Ancient Persian Army

Ancient Persian infantry and cavalry from both the Achaemenid Dynasty and the Sassanid Dynasty. Those arts are made by Angus McBride and others. Some of them are also made by Persian artists. If you want to know about these two empires here's some information:

The Achemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire by geographical extent in ancient times; at the height of its power, the empire encompassed approximately 8 million km2. The empire was forged by Cyrus the Great, and spanned three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. At its greatest extent, the empire included the modern territories of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of Central Asia, Asia Minor, Thrace and Macedonia, much of the Black Sea coastal regions, Iraq, northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and all significant population centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya. It is noted in western history as the foe of the Greek city states during the Greco-Persian Wars, for emancipation of slaves including the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, and for instituting the usage of official languages throughout its territories. The empire had a centralised, bureaucratic administration under the Emperor and a large professional army and civil service, inspiring similar developments in later empires
The Achaemenid Persian empire was invaded by Alexander III of Macedon, after which it collapsed and disintegrated in 330 BCE into what later became the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Seleucid Empire, in addition to other minor territories which gained independence at that time. Iranian rule was re-established in the region starting from the rise of Arsacids in middle of 3rd century BCE.

The Sassanid Empire (also spelled Sasanid Empire, Sassanian Empire, or Sasanian Empire), known to its inhabitants as Ērānshahr and Ērān, was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from 224 to 651. The Sassanid Empire, which succeeded the Parthian Empire, was recognized as one of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe, alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire, for a period of more than 400 years.
The Empire was founded by Ardashir I, after the fall of the Arsacids and the defeat of the last Arsacid king, Artabanus IV. The Empire lasted until Yazdegerd III lost control of his empire in a series of invasions from the Arab Caliphate. During its existence, the Sassanid Empire encompassed all of today's Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan), southwestern Central Asia, part of Turkey, certain coastal parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf area, and areas of southwestern Pakistan. The name for the Sassanid Empire in Middle Persian is Eran Shahr which means Aryan Empire.
The Sassanid era, during Late Antiquity, is considered to have been one of Persia's/Iran's most important and influential historical periods. In many ways, the Sassanid period witnessed the peak of ancient Persian civilization, and constituted the last great Iranian empire before the Muslim conquest and the adoption of Islam. Persia influenced Roman civilization considerably during the Sassanid period, and the empires regarded one another as equals, as suggested in the letters written by the rulers of the two states addressing each other as "brother". The Sassanids' cultural influence extended far beyond the empire's territorial borders, reaching as far as Western Europe, Africa, China and India. It played a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asiatic medieval art.

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[Hafez21hafez21]

The KKK people are not even Arians LOL the white Anglo Saxons who think they belong to the Arian race, they are very wrong, the blue eye blond hair gene comes from the Scandinavian countries Nordic wicking genes, not Arians! Only Germans and Persians have Arians genes in them. But there is no such a thing as pure Arian race today for the reasons I explained.

[samioa]

@satanbeater

No, Persians are not mixed with Turks. When the Aryans migrated to Iran the Persians mixed with non european people such as the Elamites and the Kurds mixed with the Gutians, Hurrians and so on... The Elamites are believed to be related with the Dravidians who were almost black people, that's why most persians dont have ''nordic'' looks which has nothing to do with being Aryan. Bakhtiari Persians and Gilakis & Mazandaranis have nordic looks if thats what you're after.

[revolution4palestine]

@Hafez21hafez21

germans are nordic , the germanic tribes migrated from scandinavian peninsula to central and western europe

read a book

[Luccasio1]

@sspersian Go hunt gays and hang them fucking idiot muslim cunt

[Luccasio1]

@sspersian BTW my friend is from Iran and he is pure Iranian race and he is not white at all and he is from Esfahan. Iranian people are not white, the only whites in Iran are turks, which live mostly in Tehran so i don't know what are you talking about idiot, you must be some kind of Turk and no Persian/Aryan!! IDIOT

[Luccasio1]

@sspersian Italians are way hotter that the whitest Iranian, whiter doesn't mean nicer. Idiot.

[Luccasio1]

So to sum it up

European-Caucasoid Nordic, West Asia/Middle-East- Caucasoid Arians, Africa-Negroid, East Asia-Mongoloid, Australia-Australoid but now Caucasoid, OH YEH and the Native Americans, Cherokee so America now-Caucasoid+Negroid+Mongoloi­d+Cherokee etc BTW Hitler did have some Jewish ancestors/Middle eastern but i don't know where did he get that he and Germans are Arians. They are NOT.

[Luccasio1]

like a natural sun-screen etc.

Only the king of Persia called him self, and his people Arians. The pure black people originated in Africa. There are just 4 main races. Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid.

[Luccasio1]

Arian is the Indian word for "Nooble" Caucasoid people are people who originated somewhere near the Caucasus mountains which are located between Asia and Europe. Caucasoid race migrated to different places on the world. Europe, Middle-East, Northern India, Egypt etc 1000's maybe million's years ago, by the time the evolution changed the appearance of the people. The people who were in the hottest places their skin get darker because they needed some melanin in their skin which act

[yashil17]

@Hafez21hafez21

that the Airiyans did not look like Vikings and presumably they looked like present-day Eranians, who are a mix of Semetic lineage and Airiyan - mainly Semetic though unfortunantly, is that right? if the Airiyans were like that, then they were probly related to the original natives of Europe like the Balkans or Baasque, or even to the ancient Uighyrs probs, which is false. My concl.the Airiyan race was pure until they mixed with Semetic and non-Airiyan stocks.

[yashil17]

@Hafez21hafez21

firstly, the Airiyan race has no real history of origin, there are only theories- like the out of India theory, the Viking/German theory (which is the one that i was taught by my family as to who we originally are, and it does make sense to me), and the apparently most popular/accepted one is the one stating that they came from E./Minor Asia (around Anatolia), and then spread to Europe, and Asia; but i've never heard the out of Russian one. So i believe your trying to state ...

[Hafez21hafez21]

@yashil17 My conclusion is there is no such a thing as pure Aryan race today.