To introduce to you the reasons for our loss, I will put them in point forms below:
- the disability of the royal family to perform their duty and to keep the Empire toghether as a result of their conflicts.
- the lose of faith in the Mazdiyasma religion since it required people to spend a good part of their days performing the rituals and limiting their behaviours accordingly (one of the rituals was to keep everything clean at all times). These somewhat hard to fallow rituals resulted in people getting tired and look for something different.
- the sensetized population of the Western part of the Empire, ( Semitic race whom lived in todays Iraq).
- the unhuman like treatment of the citizens of the Iranian cities by the invaders (Arabs).
Some Important Notes to Remember:
- I could proudly claim we Iranians have used the solar calendar ever since we reckoned the need to keep track of our days. While even today there are many cummunities that use a lunar calendar despite the fact that urban and agricultural societies need a solar calendar to be able to function sceintifically. Even Omar Khayam has cited that he used ancient sourses for designing his "Jalali Calendar", which is a more accurate calendar than the "Gregory Calendar" which was designed 200 years after the "Jalali Calendar" and todays Christian calendar is based on it.
- While "Plutarch", a Roman historian-army commander, was traveling in Persian in 700 BCE, he passed through a city called "Hekmatane", (todays Hamedan). In "Hekmatane", he came across a school (university) whome he discribed as to have a head faculty and 100 students. In the school they learned astronomy, medicine, philosophy and mathematics. Very many of the world"s greatest scholars and physicians visited them at the university. "Plutarch" mentioned of similar schools in all Iranian cities. If science did not prevail in Iran, then what were these people studying? what happened to that knowledge?
- "Plotinus", a Greek historian who visited Iran in 100 BCE, wrote, "when I was in Iran, they were measuring the radius of the Earth and its curvature". Other refrences to the spherical shape of the Earth can be found in "Yasht"s". To measure the Earth"s radius you have to be familiar with astronomy and mathematics. This was when the Greeks still assumed that the Earth was a flat land sorrounded by water.
- "Phisaghorous", (Pythogarus) the Greek philosopher and mathematician spent 20 years of his life in Iran and "Babylon", (which was a part of the acient Persian Empire), accurding to his biography. During this time he learned the knowledge of the "Moghan", (Magi). His philosophy of light was under the influence of Persians who believed in spherical Earth rotating around the central Sun. There has also been doubts about the famous theory of right angle triangles. Today, it is a know fact that the theory did not belong to "Pythogarus" but was named after him later on. Towards the end of "Ghajar" era, French archaeologists found some documents in "Elam" which was published in France. Among the findings were 17 cases of the right-angle triangles with different dimensions and calculations similar to those of "Pythogarus". Apparently, they were looking for a single solution and its possible that they found it.
- There is an ancient Greek thesis from somebody named "Paapoos". He cited "Estaans" the Moughan as a naturalist philosopher believing in "self management and self-recycling power of nature provided that humans do not destroy it". This philosophy is still valid and we have to take care of our environment.
- "Oghladous" was an Iranian who was born in Asia Minor and migrated to "Eskandarieh" (Alexandria) to work and never lived in Greece.
- While the Greeks had no progressive calculation and mathematics and nothing to offer in Algebra, Babylonians were using a numaric system and had even invented 0. At this time Greeks used alphabets for numbers. "Araashmidous" the greatest mathematician in ancient Greece, wrote a book to represent a big number, and called it his masterpiece. However, thousands of years before the Greeks, Elamians had a numaric system similar to what we have today.

In 480 B.C., King Xerxes,(khashayar), of Persia ordered his men to build a canal a mile and a quarter long through a peninsula in Northern Greece- conceivably one of the biggest engineering assignments of it"s time. The canal was critical to Xerxes" plan of invading Greece, a goal that his general, Mardonius, had unsuccessfully attempted 12 years earlier. Mardonius"s fleet was destroyed in a storm while sailing around the tip of the peninsula, and Xerxes wanted to avoid a similar setback by building the canal. Xerxes went on to invade Greece, starting a brief period of Persian conquest in Europe. In the 2,500 year since, historians have debated whether the famed ca


Marlik culture was discovered in the green and fertile lands of Northern Iran just South of the Caspian Sea. The amazing archeological founds on this site are associated with 10th-12th century BC. Some researchers believe that Marlik has attained its name from the innumerable snakes that have inhabited it. (As "Mar" means snake in the Persian language). Whereas, some believe that, Marlik, the name the local villagers gave to the mound, is "Marda-lik" (place of the Marda or Amarda), and the Greek historian Strabo describes the Marda as living in this part of Ancient Persia. There are some significant similarities between the metalwork at Marlik and some of those found at Sialk near Kashan, and as the finds at Sialk are dated as slightly later than those of Marlik, it is suggested that the Amarda around Marlik and the Sepid Rud, relocated to the central Iranian plateau near Sialk where they were eventually assimilated into the general Median population. In the excavations performed on this site, a large number of broken earthenware pieces can be noted. Moreover, two tiny statues of cows in admiralty metal, two cylindrical seals, fourteen gold buttons and other unique s have been discovered. In this hillock, there is the remnants of a quadrangular structure with an approximate area of 30 sq. m. the same probably being a tomb or temple.
This hillock was also a site where the local commanders or princes who ruled in the

If the original population abandoned the valley soon after the burials, this may explain why the cemetary was forgotten and not looted in the intervening years. This theory still remains unconfirmed, and it remains true that little can be said with any certainty about the people who buried their royalty atop the mound at Marlik. The artifacts recovered at Marlik contain many unusual items which have helped to develop current thinking on the chronology of metal working in late bronze age cultures. It is significant to note that without scientific excavation procedures, it would have been impossible to date and locate these items, and it would have been impossible to appreciate their unique and important place in the archaeological re

After all their trials and travails, the archaeologists at Marlik were ordered to abandon the site in November of 1962 after a change in government which brought the allies of the smugglers and antique dealers, some of which were in the family of the Shah, to power. Forced to abandon the excavation, there was little that could be done other than return to Teheran to appeal the decision. When a team was permitted to return to the mound one year later, it was clear that little more could be done as the entire area had been ravaged by illegal digging. A brief survey showed some 2000 holes had been haphazardly dug around the valley, and everything that had been despoiled was now lost to history. It is difficult to say what was destroyed, and to this date the only material of the Marlik people to be available to science is the collection from the excavation which is housed at the Muzeh Iran Bastan (Archaeological Museum in Teheran).
Recently Archaeologists have gone back to this site for new excavations. Their efforts have led into new developments in our understanding of Marlik architecture and new artifact discoveries.
امیر اسماعیل که اوازه جوانمردی او را در دنیای متمدن ان روزگاران طنین انداز کرد برخورد بزرگوارانه و همراه با ارج و احترامی است که وی پس از پیروزی بر برادرش بر او روا داشت . درحقیقت امیر اسماعیل سامانی که خود را از دودمان بهرام چوبین سردار نامی ارتش ساسانی می خواند و افتخار احیای مجدد زبان پارسی و فرهنگ ملی ایرانیان نیز به نام او و جانشینانش ثبت شده است
امیر اسماعیل سامانی این راد مرد ایرانی که او را می توان بنیانگذار راستین سلسله سامانی برشمرد از جمله شهریاران نامدار ایران می باشد.امیر اسماعیل سرسلسله سامانیان و بنیانگذار این دودمان بود. وی شهر بخارا را به پایتختی برگزید. وی به زبان و فرهنگ ادبیات فارسی دلبستگی بسیار داشتد و رودکی سرودههایی در ستایش از وی دارد.
امیر اسماعیل مردی بود که که پرچم زنده کردن زبان پارسی و فرهنگ ایرانی را بدوش گرفت.
اسماعیل سامانی پس از تکیه بر تخت سلطنت احیا زیان و ادبیات فارسی و فرهنگ و رسوم ایرانی را سرلوحه خود قرار داد. اسماعیل با اینکه توان لشگر کشی به بغداد و برانداختن خلیفه را داشت ولی چنین نکرد زیرا که احیا زبان فارسی و فرهنگ ایرانی برایش مهمتر بود.
روش او جنگ دفاعی بود یعنی تنها با مهاجم میجنگید و جنگ او با عمرولیث که به شکست و اسارت عمرو انجامید بر همین ایه صورت گرفت.او هدفش گسترش زبان فارسی و ایجاد مناسبات دوستانه میان مردمان ایران زمین بود
او در بخارا درگذشت و ارامگاه او یک بنای تاریخی است و مورد احترام خاص تاجیکان و همه ایرانیان است. روحش شاد.
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