What is the difference between Persian and Assyrian

Persians are an Indo-European people who developed a civilizationin what is now Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The Persian Empireis known for a vast expansion, characterized by a tolerant attitudetowards minorities and gifts of autonomy to local regions, governedby an absolutist king. Their historic religion is Zoroastrianism,but after the conquest of Persia by the Islamic Caliphate, themajority religion of the Persians (as well as the ethnic minoritiesof Iran) has become Shiite Islam.

Assyrians are a Semitic people who developed a civilization in whatis now Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The Assyrian Empire is known for avast expansion, characterized by a untold violence, slaughter, anddesecration of their adversaries’ civilizations and deportation ofthose citizens who resisted their brutality. They were governed bya warrior-king who would organize similar punitive raids. Theirhistoric religion is the Babylonian Pantheon, but after theconquest of Assyria by the Byzantine Empire, the majority religionof the Assyrian people (who number fewer than 3 million worldwide)has become Christianity. Some Assyrians practice a form of EasternOrthodoxy while others practice Syriac Catholicism.