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Persian

Published on Feb 04, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PERSIAN CULTURE

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INVENTIONS

6000 BC-2000 BC

  • Brick (6000 BC)
  • Wine (5000 BC)
  • Lute which lead to guitar(5000 BC)
  • Ziggurat (3000 BC)
  • Peaches (2000 BC)
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1700 BC-400 BC

  • Windmill (1700 BC)
  • The game, polo (521 BC)
  • Worlds oldest stapler (500 BC)
  • Spinach (500 BC)
  • Yakhchals (refrigerators) (400 BC)
  • Ice cream (400 BC)
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700 AD-

  • Cookie (700 AD)
  • Rhazes (alcohol in medicine) (864 AD-930 AD)

QANAT

  • In the year 685 BC
  • Used for irrigation
  • Still in use on farmland today
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SCIENTISTS

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  • Avicenna- Book of Modern Medicine
  • Khwarizmi- Alegbra
  • Sharzad- Thousand and One Nights
  • Omar Khayyam- Algebra
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MAHMOUND HESSABY

  • He was a science professor and he was the only Persian (Iranian) to work with Albert Einstein.
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1992

Some of the ways these inventions contribute to us

Wine, peaches, spinach, and cookies are all things we can eat or drink.

Windmills help us get energy.

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With guitars we can make music.

Bricks help us do constuction.

Polo, poker and backgammon are all games.

Staplers help people at work or school keep things together.

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