Iranian History

Iranian History

Ancient Iran

 * 1) Geography of Iran and Ethnological and Political Divisions
 * 2) Ancient pre-historic Iran
 * 3) The Elamites

The Achaemenids

 * 1) The Medes and the Early Achaemenids
 * 2) The Era of the three Dariuses
 * 3) Alexander's Campaign and the Macedonian Conquest of Persia
 * 4) The Seleucids

The Parthians

 * 1) The Early Arsacids 251 BC - 12 AD
 * 2) The Later Arsacids 12 AD - 226 AD

The Sassanians

 * 1) The Early Sassanians 226 - 379 AD
 * 2) The Middle Sassanian Period 379 - 488 AD
 * 3) Qobad I and the Two Khusros 488 - 629 AD
 * 4) Anarchy and Downfall of the Sassanian Empire
 * 5) Last Remnants of Sassanian Rule

Advent of Islam

 * 1) The Islamic Conquest of Iran
 * 2) The Umayyad Caliphate
 * 3) The Abbasid Caliphate
 * 4) /The Indigenous Dynasties: The Tahirids, the Samanids and the Saffarids
 * 5) Age of Literary Accomplishments

The Early Medieval Period

 * 1) Mahmud Ghaznavi
 * 2) The Later Ghaznavids and the Seljuqs
 * 3) The Empire of Khwarezm
 * 4) Origin of Sufism

The Mongols and the Ilkhanids

 * 1) The Invasion of Genghis Khan
 * 2) Halaku Khan and The Muslim Ilkhans
 * 3) Timur and the end of Mongol Rule

The Golden Age of Iranian Civilization

 * 1) The Early Safavids
 * 2) Abbas I or Shah Abbas
 * 3) The Later Saffavids

Nader Shah and the Qajars

 * 1) Nader Shah
 * 2) The Zand Dynasty
 * 3) The Rise of the Qajars
 * 4) The Great Game
 * 5) Modernity and The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism
 * 6) The Iranian Constitional Revolution

Modern Iran

 * 1) The Pahlavis
 * 2) Ayatollah Khomeini and The Islamic Revolution
 * 3) /The Islamic Republic of Iran/

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