History of Greece

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History of Greece
Charles Alan Fyffe
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— After Kambyses, an impostor was set up as king of Persia, pretending that he was Smerdis, the younger son of Cyrus, who had really been put to death by Kam- byses. He was discovered at the end of eight months, and killed, and Darius, a kinsman of Cyrus, was made king (b.c '521). Darius was a wise ruler. When he came to the throne a great part of the empire was in revolt, and he saw that if it was to be held together there must be a more regular government. There- fore he divided the empire in...to twenty provinces, called Sairipies^ and had all the land in the empire measured, that he might fix the tax that each satrapy was to pay yearly. He made Susa in Media the centre of government (Esther i i, 2), and laid out roads from Susa to all parts of the empire, and made arrangements all along these roads for taking people 54 SCYTHIAN EXPEDITIOS\ [chap.
engaged on the king's business quickly from one place to another. Coins called Dariks were struck, which passed current everywhere. Thus the countries from the Indus to the ^Egaean Sea were now governed on one system, and Darius knew what was going on in the most distant parts of the empire.


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