greece and iran
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World History [1]
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Ancient history [2]
Ancient greece [5]
Classical Greece [6]
Histories [8]
Ionia [9]
Peloponnesian War [10]
Darius I [11]
Achaemenid Empire [12]
Trireme [13]
Greece and Iran 1000 ? 30 B.C.E. ?Ancient Iran 1000 - 500 B.C.E ? Also known as the Persian Empire. ? Little written materials are left. A. Geography and Resources ? Northwest Iran was more open to attacks by the nomads of Central Asia. ? Irrigation in the first millennium B.C.E. enabled people to move to open plains so they could plant. ? Under ground irrigation channels. ? Human survival depended on a delicate ecological balance. B. The Rise of the Persian Empire ? ?Iranians? spread out across western and central Asia. ? Medes was the first group to achieve a complex level of political organization. ? Medes settled in the northwest and came under the influence of the ancient centers in Mesopotamia and Urartu.