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  1. Achaemenid Empire

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    Origins and Foundation
    The Achaemenid dynasty originated from the region of Persis (modern-day Fars Province), a southwestern satrapy of the earlier Median Empire. The initial progenitor, Achaemenes, was a semi-legendary chieftain from whom the dynasty derived its name.
    Cyrus II, known as Cyrus the Great, initiated the rapid expansion. After successfully conquering the Medes around 550 BCE, he incorporated their territories. His subsequent campaigns were swift and decisive: Lydia fell in 546 BCE, followed by th…

  2. Afghan Invasions Of Persia

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    Following the capture of Isfahan, Mahmud Hotak declared himself Shah. However, the subsequent Afghan administration proved remarkably fragile. The Ghilzais lacked the necessary administrative infrastructure and bureaucratic tradition to govern the sophisticated Safavid state apparatus. Tax revenues plummeted, and widespread provincial resistance emerged from regional governors who refused to acknowledge Afghan suzerainty.
    The Afghan hold was pri…

  3. Indo Iranian Languages

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    Iranian Languages
    The Iranian languages are characterized by an extensive history of contact with non-Indo-European languages, notably various Altaic languages and Caucasian languages tongues. Linguists have noted that the sound $/ \theta /$ (as in English thin), though not native to PIE, achieved high frequency in many Western Iranian languages due to an intensive, non-glottalic ad…

  4. Middle Iranian Languages

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    Middle Persian (Pahlavi)
    Middle Persian, centered in Fars, became the prestige language of the Sasanian Empire. Its script, Pahlavi script, is famous for its logograms (heterograms), where common words were written using Aramaic characters representing the sound of the word in Aramaic, but read aloud as the corresponding Middle Persian term. This system, intended to obscure finan…