spendabuck
Banned
I was recently in Persia studying the ruins of Persepolis, where I was reminded that, for a period of time, Persia came under occupation of the Islamic Arabs until the Sassanids/Li's, with military support from China, returned in the early 700s. Seeing how much the Persian 'Empire' and their Chinese lieges shaped the history of the Middle East throughout the Middle Ages, I was wondering how history would have been effected if China had not supported the last Sassanids. Would the Sassanids still be able to reclaim their empire from the Muslims? Would Islam have been more successful? And how would the Middle East look without as much cultural and religious influence from the Chinese?