How was the Sassanid economy like?

How was the Sassanid economy like?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty advanced. They were the middlemen of Eurasian commerce. Persia was always the clearinghouse for goods traveling from India, China, Southeast Asia, the Roman/Byzantine Empires, etc. since they were at the crossroads. There were numerous Chinese embassies exchanged with Sassanian ones to ensure peaceful trade and travel between the respective empires.

    The Sassanians wouldn't have been able to fight the Rome/Byzantium as well as India and the Turkic peoples if they didn't have the tax base of their agriculture as well as vast trade links to develop an army of Aswaran heavy cavalry, mounted archers, Dailamite infantry, and other formidable opponents to the Romans/Byzantines.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What was their agriculture?
      Barley or wheat?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sorghum?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Barley, rye and millet. Wheat was something only for the higher classes and Iran is pretty arid except for the part that borders the Caspian Sea. Rice and tropical fruits were grown in the wetter places.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Like dates, figs, limes?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do you happen to know of any major in house imported goods exclusive to that culture?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Textiles. The Persians in general grew some flax and cotton but mostly imported fibers to produce widely-admired textiles. They would take raw silk and cotton to weave into gorgeous tapestries, clothing, etc. Also carpets and rugs were a huge thing hence why Persian carpets are always considered top-notch.

        They also excelled in metalwork. Sassanian weapons, armor, tools, and cooking utensils were widely exported. They were also great craftsmen with israeliteels.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Silk was unbelievably expensive back then.

          How the hell were the Persians able to afford it from China?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Is there a clothing style atrributed to them or a style of art?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What compels people to make such dishonest maps
    This is like adding the entirety of Russia up to Moscow in Napoleons Empire despite the fact his control of the region could be best described as a brief complete military presence in a small region without any control otherwise.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Arthur Christensen's book explains all of this and more.

      Ya seethe?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        which book, I am interested

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Sassanid Persia by Arthur Christensen.
          It's only one book but very informative.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >first published 1936
            Anything more modern? I'm not doubting it's value, but surely there's more up to date works.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            No.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's the only English book that examines Sassanid Empire in depth. The rest mostly care about their military conflicts with Rome.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >This is like adding the entirety of Russia up to Moscow in Napoleons Empire
      if you were right, then map would include all of Eastern Roman Empire.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They held that territory for years, people legit thought the Romans were going to be conquered for good.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >They held that territory for years
        They didn't hold much of any of Anatolia. It was essentially a campaign trail by Shahin and later followed up in the same path by Kardarigan and Shahrbaraz. That is not 'control' in any sense. Asia Minor was not garrisoned or controlled like Syria or Egypt was in any manner.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >entirety of Russia up to Moscow in Napoleons Empire
      What do you mean by "entirety"? I've only seen people adding lithuania and terrotiry of modern belarus in it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > What compels people to make such dishonest maps

      Nationalism.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Here’s a better one

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tell your think tank to frick off.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Agrarian largely like the Romans and later Eastern Romans/Byzantines; they also had an extensive trade and manfuctaring of "Persian" glass silverware and other gems and what not that was EXTREMELY profitable all over the world at the time, even getting as far as Japan which was the boondocks of Asia in the 400s-700s. And textiles too.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Japan being the boondocks of anything? Sounds crazy and highly unbelievable

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