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On 31 August 1907, Britain and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Convention in St Petersburg. Without consulting a single Persian, two empires drew lines across a sovereign map, settling an old imperial feud and planting the seeds of a century of grievance.
On 16 June 632, an eight-year-old boy was crowned Shah of Persia at the sacred temple of Anahita. He was the last Sasanian King of Kings. The empire he inherited had already been hollowed out by civil war, plague, and twenty years of war with Byzantium - and within weeks, Muhammad would die in Arabia.