jan 1, 513 BC - Darius the Great

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Improve infrastructure in empire –
§ Improve roads
§ Established a pony express mail service
§ Connected Africa, Asia, Europe
§ Embraced freedom of religion,
§ Didn’t convert conquered to Zoroastrianism
§ Their religion also forbade slavery unlike Greece
§ Pax Persica (Persian Peace)

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