The natives rebelled against their masters.

An Asiatic race of a rude and uncivilized type, coarse and savage, but brave and freedom-loving, rose up against the polished but effeminate Greeks who held them in subjection, and claimed and established their independence.

The Parthian kingdom was thoroughly anti-Hellenic.

It appealed to patriotic feelings, and to the hate universally felt towards the stranger.

It set itself to undo the work of Alexander, to cast out the Europeans, to recover to the Asiatics the possession of Asia.