Iran has a very long and fascinating history. We could probably learn of it for the rest of our lives, and not know too much of it. The current appearance of Islamic leadership bothers me some, but what do I really know? The future will show how it works out. I believe in the Iranian people, I believe they are mostly OK and would be interesting to meet. On the other hand our respective governments, not so much. I will leave this earth with much hope for the future, and hope that people can put greed and war behind us all and live in peace!
@@chickknightgreenleaf820 the word dark age was used by self-aggrandizing enlightenment era Europeans to make themselves feel like the pinnacle of human existence. They also smeared lead and arsenic on their face, truly cultured 🤣🤣🤣. Its true that the western Rome became poor as fuck as the rich started owning everything and didn't pay any taxes and the "barbarians", who they treated like shit, rebelled and took over shit. After Goths took over, centralized governments collapsed for about 200 years and there was no big public projects. But at least from Charlemagne's time the "dark age" did not even exist in western Europe. Maybe in some fringes like Scandinavia it would be true
Most people don't realize that there is a difference between the shooting styles of the Eastern step, and the West. I was surprised, and delighted, to see that your animators we're aware of this difference. And made the appropriate changes. This shows a level of detail that is seldom seen. Good job. And.. Excellent video
A few words about depictions of Iranians. As an Iranian, I thank Invicta for paying attention to the history of Iran. Not because I consider Iran to be better, in any sense, of other countries, but because Iran has played a central role in shaping of our world (especially from 6th century BC to 7th century AD), and without studying its history, it is impossible to understand even the present time in a tenable manner. However, western depictions of Iranians in history are often stereotyped and inaccurate. The problem can easily be seen when one juxtaposes depictions of Greeks and Romans with depictions of Iranians: The former people are often glorified and shown based on good artistic works, while the latter are often denigrated and shown using sketchy and ugly drawings without taking into consideration the various historical periods and the manifold of customs (often mixing e.g. Achaemenid clothing and armor with those of the Sas(s)anids!). This video is surely a huge improvement, but is also a bit stereotyped when it comes to clothing and armor, and inaccurate with regards to the maps of various historical periods. This kind of issues can easily be solved by looking at academic works such as "Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians and Sassanid Persians" and the two volumes of "The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars" (Both are easily accessible on the internet). Again, I must stress that this video is a huge improvement, and I am sure it can contributes to rectify the widespread misconceptions about Iranians. Cheers
My sisters husband is Iranian and likes history much. We talk quite a lot about the conflicts between Greece and Persians in the ancient era. It is kind of interesting to see the difference in how they are perceived. From his perspective the battle of Thermopylae etc are more of a minor nuisance in the history of Persia, while for most europeans it is seen as a major event with great value for the europeans. As a Swede I can relate to this difference in perspective, because there is a similar thing in our history. During the Swedish empire the swedish army lost the battle in Fehrbellin. For Swedish history it is a minor battle, almost a skirmish, which doesn't really matter. But in german history that battle is seen as the start of the unification process of Germany and the birth of the german army.
As a Greek I feel huge Respect for Persians and their great past .A great civilization, so important for all the humanity. Specially Sassanids and the religion of Zarathustra is another more convince for The great Persian past. All our love from Greece
@@VV-wi6ir I have also great admiration and respect for the Greeks. I have been to Greece and I was surprised how similiar the Greeks and the Iranians are. This is in contrast to the picture that is prevalent in the “West”, i.e. Western Europe and North America. In my view the continuity between the modern “Western Civilisation “ (as oppsed to the “Orient”) and ancient Greece is a fabricatin of the West. Iran as a represntative of the “Orient” is much closer to Greece than Western academics are willing to admit. Cheers
What I would give for an episode on the Thracian Peltast or Cretan Archers. However such an amazing video exploring the militaries of the east and greatly opened my eyes to their might as well as their magnificence. Horse mounted archers and javelin throwers have always been a favorite of mine as well as irregular light infantry warriors. This video was great truly and is precisely why I will remain a life time subscriber! Good job guys!
@@mazandarani8435 Bro Persia is how the ancient Greeks used to called the original Pars province bcz both the Achaemenids and later the Sassanids came from Pars province and created the Parsi Empire Greeks called Pars as Persis and the Parsi as Persia
My favorite era in all history is the Sassanid era. Majestic, powerful, just, and technologically advanced! I consider them the culmination of the Indo European heritage.
Odaenthus' story is Romam propaganda in a time where they had lost all "honor" in their wars with the Sasanids. Most of what is said about him in the sources is pure BS.
this was a refreshing documentary. the "west" is very interesting and everything, but overly exploited, there are already countless documentaries there, and seeing you guys venture more into the east and into africa has been quite a pleasant change; i would urge you to carry on with that trend, and also add ancient america, specifically meso and south america. South american history is woefully underappreciated and unknown to the rest of the world, and to themselves, and it would be wonderful to work against that. thank you
100%. It wouldn’t likely fit into the “Units of History” theme, but there’s so much fascinating stuff about the states and societies of the Americas. I would *love* more about the agriculture, warfare and statebuilding in the Andes leading up to the Incan expansion.
They already covered some of the more well know pre colonial warriors. However it's quite difficult as there are just so little to no written or otherwise clear documentations. Or more likely there are but we don't know how to read them.
This channel is heavily eurocentric so don't expect much, like this video for example, did this guy really just mention horse archer without it being about the Mongols or the Huns but about a shitty sassanid horse archer imitation ? Lol okay
Sassanians are one of the most underrated empires to even existed, they reigned for more than 400 years, thats double US's complete existence; they faced rome, it was a rather peaceful time, no one burnt cities or books, late antiquity is my favourite.
The fact that the Iranian Parthians were way more decentralized than them, had a lot of internal fighting and were surrounded by powerful enemies such as Rome and Kushans but still managed to rule over Iran for 471 years which is even more than the reign of the Sassanids (427 years) is also impressive
@@Normacly Roman biases . Yeah they "say" they did it , but suddenly their emperor died with a thunder bolt from the gods of outer space in the middle of dessert with the lowest amount of rain
Imagine a movie about surena. The guy who defeated roman army when he was outnumbered 4 to 1. He was a parthian commander, but Parthia and house sassan are mostly the same. But just imagine what Hollywood can do with this story. But sadly they never make this movie. Because it has a bad content. East beat west asses first. That's not cool with Hollywood. But they made so many movies about west beating Eastern asses, such as Alexander the great and that stupid movie 300. You see 300 however, was just a propaganda that held together the Greeks moral in fight. But you can see what Hollywood can do even with an untrue story. But back to the main point. NOBODY will make a movie about Persian history and if they make a movie about them, it's about their defeat. Even the Persians them selves wouldn't make a movie about their own history, you might ask why. Because persia or iran is ruled by a fanatic Islamic government as we speak now. Hint: islam first big achievement was capturing persia, so it means Persians were the first enemy of islam but now they are Muslim them selves. I know it's complicated but it's the truth.🤣
Lol they’ll never do that western media hates iran and Iranic history … just look at 300 … too bad really :) the west loves to demonize Iranian people because they fear iran
@@soroushtorabi98 Netflix has dropped its wokeness. It cancelled a number of woke projects like anti racist baby and have told its woke staff to stop whining or resign.
I personally find the Sasannid victories over the Gokturk empire to be the most impressive as the Gokturks ran through everyone and were the first real Turk empire. The Gokturks finally won the 3rd war against the Sassanids after teaming up with the Byzantines and Khazars but the Sassanids left their mark in history
*The erstwhile Achaemenid Immortals were heavily upgraded and modified and became known as the **_Zhayedan_** (Immortals) heavily cavalry in the Sassanian Dynasty the most powerful unit of the Zhayedan Heavy Cavelry was the **_Pushtigban-Salar_** which consists of 1000 high ranking **_Sāvāran_** heavy cavelry and was an elite military unit of the Sasanian Empire, charged with the protection of the Persian Shahenshah (King of Kings/Emperor).* *A sub-unit of pushtigban were the **_Gyan-Avspar_** , the ("sacrificers of their lives") - the best of the pushtigban. This sub-unit of pushtigban fought with distinction and zeal befitting their name during Julian's invasion of Persia in the 4th century AD.*
@@agostocobain2729 from the north-east present day Iran. The former Parthia includes present-day southern Turkmenistan and the provinces of "North Khorasan" and the northern parts of "Razavi Khorasan" in present day Iran. In the first Islamic centuries, Parthian people were Persianized and forgot the their original language. Later, during the Turkic and Mongolian invasions, a number of Turkic and Mongol tribes migrated to the northern parts of Khorasan. Also in the 16th century, to prevent the Kurdish rebellion, a number of Kurdish tribes were moved to the north of Khorasan by Abbas the Great, Therefore, today the population of Khorasan includes Persians, Kurds, Turks, etc (mostly Persians). Persian Khorasanis are considered the heirs of the ancient Parthians.
@@younesjannati2730 Wow, thank you so much. So they were Iranians from present day Northern Iran, and it was a Iranian empire that was descended from Persians. Yeah saying present day Turkmenistan is important, because people might think it had something to do with Turkmens people. Even after the ancient Iranians left the Eurasian steppes they went into present day Turkmenistan, and the ancient Iranian tribes were from there, but of course no Turkmens there at the time. This is way be before Parthian empire of course.
Maybe you could cover the persian Sparabara unit later ?( if you haven't already) The first row of the persian foot infantry to hit the enemy lines , defenders of archer lines and one of the most versatile units of the persian empires.
because we are tired of muslim thugs stealing our country and showing a really bad face of us iranians and forcing us to worship their allah even though we were proud zoroastrians so we come here to say ancient pre islam iran was the real persia and not islamic iran.
Battle of Dorylaeum between the seljuks and princes crusade is a great example for countering horse archers without your own. Forming a firm box and not letting them through, while your own archers rain fire back at them. But romans could do little with slow, divided lines with traditional tactics, thats why eastern romans actually heavily relied on mercenary and noblemen horsearchers in flanks and vanguard
@@librainvictus5660 that's the worst example you could give, the crusaders were loosing that fight, taking heavy losses, Only by the surprise attack on the seljuk flank and sjeljuk camp did the tide of that battle turn, the sjeljuk army that was smaller then just the crusader vanguard inflicted more losses on the crusaders in that battle the insufficient scouting of the sjeljuks played a role as well, that strategy you described wouldn't work against the mongols for instance look at mohi, where they even had wagons and crossbowmen surrounding the Hungarian camp & still lost / Much better example's are Arsuf, Parwan & Ain jalut horse archers can counter foot archers & crossbowmen by simply dismounting and shooting, so that's just a matter of who has more missile troops, not the ideal counter
The Moral of the story: Regardless of how strong, educated, smart, civilized, and skillful you are, even how many fights have you won, if you are not wise enough to make peace with your likes, you will erode yourself to death and only make space for lurking enemies to either steal or destroy what you have accomplished during your magnificent lifetime.
I'm a persian I truly appreciate the lvl of knowledge and research you have done for this beautiful documentary. It's completely accurate and true. There are alot of videos on UA-cam that talked about the history of my country but tried to downgrade it saying stupid racist things to mock the wonderful history of my country culturally and militarily. But what you did in this video makes me so happy and satisfied and reminds me of why I'm so proud of being a Persian. Thank you alot. Your lvl of knowledge made goosebumps all over my body. Very accurate very true very complete. Thank you.🙏🏻
@@wankawanka3053 How many Empire rule for 400 years as one of the most powerful Empire of there time like the Sassanian Empire and also in time of Shapur I the nightmare of Roman Empire Sassanian Empire was solo superpower Empire of is time
A big thanks to all the fans of Iranian history who pushed us to not only cover this topic but also provided us with tons of research support for scripts, maps, and art!
@@article1372 ah yes the Pahlavis a dynasty of two deposed useless rulers… Safavids, Salarid, Buyids Muzzafarid, Samanids Saffarifd, would have been a better choice than Pahlavis
@@Deoxsen you dont know what you are talking about. So stop yapping out of your ass. The pahlavis took a backwards, neglected and left behind, Iran in all aspects of a country, and elevated it into a modernized, industrialized plwer house. After 200 years of neglect, incompetence, indifference, and corruption by the Qajars, Pahlavis took Iran and modernized its indusries, its education, and its military. They took an Iran with a literacy rate of less than 25% and turned it around into 50%, with the addition of 10s of thousands of college graduates, whon were paid for entirely by the Shah through grants and bursaries. The Pahlavis also established Iran's first universities, modernized education and introduced modern schools and school systems, while taking the monopolybon education away from the mullahs. The pqhlavi dunasty gave women the right to vote 10 years BEFORE Swizterland, gave them equal rights, and encouraged involvement of Iran in the work force in all sectors. The Pahlavi dynasty modernized the Iranian army, navy, and airforce to become the tth biggest army in the world by 1979, while having pilots educated out of USA's military academies. For 14 years under the Pahlavis, despite a world war, and qn unjustified qnd criminal invasion of Iran by ww2 allies, the Rial did not move an inch in ezchange rates, despite rapid expansionss in economy, making it a desirable alternative to the dollar. The price of goods and services, underhis majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was kept under check for approximately the same period, showcasing the first inflation targetting of the world. Iran had its first land reforms in its history, where land was BOUGHT AT MARKET VALUE, not taken for free, from powerful clergy, and given to the farmers that worked on it, changing Iran from a pseudo fuedal, lord and peasent system country into a modern, a man and his own land one. Under the pahlavis the "army of knowledge" (sepah danesh) was created, which gave a choice to people who had to do their mandatory military service. This allowed them to choose between actual military service, or one in the knowledge corp, if they were educated enough. And wouls serce as doctors, dentists, teachers, and nurses in rural communities and villages trying to bring help and knowlwedge to the 4 corners of Iran. Pahalvis also stopped Iran from utter doom and fracture into multiple states permanently at the end of the Qahar dynasty, and prevented the sessecion and communist take over of the province of Azarbaijan. It was because of Pahlavis that a renewed interest, care, and budget were set aside for Iranian culture and history, which was what allowed Iranians to remember their legacy, their ancestory, and their histroy, instead of the "Islam first" tactic of Iranian history and culture erasure. It was under the pahlavis that national parks and natural rerserves were protected, similar to what Teddy Roosevelt did. It was because of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi that the middle east was stabalized, and a crazy warmongering aggressor like Saddam was tamed. And many more things, but I think I sufficiently made you shut the fuck up.
@@ramtin5152 its an American cultural phenomenon where mad blonde ladies rage and become annoying self centered self privilege c!@#%@ . They are called Karens. It has nothing to do with the royal house though 🤣
Love your videos invicta rich with information as always and has information that is not provided anywhere but could you make a video about mamluk units or any arab units your arab viewers will appreciate that
I don't know if you guys like this but right now some of the Bakhtiari & nomadic women in Iran practice professional horse archery, I recommend watching them, they're really graceful.
The guide track for the bows, to overdraw the bow, or shoot darts is the same idea as the Korean Pyeonjeon. The aegisal is a short arrow or bolt, shot using a longer bamboo arrow guide called the tongah in Korean archery. The tongah allows you to draw a short arrow at a full draw length with a full sized bow, it is an overdraw device. A tongah used with a bow looks somewhat similar to a crossbow. A good Korean movie about this is called "War of the Arrows."
wut ???? how that similar even possible whit names ... in farsi ( persian lang ) it names " PanjeGan" which means " panje = number 5 and the same time " the 5 fingers" ( cuz they shoots 5 dart-like arrows ) and " gan = sum of two arrows and fingers"🤩 im sure our ancestors met eachother... im sure of it
War of the Arrows was such a great depiction-it showed a less-common use of it, where the hero takes broken enemy arrows and fashions them into ad-hoc darts.
Hey Invicta, Love your work, determination and passion. However if it's possible, can you add subtitles? It would not only help me, but also other viewers too. Thanks!
Long live The Eranshahr ! Great video and so many thanks for this masterpiece history . Sassanid ( iran ) has deep history unforutnly its underrated and its deserve more love ! ( aswaran heavy cataphracts of sassanid for next pls ) love and peace from Eranshar ( iran )
Iran is a "land of empires"! It was the center of the Median Empire, Achaemenid Empire (my favorite one), the Parthian Empire, and, as the video already mentioned it, the Sassanid Empire. Among all the major Iranian Empires, however, the Achaemenid Empire is by far my favorite one! Or.. as I like to call it, the "empire of Cyrus the Great". Your channel should make a video about Cyrus and his unique and impressive empire. I really like to study the Achaemenid history, it is by far my favorite part of Iranian history. In my historical analysis, the Achaemenid Empire was unique throughout history due to five main reasons: • 1) The satrapies (provinces). The Persian satrapies, for example, would be adopted by virtually all subsequent empires, including Alexander's Macedonian Empire and the Roman Empire itself; which adopted the same administration system in its provinces. Despite being created by Cyrus (Kuruš), the administration and consolidation of the empire, however, only took place with Darius the Great (Darāyavahuš). In addition to consolidating the empire with about 26 satrapies, Darius I also created an unprecedented system of roads throughout his domain; which was also later adopted by the Romans with their roads. The Persian taxation system, it is important to highlight this, was also extremely organized and relatively fair. The richest satrapies simply paid more! The richest satrapies, for example, were Babylon (Bābiruš) and Assyria (Αθurā). According to Herodotus, the city of Babylon, which was conquered by Cyrus in 539 BC, should contribute with 1000 Babylonian talents of silver (9% in total). The satrapy of Egypt (Mudrâya), in turn, should pay 700 Babylonian talents of silver (6% in total). The poorest provinces, on the other hand, paid less. The satrapy of Yehud Medinata (Judea/Israel), for example, paid much less than Babylon and Egypt: only 350 Babylonian talents of silver (3.1% in total). • 2) Its architectural legacy! The construction of Persepolis (Pārsa) in 515 BC, for example, was not only intended to symbolize the glory of Darius' reign; but it was also intended to "symbolize" the glory of Cyrus' Achaemenid Empire. Both Persepolis and Pasagardae became an inspiration for future architectural works throughout the world. • 3) The Achaemenid Empire was the first empire based on morality. Cyrus' policy of respecting and preserving the religions and traditions of the peoples under his rule, for example, was simply unprecedented until that historical period. Due to the influence of Zoroastrianism, slavery was simply abolished during Cyrus' reign. In Cyrus' view, slavery was an affront against Ahura-Mazda. Persia, in fact, was the birthplace of Human Rights. • 4) Cyrus transformed the Persians, which were a submissive and vassal people under Median sovereignty, into the ruling people of the Iranian Plateau. Cyrus' revolution against Media was one of the first internal revolutions in history. • 5) Cyrus laid the foundation for all subsequent empires of Antiquity. After his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, Cyrus, for the first time in history, unified the whole known world under his rule.
Though Zoroastrianism forbade slavery, the practice still persisted to a degree. After the Ionian revolt, the Persians deported a large number of Greeks to Bactria.
@@darnellgrape-drinker4916 deportation is not the same as slavery, it wasn't uncommon for Achaemenid kings to relocate populations in their empire, but this didn't amount to slavery.
@@darnellgrape-drinker4916 that may very well be true tbh, as you know the saka did reside on the furthest border (modern day Afghanistan) and we're quite autonomous to a large degree.
Truly fascinating! A suggestion- the Redshanks, Scottish mercenaries from the Scottish highlands and western isles who fought in Ireland. Interesting, some were send to still be wearing chain mail, long obsolete elsewhere.
Minor correction: "Spah" is not pronounced as "espah". The correct pronunciation is "sapah" which means "army". This is where the word for the individual soldier "sapahi" comes from.
Sadge the arabs burned their libraries across the empire ,can't imagine how much more artefacts, books and images would be left to give us more details about their traditions and life style. But as always ,you have done an amazing work 💙
@@x1_catalyst_x174 partially currect, but if they survived alot of those knowledge and pieces would reach other corners of the world, europe and china. another factor is that the mongols did’t necessarily targeted libraries and cultural heritage their conquests were often a form of revenge against certain cities ,even after their conquest they had’t any interest to transform the language, culture or the region of the nations they conquered as long as the rest of the surviving cities stayed at their side, yes there were more cities turned to ashes during the mongol coquets but alot of cities and villages were unharmed meaning what knowledge they kept in their libraries and even homes had survived. Now the difference was that the Arabs were constantly in search of historical, cultural and religious matterials in cities and even in homes, there been anti-pagan parties (despite the Zoroastrians were’t pagans nonetheless) going to cities villages even between the local nomadic tribes removing what ever they had from the past, basicly an entire Muslimization meant that no human survived in those conquered countries were't able to know anything else other than Islam and by it’s side the arabic culture. birth of muhammed was to mean the birth of history for those were becoming muslims so if you already know alot about those conquest you will see a huge diference between those two, but sadly non could be true, their destiny was one not preferred by nobody.
The arabs were kinda adaptive back then (unfortuntlly they arnt now), they liked new stuff, the arabs used and adopted every single detail of the sassanian empire to run thier new empire,they hired persian moderaters craftsmen builders scholars and book keepers, but it s most likely they burnt zoroastarian books becuase relgious tolerance was not what they were known for.
@@robinderoos1166 , yeah now that infantry weapons have been upgraded cavalry and even chariots for heavier weapons systems might be useful in some cases. they could even carry their own modern days birds of prey as drones as well. Napoleonic era light artillery and weapons systems could be included. Less cost in fuel for the mobile troops for sure.
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Horse archery should be an Olympic sport
Is it not?
@@INVICTA63 no
Yes.... 1000%
Why is ski shooting an Olympic sport when horse archery is not?
@@rukeyazu8669 because barbarians are allowed in the olympics nowdays
I love the history of iran! Such rich culture Horse archers/ Kataphracts have always been an interesting topic to me
Iran has a very long and fascinating history. We could probably learn of it for the rest of our lives, and not know too much of it.
The current appearance of Islamic leadership bothers me some, but what do I really know? The future will show how it works out.
I believe in the Iranian people, I believe they are mostly OK and would be interesting to meet. On the other hand our respective governments, not so much.
I will leave this earth with much hope for the future, and hope that people can put greed and war behind us all and live in peace!
The level of skill and precision they possessed was astounding.
Sassanids are one of the most interesting powers in the Dark Ages, in my opinion! Great to see them getting covered!
For the Iranian people Sassanid era was golden age of Iranian history
That was dark age for Europe.
"Dark ages" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 only for the barbarians living in caves in the west
@@mortache the term "dark age" was use because there is not much writing about those time, not because the people at that time was barbarian
@@chickknightgreenleaf820 the word dark age was used by self-aggrandizing enlightenment era Europeans to make themselves feel like the pinnacle of human existence. They also smeared lead and arsenic on their face, truly cultured 🤣🤣🤣.
Its true that the western Rome became poor as fuck as the rich started owning everything and didn't pay any taxes and the "barbarians", who they treated like shit, rebelled and took over shit. After Goths took over, centralized governments collapsed for about 200 years and there was no big public projects. But at least from Charlemagne's time the "dark age" did not even exist in western Europe. Maybe in some fringes like Scandinavia it would be true
The Sassanid Empire was one of the greatest and last Empires in Ancient Persia! Is very sad what happened to them!
And now iranians are busy fighting the mullahs for freedom 🤦♂️
@@parsarustami774please stop your cringe
@@JonathanRivera-dj6mm not persia
. Please. There were No Good Gius back Then. Too Us today they have all Committed Atrocities. Torture, Genocide was part of all Our Ancestors ways.
@@Kurdish20226. That comment was for You. Chiklis out. All of our Ancestors committed atrocities.
Most people don't realize that there is a difference between the shooting styles of the Eastern step, and the West. I was surprised, and delighted, to see that your animators we're aware of this difference. And made the appropriate changes. This shows a level of detail that is seldom seen. Good job. And.. Excellent video
Shut up.
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@@singlefather6221 🥵
Loved this episode. I'm very glad to see content from ancient Persia. ❤️
Thanks. Please more on Persian battle units.
A few words about depictions of Iranians.
As an Iranian, I thank Invicta for paying attention to the history of Iran. Not because I consider Iran to be better, in any sense, of other countries, but because Iran has played a central role in shaping of our world (especially from 6th century BC to 7th century AD), and without studying its history, it is impossible to understand even the present time in a tenable manner. However, western depictions of Iranians in history are often stereotyped and inaccurate. The problem can easily be seen when one juxtaposes depictions of Greeks and Romans with depictions of Iranians: The former people are often glorified and shown based on good artistic works, while the latter are often denigrated and shown using sketchy and ugly drawings without taking into consideration the various historical periods and the manifold of customs (often mixing e.g. Achaemenid clothing and armor with those of the Sas(s)anids!). This video is surely a huge improvement, but is also a bit stereotyped when it comes to clothing and armor, and inaccurate with regards to the maps of various historical periods. This kind of issues can easily be solved by looking at academic works such as "Rome's Enemies (3): Parthians and Sassanid Persians" and the two volumes of "The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars" (Both are easily accessible on the internet). Again, I must stress that this video is a huge improvement, and I am sure it can contributes to rectify the widespread misconceptions about Iranians.
Cheers
should listen to hardcore history podcast
My sisters husband is Iranian and likes history much. We talk quite a lot about the conflicts between Greece and Persians in the ancient era. It is kind of interesting to see the difference in how they are perceived. From his perspective the battle of Thermopylae etc are more of a minor nuisance in the history of Persia, while for most europeans it is seen as a major event with great value for the europeans.
As a Swede I can relate to this difference in perspective, because there is a similar thing in our history. During the Swedish empire the swedish army lost the battle in Fehrbellin. For Swedish history it is a minor battle, almost a skirmish, which doesn't really matter. But in german history that battle is seen as the start of the unification process of Germany and the birth of the german army.
@@Kramplarv sasanians is childrens of scityians parthians aramaic iranic arya avestan greater iran
As a Greek I feel huge Respect for Persians and their great past .A great civilization, so important for all the humanity. Specially Sassanids and the religion of Zarathustra is another more convince for The great Persian past. All our love from Greece
@@VV-wi6ir I have also great admiration and respect for the Greeks. I have been to Greece and I was surprised how similiar the Greeks and the Iranians are. This is in contrast to the picture that is prevalent in the “West”, i.e. Western Europe and North America. In my view the continuity between the modern “Western Civilisation “ (as oppsed to the “Orient”) and ancient Greece is a fabricatin of the West. Iran as a represntative of the “Orient” is much closer to Greece than Western academics are willing to admit. Cheers
What I would give for an episode on the Thracian Peltast or Cretan Archers. However such an amazing video exploring the militaries of the east and greatly opened my eyes to their might as well as their magnificence. Horse mounted archers and javelin throwers have always been a favorite of mine as well as irregular light infantry warriors. This video was great truly and is precisely why I will remain a life time subscriber! Good job guys!
thanks! It was really awesome to explore another civilization which I knew very little about. I certainly hope to do more!
Thank you "Invicta" for working out such great masterpiece!
Please make a video about "Sassanid/Parthian Cataphracts" and their historical ancestors.
Ahhh yes! The Sassanids! Aka the Make Persia Great Again dynasty.
Agreed, Refreshing
There was no Persia. Iran
@@mazandarani8435 Bro Persia is how the ancient Greeks used to called the original Pars province bcz both the Achaemenids and later the Sassanids came from Pars province and created the Parsi Empire
Greeks called Pars as Persis and the Parsi as Persia
My favorite era in all history is the Sassanid era. Majestic, powerful, just, and technologically advanced! I consider them the culmination of the Indo European heritage.
Last time I was this early, Arabs were still paying tribute to Sassanid Shahs
lol Waht>?
@The Philosoraptor people seem to forget that islam was around in the 7th century and not since 200BC lol
Still got rekt by odaenathus(اذينة)
@@rabroub2052 everyone eventually gets rekt by something civilization come and go
Odaenthus' story is Romam propaganda in a time where they had lost all "honor" in their wars with the Sasanids. Most of what is said about him in the sources is pure BS.
this was a refreshing documentary. the "west" is very interesting and everything, but overly exploited, there are already countless documentaries there, and seeing you guys venture more into the east and into africa has been quite a pleasant change; i would urge you to carry on with that trend, and also add ancient america, specifically meso and south america. South american history is woefully underappreciated and unknown to the rest of the world, and to themselves, and it would be wonderful to work against that. thank you
100%. It wouldn’t likely fit into the “Units of History” theme, but there’s so much fascinating stuff about the states and societies of the Americas. I would *love* more about the agriculture, warfare and statebuilding in the Andes leading up to the Incan expansion.
South American history is boring as s**t. PD: I'm Argentinian.
They already covered some of the more well know pre colonial warriors. However it's quite difficult as there are just so little to no written or otherwise clear documentations.
Or more likely there are but we don't know how to read them.
@@sirBrouwer was going to say this, im interested in maori history but there's so little written it's hard.
This channel is heavily eurocentric so don't expect much, like this video for example, did this guy really just mention horse archer without it being about the Mongols or the Huns but about a shitty sassanid horse archer imitation ? Lol okay
Sassanians are one of the most underrated empires to even existed, they reigned for more than 400 years, thats double US's complete existence; they faced rome, it was a rather peaceful time, no one burnt cities or books, late antiquity is my favourite.
Sassanians are based
The fact that the Iranian Parthians were way more decentralized than them, had a lot of internal fighting and were surrounded by powerful enemies such as Rome and Kushans but still managed to rule over Iran for 471 years which is even more than the reign of the Sassanids (427 years) is also impressive
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Ahhhhh....the Romans sacked i.e. burned down the Sassanians's main capital twice.
@@Normacly Roman biases .
Yeah they "say" they did it , but suddenly their emperor died with a thunder bolt from the gods of outer space in the middle of dessert with the lowest amount of rain
Thanks!
Would love to see a netflix/hbo series following a Sassanid warrior
Imagine a movie about surena. The guy who defeated roman army when he was outnumbered 4 to 1. He was a parthian commander, but Parthia and house sassan are mostly the same.
But just imagine what Hollywood can do with this story.
But sadly they never make this movie. Because it has a bad content. East beat west asses first. That's not cool with Hollywood. But they made so many movies about west beating Eastern asses, such as Alexander the great and that stupid movie 300.
You see 300 however, was just a propaganda that held together the Greeks moral in fight. But you can see what Hollywood can do even with an untrue story.
But back to the main point. NOBODY will make a movie about Persian history and if they make a movie about them, it's about their defeat.
Even the Persians them selves wouldn't make a movie about their own history, you might ask why. Because persia or iran is ruled by a fanatic Islamic government as we speak now. Hint: islam first big achievement was capturing persia, so it means Persians were the first enemy of islam but now they are Muslim them selves. I know it's complicated but it's the truth.🤣
@@yousefzayabi37 indeed it is sad
Oh please no , not Netflix , or the shahanshah will be a transexual black guy
Lol they’ll never do that western media hates iran and Iranic history … just look at 300 … too bad really :) the west loves to demonize Iranian people because they fear iran
@@soroushtorabi98 Netflix has dropped its wokeness. It cancelled a number of woke projects like anti racist baby and have told its woke staff to stop whining or resign.
Loved this video, can't wait for more videos on sassanid armies
I personally find the Sasannid victories over the Gokturk empire to be the most impressive as the Gokturks ran through everyone and were the first real Turk empire. The Gokturks finally won the 3rd war against the Sassanids after teaming up with the Byzantines and Khazars but the Sassanids left their mark in history
*The erstwhile Achaemenid Immortals were heavily upgraded and modified and became known as the **_Zhayedan_** (Immortals) heavily cavalry in the Sassanian Dynasty the most powerful unit of the Zhayedan Heavy Cavelry was the **_Pushtigban-Salar_** which consists of 1000 high ranking **_Sāvāran_** heavy cavelry and was an elite military unit of the Sasanian Empire, charged with the protection of the Persian Shahenshah (King of Kings/Emperor).*
*A sub-unit of pushtigban were the **_Gyan-Avspar_** , the ("sacrificers of their lives") - the best of the pushtigban. This sub-unit of pushtigban fought with distinction and zeal befitting their name during Julian's invasion of Persia in the 4th century AD.*
Were Parhians Iranians from present day Iran, or were they Iranians from Afghanistan
Mi gam tu UA-cam che juri Italic mi nevisi?
@@agostocobain2729 from the north-east present day Iran. The former Parthia includes present-day southern Turkmenistan and the provinces of "North Khorasan" and the northern parts of "Razavi Khorasan" in present day Iran.
In the first Islamic centuries, Parthian people were Persianized and forgot the their original language. Later, during the Turkic and Mongolian invasions, a number of Turkic and Mongol tribes migrated to the northern parts of Khorasan. Also in the 16th century, to prevent the Kurdish rebellion, a number of Kurdish tribes were moved to the north of Khorasan by Abbas the Great, Therefore, today the population of Khorasan includes Persians, Kurds, Turks, etc (mostly Persians). Persian Khorasanis are considered the heirs of the ancient Parthians.
@@younesjannati2730 Wow, thank you so much. So they were Iranians from present day Northern Iran, and it was a Iranian empire that was descended from Persians. Yeah saying present day Turkmenistan is important, because people might think it had something to do with Turkmens people. Even after the ancient Iranians left the Eurasian steppes they went into present day Turkmenistan, and the ancient Iranian tribes were from there, but of course no Turkmens there at the time. This is way be before Parthian empire of course.
Romans: Ha! How much damage can a bunch of horsey boys with bows really do?
Persians: And we took that personally.
Maybe you could cover the persian Sparabara unit later ?( if you haven't already)
The first row of the persian foot infantry to hit the enemy lines , defenders of archer lines and one of the most versatile units of the persian empires.
As an Iranian, be prepared for the Persians that will spam the comment section faster then our ancestors spammed arrows, I have spoken for my people.
😂😂😂😅👍👍
May Ahura Bless you my brother
because we are tired of muslim thugs stealing our country and showing a really bad face of us iranians and forcing us to worship their allah even though we were proud zoroastrians so we come here to say ancient pre islam iran was the real persia and not islamic iran.
Thank you so much for covering Sassanid military.
I would love to see a full video on the full sassanid army description as that is a force you don't tend to see.
You should really make a video on how their enemies, especially the Romans, adapted to fighting these horse archers.
by ultimately having their own horse archers
Battle of Dorylaeum between the seljuks and princes crusade is a great example for countering horse archers without your own. Forming a firm box and not letting them through, while your own archers rain fire back at them. But romans could do little with slow, divided lines with traditional tactics, thats why eastern romans actually heavily relied on mercenary and noblemen horsearchers in flanks and vanguard
Have in stuff like their Roman Cataphracts vid
@@librainvictus5660 that's the worst example you could give, the crusaders were loosing that fight, taking heavy losses, Only by the surprise attack on the seljuk flank and sjeljuk camp did the tide of that battle turn, the sjeljuk army that was smaller then just the crusader vanguard inflicted more losses on the crusaders in that battle
the insufficient scouting of the sjeljuks played a role as well, that strategy you described wouldn't work against the mongols for instance look at mohi, where they even had wagons and crossbowmen surrounding the Hungarian camp & still lost
/ Much better example's are Arsuf, Parwan & Ain jalut
horse archers can counter foot archers & crossbowmen by simply dismounting and shooting, so that's just a matter of who has more missile troops, not the ideal counter
Wasn't Ain Jalut Mongols vs Mamelukes?
You should cover the sassanid elite royal bodyguard; the Pushtigban.
The Moral of the story: Regardless of how strong, educated, smart, civilized, and skillful you are, even how many fights have you won, if you are not wise enough to make peace with your likes, you will erode yourself to death and only make space for lurking enemies to either steal or destroy what you have accomplished during your magnificent lifetime.
Facts
Hehehehehehehe
literally united states right now
cc: Khosrow the 2nd
Burning Ctesiphon goes chop chop
I'm a persian
I truly appreciate the lvl of knowledge and research you have done for this beautiful documentary.
It's completely accurate and true.
There are alot of videos on UA-cam that talked about the history of my country but tried to downgrade it saying stupid racist things to mock the wonderful history of my country culturally and militarily.
But what you did in this video makes me so happy and satisfied and reminds me of why I'm so proud of being a Persian.
Thank you alot.
Your lvl of knowledge made goosebumps all over my body.
Very accurate very true very complete.
Thank you.🙏🏻
thousands years later seljuks followed by ottomans and then french had also their light cavalry named *Sipahi*
Sipahis are still very relevant in modern Middle Eastern warfare. The West calls them IRGC, but they call themselves sepahis.
I very much enjoyed this video, especially the tactics they would employ.
Sassanian Empire one of the best Empire in history
How exactly what was so impactful about it
@@wankawanka3053 they had cool looking armor
@@wankawanka3053 How many Empire rule for 400 years as one of the most powerful Empire of there time like the Sassanian Empire and also in time of Shapur I the nightmare of Roman Empire Sassanian Empire was solo superpower Empire of is time
Ok dude let's don't be punfars
@@SomeGuy5555 ابله پانفارس وجود نداره پانترک هست که وجود داره
Ty fore this great video and your time its so heart breaking to see how great we was in before
Achaemenid, parthians, sassanids, were the best iranian dynastys. Thank you for your hard work invicta🙏❤
A big thanks to all the fans of Iranian history who pushed us to not only cover this topic but also provided us with tons of research support for scripts, maps, and art!
and the Pahlavis and the Afshars. Do not forget these 2
@@InvictaHistory bless you for actually using the term "Iranian", and not the greek version, Persian"
@@article1372 ah yes the Pahlavis a dynasty of two deposed useless rulers… Safavids, Salarid, Buyids Muzzafarid, Samanids Saffarifd, would have been a better choice than Pahlavis
@@Deoxsen you dont know what you are talking about. So stop yapping out of your ass.
The pahlavis took a backwards, neglected and left behind, Iran in all aspects of a country, and elevated it into a modernized, industrialized plwer house. After 200 years of neglect, incompetence, indifference, and corruption by the Qajars, Pahlavis took Iran and modernized its indusries, its education, and its military. They took an Iran with a literacy rate of less than 25% and turned it around into 50%, with the addition of 10s of thousands of college graduates, whon were paid for entirely by the Shah through grants and bursaries. The Pahlavis also established Iran's first universities, modernized education and introduced modern schools and school systems, while taking the monopolybon education away from the mullahs.
The pqhlavi dunasty gave women the right to vote 10 years BEFORE Swizterland, gave them equal rights, and encouraged involvement of Iran in the work force in all sectors.
The Pahlavi dynasty modernized the Iranian army, navy, and airforce to become the tth biggest army in the world by 1979, while having pilots educated out of USA's military academies.
For 14 years under the Pahlavis, despite a world war, and qn unjustified qnd criminal invasion of Iran by ww2 allies, the Rial did not move an inch in ezchange rates, despite rapid expansionss in economy, making it a desirable alternative to the dollar.
The price of goods and services, underhis majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was kept under check for approximately the same period, showcasing the first inflation targetting of the world.
Iran had its first land reforms in its history, where land was BOUGHT AT MARKET VALUE, not taken for free, from powerful clergy, and given to the farmers that worked on it, changing Iran from a pseudo fuedal, lord and peasent system country into a modern, a man and his own land one.
Under the pahlavis the "army of knowledge" (sepah danesh) was created, which gave a choice to people who had to do their mandatory military service. This allowed them to choose between actual military service, or one in the knowledge corp, if they were educated enough. And wouls serce as doctors, dentists, teachers, and nurses in rural communities and villages trying to bring help and knowlwedge to the 4 corners of Iran.
Pahalvis also stopped Iran from utter doom and fracture into multiple states permanently at the end of the Qahar dynasty, and prevented the sessecion and communist take over of the province of Azarbaijan.
It was because of Pahlavis that a renewed interest, care, and budget were set aside for Iranian culture and history, which was what allowed Iranians to remember their legacy, their ancestory, and their histroy, instead of the "Islam first" tactic of Iranian history and culture erasure.
It was under the pahlavis that national parks and natural rerserves were protected, similar to what Teddy Roosevelt did.
It was because of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi that the middle east was stabalized, and a crazy warmongering aggressor like Saddam was tamed.
And many more things, but I think I sufficiently made you shut the fuck up.
Very nice video, please make a video about sassanid's cataphracts or sassanid pushtigbans. ty❤️💛💜
as an iranian i really enjoyed this episode. top
All will tremble before the House of Karen!
I demand to see your King!
@@Taistelukalkkuna *ShahanShah
I play with them in CK2.
Wow, Invicta! You should do a video about a Mexica or Mayan unit, Greetings from Mexico!
Art of your videos are getting so crazyly good!
As for me Sassanids are one of the most interesting powers in the Dark Ages, thank you for video!
Man I just couldn’t let it pass by : House of Karen 🤣🤣🤣🤣. The emperor of Sassanids must have a hard time dealing with them huh
It pronounced kuren. Like the word up.
But actually I think they were the most troublesome one for house sassan. So I think you're right 😂
LOL. Nailed it 🤣🤣
Omg,😂😂😂😂
Sorry i don't get it
What's this whole house of Karen thing in the comments about ?
@@ramtin5152 its an American cultural phenomenon where mad blonde ladies rage and become annoying self centered self privilege c!@#%@ . They are called Karens. It has nothing to do with the royal house though 🤣
I really appreciate your contents on iran. Your videos are top notch🔥
So useful and informative lecture. Thank you so much...!
Love your videos invicta rich with information as always and has information that is not provided anywhere but could you make a video about mamluk units or any arab units your arab viewers will appreciate that
Shapur the first is the most gangster man in ancient history
thank you so much for this video
Please make more persian content (more cavalry content would also be great).
Finally! My favourite persian dynasty!
Same!
The Karens came from a long line dating back to the Sassanid empire 4:41. Descendants of one of the great sassanid houses. 🤣
It's pronounced kuren. Like the word up.
Complaining women
Sassy Karens
It's Karan not karen. This video says it worng.
I am fluent in Persian language and want to thank you for your good and correct pronunciation of Persian words.
Iranians the first to rode in the steppe and the first to civilize beautiful country rich history Proud to be Iranian
wow cant lie i used to think sassanids were not as good as this but this video has made me greatly change my mind thanks for it
In reality. They was greater than this video
A great documentary as always 👏 👍
I've actually been waiting for this :)
*The "Asavaran" were legendary* 🙌
Excellent video.
Damn! Beautiful content. I love you! Keep it up please. More Sassanid videos for us
Next up, Sassanid heavy cavalry/ Aswaran👍👍
As always, invicta flawless work. Literally the best history channel in UA-cam Period !!!
Very interesting and complete video❤🙏🏻
Please make more videos about Sasanian and Parthian periods
Please do more videos on Iran I love this
Amazing!!! Thanks for your great historical insights. How about making an edition about Persian knights! I’m sure it would be mind blowing.
the condottieri of the 15th century would be a great addition to this amazing series
I don't know if you guys like this but right now some of the Bakhtiari & nomadic women in Iran practice professional horse archery, I recommend watching them, they're really graceful.
Thank you 🙏🏽 more about on my beloved Iran-shahr 🇮🇷
The guide track for the bows, to overdraw the bow, or shoot darts is the same idea as the Korean Pyeonjeon. The aegisal is a short arrow or bolt, shot using a longer bamboo arrow guide called the tongah in Korean archery. The tongah allows you to draw a short arrow at a full draw length with a full sized bow, it is an overdraw device. A tongah used with a bow looks somewhat similar to a crossbow. A good Korean movie about this is called "War of the Arrows."
Like a sniper
wut ???? how that similar even possible whit names ... in farsi ( persian lang ) it names " PanjeGan" which means " panje = number 5 and the same time " the 5 fingers" ( cuz they shoots 5 dart-like arrows ) and " gan = sum of two arrows and fingers"🤩 im sure our ancestors met eachother... im sure of it
War of the Arrows was such a great depiction-it showed a less-common use of it, where the hero takes broken enemy arrows and fashions them into ad-hoc darts.
Can you do please make video about all the Sassanian army units.
Excellent Video. Very interesting :)
Hey Invicta,
Love your work, determination and passion. However if it's possible, can you add subtitles? It would not only help me, but also other viewers too. Thanks!
Well Said
I fully agree with you on that.
Do the auto generated captions not work for you?
@@joe300zx Those are pretty accurate.
@@joe300zx those are hot garbage lol
Please also make a video about those super heavy cavalry you mentioned
Its good to see more content about Sassanid Persian empire. 💚🤍❤️
it's good to see the Sassanids get some love, thank you for making the effort to research and produce this video
hello we iranian appreciate you for this video💯
Long live The Eranshahr ! Great video and so many thanks for this masterpiece history . Sassanid ( iran ) has deep history unforutnly its underrated and its deserve more love ! ( aswaran heavy cataphracts of sassanid for next pls ) love and peace from Eranshar ( iran )
Your pre-Islamic Iran documentaries are the most interesting among all your videos
You always manage to make history sound even cooler than it already is
Excellent! Thanks for such a great documentary.
It was excellent. I always wanted yo know everything about "Savaran"
Anorher video on heavy cataphracts "Sāvāran" is on the way
Fantastic documentary
0:12 CRASSUS! THEY'RE NOT RUNNING OUT OF ARROWS!
18:03 this reminded me about pike and shot tactic but instead of pike infantry and gunpowder weapons, it's horse lancer and horse archer
Can you please do the Scottish Highlander, Cataphracts from other Eras (Hellenistic Period, Stepps), Creten Archers or Preatorian Guard
Great as always. Thanks for the video
New Sub Great Content
Great job invicta
Amazing; thank you!
It was great to see Eran Ud Turan featured! :)
Iran is a "land of empires"! It was the center of the Median Empire, Achaemenid Empire (my favorite one), the Parthian Empire, and, as the video already mentioned it, the Sassanid Empire.
Among all the major Iranian Empires, however, the Achaemenid Empire is by far my favorite one! Or.. as I like to call it, the "empire of Cyrus the Great". Your channel should make a video about Cyrus and his unique and impressive empire. I really like to study the Achaemenid history, it is by far my favorite part of Iranian history.
In my historical analysis, the Achaemenid Empire was unique throughout history due to five main reasons:
• 1) The satrapies (provinces). The Persian satrapies, for example, would be adopted by virtually all subsequent empires, including Alexander's Macedonian Empire and the Roman Empire itself; which adopted the same administration system in its provinces. Despite being created by Cyrus (Kuruš), the administration and consolidation of the empire, however, only took place with Darius the Great (Darāyavahuš). In addition to consolidating the empire with about 26 satrapies, Darius I also created an unprecedented system of roads throughout his domain; which was also later adopted by the Romans with their roads.
The Persian taxation system, it is important to highlight this, was also extremely organized and relatively fair. The richest satrapies simply paid more! The richest satrapies, for example, were Babylon (Bābiruš) and Assyria (Αθurā). According to Herodotus, the city of Babylon, which was conquered by Cyrus in 539 BC, should contribute with 1000 Babylonian talents of silver (9% in total). The satrapy of Egypt (Mudrâya), in turn, should pay 700 Babylonian talents of silver (6% in total). The poorest provinces, on the other hand, paid less. The satrapy of Yehud Medinata (Judea/Israel), for example, paid much less than Babylon and Egypt: only 350 Babylonian talents of silver (3.1% in total).
• 2) Its architectural legacy! The construction of Persepolis (Pārsa) in 515 BC, for example, was not only intended to symbolize the glory of Darius' reign; but it was also intended to "symbolize" the glory of Cyrus' Achaemenid Empire. Both Persepolis and Pasagardae became an inspiration for future architectural works throughout the world.
• 3) The Achaemenid Empire was the first empire based on morality. Cyrus' policy of respecting and preserving the religions and traditions of the peoples under his rule, for example, was simply unprecedented until that historical period. Due to the influence of Zoroastrianism, slavery was simply abolished during Cyrus' reign. In Cyrus' view, slavery was an affront against Ahura-Mazda. Persia, in fact, was the birthplace of Human Rights.
• 4) Cyrus transformed the Persians, which were a submissive and vassal people under Median sovereignty, into the ruling people of the Iranian Plateau. Cyrus' revolution against Media was one of the first internal revolutions in history.
• 5) Cyrus laid the foundation for all subsequent empires of Antiquity. After his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, Cyrus, for the first time in history, unified the whole known world under his rule.
Though Zoroastrianism forbade slavery, the practice still persisted to a degree. After the Ionian revolt, the Persians deported a large number of Greeks to Bactria.
@@darnellgrape-drinker4916 Exactly! The ban on slavery was strongest during Cyrus' reign.
@@darnellgrape-drinker4916 deportation is not the same as slavery, it wasn't uncommon for Achaemenid kings to relocate populations in their empire, but this didn't amount to slavery.
@@easthurricane I'm sure the the Saka under Persian rule also practiced slavery.
@@darnellgrape-drinker4916 that may very well be true tbh, as you know the saka did reside on the furthest border (modern day Afghanistan) and we're quite autonomous to a large degree.
Great Job. Thanks
awesome video as always.. I'm learning more about my ppl from UA-cam than I did in history class back home.
Very informative and interesting. Thanks for producing and sharing... Impressive men of honor.
Love your channel ❤
The amount of accurate detail is insane in this documentary !!!
Well done honestly 👏
hello.i am Iranian
thank you for your video
Thank you for covering Iranian history and units! Love the high quality content as usual!
Truly fascinating! A suggestion- the Redshanks, Scottish mercenaries from the Scottish highlands and western isles who fought in Ireland. Interesting, some were send to still be wearing chain mail, long obsolete elsewhere.
Minor correction: "Spah" is not pronounced as "espah".
The correct pronunciation is "sapah" which means "army". This is where the word for the individual soldier "sapahi" comes from.
And sepoy in india, also comes from that word.
Actually "espah" is a more original pronounciation, its Middle Persian form, while "Sepāh" is more modern/New Persian pronounciation.
I really enjoyed this
Please make a video of Persian cataphract 🌹🌹
The battle at Ctesiphon looked pretty similar to the way things went down at Carrhae.
Sadge the arabs burned their libraries across the empire ,can't imagine how much more artefacts, books and images would be left to give us more details about their traditions and life style.
But as always ,you have done an amazing work 💙
Not only Arabs the Mongols too, it's so unfortunate
This is one of the reasons iranians hate arabs. just like how greeks hate turks.
@@x1_catalyst_x174 partially currect, but if they survived alot of those knowledge and pieces would reach other corners of the world, europe and china. another factor is that the mongols did’t necessarily targeted libraries and cultural heritage their conquests were often a form of revenge against certain cities ,even after their conquest they had’t any interest to transform the language, culture or the region of the nations they conquered as long as the rest of the surviving cities stayed at their side, yes there were more cities turned to ashes during the mongol coquets but alot of cities and villages were unharmed meaning what knowledge they kept in their libraries and even homes had survived.
Now the difference was that the Arabs were constantly in search of historical, cultural and religious matterials in cities and even in homes, there been anti-pagan parties (despite the Zoroastrians were’t pagans nonetheless) going to cities villages even between the local nomadic tribes removing what ever they had from the past, basicly an entire Muslimization meant that no human survived in those conquered countries were't able to know anything else other than Islam and by it’s side the arabic culture.
birth of muhammed was to mean the birth of history for those were becoming muslims so if you already know alot about those conquest you will see a huge diference between those two, but sadly non could be true, their destiny was one not preferred by nobody.
They didn't , The muslims used the knowledge to develop their golden age .
The arabs were kinda adaptive back then (unfortuntlly they arnt now), they liked new stuff, the arabs used and adopted every single detail of the sassanian empire to run thier new empire,they hired persian moderaters craftsmen builders scholars and book keepers, but it s most likely they burnt zoroastarian books becuase relgious tolerance was not what they were known for.
Geat video! Can you make similar about Sassanid war elephants?
Who would've thought that multiple people on horse with missiles were so devastating
Crassus discovered it lol
I now picture mongols riding down a russian tank column with RPG's....
@@robinderoos1166 , yeah now that infantry weapons have been upgraded cavalry and even chariots for heavier weapons systems might be useful in some cases. they could even carry their own modern days birds of prey as drones as well. Napoleonic era light artillery and weapons systems could be included. Less cost in fuel for the mobile troops for sure.
@@Wolfen443 are you actually being serious
@@Wolfen443 thats the dυmbest thing ive ever heard
Thanks for such content
Long live our Persian history and heritage