Quiz: Darius I

When did Darius I reign?

• 522 to 486 BC.
• 336 to 323 BC.
• 668 to about 627 BC.
• About 1279 to 1213 BC, 66 years.

What realm did Darius I rule?

• The Achaemenid Persian Empire at its full extent.
• New Kingdom Egypt.
• New Kingdom Egypt, at its greatest territorial extent.
• Babylon, raised to rule over Sumer and Akkad.

What is Darius I known for?

• The satrapy system, the Royal Road, and the Behistun inscription.
• The flux doctrine, summed up in later reports as no man steps in the same river twice, and the unity of opposites.
• The measure doctrine: man is the measure of all things. Plato made him the target of the dialogue Theaetetus.
• The poem On Nature, which reasons that what is cannot come from what is not, so change and plurality are illusion.

True or false: King of Persia from 522 to 486 BC, who organized the empire Cyrus founded into a working state.

• True
• False