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Continuity And Changes In Iranian Culture

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The contemporary conditions that occurred in the first thirteen century in Western Iran and Central Asia generated a significant change in the Islamic history. The great Mongolian conqueror Genghis Khan became a part of the political dynamic in Western Iran, Northen Iraq, and Central Asia. In their political sphere, the Mongol yielded in tradition from their empires and brought from China all sorts of new food, plants, and art. The Iranian culture had attached a new class of craftsmanship in their culture where it differed markedly from the Arab region of Egypt and Syria in literature and visual culture and embraced a Chinese characteristic which introduced a new form of art, called the Persian miniature. Under the Mongolian control, many Iranian
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