HIST 3180 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Buffel, Sasanian Family Tree, Zurvanism

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Destruction of so much evidence that tells the true history of what the happened during the sasanian empire o. History was on papyrus, it is usually better preserved in dry areas. The climate in iran and iraq was humid and did not help in the preservation of the documents. Most of the information we have about the sasanian military is ironically from their enemies (romans, arabs) In the year 578, a document was found that has the number of registered warriors at 70,000 o. Normally those that belonged to this military class were o o o o members of the noble parthian families, big land owners that come from wealthy aristocrats called the adur gushnasp fire. One of the fires was dedicated to the cast of warriors this was. There were a number of large temples that housed this. From the very beginning ( ardashir) the sasanian began to.

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