Empire of Persia Crossword
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
 
 
Down: 1) Zoroastrian works believed to be compositionsby Zarathustra3) Main god of Zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was perceived to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu4) Series of tribes from southern Russia who, over a period of millennia, embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe; their greatest legacy was the broad distrubution of Indo-European languages throughout Eurasia 5) Later powerful Persian dynasty that would reach its peak under Shapur I and later fall to Arabic expansion7) Persian religion based on the teaching of the sixth-century-BCE. Its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions 8) Indo-Eurpean branch that settled in northern Persia 14) Persian administrators, usually members of the royal family, who governed a satrapy17) Those who preserved the teachings of Zarathustra in writing Across: 2) Parthians Persian dynasty that reached its peak under Mithradates6) Persian underground canal 9) First great Persian empire, which began under Cyres and reached its peak under Darius10) New capital of the Persian Empire established under the reign of Darius in 520 BCE11) Belief that dead ancestors can influence one's fortunes in life12) Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism 13) Persian empire founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great15) A book that contains the holy writings of Zoroastrianism16) A frontier state north of the Greek peninsula18) Indian Zoroastrians
 

 

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