Quotes About Persia

As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.

An attempt by the Mongols to introduce paper money in Persia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries flopped because no one would accept it. The public had no confidence in the paper money despite the awesomely coercive decrees that always marked Mongol rule.

The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties.

At a grand banquet, Esther was made Queen of Persia. When the king wanted to see Esther, he sent for her. No one could go to the king's rooms without an invitation. Not even the queen.

Y había decidido que Persia, la misteriosa y exótica Persia, era el sitio donde se convertiría en alguien, donde haría que la sociedad valorará su diferencia y no la excluyera por ella

Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

Fourthly, a very great proportion of Asia and Africa, with some part of Europe, are Mahometans; and those in Persia, who are of the sect of Hali, are the most inveterate enemies to the Turks; and they in return abhor the Persians.

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

Carus, taking off a cap which he wore to conceal his baldness, assured the ambassadors, that, unless their master acknowledged the superiority of Rome, he would speedily render Persia as naked of trees as his own head was destitute of hair.

Indeed, our concept of "East versus West"—or, as it has been called, "the clash of civilizations"—arises from Greek opposition to Persia.

new ruler occupied himself largely with reforming Persia: its administration, its army, its treasury, and its capital. To Khusro, such categories were not discrete. One of the relatively few maxims that can be reliably attributed to him reads, "The throne depends on the army, the army on revenue, revenue on agriculture, and agriculture on justice.

His dekkan system was not merely preserved by Persia's Arab conquerors but would eventually appear as the model for European feudal vassalage (more because of convergence than shared ancestry).

Archaeologists believe that wine-making began in Georgia and northern Persia some time between 6000 BC and 5000 BC.

The Chinese and Persians did not lack technological inventions such as steam engines (which could be freely copied or bought). They lacked the values, myths, judicial apparatus and sociopolitical structures that took centuries to form and mature in the West and which could not be copied and internalised rapidly. France and the United States quickly followed in Britain's footsteps because the French and Americans already shared the most important British myths and social structures.

Esfahan, nesf-é jahan! is what the Persians of today say. 'Isfahan, half of the world!

five days later, the Politburo heard his report on the situation in the Caucasus and decided "to pursue toward Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, and Persia a maximally conciliatory policy, that is, aimed primarily at avoiding war."[381]

So far, Maimonides had penned all his writings and letters in the Arabic which the Jews in Spain, North Africa, Egypt, Syria, and Persia were using at that time. However, like nearly all Jewish–Arabic authors, he employed the Hebrew alphabet.

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

to back the man they knew, Cyrus, for the throne of Persia.

But then Cyrus was killed in a battle on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 BCE.

the other, a fragile alliance of Thebes, Corinth, Argos, and Athens, backed by Persia.

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.

A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan's largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.

Achaemenid Persian