Religion and Politics in Pre Islamic Ira
Contributed
Mirza Firuz Shah
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Subject:
Agriculture
Subclass:
Agriculture (General)
Reign:
Akbar III 1948-2012
Subject Year (Time):
1955
Author:
Albert de Jong
Languages:
English
Royal Mughal Ref:
ARC-11082020-0164
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Description
he dominant political system of pre‐Islamic Iran was that of the monarchy. Iranian
history before the Arab conquests in the 7th century CE is a history of four empires,
of different geographical extent and of different duration: the Achaemenid (550–330
BCE), the Seleucid (323–129 BCE), the Parthian (247 BCE–224 CE), and the Sasanian
(224–651 CE). Three of these were “Iranian” empires, in the sense that their kings were
drawn from Iranian families; the Seleucids were the only exception to this rule, for they
were of Macedonian stock (although the mother of Antiochus I, the second Seleucid,
was a Bactrian).
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