Iran was once called Persia, the Iranians, who suppianted
an earlier agicultural civilization, came from the east during the
scended millennium BC. they were an indo-european groupe related to the
Aryans of India.
In 549 BC cyrus the Great united the Medes and Persians stored
Jerusalem to the Jews. Alexander the Great conqured Persia in 333 BC, but
Persians in AD 226. Arabs brought Islam to Persia in the 7th century, replacing
the indigneous Zoroastian faith. After Persian political and cultural autonomy
reasserted in the 9th century, the arts and sciences flourished for several
centuries.