6 Amazing Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Persians Empire

4) Persians brought forth the concept of Paradise Gardens; and as such the English word ‘paradise’ comes from Old Iranian pers52 It was during the time of the Achaemenid Dynasty that the literary notion of an earthly paradise came into existence – with one legend of Zarathushtra even proclaiming the incredible creation of a paradise-like community garden within a barren landscape. In that regard, the term for spectacularly well-tended gardens in Old Iranian, is ‘pairi-daeza‘. This is turn was transmuted to ‘paradeisos‘ in Greek, and made way to ‘paradis‘ in Old French – from which the common English term is ultimately borrowed.As for the physical manifestations of such man-made Paradise Gardens, they were directly related to the topographical and climatic extremes of the Iranian and Khorasan landscapes – with rocky-barren mountains, frigid winters and sweltering summers. In between such severity of scopes, there were patches of verdant lands and lush forests – and they provided the inspiration for impressive gardening projects. To that end, the ancient ethics suggested that the less-trodden countryside should be kept clean and pristine (as God’s sacred creations), while the inhabited areas should be made more beautiful and verdurous with the organized application of plants, trees and herbs. In essence, they could be used as bountiful refuges by humans and animals alike.