Ancient History/Iran

Chapter 1 - Prehistoric Iran 800,000 - 3000 BCE


  1. Ancient pre-historic Iran

Chapter 2 - Ancient Iran 3,000 - 1500 BCE


  1. The Elamites
Chapter 3 - The Achaemenid Empire 1500 - 330 BCE
  1. The Medes and the Early Achaemenids
  2. The Era of the three Dariuses
Chapter 4 - The Selucid Empire 330 - 65 BCE
  1. Alexander's Campaign and the Macedonian Conquest of Persia
  2. The Seleucids
Chapter 5 - The Parthian Empire 251 BCE - 226 CE
  1. The Early Arsacids 251 BC - 12 AD
  2. The Later Arsacids 12 AD - 226 AD
Chapter 6 - The Sassanian Empire 226 - 651
  1. The Early Sassanians 226 - 379 AD
  2. The Middle Sassanian Period 379 - 488 AD
  3. Qobad I and the Two Khusros 488 - 629 AD
  4. Anarchy and Downfall of the Sassanian Empire
  5. Last Remnants of Sassanian Rule

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*Content in this section is copied from the Wikibook on Iranian History.