The Zoroaster religion emerged during the Persian Empire at some point during the first millennium B.C. and still it exists to the present day. The religion’s founder Zarathustra was a revolutionary prophet whose teachings focused on morality, truth, meditative self-reflection, and the pursuit of divine purity. It is speculated that Zoroastrianism influenced many different world religions with the concept of ethical duality and also by Zarathustra’s revelation of a final judgement by fire. At its inception, the Zoroaster religion was in stark contrast to the more violent blood based warrior religions that were its contemporaries. Once people started to believe that they would be rewarded in the afterlife for doing good things while alive it
