WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Zoroastrianism became the foremost religion of the Achaemenid (550–330 BCE), Parthian (247 BCE–224 CE) and Sasanian (224–651 CE) empires, engaging with the religions of the Jews and with nascent Christianity and Islam.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 650 BCE, the Zoroastrian faith, a monotheistic religion founded on the ideas of the philosopher Zoroaster, had become the official religion of ancient Persia. Later Judaism and then Christianity came to Persia via Mesopotamia, with both developing vibrant faith communities in Persian lands.

Detailed explanation-3: -Zoroastrianism was founded in Persia in the 6th century BCE by the priest Zarathustra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster. Zarathustra reformed existing Persian polytheism with his teachings about the highest god, Ahura Mazdā, and his primeval clash with Angra Mainyu, the Destructive Spirit.

Detailed explanation-4: -Zoroastrianism, the dominant pre-Islamic religious tradition of the Iranian peoples, was founded by the prophetic reformer Zoroaster in the 6th or 7th century BCE (if not earlier).

Detailed explanation-5: -The “three Persian religions” include: Zoroastrianism (xiān-jiào ) Christian Church of the East (jǐng-jiào ) Manichaeism (míng-jiào )