Darius I

Biography

Darius the Great consolidated the Achaemenid realm, the Behistun inscription, trilingual cliff autobiography, our Rosetta for cuneiform. Twenty satrapies, the royal road, Sardis to Susa, aristoratic postal couriers, Neither snow nor rain, the famous line. Persepolis built, canal at Suez. Marathon 490 checked him, the Greek wars his successors lost. The imperial admin template, coinage daric, lasted two centuries.