The Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Persian Empire in 539 BCE.

巴比伦帝国于公元前539年被波斯帝国征服。

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For thousands of years the present area of Uzbekistan was a part of the Persian Empire.

现在的乌兹别克斯坦地区在几千年前是波斯帝国的一部分。

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At the time we were still hundreds of years behind Persian Empire and Roman Empire in such fields as medicine, astronomy and mathematics.

但那时候，在冶金、数学、天文等学科，我们被遥远的波斯帝国以及后来的罗马帝国落下了数百年的差距。

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Those in the south lived under the Persian Empire - and are now in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Codner points to the Persian empire which extended over Afghan soil in the 18th century, having contributed to the collapse of the once-mighty Kabul-based Mughal empire that reigned over the region two centuries earlier.

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She includes a suggestive aside on the blending of French and Persian inspirations in the Ottoman palace-building of the early 18th century as good an emblem for the empire's strained multiculturalism as you could wish for.

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