Zoroastrianism: The Persian Religion

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The Persians mainly had one main religion called Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism is one of world’s ancient religions that the Persians practiced. A male prophet named Zarathustra preached this religion. His religion started out in the Iranian community and then Cyrus the Great of Persia adopted it.
Zoroastrianism is so influential because their rulers hold imperial powers for about 1,000 years.
One of the Zoroastrianism beliefs was that the world was governed by good and evil. Another belief that Zarathustra, a profit, believed in was a person named Ahura Mazda, who gave birth to twins and the twins were the symbol of good and bad. If you chose good, you do virtuous things. Then if you lied or did something bad, the evil spirit would gain

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