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Fibonacci
01-02-2019, 10:25 PM
What the Iranians used to defeat the Romans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DY6XT0K_7c&feature=player_embedded
https://youtu.be/LleShqmazu8
https://youtu.be/Lj2z1WgFbxk
Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas
01-02-2019, 10:50 PM
Didn't they look more like this though?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Ancient_Sasanid_Cataphract_Uther_Oxford_2003_06_2% 281%29.jpg
"Historical re-enactment of a Sassanid-era cataphract, complete with a full set of scale armor for the horse."
Fibonacci
01-03-2019, 01:42 AM
Didn't they look more like this though?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Ancient_Sasanid_Cataphract_Uther_Oxford_2003_06_2% 281%29.jpg
"Historical re-enactment of a Sassanid-era cataphract, complete with a full set of scale armor for the horse."
That's a heavy armored Persian cataphract, what the sassanids used to melt through Roman formations. I'm pretty sure the Persians invented cataphracts and it spread into Europe.
Horse archers became very significant during the late Persian dynasty and were used throughout the Parthian dynasty. Parthian horse archers looked pretty much the same as the ones in the video. They were lightly armored. Infact the man is wearing the same clothes the parthians wore
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