Iranian History

6 Iranian History Ancient Iran thumb|right|500px|Angro Mainyus devoring the Sacred Gayomaretan Geography of Iran and Ethnological and Political Divisions 00% Ancient pre-historic Iran 75% The Elamites 75% The Achaemenids The Medes and the Early Achaemenids 75% The Era of the three Dariuses 100% Alexander's Campaign and the Macedonian Conquest of Persia The Seleucids100% The Parthians The Early Arsacids 251 BC - 12 AD75% The Later Arsacids 12 AD - 226 AD75% The Sassanians The Early Sassanians 226 - 379 AD100% The Middle Sassanian Period 379 - 488 AD100% Qobad I and the Two Khusros 488 - 629 AD100% Anarchy and Downfall of the Sassanian Empire Last Remnants of Sassanian Rule100% Advent of Islam The Islamic Conquest of Iran The Umayyad Caliphate100% The Abbasid Caliphate /The Indigenous Dynasties: The Tahirids, the Samanids and the Saffarids Age of Literary Accomplishments The Early Medieval Period Mahmud Ghaznavi The Later Ghaznavids and the Seljuqs The Empire of Khwarezm Origin of Sufism The Mongols and the Ilkhanids The Invasion of Genghis Khan Halaku Khan and The Muslim Ilkhans Timur and the end of Mongol Rule The Golden Age of Iranian Civilization The Early Safavids Abbas I or Shah Abbas The Later Saffavids Nader Shah and the Qajars Nader Shah The Zand Dynasty The Rise of the Qajars The Great Game Modernity and The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism The Iranian Constitional Revolution Modern Iran The Pahlavis Ayatollah Khomeini and The Islamic Revolution /The Islamic Republic of Iran/ /Bibliography/ Asian history I 50% __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__