sassanian

In the 7th Century, Narsieh, son of Peroz III, and the grandson of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian Shah. He was escorted back to Persia with a Chinese army led by Pei Xingjian in 679, in order to restore him to the Sasanian throne, but the army stopped in Tokharistan. Pei Xingjian fought...

As the tin says, what if Khosrow II accepted the offer Heraclius made in 615 when, per Wikipedia, he “agreed to stand down and was about ready to allow the Byzantine Empire to become a Persian client state, even permitting Khosrow II to choose the emperor.[20] In a letter delivered by his...

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...

With a POD no earlier than 600 AD wank the Sassanid Empire and Zarathustrianism as much as possible.

IOTL, roman forces clashed with sassanian persian forces at the Battle of Edessa, in 260 AD. The persians ended up winning, and even captured the roman emperor, Valerian, who was held captive by the persian king Shapur until his death. So, what if the battle had a reverse outcome, with Shapur...

Self-explanatory title. Basically, reverse the fates of the Byzantine and Sassanid empires during the islamic expansion wars, and possibly have islamic culture be influenced more by the greeks than the persians. Go!

The roman emperor Carus (born 222 AD, died 283 AD) was mostly known for a handful of achievements, such as subjugating the sarmatians coming across the Danube and founding a short-lived dynasty that was eventually overthrown by the famous Diocletian. On the time of his death at age 61, Carus was...

Historically after Khosrau II's failed invasion, the Byzantines were much more stable than the Sassanids on the eve of the Arab conquest, and were able to retreat to their core territories and survive. With the latest POD possible, how could the Byzantines fall completely, and the Sassanids...

The period would be the Military Anarchy; perhaps Shapur decisively defeats the Romans at Anatolia in 260 instead of the other way around, and besieges (EDIT: Byzantium/Augusta Antonina/the Bosporus, brainfart) whilst also breaking into Syria and endnagering the grain supply, forcing Rome to...

Beginning in 632 AD the Arabs, united by the new Islamic faith, began their first incursions into the Sasanian Empire as well as the Byzantine state. Due to the long, drawn out, conflict between the Byzantines and Persians (and owing a fair bit to religious divisions within those states 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...