TY - BOOK ID - 127043204 TI - Towards one world : ancient Persia and the West PY - 2010 SN - 190731802X 9781566568227 9781907318023 1566568226 PB - London: East & West, DB - UniCat KW - East and West KW - Achaemenid dynasty, - 559-330 B.C. KW - Iran KW - Iran KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127043204 AB - The Persian Empire was the first major eastern power to actually extend its borders into Europe. The Persians came in the 6th century BC as a great power seeking to incorporate parts of south-eastern Europe as provinces into a centrally ruled and administered empire. Yet Iran's foothold in Europe was tiny, distant and brief: of all the peoples form the East who entered Europe, the Iranian presence appears the least, covering little more than sixty years....More than anything else, what Iran contributed to posterity was an idea. In articulating the concept of a single universal creator, ancient Persian civilization was the first to grope towards the idea of a single universal world. The idea of one world was to persist ER -