Persian Empire

Agricultural, Zoroastrianism.

They were there because they had been exiled from their land during the First Destruction.

Iowa status is as follows:

City State Status BSL

Atkins IA Confirmed

Alburnett IA Confirmed Pit Bulls defined as dangerous

Anamosa IA Confirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Belle Plain IA Confirmed Pit bulls

Benton County IA Confirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Blairstown IA Confirmed pit bulls

Buffalo Center IA Confirmed Pit bulls

Camanche IA Being discussed (11/07)

Cedar Rapids IA VOTED NO to BSL updated 10/07

Clarence IA Confirmed pit bulls

Conrad IA Unconfirmed Banned Rotties

Council bluffs IA Confirmed Banned pit bulls

Coutier IA Unconfirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Carter Lake IA Confirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Dallas Center IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Dakota City IA Confirmed Pit bulls and Rotties

Des Moines IA Confirmed

Being Discussed (07/09 - Full breed ban)

Pit Bulls are defined as vicious and require special license requirements.

Dexter IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Donnellson IA Confirmed Pit Bulls and Rotties

Dumont IA Confirmed Pit bulls

Durant IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Earlham IA Being Discussed (08/12)

Eddyville IA Being Discussed (12/07) Pit bull ordinance

Fairfax IA Confirmed pit bulls

Fairfield IA Confirmed Restrictions on Pit Bulls, Rotties, Dobes, Huskys, Malamutes, GSDs, Malanois AND ANY dog over 100lbs!!!

Forest City IA Confirmed Unsure

Freemont IA Confirmed banned Pitbulls (2/8)

Garrison IA Confirmed pit bulls

Gliddon IA Confirmed

Hiawatha IA Confirmed pit bulls

Hopkinton IA Being discussed (3/11)

Keystone IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Lake Mills IA Unconfirmed Banned apbt, amstaffs, rotties and mixes of the above.

Logan IA Being discussed (12/08)

Lockridge IA Unconfirmed Banned Pit Bulls & Rotties

Luzerne IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Marion IA Being Discussed

Marchalltown IA Being Discussed (10/07)

Miles IA Confirmed Banned pit bulls

Mt. Auburn IA Confirmed

Mt. Pleasant IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

Monticello IA Confirmed pit bulls

Muscatain IA Confirmed Banned new Pit Bulls, owners can keep dogs with restrictions.

Newhall IA Confirmed

North Liberty IA VOTED NO to BSL updated 10/07

Norway IA Confirmed Pit bulls

Olin IA Confirmed pit bulls

Oxford Junction IA Confirmed pit bulls

Ottumwa IA Confirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Palo IA Confirmed pit bulls

Pocohontas IA Confirmed Banned Pit Bulls

Rake IA Unknown

Rockwell IA Unconfirmed Unknown

Scarville IA Unknown

Shellsburg IA Confirmed pit bulls

Sioux IA Confirmed Pit bull ban

Sigourney IA Confirmed Ban on Pitbulls, Rotties no grandfather clause for existing dogs

Spencer IA Being Discussed (08/08)

Spirit Lake IA Confirmed (08/08) Restrictions on Pit Bulls

Thompson IA Unknown

Urbana IA Confirmed Pit bulls

Van Home IA Confirmed pit bulls

Vinton IA Confirmed

Walford IA Confirmed

Wapello IA Confirmed Banned, Amstaffs, Staffs, and Bull Terriers. BUT it's OK to have an APBT.

Waterloo IA Being Discussed (02/08) Proposed ordinance outlining a list of potentially dangerous dog breeds --- pit bull terriers, Rottweilers, wolf hybrids, chows, Doberman pinschers and others ---

Watkins IA Confirmed Pit Bulls

West Liberty IA Being discussed (9/08) WARNING - There is NO grandfather clause, if passed all pit bulls will have to leave the city or be killed

Wilton IA Unconfirmed Unknown

Winterset IA Unconfirmed Unknown

Yale IA Confirmed Banned, pit bulls, English mastiffs, Rotties and Dobermans

The Book of Daniel chapter 10

While many of the Hebrew aristocracy deported to Babylon seventy years earlier, as a reprisal for their rebelling against Babylonian rule, had settled into life in Babylon, about 40,000 of them were motivated to return to Judah to try to reclaim their ancestral land, and were also motivated by a desire to re-establish the destroyed temple as the centre of their religious leanings, which had remained strong, even if it had been modified by absorbing aspects of the Babylonian religions.

They were influenced by prophecies and a desire to re-establish their religious centre in Jerusalem where Judaism had been centred by Jewish King Josiah over a hundred years earlier. The temple had been destroyed by the Babylonians at the time of the deportation seventy years earlier as part of the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar's efforts to suppress the revolutionary spirit of the Judeans.

Cyrus the Persian king, who ruled the empire after having conquered the Babylonian empire was well disposed to granting requests of his peoples provided they were reasonable and not destabilising, and readily allowed them to return, led by Zerubbabel, to their ancestral land and re-establish their cult centre in Jerusalem.

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The ancient Iranians separated from the Indo-Aryan branch around 4,700 years ago. Since then, they followed a religion similar to Hinduism, with gods that could find parallels in the Hindu pantheon as well as divinities that were proper to the Irnaians alone.

The ancient Iranians who lived on the steppes of Central Asia followed a set of beliefs that incorporated various deities such as Mitra (Mithra or Mehr), Varuna, Verethragna (victory), Hvar Kshaethra (sun), Vayu (wind) etc... mostly nature deities but also anthropomorphic gods, that had human qualities of bravery, piety, compassion and daring.

The prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) preached between 3,100 and 3,400 years ago, amongst the Bronze Age Iranians (who lived from the western regions of China to the plains of Moldova) of the east, in the Kingdom of Bactira, that covered eastern Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The first convert was Kavi Vishtaspa, a king of the Kayanid dynasty (Bronze Age to Iron Age?) who championed Zoroaster's cause and helped spread the new religion throughout his Kingdom.

While some Zoroastrians and scholars see him as an innovators who created a new religious system, many others however believed that he merely reformed the old Aryan pantheon and modified the already existing Mazdean religion into a belief that disfavor the anthropomorphic gods or Daevas in favor of the Asuras, while India did the exact opposite.

Though some argue in favor of the first monotheism, Zoroastrian developed from an early date an ambiguous belief system that prior to its canonisation could be interpreted at times as monotheistic, dualistic, or even pantheistic with arguments in favor of all three continuing to this day.

The Mede Kingdom (625-549 BC) supplanted the Kayanids and it is believed that the rulers and much of the populace followed a localized form of Zoroastrianism, judging by names of people and rulers as well as the importance of the city of Ray near modern Tehran among Zoroastrian pilgrims and travellers spreading the faith westwards.

Contrary to popular belief, the Arsacid Parthians/Scythians were not purely Mithraic nor were they indifferent to religion as it was during the reign of King Balash or Valash (51-80) that Zoroastrian priests were ordered to compile Avestan religious and liturgy traditions into texts. While the early Parthians were no doubt sympathetic to the ecult of Mithra, the late Arsacids no doubt followed Zoroastrianism, at least under its contemporary form mixed with ancient Mazden beliefs.

The Sassanians revived the Zoroastrian religion under various forms including its dualistic and Zurvanist forms, and for a short time, under the Mazdakite form.

Zoroastrianism was once practiced widely from western China and the Tarim basin, the cities of Kasghar and Hotan to modern day Turkey and beyond.

In late Sassanian times, Christianity and Manicheism made many inroads into the Persian Empire, gaining many followers, including among influential people such as nobles and priests though such conversions were viewed with disfavor.

The collapse of the Sassanian Empire between 633 to 651 brought Islam to what had been Persian lands from Yemen and Oman to Pakistan and Turkmenistan. Zoroastrianism remained the religion of the majority of Iranians however, according to Jamshid Choksy, at least till the 11th century when Islam became the majority religion until today. Since 1935, a greatly shrunken core of what was Persia has become Iran.

There was no 'church' and Israel was in northern Palestine. Hebrews who had been deported to Babylon by the Babylonians were allowed to return to Jerusalem to attempt to reclaim ancestral lands, and on the side rebuilt the destroyed temple.

Typically, they are called Diaspora Jews or Jews of the Diaspora.

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The Jews of Persia were Hebrews that moved to Persia. They were the same people.

The Romans.

The record of ('Queen') Vashti is in the book of Esther. She was the King's first wife, or queen consort, or most prominent/leading wife, but was deposed for disobedience to her husband, the King. She was replaced by Esther, a Jewess.

The book of Esther does not say that Vashti had any children by the King. As she had incited the King's disfavor and been dismissed from the household, whatever happened to her after that was not considered significant enough to include in the bible record.

In Persia about 3,500 years ago the prophet Zarathustra founded Zoroastrianism.

You are thinking of Sufism. It is minor in the sense of having fewer members than other varieties of Islam such as Sunni Islam or Shiite Islam, but no doubt its members do not consider it to be a minor religion. Every religion is the most important religion in the world, to those who believe in it.

To bear and raise children, to work in the house and food garden, and supervise any slaves working there.

Wherever possible, by boat on the rivers and seas. For the inland areas, they established roads and a fast horsed courier service.

Zoroastrianism one of the world's oldest monothestic religions, dated to 3500BC.

He allowed the Judean upper class, which had been deported to Babylon, to return to Judea to try to reclaim their ancestral estates. Half preferred to stay in Babylon where the y had become well established. Those who returned had mixed success - some could not prove their claim to lands, others succeeded.

This is a biblical story which seeks to entrench Jewish influence in Persian history. There is no firm historical base for this, and it should be regarded as on a par with the stories which exist in each culture. Julius Caesar's claim of descent from the goddess Venus is typical of the stories which people repeat. It is interesting that ancient Roman historians warned against the descent claims in Rome; the same applies in many cultures and families then and today.

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He was a religious leader who preached Ahura Mazda - the origins of today's Zoroastrians/Parsees.

Yes. Islam is followed in Persia. Most of the followers of Shia sect of Islam.