The Mazdakite Movement: A Sasanian Social Revolution

491 CE · İran · social

Mazdak, who taught that inequality of wealth and property was wrong, gathered great peasant support; Kavad I supported him at first.

Khosrow I violently crushed the movement in 529. | The most mass-based social reform movement before the Middle Ages; the collision of peasant demands with the imperial power structure.

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What was The Mazdakite Movement: A Sasanian Social Revolution?
Mazdak, who taught that inequality of wealth and property was wrong, gathered great peasant support; Kavad I supported him at first.
When did The Mazdakite Movement: A Sasanian Social Revolution happen?
491 CE
Where did The Mazdakite Movement: A Sasanian Social Revolution take place?
İran