Talk:Persians/@comment-2A02:A210:2301:480:10BE:DFB2:81C5:1BD8-20190504181155

I'm sorry who wrote this crap. During Roman times the Persians were basically the only other empire that had a professional standing army.

During the Achaemenid period most of the information about the Persians was written by Herodotus a man known as the father of lies. He exaggerated and wasn't very fond of the Persians.

The Immortals were probably the only standing professional force anywhere since this was before the Romans and the rest of the world either relied on volunteers or mercanries. Whoever wrote this is basically relying on hollywood and has made the Persians the Zerg What's more the Persians did not rely on numbers, they were outnumbered in their own Empire by Semetic people, Egyptians and Nomads so the idea of a standing army was even more necessary than elsewhere.

Furthermore during the Sassanid and Parthian period the very idea of heavy armored knights and local kings (that would dominate Europe society later on) was started in Persia. They couldn't compete with the larger armies that the Romans and Byzantiums could levy so they had to rely on superior tactics and better trained cavalry.