what if instead of slamming into rome for centuries the sassanids just went east, conquered india and gathered enough power to eclipse rome?In fact why the fuck didn't they do that? Were they stupid?
too busy fuckin they sister
>>18445312Because East of the Sassanian Empire was a powerful Manichean & Buddhist Steppenigger Empires that matched them in military might.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empirehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalites
>>18445312Persians never cared about their subhuman jeets cousins: every dynasty wanted to LARP in some form as the Achemenids and re-create their empire: so the Levant, Egypt and Anatolia were always primary goals
>>18445312India is blocked off by mountains and rivers and is a shithole while Rome is wealthy as fuck
Isn't there like one proper pass around 27 on that map to India outside going from the coast?
>>18445314>t. Muslim
>>18445312Because their entire thing was literally the antiquity MAKE PERSIA GREAT AGAIN, and their eventual end goal was to crush Rome in the east and recreate the Achaemenid hegemony. They briefly accomplished that at the cost of their entire civilization lmao. Becoming Muslim and Nomadic cuck state for the rest of their history lmao.
>>18445312Literally a Persian version of this meme would ensue >>18445334Also this, most empires during this era cared about prestige not wealth or the safe option. What glory will there be in conquering India when your totally glorified ancestors conquered west instead and this was home to the enemies who destroyed your former great empire
>>18445312Just because the Indian states were smaller than Rome doesn't mean they would simply roll over and die. If they just diverted a massive amount of their military force to the East they would no longer have parity with Rome and they would have a massive military advantage against them. The same problem with their northern rivals, albeit to a slightly less permanent degree that the Romans posed.
Where's the prestige in conquering a bunch of street shitters?
>>18446442As opposed to toliet brush sharers?
>>18445312Lemme introduce you to my boy- Every single Turk that invaded and conquer India ever.
>>18445312india smells and the steppe is too poor and wild>>18445328so were the romansthe actual answer is the fact that they were unironically too busy fucking their mothers.
>>18445912Indians would absolutely roll over and be colonized, their entire history consists of conquerors from the west. I wouldn't be surprised if after WW3, Indonesians would follow the poo traces in the oceans to it's source, do slave raids and establish zanzibar 2 on the southern coast and Sri Lanka/Ceylon
