parthia

From “A History of the Apostolic Church” by Afshin Khorami While it was during the ministry of Jesus that Christianity was born, it was after His death that the young Christian community began to truly grow into something of its own. Simply due to its origins in Judea, most of the early...

Hello all. I've been fascinated with the late Roman Republic lately. It's just such a cool era. Accordingly, I've been thinking about a surviving Roman Republic and its effects on history. After reading some posts on this thread, which argue that the Roman Republic was not doomed to collapse...

Suppose that Parthia manages to finish off the moribund Seleucids before Rome does. They were on the verge of doing so during the reign of Phraates II, but his plans were shelved by a major crisis on their empire's eastern border: nomads from Central Asia launched raids deep into Parthian...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeian%E2%80%93Parthian_invasion_of_40_BC As the ailing Roman Republic convulsed in a series of civil wars that would eventually lead to its dissolution, the Parthian Empire, backed by a rebellious Roman general named Quintus Labienus, invaded Syria and occupied...

173 CE - I’ve been doing a project for a while now on What if Rome Never Rose? And I’ve kinda developed a scenario out where a Parthian-Ptolemaic rivalry develops. However now I’m at a pivotal point where a foreign conqueror from Arabia known as Idil ‘The Conqueror’ has now rose to change Arabia...

New user who has looked through the old threads on Rome wanks and I was wondering if this is an unexplored idea for ensuring Roman and Han dominance for another century. Effectively the silk road would be without middle men aside from client states within Parthia, Chorasmia and Sogdia which...

As it says on the lid, this AHQ is a two-parter. The first question if what if the house of Sassan was never founded, or was struck down during their initial rise to take over the lands of the Parthians. Who would replace them? Some other noble dynasty out of Persia seems most likely, but are...

what if Simon bar Kokhba revolt succeeded with guerrilla warfare , ambushing the romans and parthian support ? how would this affect jewish history

Exactly what says in the title. Would the romans choose to go to battle against the parthians in full force to conquer one of the most wealthy regions of the antiquity instead of just conquering a bunch of celtic tribes in Britannia?

So I’ve seen lots of what if’s regarding Greek and Roman conquests of Arabia. But, I don’t recall any regarding a Persian conquest of Arabia. So, what if one of the Persian dynasties conquered the entire Arabian coastline ? Could Arabia, or its coastal hinterlands, be Persianized ? Could...

While the Parthians IOTL were not hostile and actually tolerated Hellenistic cultural currents within their territory, their ruling elite themselves tried to hold to their steppe Dahae roots, and the way their state functioned reflected that, despite massive amounts of change deriving from...

(sorry in advance for any mistakes in the title etc, it is my first thread. Also, I hope I am not asking too much :coldsweat: :coldsweat: ) Mark Antony is one of the usually overlooked characters of late Republican Rome. But he was one of the more prominent statesmen and generals of his period...

In 224 AD the Arsacid King of Kings Artabanus IV met the forces of the dynast of Pars and future shahanshah of the Sassanid Empire Ardashir I at Hormozdgan, and lost the battle, with Ardashir I assuming the title King of Kings. Vologases VI, a pretender to the Arsacid throne, was subsequently...

IIRC, the first triumvirate originally intended for Pompey to be the one to invade Parthia, but he was too in love with his wife to leave her, and so Crassus went instead. What if Pompey had invaded Parthia, as planned?

POD: 124- Hadrian fails negotiating a settlement with the Parthian King Osroes I and chooses to hold Mesopotamia, Assyria and Armenia. Rome invades the Parthian held Zagros Mountains, defending Mesopotamia, Assyria and Armenia from further Parthia Attacks. Under Hadrian, Rome develops a massive...

In history and on the forum, we frequently discuss topics in alternate history related to empires who through their durable imperial agenda or culture, we see that their empires occur in cycles. That is, what may be interpreted as a single empire, appears as numerous polities that succeed each...

Usually overshadowed by her older sister Cleopatra, Arsinoe briefly got a chance to shine during the Siege of Alexandria, when she killed Achillias and put her tutor Ganymedes in command of the Egyptian army, directly below herself. She proclaimed herself Queen and led the Egyptians to some...

So, it's well known that Julius Caesar died just before his planned invasion of Parthia. There's argument over just how ambitious this invasion was, such as whether he planned to conquer Parthia, Scythia, Dacia, and cap off with Germania before returning back to Rome, but let's assume that he...

So here's a question that's been on my head for a while, but what if Mark Antony died/was killed during his failed invasion of Parthia in 36 BC? Obviously Octavian is now the last of the Second Triumvirate's remaining with Lepidus having been forced into an early retirement by this point, but...

As it said, if Artabanus was victorious, killing Ardashir, and stillborn the Sasanian Empire. What now? How much time does this gives the Parthians? Another rebel satrap overthrows Parthians, but instead continue the Pro-Hellenism tolerance of the Parthians? (And not the OTL Sasanian Empire...