. Ancient history of the East;. lshow what feebleness existed under this outward show ofstrength. 50 ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST [ 509. government was despotic, temperedperhaps m the case of the Medes, bj the iuthority of themagi, but without other check in the Persian EmW thanthe exaggerated power of the satraps, whose numbeJ Dariushad imprudently reduced to twenty. MoreoveMhe central CvYded^r ^^ responsibility of administra?LProvided the provinces paid their taxes in money or kind dependent ^^^C^f f ^- ?^^^^ *^^^ P^^^^^ ^^e^^maependence The great Asiatic courts have alway

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. Ancient history of the East;. lshow what feebleness existed under this outward show ofstrength. 50 ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EAST [ 509. government was despotic, temperedperhaps m the case of the Medes, bj the iuthority of themagi, but without other check in the Persian EmW thanthe exaggerated power of the satraps, whose numbeJ Dariushad imprudently reduced to twenty. MoreoveMhe central CvYded^r ^^ responsibility of administra?LProvided the provinces paid their taxes in money or kind dependent ^^^C^f f ^- ?^^^^ *^^^ P^^^^^ ^^e^^maependence The great Asiatic courts have always loved effeminacy and luxury. The Persians became corrupt like their predecessors, in spite of the superiority of their relk- TainItf • ^^^l ^^ ^^ ^^°^^d ^^ ^ con^tinual s ruggfeagainst evil. They erected few monuments. But the wal pH ^.•r^*/^^^^^^^^^^^^ °f Ecbatana, the seven-walled city, and modern travellers have been able to admirethe imposing ruins of Persepolis, which the Arabs cLllTchil-Mmar, or the Forty

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