If no violent outbreak of fanaticism followed, it was because the various sectaries and schismatics succumbed to the decree without resistance.

Christian, and Jew, and Greek, and Parthian, and Arab allowed their sanctuaries to be closed without striking a blow to prevent it; and the non-Zoroastrians of the empire, the votaries of foreign religions, were shortly reckoned at the insignificant number of 80,000.
Of the internal administration and government of his extensive empire by Artaxerxes, but little is known.

That little seems, however, to show that while in general type and character it conformed to the usual Oriental model, in its practical working it was such as to obtain the approval of the bulk of his subjects.

Artaxerxes governed his provinces either through native kings, or else through Persian satraps.

At the same time, like the Achaemenian monarchs, he kept the armed force under his own control by the appointment of "generals" or "commandants" distinct from the satraps.