persian empire

The Sassanid-instigated Siege Of Constantinople pitted the Eastern Roman Empire against a coalition between the Sassanid Persian Empire in the eastern side of the Bosphorus and the Avar Khaganate in the western side. In the end, the byzantines managed to hold out. But what if the perso-avar...

Background: Haiti in 1825 was a young isolated nation. It just fought a bloody war of freedom 20 years earlier. Now the new leader Jean-Pierre Boyer was living in fear of France coming back. So, Boyer started “negotiations” for France to agree to recognize Haiti unless it paid 150 million...

Ηγεμών Αθἠνα and the warring states of ΑΣΙΑ./ A 460 BC Athens hegemony ATL. Hello to my second ATL try. This is going to be a rather small ATL with a POD in 461 BC when Ephialtes the radical democratic leader of Athens was assassinated. Ps: The research of this ATL was based mostly in the...

One of the common memes I see about an ERE with Mesopotamia (or any state that isn't based in Iran/Mesopotamia) is that it is hard to effectively defend it. Your challenge/point of discussion is just that. I'm mainly curious as to what strategies could be used to make an invasion going East to...

Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia was a rather unprecedented event. While the Macedonian phalanx was effective, it was nowhere near the sole factor contributing to the Macedonian king's success against the extremely wealthy, powerful Achaemenid Empire, which fielded a mixed-arms force...

The qanat was an ancient Persian technology to collect subterranean water by building a sequence of channels starting (underground) in the mountains and sloping down into irrigated farmland. It is actually still used today in Iran. This technology spread to Armenia and Kurdistan, but as far as...

What would be the most likely time for a Persian Empire (Mesopotamia + Persian plateau) with a Christian (Nestorian?) ruler class to emerge? From what I understand, in Sassanian Persia, Christianity was beginning to spread so that almost all of Mesopotamia (where Ctesiphon itself, seat of the...

Achaemenid Triumphant an Alternative History of the Mediterranean World Part 1.01 The Flight From Salamis As the Battle of Thermopylae raged on into its third week of battle, the Allied Greek Armada under Eurybiades was slowly being eroded by the composite fleet of Phoenicians and Ionians...

Sorry I'm posting so frequently I have a lot of ideas and questions in my head about Alternate History. So, how could the Sassanid Empire hold off against the Rashidun Caliphate? Is it even possible? Is there anyway that in our modern world we could see a Zoroastrian Persia instead of an...

Of satraps and kings Prelude Megos Alexandros III Argead The ascension of Philip II to the Makedonian throne in 359 BCE signaled a defining moment in Makedonian, Greek, and even world history. Makedon, a largely irrelevant backwater in the Greek world for generations, had been...

"...our history now descends from an empire of gold to one of iron and rust, as affairs did for the Romans of that day." Roman History, by Cassio Dio. 363 - The Roman Emperor Julian, commands an invasion of Sassanid Persia, in order to solidify his position with the Eastern Army. Despite...