Investigating the reasons of Achaemenian Empire Collapse

Today’s world situation is the result of various historical incidents. During these accidents and changes, some civilizations manifest, grow and collapse. The study and analysis of the effecting factors on stability or disintegration of a civilization could be serving as an example for the existing...

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Main Authors: Aِli Asghar Pourezzat, Ghazaleh Taheri Attar
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2006-11-01
Series:Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī
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Online Access:https://qjpl.atu.ac.ir/article_2811_b6c3b093abae3f21c79c33258f44f5c3.pdf
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Summary:Today’s world situation is the result of various historical incidents. During these accidents and changes, some civilizations manifest, grow and collapse. The study and analysis of the effecting factors on stability or disintegration of a civilization could be serving as an example for the existing civilization and developing societies very much. The Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and most effective civilizations in the history of mankind, and Iran land as the cradle of this civilization, has experienced many governments and dynasties. Some of them have declined and finally collapsed for unknown reasons while they had pride, glory, and a high level of political and economical power; like Achaemenian, Sasani, Ashkabni, Safavi, and etc. Achaemenian Empire with a background of 230 years governing on the world was declined by a young, low experienced, ambitious army general. Establishing this Empire which involved different and various races, languages and cultures, was a big revolution in the world history of governance. The world for the first time enjoyed a united and centralized government. It was only Roman Empire that could compete with it years later. The main question of this study is that how an empire and civilization with this level of power, glory and domination gradually collapsed from inside. It seems that many reasons involve in the decline and collapse of a civilization, or its survival and stability. In this study it was assumed that some factors such as justice, responsibility, freedom and national identity lead to stability. On the other hand, factors like despotism, narcissism, and discrimination cause acceleration in civilizations' collapse. The study of historical evidences confirms the hypothesis that injustice is one of the most important factors which cause internal collapse, and intelligence level decline in these governments.
ISSN:2345-6116
2476-6216