The Shah & 2500 Years of Imperial Rule 3/8 [see desc for dl]
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@TheRoyalOfficer you are either uneducated or just ignorant of the fact that these accounts are suggested from both Iranian and non-Iranian historical sources (e.g. The ancient Greek historians Ctesias and Plutarch).
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@CyrusOfPersia Cyrus was not the first Persian emperor. And if he "banned" slavery, how come there are so many tablets from that time in Babylon referring to slave trading?
You have a rosy-colored view of history. It is dangerous to put one nation's past up on a pedestal without looking at the truth of what they did (and did not do.)
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@TheLoyalOfficer Let us take Babylon as an example. When the Persians "liberated Babylon" (Conquered), Cyrus the great ordered the freeing of all slaves.
One of the reasons that the Persian Empire is the greatest the world has ever seen, is in the difference of how the Emipre was ruled. The Persians Spread Filantropy, tolerance and freedom.
Slavery was forbidden in the Persian Empire by Cyrus The great. That was one his first acts when he entered Babylon.
FREEDOM!!!
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@CyrusOfPersia Remove the dashes from the link and it will work. *Maybe* - MAYBE there were no slaves within Persia itself, but in the other lands?
Egypt? Babylon? Judeah? All of these regions had slaves and the Persians tolerated it fully - and profited from it.
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@TheLoyalOfficer your link does not work.
The Persians did not have slaves in the same sense as the Romans, where the slaves were exploited for any pleasure of the Romans. What you call slavery and slave trade was paid labor. No man, child nor woman did work under the Achamenid rule without getting his or her share.
Slavery came to Persia later.....
Slavery was made illegal by Cyrus the Great. And he said directly in his decree, that any one who would engage in slavery would be punished.
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@CyrusOfPersia h-ttp://ancienthistory.about.c
om/b/2007/03/15/ancient-persia n-slaves.h-t-m Check out that article. There are thousands of tablets in which there are persian slave transactions.
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@TheLoyalOfficer It is very funny you asking me to read my history.... As I have studies Persian History and Culture. Yes the Prisoners of war and people who revolted against the Persian rule, where captured and set to work. But they were paid for their labor and were not ill treated, as slaves in Greece, Rome and Egypt.
You can say they got to pull their own weight...
FREEDOM!!!
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@CyrusOfPersia Ridiculous. Read your history. There was not a single paid quarryman or miner in the world until probably around 300AD - ANYWHERE.
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@TheLoyalOfficer Paid labor my friend... The Achamenid empire did not condone nor used slavery... All Labor was paid for...
FREEDOM!!!!
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dorod bar nejade pars va emperatorie pars
PERSIANsuperiorRACE 3 years ago 12
long live persia ....
bardiasaidi 4 years ago 10