The Women of Ancient Iran - How Free Were They?

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2022
  • In this video we look at some of the famous women of ancient Iran. Women that lived during the great pre-Islamic empires. The Persian, Parthian and Sassanid Empires.
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    Book Sources:
    Sasanian Persia Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia - Eberhard Sauer
    Sassanian Elite Cavalry - Kaveh Farrokh
    Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire - Parvaneh Pourshariati
    Sasanian Persia - The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Touraj Daryaee
    Rome's Enemies - Parthians and Sassanid Persians - Osprey Publishing
    Shadows in the Desert - Ancient Persia at War - Kaveh Farrokh
    The Cambridge History - Part 3 Seleucid/Parthian and Sasanid Periods - E. Yarshater

КОМЕНТАРІ • 222

  • @YoreHistory
    @YoreHistory  Рік тому +48

    NOTE: THIS VIDEO WILL NEVER BE MONETIZED. I HAVE PUT IT UP AS A FUNDRAISER VIDEO BUT I AM HAPPY WITH PEOPLE JUST VIEWING AND LEARNING ABOUT IRANIAN HISTORY.
    Thanks for watching and hit Like if you enjoyed the video!

    • @majidbineshgar7156
      @majidbineshgar7156 Рік тому +5

      Thank you very much indeed ,

    •  Рік тому +3

      I don’t think peeps would mind actually since production values are top notch. Thanks for the vid!

    • @soroushtorabi98
      @soroushtorabi98 Рік тому +2

      Thank you for this
      I wish there was any way to help you with what you do

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      @@soroushtorabi98 Just watch and like if you enjoy it :) that's enough for me. Cheers!

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      @ I just don't want to monetize the struggle of those brave Iranians. Better anything this video can earn goes to help people who need it but thanks!

  • @Knownonamexo
    @Knownonamexo Рік тому +26

    The word for "spouse" in farsi is "ham sar" which literally translates to "equal head". I think this is one of the testimonies to our cultural heritage in which equality was the norm. This makes it even more painful to have the current state of absolute terror.

  • @response2u
    @response2u Рік тому +86

    Why do we learn so much about the Greeks and Romans at school but almost nothing about the Persians? Very intriguing indeed.

    • @Ali-bu6lo
      @Ali-bu6lo Рік тому +13

      Even when it comes to education or entertainment regarding enemies of Rome it's almost always about Germanuc and Celtic tribes plus the Huns, the greatest enemies of Roman's, Sassanid Persian empire and the Parthian empire are barely ever covered.

    • @Ali-bu6lo
      @Ali-bu6lo Рік тому +5

      @Lill Frigg First of all, this isn't our history, it's Roman and European history. Persia and Parthia were the number one Roman enemies and Romans kept massive armies at their eastern borders all the time. Not covering them when making content about Roman history is like making movie about American history during the second world war and not mention Hitler and the Japanese once in any of them.
      Also, it makes sense story-wise since unlike with pathetic tribes they can make movies with epic battle scenes.
      So overall, it's within Hollywood's interest to make these film and my complaints completely logical.
      Second of all, Hollywood talks of this diversity and stuff so I think it's fitting if other complain when they themselves are asking for it.
      Third of all, unfortunately that's not gonna happen nowو my country is ruled by an Islamo-fascist regime that hates our pre-Islamic history and is out of touch with the majority of the people. They sometimes use our mythology and pre-Islamic history for propaganda but making movies and series is too much for them, so unfortunately that's not gonna happen unless tens of thousands die here for this regime to go, so naturally, we look to others and I think the way I put it in the first paragraph is logical.

    • @hanzocloud
      @hanzocloud Рік тому +3

      Bcoz u live in a western country so history is taught from a euro-centric point of view.. I bet u never learn about Chinese history either in school right? So with this same centric logic guess what, People in Asia learn about China in their history as it’s from an Asia-centric point of view. That’s just how it is.

    • @response2u
      @response2u Рік тому +4

      @@hanzocloud That may be right but since so much happened between the Greeks and Persians and later Romans and Persians throughout history, that alone should have made Persian history as important to the West, but people learn more about Indian history in the West than Persian history in general. That is the curious part.

    • @Mr74kaveh
      @Mr74kaveh Рік тому

      @Lill Frigg whos talking about Hollywierd??? To cover the history right has nothing to do with Hollywood or Bollywood.....And for uor infomation hollywood is just the MOVIE...is nothing educational..just for info... that we are in same page ok? and movie about vikings and Arn is not a history just made up..again just for information...If u want to know about history..read a book...I think u will find it in tour tiny tripe in north 😋

  • @ostanesirp9297
    @ostanesirp9297 Рік тому +58

    As an Iranian, it's really wonderful for me to see how beautifully you're enlightening the truth of Iranian women's freedom through out the history, that means alot 👏🌷

  • @s.asadeghi9612
    @s.asadeghi9612 Рік тому +24

    As an Iranian I know The Key word in this video was : pre Islamic Woman

  • @divicospower9112
    @divicospower9112 Рік тому +14

    The Abrahamic religions brought darkness to our Indo-European traditions. When you look at the women in Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Iranian... societies and you compare that with the time when all these lands became christian or muslim, you can cry. We must bring back our true traditions and culture.

  • @mphirani3403
    @mphirani3403 Рік тому +11

    The fall of sasanid dynasty was a bigest trajedy for persia.

  • @faryafaraji
    @faryafaraji Рік тому +20

    Thanks so much for this video man, it means a lot to us

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +8

      If you are reading this check out Farya's music. It is MUST listening....he covers a wide variety of music in a sort of "echoes of the past" for various cultures!

  • @ramtin5152
    @ramtin5152 Рік тому +50

    Imagine women of ancient times of Iran (over 2500 years ago) being treated better than the Iranian women in modern day Iran
    That's really painful for me
    And i'm a man
    Imagine how women feel about this fact right now
    Thank you for your informative videos, support, love and kindnesses ❤️🙏
    Zhen Zhian Azadi ❤️✌️✊
    Zan Zendegi Azadi ❤️✌️✊
    Women Life Freedom ❤️✌️✊

    • @skyhappy
      @skyhappy Рік тому

      The only difference is women nowadays there have to wear a piece of fabric over their hair....boohoo how sad

    • @ramtin5152
      @ramtin5152 Рік тому +5

      @@skyhappy If you don't know what's actually happening, what's going on, what Iranian women have been through and if you're not an Iranian who lives in Iran, then shut up
      It's not just about hijab
      If you're an Iranian and still say this despite all the things that has happened, then it's clear who you are

    • @skyhappy
      @skyhappy Рік тому +1

      @@ramtin5152 That was a lot of words that said nothing. Tell me, what else is happening to women other than having to wear clothing on their hair?

    • @behzad52002
      @behzad52002 Рік тому +5

      @@ramtin5152 well said👏👏👊

    • @user-cg2tw8pw7j
      @user-cg2tw8pw7j Рік тому +2

      @@skyhappy Romans damn the barbarians they speak to their masters

  • @orcyg
    @orcyg Рік тому +7

    Thank you so much for this video, you're helping people truly understand our history. Which is so important, now more than ever! Woman, Life Freedom ❤

  • @thirddimension9749
    @thirddimension9749 Рік тому +10

    I love your voice ,your topics and the way you look at history .
    I'm a Persian who's interested in German history and your a German who's interested in Iranian history ;)
    I'm very happy your back brother ;),👍

  • @akopowerletsplay3884
    @akopowerletsplay3884 Рік тому +15

    i am a persian guy living in germany ,,,, we iranians love the world ,,,, we respect all people it is so since 1000,ds of years ,,,, love to all people arround the world

  • @thorpeaaron1110
    @thorpeaaron1110 Рік тому +13

    Perfect timing considering the recent events in Iran.

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому

      Yuck. As if Iran was short of disingenuous politicized material where creators piggyback on our history to score cheap political points.

    • @petrolo72
      @petrolo72 Рік тому

      💯

  • @fanzy1338
    @fanzy1338 Рік тому +20

    Excellent choice of a topic. I don’t think anyone has ever covered Pre-Islam Iranian women. I am also curious to know your opinion on Amazon women worriers as most credible sources categorize Scythians as another Iranian peoples.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +6

      Scythians are Iranian people from all my sources as well. Their language definitely we just dont have a lot of DNA evidence unfortunately but linguistically and culturally they absolutely were.

    • @divicospower9112
      @divicospower9112 Рік тому +2

      @@YoreHistory Alans = Eran, the Aryans. Of course Scythians were Iranians. A great civilization to discover.

  • @aleksapetrovic6519
    @aleksapetrovic6519 Рік тому +9

    Very happy to see new videos from you especially concerning the great Persian civilization.

  • @mikehipps1015
    @mikehipps1015 Рік тому +2

    WELCOME BACK!!! Thanks so much. What a great way to start my day.

  • @KHK001
    @KHK001 Рік тому +4

    Happy to see u back with new videos YH!

  • @anthonysalmon9965
    @anthonysalmon9965 Рік тому +3

    Always top tier content. Thank you

  • @pedramortazavi
    @pedramortazavi Рік тому +6

    Great to see you back! Thank you for this great video! Looking forward to your Sassanid videos!! 🔥🔥

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +2

      Not sure what order it will come in but its definitely going to be in the next two releases...part 3 of the Sassanid series that is :) Thanks for watching!

    • @pedramortazavi
      @pedramortazavi Рік тому +1

      @@YoreHistory no worries at all :) they are worth the wait !

  • @angelac.1211
    @angelac.1211 Рік тому +17

    زن ، زندگی ، آزادی !

  • @soroushtorabi98
    @soroushtorabi98 Рік тому +19

    Gordik was also a fearsome female warrior . She was Bahram chobin's sister

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      Yes there were a lot and honestly it could easily be its own series. It's definitely an area to revisit later but I have so much unfinished to complete first! :)

    • @suhrabboy
      @suhrabboy Рік тому

      ​@@YoreHistory
      Можно перевод на русский язык. Есть миллионы людей говорящих на русском!

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +2

      @@suhrabboy Сейчас это сложно, потому что я один работаю над этим. Надеюсь, когда мой канал немного подрастет, я смогу добавить больше языков!

    • @suhrabboy
      @suhrabboy Рік тому +2

      @@YoreHistory
      Будем надеятся что у Вас получится.
      Потому что мы мало знаем об нашей общей истории ,мы Таджики и Осетины часть Иранского мира находимся под сферой влияния России, и такая информация о наших предках нам не доступна. И мы пишем на кириллице а не латинице, нас разделили и со временем мы забыли о нашей истории.
      Удачи Вам!

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      @@suhrabboy Вы живете в удивительном регионе, и я надеюсь, что, несмотря на все их попытки (российского правительства), они не смогут стереть историю вашего народа. Это богатая и обширная история, которая, как вы сказали, переплетается со значительной частью истории Ирана. Я постараюсь в будущем выполнить вашу просьбу, так как вы приводите очень убедительные аргументы. Спасибо!

  • @tahaoualif4744
    @tahaoualif4744 Рік тому +5

    Wow great to see you back!! Hope we can get more of your super high quality content. Cheers !!

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      Oh you will. Happy to be back...happy that you are still here to view! Cheers Taha!

  • @yaqubebased1961
    @yaqubebased1961 Рік тому +3

    Once again, no words can adequately express my gratitude for your efforts. Thank you

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      Just watching is gratitude enough, thanks :)

  • @arashgallehdari7440
    @arashgallehdari7440 11 місяців тому +1

    love your work ,amazing

  • @faridakarbhari7179
    @faridakarbhari7179 Рік тому +3

    Thankyou verymuch for sharing this valuable information about the history of Iranian kingdom feeling very proud that our ancestors ruled this great empire.
    MAY PAAK AHURA MAZDA BLESS YOU ALWAYS.

  • @hermit1358
    @hermit1358 Рік тому +3

    Keep up the good work💙🙏🏻❤️

  • @vitorpereira9515
    @vitorpereira9515 Рік тому +53

    It is a great sadness to see the descendants of Cyrus and Darius in this situation. They deserve someone much better than that supreme tyrant Ali Khamanei. He is as bad as the eunuch Bagoas.

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому

      And this where you foreigners would like to shoehorn the next Alexander the Accursed to "liberate" us. Go on. Finish the sentence 🤡🤡🤡

    • @thirddimension9749
      @thirddimension9749 Рік тому +13

      Thanks for your support my friend ,
      Your right we really do deserve more than a bunch of thieves.

    • @vitorpereira9515
      @vitorpereira9515 Рік тому +10

      @@thirddimension9749 you said it!

    • @petrolo72
      @petrolo72 Рік тому +1

      They are much more than just thieves, these ayatollahs that have been placed in power are also responsible for the executions of untold thousands of innocent lives

    • @Ali-bu6lo
      @Ali-bu6lo Рік тому +3

      Thank you my friend, slava ukraini.

  • @sarabkh79
    @sarabkh79 Рік тому +2

    Thank you. It's interesting

  • @elenachehrassan1815
    @elenachehrassan1815 Рік тому +2

    Great video .. thank you 👍🔥

  • @Persian.impire
    @Persian.impire Рік тому +6

    Iran will return to the glory of its civilization and in this way we will not forget who was with us and who was not with us.Javid Shah

  • @nikzad2167
    @nikzad2167 Рік тому +5

    What a work & research, well done. Wished you mentioned the Amazonians, too

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      Honestly I could have made it into a series :) Definitely more that can be covered in the future. Thanks for watching!

  • @jimmyfarari3823
    @jimmyfarari3823 6 місяців тому

    Wow very amazing video ❤❤

  • @iexist3919
    @iexist3919 Рік тому +12

    The king has returned! I can only hope that the Sassanid Persia series continues…

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      Oh it will but the other was promised for a while now so will get it out within a few days.

    • @iexist3919
      @iexist3919 Рік тому +3

      @@YoreHistory I understand, I’m glad you’re back!

  • @lakshmipraveen8734
    @lakshmipraveen8734 Рік тому +1

    Good to see you after long time, I will follow you in Interest and Regularly 🙂

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for hanging in there with me. Cheers! :)

  • @ethanpf449
    @ethanpf449 Рік тому +2

    Interesting video

  • @ARse-ko7lz
    @ARse-ko7lz Рік тому +3

    thank you so much from iran.

  • @zibacherzad2844
    @zibacherzad2844 Рік тому +1

    Thank you!

  • @supersandrone1
    @supersandrone1 7 місяців тому +1

    Great documents about woman of Iran History are real important in order to have knowledge and understand tradition and colture of one the most important way to respect people from the ancient world.

  • @rommellupae3447
    @rommellupae3447 Рік тому +7

    I'm a avid lover of World History and hadn't had much to learn about Persian History, except for Cyrus The Great, Darius The Great, Xerxes( Ahasuerus) in the Book of Esther in the bible, Artaxerxes, Alexander's conquest of Persia and more, but thanks to these additional uploads of information.

  • @dariusghodsi2570
    @dariusghodsi2570 Рік тому +5

    Great topic

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому +1

      No. It actually isn't considering the creator openly prefaces the video with it being completely political. This type of piggybacking is disgusting, disingenuous and completely intended for self-promotion. It's exploitative and you as an Iranian shouldn't fall for it.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +5

      @@rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 I think if you look at the topics I have covered here I love Iranian history and its troubled me deeply what is happening there. The intro was a dedication nothing more. You are entitled to your opinion though but being exploitative is not something I went after. I want to educate those who are ignorant about Iran and that is all I have ever sought to do with my Iranian historical videos.

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому

      @@YoreHistory Where were you these last 5 years when American sanctions crushed the lives of our women and children? 🤡🤡🤡 No, you chose to participate in a propaganda campaign where you feign sympathy for Iranian women now that it is fashionable to do so according to the US State Department. I have lost my respect for you.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      @@rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 You are entitled to your opinion but not to pretending to know me or my motives. I have enjoyed Iranian history since I was young with my Iranian friend trading mythos and history of our cultures. I have sympathized with the plight of the people there for a lot longer than that. Also I am not American. My channel is about presenting Iranian history to the world in addition to 2nd person historical fiction and other regions of the world. You have the right to your opinion here on my channel as long as it isn't hateful. However, let's be clear. You have never met me, don't know me and shouldn't make up motives/desires for me based on any hates/desires/beliefs you have.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      @@user-cg2tw8pw7j Not sure what you mean? This video on the women of ancient Iran?

  • @KERMOONI1329
    @KERMOONI1329 Рік тому +3

    POWER TO ALL IRANIAN WOMEN ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

  • @ramtin5152
    @ramtin5152 Рік тому +17

    Here are some other Iranian women who are definitely worth mentioning
    Rhodogune/Rosegune of Parthia
    was a queen of the Seleucid Empire by marriage to Demetrius II Nicator
    She was the daughter of the Parthian king of kings, Mithridates I the great and the Parthian queen, Rinnu, and sister of Phraates II
    Polyaenus wrote that Rhodogune, informed of a revolt while preparing for a bath, vowed not to bathe or brush her hair until the revolt was quashed
    She immediately went into battle, riding out to the head of her army
    She defeated the rebels, and was depicted thereafter on seals of the kings of Persia with long, disheveled hair because of her adherence to her vow
    This incident is also mentioned in the anonymously written Tractatus de mulieribus, which elaborates further on the story, describing her as being depicted with a golden statue showing her hair half-braided, half unbraided
    Artadokht
    Artadokht was an economist during the reign of Ardavan IV (Artabanus IV, incorrectly known in older scholarship as Artabanus V) who was directly involved in the affairs of taxation, expenditure and revenue of the country
    Artadokht enriched the country without putting pressure on the people and increasing taxes
    Boran/Borandokht
    She was the Sasanian queen of Iran from 630 to 632, with an interruption of some months
    Boran inherited a declining empire that was engulfed in a civil war between two major factions, the Persian (Parsig) and Parthian (Pahlav) noble families
    She was committed to reviving the memory and prestige of her father, during whose reign the Sasanian Empire had grown to it's largest territorial extent
    Rabia Balkhi
    Also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari) was a 10th century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic
    She is the first known female poet to write in Persian (in islamic era)
    Rabia appears in the Lubab ul-Albab, a compilation of Persian poets made by the 12th and 13th-century writer Awfi
    The compilation says the following about her: "The daughter of Ka'b, although she was a woman, was superior to men in accomplishments
    She possessed great intelligence and sharp temperament
    She used to continuously play the game of love and admired beautiful youths
    Rabia is amongst the thirty five female Sufis mentioned in the 15th century Persian work Nafahat al Uns, a biographical compilation made by Jami
    Jahan Malek Khatun
    She was an Iranian poet and princess at the Injuid court, which had its capital in Shiraz
    She was a contemporary of Hafez, and is the only known premodern Persian poet to locate her writing within a tradition of female poets in a prose preface to her collected poems
    The introduction to her divan, written by Jahan herself, suggests that she wrote poetry as a means to leave something behind after her death, and to deal with her tumultuous life at court

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому +1

      Rhodogune was not a Seleucid queen, she was a Parthian princess. Her husband was an ex-Seleucid royal prisoner under Parthian custody making infamous for having attempted to escape unsuccessfully twice. Demetrius of the golden dice. The rump state of the Seleucids was located in Syria at the time.

    • @ramtin5152
      @ramtin5152 Рік тому

      @@rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 I said she was a Parthian princess and since she married the Seleucid king who was defeated and captured in battle, she is considered the Queen of what was left of the Seleucid empire

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому +1

      @@ramtin5152 Demetrius was immediately replaced on the throne of Antioch upon the news of his capture. It was also not an "empire" at this time - It was a rump state limited to Syria after having lost Mesopotamia and their former capital at Seleucia. The big guy on the block was the Parthian empire, which not only deserved its name but succeeded the Seleucids in every function. Rhodogune may have had de jure rights to the remnants of the Seleucid kingdom, but presenting her as a Seleucid queen is wrong. She was the daughter of a conquering Parthian hero who had vanquished the Seleucids, the Greeks of Bactria and gone from the Oxus to the Euphrates to liberate ancient Iran from the Macedonian yoke. Context matters.

    • @ramtin5152
      @ramtin5152 Рік тому

      @@rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 The word "Queen of the Seleucid empire" was there when i searched her name
      And i did wrote who her family members were and from what family she was
      But tbh, having an Iranian queen on Greek people throne must have been humiliating for Greeks since they considered themselves higher than everyone else and every non Greek was considered a barbarian XD
      I bet that's why they abandoned the captured Seleucid king LOL
      Can't really say the Parthians succeeded them
      They kicked Greeks asses
      I know you might gonna bring "the Greek words on their coins" up and like some people say things like they were HEAVILY Hellenised just because few of their kings coins had the word "friend of Greeks" on them (which was totally due to political reasons) but go see for yourself
      The Parthian was the official, court and literature and Aramaic was lingua franca
      Their main religions ? Zoroastrianism and Mithraism (the pre-Zoroastrian religion of Iranians)
      The Achaemeinid titles were also used for their kings
      First changes were made by Mithridates I the great
      According to the 10th-century Middle Persian Zoroastrian document Denkard ("Acts of Religion"), Vologases I of Parthia ordered his subjects to safeguard variants of the Avestan books and schooling, which had been scattered due to raids and plundering by the Macedonian king Alexander
      Yeah that's definitely what HEAVILY Hellenised people will do

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому

      @@ramtin5152 The Parthians are restorers of Iran and Iraniyyat against degenerate Hellenism and the protectors of the East against the rising Roman menace. Any "philhellenism" exhibited by the Arsacids was a political maneuvering to protect its interests in Asia against Roman usurpation.

  • @michaelbehrens1660
    @michaelbehrens1660 Рік тому +3

    Interesting that the Rashidun Caliphate's full scale invasion is never told from the story of how weakened Persia had become. I would argue that just like modern America celebrating a handful of female pilots and ground operators as proof of the heights we have achieved, they too would not be in a position to see invasion if the traditions that made them ascending and great were maintained. This is the way of Persia, Greece, Rome, and now America and the modern "west". Your videos are none the less always elucidating, entertaining, amazing quality, and some of the most tasteful historical presentations on YT. Keep building your brand and putting out the best stuff!!

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      I will be covering that in my Sassanian series. Next episode deals with Shapur II so we will begin to see more of the Arabian Kingdoms and eventual caliphates :)

  • @ramtin5152
    @ramtin5152 Рік тому +3

    🔥 THE LEGEND HAS RETURNED 🔥
    Glad to see you're still alive LOL
    Where were you man ? I missed you and your videos so much ✌️❤️

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      Health issues and a new job ..and too much gaming... :) Glad to be back though

  • @bpsalami9864
    @bpsalami9864 Рік тому +4

    Epic.

  • @soheilashory4559
    @soheilashory4559 Рік тому +1

    very nice.❤❤🧡

  • @user-zg6bp4nm4w
    @user-zg6bp4nm4w 9 місяців тому +2

    Put subtitles with Farsi translation so that Iranians can use the program

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  9 місяців тому +1

      You can already select this using Auto Translate. It's not perfect but it's close. Just select Auto Translate and select Persian.

  • @dariusghodsi2570
    @dariusghodsi2570 Рік тому +3

    Excellent artwork, where is it from?

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      I used Midjourney AI to create most of it...Photoshop the rest.

  • @jimmyfarari3823
    @jimmyfarari3823 6 місяців тому +1

    Ariobarzan and her sister the genral was at the gate fighting side by side against alexander the great here is the complete History: I know it is a lot but i tried my best to get as much info as possible just in case if you ever get bored and wanted to know more
    IT WAS IN THE winter around 330 BCE, in the bone chilling cold of an Iranian freezing ice covered land of persia a regiment of the Persian army led by the Persian General Ario-Barzan held up Alexander’s vast Macedonian army for 30 days before finally yielding to the sheer number of enemy forces. The battle has remained for Iranians as the epitome of strength through patriotism, discipline, integrity, dignity and the final sacrifice.

  • @jamiebaker8017
    @jamiebaker8017 Рік тому +2

    Decent video but I personally much prefer your “life as”series videos over the others you put out.. I find the creativity in your stories amazing.. how long until you put out a new one of those??

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      3 or 4 days Max. Working on it as I type this.

    • @jamiebaker8017
      @jamiebaker8017 Рік тому +1

      ❤️ the dedication to your craft mate.. looking forward to it dropping..

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      @@jamiebaker8017 Any specific eras you would like to see covered?

    • @jamiebaker8017
      @jamiebaker8017 Рік тому +1

      @@YoreHistory tbh I’m hanging for you to finish that Viking story you were working on.. it was just starting to build up nicely..
      I know your plan is to start over on that series but I don’t think you should..
      I have many ideas for you but it all depends on what direction you wanna take your channel as to wether they would be viable for you or not.. If there is a way to do it on UA-cam you’re more than welcome to shoot me a private message.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      @@jamiebaker8017 It was building up nice and I really should finish it I had some nice plans for it. Maybe I can do it more story format with pictures instead of getting too elaborate with the miliary pieces etc. Hmm now you got me thinking :)

  • @BlastinRope
    @BlastinRope Рік тому +1

    It might be slow to start, but I've seen another youtube creator who was making 100k videos every week have their reputation ruined, they closed their channel, then came back making videos where you couldn't see their face at first that were getting like 1k-2k views. They stuck with it and after a year they are doing better than ever.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      Ya it will definitely be slow but ive always done it for fun so all good.

  • @ramtin5152
    @ramtin5152 Рік тому +2

    Hi there, it's me again and i have a suggestion (Sorry it's gonna be a long hell of a comment but it'll make many things clear)
    I was thinking, what if you make a video about every story that it's told and written about the death of Cyrus the great and then make another video about the flaws of each or at least some stories and about how close or far from reality or accuracy each story is
    You know, a topic with two parts and then you can make them a Mega episode
    As far as i can remember, you didn't talk about Cyrus death in your first Achaemeinid video either
    There are like ten stories about his death
    It can be an interesting topic
    I myself believe Ctesias version is closer to reality
    Herodotus mentioned that he heard other stories too, but wrote the one that he liked the most because he thought it was more epic
    You know since the ending was similar to the ending of one of those mythical Greek stories (greed and arrogance leading great humans to their demise) and since Herodotus was a Greek, this story is very debatable and has many things wrong with it if you think about it
    Other Greek or Roman historians never even mentioned Tomyris or her tribe and each one wrote a different story
    The most logical story about his death that i've heard up until now, is the one that Ctesias has written
    Ctesias had his mistakes while writing about Cyrus life but his record of Cyrus death seems way more logical and the fact that he worked at the Achaemeinid royal court kinda increases the accuracy since he could've had access to their history sources
    He's also written the numbers of casualties on both sides (9,000-10,000 for the Achaemeinids and 30,000 with their king and his two sons among the dead for the Derebices, though probably exaggerated numbers), the name of the king of the rebel Derbices(Amoraios), the number of Cyrus Scythian reinforcements (20,000) and name of the Scythian king who led them (Amorges)
    Plus some information about how the battle went
    According to him, Cyrus fought the Derbices/Derbikes (Iranian tribal people in Hyrcania) and won the battle but died three days later because he was wounded in the middle of that battle
    The Derbices had allies from India and war elephants and the Elephants almost surrounded a part of the Persian cavalry and made Cyrus fall off his horse and was wounded by an Indian with a javelin
    But was rescued by his guards (probably the Immortals) and taken back to his camp
    The next day, a Scythian king with 20,000 of his men came to his aid and won the battle and declared Cambyses as his successor
    Three days is enough time for his men to reach Pasargadae without his corpse rotting since Derbices territories were in the north of modern day Iran and that Cyrus didn't immediately die and it was way closer than Central Asia
    Unlike Massagetaes (eastern Iranic nomadic people), who lived in seperate tribes (like Greek city states), they lived in a unified satrapy and had more manpower than a Scythian tribe and even had allies with war elephants from India
    Meaning, they had the terrain advantage and enough manpower to fight an army of 80,000-100,000 men, specially when living in modern day north of Iran (where i live)
    These lands are perfect for Guerilla warfares
    According to Herodotus, the only advantage the Massagetaes had was a river which they let Cyrus army cross it without even harrassing it
    What kind of commander would do that specially when being in a huge disadvantage ?
    They were in open plains, with no city walls, no fortresses, no trenches, no natural barriers, not even enough manpower and they let the enemy pass their only line of defence
    How many people lived in ONE nomadic Scythian tribe in 530 BC ? 3,000 ? 4,000 ?
    Let's say 5,000-10,000
    How many of them could fight ?
    While the Achaemenids are known for their large armies which are estimated between 50,000 to 200,000
    They were professional fighters armed with almost any weapon imaginable at the time and were familiar with nomadic fighting styles and battle tactics (they themselves were nomads once) and were being led by the greatest warlord at the time who won every battle he fought against mighty empires or even other Scythian tribes according to other Greco Roman historians
    The largest Scythian army ever reported with exact numbers, was the one that fought Alexander at the battle of Jaxartes which had no more than 15,000
    The terrain here in the north is great for a local army to defend against a superior invading force
    And if we take a look at Cyrus conquest map, he'd conquered territories up to Aral sea/lake in central Asia
    Massagetae territory is shown next to Dahae (also Iranic people) territories under Aral sea/lake in most of the maps and according to Cyrus map, he conquered that province and there was even a city fortress called Cyropolis near there
    While there's no evidence of Tomyris existence beside Herodotus few sentences
    If she had indeed killed him in battle and completely destroyed his army, then why there's no report of her raiding and plundering or even conquering the reach defenseless Achaemeinid territories or Cyrus son, Cambyses, a vengeful cruel man (at least according to what Herodotus described him) campaign against them ?
    Darius the great mentioned the names of the people who REVOLTED against him, right after he became king, in his inscription, and the Scythians of Central Asia (beyond the jaxartes) were among the rebels (the man in the end of the line)
    And since the word revolt has been used, we can assume they were already conquered by Cyrus
    As far as i know, even Alexander's historians didn't say anything about his skeleton's head missing
    Ali Sami Shirazi also identified the two corpses/skeletons in his tomb as Cyrus and Cassandane's
    If what Herodotus says it's true, and Massagetaes took Cyrus body and cut his head off, then what are those remains even doing in his tomb ?

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      Fantastic feedback and suggestion. Thank you :)

    • @ramtin5152
      @ramtin5152 Рік тому +1

      @@YoreHistory You're welcome and again sorry for the long comment i hope i haven't annoyed you (The voice in my head : You annoyed the fuck out of him) 🙏😅

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      @@ramtin5152 Not at all lol. You should see so e of the comments I leave places :)

  • @musmerized658
    @musmerized658 Рік тому +1

    Great video! I think the date at 7:00 is wrong though. If she was around in 4CE, she would be dead looong before the rise of the Sananids.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +1

      Must have missed that during editing :) Thx.

  • @emptyusername5615
    @emptyusername5615 Рік тому +5

    someone asks why we don't learn the Persian history instead of just learning roman and Greek history snd I answered: They instead of teaching you our great and real history they make hateful movie about our history and make many lies about us like those Greeks they are was our Enemy for over 700 years they coursed killed our people and lot of more but people still read and teach our history from they...
    Listen Cyrus the great is who wrote The basis of human rights for the first time in the world and all of his life lived and worked for justice of all the people in the Earth you can go and read his Writes in the charter of Parsomarsh
    They called him cruel and some teenager who knows nothing came and make sh*it about him and other kings
    Always remember The great is the one who rules the people with good and justice, not the one who sheds the blood of his own people

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +2

      That is why I have made it a point to share my passion for Iranian history. Not enough have in my opinion and the bias is tilted strongly towards Greek/Roman as you point out.

    • @emptyusername5615
      @emptyusername5615 Рік тому +2

      @@YoreHistory thank you my friend ❤️

    • @emptyusername5615
      @emptyusername5615 Рік тому +2

      @@YoreHistory There are very few people like you. You are the only one who sees history correctly and from the right point of view. thanks to you and your historical videos about the Iranian history once more People can learn our real history
      Your literally doing a great and respectable work. I hope you to be successful in all of your life and always seek for truth and good.
      باشد که در پناه ایزد یکتا باشی

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +2

      ​@@emptyusername5615 Likewise to you friend. thank you. Also, can't wait to cover the rest of the Sassanids...Shapur II will be exciting to cover.

    • @emptyusername5615
      @emptyusername5615 Рік тому +1

      @@YoreHistory me too friend I can't wait either for it

  • @chalinofalcone871
    @chalinofalcone871 Рік тому +3

    "The dreamlike spell of this contemplative, metaphysically orientated tradition, where light and darkness dance together in a world - creating cosmic shadow play, carries into modern times and image that is of incalculable age. In its primitive form it is widely known among the jungle villages of the broad equatorial zone that extends from Africa eastward, through India, southeast Asia, and Oceania, to Brazil, where the basic myth is of a dreamlike age of the beginning, where there was neither death nor birth, which, however, terminated when a murder was committed. The body of the victim was cut up and buried. And not only did the food plants on which the community lives arise from those buried parts, but on all who ate of their fruit the organs of reproduction appeared; so that death, which had come into the world through a killing, was countered by its opposite, generation, and the self-consuming thing that is life, which lives on life, began its interminable course....
    For the West, however, the possibility of such an egoless return to a state of soul antecedent to the birth of individuality has long since passed away; and the first important stage in the branching off can be seen to have occurred in that very part of the nuclear Near East where the earliest god - kings and their courts had been for centuries ritually entombed: namely Sumer, where a new sense of the separation of the spheres of god and man began to be represented in myth and ritual about 2350 BC. The king, then, was no longer a god, but a servant of the god, his Tenant Farmer, supervisor of the race of human slaves created to serve the gods was unremitting toil. And no longer identity, but relationship, was the paramount concern. Man had been made not to be God but to know, honor, and serve him; so that even the king, who, according to the earlier mythological view, had been the chief embodiment of divinity on Earth, was now but a priest offering sacrifice in tendance to One above - not a god returning to himself in sacrifice to Himself.
    The earliest prophet of this mythology of cosmic restoration was, apparently, the Persian Zoroaster, whose dates, however, have not been securely established. They have been variously placed between c. 1200 and c. 550 BC, so that, like Homer(of about the same span of years), he should perhaps be regarded rather as symbolic of a tradition than a specifically, or solely, one man. The system associated with his name is based on the idea of a conflict between the wise lord, Ahura-Mazda," first father of the Righteous Order, who gave to the sun and stars their path," and an independent evil principal, Angra Mainyu, the Deceiver, principle of the lie, who, when all had been excellently made, entered into it in every particle."
    [The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology, Joseph Campbell, Ch. 1: Signatures of The Four Great Domains, pg. 4,6-7]

  • @gerrimilner9448
    @gerrimilner9448 Рік тому +2

    and the brits had boudica, alone. this is a truly impressive history, if half the population are sidelined society cannot function well

    • @ramtin5152
      @ramtin5152 Рік тому +1

      Here are some other Iranian women who are also definitely worth mentioning
      Rhodogune/Rosegune of Parthia
      was a queen of the Seleucid Empire by marriage to Demetrius II Nicator
      She was the daughter of the Parthian king of kings, Mithridates I the great and the Parthian queen, Rinnu, and sister of Phraates II
      Polyaenus wrote that Rhodogune, informed of a revolt while preparing for a bath, vowed not to bathe or brush her hair until the revolt was quashed
      She immediately went into battle, riding out to the head of her army
      She defeated the rebels, and was depicted thereafter on seals of the kings of Persia with long, disheveled hair because of her adherence to her vow
      This incident is also mentioned in the anonymously written Tractatus de mulieribus, which elaborates further on the story, describing her as being depicted with a golden statue showing her hair half-braided, half unbraided
      Artadokht
      Artadokht was an economist during the reign of Ardavan IV (Artabanus IV, incorrectly known in older scholarship as Artabanus V) who was directly involved in the affairs of taxation, expenditure and revenue of the country
      Artadokht enriched the country without putting pressure on the people and increasing taxes
      Boran/Borandokht
      She was the Sasanian queen of Iran from 630 to 632, with an interruption of some months
      Boran inherited a declining empire that was engulfed in a civil war between two major factions, the Persian (Parsig) and Parthian (Pahlav) noble families
      She was committed to reviving the memory and prestige of her father, during whose reign the Sasanian Empire had grown to it's largest territorial extent
      Rabia Balkhi
      Also known as Rabia al-Quzdari (or Khuzdari) was a 10th century writer who composed poetry in Persian and Arabic
      She is the first known female poet to write in Persian (in islamic era)
      Rabia appears in the Lubab ul-Albab, a compilation of Persian poets made by the 12th and 13th-century writer Awfi
      The compilation says the following about her: "The daughter of Ka'b, although she was a woman, was superior to men in accomplishments
      She possessed great intelligence and sharp temperament
      She used to continuously play the game of love and admired beautiful youths
      Rabia is amongst the thirty five female Sufis mentioned in the 15th century Persian work Nafahat al Uns, a biographical compilation made by Jami
      Jahan Malek Khatun
      She was an Iranian poet and princess at the Injuid court, which had its capital in Shiraz
      She was a contemporary of Hafez, and is the only known premodern Persian poet to locate her writing within a tradition of female poets in a prose preface to her collected poems
      The introduction to her divan, written by Jahan herself, suggests that she wrote poetry as a means to leave something behind after her death, and to deal with her tumultuous life at court

  • @dapperduncle1972
    @dapperduncle1972 Рік тому +6

    Wishing for a democratic constitutional monarchy in Iran, Javid Shah 🦁🌞

  • @jawvees2585
    @jawvees2585 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful video🏞

  • @user-ky7jx1cr5k
    @user-ky7jx1cr5k Рік тому +2

    Till this day women in Northern Iraq still kick ass in the army.

  • @witster6121
    @witster6121 Рік тому +2

    👑

  • @blumoon8700
    @blumoon8700 Рік тому +3

    persian wonder women💚🤍❤

  • @xiavosh
    @xiavosh Рік тому +2

    The Amazon female warriors were also Iranian.

  • @theshadowsagas3617
    @theshadowsagas3617 Рік тому +6

    Required viewing for anyone discussing the Jina Mahsa Amini revolution.

  • @divicospower9112
    @divicospower9112 8 місяців тому +1

    The statues are wonderful (for example Shahpur). Do you know where they are?
    Also you can mention the queen of the Saka who killed Cyrus the great. Not Persian but Iranian as well.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  8 місяців тому +1

      Near Bishapur in a limestone cave. Sorry for the late reply!

    • @divicospower9112
      @divicospower9112 8 місяців тому +1

      @@YoreHistory Danke viel Mal

  • @Deoxsen
    @Deoxsen Рік тому +8

    As someone who has family in Iran it’s not as bad as media portrays it to be. But this is a lovely addition to ancient Iranian history ❤

    • @majidbineshgar7156
      @majidbineshgar7156 Рік тому +8

      Today I read in the news a bank manager in the Iranian city Qom has been sacked just because he happened to attend a women without the mandatory head -scarf , the Islamic regime in line with their" religious apartheid " has ruled that women without Islamic hijab should not be attended, and should be denied all social,statal, commercial services , I wonder how you could claim : " it’s not as bad as media portrays it to be ! " ? actually it is much worse .

    • @Deoxsen
      @Deoxsen Рік тому

      @@majidbineshgar7156 Hi could you kindly state your source it would be most helpful as I have not heard nor read any of this.

    • @Persian.impire
      @Persian.impire Рік тому +3

      I think you are either always drunk or a mercenary of the mullahs' government

    • @Deoxsen
      @Deoxsen Рік тому +3

      @@Persian.impire How is me asking for a source because of an horrible event that has transpired in Qom makes me a merc ? Like here you are accusing of BS while I am talking respectfully please don’t spread rubbish.

    • @Persian.impire
      @Persian.impire Рік тому

      @@Deoxsen Don't pay attention to these things, there are many mercenaries of the Islamic government. They take money from the government to spread nonsense.

  • @avi3860
    @avi3860 Рік тому +5

    Pre-islam...and after Islam ...a difference of civilizations and uncivilized barbarians.

  • @kashfiaislam9995
    @kashfiaislam9995 27 днів тому +1

    Queen Victoria and her female line ancestors and female line descendants belonged to the mitochondrial haplogroup M or some mitochondrial haplogroup common in the Middle East, not H. In fact, Queen Victoria was a female line descendant of Queen Atossa of Persia whose mitochondrial haplogroup was definitely not H since she was Middle Eastern. 👗👠👑💍

  • @willek1335
    @willek1335 Рік тому +2

    random question, but what's up with their mouths at 7:45 ? :D

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      Lol will have to take a look...im working right now but will check after work.

  • @HaHa-gy5vg
    @HaHa-gy5vg Рік тому +2

    Most of these women don't even have Wikipedia entries

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому +3

      Agreed and that's one of the issues with Iranian history, no one really covers it. There are more entries in other languages but scarce in English. There are a few and hopefully more get added.
      Thanks for watching, cheers!

  • @chalinofalcone871
    @chalinofalcone871 Рік тому +1

    "Scilicet ut salva sit mythologica Judaica, Noster misere torquetur."
    "Our [friend The Persian] is tortured miserably and only for the purpose of saving Jewish mythology."
    [Coranto: Journal of the Friends of the Libraries, Fall of 1966, Vol IV, No. I, The Folio Augustini of Schopenhauer, Martin Woods]

  • @user-eu8ub9cm5t
    @user-eu8ub9cm5t 3 місяці тому +2

    Pre Islam Persia had only one Nestorian Christian Queen Shirin

  • @behzadparsa
    @behzadparsa Рік тому +2

    💚🤍❤️

  • @sultanliumay
    @sultanliumay Рік тому +2

    The Arab conquest of Iran is a great tragedy, which, unfortunately, few people realize. All culture, tradition, identity, and civilization were destroyed by the people the Persians called locust eaters(the same happened to Egyptians too). A woman who was considered freer than in the same ancient Rome and Greece was shrouded in a veil and deprived of many rights. By the way, if you have ever heard the misconception that Islam brought freedom to a woman (this is popular propaganda in Muslim countries), then know that this is an absolute lie. With Islam, a woman received at least some rights ONLY in the Arabian peninsula itself, where it was customary to get rid of newborn girls.

  • @soroushtorabi98
    @soroushtorabi98 Рік тому +2

    Freedom is close ...

    • @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512
      @rashnuofthegoldenscales4512 Рік тому

      Freedom to become America's slave, Soroush 🤡 If you hate being an Iranian so much, then get out. Live out your Western dream elsewhere and don't pollute our country.

  • @ledacypreadel7268
    @ledacypreadel7268 Рік тому

    Make a movie like what ottoman empire did

  • @mridulkanti1995
    @mridulkanti1995 Рік тому +1

    You forget about India

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  Рік тому

      This was just women from Iranian heartland. However, some amazing Indian women, too.

  • @lastgodlover
    @lastgodlover 11 місяців тому +1

    What about common people? What I dont like about history is forgetting commoners and hightlighting and praising tyrants and their gods.

    • @YoreHistory
      @YoreHistory  9 місяців тому +1

      100% agree. If you look at my other series I do exactly that...history from the POV of commoners. IE DUtch sailor, British sailor, roman legionary series.

  • @luvbootys
    @luvbootys Рік тому

    Alexander the great had them men executed for for burning persian documents and for the desecration of cyrus the greats tomb

  • @Lady_Biblical-Iran
    @Lady_Biblical-Iran Рік тому +1

    🥹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥