Shayan G wrote: | ||
All our evidence indicates they were FAR more than "decent." Roman involvement in construction was largely in terms of slave labor rather than engineering. The Sassanians had 1000 years of Persian architecture at their backs, with thousands more years experience gleaned from their Mesopotamian subjects and various other conquered peoples. They were skilled engineers in their own right. [ |
I was being modest, on the behalf of my spiritual forbears . . .
I agree---the Sassanians inherited over a millennium of architectural and engineering expertise from the Medes, the Assyrians, the Ionian Greeks, and many other groups . . . .