SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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In regards to minority religions in Persia, Cyrus and other leaders
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Persecuted them
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Gave them religious freedom
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Forcibly removed them from Persia
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Taxed them heavily
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, was a devout Zoroastrian. By most accounts, Cyrus was a tolerant ruler who allowed his non-Iranian subjects to practice their own religions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Zoroastrianism was founded in Persia in the 6th century BCE by the priest Zarathustra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster.
Detailed explanation-3: -Islam has been the official religion and part of the governments of Iran since the Arab conquest of Iran c. 640 AD. It took another few hundred years for Shia Islam to gather and become a religious and political power in Iran.
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