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The Boy King in a Mill: How an Empire Died with Jewels

The Boy King in a Mill: How an Empire Died with Jewels

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A fugitive boy king sleeps on a mill floor wearing the jewels of a fallen empire-what did it cost him?

The Boy King in a Mill: How an Empire Died with Jewels

In this episode, we trace the years that turned Yazdegerd III from an eight-year-old coronation pawn into a fugitive wearing imperial jewels. The episode follows the collapse of the Sasanian administrative and military order and asks what was taken from him before he ever had a chance to rule.

Person: Yazdegerd III
Date: 651
Location: a grain mill at the edge of the known world
Event: coronation at the Temple of Anahita (632) and subsequent flight
Topic: collapse of the Sasanian Empire after Khosrow II's fall

- An eight-year-old Yazdegerd became king in 632 as a symbol installed by magnates Rostam Farrokhzad and Piruz Khosrow.
- Khosrow II’s overthrow and Kavad II’s execution of royal heirs removed multiple claimants and shattered dynastic continuity.
- A devastating epidemic and successive assassinations produced six rulers in four years and fractured central authority.
- Provincial governors declared independence, rival claimants minted coins, and powerful noble houses refused to legitimize Yazdegerd.
- In 633, Arab cavalry defeated a garrison at Hira, signaling an incursion into the Sasanian tax base while Yazdegerd’s commanders marched south with war elephants.

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