HIST 3180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Shapur I, Sasanian Empire, Jousting
15 Mar 2018
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Introduction what we going to talk about and we are not going to talk about (explain what going to do and not going to do) To a 1/3 of the page intro. Of a page should be background who the sasanid are, briefly, set the stage (what i will look at , and explain sources and make it abit more complex). Zoroastrian priest would accompany the army, except when mani accompanied shapour i. Misiche (244) gordian, roman emperor was killed. Barbalissos (253) philip arab signed the peace treaty and got humiliated. These 3 battles cost the roman around 150k troop (not accurate though). The savaran would break the roman line and split them. Prove effective against the romans, however not effective against arabs: maranga (363) Shapour ii, the roman invade cesptone, the sasanid would retreat and burn all crops and land, the more romans get more deep, the worse romans got. During these battle, sasanid used elephants in the war.
