Why did easterners historically and to this day think that its

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Isn't the system of forced conscription of different tribal groups used by ISIS or Iraq today the same as the Satrapy system

>>2659042
explain

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>LE SLAVE SOLDIERS AMIRITE? SPARTAAA
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Achaemenid Persia fielded professional infantry: the immortals were the permanent regiment under the direct command of the king, while Satrapal regiments raised an army of landed soldiers who were given lands to free them for a professional military service. In peacetime however, these return to their homes to managed their tiny estates. In addition to these are all the military systems of their subject peoples like mountain warriors from the caucasus or Syrian soldiers.

Since you posted TWC's lyl Parthian Soldiers, the Parthians were even worse: their offensive force was a vastly mounted army consisting of horse archers and the Savaran, who are basically knights trained from childhood to become heavy cavalrymen.

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>>2659350
>In peacetime however, these return to their homes to managed their tiny estates.

Am I retarded or is this some sort of a mixture of post-Marius professional Roman armies and medieval Western European feudal armies? At least in terms of organization.

>>2659038
Don't forget:
>supposed army of nomadic desert goat herders
>somehow millions strong

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>>2659367
Nah. Giving soldiers land was the cheapest and easiest way to raise professional soldiers: provided you had land to give in the first place. Persia/Iranic Empires did it, Macedon and the Successors did it, Germanics & Celts did it, China partly did it.

Really: Rome and China were unique in ancient times since they paid all or some of their soldiers in wages.

>>2659038

Well, they tried to hire some guys from Silicom Valley, but then realized that Silicom Valley did not exist yet so they had toconform with the herders.

>>2659038
>to make the bulk of your army goat herders with sharp sticks

You just described the Macedonians under Alexander the Great.

>In the first place, as is reasonable, I shall begin my speech from my father Philip. For he found you vagabonds and destitute of means, most of you clad in hides, feeding a few sheep up the mountain sides, for the protection of which you had to fight with small success against Illyrians, Triballians, and the border Thracians. Instead of the hides he gave you cloaks to wear, and from the mountains he led you down into the plains, and made you capable of fighting the neighbouring barbarians, so that you were no longer compelled to preserve yourselves by trusting rather to the inaccessible strongholds than to your own valour. He made you colonists of cities, which he adorned with useful laws and customs; and from being slaves and subjects, he made you rulers over those very barbarians by whom you yourselves, as well as your property, were previously liable to be plundered and ravaged.