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Date: 2005-08-03 02:59:56

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Um, actualy PERSIAN history falls naturally into two distinct periods: the pre-Islamic and the Islamic, the dividing point being the overthrow of the S?s?nians by the Arabs in the third decade of the seventh century of our era. These two periods occupy each 1,290 years: from Cyrus to the Arab conquest, 550 B. C. to A. D. 641; and from the Arab conquest to the present day, A. D. 1930. The Persians themselves always speak of their country as Ir?n, an ethnic name implying the habitat of the Iranians--a branch of the Indo-European family. The term Persia is derived from the name of the south-westerly province of P?rs (modern F?rs), where the first kings of United Ir?n, the Achaemenids, had their capitals Pasargadae and Persepolis (P?rsa).

As far as we know, the earliest Iranians to settle in what we now call Persia were the Medes who, migrating from the region of Transoxania or Turkestan, established themselves in the country lying between Rhages and Ekbatana in the northwest, probably in the eighth century B. C. Of the early Medes we know very little beyond what may be learnt from the Greek historians and occasional allusions in Assyrian inscriptions--for the Medes.
The Aryans are know for imagrating to India, but i've never heard of them being known for settling in the middle east, as far as Persia goes.  Persian is still spoken today; it is seperated into different dialects, Persian-farsi, the dialect of Iran, Persian-darhi, a dialect spoken in Afghanistan and several other dialects.  All the dialects naturally are related to arabic, in that they use simalar alphabets, which would justify the use of arabic "looking" scripts in the background, but i'm sure the game designers did thier homework when they designed the game, and since the original writer, Jordan Mechner, will be writting the script for the movie, I'm sure everyone will be thoughouly pleased with the outcome; and who needs to be perfectly acurate anyways, I'm sure the charaters will all be speaking english, unless they pull a Mel Gibson(God help us), and make everyone speak some dead language.