NOTE: New SASSANIAN/SASSANID EMPIRE SERIES EPISODES ARE UP: Episode 1: ua-cam.com/video/KCoXZLUWCM0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=YoreHistory Episode 2: ua-cam.com/video/zUGeBDJ5UMg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=YoreHistory As for this series on the Achaemenid Empire...aware the music gets irritating. It was my first series and each episode was shown weeks apart. Together its more annoying but again old series...newer series are scored lower volume and better production quality.
@@irdsqrgitro This is a video about the PERSIAN EMPIRE. I can only include so much information. I will do other series on Arabian powers. By the way I DO have a series on Babur of the Mughals. WHy do you have to be so rude? I am one person making these out of a passion for history...
@@YoreHistory Sorry my comment was on the another channel I followed of a video about the political entities of old & late antiquity in the old world and he completely blurred/ignored Indus valley & South & East Arabia, I just hate biased narration & inaccuracy, my sincere apology.
I know im asking the wrong place but does anybody know of a method to get back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me
Persians called him father. Babylonians called him liberator. Jews called him Messiah. Cyrus was humble while being the most powerful man on the earth, an unexampled leader throughout the history!
@@werewolfhunter2011 Cunieform clay cylinders. Nabonidus was ruler at the time and it states he was disliked by the people. They welcomed Cyrus according to writing.
@@YoreHistory from the cyrus cylinder? isnt that proven to be propaganda and was the norm during Mesopotamia for conquerors to write cylinders as a way to portray the previous ruler as unjust compared to the current one? www.ancient.eu/article/166/the-cyrus-cylinder/#:~:text=The%20Cyrus%20Cylinder%20is%20a,ending%20the%20Neo%2DBabylonian%20empire.
I've been watching Kings and generals in this actually came up as recommended !! and I've sat here for almost 2 hours watching this incredible well done study . Thank you for your hard work !!
Cheers and thanks for watching...production values in current parthian series get better with last one releasing a few days ago. Thanks for giving it a go!
Those leaders are here...It is just that we modern human beings have long submitted our wills to puppeteers who control those……who control us. But real leadership is not about “control.” It is about inspiring others to follow.
@@fukpoeslaw3613 where dud u hear that Bcuz u know iran got attacked many times and the books gut burned So the other side wrote the history and rhey added whatever they wanted
Truly the greatest empire in history in my opinion. No empire is benevolent, but Achaemenid Empire was closer to being like that than any other empire that existed before or after it.
@@DanTheArtisan91 Achaemenid was the biggest ancient empire Alexander came during Darius III which was a awful leader also civil wars Alexander admires Cyrus aswell Cyrus was his idol he also got severely persianized and had a Persian girlfriend
@IStevenSeagal That's right, he is the mysterious King the Quran speaks of. When Cyrus is the Messiah in the Torah, he is definitely the king the Quran speaks of.
*_I've never watched as long a history video on UA-cam in my life as this one. Extremely refreshing seeing it through the other side of history. I especially appreciate that you shed light on the burning of Persian libraries under Alexander. The reason to why we know so little of not only Persia but of Babylon is truly, in my opinion, because of Alexander and his Greeks. We are lead to believe that Libraries was an invention by Alexander and that the exchange of ideas began with him as opposed to the more tolerant Cyrus the Great. We are lead to believe that the Greek who we know to be extremely conservative were the first people to begin mixing of cultures. What a great lie. So much for "Greece is the foundation of civilisation"..._*
@Artystone Darius; I visited Shiraz last month, and many incredible places like Persepolis, Pasargad, Naqsh-e-Rostan,.... I love these ancient areas and really enjoyed it. Proud to be Persian... Long Live Iran/Persia ❤️
Thank you again! Once I finished The 9/9 episode of PERSIA RISES! Now, I'm starting with this compilation. I don't understand why people dislike this masterpiece, what's on their mind? This channel actually contains valuable information.
Farsi is an Indo European language of the Indo Iranian branch. English is an Indo European language of the West Germanic branch. English milk, Tocharian malke, Latin mulgeo, Old Irish melg, Greek amelgo, Russian moloko and so forth. Linguistic, textual, genetic and archaeological evidence for the Out of India Theory of Indo European Languages Baghpat Chariots, Weapons and the Horse in the Harappan Civilization - Dr. BK Manjul ua-cam.com/video/fZvKpjjTpgg/v-deo.html Findings from the latest genetic study conducted by ASI in collaboration with the Reich Lab at Harvard using ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi slides at 29:00 mark ua-cam.com/video/Dio3Ep0nlv4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/n4WFk0iEK5k/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/f0Lg1b_8N54/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/-wIu3dUsmtY/v-deo.html Here are the tribes that spread the Indo European languages from South Asia to West Asia, Central Asia and to Europe Avestan) Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Sairima (Śimyu), Dahi (Dāsa). NE Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Nuristani/Piśācin (Viṣāṇin). Pakhtoonistan (NW Pakistan), South Afghanistan: Iranian: Pakhtoon/Pashtu (Paktha). Baluchistan (SW Pakistan), SE Iran: Iranian: Bolan/Baluchi (Bhalāna). NE Iran: Iranian: Parthian/Parthava (Pṛthu/Pārthava). SW Iran: Iranian: Parsua/Persian (Parśu/Parśava). NW Iran: Iranian: Madai/Mede (Madra). Uzbekistan: Iranian: Khiva/Khwarezmian (Śiva). W. Turkmenistan: Iranian: Dahae (Dāsa). Ukraine, S, Russia: Iranian: Alan (Alina), Sarmatian (Śimyu). Turkey: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Phryge/Phrygian (Bhṛgu). Romania, Bulgaria: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Dacian (Dāsa). Greece: Greek: Hellene (Alina). Albania: Albanian: Sirmio (Śimyu). Shrikant Gangadhar Talageri talageri.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-full-out-of-india-case-in-short.html Five waves of Indo-European expansion: a preliminary model (2018) Igor A Tonoyan-Belyayev I. Tonoyan-Belyayev www.academia.edu/36998766/Five_waves_of_Indo-European_expansion_a_preliminary_model_2018_
@Time out Go back to school, you troll. Persian=Iranian. Afghans are Pashtuns, not Persian. Only 30% of Afghanistan are Tajiks (Persians) and they speak Persian. Iran is the oldest country and civilization in the world. Iran is Persia.
@@LenGebase Agreed. It was my first series...I wasn't aware of all the musical options available at the time. My latest series/videos are much better music wise.
Biased Western historians will tell us that it was the Romans who first built the roads , well now we know the Persians did it 500 years before them . Thanks for these facts Yore History
Uh, no, what historians did say, that Romans were first to build roads? Maybe one day, you will be self confident enough to appraise one man without putting down another.
Sumerians, Akkadians, Egyptians, etc all had roads before Romans. The difference being, that Roman roadways were masterworks and engineering marvels. Many of which are still in use to this day. Not so much those of other civilizations.
As an Iranian, I am proud of my civilization and culture ... Iran has been a turning point in the world throughout the ages .... It can be seen from the film that it is the intelligence of the Iranians who leads them ...... great Be like Iran and Cyrus the Iranian .... wrote and practiced human rights 2581 years ago .. 🇮🇷👑💪
A truly amazing video! As a Parsi i am technically persian and wanted to know more about roots. Thanks for the amazing video i look forward to watching more videos from you!
When you hear the names it really becomes obvious that the primary sources were almost all greek. Excellent documentary, sir. Well researched and paced. You've earned another sub. If you ever edit this, it would be interesting if you explained why Hapargus switched sides in the first place ;)
We have some of the names in Old Persian actually. It’s more that modern historians don’t use the Persian names. Cyrus is Kurash, Darius is Darayavaush. Xerxes is xshayarsa. Artaxerxes is Artaxshaca. Persia is Parsa. Media is Mada. Achaemenid is Haxamanish. It is true most of the sources were lost. Some in the burning of Persepolis. But much more probably survived until the systemic burning of Persian libraries done by the Arabs 9 centuries later. The only sources left from the Achaemenids are now inscribed in stone. The Behistûn inscription is a great read to see old Persian names
I watched it 6 times uninterrupted. Wow. I really appreciated your dedication,focus and motivation. I couldn't get enough of it. It's sad how a significant and important part of human history is neglected by the mainstream since its not european. Please if possible do something on slaves turned elite soldiers to kings and amirs in the Islamic world. That is a subject that bewilderes and fascinates me. Sadly not a lot is done on mamluks
Thanks very much for the comment and feedback. When I started the channel that was one of the main goals...cover history not often covered. Unfortunately as a team of one with *lots* of things planned the reality is i can push out new content maybe once or twice every two weeks so makes doing everything a selective process :) Next Up will be Sassanid/Ottoman/Mongolian but Ill try to do more one off battle and informative videos to perhaps cover more of the type of content you touched on. Thanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory you are welcome and a breathe of fresh air in these streets. Your unbiased and dedication is awesome. History will remember you kindly. Kudos keep up and i promise you'll have a team in no time. Looking forward to the upcoming series.
The four greatest empires mentioned in the Bible would be Babylonian, Persian, Greek & Roman. The Ottoman Empire was also recorded. During this time Daniel was alive in Babylon but an old man. It was Cyrus who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity.
Rise of Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire 00:00 Cyrus offers conquered army to join his ranks 07:24 The Persian invasion of Egypt 15:14 Darius I's first year on the throne 22:33 Darius assembles another army 29:34 Greek army's tactics against the Persians 37:43 Satrapies communication and the Empire's tolerance of language, culture, and religion 45:15 Death of Mithridates 1:00:25 Egyptian Invasion Attempts 1:07:40 Athens and the Second Athenian League against allied city-states 1:14:52 Artaxerxes III's death and the rise of Darius III 1:22:16 Memnon's tactics and the pivotal battle 1:29:22 Alexander's strategy 1:37:07
Its the first time I appreciated the Greco/Persian wars from the Persian side. They were a relatively benign empire by the standards of the times. I wonder how long they would have survived had Alexander spent his life partying instead of parrying.
@@saeedvazirian The Persian empire has lived through other empires. Greeks will claim they were completely original but if you study history in detail you realize that most of what we praise Greece for was actually existing long before in the Persian empire. It lives today through us indeed
@@kinggilan364 eh no it’s not, Iran today is run by religious crazies. And the ppl there hardly have anything to do with the Persians of old. To many barbarians from the north, east and arabian peninsula have overrun those old lands
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu hehe pretty sure most know about them as they are two of the biggest :) But thanks! Other great ones..Invicta, Baz Battles, Historia Civilis, History by Cy and Flashpoint History.
Ohhhh! I didn't know that it was a deep Scythian raid into the hinterlands of the Persian Empire that precipitated Darius's invasion of Scythia north of Thrace. I always found Darius's invasion of those lands a bit off considering the nothingness that must have comprised those lands at the time. Now it makes sense!
@@ericbooth3393 Don't worry maybe Cyrus Jr. is a beautiful "civilized blue eyed whyte good Christian" who spreads freedoms and civilization all over the globe...
" [24] My vast army marched into Babylon in peace; I did not permit anyone to frighten the people of [Sumer] /and\ Akkad. [25] I sought the welfare of the city of Babylon and all its sacred centers. As for the citizens of Babylon, [x x x upon wh]om he imposed a yoke which was not the gods' wish and not befitting them, [26] I relieved their weariness and freed them from their bonds. Marduk, the great lord, rejoiced over [my good] deeds. " Cyrus the Great (from Cyrus Cylinder)
*_0:30_**_ In fact the Persian Empire was the largest empire in ancient history. Persia was 5.5 million square km at it's greatest, Alexander's empire was 5.3 million and Roman empire was 5.0 million square km at it's height._*
Yes, I said it was the largest the world had yet been witness to. IE up to that point in time. Larger empires would come later but for its time it was the largest yet seen :) The Mongolian, and many others would be larger in size in centuries/millennia to come.
@@YoreHistory Yes but mongolia came some 2000 years after the persian empire so it can't be considered an ancient empire. I consider 1000BC - 1000AC to be ancient time ;)
@@MadKingOfMadaya You are still missing what i had said...i had said the Persian empire was the largest up to that point in time. I was making no statement about after in my original nor was i limiting that statement to only the period you indicated.
The massive disrespect towards the Umayyads here. They actually conquered the east and the west much like Achaemenids and Alexander, but went even further west and east. 🤦♂️
"A great god is Ahuramazda, the greatest of the gods, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, created happiness for man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of many. I (am) Xerxes, the great king, king of kings, king of all kinds of people, king on this earth far and wide, the son of Darius the king, the Achaemenid... "
@@systemarchitect526 Не Я Больной Просто хочу Историю Персий🇮🇷Ирана🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️Чем на Египет🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️Был Крестовый поход Тоже Древнее Страна Египет и Даже Персидский поход на Египет🇪🇬⚔🇮🇷Был Чем Крестовый поход на Ирак🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
@@princeofarabia7715 yeah? 'Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions.' did you miss the memo or what haha.. :P althought i somewhat dislike they made it into same thing as being a descended of the tribe judah(ethnic jewish) with jewish(relgious) and have hurt people unfarily just cause of their belonging as most jews are very much integrated and not relgious althought still being misstreated and less seen by people in history...overall in my opinion and view of that and more stating my thoughts on the mather on a sidenote.
Great job and very educational, thank you for your passion. One small item, Cyrus' victory at Thymbra the Persians probably did not have scythe chariots yet. They it most likely began to be in use during the reign of Artaxerxes I after 450 b.c. Again thank you so much.
Thanks, as I just mentioned its an older series and there are a lot of things I would have liked to go back and add but alas the nature of UA-cam is once its up you cannot make edits/additions. I feel the Iranian Parthian series is stronger overall for my vision of what I wanted this to be but glad you enjoyed it! :) I think the Persian Sassanid will be the best series yet when I start work on it! Thanks for watching Ali!
7:34 he was truly fit to rule half of man kind, nay all of it. It is unprecedented that a victor proposes a deal to they loser and still give them extra privileges
It is a testimony to the capability of the founder of the Achaemenian empire, Cyrus the Great, that it continued to expand after his death and lasted for more than two centuries. But Cyrus was not only a great conqueror and administrator; he held a place in the minds of the Persian people similar to that of Romulus and Remus in Rome or Moses for the Israelites. His saga follows in many details the stories of hero and conquerors from elsewhere in the ancient world. The manner in which the baby Cyrus was given to a shepherd to raise is reminiscent of Moses in the bulrushes in Egypt, and the overthrow of his tyrannical grandfather has echoes in other myths and legends. There is no doubt that the Cyrus saga arose early among the Persians and was known to the Greeks. The sentiments of esteem or even awe in which Persians held him were transmitted to the Greeks, and it was no accident that Xenophon chose Cyrus to be the model of a ruler for the lessons he wished to impart to his fellow Greeks. In short, the figure of Cyrus has survived throughout history as more than a great man who founded an empire. He became the epitome of the great qualities expected of a ruler in antiquity, and he assumed heroic features as a conqueror who was tolerant and magnanimous as well as brave and daring. His personality as seen by the Greeks influenced them, and, as the tradition was transmitted by the Romans, may be considered to influence our thinking even now.
Throughout history, Iran (Persia) was always a cradle of science, contributing to medicine, mathematics, astronomy and philosophy. Professor Patrick Hunt "If you are looking at the greatest personages in History who have affected the World, 'Cyrus the Great' is one of the few who deserves that epithet, the one who deserves to be called 'the Great'. The empire over which Cyrus ruled was the largest the Ancient World had ever seen and maybe to this day the largest empire ever. "
Such an amazing video bro, thank u so much for the time it MUST have taken u to put such a thorough and well researched video. I’ve watched countless videos on Alexander, but you actually included bits I’ve never heard anywhere else! Def got a new subscriber 👍🏼
@@YoreHistory - Thank you for the kind comment - and especially thanks for the great content and presentation; just subscribed. Greetings from snowy Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Greece. 👍
Sir, May I suggest you mention the season,weather,food,training and styles of leadership involved. I know it's a challenge putting this together. A lot of factors go into a campaign and battles. Back than it was life or death. Excellent work on the overview you shown here.
@@YoreHistory PS It is a great case study in how something so incredible and marvelous could fall. Keep up the excellent details. Gives us viewers wonderful insight of a little known Awesome Empire.
@@YoreHistory Sorry for the many questions but how and what way was a order of war was organized under The Kings of The Persian Empire? Who gave the command? How was it enacted? And how were the generals/commanders selected? You see how you created more questions. Lol.
Farsi is an Indo European language of the Indo Iranian branch. English is an Indo European language of the West Germanic branch. English milk, Tocharian malke, Latin mulgeo, Old Irish melg, Greek amelgo, Russian moloko and so forth. Linguistic, textual, genetic and archaeological evidence for the Out of India Theory of Indo European Languages Baghpat Chariots, Weapons and the Horse in the Harappan Civilization - Dr. BK Manjul ua-cam.com/video/fZvKpjjTpgg/v-deo.html Findings from the latest genetic study conducted by ASI in collaboration with the Reich Lab at Harvard using ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi slides at 29:00 mark ua-cam.com/video/Dio3Ep0nlv4/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/n4WFk0iEK5k/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/f0Lg1b_8N54/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/-wIu3dUsmtY/v-deo.html Here are the tribes that spread the Indo European languages from South Asia to West Asia, Central Asia and to Europe Avestan) Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Sairima (Śimyu), Dahi (Dāsa). NE Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Nuristani/Piśācin (Viṣāṇin). Pakhtoonistan (NW Pakistan), South Afghanistan: Iranian: Pakhtoon/Pashtu (Paktha). Baluchistan (SW Pakistan), SE Iran: Iranian: Bolan/Baluchi (Bhalāna). NE Iran: Iranian: Parthian/Parthava (Pṛthu/Pārthava). SW Iran: Iranian: Parsua/Persian (Parśu/Parśava). NW Iran: Iranian: Madai/Mede (Madra). Uzbekistan: Iranian: Khiva/Khwarezmian (Śiva). W. Turkmenistan: Iranian: Dahae (Dāsa). Ukraine, S, Russia: Iranian: Alan (Alina), Sarmatian (Śimyu). Turkey: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Phryge/Phrygian (Bhṛgu). Romania, Bulgaria: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Dacian (Dāsa). Greece: Greek: Hellene (Alina). Albania: Albanian: Sirmio (Śimyu). Shrikant Gangadhar Talageri talageri.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-full-out-of-india-case-in-short.html Five waves of Indo-European expansion: a preliminary model (2018) Igor A Tonoyan-Belyayev I. Tonoyan-Belyayev www.academia.edu/36998766/Five_waves_of_Indo-European_expansion_a_preliminary_model_2018_
Love all these new pronunciations! Not of the hard to pronounce ancient names of cities and people back then, I understand saying those differently, but how you pronounce common English words is hilarious.
Im Canadian and do pronounce with a Canadian accent. I also try to use classical Latin and Ancient Parsi when possible...which common english words are you referring to?
All Canadians and Americans sound slightly odd on some words to the English because they always try to phonetically pronounce every letter in a word while the English are far more lazy and tend to shorten words more. I noticed in one video you pronounce a place in England and really stress the Ford in a name like Woodford I think it was, while we'd use Woodfud almost. It's not something to think about just jars the English listener a bit.
History is full of fratricide,bloodshed,intolerance and brutality,but a few beacons shine all the brighter. Cyrus,Ashoka,Kanishka, Akbar and too few others,strangely fulfill the Hellenic ideals of Philosopher Kings and the 'Cosmopolitan' empire,showing that religious and cultural tolerance results in the exponential growth of science, technology,the arts, medicine..everything that fulfills the definition of civilization. They showed humanity the way forward.
Caesar wrote that it took twenty days for 300k Gaulish or German tribesmen to cross a river in Gaul, so it would probably take many more days than 7 to cross 5MM troops.
Hadarnes was correct in recommending sending two cavalry (divisions) myriads ahead catching Leonidas in march before getting to the "Hot Gates" and while their forces were separated thus pinning them down. The main body would have cleared Thermopylae unharried. Xerxes snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, for burning Athens and not setting up a proper forward supply base. Themistocles' trap worked both ways at Salamis, it required the Persian fleet(s) to come into the channel (which of course they did), if the Persians had not, the Hellenic alliance were trapped, were going hungry on Salamis Island itself. They would have had to at least abandon the position, thus the alliance would have further broken up (more Medizers coming over) and (or) fight an open battle to the south towards the Peloponnese to a decisive advantage of the more maneuverable, better trained fleet(s) of Xerxes.
@ about 37:30 a part of history I find really interesting is the differences in armies tactics, composition, and equipment. For example in this video talking about the Persians, the bulk of their fighting was done in the middle East, so their armies develope around cavalry, chariots, and light armor, then fighting in Greece, the terrain and weather doesn't suit them in the same way. Specifically what I find interesting is how these dynamics affected battles, as well as how armies adapted to differing conditions and introduction to new technology/equipment. I think the Romans are the most interesting example of this, they were usually quick to change tactics, army composition, and equipment depending on the situation, and when introduced to different weapons and armor. The evolution of the Roman legions is a really interesting topic. There are others who have done videos on it, but I would love to see more.
@@YoreHistory I think this is a great overview. There are always going to be things you could add, but from my (limited) understanding this seems to cover all of the major battles and important events.
@@YoreHistory if anything, I would say as/If you make videos that go in to detail on certain aspects of events just link them in the description and put the annotation thing at the appropriate time during this video. So for example when you mention satrapies a thing would pop up with a link to a video going in to detail on the empires government structure and administration of the satraps. Or if you did a video on the battle of marathon it would pop up during the appropriate time during this video. Just my opinion on how to keep this video from going to long but giving the option to the viewer if they wanted to know more about specific aspects.
@@eugenecoleman8525 Thanks. It was a great learning process and lessons learned with it were applied on the Parthian series and others etc. Thanks for watching!
Excellent video! New sub. Puerto Rican historian here. May I show parts of this in my classroom? If you are ok with this. It won't be the whole thing , just the rule of Darius III and the Macedonian Invasion.
Great dcou! I think you Gandhara(28:14) placed at a wrong location, it should be modern day N W Pakistan, and not Iran where you have it located. Or perhaps Wikipedia is a bit off. Please provide some detail about Gandhara, as it's of particular interest to me due to my ancestry. Thank you again for your great work!
Yes I was eyeballing the cities during a bad edit and forgot to fix this one...i now do these different so not usually an issue anymore so apologies. Gandharra has a rich history though since you are asking...for things like budhism it played an important role due to its central location for spreading it outward. It also reached its height of importance under the Kushan Empire. HOpefully it features again on future videos. Thanks for watching!
Hahah ya it is...i wish I would have kept the master files as this was an older series. I could have replaced the music. In hindsight I should have redone the audio completely when compiling into one episode but too late now. Later series don't have this issue.
Great subject matter, thank you. However your background music is overpowering the excellent narrative. I struggle to filter out the music without effecting the commentary. Can you please have background music to a minimum. Thanks again.
It really was. This was my first video series, and if I could go back and change it, I would. New series this isn't an issue, but sadly, there is nothing I can do retroactively with this one.
Today, we need leaders like Cyrus the Great and Dariush, Cyrus the Great who lived two thousand five hundred years ago, and by creating the first human rights charter in the world, he made the American Constitution to be formed today based on Cyrus the Great's charter.🇮🇷❤️
This was half of Cyrus's genius, the other half being his ability to win battles. After the horror of Assyria the idea of ruling with respect and even appreciation of the conquered peoples cultures was sheer brilliance. It's truly unfortunate that later empires didn't understand the concept.
technosaurus tragic fact is that Irans nation sovereignty started at 625 BC with the second Median king (pherorotish)which united all iranian tribes against assyrian empire and Xyacxar the third median king build the first iranian empire.besides all of this the first iranian king was the median shepherd diaco who was very good at pacific settlement between people and popular for his justice and fairness.
@@Persian_Queen_Cassandane ofcourse you say that because you're persian. Medians were neighbour of assyrians like Kurdish nowadays , they united against them at that time persian was a small group lived at southwest of Iran.
Its nuts that even today we have Babylonians (Arabs), Persians (Iranians) & Jews still all war with each others. Somethings change, some things do not...
@@GenX_-um2ct Sorry! I'm not religious, and there is nothing in history supporting the existence of a person named Abraham or Ibrahim! Regarding the Semitic, it's not a race. It is a branch of the HUGE Afro-Asiatic LANGUAGE family, which also includes Ancient Egyptian (and its descendant Coptic) and the Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages of northern and eastern Africa. Semitic itself is a family of totally different languages. Babylonians, Syrians, and Egyptians were speaking Aramaic (1000 BC) which is totally different than Arabic. The Arabic language, although originating in the Arabian peninsula, first emerged in written form in the 1st to 4th centuries AD in the southern regions of present-day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and Syria. With the advent of the early Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, Classical Arabic eventually replaced many (but not all) of the indigenous Semitic languages and cultures of the Near East (Wikipedia). Persian on the other hand is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Modern Persian is a continuation of Middle Persian, an official language of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE), itself a continuation of Old Persian, which was used in the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC). It originated in the region of Fars (Persia) in southwestern Iran. Its grammar is similar to that of many European languages. Throughout history, Persian was used as a prestigious language by various empires centered in Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. Old Persian is attested in Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions from between the 6th and 4th century BC. Middle Persian is attested in Aramaic-derived scripts (Pahlavi and Manichaean) on inscriptions and in Zoroastrian and Manichaean scriptures from between the 3rd to the 10th century AD (See Middle Persian literature). It was used officially as a language of bureaucracy even by non-native speakers, such as the Ottomans in Asia Minor, the Mughals in South Asia, and the Pashtuns in Afghanistan. It influenced languages spoken in neighboring regions and beyond, including other Iranian languages, the Turkic languages, Armenian, Georgian, and the Indo-Aryan languages. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, while borrowing a lot of vocabulary from it in the Middle Ages. Regarding the wars, you are right. They all have great history and culture and there shouldn't be any war between these neighbors but as you said, some things never change!
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Episode 1: ua-cam.com/video/KCoXZLUWCM0/v-deo.html&ab_channel=YoreHistory
Episode 2: ua-cam.com/video/zUGeBDJ5UMg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=YoreHistory
As for this series on the Achaemenid Empire...aware the music gets irritating. It was my first series and each episode was shown weeks apart. Together its more annoying but again old series...newer series are scored lower volume and better production quality.
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@@irdsqrgitro This is a video about the PERSIAN EMPIRE. I can only include so much information. I will do other series on Arabian powers. By the way I DO have a series on Babur of the Mughals.
WHy do you have to be so rude? I am one person making these out of a passion for history...
@@YoreHistory Sorry my comment was on the another channel I followed of a video about the political entities of old & late antiquity in the old world and he completely blurred/ignored Indus valley & South & East Arabia, I just hate biased narration & inaccuracy,
my sincere apology.
I know im asking the wrong place but does anybody know of a method to get back into an Instagram account??
I was stupid lost the login password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me
@Guillermo Maison Instablaster :)
Persians called him father.
Babylonians called him liberator.
Jews called him Messiah.
Cyrus was humble while being the most powerful man on the earth, an unexampled leader throughout the history!
Indeed!
Cyrus the Great ❤️🇮🇷❤️
im curious but where did babylonians call him a liberator?
@@werewolfhunter2011 Cunieform clay cylinders. Nabonidus was ruler at the time and it states he was disliked by the people. They welcomed Cyrus according to writing.
@@YoreHistory from the cyrus cylinder? isnt that proven to be propaganda and was the norm during Mesopotamia for conquerors to write cylinders as a way to portray the previous ruler as unjust compared to the current one?
www.ancient.eu/article/166/the-cyrus-cylinder/#:~:text=The%20Cyrus%20Cylinder%20is%20a,ending%20the%20Neo%2DBabylonian%20empire.
Persian empire will remains as one of the greatest in history of the world.
I've been watching Kings and generals in this actually came up as recommended !! and I've sat here for almost 2 hours watching this incredible well done study . Thank you for your hard work !!
Cheers and thanks for watching...production values in current parthian series get better with last one releasing a few days ago. Thanks for giving it a go!
Today, the world needs leaders like Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.
Those leaders are here...It is just that we modern human beings have long submitted our wills to puppeteers who control those……who control us. But real leadership is not about “control.” It is about inspiring others to follow.
Great leaders uplift, they don’t control
I heard some bad things about Darius II. He put people into ovens and shit. That true?🤨
@@fukpoeslaw3613 where dud u hear that
Bcuz u know iran got attacked many times and the books gut burned
So the other side wrote the history and rhey added whatever they wanted
Even artaxerxes III devout to quell corruption which we don’t see anymore since media around the world turns a blind eye to it
Truly the greatest empire in history in my opinion. No empire is benevolent, but Achaemenid Empire was closer to being like that than any other empire that existed before or after it.
And then Alexander the Great comes and takes it all in one campaign without a lost battle xD also in terms of size look up Genghis Khan
@@DanTheArtisan91 Achaemenid was the biggest ancient empire Alexander came during Darius III which was a awful leader also civil wars Alexander admires Cyrus aswell Cyrus was his idol he also got severely persianized and had a Persian girlfriend
@IStevenSeagal That's right, he is the mysterious King the Quran speaks of. When Cyrus is the Messiah in the Torah, he is definitely the king the Quran speaks of.
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*_I've never watched as long a history video on UA-cam in my life as this one. Extremely refreshing seeing it through the other side of history. I especially appreciate that you shed light on the burning of Persian libraries under Alexander. The reason to why we know so little of not only Persia but of Babylon is truly, in my opinion, because of Alexander and his Greeks. We are lead to believe that Libraries was an invention by Alexander and that the exchange of ideas began with him as opposed to the more tolerant Cyrus the Great. We are lead to believe that the Greek who we know to be extremely conservative were the first people to begin mixing of cultures. What a great lie. So much for "Greece is the foundation of civilisation"..._*
You are an illiterate, the beginning of civilization started in Iran
We are led, not “lead.” 🙄
@@Historian212 nobody cares.
I'm Persian/Iranian and I love your channel. Thank you for your great documentaries about Persia/Iran.
Thank you for watching :)
@Artystone Darius; I visited Shiraz last month, and many incredible places like Persepolis, Pasargad, Naqsh-e-Rostan,.... I love these ancient areas and really enjoyed it. Proud to be Persian... Long Live Iran/Persia ❤️
ما هم خون و برادرم سلام به کلی فارس زبان دنیا از تاجیکستان 🤝
@@amr-aldin831عشق است تاجیکستان درود از ایران
We have brothers in Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
Thank you again! Once I finished The 9/9 episode of PERSIA RISES! Now, I'm starting with this compilation. I don't understand why people dislike this masterpiece, what's on their mind? This channel actually contains valuable information.
Everyone has different tastes and a variety of reasons. I don't let it bother me...just try to focus on delivering better content each time :)
My man! Always on to what the mainstream decides to ignore!! Respect!
I hate political correctness.
This series shows history.
Awesome.
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Yes - I've always been curious about ancient history and this video has a lot of detail new to me (e.g. the destruction of the Achaemenid library)
Proud to be Persian. I love my beautiful and ancient Iran/Persia. ❤️🇮🇷❤️ Iran/Persia is one of the cradles of civilization.
Long live Iran/Persia 🌹❤️🌹
Artystone Darius there women are beautiful
Farsi is an Indo European language of the Indo Iranian branch. English is an Indo European language of the West Germanic branch. English milk, Tocharian malke, Latin mulgeo, Old Irish melg, Greek amelgo, Russian moloko and so forth.
Linguistic, textual, genetic and archaeological evidence for the Out of India Theory of Indo European Languages
Baghpat Chariots, Weapons and the Horse in the Harappan Civilization - Dr. BK Manjul
ua-cam.com/video/fZvKpjjTpgg/v-deo.html
Findings from the latest genetic study conducted by ASI in collaboration with the Reich Lab at Harvard using ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi
slides at 29:00 mark
ua-cam.com/video/Dio3Ep0nlv4/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/n4WFk0iEK5k/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/f0Lg1b_8N54/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/-wIu3dUsmtY/v-deo.html
Here are the tribes that spread the Indo European languages from South Asia to West Asia, Central Asia and to Europe
Avestan) Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Sairima (Śimyu), Dahi (Dāsa).
NE Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Nuristani/Piśācin (Viṣāṇin).
Pakhtoonistan (NW Pakistan), South Afghanistan: Iranian: Pakhtoon/Pashtu (Paktha).
Baluchistan (SW Pakistan), SE Iran: Iranian: Bolan/Baluchi (Bhalāna).
NE Iran: Iranian: Parthian/Parthava (Pṛthu/Pārthava).
SW Iran: Iranian: Parsua/Persian (Parśu/Parśava).
NW Iran: Iranian: Madai/Mede (Madra).
Uzbekistan: Iranian: Khiva/Khwarezmian (Śiva).
W. Turkmenistan: Iranian: Dahae (Dāsa).
Ukraine, S, Russia: Iranian: Alan (Alina), Sarmatian (Śimyu).
Turkey: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Phryge/Phrygian (Bhṛgu).
Romania, Bulgaria: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Dacian (Dāsa).
Greece: Greek: Hellene (Alina).
Albania: Albanian: Sirmio (Śimyu).
Shrikant Gangadhar Talageri
talageri.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-full-out-of-india-case-in-short.html
Five waves of Indo-European expansion: a preliminary model (2018)
Igor A Tonoyan-Belyayev
I. Tonoyan-Belyayev
www.academia.edu/36998766/Five_waves_of_Indo-European_expansion_a_preliminary_model_2018_
@will Learn history. Iran/Persia is the oldest country and civilization in the world.
@Time out Go back to school, you troll. Persian=Iranian. Afghans are Pashtuns, not Persian. Only 30% of Afghanistan are Tajiks (Persians) and they speak Persian. Iran is the oldest country and civilization in the world. Iran is Persia.
Cyrus is honor of the whole civilization even existed on Earth
Long live Iran 🧡🧡🧡
@Hawdy Hmx about goverment yes is true but not people
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Very interesting! Well researched and it follows what know about the history of the Persian Empire!
I thought i had seen all of the good history documentaries on UA-cam...i was wrong. This is AMAZING. Keep up the great content!
Thanks Anthony, appreciate you watching!
@@YoreHistory Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
Good podcast with very annoying background music.
@@LenGebase Agreed. It was my first series...I wasn't aware of all the musical options available at the time. My latest series/videos are much better music wise.
@@LenGebase А был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
Biased Western historians will tell us that it was the Romans who first built the roads , well now we know the Persians did it 500 years before them . Thanks for these facts Yore History
Uh, no, what historians did say, that Romans were first to build roads?
Maybe one day, you will be self confident enough to appraise one man without putting down another.
The Assyrians also built roads before the Persians were around.
No one says that. They do say the Roman's built some of the best roads though.
Sumerians, Akkadians, Egyptians, etc all had roads before Romans. The difference being, that Roman roadways were masterworks and engineering marvels. Many of which are still in use to this day. Not so much those of other civilizations.
actually the Semitics did. :P
AMAZING👍
Thank you very much 🙏❤️🇮🇷
Excellent work and story of a unique Empire.
Well done.
Excellent work, i loved the whole series!
Excellent video & Powerful, Soothing voice.
Well done👏. You've made the most comprehensive videos on pre-islamic persian history❤️❤️❤️
Thanks :) More to come as im making videos again! Thanks for watching Aref!
@@YoreHistoryAlready subscribed. thank you for the amazing posts❤️
As an Iranian, I am proud of my civilization and culture ... Iran has been a turning point in the world throughout the ages .... It can be seen from the film that it is the intelligence of the Iranians who leads them ...... great Be like Iran and Cyrus the Iranian .... wrote and practiced human rights 2581 years ago .. 🇮🇷👑💪
Super comprehensive coverage of Iran's most splendid empire
Thanks Omar, appreciate you watching!
A truly amazing video! As a Parsi i am technically persian and wanted to know more about roots. Thanks for the amazing video i look forward to watching more videos from you!
Great video as always ! Thank you for improving the sound quality ! Please make a video about Aryan migration into Iran and origin of Iranian people.
This video is so well made and informative I recommend everyone to watch it until the end
I have big respect for Persian empires from Ethiopia ( Persian Roman and aksumit empire) they was one time rivalries
When you hear the names it really becomes obvious that the primary sources were almost all greek. Excellent documentary, sir. Well researched and paced. You've earned another sub. If you ever edit this, it would be interesting if you explained why Hapargus switched sides in the first place ;)
Yes was first series so will redo with better lower music, more info and better visuals. Thanks for watching!
We have some of the names in Old Persian actually. It’s more that modern historians don’t use the Persian names. Cyrus is Kurash, Darius is Darayavaush. Xerxes is xshayarsa. Artaxerxes is Artaxshaca. Persia is Parsa. Media is Mada. Achaemenid is Haxamanish.
It is true most of the sources were lost. Some in the burning of Persepolis. But much more probably survived until the systemic burning of Persian libraries done by the Arabs 9 centuries later. The only sources left from the Achaemenids are now inscribed in stone. The Behistûn inscription is a great read to see old Persian names
@@calebgoodfellowcg what????
I watched it 6 times uninterrupted. Wow. I really appreciated your dedication,focus and motivation.
I couldn't get enough of it.
It's sad how a significant and important part of human history is neglected by the mainstream since its not european.
Please if possible do something on slaves turned elite soldiers to kings and amirs in the Islamic world. That is a subject that bewilderes and fascinates me. Sadly not a lot is done on mamluks
Thanks very much for the comment and feedback. When I started the channel that was one of the main goals...cover history not often covered.
Unfortunately as a team of one with *lots* of things planned the reality is i can push out new content maybe once or twice every two weeks so makes doing everything a selective process :)
Next Up will be Sassanid/Ottoman/Mongolian but Ill try to do more one off battle and informative videos to perhaps cover more of the type of content you touched on. Thanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory you are welcome and a breathe of fresh air in these streets. Your unbiased and dedication is awesome.
History will remember you kindly.
Kudos keep up and i promise you'll have a team in no time.
Looking forward to the upcoming series.
The four greatest empires mentioned in the Bible would be Babylonian, Persian, Greek & Roman. The Ottoman Empire was also recorded. During this time Daniel was alive in Babylon but an old man. It was Cyrus who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity.
Love your videos. Keep it up baradar!
Excellent historical video on the Persian Empire.
thanks for the detailled breakdown of the battles
Rise of Cyrus and the Foundation of the Persian Empire 00:00
Cyrus offers conquered army to join his ranks 07:24
The Persian invasion of Egypt 15:14
Darius I's first year on the throne 22:33
Darius assembles another army 29:34
Greek army's tactics against the Persians 37:43
Satrapies communication and the Empire's tolerance of language, culture, and religion 45:15
Death of Mithridates 1:00:25
Egyptian Invasion Attempts 1:07:40
Athens and the Second Athenian League against allied city-states 1:14:52
Artaxerxes III's death and the rise of Darius III 1:22:16
Memnon's tactics and the pivotal battle 1:29:22
Alexander's strategy 1:37:07
failed strategy is failed. Cyrus won, Darius won, Xerxes won, Artaxerxes III won, Darius III won. Always.
I love you channel thank you for a information of history 🇮🇷👏🏻👏🏻
Its the first time I appreciated the Greco/Persian wars from the Persian side. They were a relatively benign empire by the standards of the times. I wonder how long they would have survived had Alexander spent his life partying instead of parrying.
Hehe agreed and your Alexander question is one I have often asked myself...Thanks for watching!
It lives to this day.
@@saeedvazirian The Persian empire has lived through other empires. Greeks will claim they were completely original but if you study history in detail you realize that most of what we praise Greece for was actually existing long before in the Persian empire. It lives today through us indeed
Iran had the largest empire and the most law-abiding government for hundreds and many centuries in 9,000 years. Iran is the same today. 🇮🇷👑
@@kinggilan364 eh no it’s not, Iran today is run by religious crazies. And the ppl there hardly have anything to do with the Persians of old. To many barbarians from the north, east and arabian peninsula have overrun those old lands
It was wonderful.. I enjoyed every second of it.. tanx
Thank God I found your channel: you are a superb and accurate historical story teller
Glad you found it as well, thanks for watching!
Don't forget HistoryMarche and Kings and Generals .
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu hehe pretty sure most know about them as they are two of the biggest :) But thanks! Other great ones..Invicta, Baz Battles, Historia Civilis, History by Cy and Flashpoint History.
@@YoreHistory I'd love to watch Flashpoint
@@RicardoPerez-rz8pu also great ones. Thanks brother
Really well done!
Ohhhh! I didn't know that it was a deep Scythian raid into the hinterlands of the Persian Empire that precipitated Darius's invasion of Scythia north of Thrace. I always found Darius's invasion of those lands a bit off considering the nothingness that must have comprised those lands at the time. Now it makes sense!
Read about Dhul Qarnayn(Darius) and his encounter with Gog and Magog after going north.
I always thought it was just a raid like the Chinese did against the steppe nomads all the time
Persian,Our Cousin and first western neighbour..Love and respect from India..
This was amazing!!!!!!! Thoroughly enjoyed it 👏😊
Best Video I've seen this month ! I ll watch it and rewatch it again ... Thank you very much for this hardwork
Thanks so much for watching glad you enjoyed. I also have a newer series on Iranian Parthian Empire and soon Sassanid. :)
Yes and the disaster of Crassus this is how I discovered ur channel ... ur content is unique 👌
Love the content and love your maps! This great to listen to while I work...thank you!
Thanks Cy right back at you!
Fantastic accumulation of historic Accounts. I’m enthused to see what you do next.
I hope that one day someone like Cyrus the Great will rise from Persia again and make the world peace and quiet again.🏳🏳
It seems to have grown a sprout in Afghanistan with the Taliban. Evil doers and rulers of this world are creating massive propaganda against them.
I just hope he won’t be a Muslim. Modern day Iran spits on the legacy of great Cyrus.
@@ericbooth3393 Don't worry maybe Cyrus Jr. is a beautiful "civilized blue eyed whyte good Christian" who spreads freedoms and civilization all over the globe...
@@alissa6 Don’t care if he’s white and blue eyed. Just not Muslim. Christian would be ideal too.
@@ericbooth3393 😂😂
Good job pronouncing the names 👍
long live persia and persian people
" [24] My vast army marched into Babylon in peace; I did not permit anyone to frighten the people of [Sumer] /and\ Akkad. [25] I sought the welfare of the city of Babylon and all its sacred centers. As for the citizens of Babylon, [x x x upon wh]om he imposed a yoke which was not the gods' wish and not befitting them, [26] I relieved their weariness and freed them from their bonds. Marduk, the great lord, rejoiced over [my good] deeds. "
Cyrus the Great (from Cyrus Cylinder)
What did he call_ /name people of sumer and Akkad in his cylinder?
*_0:30_**_ In fact the Persian Empire was the largest empire in ancient history. Persia was 5.5 million square km at it's greatest, Alexander's empire was 5.3 million and Roman empire was 5.0 million square km at it's height._*
Yes, I said it was the largest the world had yet been witness to. IE up to that point in time. Larger empires would come later but for its time it was the largest yet seen :)
The Mongolian, and many others would be larger in size in centuries/millennia to come.
@@YoreHistory Yes but mongolia came some 2000 years after the persian empire so it can't be considered an ancient empire. I consider 1000BC - 1000AC to be ancient time ;)
@@MadKingOfMadaya You are still missing what i had said...i had said the Persian empire was the largest up to that point in time. I was making no statement about after in my original nor was i limiting that statement to only the period you indicated.
The massive disrespect towards the Umayyads here. They actually conquered the east and the west much like Achaemenids and Alexander, but went even further west and east. 🤦♂️
What was the Ottoman?
Formidable, adept and an insightful account of ancient Mediterranean world.
"A great god is Ahuramazda, the greatest of the gods, who created this earth, who created yonder sky, who created man, created happiness for man, who made Xerxes king, one king of many, one lord of many.
I (am) Xerxes, the great king, king of kings, king of all kinds of people, king on this earth far and wide, the son of Darius the king, the Achaemenid... "
M Gr Allah is one god
@@princeofarabia7715 Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
@@ГрустныйДобряк ты больной что ли? Один вопрос повторяешь сто раз, неужели не получил ответ
@@systemarchitect526 Не Я Больной Просто хочу Историю Персий🇮🇷Ирана🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️Чем на Египет🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️Был Крестовый поход Тоже Древнее Страна Египет и Даже Персидский поход на Египет🇪🇬⚔🇮🇷Был Чем Крестовый поход на Ирак🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
@@princeofarabia7715 yeah? 'Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions.'
did you miss the memo or what haha.. :P
althought i somewhat dislike they made it into same thing as being a descended of the tribe judah(ethnic jewish) with jewish(relgious) and have hurt people unfarily just cause of their belonging as most jews are very much integrated and not relgious althought still being misstreated and less seen by people in history...overall in my opinion and view of that and more stating my thoughts on the mather on a sidenote.
That was a really great piece of work.Brilliant.Thank you
Thanks Skip, I have a Parthian series up and working on Sassanids for history in that region.
Excellent narration and presentation. Great job!
Thanks for watching
Wonderful video. Starting to watch your videos. So informative 👏🏻👏🏻 Bravo. Keep doing ur great work
Thanks Arian, I also have a series on the Iranian Parthians and then will be making one on the Sassanids :) Thanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory already watched it. Fantastic 👏🏻👏🏻
Nice, always wanted to see a video like this.
Great job for the insightful documentary 👏 👍 👌 it was classic submission 👌
Thank you so much for showing history of my country and I'm prod of my country and Cyrus our father iranin people
Great job and very educational, thank you for your passion. One small item, Cyrus' victory at Thymbra the Persians probably did not have scythe chariots yet. They it most likely began to be in use during the reign of Artaxerxes I after 450 b.c. Again thank you so much.
Thanks for watching and illnhave to check my sources once home re chariots. Cheers!
@@YoreHistory You are a good man. A reflective, contented mind is the best possession. - Zarathustra
I'm from IRAN
Thank you so much
Thank you for watching Reza!
Very interesting good job 👏
It is a very effective documentary.
Thanks, as I just mentioned its an older series and there are a lot of things I would have liked to go back and add but alas the nature of UA-cam is once its up you cannot make edits/additions.
I feel the Iranian Parthian series is stronger overall for my vision of what I wanted this to be but glad you enjoyed it! :)
I think the Persian Sassanid will be the best series yet when I start work on it! Thanks for watching Ali!
Thank you for this good video 🌸
7:34 he was truly fit to rule half of man kind, nay all of it. It is unprecedented that a victor proposes a deal to they loser and still give them extra privileges
Excellent video! very Thorough
Thank you very much. I hope you will do the same to all other series, when they are done.
I absolutely will do that! Thanks!
Thank You for sharing all of this knowledge .
It is a testimony to the capability of the founder of the Achaemenian empire, Cyrus the Great, that it continued to expand after his death and lasted for more than two centuries.
But Cyrus was not only a great conqueror and administrator; he held a place in the minds of the Persian people similar to that of Romulus and Remus in Rome or Moses for the Israelites. His saga follows in many details the stories of hero and conquerors from elsewhere in the ancient world.
The manner in which the baby Cyrus was given to a shepherd to raise is reminiscent of Moses in the bulrushes in Egypt, and the overthrow of his tyrannical grandfather has echoes in other myths and legends.
There is no doubt that the Cyrus saga arose early among the Persians and was known to the Greeks. The sentiments of esteem or even awe in which Persians held him were transmitted to the Greeks, and it was no accident that Xenophon chose Cyrus to be the model of a ruler for the lessons he wished to impart to his fellow Greeks.
In short, the figure of Cyrus has survived throughout history as more than a great man who founded an empire. He became the epitome of the great qualities expected of a ruler in antiquity, and he assumed heroic features as a conqueror who was tolerant and magnanimous as well as brave and daring.
His personality as seen by the Greeks influenced them, and, as the tradition was transmitted by the Romans, may be considered to influence our thinking even now.
Throughout history, Iran (Persia) was always a cradle of science, contributing to medicine, mathematics, astronomy and philosophy.
Professor Patrick Hunt "If you are looking at the greatest personages in History who have affected the World, 'Cyrus the Great' is one of the few who deserves that epithet, the one who deserves to be called 'the Great'. The empire over which Cyrus ruled was the largest the Ancient World had ever seen and maybe to this day the largest empire ever. "
Such an amazing video bro, thank u so much for the time it MUST have taken u to put such a thorough and well researched video. I’ve watched countless videos on Alexander, but you actually included bits I’ve never heard anywhere else! Def got a new subscriber 👍🏼
Greetings to the Great People and magnificent civilization of Iran from your ancient frenemies: the Greeks! 🇮🇷🌿🇬🇷
Two peoples with amazing histories!
@@YoreHistory - Thank you for the kind comment - and especially thanks for the great content and presentation; just subscribed. Greetings from snowy Mount Parnassus, Delphi, Greece. 👍
Men what a great works of history thanks therefore 🙏🙏 I loved it allat
Fantastic, thank you.
Thank you too!
Thanks for video❤🌷
Amazing culture and great country ❤
Sir,
May I suggest you mention the season,weather,food,training and styles of leadership involved.
I know it's a challenge putting this together.
A lot of factors go into a campaign and battles.
Back than it was life or death.
Excellent work on the overview you shown here.
Thanks for the great feedback! I will try to include more of that as i do in the 2nd person content.
Otherwise it is great documentary about a little know great empire of the Middle East.
Bravo.
Loved the time line.
@@YoreHistory PS It is a great case study in how something so incredible and marvelous could fall.
Keep up the excellent details.
Gives us viewers wonderful insight of a little known Awesome Empire.
@@YoreHistory Sorry for the many questions but how and what way was a order of war was organized under The Kings of The Persian Empire?
Who gave the command?
How was it enacted?
And how were the generals/commanders selected?
You see how you created more questions.
Lol.
Farsi is an Indo European language of the Indo Iranian branch. English is an Indo European language of the West Germanic branch. English milk, Tocharian malke, Latin mulgeo, Old Irish melg, Greek amelgo, Russian moloko and so forth.
Linguistic, textual, genetic and archaeological evidence for the Out of India Theory of Indo European Languages
Baghpat Chariots, Weapons and the Horse in the Harappan Civilization - Dr. BK Manjul
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Findings from the latest genetic study conducted by ASI in collaboration with the Reich Lab at Harvard using ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi
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Here are the tribes that spread the Indo European languages from South Asia to West Asia, Central Asia and to Europe
Avestan) Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Sairima (Śimyu), Dahi (Dāsa).
NE Afghanistan: Proto-Iranian: Nuristani/Piśācin (Viṣāṇin).
Pakhtoonistan (NW Pakistan), South Afghanistan: Iranian: Pakhtoon/Pashtu (Paktha).
Baluchistan (SW Pakistan), SE Iran: Iranian: Bolan/Baluchi (Bhalāna).
NE Iran: Iranian: Parthian/Parthava (Pṛthu/Pārthava).
SW Iran: Iranian: Parsua/Persian (Parśu/Parśava).
NW Iran: Iranian: Madai/Mede (Madra).
Uzbekistan: Iranian: Khiva/Khwarezmian (Śiva).
W. Turkmenistan: Iranian: Dahae (Dāsa).
Ukraine, S, Russia: Iranian: Alan (Alina), Sarmatian (Śimyu).
Turkey: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Phryge/Phrygian (Bhṛgu).
Romania, Bulgaria: Thraco-Phrygian/Armenian: Dacian (Dāsa).
Greece: Greek: Hellene (Alina).
Albania: Albanian: Sirmio (Śimyu).
Shrikant Gangadhar Talageri
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Five waves of Indo-European expansion: a preliminary model (2018)
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Just coming across this channel. Great video, my only feedback would be that the background noises are a bit loud/distracting.
Yes agreed...was my first series and have since adjusted volume/fx. :) IE Parthian series later episodes. Thanks for watching!
really enjoyed it, thank you
Cheers! Thanks for watching. I also have a series on the Parthians and now making one on the Sassanian Empire.
1000 points for pronouncing "iran" correctly
Love all these new pronunciations! Not of the hard to pronounce ancient names of cities and people back then, I understand saying those differently, but how you pronounce common English words is hilarious.
Im Canadian and do pronounce with a Canadian accent. I also try to use classical Latin and Ancient Parsi when possible...which common english words are you referring to?
All Canadians and Americans sound slightly odd on some words to the English because they always try to phonetically pronounce every letter in a word while the English are far more lazy and tend to shorten words more. I noticed in one video you pronounce a place in England and really stress the Ford in a name like Woodford I think it was, while we'd use Woodfud almost. It's not something to think about just jars the English listener a bit.
History is full of fratricide,bloodshed,intolerance and brutality,but a few beacons shine all the brighter. Cyrus,Ashoka,Kanishka, Akbar and too few others,strangely fulfill the Hellenic ideals of Philosopher Kings and the 'Cosmopolitan' empire,showing that religious and cultural tolerance results in the exponential growth of science, technology,the arts, medicine..everything that fulfills the definition of civilization. They showed humanity the way forward.
Love this 🏹🛡⚔️🏰 - from Tokyo 🎌
well done
Thanks!
Caesar wrote that it took twenty days for 300k Gaulish or German tribesmen to cross a river in Gaul, so it would probably take many more days than 7 to cross 5MM troops.
All based on others' research. I've listed the sources. I do wonder what it would have looked like to actually witness it, though :D
Hadarnes was correct in recommending sending two cavalry (divisions) myriads ahead catching Leonidas in march before getting to the "Hot Gates" and while their forces were separated thus pinning them down. The main body would have cleared Thermopylae unharried. Xerxes snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, for burning Athens and not setting up a proper forward supply base. Themistocles' trap worked both ways at Salamis, it required the Persian fleet(s) to come into the channel (which of course they did), if the Persians had not, the Hellenic alliance were trapped, were going hungry on Salamis Island itself. They would have had to at least abandon the position, thus the alliance would have further broken up (more Medizers coming over) and (or) fight an open battle to the south towards the Peloponnese to a decisive advantage of the more maneuverable, better trained fleet(s) of Xerxes.
They had to funnel ‘em so their vast numbers wouldn’t count for shit.
no, all of these are lies. The greeks lost and the Persians won. Iran.
Love this
@ about 37:30 a part of history I find really interesting is the differences in armies tactics, composition, and equipment. For example in this video talking about the Persians, the bulk of their fighting was done in the middle East, so their armies develope around cavalry, chariots, and light armor, then fighting in Greece, the terrain and weather doesn't suit them in the same way. Specifically what I find interesting is how these dynamics affected battles, as well as how armies adapted to differing conditions and introduction to new technology/equipment. I think the Romans are the most interesting example of this, they were usually quick to change tactics, army composition, and equipment depending on the situation, and when introduced to different weapons and armor.
The evolution of the Roman legions is a really interesting topic. There are others who have done videos on it, but I would love to see more.
I will one day redo this series as there is much id changenthat i added to the newer series but agree with you is of intereet to me too.
@@YoreHistory I think this is a great overview. There are always going to be things you could add, but from my (limited) understanding this seems to cover all of the major battles and important events.
@@YoreHistory if anything, I would say as/If you make videos that go in to detail on certain aspects of events just link them in the description and put the annotation thing at the appropriate time during this video. So for example when you mention satrapies a thing would pop up with a link to a video going in to detail on the empires government structure and administration of the satraps. Or if you did a video on the battle of marathon it would pop up during the appropriate time during this video.
Just my opinion on how to keep this video from going to long but giving the option to the viewer if they wanted to know more about specific aspects.
@@eugenecoleman8525 Thanks. It was a great learning process and lessons learned with it were applied on the Parthian series and others etc. Thanks for watching!
Sweet thank you 😍😍😍
You're welcome 😊
Excellent video! New sub.
Puerto Rican historian here. May I show parts of this in my classroom? If you are ok with this. It won't be the whole thing , just the rule of Darius III and the Macedonian Invasion.
Hi Pyres VII, first of all thanks for watching and for a classroom absolutely go right ahead. Thanks for watching!
You are most welcomed. Keep it up! 😎
Teach yourself and the whiny unruly children that it was a failed invasion and the fact that Darius III won. Always.
Good video ,
Great dcou! I think you Gandhara(28:14) placed at a wrong location, it should be modern day N W Pakistan, and not Iran where you have it located. Or perhaps Wikipedia is a bit off. Please provide some detail about Gandhara, as it's of particular interest to me due to my ancestry. Thank you again for your great work!
Yes I was eyeballing the cities during a bad edit and forgot to fix this one...i now do these different so not usually an issue anymore so apologies.
Gandharra has a rich history though since you are asking...for things like budhism it played an important role due to its central location for spreading it outward. It also reached its height of importance under the Kushan Empire. HOpefully it features again on future videos. Thanks for watching!
Nice video. Music is like a computer game from the 80s and starts to nag on you after a while though.
Hahah ya it is...i wish I would have kept the master files as this was an older series. I could have replaced the music. In hindsight I should have redone the audio completely when compiling into one episode but too late now. Later series don't have this issue.
Nice content. Please ease up on the music. It is distracting.
Regards,
A Fan and a PhD in History
Its a compilation of older videos. Later ones are 30db lower for music.
Great subject matter, thank you. However your background music is overpowering the excellent narrative. I struggle to filter out the music without effecting the commentary. Can you please have background music to a minimum. Thanks again.
It really was. This was my first video series, and if I could go back and change it, I would. New series this isn't an issue, but sadly, there is nothing I can do retroactively with this one.
Iran has always been here , and will always be here ... Eternal Iran
LOL. Nothing is forever.
Today, we need leaders like Cyrus the Great and Dariush, Cyrus the Great who lived two thousand five hundred years ago, and by creating the first human rights charter in the world, he made the American Constitution to be formed today based on Cyrus the Great's charter.🇮🇷❤️
Persian Empire was tolerant! During their rule many provinces progressed
Yes, before the muslim religion kicked in Persia was awesome.
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Yeah, they seem to avoid unnecessary bloodshed...very civilized.
This was half of Cyrus's genius, the other half being his ability to win battles. After the horror of Assyria the idea of ruling with respect and even appreciation of the conquered peoples cultures was sheer brilliance. It's truly unfortunate that later empires didn't understand the concept.
That tolerance is what eventually destroyed our achaemenid empire lol
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You are very nice
Cyrus also liberated the Jewish people and sent them back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and the Holy Temple...
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I always feel medians should have their videos too but it’s true we know very few about them💎👏🏻
And who can remember the difference between them and the means and the modes.
technosaurus tragic fact is that Irans nation sovereignty started at 625 BC with the second Median king (pherorotish)which united all iranian tribes against assyrian empire and Xyacxar the third median king build the first iranian empire.besides all of this the first iranian king was the median shepherd diaco who was very good at pacific settlement between people and popular for his justice and fairness.
because it's Kurdish history they ruined every thing about Medians.
@@heminh157 Medians have nothing to do with Kurds. Kurds are not Medes/Median. Medes/Medians were Iranian. And Kurds are Iranian too.
@@Persian_Queen_Cassandane ofcourse you say that because you're persian. Medians were neighbour of assyrians like Kurdish nowadays , they united against them at that time persian was a small group lived at southwest of Iran.
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Its nuts that even today we have Babylonians (Arabs), Persians (Iranians) & Jews still all war with each others. Somethings change, some things do not...
Technically, Babylonians, Egyptians, and Syrians were not Arabs. Arabs came to the area a millennium later, and they took their language.
@@ah306 They were all Semetic though right?
@@ah306 aka of the line of Abraham...
@@GenX_-um2ct Sorry! I'm not religious, and there is nothing in history supporting the existence of a person named Abraham or Ibrahim! Regarding the Semitic, it's not a race. It is a branch of the HUGE Afro-Asiatic LANGUAGE family, which also includes Ancient Egyptian (and its descendant Coptic) and the Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Omotic languages of northern and eastern Africa. Semitic itself is a family of totally different languages. Babylonians, Syrians, and Egyptians were speaking Aramaic (1000 BC) which is totally different than Arabic. The Arabic language, although originating in the Arabian peninsula, first emerged in written form in the 1st to 4th centuries AD in the southern regions of present-day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, and Syria. With the advent of the early Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, Classical Arabic eventually replaced many (but not all) of the indigenous Semitic languages and cultures of the Near East (Wikipedia).
Persian on the other hand is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Modern Persian is a continuation of Middle Persian, an official language of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE), itself a continuation of Old Persian, which was used in the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC). It originated in the region of Fars (Persia) in southwestern Iran. Its grammar is similar to that of many European languages. Throughout history, Persian was used as a prestigious language by various empires centered in Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. Old Persian is attested in Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions from between the 6th and 4th century BC. Middle Persian is attested in Aramaic-derived scripts (Pahlavi and Manichaean) on inscriptions and in Zoroastrian and Manichaean scriptures from between the 3rd to the 10th century AD (See Middle Persian literature). It was used officially as a language of bureaucracy even by non-native speakers, such as the Ottomans in Asia Minor, the Mughals in South Asia, and the Pashtuns in Afghanistan. It influenced languages spoken in neighboring regions and beyond, including other Iranian languages, the Turkic languages, Armenian, Georgian, and the Indo-Aryan languages. It also exerted some influence on Arabic, while borrowing a lot of vocabulary from it in the Middle Ages.
Regarding the wars, you are right. They all have great history and culture and there shouldn't be any war between these neighbors but as you said, some things never change!