Persian civilization is considered one of the most advanced civilizations of the ancient world. Several modern societies cherished ideas, and objects are credited to the Persian civilization.
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Persia's empire stretched from modern-day India to Turkey, downward through Egypt and upward through Syria. Persia present-day Iran is attributed to inventions, for instance, Yakhchal (Refrigerator), Sulfuric Acid, Battery, Backgammon, alphabet, the concept of human right, animation and so on, all of which were advanced later periods. The historian Herodotus standardized the destination "Persia," which comes from Greek. The people from the region of Persis refer themselves as Iranians.
The name Iran comes from Aryan, which implies being "free" or "noble" and having nothing to do with race. However, the reference to the ancient Iranian culture in the west is referred to as the "Persian" culture. Here are the top inventions made by the Persian.
After conjuring the city of Babylon, in 539 BC, Cyrus the Great set free all the slaves and allowed them to return home. Additionally, he affirmed that people should have freedom of worship and choice of religion. The statement by Cyrus the great is contained in the Cyrus Cylinder, a clay tablet, and is the first human right declaration in history. It is the official documentation that tells of the conquest by Cyrus the Great and the different regions that made up the Achaemenid Empire. The notion of human rights rapidly spread to India, Greece, and finally to Rome. The Achaemenid Empire granted religious thought and practice to its citizens, as well as many other freedoms withheld those of different cultures, including women's almost equal rights.
The Cyrus Cylinder
The statement was written with a cuneiform script, in the Akkadian language. Cyrus cylinder was discovered in Mesopotamia in 1879 among the ruins of Babylon and is currently kept in the British Museum. This declaration was translated into all six U.N. official languages. The first four articles of the Convention on Human Rights complement its stipulations.
The Persian developed the postal system and highway concepts. Darius, I developed the systems in the period between 522-486 BCE, which was instituted to facilitate faster movement and contact between the capitals Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis. The highways were then used to deliver messages between these cities, thereby forming the postal network. Horse-drawn wagons and Riders transported mail from one location to another, consisting mainly of official dispatches. According to Herodotus, Postal services started in ancient Persia in the six century during the reign of Cyrus, the great who was the first king of Achaemenid. The structure was rapid; men with horses waited at intervals along the highways during the days travel stopping for nothing.
By 400 BC, engineers in ancient Persia had developed the ice storage system called Yakhchal. The word Yakhchal is a Persian word "ice pit," which comes from two words Yakh meaning "Ice," and Chai meaning, "pit." It was an old evaporative cooler, which above the ground the structure was designed in doom shape and had hidden storage spaces. The structure was coupled with a thick brick wall, which acted as insulators to the storage spaces. These Structures were mainly found in ancient Persia many decades ago, and they remain standing.
Persians had mastered a way to store ice in the desert, which was brought from nearby mountains during the winter. Water was channeled into the Yakhchal and freeze upon resisting on the structure. Commonly, the wall was made in an east-west direction, and water was directed from the north side of the wall. Therefore, the shadow of the walls kept the water cool and made it freeze rapidly. The opening on the bottom allowed cold air to pour inside the Yakhchal in large volumes while the large conical shape had an opening at the very top, which guided any remaining heat in the structure outside.
The mortar that built the walls was water-resistance, referred to as Sarooj. Sarooj was composed of goat hair, egg whites, clay, sand, and specific portions of ash and was believed to be heat resistant and impenetrable to water. The structures had access to qanat (Water Supply System) or equipped with badgirs (ancient design of wind-towers or wind-catchers). These helped bring the temperature inside to freezing levels during summer periods in the desert. Ice store in the Yakhchal was used throughout mostly on hot summers for varied purposes, including food preservation, making flooded (a traditional Persian dessert), and chill treating. Presently the term Yakhchal is used in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, referring to the modern-day refrigerator.
The qanat trenches were manually dug and were the size of the person excavating the passageway, which could be several kilometers. The vertical shafts sunk at intervals of approximately 20 to 30m was used to remove dug constituents and provide aeration and admittance for maintenances. Primary Qanat passageways slanted down from alluvial pre-mountain fans to a village vent. Right there, the channels transmitted water to irrigation fields. Such schemes were designed with inordinate technical visualization and enabled Persian farmers to endure without surface water during prolonged periods of summer in the desert. These qanats are still in use in America, Morocco, China, and in many other places.
The oldest documentation about birthday celebration and the importance of birthday celebration is contained in the sacred book of the Avesta, the Zoroastrians, specifically the Farvardin Yasht. The historian Herodotus noted that Persians celebrated a birthday with much festivity, which included lots of desserts ( epiphore mata ), specialized meal, and sumptuous wines. According to the Zoroastrian tradition, a person's birthday is a special day for the prayers of that person to be answered. It is worth lighting candles, being generous, giving, and receiving gifts on one's birthday. In ancient Persia, the Birthday celebration was festivals to honor monarch birth. However, they spread to noble class then later to lower class citizens. Dessert serving was not only accompanied by a birthday celebration but followed every day's evening meal.
Modern animation has taken a huge jump, but the concept goes back to the bronze era in ancient Persia. Discovery of earthenware goblet in the province of Baluchestan and Sistan in the burnt city, which is believed to be about 5200 years. Sequences of drawings are directed of a goat jumping toward a twig and eating the leaves. Throughout the medieval period in Persia, sequential pictures similar to the one in goblet are common. An Italian archaeologist discovered the image in a burial site. However, Dr. Mansur Sadjadi, an archeologist from Iran, found the relationship between the images. It has been significant for researchers to find the meaning of artwork in bowls. The goblet's relevance was not immediately understood; however, it found its way to among top inventions from Persia. In music and entertainment, stringed instruments an example of Cartar (also referred to as tar ) and sestar accompanied vocals featured. Sestar is the precursor of the modern-day guitar.
Persian people first designed the battery. The Parthian battery consisted of simple components and produced current ranging from 1.5 to 2.0 volts using a pure electrolyte like vinegar. Although it may seem a little amount of current, the invention at the time was great. It comprises three key elements, a rod used as a cell, a pot, and a metallic rod. It was a simple ideology using a pot with electrolyte and the rod used as the cell. Later on civilization, each period worked on the idea to make it better. In the modern-day, we use battery batteries in the most advanced form in almost every field. With all the advancement, the invention can be credited to the ancient Persian civilization. The batteries were used to power small utilities in ancient Persia at times. The artifacts of the batteries found at Mahoze left the discoverers amazed. However, it is not clear which function the batteries were used to perform.
Almost everyone goes through algebra in his/her school syllabus. It is little known that it is among the Persian invention, however. Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarazmi, a scholar and a Muslim mathematician, invented algebra. The scholar discovered several methods of algebra, which are still relevant today. He proposed and taught algebra as an individual science. Additionally, Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarazmi introduced and calculated thousands of formulas, methods, and rules giving information about earth, space, and other related fields. Therefore, we can say that the father of algebra originated from ancient Persia, and the invention is credited to Persian civilization.
A pioneering Iranian scholar Zakariya Razi (865-925), discovered sulphuric acid and alcohol. He was an astronomer, a geographer, and a mathematician. The unearthing of sulfuric acid transformed numerous aspects back then up to date, and it is a fundamental part of chemical engineering study. There is extensive use of sulphuric acid in various applications, including using an electrolyte in lead-acid batteries, drain cleaners, and different clothing products. To add, Zakariya Razi discovered alcohol. However, it is not clear how it was used in those days.
Today, Alcohol is one of the mostly used products in the world. It is used in drinks, foods, and preservatives in its different states and different compositions. It was first invented by a Persian physician named Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi. He worked on different gases and chemicals and invented Alcohol.
Later on, the form of Alcohol was simplified by other people. We know that Alcohol is dangerous for health and its overdose can cause death. That's the reason why people worked on its composition to make it useful in various conditions. In short, Alcohol is another invention by a Persian person.
Another amazing concept developed by Persian civilization is animation. Today, the animation and motion graphics industry is one of the largest industries in the world. This industry produces billions of dollars every year. From movies to games and from TV serials to ads, animation has become an essential part of our lives. In Iran, a set of similar images was discovered by a team at a burial site. They found the set of images consisting of a goat, jumping and eating leaves from a tree. They did not notice the combination at first. However, later on, it was observed by an archaeologist that all of these images are related to each other in a specific manner. When they combined the images, simple animation was represented. This was the most wonderful discovery as those images were believed to be more than 5000 years old.
The Persian civilization used the concept of animation 5000 years ago. Today we are using their animation concept in our lives. The idea of animation has been changed, but the basic concept is same which says that combining a set of images in a specific manner can produce a animation. By using this technique, we have made advanced 2D and 3D animations with photo-realistic graphics and visual effects.
Backgammon is a board game which was design and plan in Iran. It consists of a board with some small rolls and dice. Two players can play this game, the one who removes the pieces of opponent wins the game. A few years ago, this game was discovered at the old ruins of Iran by a team. It tells us that the board games which we play today are the advanced and modified versions of the original Backgammon game. The Backgammon game also influences the games like carom and chess.
Backgammon game is still played in Iran and other countries. You can easily see this game in the parks and hotels of Iran. People play this game, even some small competitions of Backgammon are held all across the world. So this great game has survived for several thousand years. It means we can consider that Persian civilization was also good in games and entertainment field.
Hookah is basically a small piped system used for smoking and vaporizing along with some flavors and tastes. There are different parts of a hookah each providing a special functionality to it. The water is used for vaporizing, the pipes are used for smoking, and the base is used for flavoring. The Persian civilization invented Hookah and used it for hundreds of years. It was the basic and most commonly used way to smoke and vaporize. Even kings and ottomans used Hookah for their personal use.
After some time, Hookah was developed in a better form and used by other civilizations as well as in other regions of the world. Now, Hookah is used in almost every region in the world with hundreds of different types.
The Persian civilization also invented some musical instruments which are still in use and guitar is one of them. In the Persian civilization era, some people made a very simple version of a guitar named 'Tar' which was made from a wooden box along with some strings attached. It worked like a small music system and produced music when strings were plucked in a specific manner. This was a great invention at that time because there were only a few musical instruments that time. After some time, the empires became addicted to the guitar music and the musicians used to play it before the empires on a regular basis. It was considered a sign of comfort and relaxation.
Today, we have a lot of guitar types which produce different types of music with different tones. All of these guitars are the advanced versions of the original guitar made by the Persian civilization. So we can say that the Persian people worked a lot in the music field too.
The Persians are responsible for many more innovations and inventions, than the mentioned above. They were advanced in almost every aspect, from chemicals to food and from transport to the medicine industry. All the above discoveries have both intellectual and pragmatic values that show the Persian civilization was among the most progressive civilization in ancient world. Expansion of notions like human rights materialized from this civilization, which is studied and highly cherished.
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