Sassanid Empire
RegionPersia
Period224-651 AD
Peak Size3.5 million km2
Founded ByArdashir I
About Sassanid Empire
The last pre-Islamic Persian Empire. Fought Rome and Byzantium for 400 years. Center of learning before the Islamic Golden Age. The game of chess was refined here. Zoroastrianism was the state religion. Fell to the Arab Islamic conquest in the 7th century. Many Persian traditions were absorbed into Islamic civilization.