Andrew Eubanks — The Lost Historian

Original art: murals of the Moldovița  Monastery in Romania This war would change the course of history and the world forever. It would begin a domino effect that had an impact so large that it marks the ending of an era. The major powers that had simply always existed in the Europe-Middle East-Africa region would fall into serious decline and finally be wiped out by a power and a movement that is important to the world today. And yet, the war is not common knowledge.  There are a few reasons this could be. For one, the name of the war ascribed to it by historians is the "Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628" or some variant thereof which doesn't really stay in your mind all that well. Alternatively, another possibility that the war is so forgotten is that its major combatants no longer exist and the states that rose in their wake did not adopt their history as their own.  Nevertheless, the Final Roman-Persian War, as I will call the event, led to the end of both the Ro...