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Ladataan... The Rise of Parthia in the East: From the Seleucid Empire to the Arrival of RomeTekijä: Cam Rea
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book is necessarily slender. Sadly, the area has been the seat of other entities, and suffers greatly from the lack of surviving inscriptions and written sources created by the states and peoples concerned. In the period before direct Roman contact, we learn about the "Parthians" or Aparni from works written about them by people who are trying to gain information from the groups living next to the Parthians. Into the bargain, the writers are usually victims of Parthian expansion, and not likely to see their brighter side. Cam Rea does his best with the material he has gathered, though there is a good deal of explanation by analogy as opposed to direct evidence. Since he promises the reader a second book on the later period, I look forward to finding it and getting more knowledge about later developments. ( ) ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Seleucus inherited a rather large chunk of land, extending from Anatolia in the west to the borders of India in the east. You could say he hit the "lottery" but at the same time he inherited much more than he bargained, more so for his future inheritors of this vast domain. One of the biggest problems in controlling such a vast amount of land is the issue of holding onto it. In other words, the land is too big to use for it is too big to lose. One has to consider, especially those in the Seleucid administration, that there are going to be language barriers, but even more important than language barriers, are the cultural barriers. Because of these cultural barriers, it was easier to allow the locals to govern. In this way, the Seleucids could control their eastern provinces more effectively. However, even this is a fa#65533;ade. While the Seleucids allowed the locals of their eastern provinces to govern, it also created a friction between the two cultures. In other words and as you shall read, the Seleucids began to ignore their supposed subjects of the east. Ignoring the various peoples on the Iranian Plateau and areas further to the east under Seleucid control caused many of them, including Greco-Macedonians, to question the intent of their masters further west. In doing so, many would secede in the east. This secession from the Seleucids enticed certain nomadic tribes, such as the Aparni (Parthians), to invade, conquer, confiscate and colonize the weakest breakaway provinces. The Seleucid regime's uncertainty allowed a small tribe from the north to invade a breakaway province considered Seleucid territory that, in turn, would go on to nearly re-conquer everything Alexander the Great had subdued almost a century earlier. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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