History of Iran

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Daruis the Great

Nearly three thousand years ago, due to bitter cold, overpopulation, cattle overgrowth and infertility of soil, the Aryans living in northen lands, set about migrating from both sides of the Caucasus Mountains. They poured into the southern plains and setteled at they were rovers, herdsmen and shepherds, but gradually they settled down and a tribe of theirs founded the Pars dynasty. The head of the dynasty chose the name meaning, "Lover of thought", and thus was called Hexamanesh (Acheamenes. It ws a century later when Cyrus the Great emerged the tempest of events " to set the charriot of of the history of the Orient in motion". All Persians united under his rule and he gradually expanded his kingdom first to Media, then Lydia and finally Babylon, and still to lands father away...