satrapies
Meaning
of Satrapy
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Examples
Conceived as the training center of the Nationalist Party Army, it was to provide the military base from which the Nationalists would launch their campaign to unify China, which was split into dozens of military satrapies.
Keen suggests that Darius I created the kingship on reorganizing the satrapies in 525, and that on the intestate death of Kubernis in battle, the Persians chose another relative named Kheziga, who was the father of Kuprlli.
To do this, Darius created twenty provinces called satrapies (or archi) which were each assigned to a satrap (archon) and specified fixed tributes that the satrapies were required to pay.
The Achaemenids utilized no permanent satrapies; the political circumstances changed too often.
The satrapies handed out by Perdiccas at the Partition of Babylon became power bases each general used to bid for power.