Cyrus The Great Essay

The empire decided that to get their culture, or religion, around to all of the people they would only have one god. It’s a lot easier to spread the word of one god than multiple, such as ancient Egypt. To maintain the order of their empire and stop chaos, they went by something known as ‘free will’. “And when their punishment shall come to these sinners,Then, 0 Wise One, shall thy Dominion, with the Good Mind, Be granted to those who have delivered Evil into the hands of Righteousness, 0 Lord!”. Free will gives the people the right to live the way they want, and to be able to believe in or practice whatever religion best suits them. Because they were able to live this way, it made the people of Persia quite happy with their empire. Most people liked the idea of free will, which meant that they had a more positive outlook on life. This meant that they believed that there was an afterlife. They believed in good, evil, heaven, and

As American singer-song writer Duncan Sheik once said, “It’s inevitable your environment will influence what you do.” It is not a secret that the environment a person grows up in helps shape their views of the world and how he or she perceives different issues. The United State of America are known as the melting pot. We have many cultures and races all living within the same cities working together peacefully for the most part. To outsiders America is the place to come to achieve the “American Dream”, and it is the place where fresh starts, entrepreneurship, and individualism are highly encouraged. There are freedoms in American that many other people across the world are not as lucky to have.

He centralized his government at Persepolis, and standardized taxes, coin, and code of law throughout the empire. Darius is known as an administrator. It is important to note that both rulers were extremely tolerant of different ethnic groups and cultures. Darius came to power after Cambyses, Cyrus's son. Camyses ruled only a few years before he died under mysterious circumstances and we have several contradictory accounts. Furthermore, Darius was not a member of the royal family, but rather was a general in Cambyses army. Almost the entire empire revolted on Darius and he spent years fighting rebellions before stability returned. Darius crossed into Europe, the first time an eastern power had done so, and first subdued Thrace, then moved north and attacked the Scythians to the east of the Black Sea. The attack was a failure and Darius returned to Persia only to return to the region later in an attempt to absorb Greece. His invasion was again unsuccessful as his forces were crushed at the battle of Marathon. I would say both Cyrus and Darius fit the name the great because although some may have seen Darius as just an administrator they gave their lives to their job and were known to be the greatest because they did everything in their power to

Cyrus' treatment of his people and the helping of others were what caused him to gain his power. He didn't think of himself as a conqueror, but as a liberator of people. He agreed to treating people of all religions and backgrounds equally, so long as they didn't rebel. Whenever he conquered a new nation, he allowed the people there to keep their religion and customs. His way of ruling was very different compared to the Assyrians and other previous rulers.

Cyrus II of Persia, also known as Cyrus the Great, was one of the most influential and powerful rulers in the Ancient World.¹ By overthrowing the Assyrian empire, he was able to start the Persian Empire. Through his superior diplomacy skills within his empire, to his genius war tactics, he built the foundation for a line of Persian Kings to rule one of the largest empires in world history.

The most popular roman religion was called Mithraism which originated in Persia. It was the idea that the universe was involved with an eternal fight between light and darkness, Ahura-Mazda (Good) vs Ahriman (Bad). This influenced the Jews that were in Babylon and they adopted HaShatan which means Satan. The representative of Ahura-Mazda on earth was Mithra, he was “the judger of souls” and “the protector”. He’s birthday was celebrated on December 25 and in 208 BC he went into heaven after teaching for 36 years. Mithraism was restricted to men so the wives were often in the club of Great Mothers. They had rituals that involved baptizing in blood by having an animal slaughtered in a pit below.

The Education of Cyrus is Xenophon’s account of the development and ascendency of Cyrus, a young boy who soon become King of Persia, and also a depiction of Persia and her people. Aristotle’s Politics, on the other hand, is a philosophical work, aimed at dissecting the “political life” and determining how human beings should organize themselves politically. Yet, at their core, both books are respectfully critical of the political life. The following will assess two apparent paradoxes that appear to plague the political life: 1) with respect to Cyrus, the balancing of the noble and the good and 2) with respect to Aristotle, the struggle between broad political participation and a virtuous government.

If I could add an 8th person to the Seven Men book, I would add Cyrus the Great. Cyrus the Great was a capable general who was able to adeptly and decisively lead his armies on conquests with little loss on his own side. Cyrus was the founder of the persian empire and was before that the leader of the achaemenid empire. Cyrus the Great was also a good man for allowing different religions and being the ruler of existing governments. Cyrus is famous for a cylinder of writing called the cyrus cylinder that recorded his invasion of babylon and how he treated the jews that were there. These things are particularly impressive considering the time that he was living in. At that time most empires had absolute power and little to no religious freedom.

Purposely difficult and intentionally obsessive, Plato’s Phaedrus is an exceedingly difficult read that defies all conventional logic as a piece of discourse. The text is extremely subjective, open to interpretation and individual creativity as to what or whom the narrative is about. Written by Plato, a close disciple of Socrates, this text is set along the Illissus river where Phaedrus and Socrates meet for a day of speech, debate, rhetoric and okay…flirting. Phaedrus leads of the day and recites a speech by his close friend Lysias, who Phaedrus considers to be a top speechmaker. Socrates then, after chiding by Phaedrus unleashes two speeches of his own that overshadow and refute Lysias claim so boldly that Phaedrus is so taken by the

Amazing, intriguing, and unimaginable are just a few words to describe how I felt about Persepolis while I read this true life story of Marjane Satrapi. This book has helped me to see all the life struggles, good times, and adversities that Marji faced between the ages of nine to thirteen. The Islamic Revolution had such a daunting effect in the Middle East, especially in the county of Iran where Marji and her family resided.

The Cyrus Cylinder shows the main character Marduk as compassionate and having good intentions but also able to make mistakes, some human characteristics show in him in that sense. Marduk is noticeably not the most powerful of the gods either. The other star of the story shows characteristics like pride, confidence, and selfishness. On the other hand in Isaiah, 44:24-45:7, God is perfect and is all powerful, he says "There is no God but Me" (Isaiah 45:5).

Adolescence is an age where children began to find themselves or, in some cases, lose themselves, an idea clearly developed by Satrapi in her graphic novel “Persepolis”. Satrapi explores the challenges and difficulties experienced by a sheltered and naive girl during the tumultuous and uncertain years of the Iranian revolution and attempts to solve the oppression she witnesses by the Islamicist government. This is important to the whole text as it identifies the religious conservatism and Islamisation of the state causes distress and confusion in Marjane who consequently had to redefine herself, given that her freedom and personal liberties were denied them in schools, public places, and even her own home.

The ancient civilizations had very different ways of running their empires throughout their time. The Persians and Greeks held very true to this statement. They both had different sources that contributed to the power they held. The Persians had a very large empire and had a specific way of controlling it. First lets see how the Persians came to be. Cyrus, the son of the Assyrian king, was supposed to be killed as a baby. He was instead taken to a village that soon became called Persia. As Cyrus matured, the people could tell he had the characteristics of a king. He soon became just that. He didn’t want to be just a ruler though, he wanted to be different. His tactics were based on mercy, forgiveness, and compassion. Cyrus did go to war still

The prophets Ezekiel and Deutero-Isaiah believed that Yahweh had used the Babylonian Empire to punish the Israelites for their sins, and he therefore had the power to redeem them from captivity if they repented. The Babylonian exiles' messianic hope for a restored Judean kingdom under the leadership of a scion of the royal house of David seemed to have been justified when Cyrus the Great, after conquering Babylon in 539 BC, permitted a repatriation of subject populations and a restoration of local temples. The restored Judean commonwealth did not fully realize this hope, however, because the Persians did not allow the reestablishment of a Judean monarchy, but only a temple-state with the high priest as its chief administrator. A truly monotheistic religion developed as the God of Israel came to be seen as the God ruling universal history and the destiny of all nations (Rich 2).

Although Constantine previously worshipped sol invictus, the Sun God, he started to follow Christianity with devotion. He announced that his victory was from the Christian God and started to adopt policies to advance the cause of Christianity in the empire. Many people claimed that Constantine converted to Christianity simply for political reasons, and that may reasonable played a role. Some people argued that Constantine was baptized just before his death as a political move to help his son become an emperor after him but it was a custom for the