Language

Persian (فارسی) is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran (Persia), and the neighbouring Afghanistan (officially known as Dari since 1958 for political reasons), Tajikistan (officially known as Tajiki since theSoviet era), and other countries which historically came under Persian influence. The Persian language is classified as a continuation ofMiddle Persian, the official religious and literary language of Sassanid Persia, itself a continuation of Old Persian, the language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Persian is a pluricentric language and its grammar is similar to that of many contemporary European languages. Persian is unrelated to Semitic languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, although there are many Arabic loanwords in Persian. Persian is so called because it originated from Persis (Pars) with the advent of the Achaemenid Empire, hence the name Persian (Parsi or Farsi).

PERSIAN MUSIC

The Persian Civilization became the model for pretty much every empire throughout the world..

The greatest empire the world have known

Under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, the Persian Empire eventually became the largest empire in human history up until that point.

Persian clothing

Persian miniature paintings employ both vivid and muted colors for clothing, although the colors of paint pigment often do not match the colors of dyes. Persian men and women usually wore a full-length pants called Shalvar. Undergarments for men were limited to a pair of short pants, called zir-šalvar (literally “under-pants”).

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Technology

Persian technology is divided into three categories: Weapons, art, and architecture. Because of Persians wealth in minerals and raw materials they were able to create new objects in each of these categories.

The earliest Persian arms even back to nomadic times consisted of short knives, bows and arrows. By the time Persia had become a civilization under the rule of Darius (the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire), these weapons had evolved to become helmets, shields, daggers, and lance.

The Persians created their most beautiful artwork, the most famous of which was made by the three kings themselves (Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes).

Everybody may think that refrigerators and freezers are inventions of the 20th century but there is historic proof that hundreds of years ago, the ancient Persians had already found a way to store ice in the middle of the dessert and in the middle of summer. Engineers built a type of evaporative cooler that could store ice, even in the middle of the summer. It is called a Yakhcal.

Persian History

Persia is the name of a kingdom located in the eastern end of the Middle East, north of the Persian Gulf. Its residents were Persians, a group of Aryan people who migrated from northern Asia to this area at about 2000 BC, Then they were separated to three groups, Medians, Parsians & Parthians, each of them resided in various parts of the area http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Persian

Persia

The name Persia (from the ancient province of Persis; modern Fars, Iran) was given by the Greeks to the entire land occupied by various Iranian tribes from which the Acahemenid dynasty arose. It is the land of present-day Iran and Afghanistan, geographically the Iranian plateau. The earliest inhabitants of this area are only known, at first, from their stone artifacts and, later, their pottery. Paleolithic and Neolithic sites have been found in various parts of the plateau, but distinctive painted pottery appears only in the Chalcolithic Period, about 3000 BC.