Only if the Persians reached the same decision, drunk and sober, would they act on that decision.
Then there are the Shabaks, who claim descent from Persians and follow various brands of religion, including Islam.
Crucially, though, the instability has yet to affect Iran's populous central areas, where Persians are a big majority.
The Muslims' fighting against the Byzantine converged with the interests of the Persians.
Does this mean that Arabs and Persians have learnt to love one another?
What horse riding game did the Persians developed to train their cavalry?
In 490BC the military messenger Pheidippides ran to Athens from the battle of Marathon to announce victory over the Persians.
The Industrial Revolution happened in Europe with no scientific knowledge beyond what the Greeks, Romans, Chinese and Persians knew in ancient times.
He fought first the Theban Greeks, then the Persians, then the Bactrians and other Central Asian peoples, and finally the Indian peoples of the Punjab.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, reported that the ancient Persians always made important decisions twice first when they were drunk, and then again when they were sober.
Furthermore, the ancient Greeks referred to the Persians as barbarians too.
It seems possible to me that the Persians were a paper tiger, capable of putting huge numbers together but relatively ineffective, even incompetent, in using them.
The Persians are, after all, the people who invented chess.
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Moreover, the two other great peoples of the region, the Turks and Persians, are both under the sway of governments with an Islamist label, albeit of wildly different hues.
Yin Gang, a Middle East analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says China's overarching objective in the region is to maintain friendly ties with its four main groups: Arabs, Turks, Persians and Jews.
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The Ionian cities eventually lost their freedom, first to the Lydians and then to the Persians, whose attempt to conquer Greece ended with their defeat by the Greek allies at the battle of Plataea in 479 B.
Los Angeles is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the country, with immigrants like Mexicans, Persians, Albanians, Chinese, Russians, Israelis and Armenians carving out their own territories through ethnic markets, restaurants and entertainment native to their home countries.
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