THE PERSIAN EMPIRE: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED TOLERANCE

Episode 3 | Human History — Civilizations & EmpiresIn this History episode we focus on the Persian Empire — the largest empire the world had yet seen, governing perhaps 44 percent of the world's population at its peak and built on a governing philosophy unlike anything that had come before it: let the conquered peoples keep their gods, their customs, and their local institutions.This episode covers Cyrus the Great and the Cyrus Cylinder, Darius I and the Royal Road, Xerxes and the invasion of Greece told from the Persian perspective, and the 150 years of Persian history after the Greek wars that Western education ignores — including the legacy that permeated everything from the Hellenistic world to Islamic civilization to the modern Iranian national identity.The story the history books underrate.#HistoryMystery #PersianEmpire #CyrusTheGreat #AncientHistory #HistoryPodcast