This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler

And you're listening to volume three, the classical world

episode four

the Sasanian Empire. Oh, Let's recap what we know about the area of the Persian empires from the destruction of the Assyrian

Empire at the end of the 7th century B.C. A joint effort by the Meads and the Babylonians caused the end of the Assyrian Empire.

The Middle East would be shared between the two new superpowers, the Meads in the north and the Babylonians in the south.

The Persian heartland, based at the city of Unshun, would rise up against the meads and defeat them, taking control of their median

empire and starting a Persian Empire which we call the Akemanid. The Akemanids would defeat the Babylonians

and create a larger empire than the world had ever seen.

It would take the exploits of a mighty warrior who we call Alexander the Great to

conquer the Akkimian in Persians in the fourth century B.C. E and this would mark the estate the Heminid Empire. After the death of Alexander the Great,

his successors would wrestle for control of these territories.

The General Salucus would ultimately take control of a large part of the former Macedonian Empire,

but Greek and Egyptian lands would remain independent from the new Salucid Empire, and

Armenia would establish itself as an independent kingdom.

During the 3rd century B.C. E. Parthia, an area in the northeast of the Seleucid Empire, would declare its independence.

Despite some successful Parthian aggression, the Seleucids would manage to keep both Parthia and Armenia subject to its rule.

However, both kingdoms would regain their independence during the second century

B.C. E. with the Parthians taking control of all the Iranian lands and southern Mesopotamia,

pushing the Seleucids westwards.

The pressure of the Parthians to their east, the Armenians to their north and the Romans to their west

would prove to be too much for the saluted empire, which would collapse completely

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