Tag: zoroastrianism

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Chapter 9: Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenid Dream — World History 101

How the Persian Empire pioneered religious tolerance, local autonomy, and administrative genius — and why its example was nearly forgotten in the West.
Chapter 23: The Glory of the Sassanids — World History 101

The last great Persian empire before Islam — Zoroastrian, sophisticated, and so militarily formidable it captured a sitting Roman emperor on the battlefield, before falling to Arab armies in 651.