The+Fall+From+Greatness+-+by+Anton+Oehmsen+Clark

** T he great Persian empire  ** By:Anton Oehmsen-Clark The first picture is the representation of immortals (Persia's fighting elite) The second is a picture of the Persians fighting the Spartans at Thermopolye and the last is the representation of the vast numbers of the Persian empires military might. Look past pictures for info.

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 **Research pages ** Climate of the Persian Empire Events and leaders of the Persian Empire Weapons and transportation of the Persian Empire Agriculture and economy of the Persian Empire Art literature and music of the Persian Empire Energy sources of the Persian Empire

Essay

What we can learn from the fall of an empire

Here are the sources that i used for almost all of my project though there are many more the first is a series of videos on ancient Persia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aukC8GBEsU the video is very interesting and i highly recommend you watch it(by the history channel).
 * Note to editor**-

The second is Oxfords First Ancient History by: Roy Burrell and illustrations by: Peter Connolly (references used starting on pg. 146)


 * Here is the rest of the information I used** (The one's I used the most for this project are above)


 * 1) 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis
 * 2) 2 http://raf.heavengames.com/history/civilization/persian/page3
 * 3) 3 http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/marathon.htm
 * 4) 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambyses
 * 5) 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerxes_I_of_Persia
 * 6) 6 http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/climate_systems/mediterranean.html
 * 7) 7 http://www.meteorologyclimate.com/Arid-climate.htm
 * 8) 8 http://blacksea.orlyonok.ru/blacksea.shtml
 * 9) 9 http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ancientpersia/timeline.html
 * 10) 10 http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/persianempir1/a/persiaintro_3.htm
 * 11) 11 http://www.crystalinks.com/persia.html
 * 12) 12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Empire


 * The reason i did not visit the site all that much is because i tranfered my info on word documents**

Yours truly : A nton Oehmsen-Clark