Since the earliest days of the Persian Empire, the monarch held various titles, including that of Shahanshah (King of Kings, or in Western terms, Emperor), Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) and Bozorg Arteshtārān (Head of the Warriors, or in Persian: بزرگ ارتشتاران). In the 1870's, as the nation became more and more industrialized and "Western", Naser al-Din Shah Qajar proposed a new title to reflect the increasing democracy of the Empire. In 1879 this was confirmed in a new "Imperial Title Act", where the shah would now be officially: