- [i] related:: [[Persia]] & [[achaemenid-empire.png]] - [b] [What was the royal court of the Achaemenid empire like at the time of the story of Purim?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/tc61wv/what_was_the_royal_court_of_the_achaemenid_empire/i0tzjmg/) via [[rAskHistorians]] & answered by [[Trevor Culley]] on 2022-03-11, notes recorded 2022-03-21 - [[Achaemenid female royalty weren't sequestered]] - [[Achaemenid harem is synonymous with royal family]] - [[royal marriages are very political]] - [[Achaemenid royals married within their ethnic group]] - [[privacy was a symbol of status in the Achaemenid empire]] - [[Achaemenid officials used seals to verify documents]]