![]() ![]() Other scholars date him to the 7th and 6th centuries BC as a near-contemporary of Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great. Some scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the second millennium BC. There is little scholarly consensus on when he lived. ![]() He was a native speaker of Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau, but his exact birthplace is uncertain. ![]() He is said to have been an Iranian prophet who founded a religious movement that challenged the existing traditions of ancient Iranian religion, and inaugurated a movement that eventually became a staple religion in ancient Iran. Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, is regarded as the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. ![]()
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