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1. When does Satrapi’s account of Iranian history begin?

2000 BC

2. Where did Iran get its name?

From Indo-European invaders

3. Who created the first Iranian nation?

The Medes

4. What was Iran’s name from the sixth century B.C. till 1935?

Persia

5. What did Iran’s geographical position dispose it toward?

Invasion

6. When was Iran modernized?

20th century

7. What resource changed Iran’s economy?

Dyes

8. Who immediately succeeded Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran?

Mossadeq

9. When did Western influence in Iran end?

1979

10. Why does Satrapi say that writing Persepolis was important to her?

Because Iran has gotten a bad name form its extremist leaders

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