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1. Parthian Empire

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   The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political power that existed from 247 BCE to 224 CE. Emerging from the region of Parthia (modern northeastern Iran), the empire spanned vast territories across the Iranian Plateau, Mesopotamia, and parts of Central Asia. For centuries, it served as the primary geopolitical rival to the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire in the West, while simultaneously controlling critical junctions of the overland trade networks…