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History time: Naqshe Rostam

At the Norooz festival in the Spring of 488 BCE, Darius, the great king of kings of the Achaemenid empire, presented stone reliefs to his guests from all regions to represent an understanding of the diversity of his empire. On the rock it was carved in Persian Cuneiform:

"This is the persian. This is the mede. This is the Elamite. This is the Parthian. This is the Areian. This is the Bactrian. This is the Sogdian. This is the Chorasmian. This is the Drangianian. This is the Arachosian. This is the Sattagydian. This is the Gandaran. This is the Indian. This is the Saca. This is the Babylonian. This is the Assyrian. This is the Arab. This is the Egyptian. This is the Armenian. This is the Cappadocian. This is the Sardian. This is the Ionian. This is the Scythian. This is the Thracian. This is the Lybian. This is the Nubian. This is the man from Maka. This is the Carian."

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