Pirooz The Last Sassanid Shahanshah in China

 

if Arabs are the ones who killed him they would've said so proudly,

 

also his killing story mentioned in many old historical books written by Arabs and the ones written by Persians.

 

i wonder whats the sources you have that makes you Definite?

 

 

Originally posted by kingofmazanderan Azimuth i heard the story that Yazdgard III being killed by Persians was made up by the Arabs.  I think he was definetly beheaded by the Arabs not killed for being mistaken as a theif.

 

here is a short article on Tang dynasty and the silk road.

 

Another thing unique about Tang dynasty was its openness, there were many foriegn traders in china at the time and chinese back then liked and copied anything from persia or central asia. Very different from the later Song, Ming and Qing dynasties when chinese were more isolationist and nativists.

 

Another thing was Tang imperial family had no problems with mixing with others, the emperors had dancing girls from tashkent as wives as well as daughters of turk khans, Tang also married many of its princesses to turk khans and tibetan kings and as well as central asian rulers.

Completely different from later chinese dynasties when the emperor only married chinese and marrying princesses to other peoples were seen as a humiliation.