History of Persia/Iran

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	Hint	Answer
1	Persian King, who conquered Babylon and Lydia	Cyrus II
2	Name of his dynasty	Achaemenids
3	Legendary prophet and worshipper of Ahura Mazda	Zoroaster
4	Macedonian king, who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great
5	Empire, which was Romes main rival in the first centuries A.D.	Parthian Empire
6	Dynasty, which overthrow this empire	Sasanians
7	King of this dynasty, who led Persia to a golden age (570 - 628)	Khosrow II
8	Title of the Persian "King of Kings"	Shahanshah
9	Western name of the polyhistor Ibn Sina	Avicenna
10	Turkic dynasty, which defeated the Ghaznavids and later caused the 1. Crusade	Seljuqs

	Hint	Answer
11	Name of the Mongolian Khanate of Persia	Ilkhanate
12	Lame general, who conquered this Khanate	Timur
13	Dynasty, which ruled Persia in the 16. to 18. Century	Safavid dynasty
14	Capital city of this dynasty from 1598 to 1736	Isfahan
15	Conference of the allied Powers of WWII in 1943	Tehran Conference
16	Year of the Islamic Revolution	1979
17	Ayatollah, who became the leader of the revolution	Ruhollah Khomeini
18	Country, which invaded Iran in 1980	Iraq
19	US-President, whose administration secretly sold weapons to the Iran	Ronald Reagan
20	Iranian president, who signed a nuclear deal with Barack Obama	Hassan Rouhani