Why did the Achaemenids use Elamite so much for their official

>>2537119
Official stuff was published in more than one language as far as I remeber

>>2537119
>>2538099
Elamite, Akkadian and I think old Persian were usually used simultaniously

>>2537119
A lot of administrative papers that still survived were written in Babylonian or Egyptian

>>2537119
I thought the language of administration was Imperial Aramaic

can someone explain to a brainlet why a hegemony used the conquered people's language instead of their own.

>>2538679
They kept the conquered bureaucracies intact for the most part, so the officials used their own languages

It may have been to build goodwill as well

>>2538679
Because they're a bunch of horseniggers taking over a far more sophisticated empire.It's the exact same reason why after the Mongols took over China, they kept doing things in Chinese.

Does anyone have any sources about Achaemenids and their condition during 5~4th century BCE?

>>2539053
>horseniggers

Iranian peoples in Central Asia and the Middle East had come into contact with and absorbed a Central Asian Urban Civilization (BMAC). The Persians that conquered the Babylonians had great cavalry, but they were not nomadic pastoralists.

>>2538679
Languages like Aramaic were much more popular than Persian

>>2538679
Many Persians at the time put Aramaic and Near Eastern Semetic culture on pedestal and saw them as THE center of civilization