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Until 1935. I wrote a paper suggesting that actually the Assyrian empire was what formed the Persian empire. Had a decent debate with a Cambridge don after the paper was critiqued. I really enjoyed my classics work.

No it was 1935 when it became Iran, iran is Persian for Persia, suggested by the Nazi german ambassador would you believe

Basically yes...the current Iran is a fraction of the empire that covered most of North Africa to India and southern Russia through the caucuses. It was really the first of the worlds empires..then came Greek/ Roman/ and the European empires

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500 bc the Persian empire covered 45% of the known world and covered 50 million of the world's population of 112 million