HUMAN 1C Lecture 14: Rahimieh Lecture 2
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Iran"s imperial past and the creation of a modern nation. On october 14, 1971, mohammad reza shah"s twin sister, ashraf pahlavi, presented a replica of the cyrus cylinder as an ancient declaration of human rights . The ruins of persian empire served as evidence of a great pre-islamic civilization: the celebration of iran"s pre-islamic past placed greater distance between iran and its. Islamic legacy: iran"s embrace of islam in the 7th century was singled out as the reason for the nation lagging behind the west. After the onslaught of the arabs in the 640"s ce and the fall of the sassanid empire, we. Iranians were in a state of consternation, numbness, and psychological listlessness for at least two centuries. The grand structure of the empire or, in other words, its heavy corpse has collapsed on the people of iran, had apparently brought the population to its knees.