CIVILIZATION
PERSIAN
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Question
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Polytheistic
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there was no religion
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monotheistic
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Judaism
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Persian religion was Zoroastrianism, but there were many religions practiced within the Persian Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -Zoroastrianism was the state religion of three Persian dynasties, until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century A.D. Zoroastrian refugees, called Parsis, escaped Muslim persecution in Iran by emigrating to India.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “three Persian religions” include: Zoroastrianism (xiān-jiào ) Christian Church of the East (jǐng-jiào ) Manichaeism (míng-jiào )
Detailed explanation-4: -Almost all Iranians as Muslim, with 90–95% thought to associate themselves with the official state religion – Shia Islam – and about 5–10% with the Sunni and Sufi branches of Islam.