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High heels have a long, rich history, dating as far back as the tenth century. The Persian cavalry, for example, wore a kind of boot with heels in order to ensure their feet stayed in the stirrups.

While popular culture has been always more favorable to the Greeks (especially the Spartans), history still has a few accounts of the mighty deeds and feats of their oft media-abused ‘barbaric’ adversaries – the Persians. As a matter of fact, this advanced eastern realm has long been the cultural as well as military opponents of the Mediterranean-based classical civilizations; and as such, ...