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Episode 26 - Oxus chariot model
Centred in modern Iran, the vast Persian Empire ran from Turkey and Egypt in the west to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. To control an empire like this required land transport on a quite ...
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Work without End: Informal Taxation and Forced Labor within Persian Southern Levantine Temple Economy and Society
Temples in the Southern Levant during the Persian Empire (c. 539–331 BCE ... These analyses will highlight flaws in modern socio-economic assumptions that have hampered scholarly judgments of ...
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Episode Transcript – Episode 26 - Oxus Chariot Model
Centred in modern Iran, the vast Persian Empire ran from Turkey and Egypt in the west to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east. To control an empire like this required land transport on a quite ...