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The fact the Byzantine Empire survived the twin cataclysms of the Sassanid War & Arab Invasions at all was an astonishing achievement few seem to appreciate.
Julian: I'm going to restore the old roman pantheon and rebuild the empire
One Sassanid with a spear: hehehe we doin a little trollin
The Descendants of the last Sassanid emperor fled to Tang-China, where, after some time, the emperor sent them back with armies in several attempts to restore them to the Sassanid throne.
They never got very far, and were last mentioned fighting arabs in 721.
In Iran during the Sassanid period, 241 to 274 AD, magnificent mosaics of both roman and Sassanid influences were used in the palace of Chapour I in Bîchâpour (Fars province). National Museum in Tehran
Depiction of Sassanid King Khosrow Parviz and his wife Shirin.
From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
4) In 405 CE, Saint Mesrop Mashtots created the Alphabet alphabet in the Goghtn district of classical #Armenia’s Vaspurakan Province (corresponding to modern-day Ordubad, #Nakhichevan). In 428 it fell to the Sassanid #Persian Empire, becoming part of the Province/Marz of Armenia.
A Sassanid cavalryman and a Byzantine cavalryman racing to see whos empire can collapse first.
"Everything's a deal in Doneria. Sassanids deal in death" #gamedev #madewithunity #strategy #conceptart #art