Recently in Social Studies (History) class, we learned about what makes a strong empire. Our example was the Persian Empire. As a class we learned about King Cyrus and agricultural trade. The Persians created a successful empire, and we were tasked with figuring out what made them so successful. 

First, we made a list of the top ten things that made the Persian Empire powerful. I included “Creating a Powerful Army” and “Taxing Invaded People.” The most important thing was “Become Wealthy Through Agricultural Trade.” I then took these topics and turned them into “ingredients.” For example, instead of “Become Wealthy Through Agricultural Trade,” there was Agriculture Trade Flour. I created a series of steps to follow while creating the “recipe.” I called the recipe Persian Hand-Made Brownies. The image of it is above, and the recipe is right here: 

Persian Hand-Made Brownies

Ingredients:

• 2 heaping cups of agricultural trade flour
• 2 cups of invaded land chocolate
• 1 cup of tax sugar
• 4 eggs from a social hierarchy
• 3 ounces of free religion butter
• 1 tablespoons of benefits like land for the wealthy (substitute for salt)
• A pinch of human rights baking powder
• ½ a teaspoon of vanilla coinage extract.

Procedure:

1. Preset the oven temperature to 550 degrees fahrenheit. 
2. Beat other invaded land chocolate with a powerful army rolling pin until broken up. Collect all the invaded land and make sure to continue collaborating with the smaller governments inside the chocolate.
3. Mix agricultural trade flour and tax sugar together to make lots of money. Add the benefits for the wealthy to keep the recipe from rebelling.
4. Put the social hierarchy eggs into a bowl with the invaded land chocolate. Make sure the chocolate is in a lower spot in the hierarchy than the Persians. To keep the invaded land chocolate sweet, add free religion butter. Put these into the microwave for 3 minutes.
5. Whisk together the wet and dry ingredients while adding human rights baking powder so it will all work out well. A vanilla coinage extract to make the agricultural trade flour and tax sugar work better.
6. Cook for 220 years so the empire can last long.
7. Serve and enjoy your empire!

Tips:

• Never cook for an Alexander, as he will probably destroy your dish.
• Try to use ingredients from lots of middle eastern countries, especially Iran.
• Make sure to only put the food in the microwave for 3 minutes, because there were only 3 leaders in

Do not make this recipe, because I’m pretty sure it will be a disaster. Please, do not try this at home. It will not turn out well. Anyway, this was a really fun project, and I look forward to more history projects in the future.