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The Importance of Zoroastrianism in the Persian Empire
Zoroastrianism was one of the most influential intellectual spiritual traditions that ever existed. It comes to be institutionalized as what today we might call Zoroastrianism in the 3rd, 4th and 5th centuries AD under a new Persian Empire. The Sassanian kings are clearly drawing on traditions that were very, very current in the earliest Persian Empire, the Echaemenid Empire.