The History of Iran - Alexander the Great - Seleucids - Parthians
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- Опубліковано 24 лют 2023
- This is the second part in the series on the history of Iran
It covers Alexander the Great, the wars of the Diadochi, the Seleucid empire and the Parthian Empire
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Great content
More battles from Diadochi wars period plz!
And another great IF in history. What if Alexander didn't develop a fever and die and his troops did not rebel? Would he been able to take India? This is one of the great IFs.
Yeah for sure! Hugely interesting question!
@@HenryStewart what do you think? Would he been able to take india?
@@ProtectorOfDemocracy1 Maybe some kingdoms in the north but definitely not the whole country
@@JamesSmith-uf5ig You will never know because it never happened. Maybe he would ally with China..
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Do you do all the animations yourself ?
Thanks so much! Yeah I do all the animations in blender :)
@@HenryStewart goddam that's amazing
Do you make all the models yourself ?
How do you do your research ?
I use other people's models :)
Hi,
Awesome content and graphics. Just want to highlight a historic error: Roman Empire did not exist at the time. It was the Roman Republic (SPQR).
Good point sir! Thanks for pointing that out! :)
Well it was actually under etruscan rule by kings so it was currently a kingdom of rome. Later on it became SPQR. But yeah I will give 50% accuracy
Was the empire indeed the biggest empire ever known on this planet? What about ghengis khan dynasty or the Umayyad caliphate? It would be obvious that those are bigger right?
Yeah but those happened after. For those people, alive in that time, for them it was the largest empire in the world up to that point. It must have been monumental, but I am thruthfully unaware of how the world and word of such Empires would travel in so long ago, in times without roads everywhere, where some people didn't know what was across the other side of the continent, most people had never seen a map and visualized everything by eye only as far as they walked furthest from home and their farms, that one time, in their youth.
Travelling people would have cared about an expansive big empire more, and for everyone in Europe and Asia they must have definitely heard about it since Alexander did reach India but turned back once upon its outskirts. It really must have been completely different and impossible to explain to someone living in 2023 in a first world country what it would have felt like to be alive back then and hear how they heard the news and recieved it felt it. Well not impossible just takes alot of fun cool soul searching haha.
And Alexanders Macedonian Empire only lasted 10 years, he started his campgain in his early 20s and died in his 30s and then Greece was overtaken by Rome 200ish years later, all declines. The impact and spread of his Empire really disappeared after his death and Greece soon again became the power but it was always disjointed at the top once you've dispatched all existential threats.
Mongolia was even shorter lived, that Empire was huge but only because they couldn't hold anything they kept. They just rode off on their horses to the next battle. It lasted a good 50 years I'd say but it's actual impact and power doesn't last past 30 years. Alexander's empire was much more impactful to the world then the Mongolian one because of how many deliberate decrees and legal actions anx cities were built and established because of him. Mongols didn't really have any long standing results after they faded. Alexander's general made the Ptolemy bloodline the same Ptolemy Family inbreds who Julius Caesar took control of via Cleopatra like 300 years. Empires are judged by impact and longevity I'd say.
Hi my friend, it was the biggest up until that point :)
@@pharaohsmagician8329 I would definitely agree with you! Thanks for pointing out that the empire was the biggest up until then, which makes sense.To elaborate further on your arguments, Then I would definitely say that the Arabian and Roman empires are much more of notice when focusing on impact and longevity.
You have explained the Roman/Macedonian impact but lets think about Arabian impact. Medicine, Philosophy, Political science, Aerospace engineering/development are things we owe the Rashidum, Umayyad and Abbasid empire even to this day. The enlightenment period would have been deemed impossible were it not the Arabs that spread the knowledge on certain topics and meanwhile hosting european migrants that came to study under a extremely flourishing empire that by the way captured territory in 20 years that Romans were not able to capture for a 1000 years while being torally outnumbered, outequipped, “outtechnicallied”, outfinanced etc
@@MJ-wu2dy yeah definitely I think Eastern Empires are really slept on, and ignored by Western Audiences but at the same time it kind of makes sense, we all only want to remember what is "Our" history. I watched alot of Roman History podcasts and often times you'll see ALOT of Pro Western Ignorance on there, many times I've sent comments like "Who would want to conquer the East anyways it's all Desert" like pure idiots saying that while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Roman lives who died trying to conquer it, because it was very valuable territory. There is alot of people who shut down or silence the great achievements of Eastern Empires. I can understand liking Western Empires more if you're Western, but its not okay to discredit and insult eastern ones just because people project modern day racism onto the past. But even then, people were willing to go travel farther from home they've ever been and kill hundreds of thousands people torture them enslave the kids and burn their cities to the ground because of hatred and greed in the past, so I understand why just a few centuries later, that same human behavior is still in our DNA and we are still trigger happy to spark those same ward along the same lines again. Just look at how the Western world looks at Russia and Chinas achievements, they always paint them in a negative light.
Also I think a big reason is lack of accessible history videos on the topic. Not books, because most of our knowledge today comes from documentaries and things like that. I'm sure alot of people living in the territory of Eastern empires today have a big appreciation and more knowledge for them own achievements and look at Western empires with the same mystery. In their language they know more about their own stuff and look at our history as the unknown the same way we do to them. But there's definitely a ton of ignorance and censorship because of racism (and I hate to throw that word out there lightly) really we all never stopped fighting over resources, nowdays we just have perfected the skill of making everyone stupid so they don't even grow to the point of being able to be a threat to our amassed resources. I'm not saying they were better back in our grandparents time, definitely not, they were even worse then with less access to knowledge than today. I guess im trying to say is, when we try to find signs of the Resource Wars going on we spot them and begin to realize that there's alot more radical fundemental people in the east and west who aspire to be war criminals than we initially thought. We aren't civilized at all, and the same way they destroyed books and temples and burned down great libraries thousands of years ago to crush potential successful civilizations as competition, we do that today too. Instead of destroying their country (we do that too, look at Western influence in Africa and Middle East) we also try to make their whole culture look diminished and inferior in media and even in history documentaries. You can never escape bias. It's impossible.
I hope I make sense and am not rambling lol. But a really good "proof" I think of my opinion is, go on UA-cam and search up a video of the city of Istanbul. And read the comments without even watching the video. You will see thousands of very alarming comments of people who wish to encourage and create war to take back the city and rename it to Constantinople. These people have never left their home town in America in their entire life but still are happy to jump on UA-cam and encourage war and bloodshed against Brown people because they have been trained to think that way. It's almost in our DNA for great empires to fight each other. I can justify it when actual resources are to be had, but these people are sitting or laying in bed watching UA-cam talking about how the entire city of Istanbul and all the brown people who live in it should be killed and the city stolen from them! These people don't know the history of Byzantium (the original name of the city) and how it's been stolen multiple times from its owners and think they can justify genocide 800 years later "because it was stolen" in reality they just want to steal it for themselves, the original owners will not benefit from reclaiming it, and they were too weak to hold it anyways. They just want to wage a War of West vs East and it's so easy to have these radical beliefs and encourage them online. We have not abandoned our war like ways we still create war it's just imported overseas, at least if you're western.
And a contrasting example, because everyone is guilty, would be how in 2011 the Islamic state destroyed the incredible ruins of the city of Palmyra because they thought it was heretical. These guys literally blew up a historical landmark because of their own crazy wishes to become dominant. The madness has never stopped. One day in the future people will look at Russia vs NATO war right now in the same eyes, the same way we look at WW2 history....I hope I made sense here lol. I have a great deal of respect personally for Eastern culture but it's not my own and it's something I feel I need to earn right to wear with pride, whereas with Western culture Knights slaying Dragons all that, I can rep represent much easier since I grew up with it. But Eastern Stuff has always been cooler. Egypt's pyramids were 2000 years old already when Julius Caesar transformed Rome, 2000 years ago! That's as far back for them as they are to us. Eastern world, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Great King Nimrod and his rebellion against God, all that stuff is way cooler but if just happened longer ago and the more fresh faces are more clear in our memory since their Ruins are on- the top layer of the dirt and the first ones we have to interact with.
The difference between Civilization and primitive barbarism is not how many Years and Centuries, it's how many kilometers. How many Miles/KM do I need to go in that random direction before I get to madness and crazy people. Sometimes you don't even need to leave your own home town let alone your country. There's always the Hood you don't want to go to.
If Philip was Greek as Greece says
Why he invide Greece and kil so many?
Thanks!
Has... anyone fact checked this? Darius died after 30 days of illness. He also instituted a lot of really important societal changes like a new form of justice system and infrastructure projects. He was known as somewhat of a strongman figure but I don't think he was murdered?
Hi Jessica
Darius was killed by Bessus
Please note that this is Darius III, not Darius I (the great)
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