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Intro

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Hello everyone, welcome to

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a History of Persia supporters

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bonus episode, Persia

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and the Renaissance. I'm

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very excited for this one, it's

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actually based on a paper proposal

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I wrote in college, but at

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the time I actually had the same

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professor for two classes, and

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she mercifully let me use

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the same grade for the term paper

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in both, so I could focus

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on other things at the time.

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Which actually includes launching

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this podcast. However,

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I still had the proposal floating

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around in a Google Drives folder, so

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here we are. My basic

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thought process was pretty

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simple, and something I'm

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surprised more people haven't

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written about. In premise,

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the European Renaissance was

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defined by a rediscovery

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and repopularization of ancient

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Greek and Roman literature, following

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the calamitous changes of the Black

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Death, the fall of the Byzantine Empire,

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and the Spanish Reconquista. In and

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among the many Hellenic philosophers,

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conquering Caesar's, and

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long-forgotten heroes, were

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also many tales of the Persian

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Empire. Surely

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the great minds of the Renaissance must

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have had some thought on that as well.

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Well, they did, but it often

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just boiled down to a comparison

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between them and their contemporary

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great Eastern foe, the Ottoman

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Empire and other Islamic powers,

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to ancient Greece and Persia.

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Other Renaissance writing on the Achaemenid

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Persians exists, but

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none of it is very popular, which

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makes it extremely difficult for primarily

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English-speaking people like me to

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track it down, and even

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harder to access it as most

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of it is not digitized. However,

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what I could find were a few

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examples from England, thanks

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to Dr. Jane Grogan of

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the University College Dublin and

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her aptly named book The Persian

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Empire in English Renaissance

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writing. So this episode

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will feature Queen Elizabeth I's interaction

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with a distinctly Achaemenid-sounding monarch,

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and that time Cyrus the Great was

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inspired by the success of Julius

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Caesar. Conveniently,

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these Persian influences on the

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English Renaissance also happen chronologically

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in order of how much time I actually

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want to spend on them. So,

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we open with a letter and rather

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than explaining it, I

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feel like the text can just speak for

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itself. Elizabeth,

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by the grace of God, Queen of England,

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etc., to the right mighty

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and right victorious Prince, the

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great Sophie, Emperor

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of the Persians, Medes, Parthians,

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Hyrcans, Carmanians, Margians,

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of the people on this side and beyond

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the River Tigris, and

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of all men and nations between

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the Caspian Sea and the Gulf

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of Persia, greetings

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and most happy increase in all

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prosperity.

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Dated in England in our famous

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city of London, the

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25th day of the month of April,

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in the year

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of the creation of the world, 5523, and

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of the Lord and God Jesus Christ, 1561, and

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of our reign the third. Even

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if you understood all that

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on a knowing what all the words are and

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who the names refer to level, then

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you probably started thinking, what

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in the world is this letter

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talking about? For

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anybody that needs a little bit of catch up, this

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is a letter from Queen Elizabeth I of England,

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written in 1561 CE or AD, and

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also dated using the Christian Anomundi

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year 5523, as

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well as the Queen's own

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Third Regnal Year.

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It is addressed to an unnamed

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or at least not obviously named

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ruler of somewhere

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that the English Queen perceived

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