The Quiz: Which of these did the Persian Empire NOT have?
Postal system
Standing military
Tax system
Paper currency
The Persian Empire had a military that defended cities in the region and attacked neighbors to expand the empire’s borders. Persia also pioneered one of history’s first successful postal systems and had a tax system employed mostly upon its outer subjects. Paper currency, however, first appeared in China more than 1,000 years after the end of the Persian Empire.
The correct answer to this quiz is Paper currency.