History speaks of the insatiable greed and narcissism of one man, Crassus of Rome. He had a strong desire for military honors late in life to equal that of Pompey and Caesar the two others in the First Triumvirate.

This would bring him to the borders of the Iranian Parthian Empire. He would turn down assistance from the Armenians that may have made for a different outcome. He would then march his many legions across the Euphrates into Parthia, fully unprepared for what was about to befall him, his son and his men. The end result of this would be the famous Battle of Carrhae 53BCE. It would be a battle that the Roman Republic and successor Roman Empire would not soon forget.

The Parthians were a mobile people and their warfare reflected that. With their heavy and light cataphract capable of shooting arrows backwards at a full gallop. What they were not was a siege army like the Romans. In essence the two would be foils of each other for a few centuries.

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