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A '''List of Revenues''' of the [[Darius I of Persia|Darius I]], Great King of [[Achaemenid Empire|Persia]], is reported by Greek Historian [[Herodotus]] c 480 BC.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kleber |first1=Kristin |title=Oxford Handbook Topics in Classical Studies |chapter=Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire |chapter-url=https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935390-e-34 |website=oxfordhandbooks.com |year=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.34 |isbn=978-0-19-993539-0 |accessdate=8 February 2020}}</ref>  This serves to show the greatness of Darius and the Persian empire, show who was paying tribute to the empire and how much they were capable of paying.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spengler |first1=Joseph |title=Herodotus on the Subject Matter of Economics |journal=The Scientific Monthly |date=1955 |volume=81 |issue=6 |pages=276–285|bibcode=1955SciMo..81..276S }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Pierre Briant|title=From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxQ9W6F1oSYC&pg=PA67|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Eisenbrauns|isbn=978-1-57506-120-7|page=67}}</ref>
A [[talent (weight)|talent]] of silver was a considerable sum of money, but making exact conversions to modern currency is problematical at best.  Further compounding the problem are differences in how weights were measured.
==Annual tribute (in [[silver]] [[talent (weight)|talents]])==
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|'''[[Satrapy]]'''  ||'''Babylonian Weight'''  ||'''Attic Weight''' ||
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|Ionia (Yauna)  ||400  ||520 ||
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|Lydia (Sparda)  ||500 ||650 ||
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|Phrygia-Cappadocia (Katpatuka) ||360 ||468 ||
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|Cilicia (Kilikes) ||360||468 ||
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|An Additional 140 [[Babylonia]]n talents = 182 Attic talents was paid to the [[garrison]] of the [[Gülek Pass]](Cilician Gates)
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|[[Syria]] (Abar-Nahara)||350 ||455 ||
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|[[Egypt]] (Mudraya) ||700 ||910||
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|The Persian garrison in the White Tower at [[Memphis, Egypt|Memphis]]
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|was provided with provisions, including 120,000 medimnoi,
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|which were the annual [[grain]] rations for 20,000 men.
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|In [[Athens|Athenian]] money of 450 B.C. this represented a [[market value]]
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|of 600,000 [[Ancient drachma|drachmae]] or 100 Attic talents (= 70 Babylonian talents).
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|Sattagydia-Gandhara  ||170  || 222||
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|Susiana (Uvja) || 300 ||390||
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|Babylonia & Assyria ||1,000  || 1,300 ||
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|[[Medes|Media]] (Mada)  ||450 ||585 ||
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|Caspia  ||200 || 260 ||
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|[[Bactria]]  ||360  ||468||
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|[[Armenia]]  ||400 || 520 ||
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|Sagartia-Drangiana  || 250 ||325||
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|Sacae  ||600  ||780  ||
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|Parthia (Parthava) ||300 || 390 ||
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|Paricania  ||400 ||520 ||
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|Alordia  ||200 || 260||
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|Tibarene ||300 ||390 ||
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|[[India]] (Hindush)  ||4,680||6,084 ||
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|Paid in [[gold|gold dust]] of 360 Babylonian talents (= 468 Attic talents).|-
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|At a [[gold]] - [[silver]] ratio of 1-13 this yields an equivalent
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|in silver of 4,680 Babylonian talents.
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|Total  ||12,280 ||15,964||
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==References==
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==Sources==
* Herodotus III. 90-96 and cf. A. R. Burn, Persia & the Greeks (New York, 1962), pp.&nbsp;123–126.
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