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In 539 B.C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. But his actions marked a major advance for Man. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality.
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These and other texts were recorded on a baked-clay cylinder in the Akkadian language. Known today as the Cyrus Cylinder, this ancient record has now been recognized as the world’s first charter of human rights
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From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome. There the concept of “natural law” arose, this as people tended to follow certain unwritten laws in the course of life, and Roman law was based on rational ideas derived from the nature of things.
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The king said that no one can overdue the rights of another person
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Where rights were finally recognized
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Nations finally came together and founded the United Nations and finally established Human rights which came from natural rights