Condition: Very Good for it's age. There are some old pencil pricing marks at the front. Some wear around the edges. There is some damp staining on the pages just inside the front and back covers. The Parthia monarchy last around 500 years. It commenced around B.C. 250 and it terminated in A.D. 227. It was an ancient civilization that corresponds roughly to the province of Khorasan in Persia, or the 3 Korasan provinces in Iran today. George Rawlinson wrote a great deal about Parthia. In his general survey before the end of his book, he wrote: 'Parthia occupied the position of second nation the world from about B.C. 150 to A.D. 226. They were a check and a counterpoise to Rome, preserving a "balance of power," and preventing the absorption of all other nations into the Tyrant Empire. They afforded a refuge to those whom Rome would fain have hunted down, allowed a freedom to their subjects which no Roman Emperor ever permitted, excelled the Romans in toleration and a liberal treatment