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Originally Posted by sparten
Capturing the Parthain capital 5 times is not defeating?
Clearly you are buying into a lot of myths.
Even after Shahpur I, they managed to capture Ctesiphon twice, despite being in the middle of the Crisis of the third century.
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Parthia in the 3rd century was not exactly strong. It was in the same position that the Western Roman Empire was in the 4th Century.
Furthermore, in the first century AD, the Parthian nobility had become more powerful due to concessions by the Parthian king granting them greater powers over the land and the peasantry. Internal weakness from within. The Parthian empire was more akin to fuedalism than the Rome or Han China were.
Nevertheless, the Roman's could never conquer Parthia.