Originally Posted by
Kyp Snow
Do you know anything about these times? Unfortunately there is very little known about the times of the arrival of Iranic tribes into Iran. What happened to all the people like Kassites, Gutians, Elamites etc.. Any indication that they were largely assimilated?. I think the only thing that is known is that the Persians (who derived from the Median tribes) went south and sacked Elam. And Elam language remained important under the Persian rulers, so we can assume that most of them were assimilated. Gutians probably got assimilated by the Medes? Or were they early IAryan off-branches like the Mitanni?
Another thing what interests me. Werent the Aryans/Iranics nomadic/pastoralist people similar in culture to the Gutians who were descibed quite barbaric by Mesopotamian sources? So they basically leeched off the Sumer-Elamite suffistication in forming their empires?
So the Parthians remained the culture while Persians and Medes took over Mesopotamian influenced culture.
Some people remained Nomadic in Persian times and frequently attacked Persian and Median cities. Who were they?
There is way too much unknown about Iranian history unfortunately.
The Iranian history is quite similar to those of Anatolia actually. Just thousands of years earlier.