Why didn't they conquer further east into inda rather than repeatedly slam their head against rome?
>>18721101This is the price for denouncing Vishnu
>>18721101>GOYMAN
>>18721101>conquer Indians>conquer Romans One is more useful to plunder and occupy than the other
>>18721101Why would they want to expand in the utter and often litterally shihole that is India?
>>18721160North India is possibly the most invaded land in history.
>>18721101Indian bulls would have raped them
They were no match against the The Vardhana Empire so they chose to fight against the weaker empire, Rome.>>18721382This.
They feared the rajput warrior.
>>18721101Persians are weak warriors and could only win against romans who depended on bio mass maxing and replacing losses
>>18721101India could have conquered&raped persia but we were peaceful
>>18721101They would have been bitch slapped
>>18721101because their powerbase was centered in the west and that's where their greatest existential threat was as well?
was pre-turkic rape central asia a nice place to be at? why were there so many provinces there? it can't be just zoroastrian grandfathering
>>18721101Why go into the fucking jungles?
>>18721101We wuz Achaemenids o algoThe funny thing, for a couple of years they achieved it, at the cost of their entire civilization lmao
>>18721382>>18721413indians have experience being mounted by bovines
>>18721101It would be a BIC takeover of 'iran' if that happened
>>18721101sounds simply difficult
>>18722385That map is fake LOLThey lost Eastern and Northern teritories to Turks and Huns in the 5th and 6th century.
>>18722517I know that they half-ass the historically less important regions but lol @ Denmark here. The population concentrated around Copenhagen 1,000 years before it was founded apparently. Also, Novgorod in year 1?
Would you want to hang out with a bunch of nasty jeets? There’s nothing worth conquering over there.
>>18722754which is why the british became rich by conquering itread a book bro
>>18722037yes, bactria and sogdia were rich and urbanized. such a weird area that feels like alt history fanfiction>yea so we'll have indo european horseman invade from the east and make an empire that uses greek as its admin language. also they'll conquer deep into northern india
>>18721101tropical diseases, probably, and also the great numbers of Indians who would have opposed them
>>18722587Khosrow I. spearheaded a revival of Persian power in Central Asia
>>18722877It wasn’t worth it at all
>>18722676I like how tehran is more populated than babylonia. Generously they just applied some formula to modern data and shat it out. Ungeneriously its AI.
