Know More About Iranian Culture By Our Seven Questions

1) Which country was not part of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid era?

Except small part of China, as a whole China was not part of the Persian Empire.
With rulers such as Cyrus II (Know as Cyrus the Great, the first person whose wrote first bill of Human rights) and Darius I (the Great), the Persian Empire grew to include more than 23 different cultures (Countries).
It extended from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus River and encompassed present-day Greece, Babylonia , Egypt, India, Turkey, Azerbijan, Armenia, Georgia, Jordan, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Caucasus region, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, part of Arabia, Emirate, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and some other countries which I forgot.


2) What language is most commonly spoken in IRAN?

IRAN is home not only to Persians, but Turk, Azeri, Baluchi, and Kurd. These people speak their own language, but most can also speak Persian (Parsi).


3) Which people or groups did not invade the Persian Empire?

The prosperity and location of the Persian Empire made it susceptible to invaders, who included Drunk Alexander, the Arabs, Turks, Genghis Khan, and the Mongols and Baribarians. Egyptions were the only people which did not invade the Persian Empire and were a loyal ally for Persians.


4) What the term of "IRAN" means?

The word "IRAN" comes form the term "Aryan", which means, loosely Noble.
"IRA N" is derived from Arya and Airya, which mean "Noble" or Respectable" and are used to describe the people of Persia.
The term "IRA N" was used around the third century B.C., when a ruler described his Empire as Iranshahr-and himself as the king of kings.
And also was used around 7,500 to 10,000 years ago with term of "Aeiraniovich" to describe the region of Persians which means "The Region of Scientists People".
"Aeiran" means "Great scientist" and "Vich" means "Region or Place".


5) How the Persian Empire's ancient capital city, Persepolis, destroyed?

It was set on fire. After Drunk Alexander (Hatred character in ancient history for all Persians, like Arabs) and his army conquered the Persians, they looted the city. During a celebratory banquet, the story goes, Drunk Alexander took a woman's suggestion to join a procession to burn down the royal palace and other parts of the city. The ruins were not studied until the 1930s, when the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute sponsored an excavation of the area.


6) How long did it take a relay of couriers to travel the 1,600-mile Royal Road in Persia?

A postage stamp

Nine Days. The couriers who used the Royal Road, which ran from Susa in the southwest (Northwest of Persian Gulf) to Sardis in the north near the Aegean sea, were stopped by "neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night", according to greek historian Herodotus. It took them only nine days to deliver a message across the Empire.
Persians where the first people and first nation in the World who established "Post Organization" 2,500 years ago. [See Also]

7) Approximately what percentage of IRAN's population is Muslim?

According the eighth edition of National Geographic's Atlas of the World, 95 percent of Iranians are Muslim; the remaining 5 percent are Zoroastrians [The first religion of Persians were Zoroastrianism], Jews [It goes back to 2,500 years ago when Cyrus the Great freed 25,000 Jews whom were under rack of Babylon's governor and was slave which was opposite of Cyrus's Bill of Human Rights] and Christians.