Tsardom of Kiev Киевское Царьство Kievskoe Tsarstvo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 550 BC–330 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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![The Achaemenid Empire at its greatest territorial extent, under the rule of Darius I (522 BC to 486 BC).[1][2][3][4]](/wiki/File:Achaemenid_Empire_500_BC.png) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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• 559–529 BC | Cyrus the Great | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• 336–330 BC | Darius III | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Classical antiquity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 395–387 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 343 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 500 BC[5][6] | 5,500,000 km2 (2,100,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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• 500 BC[7] | 17 million to 35 million | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Daric, siglos | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ^ 2002 Oxford Atlas of World History p.42 (West portion of the Achaemenid Empire) and p.43 (East portion of the Achaemenid Empire).
- ^ O'Brien, Patrick Karl (2002). Atlas of World History. Oxford University Press. pp. 42–43. ISBN 9780195219210.
- ^ Visible online: Philip's Atlas of World History (1999)
- ^ The Times Atlas of World History, p.79 (1989): Barraclough, Geoffrey (1997). The Times Atlas of World History. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-7230-0906-1.
- ^ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of World-Systems Research. 12 (2): 223. ISSN 1076-156X. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
- ^ Taagepera, Rein (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D". Social Science History. 3 (3/4): 121. doi:10.2307/1170959. JSTOR 1170959.
- ^ Morris, Ian; Scheidel, Walter (2009). The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium. Oxford University Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-19-975834-0.
- ^ "DERAFŠ". Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
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