>conquer already-dead Egypt and collapsed Assyria who'd been beating the shit out of each other previously>conquer a bunch of literally-who microstates>come up against equally matched and developed opponent exactly three times in 200 years>first Persian invasion: loss>second Persian invasion: failure>Alexander's invasion: roflstomped in 3 straight losses, total disintegration of the empire>military doctrine, which sucked in the first place, literally did not evolve for two centuries after Greece beat them twice with inferior numbers and then developed Macedonian combined arms that pulverized them>meanwhile Parthia repeatedly humiliates Rome, Carrhae, Parthian shot, cataphracts>Sassanids fight Rome/Byzantium to a standstill for 400 years, capture and enslave a Roman emperor>but Achaemenids couldn't beat a coalition of city-states that couldn't even unite against each other half the time>muh human rights and muh wholesome multi-ethnic chungusTruly the Redditor's choice of empire.
>>18627304Rome sacked the Persian capital five times, while the Persians only occupied some border provinces, so it's hardly a standstill.
>>18627335Standstill in the sense that neither could conquer each other, but yes Rome was always the stronger nation. The Parthians and Sassanians deserve their dues, though.
>>18627304Alexander would've created a GRECO-PERSIAN-ARABIAN-INDIAN-CHINESE EMPIRE HAD HE NOT BEEN ASSASSINATED. imagine when he learns of the Americas, he would've thought the gods gifted him this new land for his own. Also Persians > Gayreeks. Greeks made fun of the PALE ARYAN PERSIANS.>In a posthumously published fragment, he deplores a lost historical opportunity: "It was much more fortunate if Persians became masters (Herr) of the Greeks, than the very Romans." (SW, 8/65) In this note Nietzsche reveals, once more, his radical opposition to the Greek metaphysical thought, as developed by Socrates and Plato, which later, by supremacy of the Greek culture inside the Roman Empire, became dominant and then integrated into the other-worldly, 'nihilistic', tenets of Christianity. While, in his view, the dominance of the positive outlooks of the Persians toward worldly life and time would have prevented the prevalence of such a sinister event in human history.
>>18627304Why did Greek city state always come to them for support?
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>>18627335This lol. Even Julian’s campaign was going well before his death.
>>18627381Cause they were willing to give it? You become known for giving handouts to people, guess what, beggars start showing up on the regular.
>>18627431Greeks were able to do that under Persian rule.
>>18627378Khosrow II was a hero.
>>18627431Greeks did this all under Persian boot
>>18627304Athens were burned and looted, significant part of Greece fell under Persian protection racket and later Persia played a puppet master during Penelopesian war. It wasn't that bad.That being said they are being overhyped for two reasons. First is that their first reaction to jews wasn't kill stomp disperse and so kikes gave them good press in the bible which later fed into our imagination of them secondly because people who weren't christian but used christian morality like a weapon against aryans used their empire as an example to follow, multicultural state that worked(allegedly)!
>>18629299The Greeks were still the one to do it retard
>>18627304Ya seethe, gayreek?>>18627335>>18627353>Ctesiphon >The only capital>PersianIt's near modern day Baghdad and pre-islamic Iranian empires all had multiple capitals all at once due to climate autism.Romaboos are profoundly retarded and illiterate.>>18627431>words words wordsChuds can't meme. Gayreek turds rip off everything from Egyptians and Mesopotamians (SumerianGODS) then LARP as hotshits.
>>18627489Well said
>>18627431Holy Ɓæ§əð !
>>18627378
>>18629467>It's near modern day Baghdad and pre-islamic Iranian empires all had multiple capitals all at once due to climate autism.Citation needed, even wikipedia only lists Ctesiphon
>>18631096>Ctesiphon (/ˈtɛsJfɒn/ TESS-if-on; Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn;[1] Persian: تیسفون; Ancient Greek: Κτησιφῶν, Attic Greek: [ktɛːsipʰɔ̂ːn]; Syriac: ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ[2]) was an ancient city in modern Iraq, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empires for over eight hundred years, in the Parthian and Sasanian periods.[3] It fell in 637, during the Muslim conquest of Persia.[4]Anyone familiar with history knows they made Ctesiphon their capital because it was in Iraq and part of the fertile crescent.Also>Capital: Ctesiphon,[a] Ecbatana, Hecatompylos, Susa, Mithradatkirt, Asaak, Rhages>One characteristic of the Parthians that the kings themselves maintained was their nomadic urge. The kings built or occupied numerous cities as their capitals, the most important being Ctesiphon on the Tigris River, which they built from the ancient town of Opis."[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_EmpireSame thing is there for Achaemenids. They had this changing the capital thing because of ceremonial and weather thing. Persepolis got too hot and they went to Ecbatana, then Ecbatana got too cold and they went back to Persepolis and so on.It's weird that Wikipedia isn't listing anything for Sassanids despite every book I've read on them suggests they followed the same pattern.
>>18631143weren't sassanids more centralized?
>>18629421insane cope
