HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Arabs
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Persians
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Kurds
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Persians are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran. They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.
Detailed explanation-2: -Persian, predominant ethnic group of Iran (formerly known as Persia).
Detailed explanation-3: -Persians live in Iran to the Indus River of Pakistan and to Turkey in the west. Arabs trace their ancestry to the original inhabitants of tribes of Arabia from the Syrian Desert and Arabian Peninsula; Persians are a part of the Iranian inhabitants. Arabs speak Arabic; Persians speak Iranian languages and dialects.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the ancient Persian empire is in modern-day Iran.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Persians were Iranian people who arrived in what is today Iran c. 1000 BC and settled a region including north-western Iran, the Zagros Mountains and Persis alongside the native Elamites. The Persians were originally nomadic pastoralists in the western Iranian Plateau.