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Cratus Didn't Know Much About Parthia
We don't know as much about Parthia as we'd like to. And perhaps more importantly, Cratus didn't know very much about it either. He thought it would be quite an easy thing to conquer that nobody else had got around to. It was sort of an enormous space occupied by these Parthian kings who'd come down from the Scythian North. But in fact, they were quite a sophisticated park Greek, park local groupWho Cratus didn’t know it,. Were extremely advanced in many aspects of military and political life.
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