ar-pharazon
Banned
It seems to me the best way to ensure a successful conquest would be to break the Persian aristocracy-either by killing them or integrating them as Alexander attempted to do with his mass marriages.
So long as the Persian nobility survives unbeaten it will remain a center of resistance against roman rule.
Securing the allegiances of the Persian elite in the long term would mean giving them a stake in the roman system.
Which was the roman empire's traditional modus operandi-co opting local elites and getting them to go along with the empire's program.
So long as the Persian nobility survives unbeaten it will remain a center of resistance against roman rule.
Securing the allegiances of the Persian elite in the long term would mean giving them a stake in the roman system.
Which was the roman empire's traditional modus operandi-co opting local elites and getting them to go along with the empire's program.
