The SASSANID EMPIRE was defeated at the Battle of Nahavand and all of their territories were annexed by the Rashidun Caliphate.
Iran was called Persia at that point in history; it was ruled by the Sassanid Empire.
At the battle of Herat 484 CE the Sassanid Empire army under command of Peroz I was defeated the Hephthalite Empire under the command of Khushnavaz.
He established a good taxation system.He rebuilt canals.He established new cities.
The Sassanid period brought some of the highest achievement of Persian civilization, and is said to be the last great Iranian Empire before the Muslim conquest and adoption of Islam. During these times, Persia influenced Roman civilization considerably, and the Romans considered Persians as equals. Their cultural influence extended far beyond the empire's borders, reaching as far as Africa, China and India and playing a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asiatic medieval art.
The Sassanid Empire was centered in the country now known as Iran.
The SASSANID EMPIRE was defeated at the Battle of Nahavand and all of their territories were annexed by the Rashidun Caliphate.
Iran was called Persia at that point in history; it was ruled by the Sassanid Empire.
Sassanid Empire.
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The Persian Empire......I believe the Hakhamaneshian and Sassanid Dynasties.
During the times of Shapur II
Also called Mazdaism and Magianism, is an ancient Iranian religion and a religious philosophy. It was once the state of Achaemid Empire and Sassanid Empire.
At the battle of Herat 484 CE the Sassanid Empire army under command of Peroz I was defeated the Hephthalite Empire under the command of Khushnavaz.
He established a good taxation system.He rebuilt canals.He established new cities.
Sassanid conquest of Egypt happened in 618.
Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire, and on his death it was dividedup by his generals into the Hellenistic Kingdoms - principally Macedonia, Egypt and Syria, plus transitory ones in Asia Minor. This took away the entire western half of the old Persian Empire. And as the power of the Hellenistic Kingdoms waned, it was replaced by the expansion of a rising Rome. In addition, the Indian sub-continent was taken over by rising powers there. So the richest parts of the Persian Empire were permanently denied to Sassanid expansion.