7 Elements of Persia Culture

Instituto Guatemalteco Americano IGA Social

Persia Culture

Katerin García Analucia Monzón Pamela Morales Mariavirginia Pineda Fernando Velez

Each city is the economic and political center of dozens of towns, and each town integrates hundreds of villages into a regional economic network. Urban Persians can be grouped into distinct occupational and social classes based on their degree of control over economic and political resources. At the top of the hierarchy are real-estate investors and speculators and other industrial and commercial entrepreneurs. This class includes many deputies, senators, ministers, ambassadors, and governors. On the next rung of the hierarchy are high-ranking administrators, who derive their power from above. Merchants and shopkeepers, the Bazaaris, constitute the third level of the social system and are perhaps the most cohesive segment of Iranian society. The Bazaaris have been closely allied with the ulama (clergy), who comprise another step on the hierarchical ladder. They are the interpreters and practitioners of Islam and in the past have led successful protest movements against unpopular rulers. The fifth urban category might be considered the middle class. It includes a large proportion of the educated white-collar workers, civil-service employees, doctors, teachers, engineers, and other specialists, including the military. In the 1970s the middle class was growing rapidly in size and political importance.

Social Organization

Tradition and Costumes

Herodotus mentions that the Persians celebrated big birthday parties, "In their meals using a few delicacies of substance, but of many desserts, and not very good's .Why they say the Persians that the Greeks get up from the table hungry" . Similarly, observed that the Persians drank wine in large quantities and that "after either drunk, usually discuss major business. Which then resolved, it proposes again the master of the house in which they deliberated, a day after, and if you think well agreed fasting, what are implemented, and if not, it revoked. tend also to revisit when they drank either very thing on which deliberated in sobriety. " Their methods of greeting, said that like kissing on the lips, if any of them "condition was somewhat lower, kissing on the cheek, but if the position difference proves excessive, prostrating, bowing to the other" (Book I, CXXXIV) It is known that high-ranking men practiced polygamy, and said they had a number of wives and an even larger number of concubines.

Languaje

The Persian is a language spoken in Iran, has more 60 million native speakers distributed in Iran, Afganistán, Tayikistán, Uzbekistán, Omán, Emiratos Árabes and India, also of the Persians who are in diaspora. has evolved into three slopes: 1. The contemporary Persian, including the Judeo-Persian, spoken by the Jews in Persia. 2.th Darí, also called oriental Persian and Afghan Persian, one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. It is much more conservative than the contemporary one of the two official languages of Afghanistan. It is much more conservative than the contemporary Persian .Has two featured dialects: The Aimaq and Hazaraguí 3.The Tajik official language of Tajikistan is the variety most evolved. It is also spoken in northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. The main dialect is Bukhari.

Art and Literature

With a long-standing and proud civilization, Persian culture is among the richest in the world. Two and a half millennia of inspiring literature, thousands of poets and writers, magnificent and impressive architecture, live customs dating back to Zoroastrians over 3000 years ago, and other unique characteristics of the nation are rivaled by only a few countries. Throughout the history, this grand treasure of Persia was gradually transferred to eastern and western nations. Iran's significant contribution into the world civilization in many respects is indispensable. Many ceremonies of the ancient Persians are the basis of western celebrations.

Religion

Early Persians worshiped a god similar to those in India's Vedic Period religion, but in or around the year 650 B.C. a new religion arose among the Persians, which was introduced by a man named Zarathustra, or Zoroaster in Greek. The new religion, called Zoroastrianism by historians, existed as a dualistic religion, in which two opposite gods struggled over goodness and evil in all matters including the creation of the Earth. The two gods, Ahura-Mazda (representing good) and Ahriman (representing evil), dictated the meaning of life, which would be decided when man and god faced Ahriman in the final stages of history.

Economy

Cereal cultivation and agriculture in general was the basis of the economy of this society. On the other hand the Persians had deposits of copper, silver and iron, as well as numerous quarries. Other economic activities were fishing Persians, fabric crafts and metallurgy and metalwork. However, the activity that gave as much darics was undoubtedly the collection of taxes, with which the Persian monarchs were able to make the construction of major roads and underground tunnels carrying water to their crops.

Geography