What interests me even more is they are still around after all these centuries and never ceased to exist. not only nineveh and karbala is sacred to them but there are their area on political influence as well

Which is ironic, because after he won the war against the Sassanids, he was acclaimed as "Scipio Africanus" by his Roman subjects.

Idk if you can say that’s certain

it can't be counted as a "win"

Idk if it would have been totally a positive change yes it was a basically unqualified victory for Rome but there were many nations in formation that might have posed a similar threat to the state and many great social changes as well. The counterbalance with Persia, which had turned very unstable with the Lazic War era was actually beneficial to both sides. I think there might have been further attempts at restoration of authority in peripheral areas but I don’t think this could be maintained without some compelling new order.

@@soroushtorabi98 No in the moment it was a tremendous victory. Frankly probably a more complete victory than many in the court wanted. It was not the destruction of the Persian empire this is true. I think rather than consider if Rome had not lost its Syrian campaign vs the Muslims a more interesting what if to consider is the Persians continuing their early success vs the Muslims.

@@henripentant1120 he just avoided the roman empires full destruction he couldn't do anything else

@@soroushtorabi98 Oh yes, it can. It ended over half a millennium of Roman-Persian wars. But did it weaken both empires to the point that Muslim armies could threaten both? Yes.

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Actually the best recruitment pool available for the Byzantines, both for quality and quantity, was Anatolia, especially the eastern part of it, in Trebizond and the surrounding area.

@@AleexGod Wrong my friend the late roman/ early eastern roman (byzantine army) recruited its best soldiers from the still speaking latin provinces of the balkans, emperors like justinian and generals like belisarius came from these areas, heraclius even invited the slavs to settle in illyricum (forming modern serbs) hence pushing the latin speaking population all over the place thus forming the vlahs (aromanians, istriots and romanians)

@@AleexGod By the way Phocas was a greek speaking Thracian, and please give me proof that the best recuitment pool was in anatolia because appart from the ISSAURIANS most of the recruits where Illyrians, Thracians, Dacians, Moesians, most of them still used latin as there language.

@@marcelcostache2504 Not as simple as all that by a long shot. Consider the comparative conditions of the two regions-social, religious, economic, agricultural, etc etc. Economic or financial concerns being pretty important considerations here in this period of blending duties military and civil, and the economic favoritism toward Trace of recent emperors. I do feel that two cliques emerged with competent and transmissive leadership of both, both presenting the court with the need for counterbalance. Not really a matter of ‘reliability’ or competence being greater in one than the the other. Consider that there were certainly differences in exposure to different enemy tactics as well as a difference in composition of symmachoi auxiliaries that made a difference in how they were perceived. The Thracians were certainly prominent for a long while, but they were resented by an ‘Armenian’/Caucasian group that had as much distinction militarily and politically since at least the era of Maurice, and frankly this issue must have been festering since Justin I jumped over the court to become emperor. I find both Priscus and the general Phillippicus to be fairly equally capable militarily and politically.

Which sources say this?

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I think the mistake arises from the hellenicized/anglicized version "Chasroes".

I asked myself WHO this Charles Rose was ! So it was Khosroe II the Shahanshah of Persia !

Priscus might disagree

exactly . sadly there are not much unbiased details in hands from 7th century to understand what exactly happened . by the way about the immortal thing which refrences mentioned that ? can you tell me the name , I'm really gathering info about the Persian army these days

Lol they got crunched by heraclius get over it

Arads States Khosroe II attacked Constantinople to kill the usurper Phokas who had killed Emperor Maurikios, his βασιλεοπατωρ since Khosroe had married a daughter of Maurikios. So Khosroe II was not an ennemy of the East Roman Empire. As he conquested Jesuralem Khosroe took the Holy Cross so as to make a present to his beloved second wife Shirin, who was a catholic. As Kavad ,the oldest son of Khosroe II had massacred all of his brothers and Khosroe himself, he restituted the Holy Cross to the Roman Empire ,as well as all territories conquested by his father. Shirin and Khosroe had a daughter who later married a Mamikonian an ancestor of Saint Theodora ,the spouse of emperor Theophilos and the Emperess that put an end to the second ikonoklastic period. The love story of Khosroe and Shirin is one of the most beautiful works of the precious Persian litterature ..

Yeah not sure where he got that from. The grain dole hurt but not as much as he mentioned. As if it did they would've killed him

I seem to recall a pretty regular recurrence of plague during the same time which might’ve helped but basically agree the grain dole was one of many control mechanisms not the sole vital one

Location and the strategic positions on the golden horn ...

the imperial office was not hereditary or based on a divine mandate system, anyone with the backing of the army could claim the throne. Emperors had to appoint their sons as “Co-emperors” in order to maintain a dynasty, if both died the senate or the army could and often would elect a new emperor.

multicutural and multi racial societies with each ethnic group trying to compete with one another than trying to join and support each other

All of you have good points. Basically, rebellions are assured, when the authority of government is in question. Multiculturalism, lost war, slandering, but also decentralization and rapid increase in number of uber-rich elitists (wanna be kings) all feed the fire. Its not always fault of the head of state, he is just the first target of mob.

I wouldn’t call the Persian or Islamic empires exactly stable either

Nah If this war never happened, the Persians and the Romans would've beat Arabs asses for sure The main reason that Arabs were so successful in their early conquests is that both of these empires were weakened Take a look at Invicta's video about the Roman campaign in Arabian Peninsula in the first century They didn't stand a chance against the Romans Or the Legendarian's video about Shapur II the great He fought the invading Arabs and defeated tribe after tribe while he was only 16 Al Tabari wrote that he only needed 1000 elite soldiers for that, and they were called Pushtigban They were the elite soldiers of the elite unit of the 10,000 Sassanid Immortals But probably it was during his first battles He increased his numbers to something like 20,000-25,000 in his next battles but still didn't fought them with his main army He raided the Arabian Peninsula and even reached and plundered Yathrib (Medina) At the end of his Arab campaign, he only lost 5000 men but 45,000 Arab warriors were slain He gained great victories against both Romans and Huns in the east after this campaign

Interesting question idk if islam would have flourished but imo the arabs were a problem like the slavs that could only have gotten more pressing

Shapur? 1st Century? All of that centuries before Islam. Arab no longer same after 6th century. It would still havr makr easy work for Any blasphemous empire

If you say "Sasanian", then you should call this event "Heraclian-Sasanian war" (Phocas was non-dynastic).

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This is a series covering the History of The Eastern Roman Empire…. Lol

We lost! The end

What's the difference

Don't all historians use CE?

​@@lightfeather9953 No ! only deconstructivist linkoid historians who hate christianism do use CE

It doesn't matter it just a year numbering system lol

why are you mad? it's just a year numbering system and he's not the one who invented it. So, it doesn't matter

there are all the shiraz old towns and western Iran ruins belong to the arab invasion. there are even few paintings described the arab califs destroying zoroastrian temples or holy objects.

@@KeyhaneBishomar I think he's trying to say that he believes that Heraclius' counter invasion was not as successful as the sources state, that the Sassanids were able to retain the conquered lands until the Muslims invaded since they still would have been exhausted. Based on the sources he is somewhat correct, most of the conquered land was given back to Heraclius by Shahrbaraz due to an agreement to have his support to win the Sassanid throne.

@@timurthelamest5630 the Romans were eager to deal with the Persian aristocracy and exploit the nation not rape it wholesale and thereby lower its productivity that would have been zero sum for them as it was not for thePersians in Anatolia and Syria.

This is one of the most criminally understudied periods of history specifically because the dominant catholic mindset of the west. A damn shame, because this is perhaps one of the most important periods in human history.

How can the Persians won the war when they got destroyed and didn't get any territorial change themselves.