The Persian Empire | Top 5 Facts

highway guards King assassinations and cat soldiers his five things you don't know about the Persian Empire fact one they use cats to win battles legend has it a Junior's conquest of Egypt Persian King canvases a second employed a clever battle technique knowing cats were a sacred animal to the Egyptians he had his soldier carry felines onto the battlefield the Egyptians didn't dare attack the animals and the victory fell to the Persians back to the King was often assassinated successions to the Persian throne was usually murder rather inheritance after Xerxes athirst was murdered zeus his second rule for 45 days before being killed by his half-brother who is then of a friend by his half-brother Derek's a second artaxerxes the third took the throne but killing his brothers family or was then killed wise counselor who's in turn murdered by Derek's a third hooroo for some time before meeting his death at hands his cousin's angry fact 3 they at highway guards the royal road for Kings Highway stretched for 2609 kilometers that's 1607 7 miles from the capital of Susa to Sardis in western Turkey this complex system of roads was incredibly advanced with patrols against bandits stop s ations with fresh horses and underground cisterns of water no little chefs though fact 4 they had an advanced system of rope the king had the title King of Kings and to help him rule his kingdom it was divided into 20 provinces each province was ruled by a governor called a satyr and the king also said the Kings ears specialist PI's to modulus a traps and to make sure they're doing their jobs and not becoming too powerful although as we saw in number two that didn't always work fact 5 citizens enjoy religious freedom although there's a central persian religion called Zoroastrianism that's right isn't it ok so many Persian kings an open policy we're ever allowed to worship whatever God they followed this meant juice will allowed to return to Israel after Persians defeated the Babylonians who had helped many Jews captive thanks for watching remember to Like and subscribe for more videos