A Brief History of Iran online course for The Idler Academy available to download now!
Join me, Kamin Mohammadi, as your tutor for the Idler Academy’s “A Brief History of Iran” online course.
I take you on a whistle stop tour of the complete history of Iran.
Discover the roots of this ancient nation with agricultural pre-Persian tribes. Meet Cyrus the Great in 550BC and learn about the first, second and third Great Persian Empires. Follow the invasions of the Greeks, the Arabs and the Mongols; meet Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan and see how the Arabs brought Iran its great love of Islam.
You’ll find out about the great dynasties of the Achaemenids, Sassanids, Safavids, Qajars, and Pahlavis. You’ll meet the ‘Iranian Napoleon’ Nader Shah and sit on his Peacock Throne. You’ll visit beautiful palaces, read the great poets, admire Persian architecture and find stolen jewels.
And we finish the story with the last Shah, the revolution, the Islamic Republic, Iraq war and today’s protests for freedom and equality led by women.
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