HIST 3180 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mobad, Absolute Monarchy, Double Taxation

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 3180
• Professor: Thabit Abdullah

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Extremely important empire that set the setting stone for the arabs. All regions the arabs conquered were heavily arabized ; at one point, Arabic was the most spoken language in spain. Iran converted to islam after a while but it was a different kind of islam (shi"a) By the 2nd century, the parthians became more fragmented and decentralized o o. The constant war with rome probably caused this. Trajan the roman leader conquered all of iraq and sacked the. The romans figured out a way to deal with the parthian cavalry o. For a century continuous invasion of borders o. The origin of the sasanian family is very uncertain It was founded by ardashir i , he defeated the last king ardawan iv in 224. Ardashir"s father (papak) was a governor or local king in pars in the early 200"s as the parthians were weakened , papak was able to increase his power.