land: 1.636 million km²water: 12,000 km²
IRAN
ITALY
1,648,195 km²
301,230 km²
Turkey 499 km
1,458 kmIraq
Afghanistan936 km
Pakistan909 km
Turkmenistan992 km
Azerbaijan-p432 km
IRAN
Azerbaijan
Qwait
Qatar
Armania35 km
2000-6000
1200-2000
500-1200
0-500
Iran in Old Persian = "realm of the Aryans"
Parsor
Persis
Muslims Arabs
Iranians or Persians
Religion?
Ethnicity?
Language?
79%
21%
Indo-EuropeanOthers
Ethnicity
72%
1%27%
35%
49%
16%
PersianArabicOthers Language
98%
2%
79%
21%IslamOthers
Religion
Muslims Countries> 90%
≈ 50%Arabian CountriesMuslims Countries
Both together
Islamic festivalsPre-Islamic festivals
Norouz (New Day)
originated ~3500 years ago, but dated 1386 !!??
ZoroastrianZoroastrian
Good DeedsGood Words
Good Thoughts
Zoroaster was thus the first to teach the doctrines of an individual judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future resurrection of the body, the general Last Judgment, and life everlasting for the reunited soul and body. These doctrines were to become familiar articles of faith to much of mankind, through borrowings by Judaism, Christianity and Islam
1200 BC
ZoroasterZoroaster
Anthropology of Iranian
7000 BC
Origins of Farming
Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations
4000 BC
Origins of Farming
Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations
1000 BC
Origins of Farming
Iran was in the Crossroad of CivilizationsIran was in the Crossroad of Civilizations
Jiroft Civilization (6000 BC -? BC)
• Research into this civilization is a relatively recent and ongoing archaeological project is uncovering a previously unknown "civilization“.
• This Civilization is probably as important as important as Mesopotamia or even older than that.
One of the Oldest Inscribed Tablets (5000 years old)
3rd Millennium BC
• .
Elamite kingdoms (3200 BC and 539 BC)
Cyrus (550 BC)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by the National Assembly of France
U.S. Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress on (1776)
539 BC
To day, I announce that everyone is free to choose a religion. People are free to live in all regions and take up a job provided that they never violate other's rights. No one could be penalized for his or her relatives' faults ...
“slavery” !!ancient time
“slavery” ??
And until I am the monarch, I will never let anyone take possession of movable and landed properties of the others by force or without compensation. Until I am alive, I prevent unpaid, forced labor. I prevent slavery and my governors and subordinates are obliged to prohibit exchanging men and women as slaves within their own ruling domains. Such a traditions should be exterminated the world over...
539 BC
• Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at
Jerusalem, which is in Judah. (Ezra 1: 1-2, 7-8)
The Babylonian Captivity: Jews in Exile