The Suppressed Origin of Western Democracy
How Zoroastrian Persia Invented Human Rights 2,300 Years Before the Enlightenment (And Why Nobody Tells You) The Missing Chapter in Every History Book INTRODUCTION: Thomas Jefferson's Secret Teacher In the Smithsonian Museum, two artifacts sit side by side: Thomas Jefferson's classical education textbook on Cyrus the Great A replica of the Cyrus Cylinder (539 BCE) Why are they displayed together?
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How Zoroastrian Persia Invented Human Rights 2,300 Years Before the Enlightenment (And Why Nobody Tells You) The Missing Chapter in Every History Book INTRODUCTION: Thomas Jefferson's Secret Teacher In the Smithsonian Museum, two artifacts sit side by side: Thomas Jefferson's classical education textbook on Cyrus the Great A replica of the Cyrus Cylinder (539 BCE) Why are they displayed together? Because "as part of his classical education, one of America's founding fathers, President Thomas Jefferson, studied Cyrus the Great" The question nobody asks: Where did Jefferson get his ideas about "inalienable rights," religious freedom, and equality? The answer nobody teaches: From a Zoroastrian Persian king who proclaimed them 2,300 years before the Declaration of Independence.
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