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The Cambridge History of Iran
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This article is published in The American Historical Review.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 96 citations till now.read more
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Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence
Michael McCormick,Ulf Büntgen,Mark A. Cane,Edward R. Cook,Kyle Harper,Peter Huybers,Thomas Litt,Sturt W. Manning,Paul Andrew Mayewski,Alexander More,Kurt Nicolussi,Willy Tegel +11 more
TL;DR: A first synthesis of what the written records and multiple natural archives (multi-proxy data) indicate about climate change and variability across western Eurasia from c. 100 B.C. to 800 A.D. as discussed by the authors confirms that the Roman Empire rose during a period of stable and favorable climatic conditions, which deteriorated during the Empire's third-century crisis.
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The Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity
TL;DR: The importance of the province of Fars/Persis and the Persian Gulf as an important entrepot was discussed in this article, where it was shown that because of the Perso-Byzantine rivalry the amount of trade on the Silk Road was reduced and consequently the amount via the Persian gulf was increased by the fifth and sixth centuries C.E. The campaign for controlling trade in silk and spices was taken to the seas and Persian colonies were established as far away as Sri Lanka.
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Astronomy and Astrology in India and Iran
TL;DR: The influence of foreign ideas on Indian gayakas is discussed in this article, where the authors make clear the creative use they made of their borrowings in devising the yuga-system of astronomy, pointing out their almost complete lack of originality.
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Events in Arabia in the 6th Century A.D.
TL;DR: After Kanē, as the land continues on, there opens out another, very broad, gulf, stretching a considerable distance in depth, called Sakhalitēs, and the libanos-bearing land as mentioned in this paper.
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Astronomy and Astrology in India and Iran
TL;DR: The influence of foreign ideas on Indian gayakas is surveyed so as to make clear the creative use they made of their borrowings in devising the yuga-system of astronomy, and the character of Sasanian astronomy and astrology is examined, pointing out their almost complete lack of originality.