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What is 'Central Asia?"
The part of the world where the Indo-Aryans came from.
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Who was "Zoroaster?"
He was the Founder of the Zoroastrian religion.
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Who was "Cyrus the Great?"
He was the Founder of the Persian Empire.
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What is"Persepolis?"
This city was the capital of ancient Persia.
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What is "Persia?"
This nation was the most important of the Indo-Aryan people.
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What is "Good vs. Evil?"
This was the basic idea of Zoroastrianism.
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What is Zoroastrianism?
King Cyrus the Great helped to spread this religion.
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What is "Pasargadae?"
This ancient Persian city was not too far from Persepolis.
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What is "Aryan?"
The word "Iran" is a cognate of this English word.
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Who was "Ahura-Mazda?
The name of the "Good Deity" in Zoroastrianism.
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Who are the Jewish people?
King Cyrus liberated these people and let them return to their ancient homeland.
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What is "Ecbatana?"
This Persian city was far north of Persepolis.
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Who were the Persians, the Medes, the Parthians, the Bactrians, and the Sogdians.
These five nations were the principal Indo-Aryan nations to settle in modern Iran.
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Who was "Ahriman?"
The name of the "Evil Deity" in Zoroastrianism.
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What is religious tolerance?
This foreign policy of King Cyrus helped to keep peace in the Persian Empire.
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What is the "Imperial Bureaucracy?"
This was a complex system of government branches to govern the huge Persian Empire
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