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Originally Posted by IDonT
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.
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True. But that had more to do with the fact it was a very de-centralised kingdom. Unlike the Persian Empires before and after it, whom ALexander and the Arabs conquered with reletive ease.
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