The Political geography of the Achaemenid empire and the Egyptian Satrapi at the time of Darius I

Having established the Achaemenian Empire by Cyrus the Great in southwestern Iran, the Persians managed to found the most vigorous government which had been established by that time and defeated most of the civilizations of ancient western Asia. The triumph of Egypt was one of Cyrus’ aims and his son, Cambyses, succeeded in conquering Egypt. Cambyses successor, Darius the Great began to do some political, cultural, economic, and religious proceedings to supervise the satrapies, especially in Egypt. These actions cause the Egyptian texts to entitle him as a great and legitimate legislator. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Political proceedings of Darius the Great, and the fact that the Darius’ Policies evaluate in the Egypt satrapy to find the Darius duty in managing of satrapy based on the comparison of the existed old and new documents. All these arguments lead to the conclusion that Darius the Great was one of the great kings of ancient times who had got the individual ingenuity in controlling the satrapies.