Question

How did Darius govern over the vast Persian Empire?                                                            A.  He divided the empire into provinces and appointed leader for each province.              B. He banned local customs and imposed Persian ways on all people.                                  C. He created a uniform set of laws that applied to each of his territories.                            D. He traveled from province to province to oversee government personally.

Answer 1

Darius organized the empire by dividing it

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) He divided the empire into provinces and appointed a leader for each province.

Darius governed over the vast Persian Empire in the following way: He divided the empire into provinces and appointed a leader for each province.

Darius I (550-486 BCE) led a strong army and started to conquer many territories to take its empire to a prominence place of power and influence. He conquered places in Europe, Greece, and the Indus Valley. He maintained a prospering economy in the empire and built many infrastructure and buildings in its territories.