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By W. B. Fisher
The Cambridge heritage of Iran is an eight-volume survey of Iranian heritage and tradition, and its contribution to the civilisation of the area. All element of the spiritual, philosophical, political, fiscal, medical and creative components in Iranian civilisation are experiences, with a few emphasis on geographical and ecological components that have contributed to that civilisation's specific personality. the purpose is to supply a set of readable essays instead of a list of knowledge. The volumes provide scope for the e-book of recent principles in addition to offering summaries of verified evidence. they need to act as a stimulus to experts, yet are basically involved to reply to this kind of questions about the earlier and current of Iran which are requested by means of the non-specialist. quantity I units the actual level for the human occasions which keep on with. In a feeling it's a better half quantity to the remainder of the sequence. the full quantity is dedicated to geography, geology, anthropology, financial existence, and natural world. The actual setting of Iran is obvious now not as an unmoving backcloth opposed to which the human drama is performed; relatively it truly is visible as a average point which shapes in specific and recognisable methods the entire process human task within the state. Iran bargains an image of sharp identification as a geographical unit. regardless of hugely varies and sometimes harsh normal stipulations at neighborhood point, a constant and recognisable development of physiographical and climatic positive aspects emerges on the nationwide point. as a result of those positive aspects the Iranians as a humans suffered many vicissitudes. The advanced personality of the connection among terrain and folks is the most important subject of this quantity.
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This strongly suggests that the coastline at the head of the Persian Gulf has remained in more or less its present position since the Pliocene, and that therefore there is no "creep". Other evidence adduced by Lees and Falcon goes far to substantiate the idea of a permanent coastline, and in the present writer's view it is diiBcult to sustain the ideas first enunciated by De Morgan. However, further investigation may be necessary before a final verdict can be given. The lowland area, which forms a large part of the Iranian province of Khuzistan, has considerable potential for agricultural development.
Fronting the entire range on the north is the narrow coastal plain of the Caspian, which is presently in process of slow building out by accretion of sediment brought down mainly by rivers. The Talish hills consist overall of a long, narrow hog's-back ridge running north-west and south-east, and rising to a maximum height of just over 10,000 ft. Much of the surface lies above 7,000 ft, but is deeply scored by narrow defiles and ravines formed by short, torrential streams that plunge mainly north-eastward towards the Caspian, whose shores lie no more than twenty to thirty miles from the crest-line.
And on a smaller scale in the Mughan steppe zones of the north-east. It is an interesting reflexion of the significance of pastoralism in north-west Iran that the Qara Qoyunlu (Black Sheep) Turkmen, who ruled Iran during the fifteenth century, made Tabriz their national capital. Cultivation follows the general Iranian pattern, with cereals (wheat, barley, and some maize) the basic crops, and a wide range of fruit and vegetables. Mediterranean fruits—vine, almond, and apricot especially—grow very well in the more favoured parts of this region; and cotton, tobacco, opium, and oil seeds are also important.