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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4553783, member: 112852&quot;]Thank you, Doug.&nbsp; I remember that when the Achaemenids conquered and administered the western part of their empire when it was young, the <i>lingua franca</i> of the day was, believe it or not, Aramaic.&nbsp; My knowledge of the ancient Near East lessens greatly after this time, and I don&#039;t know enough about the Achaemenids anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess I&#039;m surprised that the Parthians didn&#039;t use their own writing system; I would have thought they would have been happy to have not used Greek, but I guess this was less like a revolution and more like gradual development.</p><p><br /></p><p>So if American and Canadian coins use Latin when virtually nobody knows it, and if the Achaeminids used Aramaic, then I guess the Parthians using Greek kind of fits the pattern.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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