greek element.
The Greeks were being rious rivals to the Semites upon the a, and their detached and vigorous intelligenbsp;made them uful and, unprejudibsp;officials.
It was on at of the Scythians that Darius I invaded Europe.
He wanted to reabsp;South Russia, the homeland of the Scythian hormen.
Of cour the population of this great Persian empire was not a population of Persians, The Persians were only the small quering minority of this enormous realm.
The rest of the population was what it had been before the Persians came from time immemorial, only that Persian was the administrative language.
Trade and finanbsp;were still largely Semitibsp;Tyre and Sidon as of old were the great Mediterranean ports and Semitibsp;shipping plied upon the as.
But many of the Semitibsp;merts and business people as they went from plabsp;to plabsp;already found a sympathetibsp;and ve on history in the Hebrew tradition and the Hebrew scriptures.
A new element whibsp;was increasing rapidly in this empire was the Greek element.
The Greeks were being rious rivals to the Semites upon the a, and their detached and vigorous intelligenbsp;made them uful and, unprejudibsp;officials.
It was on at of the Scythians that Darius I invaded Europe.
He wanted to reabsp;South Russia, the homeland of the Scythian hormen.
He crosd the Bosphorus with a great army and marched through Bulgaria to the Danube, crosd this by a bridge of boats and pushed far northward.