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Manichaeism

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AD 240
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Manichaeism was a major world religion founded in the third century CE by the Parthian Iranian prophet Mani (216–274) in the Sasanian Empire. It taught an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good spiritual world of light, and an evil material world of darkness. Through an ongoing process in human history, light is gradually removed from the world of matter and returned to the world of the divine.

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Earlier and later events nearby

  1. 539 BCFall of Babylon
  2. 331 BCBattle of Gaugamela
  3. AD 224Founding of the Sasanian Empire
  4. AD 240ManichaeismThis page
  5. AD 680Battle of Karbala
  6. AD 762–766Founding of Baghdad
  7. c. AD 820Al-Khwarizmi's Al-Jabr

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  1. 3400–2400 BCSumer
  2. 2300–2200 BCAkkadian Empire
  3. 2100 BCGutian dynasty of Sumer
  4. 2000–1900 BCSumer
  5. 1800–1300 BCBabylonia
  6. 1200–1100 BCAssyrian Empire
  7. 1000–850 BCBabylonia
  8. 800–700 BCNeo-Assyrian Empire
  9. 650 BCBabylonia
  10. 600–550 BCNeo-Babylonian Empire
  11. 500–350 BCAchaemenid Empire
  12. 300–150 BCSeleucid Empire
  1. 100 BC – AD 100Parthian Empire
  2. AD 125Roman Empire
  3. AD 150Parthian Empire
  4. AD 175–200Roman Empire
  5. AD 225Parthian EmpireThis page
  6. AD 250–625Sasanian Empire
  7. AD 650Rashidun Caliphate
  8. AD 675–750Umayyad Caliphate
  9. AD 775–950Abbasid Caliphate
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  1. AD 975–1040Buyid dynasty
  2. 1060–1200Seljuk Empire
  3. 1220–1240Abbasid Caliphate
  4. 1260–1280Mongol Empire
  5. 1300–1340Ilkhanate
  6. 1360–1400Jalayirid Sultanate
  7. 1420–1460Qara Qoyunlu
  8. 1480–1510Aq Qoyunlu
  9. 1520–1530Safavid dynasty
  10. 1540–1600Ottoman Empire
  11. 1610Safavid dynasty
  12. 1620Ottoman Empire
  13. 1630Safavid dynasty
  14. 1640–1916Ottoman Empire
  15. 1918–1920British Empire
  16. 1922–1930British Africa
  17. 1932–1942Kingdom of Iraq
  18. 1944British Africa
  19. 1946British Empire
  20. 1948–1956Kingdom of Iraq
  21. 1958Arab Federation
  22. 1960–2004Iraq
  23. 2006–2012United States
  24. 2014 –Iraq

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