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Iranian inventions! Did you know this? Now you know?
http://www.pitt.edu/AFShome/s/o/sorc/public/html/iranian/BeingIranian.htm
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- Yes. I knew most of this. I also predict that Iran will become one of the next generation of regional super powers along with China, India, Russia and Brazil.
- It is common knowledge amongst all students of history or archeology that civilization began in the 'fertile crescent' along the Tigris and Euphrates river in what is current day Iraq. The 'cradle of civilization' began in Mesopotamia, again located in current day IRAQ. All the innovation and brilliance of the first civilization predated Islam.
- an atom bomb will never be one of these iranian inventions, unless it arrives courtesy of the US /Israel
- Wow, well, no, i didnt know it, since i am only in the 8th grade, but it is pretty useful info that i could use later on in life.
- Those are interesting and some very commendable inventions, trivia, and opinions. Let me add just a bit more. Iran's economy is marked by a bloated, inefficient state sector, over reliance on the oil sector, and statist policies that create major distortions throughout. Most economic activity is controlled by the state. Private sector activity is typically small-scale workshops, farming, and services. Iran is a source, transit, and destination country for women and girls trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude; according to foreign observers, women and girls are trafficked to Pakistan, Turkey, the Persian Gulf, and Europe for sexual exploitation, while boys from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are trafficked through Iran en route to Persian Gulf states where they are ultimately forced to work as camel jockeys, beggars, or laborers; Afghan women and girls are trafficked to the country for forced marriages and sexual exploitation; women and children are also trafficked internally for the purposes of forced marriage, sexual exploitation, and involuntary servitude Despite substantial interdiction efforts, Iran remains a key transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin to Europe. Highest percentage of the population in the world using opiates. Lacks anti-money-laundering laws
- Kind of reminds of the days of the cold war, both the East and West claimed ownership of nearly every invention known to the modern world. Certainly with Homo Sapiens generally accepted as originating in Africa (although not near Iran) many early discoveries should originate on that continent. Certainly current research has the most likely dispersal point of Homo Sapiens originating from within Africa. As to the development of culture and the associated elements it is beginning to been less clear. Archaeologist Nicholas Conard has advanced the hypothesis that culture began in the region of Swabia. His evidence comes from his excavating in caves east of Tubingen, 20 miles south of Stuttgart (Germany). His work is basically in an area between France, Switzerland, and Bavaria and is dated at some 40,000 years in the past. Nothing should be taken from the history of Mesopotamia or the area of the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as early areas of human development. However, it is increasingly apparent that cultural development occurred in many places and some times similar development occurred in widely (geographically) divergent locations. Sometimes at very different times and at other times at nearly the same time. Attempting to make a connection between achievements of the distant past and current peoples, ethnic groups, or cultural entities, is a very iffy business. The peoples who lived in specific location many thousands of years ago are likely not the same people who live in those areas today. It is far more realistic to view such developments as achievements of total homo sapiens and use that to develop common links between both the peoples of the past and those of today. Attempting to stretch the cause and effect can lead often lead to strange conclusions. For example, that the Asker of this question and the first responder joined Yahoo/Answers within a day or so of each other might lead some to make erroneous conclusions for what is in reality simply a coincidence.
- Yeah Persia was a great Empire that highly advanced civilization as we know it. But I did notice one thing. It was the translation of the Koran as being what was it? I think 1998 it said. Not True. I read the Koran in the 1960's when I was in the Marine Corps. Had a copy of it in Base Library. What struck me was how close it paralleled the old Testament and the Jewish Holy Books I am not even going to try and spell them. Also another thing I noticed was about Saladin the Great. King Richard the Loin Heart defeated Saladin in battle several times, and had driven Saladin's army back to Jerusalem. The reason King Richard did not take Jerusalem by storm he feared Saladin would put the population of Jerusalem to the sword before retreating. Reason King Richard feared that was because of him ordering every Arabic city and town he took by storm be put to the sword. In fact some say that is where the saying, "Kill them all. Let God sort them out," orginated from. Anyway that was good reading. Amazing how they have regressed instead of progessed isn't it?
- I'm not sure if Iran invented anything in particular but they did contribute to the Islamic Golden Age more than any other Muslim ethnic group. Some of the greatest Muslim thinkers, poets, artists and writers were of Persian stock.
- every country in the world claims that their country is the cradle of Civilization.....
- Yes I know
- Every country invents something. There are a million things that are invented. Big deal. What are you trying to prove?
- if sanskrit was invented in Iran, then why don't they speak it? I am not trying to argue, but just asking.
