The Avesta is the scripture of Zoroastrianism which developed from an oral tradition founded by the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht) sometime between c. 1500-1000 BCE. The title is generally accepted as meaning “praise”, though this interpretation is not universally agreed upon.
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c. 1500 BCE - 1000 BCEThe Zoroastrian Avesta is developed in oral form.
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c. 550 BCE - 330 BCEAvesta informs the policies of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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247 BCE - 224 CEAvesta continues to inform Parthian Empire.
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224 CE - 651 CEAvesta is committed to writing under the Sassanian Empire who make Zoroastrianism the state religion.
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651 CECopies of Avesta and other Zoroastrian works destroyed during Muslim Arab Conquest.
