Persian

over. After 43 years of hard work and dedication, we have defeated the Persians. For some of you that don’t know what has been going on, let me paint a picture of what has happened during this time. In 490 BC the Persian war started. After the Ionians won the Ionian War against the Persians (with lots of help from the Greeks) in 499 BC, the Persians and their King Darius wanted to conquer Greece more than anything. The Persians also wanted to expand their area as well. This war happened in many…

The Samanids were part of a greater collation of local dynastic regions that sought to defray the orthodox traditions of installing a Arabic descendent of Muhammad to govern the Persian peoples. In some ways, the local Samanid government was primarily Sunni, but the government was very tolerant of Buyid Twelver Shias that were in close regional proximity. These regional dynasties defined the important role of religious tolerance…

gender, and race, differs depending on the context of the drama. The chorus of Aeschylus’ Persians is a group of Persian elders, while the chorus of Euripides’ Medea is a group of Corinthian women. Despite the differences among the two groups of the chorus, their functions and responsibilities within the context of the play are the same. Even though the chorus is a group of people in both Aeschlyus’ Persians and Euripides’ Medea, they…

One such community that have existed for thousands of years and still exist today are the Iranian Jews. Judaism has a rich and millennial history in Iran including the era 2,500 years ago when the first Persian ruler declared religious freedom. But during the Islamic Revolution, as the last Persian monarch left Iran 35 years ago, thousands fled to the United States in search of a new home. Fewer than 30,000 Jews live in Iran today, compared with more than 100,000 in the 1970s. Despite the exodus…

differences between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire were as follows; the Greek cities govern themselves and had different ideas as how they treated the people within their own city. For example, the Sparta was ruled by two hereditary kings in conjunction with elected board of advisors. Corinth was governed by a mercantile oligarchy, and Athens by constitutional democracy. Whereas the Persian encompassed disparate cultures and people. The Persians allowed defeated kings to continue…

detailed description on how her mom cooks the food she is planning to serve the guests by starting out from the grocery till the part that the food is ready to be served. She writes about how because of their Iranian traditions they have to prepare a Persian feast for their newcomer friends and family, yet her mother always brought happiness to others rather than herself. Yet, we can see that she is trying to make sense to it all, every weekend they have guests over since the Iran’s Revolution…

Esther 4:10-17 The book of Esther is a historical narrative, which tells the story of God’s people escaping exile in Israel with the help of a brave Jewish woman, Esther. While Esther has reservations about Mordecai’s request for her to appeal to King Xerxes, Esther follows through with the request, as she knows that it will serve the Jewish people. Mordecai on the contrary understands that God will stand true to His promise of redeeming the Jews, even if it is not on their desirable timeline.…

Clifford Bachman starts his chapter of “Greeks and Persians” by telling how a father is overthrown by his own son for his wealth who later is killed by his kids using the theme of karma. The character Kronos is a “full of self-importance” (100), aggressive, and hungry person who cares more about ruling a city than his own family. Kronos was hungry for power so Kronos decides to “castrate his father, overthrow his mother” (99), but later Kronos marries his own sister Rhea and makes her his queen.…

What were the strategies and tactics applied by both the Greeks and the Persians? To what extent was strategy significant in the outcome of the war? During times of war, strategies are vital to successes of a country. Without a strategy, superior numbers and technology would always win, but with a strategy, even the mightiest army can fall. During the Persian Wars the Persians had the Greeks greatly outnumbered, however, as the Greeks employed many clever strategies in their battles, numbers…

Persian Gulf War The Persian Gulf war had affected the whole world in a negative way during after 1991, influencing around 30 nations to join and fight in the war, it also affected U.S.’s economy, and many oil wells in Kuwait were lost due to Iraq’s temper towards their enemies. Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq was in debt because of the previous war with Iran and this, along with Iraq’s greed for oil influenced Iraq to invade Kuwait and take over their rich oil plants. This incident was not…