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Bukhtishu (8th century?), Persian Christian physician of Academy of Gundishapur Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn (c. 940–1058), Christian physician in Persia Jabril ibn Bukhtishu (9th century), Christian physician
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The Persepolis Fortification Archive (PFA), also known as Persepolis Fortification Tablets (PFT, PF), is a fragment of Achaemenid administrative records of receipt, taxation, transfer, storage of food crops (cereals, fruit), livestock (sheep and goats, cattle, poultry), food products (flour, breads and other cereal products, beer, wine, processed fruit, oil, meat), and byproducts (animal hides ...
Under Cyrus the Great and Darius I, the Persian Empire eventually became the largest empire in human history up until that point, ruling and administrating over most of the then known world, [57] as well as spanning the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The greatest achievement was the empire itself.
Persian penetration into the Indian subcontinent occurred in multiple stages, beginning from the northern parts of the Indus River and moving southward. [7] As mentioned in several Achaemenid-era inscriptions, the Indus Valley was formally incorporated into the Persian realm through provincial divisions: Gandāra, Hindush, and Sattagydia.
In the history of economic thought, ancient economic thought refers to the ideas from people before the Middle Ages. Economics in the classical age is defined in the modern analysis as a factor of ethics and politics, only becoming an object of study as a separate discipline during the 18th century.
This is the earliest known extant prose book in the Persian language. Early 14th century copy of the Samanid-period Tarikhnama of Bal'ami, with Persian miniature depicting the arrow of old Wahraz killing Masruq, the Ethiopian king of Yemen. During the 9th and 10th centuries, there was a large amount of growth in literature, mostly in poetry.
Persepolis is derived from the Greek Περσέπολις, Persepolis, a compound of Pérsēs (Πέρσης) and pólis (πόλις, together meaning "the Persian city" or "the city of the Persians"). To the ancient Persians, the city was known as Pārsa (Old Persian: 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿), which is also the word for the region of Persia. [6] [7]