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Persian Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4687 words) |
 | Most foreigners referred to the state as Persia until March 21, 1935, when Iran formally asked the international community to call the country by its native name; the Aryan tribes who formed the country in the Achaemenid era united the plateau in that region and had called the country Iran at its birth. |
| Zoroastrianism and its mystic leaders, called Magi, would become a defining element of Persian culture, and is believed by many scholars to have had a considerable influence on Judeo-Christianity, and as a result the Western culture. |
| Safavid Persia was a violent and chaotic state for the next seventy years, but in 1588 Shah Abbas I of Safavid ascended to the throne and instituted a cultural and political renaissance. |
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