Zoroastrian

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Zoroastrian

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Religion of free choice and personal responsibility with emphasis on truthfulness, responsibility for the well being of fellow man and care for the natural environment

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Zoroastrian

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Good thoughts
Good words
Good deeds

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Basics

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One of the oldest monothestic religions

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Basics

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Founded by the prophet Zoroaster

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Basics

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Has Several parts/branches

A winged Disk - has 3 layers

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Signs & Symbols

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Fire

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Important Role
It is sacred
represents: Asha, purifying fire

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Zoroaster

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Born roughly around 1000 BCE

Was married and had 6 children and was a priest in the ancient polytheistic religion of Persia

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Vision

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Rejections
Amensha spentas
one creator god, ahura mazda
old deities delighted in war and

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Spread

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Only had 1 convert, his cousin

left to find a place more open to ideas

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Archaemenians

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Cyrus
Liberal and tolerance
Religious freedom
Men and money

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Archaemenians

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Jew
Dont mess with religion
Darius
Zoroastrianism flourishes

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New groups

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Alexander The great
Conquered Persia
Many priests killed

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The Seleucids

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Next

3 men

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The arcasids

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gathered the holy texts
ruled like cyrus
China

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The Sasarians

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Overthrow
Ardashir was disliked
used religious propoganda

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Conquest and Flight

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The arab conquest
Invasions of the turks and mongols
The parsis

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Conquest and Flight

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10th Century 
Fled
Gujurat, India
Promise
No missionary efforts
Only many in their own communities

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Holy Books

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The Avesta

Ancient dialect

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Holy Books

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The Avesta
Oldest
Contains guthas
The younger avesta
written in later years