A Marxist History of the World Part 11: Western Asia: the Persian Empire

http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/articles/a-marxist-history-of-the-world/6421-a-marxist-history-of-the-world-11-western-asia-the-persian-empire
Date Written:  2010-08-31
Publisher:  Counterfire
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX14316

Neil Faulkner looks at the centuries following 1000 BCE when the scale of civilisation and empire exploded as the productivity of iron tools boosted the surpluses available to Iron Age empire-builders.

Subject Headings

• Ancient Cultures & Civilizations
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Societies
• Persia