First Empire In History

If Persia did not conquer Ionian cities,there would be no revolts and everything would be fine.

Whats a bit puzzling is the fact that the Ionian Greeks gave Alexander more resistance than any other peoples he conquered. They actually saw him as more of a threat than the Persians were.

Originally posted by konstantinius Originally posted by Khashayarshah Originally posted by konstantinius Absolutely not. The Sumer/Akkad Empire and then the first Assyrian Empire were definetely before the Achaemenids. Then, we have the Hittite Empire and that of NK Egypt that extended up to the Lebanese coast. The first WORLD EMPIRE my friend. What is that supposed to mean? Did the Persian Empire extend to China or Africa? What is a "world empire", what are its limits and how did it differ from its previous empires?

The Achaemenian empire had most of the known world. That's why it is called, was called, and always will be called the first world empire.  They conquered most of the powerful empires to get theirs. They conquered the egyptians, babylonians, assyrians, medes, almost everybody that was powerful.

It really depends on how one defines "first world empire".  Some people consider how "big" an "empire" is before they would give that empire the title, such as having a continent-wide influence, or like someone described the Persian Empire, as having influence on more than one continent.

The other way to define "first world empire" is simply to identify the "first empire" in "world history".  That is usually given to the Akkadian Empire, given that we do have contemporary documentation to show administrative control outside its core territory (i.e. king over provincial governors and vassal kings) beyond the hegemonic level, which characterised the earlier period (i.e. most powerful king having seniority in treaty relations with less powerful kings).

The thread title is simply asking for the "first empire in history" and that should go to the Akkadian Empire. 

siriusly!!! 

Atlantis. The first civilization dwelled by Atlanteans/Indo-Europeans in the dried Western Mediteranean Sea and Black Sea. 

Persian Empire was first true empire they had 7/8 their known world.

Persian emire was the first empire that had territories in three continents and had very high level governing system, religion tolerance, sophisticated post systems and even mighty and stable army, beside their vast empire and amout of races and tribes they had is their empire. they divided their vast treitory in smaller area as satrap(state) and each satrap has its own governer and milittary even their own kind of money that they use in their satrap. they had first federal state in history. their systems of governing and treating we their citizens specially in time of the first emperores of this empire are without doubt one of the best in all ages. You can compare any other kingdoms with them. Roman empire actually adapt a lot of persian achievment in military and governing,... systems and hellenic science and culture and developed them.


Edited by kajdom - 06-Feb-2007 at 00:08

The Akkadian Empire was the first empire in history.

The Egyptian Empire (c. 1550-1200 BC) was the first transcontinental empire.