We learned that King Darius built the great ceremonial city of Parsa or Persepolis. Which of the Five Themes can you apply to this information? Explain why you chose this theme.

Five Themes of Geography:

Location
Place
Movement
Region
Human-Environment Interaction

I will give it a shot.

Location:
Persepolis, which is Greek for the Persian city, is located in the city of Shiraz in the Fars province in Iran.
Why:
Because that’s where Darius the first once ruled.

Place: it’s near the small river of Pulvar, which flows into the Kur River. And it is in a mountainous area, and so some of the building is carved out of a mountain.

Why:
Access to waterways allows for crew and supplies to be moved to site. Plus constructing the building from a Mountain means less material is need complete the structure. But that also means that you need a mountain.

Movement:
Around 519 BCE the construction of the broad stairways began. The duel stairways, known as the Persepolitan Stairway, was built on the western side of the Great Wall.

Why:

It allowed access to Persepolis, and it was probably used for dignitaries, nobleman. and royalty.

Region:

The region is in the Asia-Pacific. Which is known for not having a clear-cut definition of “Asia Pacific“, but usually includes East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Oceanic.

Why:

Because again, that’s where Darius the first lived. And without Darius the first you don’t have Persepolis.

Human-environment interaction:

I would say the construction of Persepolis is changing the environment through human interaction, any construction for that matter.

Why:

Without human interaction within their environment you don’t have Persepolis, simple as that.

I’ll leave it to you to expound upon any of these five things.

I hope that helps.