RELIGION

(Friso of the tomb of Artaxerxes You see a symbol of the god Ahura - Mazda within a disk winged)

The Persian religion underwent many changes over time. At first worshipped gods they represented natural forces and also took beliefs of the conquered peoples. In the seventh century a.C. Zaratustra called surge or a prophet Zoroaster who prosecuted the Persians in a monotheistic religion with trends. It maintained the existence of a higher god, Ahura Mazda, and the existence of good and evil principles as antagonistic. His teachings were collected by the holy book Avesta, which proposes a code of conduct of great moral courage, rejecting the sacrifices cruel and exalting the virtuosity and simplicity.

CULTURE AND ART

The arts and sciences Persian uses input from the conquered peoples, primarily the cuneiform of Mesopotamia. They built great palaces that had significant courtrooms. The decoration was luxurious, with columns, reliefs and decorative bricks Enameled representing animals and scenes of war.

The Persians were the first in history to mint currency. They were gold with the image of an archer and received the name of Daric. There used to trade but were treasured by the king as a symbol of wealth and prestige.

(THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PERSIAN COIN)

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

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  WE DECIDE TO DESCRIBE DIFERENTS TOPICS ABOUT THE TRADE ANS THE INDUSTRY

(this is a One textile sasánida the fourth century)

1. The Persian industry under the government sasánida was developed from the domestic to the city.


2. The garments were made of silk from China, and silks sasánidas reached everywhere, serving as a model for the textile arts in Byzantium, China and Japan.


3. The influence of textiles and silverware sasánida reached as far away as Hispania.17 The Chinese merchants arrived in Iran to sell and buy raw silk carpets, jewelry, makeup ... Armenians, Assyrians and Jews contacted Persia and Rome to Byzantium in a slow exchange. It was built in the Persian Gulf ports to facilitate trade with India.


4. The state tried to take control sasánida monopoly of trade, with luxury goods assuming a major role in it, and very active in construction of ports, caravans posts, bridges, and where the objective was to unite trade with urbanization. The Persians dominated international trade, both with the Indian Ocean as in Central Asia and southern Russia in times of Cósroes, although the competition with the Byzantines at that time was intense.


5. The main products exported by the sasánidas tissues were silk, wool and gold, carpets and rugs, furs and skins and pearls in the Persian Gulf. There were also freight traffic from China (paper, silk) and India (spices) on which customs imposed sasánidas arranceles and were exported to Europe from the Empire.


6. The extraordinary mineral wealth of the Pamir mountains in the eastern borders of the Empire, the legend originated on the Tajiks, iranio people who lived there and whose legend still lingers.

Remarkable Events for the Humanity's history

One of the most memorable fights of the Persas' civilization was the "Medical Wars". It was between Persas and Greeks.

It was called Medical War, not for the topic that we hope about medicine or doctors involucrated there, it was becouse the greeks used the term "Medo" or "Persa" as similar.

The Medical War had two phases:

Maratón City-State, 490 a.C

The plain of Marathon, which was recommended for the disembarkation by the Athenian traitor Hipías, is not very wide and is flanked by not very high mountains, but that are sufficient to limit the capacity of maneuver of the cavalry. The Persian ones landed part(report) of this one to advance towards Athens from the South, but the natural ramp that leads to the plateau of the Ática was blocked by the arrival of the Athenians, who were lacking cavalry.

Here we have a picture with the King Persa, Dario that order to attack and coquer Grecia:
According to the legend, he(she) asked: " the one who is these people who is called Athenians? ", and on having known the response, it(he,she) exclaimed: " Oh Strait of Ormuz, give me occasion to take revenge for the Athenians! ". Later, whenever it(he,she) was sitting down to the table, one of his(her,your) servants had to say three times to him(her) to the ear(hearing) " gentleman, acordaos of the Athenians! ".

This war finished with the victory of the Greek army

Corinto's Isthmus, 480 a.C

Here, Persas and Spartans fight over the Corintos Isthmus, a samller span where 300 spartan's stop the Persas attack and killed more and less 10.000 persas.

Why we used this historic reference to talk about monuments, builds or facts for the history?

Becouse this war teach for the human history thought, and the persas never try to build or leave monuments fot the humanity, they only was thinking about war, but this war make to us a beauty monument in remenber us the situacion and the lesson:

This is a monument in memorial for the 300 Spartan men who fight on the Corinto's Isthmus.

Maybe the Persas don't have or make a lot of wonderfull biulds, but their zeal and desaire to do history inherent to other cultures to do it instead of the persas, for that we say that all of those kind of monumets couldn't exist instead the persas didn't try to conquer the world.

In adding with that, we can learn a lot with all the confrontations between Greeks and Persas, that the most important thing isn't the number and quantity to do something goodor finish our dreams or whatever we want, the most important thing is do it by heart, with pride, with love and effort for the things we want.