[bruinbirdman]

Persians? They're Iranians, eh?

[madameguinot]

I have become jaded. Is this part of a movement to ‘de-stigmify’ chemical weapons?
“Oh those Iranians are just doing what armies have been doing for centuries.” No need to be alarmed!

News pieces came out about how Jefferson and other founding fathers were really just ordinary, sinning people like the rest of us during the Clinton era.

I’ll stop now!

[Rome2000]

Persians? They're Iranians, eh?

They are muhammadans regardless, insane and cowardly.

Good for nothing, and must be forced to drink beer and appreciate Hooters girls or be wiped from the face of the Earth.

[Ancesthntr]

I hope that the Romans nuked the bastards in response.

[BBell]

I have not seen this one before.

[TXnMA]

SO₂ is nasty sutff! As a teenager. I learned very quickly that the fumes (SO₂) from burning sufur react with the moisture in your lungs and mucous membranes to produce sulfurous acid in your airway. And it hurts!!!

Reminds me of the time I decided to use specially sulfur-enriched homemade black powder fumes to kill off all the roaches in an old barn in the middle of censored to protect the perp, Texas.

It wasn't long before all the ladies in the surrounding houses ran out of spray insecticide... LOL!!!

(Hey, what would one expect from a budding physical chemist...?) '-}

[Eternal_Bear]

The sassanids had a nasty habit of skinning Roman Emperors and stuffing the skin with straw. It was a Great conversation piece at the banquets.

[SolidWood]

This battle was part of the well known war between the Emperors Shapur I. and Valerian, who was defeated and captured by the Persians. (His humiliation was immortalized in stone).

Speaking of religion... of course the Persians were largely Zoroastrians back then (Islam didn't appear until the 7th century, when the Persians were defeated by the Arabs), however Shapur I. himself was close to the Manicheans, a gnostic religion, and a supporter of the Jews.

Roman Emperor Valerian on the other side, in A.D. 258 savagely murdered the clergy of the early Church, including Pope Sixtus, and put many more Christians into slavery, confiscating their property.

These Romans weren't squeaky clean either.

Regarding civilization... the Sassanian Empire was the inventor of countless superior military and civilian technologies that were copied by the Romans and found their way into the European Middle Ages. The medieval Knighthood was a follower of the Sassanians, as were heavy armored cavalry (the Clibanarii), the military rank system (from Persian "rang" (color)) and as a striking example on the field of agriculture, the invention of the wind mill.

[SunkenCiv]

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