I ruled this empire, which like its predecessor was Zoroastrian and governed from Ctesiphon.
This polity's bureaucracy was headed by the Vuzorg Farmadar, and other important officials included the Vastrioshansalar minister of agriculture and the Mobadan Mobad, the government's religious leader. One leader of this polity formed an alliance with the nomad king Grombates and had earlier laid siege to Singara. This polity engaged in some religious perseuction under the priest Kirder, and the Lakhmids became a vassal kingdom of this polity, which had a victory at (*) Callinicum under Kavadh I. Its founder was a hereditary guardian of the Anahita fire in Istakhr, and founded a namesake city at Ardashir-Kwarrah. More notably, it was ruled by the victor at the Battle of Edessa, who supposedly made a human footstool out of the Roman emperor Valerian. Shapur I ruled this empire, which like its predecessor was Zoroastrian and governed from Ctesiphon. For 10 points, name this Persian empire that followed the Parthians and ruled for the third through seventh centuries.
This polity's bureaucracy was headed by the Vuzorg Farmadar, and other important officials included the Vastrioshansalar minister of agriculture and the Mobadan Mobad, the government's religious leader.
{Sassanids} [or {Sassanians}]