Western Civilization I / Unit 8 WC1 0702 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sasanian Persia: Iranshahr and a State Religion
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The idea
Ardashir founded the Sasanian dynasty in two twenty-four, the witness's date, and it ruled to six fifty-one. Zoroastrianism became a state religion for the first time, the magi allied to the throne; centralized rule on the Achaemenid model followed.
In practice
Shapur I captured the emperor Valerian.
Where people slip
The anchor gives four dates for the Sasanians' rise, one of them B.C.E. Use two twenty-four.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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