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3 days ago · Two years later, he took Ctesiphon, and this time, it meant the end of Parthia. It also marked the beginning of the second Persian empire, ruled by the Sassanid kings. Although Ctesiphon was the capital of the Sassanid empire, Seleucia was not forgotten; it was renamed Veh-Ardašir ("the good city of Ardašir"). The cities remained a military ...
4 days ago · The Sassanian economy, like any economy, was fundamentally conditioned by two sets of factors: natural elements and human intervention. Among the former were climate, topography, streams, fertility of the soil, richness of the subsoil, and availability of water. Among the latter were the activities of peasants, administrators, priests, nobles ...
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1 day ago · Sogdia, at the center of a new Silk Road between China to the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire became extremely prosperous under its nomadic elites. The Hephthalites took on the role of major intermediary on the Silk Road , after their great predecessor the Kushans , and contracted local Sogdians to carry on the trade of silk and other ...
6 days ago · For the Parthians I'm less well-read, but I would say that the answer is closer to an emphatic yes, even by the second criteria. That's because, without the heavily urbanised Levantine coast, the Parthian "centre of attention" was closer to the geographic centre of their empire and so the far provinces were less subject to centrifugal forces.
4 days ago · While the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 CE, Egypt remained under the control of the Eastern Roman Empire. In 618 CE, Egypt was occupied for ten years by the rival Sasanian empire before reverting to Roman control. However, the final blow came in 641 CE, when the Muslim Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate captured Egypt.
2 days ago · The very diversity of power relations that an empire must deploy both limits the possibilities for generalizing empire everywhere and shapes the networks in which people, commodities, and ideas circulate–including ideas about the nature of power itself. Hence our principle argument: empire is a useful concept with which to think.
3 days ago · The history of Azerbaijan is understood as the history of the region now forming the Republic of Azerbaijan. Topographically, the land is contained by the southern slopes of the Caucasus Mountains in the north, the Caspian Sea in the east, and the Armenian Highlands in the west. In the south, its natural boundaries are less distinct, and here ...
