# Iran in world history (survey)

_Course · Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council · https://iranians.global/learn/courses/iran-in-world-history-survey/_

Iran's history from Elam to the present, told through its peoples, empires, faiths and ideas.

## Record

- **Code**: IDCDC-HIS-01
- **School**: History
- **Levels**: F
- **Hours**: 30 · estimated hours
- **Format**: Self-paced online with recorded lectures and readings.
- **State**: outlined
- **Run**: built
- **Modules**: Before Persia · Empires of antiquity · Islam and the Persianate world · Turks, Mongols and Safavids · Qajars to Pahlavis · Revolution and after
- **Outcomes**: Describe the main periods of Iranian history in order. · Explain how Iran's peoples, languages and faiths shaped one another. · Read a primary source critically. · Recognise where histories are contested and why.

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## See also

- [The Academy](https://iranians.global/learn/)