Table of Contents:

• History of Norooz
• Traditions of Norooz

• Aryan Migrations
• Median Empire
• Achaemanid Empire
• Life of the common man, and government during the Achaemenids

• Ashkanid Dynasty
• Society, culture, and economy of Ashkanid society
• Early Sasanians
• Maani and Shapur I
• The Golden Age of Shapur II
• Sasanians after Vahram V
• Kavad I and Mazdak
• Beginning of the End
• End of the Sasanian Empire
• Life under Sasanians

Chapter Three (Islamic Era)

• Omavid Rulers
• Sasanid Principalities
• Abbasid Caliphate
• Iranian Independent Movements
• Ghaznavid, Saljuqs and other Turkic Dynasties
• Esmaeelis, Kharazmshahn, and Mongol Attack

• Il-Khans
• Teymur's Attack
• Era of Chaos
• Safavid Dynasty
• Reign of Shah Ismail

• Reign of Shah Tahmasp I
• Reigns of Ismail II and Mohammad
• Beginning of Reign of Shah Abbas
• Golden Age of Shah Abbas
• Reign of Safi I, Abbas II, and Soleyman I
• Soltan Hossein and the Afghan Invasion
• End of Afghan Invasion and Reign of Tahmasp II

• Nader's Rise to Power
• Nadershah's Reign
• Iran After the Death of Nader

• Kareem Khan's Reign
• Successors of Kareem Khan and Rise of Qajars

• Reign of Agha Mohammad Khan
• Reign of Fath-Ali Shah and War with Russia
• Reign of Mohammad Shah

• Reign of Nasser Al-Din Shah
• Rise and Fall of Amir Kabir
• Nasser Al-Din Shah After Amir Kabir

• Mozzafar Al-Din Shah
• The Small Constitution Perios
• Mohammad Ali Shah
• The Great Constitution Period and End of Qajars

• Reza Shah's Reign