Explanation: The Roman Empire often fought with the Parthian Empire, occupying modern-day Iran. The Parthians were particularly renowned as horse archers.
Not directly related but they were known for a tactic of firing an arrow while retreating, a tactic that came to be known as a "Parthian shot" and later giving rise to the term "parting shot"
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Explanation: The Roman Empire often fought with the Parthian Empire, occupying modern-day Iran. The Parthians were particularly renowned as horse archers.
That's it. Nothing more to it.
Not directly related but they were known for a tactic of firing an arrow while retreating, a tactic that came to be known as a "Parthian shot" and later giving rise to the term "parting shot"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_shot
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parting_shot
Are you sure it's not allegory for george bush or something
I was an aviator, like you. Then I took an arrow to fuselage.
https://mymodernmet.com/los-carpinteros-the-carpenters-aviao/
Is that Indiana Jones’s plane from the last movie?
Look, nobody is happy about it, but the crystal skull and the dial of destiny exist, they even have the same actors.
No, no. There were no Indiana Jones movies after The Last Crusade. Never happened.