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Alexander the Great conquered the entire Persian Empire
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Augustus Caesar changes Rome's form of government from republic to empire.
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A ten-year conversion is finally realised, and the official religion of the Roman Empire is now Christianity.
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In opposition to the Sassanid Empire, Georgians convert to Christianity.
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Piruz Nahavandi was a Sassanid Persian who was assigned to assassinate Umar ibn Al-Khattāb. His presence as a slave was unsuspected since he was captured as a Persian slave.
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Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, also known as "The Book of Kings," is an epic poem that took 30-33 years to write. The longest ever poem to have been written by a single person, was the second attempt at immortalising Persian history. Previously, Abu-Mansur Daqiqi's attempt was left unfinished due to his early demise.
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The Conference of the Birds is an ancient Persian poem written by Attar of Nishapur. He was one of the pioneers of Panentheism and Sufism in Persia.
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After 850 years of division, the Safavid dynasty is the first of a series of sequential dynasties that ruled over all of Iran. Previous dynasties were only able to unite and rule smaller territories.
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Yavuz Sultan Selim successfully conquers great areas of [current] Iraq, Kurdistan, and Diyarbakir. Kurdish chiefs switch allegiance from the Safavids to the Ottomans.
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In a treaty signed in the village of Gulistan in Karabagh, Iran gave away the rights of
Georgia and Azerbaijan > Russia
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Similar to Gulistan
More territory is handed over to Russia, including:
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3 years (1927-1929)
* census registration and conscription
* the reorganization of the judicial system along secular lines
* the launch of the policy of nomadic settlement
* the beginning of the trans-Iranian railway
* the abolition of capitulations
* the passing of the Uniform Dress law and effective legislation for the registration of title deeds to landed property and real estate
* the introduction of étatiste economic measures: opium and tobacco monopolies
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USSR lost over 25 million citizens
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