THE COURT OF DARIUS

ENTRANCE GATE

• The huge palace had two entrances gates
• Representatives of concord people waited to bring gifts to the emperor
• Gifts included many animals like bulls and horses were giving along with precious gems
• gold, cloth, ivory, grain, and silver

TREASURE ROOM

• The treasure room was stuffed with huge amounts of silver, gold, lápiz
• lazuli, carnelian, and turquoise.
• With the beautiful and rare gems they made fancy jewelry for the king or queen
• and with some of the gold and silver they made plates, silver ware, and cups.

LADIES' COURT

• The ladies' court was were upper class woman
• These upper class woman usually had many servants and weren't expected to do work
• These woman also stayed inside the ladies' court unless commanded to appear before the emperor

AUDIENCE HALL

• Darius met with workers of the empire and received ambassadors from many other countries in this particular hall
• The hall contained 36 columns inside the hall as well as outside the all
• The walls also showed brightly colored tiles inside with pictures of lion headed humans or royal guards on them

DARIUS

• Darius was a strong leader and concord more than 2,800 miles of land
• From Los Angeles to New York is about 2,500 miles so imagine how big his empire grew to be
• Darius was the first to make use of the royal rode, but for government purposes
• Darius also step up governors called satraps to collect taxes as well as follow any orders he had for them