Examples of satrapies in the following topics:
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- Cyrus,
whose rule lasted between 29 and 31 years, until his death in battle in 530 BCE, controlled the vast Achaemenid Empire through the use of regional
monarchs, called satrap, who each oversaw a territory called
a satrapy.
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basic rule of governance was based upon the loyalty and obedience of the satrapy to the central power, the king,
and compliance with tax laws.
- This structure precisely tailored the taxes of each satrapy
based on its projected productivity and economic potential.
- The satrapies were linked by a 2,500-kilometer
highway, the most impressive stretch of which was the Royal Road, from Susa to
Sardis.
- Despite the relative local independence afforded by the satrapy system, royal inspectors regularly
toured the empire and reported on local conditions using this route.
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- Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire in 322 BCE when he conquered the kingdom of Magadha and the northwestern Macedonian satrapies.
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- Egypt was joined with Cyprus and Phoenicia in the sixth satrapy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, also called the Twenty-seventh Dynasty.
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- In 305 BCE, Emperor Chandragupta Maurya led a series of campaigns to retake the satrapies left behind by Alexander the Great when he returned westward.
- The Greeks offered a Macedonian princess for marriage to Chandragupta, and several territories, including the satrapies of Paropamisade (modern-day Kamboja and Gandhara), Arachosia (modern-day Kandhahar), and Gedrosia (modern-day Balochistan).
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- He founded the Parthian Empire in 247 BCE when he conquered the region of Parthia, then a satrapy (province) in rebellion against the Seleucid Empire.