Persian

Persia (modern Iran) contained an ancient civilization. It first appears in the Civ series in Civ2 with a pale blue color shared with Chinese and Americans; capital Persepolis

Nationality: Persian

Persia is the name of a kingdom located in the middle east. Its residents were persians, a group of smelly africans who migrated from northern asia to this area at about 200 BC, Then they were separated to three groups, Medians, Parsians & Parthians, each of them resided in various parts of the area.

The first empire was built by the Medians, they created a vast & strong nation, it became a moderately strong kingdom, but After a few hundred years, Cyrus The Great, One of the Parsians gathered an army and took over the emopire, He created one of the greatest, most civilized and powerful kingdoms

the world has ever seen, He conquered many land, including the Babylonians.

But Cyrus was a very fair and just leader, he never killed the people of conquered lands, instead he respected their beliefs and made a better life for them.

After Cyrus died in a battle while conquering in the east, his son Kamboudjie took up the throne, he continued his father's path and conquered Egypt, But suddenly he died, and a scandal took place about someone who claimed the throne pretending he was Kamboudjie's brother, but he was indetified, after that, one the Parsian Nobles, name Darius took the throne, He who now is called Darius I or Darius The Great was a very competent man, he was a genius in management and finacial matters and soon took the empire to it's highest position, he conquered some of the neighbour lands and sent two armies to conquer greece, but was unsuccessful both time, although he conquered Thracia.

After the death of Darius I, his son Xarxes became the king, he conquered Athens and burnt it to the ground (as revenge about athens helping a revolt in Darius's time). then he retured, soon the greeks formed up an army and the defeated the persians.

after Xarxes the Achamenian empire fell into ruin and became weaker, and at last it was conquered by Alexander The Great, who burnt down Takhte Jamshid, as revenge for athens. after him his successors ruled persia as the seleucid empire, but after about a century of their reign, The parthians revolted and took over the country, they created another huge and powerful empire, this time their oppnent in the west were the Romans, Parthians gave the roman empire its first complete defeat (defeating Crassus's army), and stood forever on their way, until a man named Ardeshir Babakan revolted and took over the Empire. He created the Sasanid Empire, yet another powerful empire, who also stood against the romans for many years.

after 3 centuries, The arab muslims attacked the empire, and at a time when incompetent kings had the power, and defeated the sasanids, they Islam to persia, that was well accepted as a better religion, but apart Islam, the other thongs Arabs did to persians were a disaster.

after that many kingdoms were created in this area, but they were never as powerful as the ancient (pre Islam) empires, the mongols, the turks and some other people ransacked the land. until now Persia (now Iran) has never become as powerful as it once was.