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The Persians were the first people to establish regular routes of communication between three continents—Africa, Asia and Europe. They built many new roads and developed the world’s first postal service.

Interesting Facts About the Persian Empire

• The name “Persian” comes from the people’s original tribal name Parsua.
• The longest reigning Persian King was Artaxerxes II who ruled 45 years from 404-358 BC.
• The Persian culture held the truth in high esteem.
• The capital of the empire was the great city of Persepolis.

• Cyrus The Great. King of Persia and founder of the Persian empire (circa 600-529 BC), A remarkable leader who managed to unite the Persian Empire in a powerful kingdom.
• The Medes.
• Darius The Great.
• Xerxes.
• Cambyses.

The different factors that contributed to Persia’s major success as an influential empire were transportation, coordination, and their tolerance policy. The latter part of the Persian Empire forced everybody to follow Persian tradition and culture, which then eventually led to the downfall of Persia.

Two names in the West Evidently from the time of the Sassanids (226–651 CE) Iranians have called it Iran, meaning the “Land of the Aryans” and Iranshahr. In the mid 1930s, the ruler of the country, Reza Shah Pahlavi, moved towards formalising the name Iran instead of Persia for all purposes.

The Roman–Persian Wars, also known as the Roman–Iranian Wars, were a series of conflicts between states of the Greco-Roman world and two successive Iranian empires: the Parthian and the Sasanian. The expense of resources during the Roman–Persian Wars ultimately proved catastrophic for both empires.

The Parthian and Sassanian Persian Empires were too rich and too powerful, and too far away in real terms, to be destroyed by Rome; The Romans had a vast and sprawling dominion, that was vulnerable on a great many fronts, and was prone to internecine strife.

Persian Empire was older and larger (I am not sure about this) than the Roman Empire. However, when it comes to the title of Superpower, many historians say Rome was the world first true superpower.

Empires at their greatest extent

During his long reign, Amenhotep III presided over a golden age during the 18th dynasty when Egypt was the most powerful nation on Earth. And, although his grandson Tutankhamun is far more widely known today, it is Amenhotep III who was taken as the ultimate role model by subsequent monarchs.

Wars and armed conflicts

the Mongol Empire

Table ranking “History’s Most Deadly Events”: Influenza pandemic (1918-19) 20-40 million deaths; black death/plague (1348-50), 20-25 million deaths, AIDS pandemic (through 2000) 21.8 million deaths, World War II (1937-45), 15.9 million deaths, and World War I (1914-18) 9.2 million deaths.

Probably the most publicized peaceful era is the Pax Romana. Latin for “Roman peace,” this period of roughly 200 years was made famous by the 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon in his landmark book “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” [source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online].

791 people

Yes, actually more than one day with no deaths. No deaths occurred on September 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, or 13 in the year 1752. Incidentally in those days people believed their birth and death dates were predetermined in the “Book of Life” so a lot of people were ticked off at losing 11 days of their lives.

7,people

The world’s largest ethnic group is Han Chinese, with Mandarin being the world’s most spoken language in terms of native speakers. The world’s population is predominantly urban and suburban, and there has been significant migration toward cities and urban centres.

Under this definition, changes in lifestyle could cause an overpopulated area to no longer be overpopulated without any reduction in population, or vice versa….History of world population.

around 1.9 billion people

Human population, now nearing 8 billion, cannot continue to grow indefinitely. There are limits to the life-sustaining resources earth can provide us. In other words, there is a carrying capacity for human life on our planet. Every species has a carrying capacity, even humans.

Most populous nations by 2050 and 2100

around 1.5 billion to 2.0 billion people