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The New England Fifty Finest is a list of mountains in New England, United States, used in the mountaineering sport of peak bagging. The list comprises the 50 summits with the highest topographic prominence — a peak's height above the lowest contour which encloses that peak and no higher peak.
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/ ə ˈ k iː m ə n ɪ d /; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' [18] or 'The Kingdom' [19] ), was the ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
- 5,500,000 km² (2,100,000 sq mi)
- Classical antiquity
- The Early Faith
- Zoroaster
- Achaemenid Empire & Zorvanism
- Zorvanism & The Sassanians
- Christianity & Islam
The polytheistic faith of the Persians was centered on the clash of positive, bright forces, which maintained order, and negative, dark energies that encouraged chaos and strife. The Persian pantheon was presided over by Ahura Mazda, the all-good, all-powerful creator and sustainer of life, who gave birth to the other gods. Ahura Mazda created the ...
The ancient Persian religion was an oral tradition – it had no written scripture – and so all that is known of it in the present day comes from works written after the revelation of the prophet Zoroaster (also given as Zarathustra) between c. 1500-1000 BCE. It seems that the veneration of many gods extended to worship of one's ancestors, and a prie...
In 550 BCE, Cyrus the Great (r. c. 550-530 BCE) founded the Achaemenid Empire after a series of conquests and gave thanks for his success to Ahura Mazda. Since Zoroastrianism was long established in the region at this time, early scholars automatically assumed that Cyrus was a Zoroastrian, but this is not necessarily so. Modern scholarship has revi...
Zorvanism developed further under the Parthians - whose decentralized government encouraged freedom of religious expression – but was fully realized under the Sassanian Empire. The Sassanians made Zoroastrianism the state religion but did not restrict the activities of other faiths, and it seems, many of the upper class were actually Zorvanites but...
Although the Christian faith was tolerated, and even encouraged, under the Sassanians, Christians did not return the favor and viewed Zoroastrianism as an evil system worshipping a false god. Toward the end of the Sassanian Period, Christians put out the fires in the outdoor Zoroastrian Fire Temples– the altars on which the flame of the god was to ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī ( Persian: خواجه شمسالدین محمد حافظ شیرازی ), known by his pen name Hafez ( حافظ, Ḥāfeẓ, 'the memorizer; the (safe) keeper'; 1325–1390) or Hafiz, [1] was a Persian lyric poet [2] [3] whose collected works are regarded by many Iranians as one of ...
- Tomb of Hafez, Shiraz, Iran
Jan 25, 2018 · Frank Bienewald/LightRocket/Getty Images. The Persian Empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centered in modern-day Iran that spanned several centuries—from the sixth century B.C....
May 11, 2011 · What was the Achaemenid Empire known for? The Achaemenid Persian Empire is famous for effectively creating an empire of many nations and cultures, giving each conquered culture a reasonable amount of autonomy and self-governance in the form of semi-independent provinces called satrapies.
Nov 12, 2019 · Persia (roughly modern-day Iran) is among the oldest inhabited regions in the world. Archaeological sites in the country have established human habitation dating back 100,000 years to the Paleolithic Age with semi-permanent settlements (most likely for hunting parties) established before 10,000 BCE. The ancient kingdom of Elam in this area was ...
