| November 12, 2003
Persia uber ales
Who are the Iranians?
Reza Vatandoust, Law Student Society
Faculty of Law-UTS
Sydney, Australia 1. Twelve thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming.
2. They invented writing.
3. They figured out how to tell time.
4. They founded modern mathematics.
5. In the Code of Hammurabi, they invented the first legal system
that
protects the weak, the widow and the orphan.
6. Five thousand years ago, they had philosophers who attempted
to list
every known thing in the world.
7. They were using Pythagoras' theorem 1,700 years before Pythagoras.
8. They invented artificial building materials, some kind of
pre-fab-crete stuff used to construct high-rise towers.
9. Northern Iran, is assumed to be the place we're all descended
from.
10. They were the first people to build cities and live in them.
11. For thousands of years, they wrote the greatest poetry, history
and "sagas" in the world and they still
do.
12. Because they were great horse breeders, they invented the cavalry
in
war, Knights of the King originate in Ancient Persia, and
they invented other things like the Game of Polo (Cho-gun).
13. They invented the postal system
14. Emperor Darius the conqueror invented and built the Suez Canal
giving access to the Persian Navy to the Mediterranean Sea
(Infact that is precisely how the Moslem armies went as far as Spain
some thousand years later)
15. The Iranian Museum in Tehran contains some of the most outstanding
stone, metal and clay sculptures and inscriptions created
in the history of the world. Some of them are more than 7,000 years
old. If a bomb hits this place, art lovers around the world will
go into mourning.
16. The first school for astronomers was established by Iranians. This
is how the "wise men" got to be so wise. They knew how to
follow the stars.
17. Beginning around 200 A.D., the Iranians founded universities that
exported teachers throughout the civilized world to teach
medicine, mathematics, philosophy, theology, literature and poetry
inter alia...
18. Abraham, the father of Israel, was from Persia.
19. Abraham, the father of Islam, was from Persia (Which means Abraham
was Persian)
20. Abraham, the father and "model" of Christian faith, was from Persia. * Send
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