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In the middle of the 4th century CE, the Sasanian Shahanshah Shapur II. and the Gupta Maharaja Samudragupta were successful emperors and conquerors - and they came quite close to each other, geographically. Shapur repeatedly conducted campaigns to consolidate Sasanian control over former Kushana, which had stretched beyond the Indus. Samudragupta subdued many Indian polities and extended his sphere of power to the Indus, too.

What if Shapur`s and Samudragupta`s armies had crossed each other`s paths, had some reason for conflict, and engaged in war against each other?
How would such a confrontation have looked like and developed, and with what outcome? What were their respective strengths and weaknesses? And what could have happened after such a military confrontation?
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