WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Four of the above works-the Chahar Maqala, the History of Baihaqi, the Qabus Nameh and the Siasat Nameh-are considered by the poet Bahar as the four great masterpieces of early Persian prose. A number of authors of this period wrote both prose and poetry.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the first (Achaemenid) Persian Empire in the 5th century BC. Darius built the road to facilitate rapid communication on the western part of his large empire from Susa to Sardis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon, 539 B.C. From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome.