The Elamites: Formation of United Persia

  October 21, 2020   Read time 1 min
The Elamites: Formation of United Persia
Ancient Persia had been witness to several powerful dynasties that sought to establish systematic government on Iranian plateau. Elamites were one of the earliest people who rose to power in Elam.

Whereas the Iranian plateau did not experience the rise of urban, literate civilization in the late 4th and early 3rd millennia on the Mesopotamian pattern, lowland Khūzestān did. There Elamite civilization was centred. Geographically, Elam included more than Khūzestān; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate highland areas to the north and east. Elamite strength was based on an ability to hold these various areas together under a coordinated government that permitted the maximum interchange of the natural resources unique to each region. Traditionally this was done through a federated governmental structure.


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