帕提亞的興衰史【K&G動畫歷史檔案館】

Parthian empire is one of the most famous and least understood empires in world history, rising from humble beginnings to earn titles such as destroyers of the Seleucids, conquerors of Gandara and Rome's greatest enemy. Mithridates, who felt slighted, instead joined forces with Armenia and Asia Minor against the Romans, initiating a vendetta that would last centuries. After the death of the able and powerful Mithridates II in 88 BC, the empire was rather stagnant. The end result of all this was that the Parthians succeeded in taking over parts of the Caucasus and Mesopotamia and installing vassals in their place. Over the first century CE, many wars between Rome and Parthia were fought in Mesopotamia, inflicting horrors upon the locals and resulting in some territorial changes. Parthia stands out as a nexus point which transformed Iran and its surrounding regions, and its achievements are still with us to this day.