Zoroastrianism Timeline

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c. 1500 BCE - c. 1000 BCE

Life of Zoroaster according to modern scholar estimations.
c. 1500 BCE - c. 1000 BCE

Zoroaster develops his new vision of religious truth which becomes Zoroastrianism.
628 BCE - 551 BCE

Life of Zoroaster, according to Pahlavi sources.
c. 550 BCE - 330 BCE

Zoroastrianism is adopted by the Achaemenid Empire.
247 BCE - 224 CE

Zoroastrianism is continued by the Parthian Empire.
224 CE

Zoroastrianism becomes Persian state religion under the Sassanian Empire.
309 CE - 379 CE

Zoroastrian religious literature committed to writing under the reign of Shapur II of the Sassanian Empire.
531 CE - 579 CE

Reign of Kosrau I of the Sassanian Empire; Zoroastrian religious works written and codified.
651 CE

Muslim Arab conquest of Persia; Zoroastrianism/Zorvanism is suppressed and forcible conversion efforts instituted.

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