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The industrious outlook of Persia evolved a heavily urbanized nature during the Sasanian Rule. In some way, the Sasanians developed novel concepts of promoting goods and marking their qualities with dedicated brands for the items to be manufactured or sold. Archaeological excavations in recent days in north-west of Iran have revealed that special labels on goods were used to promote brands. Relics found at the northern gate of the historical site of Takht-e Suleiman reveals that labels of abstract figures (two seals in particular attested over earthenware vessels) of Sasanian royal court marked that the goods were manufactrued for the for the sake of the royal family. To have a well-oiled exchequer, many guilds were build. Roads and bridges, with dedicated patrolling were constructed to connect Ctesiphon with the rest of the provinces. Harbors were constructed in Persian Gulf to facilitate easy trade with India. In long-term the Sasanian merchants gradually replaced the Roman counterparts from the profitable trade in Indian Ocean and widened their economic influence. During and following the reign of Khosrau I, Sasanian trade become more vast and urbanized and gave more impetus to luxury goods over others. It is at this point; Sasanian Trade would gradually develop monopoly and focused on more infrastructure building like Ports, Bridges and Lodging-Inns on Trade Routes to support the mercantile activity. The International Trade Route at the time of Khosrau was in some way entirely dominated by the Sasanians stretching from Indian Ocean to Persian Gulf, as well Over Central Asia to Southern Russia. Though this would often lead to bitter Mercantile Competition between them and the Byzantine Empire. While the Sasanian subordinate state of Sogdiana controlled the Silk-Trade and transport with China, the Sasanian colonies of Oman and Yemen played a major role in their trade with India. Exports boomed in Sasanian time with wide range of items like woolen textiles, silk as a raw material, hides, rugs, carpets and pearls being marketed via the Persian Gulf. Custom taxes were imposed for goods-transit of paper and silk from China and spices from India into the Western world. Being in control of Mineral-Rich provinces of Caucasus, Armenia as well as that of Transoxania, that Iran came to be known as the – Armory of Asia – during the Sasanian period. The vast mineral dividend of the Pamir Mountains on the Eastern sphere of the Iranian Empire would even give rise to many legends on the Tajik culture of the time. [Image 1: Simurgh described Sasanian Silk Twill Textile on a Beaded Surrounding, 6-7th C.E. ; Image 2: Sasanian Trade-Route Via Sea] [Info and Image Credit: Sasanian_Empire , Wikipedia;  http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1199.html ; Images Availed Under Wikimedia Commons and Public Domain Work (Please Check Individual Image-URLs for All Usage Details) ] [Image URLs :   1.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Textile0001.jpg   2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indo-Sassanid.jpg ]












 




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