Uncontested achievements of the Iranians

 To all my Iranian freinds,
                                        I would want you to list here all the uncontested acheivmeents of the ancient iranians..
                                        By uncontested I mean that those acheivemtns is acepted to be from Iran without any controversy or any other nation caliming that...

Originally posted by Sparten How about this one, losing their empire in the space of two battles, to a far smaller foe? Serioulsy, enough with these nationalistic threads. Everyone.  ====================================================

It's a funny world, really. Alexander conquered the Achaemenian empire, yes. There is no doubt about it. But even as Alexander was marching towards the city of Persepolis, the brave �ri�barz�n had surprised the macedonians at the Persian Gates. The Iranian Thermopylae no one speaks about. It is ironical that it would be you "Sparten" that would point out the prevalence of "nationalistic threads", when Spartans have a monument dedicted to their heroic last stand at the isthmus of Corinth. What do Iranians have to commemorate the last stand of the Achaemenians?

Or should I remind on how the Parthians avenged their downfall by humiliating the Seleucids? Now think about it, a bunch of semi nomadic cavalrymen, laying Alexander's pride and joy, the phalangite infantry and the Basilikon Agemata the smack down with storms of arrows and the charge of cataphracts... If there's any other empire who can contend with the Seleucids with the most pathetic downfall, it has to be the Hellenized Bactria or the Khwarezmid Shahdom. Problem is that the demise of the Seleucid and Hellenized bactrian dominions were caused by Iranians: The Yuezhi and the Parn�. Considering how Hellenes repeatedly lost to supposedly numerically inferior Romans, it just makes one wonder what the hell the ten thousand horse archers and the one thousand cataphracts put in their kabobs prior to the battle of Carrhae, versus Crassus' legions. Just zip it.

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With that aside, I'd like to make an honorary mention of the Parthian battery:

http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Science/battery.htm


Edited by �ri� the Brave - 25-Jul-2006 at 15:43

Aarya jan even if we list you something here that is uncontested, somebody will come and claim that this was theirs :)

Leave this alone and lets focus on one qoal, which is freeing Iran from Evil.

Nice said,  Ario The Brave.