Don’t forget he basically said with an excuse too “Yeah… I did tons more than this, but it’s alot dude, not even I’d read it”. basically saying “I did too much to write about, so I won’t write it, but I’m awesome.”.
As always what a great video. As an Iranian, I have to admit that I have learned more about Iran's history from your videos than from history books in school. Keep the good work man.❤❤❤
Iran!!!! I feel embarrassed to say this but i only recently found out the truth about iran and it's people. I just want to visit iran in my lifetime. It's so beautiful and the people are so diverse and kind. I have no specific point to my comment, i just wanted to shout yay for Iran's people
Your action of educating about human history that isn’t shared in most history classes honors the people of the past, present, and future, thank you for everything 🙏
Even if you could call the Torah/bible/Quran evidence, it’s poor. For example, if the bible is egregiously faulty then the main character’s existence is likely fantasy. If the existence of Yahweh/Allah is a fiction (Muslims believe in the first five books of the Old Testament) then the god man/prophet Jesus cannot stand, nor any Abrahamic Prophet, such as Muhammad. Faith based on the contents of the bible/Quran is worthless for the following reasons… Of the Canaanite gods. El was the top god (sort of Roman Saturn) Ba’al (Jupiter) was next, then down the line was the war god Yahweh (Mars). The Jews nicked him and made him the creator. All nonsense. The first line of the bible is clearly incorrect. The Earth was formed at least 9.8 billion years after the heavens. How did the creator get that wrong? And, the rest of the creation is wrong. It’s as if an ancient ignorant tribe wrote it all by themselves, no god to help. There are no waters above the firmament. Heaven isn’t up there either, we’ve been there. The tribes of the Middle East wouldn’t have known oceans would be frozen but for the heat of the sun. Yet, in the biblical account, water filled the oceans and outer space, all with no sun. The light that made up the day was created before the sun. The ancients had no concept it was the sun that caused day and night onto a rotating Earth. The moon isn’t a light. It’s fiction by an ignorant tribe with no access to a god creator. Adam was made from dirt by magic and he, this god, forgot about Eve, an afterthought. so not an all knowing and wise god then? Snakes and donkeys talk, nonsense fiction, right up there with Harry Potter, though JK Rowling was clearly a better writer with fewer continuity errors. This god set up Eve by placing this magic apple within her reach, before she knew right from wrong. Then punished humanity thereafter. What a vicious god, if not a fictional one. Nonsense fiction, by an ignorant ancient people writing about their mythology, their nation’s origins, steeped in the mists of the past, just the same as the Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures write about their make believe gods who were equally fervently worshipped. Inanna, the dying and rising goddess was such an example. But many more dying and rising gods in the lexicon of ancient myths. Virgin births were pretty common too. Adam and Eve’s children (as Eve was a clone of Adam) and grandchildren (as Cain, Able and Seth only had Eve to produce offspring or with their unknown sisters) could only have been produced by incest, then double incest, according to the biblical account. But, as Eve was a clone of Adam, there would be no genetic diversity. Such a lack of diversity would have meant the death of the human species, ask the Hapsburgs. But then, their god wouldn’t have known about genetics? Of course not. The Exodus apparently didn’t happen according to all evidence, acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists who have tried to find it. The Egyptians never wrote of their army being swallowed by the sea. Mosses may never existed. There is a massive amount of genocide in the bible by a god who failed to get the locals to behave. Genocide because the Israelites needed a land to make home. If a creator of the universe and humans could have just thought a new land, a new island, south of Cyprus, it would have appeared. Easy for a god, not so for an ancient tribe to pull off? Then, this god could have told these others how to behave and punished individuals, if that’s what was needed. But no, he went straight to mass murder. What? And, the greatest god in the universe was defeated by iron chariots: Judges1:19. That is so ridiculous, such a puny god. Or, is it because the story was a creation of a tribe that had no concept of future technologies or tactics to defeat these new Iron Age chariots? I’m sure that a human Napoleon type tactician could have done better than the all wise, all powerful fictitious creator god. Genesis 19 tells us of Lot being raped by this daughters. And yet this god is moral? He could have changed the course of their predicament, found him a younger wife or servant to sleep with, if a god. More incest. Abrahamic religion is a blood sacrifice barbaric religion. The books that were supposedly written by Mosses consist of a linguistic style that didn’t exist at the time of his “life”. It’s a fictitious narrative, written by the Jews to give their new nation an historical legitimacy, and unify them, in the midst of other powerful cultures in the Middle East. Didn’t help much though, they were constantly being invaded and subjugated by more powerful “gods” of other warring nations. Even Yahweh acknowledged there were other gods. Remember the Ten Commandments tablets that were conveniently broken and then without fuss, lost. An all powerful creator of the universe who missed the opportunity to create the tablets out of an advanced technology, Titanium or, something really exotic perhaps? Is that because the Jews didn’t know about such a thing with no understanding of the future? The forging and preservation of such a technology would have cemented the truth of their god. Broken conveniently disappeared stone tablets: clearly, no god involved. Noah and his flood occurred when the Egyptians where going about their cultural and religious practices that continued afterwards; and, their religion was not replaced by the flood family’s immediate ancestors, fanning out from the ark. The Pharaohs and their gods continued unabated. No Yahweh? More incest? The Chinese culture and writing developed along a continuum and they too were never taken the religion of Yahweh from the Middle East, by Noah’s relatives. And, the ancient Britons and Australians failed to notice they were meant to be dead. The New Testament, if it is read, critically, is inconsistent and evolves over time. Indeed, the gospels were not written for decades after the death of this Jesus, whose birth and death are still questionable and no date can be asserted with clarity. There’s no evidence that all the first born were killed either in Egypt nor by Herod. I think the Egyptians would have recorded such a calamity and the calamities of the plagues, but nothing. Was it all made up? There is real historical evidence of John the Baptist, but not of the greater Jesus. There is historical evidence of Apollonius of Tyana, who allegedly ascended to heaven, similar to Jesus, but there is no extra biblical evidence of Jesus during his lifetime. There is an historical record of Jesus Ben Pandera but, no Jesus the Galilean outside of the bible. Nothing. There’s Jesus ben Ananias, a rude peasant, who went around Jerusalem in 66CE prophesying its fall in 70CE; he’s recorded in documents outside the bible, but not the biblical Jesus. His alleged disciples never wrote anything they were uneducated peasants. Contemporaries never recorded his miracles nor his troublesome nature. The bible account says he was widely known and a divisive figure that the Romans never recorded. Neither did the Jews. And, the crucified were left to rot on the cross/pole on which they were hung as a warning to insurrectionists? No empty tomb, it’s a fiction to turn a myth into a “fact”. To turn a dead man or a fictional man into god. Pilate was, in real history, recorded history, a truly nasty contemptuous man, he would never have allowed the process of crucifixion as a warning to have been undermined. And, the alleged trial is a tale of the blood cult of scapegoating. Even Barabbus was a literary device representing scapegoating, suggesting it never occurred. Barabbus means, son of the teacher, or son of the father. The gospel writers where representing the two characters as essentially the same, one became the goat sacrifice. And, the twist was that the Jews shouted to let the murderer go, allowing the blame for Jesus’s death to be placed on the Jews and not the imperial Romans. It was very much a political narrative because the Jews and Romans where essentially at war, the destruction of the Temple in 70AD/CE, and this new sect/cult needed to distinguish themselves from the Jewish troublemakers, and the ongoing violence of the time. Paul never knew Jesus and only depicted him as a spiritual vision. He knew nothing of the man and nothing of his life or his teachings. More evidence that the Chrestos (anointed) was mythical? The first time the gospels were mentioned was in 180AD/CE by Irenaeus. Indeed, a very prominent Christian, Theophilus, said that he came to believe in Jesus from reading the Jewish Scriptures or, Torah. No mention of the gospels, no quoting of anything Jesus allegedly said. Best date for the gospels is circa, 170-182AD/CE. The myth of the god man Jesus was created over many years. Mark was first written, not until at least 70AD/CE, say Christian scholars but, as above, likely much later. No record of the star of Bethlehem, of the graves emptying, or the sky darkening. It’s fiction. No Mosses, Abraham, No Noah, no Flood. As for flying horses in the Quran, that’s straight out of Greek mythology. No one should believe in such nonsense today
Thank you for yet another exceptional video. I didn't know the Persians had their own version of the Suez Canal that far back in time! Persian / Iranian history is so fascinating; I look forward to your future videos on the topic! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
You're the best man. I love your series on Greek and Persian history and always listened to them on Spotify. I noticed that you were less active recently, and I'm truly gald you're back again. Wishing you all the best Cy! 🙌
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback and glad you're into Greek and Persian history as I have a lot more of it planned for later on this year. Thank so much for the support and for watching!
By the time Darius set foot in Egypt with his great Persian empire, the Pyramids of Giza where already 2000 year's old , so Ancient Egypt was also Ancient in the times of Darius,
Yeah I always find it fascinating that as far back in time as the Roman Empire is for us, Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations was just as old for them! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
It amazes me how quickly you make these videos. I am very impressed and very grateful for having a channel with such frequent and well made videos for my niche bronze age and ancient near eastern interest :)
Haha I can't make them quick enough... I have so many topics I'd like to cover, just not enough time. Lot more on the Bronze Age coming up but I also want to move further down the timeline of antiquity and into early medieval history which I also find fascinating. Anyway thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I'm sure that you also recognized some of stuff from the Louvre too! Thanks for support the channel from the beginning, really appreciate it!
Is it not amazing that this great administrator who gave us the idea of so many concepts, which are still prevalent in our daily modern life, is only known in the west as the guy who was defeated in Marathon?
Yeah, and he technically wasn't there, he sent his generals instead. I think he was respected by the Greeks because they don't say too many negative things about him. The invasion of Greece that Darius ordered was more to punish Athens and its allies because and protect the Bosporus which the Persians controlled. Xerxes though is seen in a much more negative light due to his full-on invasion of the Greek mainland and ultimate defeat. Thanks for watching!
Love from Japan. As a student of history I'm relatively ignorant when it comes to the oldest cradle of civilizations, as your gem in this series saved my day! Keep it up! I'll continue to share your detailed engagement of ancient Asian studies on instagram and with my Bible study friends!
Thanks so much for the feedback and really glad you found the video useful! Thanks also for sharing the content, really means a lot! Lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Thank YOU for watching and glad you enjoyed this. I'll have a lot more on Persian history coming... next topic related to it will be the Greco-Persian Wars.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I like this format too and will do my best to do the same (live video + textual resources) as much as possible. Thanks for watching!
The most fascinating thing about this is, at least one of them - to me, is that just as dramatic and intricate events were happening in all human societies, both earlier and later, but since they left no writing, we just forgot
@@HistorywithCy dude, you are by far my favourite educator online, I can't stress it enough on a simple comment how so much more of my time I am willing to gladly spend watching your videos start to finish...again, I really can't thank you enough for the time you put into all of this!!
Yet another amazing video. 👌🏻 It’s very intriguing what happened regarding Darius’ throne ascension. Makes you wonder about both Cambyses’ brother and Achaemenes. Thanks for the video. ⚔️
Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and see what really happened. As always, thanks so much for watching and the support!
I think it’s possible that before Cambyses left for Egypt he put Bardiya in a regent role. Cyrus went to Babylon, Anatolia, and Scythia for his campaigns. His maternal grandfather went into Mesopotamia during his conquest of Assyria. There’s a precedent about Iranian rulers to be away from their capital and lands. So I feel like it makes sense that Cambyses would leave his brother in charge while he was gone. Now about the idea of Bardiya taking the kingship for himself, I’m a little split. On one hand, Cambyses was planning on campaigning as far as Carthage, so him suddenly leaving Egypt to go back to Persia feels off. But the only sources we have on Bardiya say he was actually dead by then. Couldn’t it be possible that after Cambyses died, Bardiya just inherited the kingship and that’s when Darius took the opportunity to enact his conspiracy?
I love history! Many thanks ❤... Best way to find common ground even today... Very Little things changed in humanity... BEST REGARDS FROM BUCHAREST ROMANIA 🍀🤗😊
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this. I have to visit Romania one day as you all have a very fascinating history, beautiful country and many things to see! Mulțumim pentru vizionare!
"I did not lie, I did not lie, I'm legitimate, all I did was not a lie and you should punish anyone who says it's a lie because I did not lie" Hmm... he doth protest too much
Thanks my friend for continuing to tune into these, really means a lot and am thrilled you like the videos enough to keep coming back. Stay tuned for more...Egypt Dynasties 21-24 are next!
The Persian kings of Cyrus the Great & Achaemenid dynasty were truly King of Kings! What an ancient empire! This is why Alexander the Great had such immense respect for Darius mother & family. Even to the point that Alexanders fellow Macedonians were mad at his display of "Eastern" culture. Darius had the misfortune of being King when Alexander rose to the Macedonian kingship. But i think he should still be looked at as a great ruler that fought multiple times trying to defend his kingdom & did not shy away from his duties.
Dear Cy. I LOVE your videos. I love history and in that subject your videos are top!!!! And I hope you (personly) don't take the bollywood version of Darius / Herodotes story of Cambyses for truth versions. Here is my version: Bardya loved his brother Cambyses. Bardya went to egypt with Cambyses. Neither Cambyses nor Bardya had any sons, which makes "Bardya's assasination by Cambyses" highly unlikely. (Who would take over the throne after them then?) I would go as far as saying after CAmbyses concoured Egypt, Bardya went back from Egypt to Pasargade and ordered to carve his brother Cambyses (which we mistakenly think it is the picture of Cyrus) as King of Elam (cloth), King of Babylon (the wings) and FAROE OF EGYPT (the helmet and crown ) at the gate of Pasargade. Bardya went back and carved the figure as soon as Cambyses became Faroe of Egypt. And it was DARIUS who later carved "I am Cyrus, an achamenid". dont forget cyrus never went to egypt and he would not alow ppl to carve him as Faroe when he was not one. So While Bardya was in Iran and Cambyses and Darius in egypt, Darius planned to eliminate them both. First he killed Cambyses. Then he went back to Iran and killed THE REAL BARDYA in Hamedan. So Smerdis, Magush, naghush etc are all Darius inventions. Why did Darius do that? most likely because he also was aware of the no-son-situation of Cyrus' kids. In order to keep maintain what Cyrus had achieved he killed them both and took the throne. And if he had not done so, today we would know about cyrus as little as we know about Alexander. There would NEVER had been a persian empire in over 200 years. So maybe it was the most wise thing (at that time) to do for Darius.
Haha thanks, it's one of my favorite parts of putting these together...the more quotes, the more fun I have. Thanks as always for tuning to in to these, really appreciate it!
You're too good to us. I can't afford to add your patreon or anything like that, but I still wish I could help. I've got a really good audio set up, I could read some inscriptions for you.
No need, just you continuing to watch means a lot, so thanks for your support! Sure, will let you know although I'll admit, reading the quotes is probably my favorite part of creating the videos (besides researching them), so I might just stick to that...haha but thanks for the offer, really appreciate it!
if the version Darius gives about the identity of Bardiya is questioned and its all we have to go on, why not go with an even simpler order of events: perhaps Cambyses II also died BEFORE Bardiya took the throne, in which case he did so not as an usurper but just by being legitimately next in line, and the entire story of intrigue is just there to justify Darius's usurpation? I mean if we're taking him to be lying and in fact being an usurper of the proper heir to the throne anyhow, isn't the simple story with just one usurper more parsimonious than a rather convoluted one with two? And a number of rebellions right after his coming to power as well as the warnings against disbelieving his version of the story in the very inscriptions that tell it certainly sounds like his version of the story was widely disbelieved at the time, and that the transfer of power was widely seen as illegitimate.
I agree. This is the simplest, and thus most likely, explanation. It's not like human society has not been known to pretend to go along with something everyone knows isn't true for any multitude of reasons...
Darius the Great was our Shah or Shahanshah, he wasn’t just a king 🤗 *The Shah* is so much more than some petty king or a tyrannical emperor. He is the Father of his people, the Guardian of Iranshahr, and the most devoted and loyal patriot in the entire nation. He would sacrifice himself for Iran without hesitation, and it’s that love for Iran that makes for a good, beloved Shah - just like our last Shah, our late great Shahanshah Aryamehr aka Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who along with his father were the GREATEST SHAHS since the father of all Iranians and the world’s first Zionist Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago 🙏🏽 That is why we Iranians have not forgiven the Western governments for what they did to our Pahlavi Shahs, our SAVIORS, ousting Reza Shah Bozorg va Kabir in 1941, then ousting his son Shahanshah Aryamehr in 1979. That POS Jimmy Carter even sent the US military to Iran to force our Iranian military to stand down and not protect the people of Iran from the Marxist and 1slamist terrorists coming to rap3 and murd3r us! And the Western governments, academia, and media have been lying about it, about us, about the Pahlavis, ever since. Long live Israel & IDF & Netanyahu 🇮🇱 Long live the Shah Reza Pahlavi II 👑 Long live IRANIAN Iran 💚🤍❤️🔥🦁☀️
Haha that's actually from Herodotus who says that the Persian army used/threw cats at the Egyptians who where afraid of killing them because they were sacred. I think the artist just added that in the painting due to that. Other than Herodotus there I've never heard of cats being used for such purposes, in Egypt or anywhere. Thanks for watching!
Thanks, glad you find the quotes useful... reading the primary sources is my favorite part of putting these together, adds a new dimension to the story in my opinion. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Hi! Oh I've been putting the latest, longer ones up there. Mycenaean, Akkadian and this one should all be there. Let me know if you're having any problems downloading it. Thanks for watching/listening, really appreciate it!
Man, if this was introduced as a plot for a mini series, it would have been rejected for being too unrealistic. 🤣🤣🤣 But it really happened! 😯😲😧 Another reason why I love history. 👍💪👊
Me too! If cowriters would just read more history books, I think we'd have a lot of really good shows and movies out there. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
The historic legacy, and deeds of the Darius's the great as a liberator from the long tyrannical reigns of the tyrant and slavery system in Egypt to restore the Egyptian belief in the Sun god Ru, by the Egypt's great king, whom defaced false gods sculptural images, for the God of creation, life and goodness.
He was probably a real usurper not Bardiya/Gaumata, he probably managed to kill both Cambyses and Bardiya and with that ending Cyrus the great family tree, he was probably not related at all to them, but nevertheless he was succesful leader and king.
Hi. If you watch the video, you'll see that I'm not doubting his words, just presenting two sides of the discussion and what scholars today think. Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for the reply. I really enjoyed watching the indepth view of one of the greatest leaders of Persia. It was highly informative and insightful. I hope to watch more of such great stuff!
Hi thanks for your comment. With all due respect, that is actually not correct. The way it's said in the video is the way that all of my professors of ancient Iranian history have said it (I have taken several classes on Persian history). While people may pronounce it differently, and that's fine, to each his own, the standard, perhaps most correct way to say the name is as it's pronounced in the video. Thanks.
Not really, what did he create , he only conquered the corruption of the Persians 300 years after Cyrus the Great, Darius the third was not directly a descended from Kings, he was not a legitimate King and easy to over throw, Where as Darius the Great built an empire, all roads lead to Persepolis, he built what is today the suez canal, he created the Persian pony express which was used in the US before the telegraph, What did Alexander do, he burnt the Persepolis out of sheer drunken vengeance
All this is the reason why Iranians will never be forced islamized and forced arabized! NEVER! They didn't need or want ISlam in the first place! Islam was a downgrade by any standards and measures to Persians! Iran will be free again.
They probably did, it was just never recorded because there were no Greeks on that side of the empire to write about it. Also the Indus River is a great defensive border.
@@akhripasta2670 Yes, but that was because his army had to march all the way from the Hellespont to reach India. The Persians on the other hand would only have had to cross a river to enter India.
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! Haha like the title says, Life and Times of Darius "in his Own Words" so I had to quote him quite a bit! As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
“Haters will say its photoshopped”
-Darius
Don’t forget he basically said with an excuse too “Yeah… I did tons more than this, but it’s alot dude, not even I’d read it”. basically saying “I did too much to write about, so I won’t write it, but I’m awesome.”.
As always what a great video. As an Iranian, I have to admit that I have learned more about Iran's history from your videos than from history books in school. Keep the good work man.❤❤❤
Thanks, great to hear! I'll continue to put out more ancient Iranian history in the near future. Thanks for watching and Nowruz Mobarak!
Iran!!!! I feel embarrassed to say this but i only recently found out the truth about iran and it's people. I just want to visit iran in my lifetime. It's so beautiful and the people are so diverse and kind. I have no specific point to my comment, i just wanted to shout yay for Iran's people
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Even if you could call the Torah/bible/Quran evidence, it’s poor. For example, if the bible is egregiously faulty then the main character’s existence is likely fantasy. If the existence of Yahweh/Allah is a fiction (Muslims believe in the first five books of the Old Testament) then the god man/prophet Jesus cannot stand, nor any Abrahamic Prophet, such as Muhammad. Faith based on the contents of the bible/Quran is worthless for the following reasons…
Of the Canaanite gods. El was the top god (sort of Roman Saturn) Ba’al (Jupiter) was next, then down the line was the war god Yahweh (Mars). The Jews nicked him and made him the creator. All nonsense.
The first line of the bible is clearly incorrect. The Earth was formed at least 9.8 billion years after the heavens. How did the creator get that wrong? And, the rest of the creation is wrong. It’s as if an ancient ignorant tribe wrote it all by themselves, no god to help.
There are no waters above the firmament. Heaven isn’t up there either, we’ve been there. The tribes of the Middle East wouldn’t have known oceans would be frozen but for the heat of the sun. Yet, in the biblical account, water filled the oceans and outer space, all with no sun. The light that made up the day was created before the sun. The ancients had no concept it was the sun that caused day and night onto a rotating Earth. The moon isn’t a light. It’s fiction by an ignorant tribe with no access to a god creator.
Adam was made from dirt by magic and he, this god, forgot about Eve, an afterthought. so not an all knowing and wise god then?
Snakes and donkeys talk, nonsense fiction, right up there with Harry Potter, though JK Rowling was clearly a better writer with fewer continuity errors.
This god set up Eve by placing this magic apple within her reach, before she knew right from wrong. Then punished humanity thereafter. What a vicious god, if not a fictional one.
Nonsense fiction, by an ignorant ancient people writing about their mythology, their nation’s origins, steeped in the mists of the past, just the same as the Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures write about their make believe gods who were equally fervently worshipped. Inanna, the dying and rising goddess was such an example. But many more dying and rising gods in the lexicon of ancient myths. Virgin births were pretty common too.
Adam and Eve’s children (as Eve was a clone of Adam) and grandchildren (as Cain, Able and Seth only had Eve to produce offspring or with their unknown sisters) could only have been produced by incest, then double incest, according to the biblical account. But, as Eve was a clone of Adam, there would be no genetic diversity. Such a lack of diversity would have meant the death of the human species, ask the Hapsburgs. But then, their god wouldn’t have known about genetics? Of course not.
The Exodus apparently didn’t happen according to all evidence, acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists who have tried to find it. The Egyptians never wrote of their army being swallowed by the sea. Mosses may never existed.
There is a massive amount of genocide in the bible by a god who failed to get the locals to behave. Genocide because the Israelites needed a land to make home. If a creator of the universe and humans could have just thought a new land, a new island, south of Cyprus, it would have appeared. Easy for a god, not so for an ancient tribe to pull off? Then, this god could have told these others how to behave and punished individuals, if that’s what was needed. But no, he went straight to mass murder. What?
And, the greatest god in the universe was defeated by iron chariots: Judges1:19. That is so ridiculous, such a puny god. Or, is it because the story was a creation of a tribe that had no concept of future technologies or tactics to defeat these new Iron Age chariots? I’m sure that a human Napoleon type tactician could have done better than the all wise, all powerful fictitious creator god.
Genesis 19 tells us of Lot being raped by this daughters. And yet this god is moral? He could have changed the course of their predicament, found him a younger wife or servant to sleep with, if a god. More incest.
Abrahamic religion is a blood sacrifice barbaric religion.
The books that were supposedly written by Mosses consist of a linguistic style that didn’t exist at the time of his “life”. It’s a fictitious narrative, written by the Jews to give their new nation an historical legitimacy, and unify them, in the midst of other powerful cultures in the Middle East. Didn’t help much though, they were constantly being invaded and subjugated by more powerful “gods” of other warring nations. Even Yahweh acknowledged there were other gods.
Remember the Ten Commandments tablets that were conveniently broken and then without fuss, lost. An all powerful creator of the universe who missed the opportunity to create the tablets out of an advanced technology, Titanium or, something really exotic perhaps? Is that because the Jews didn’t know about such a thing with no understanding of the future? The forging and preservation of such a technology would have cemented the truth of their god. Broken conveniently disappeared stone tablets: clearly, no god involved.
Noah and his flood occurred when the Egyptians where going about their cultural and religious practices that continued afterwards; and, their religion was not replaced by the flood family’s immediate ancestors, fanning out from the ark. The Pharaohs and their gods continued unabated. No Yahweh? More incest?
The Chinese culture and writing developed along a continuum and they too were never taken the religion of Yahweh from the Middle East, by Noah’s relatives.
And, the ancient Britons and Australians failed to notice they were meant to be dead.
The New Testament, if it is read, critically, is inconsistent and evolves over time.
Indeed, the gospels were not written for decades after the death of this Jesus, whose birth and death are still questionable and no date can be asserted with clarity.
There’s no evidence that all the first born were killed either in Egypt nor by Herod. I think the Egyptians would have recorded such a calamity and the calamities of the plagues, but nothing. Was it all made up?
There is real historical evidence of John the Baptist, but not of the greater Jesus. There is historical evidence of Apollonius of Tyana, who allegedly ascended to heaven, similar to Jesus, but there is no extra biblical evidence of Jesus during his lifetime. There is an historical record of Jesus Ben Pandera but, no Jesus the Galilean outside of the bible. Nothing. There’s Jesus ben Ananias, a rude peasant, who went around Jerusalem in 66CE prophesying its fall in 70CE; he’s recorded in documents outside the bible, but not the biblical Jesus. His alleged disciples never wrote anything they were uneducated peasants. Contemporaries never recorded his miracles nor his troublesome nature. The bible account says he was widely known and a divisive figure that the Romans never recorded. Neither did the Jews.
And, the crucified were left to rot on the cross/pole on which they were hung as a warning to insurrectionists? No empty tomb, it’s a fiction to turn a myth into a “fact”. To turn a dead man or a fictional man into god.
Pilate was, in real history, recorded history, a truly nasty contemptuous man, he would never have allowed the process of crucifixion as a warning to have been undermined. And, the alleged trial is a tale of the blood cult of scapegoating. Even Barabbus was a literary device representing scapegoating, suggesting it never occurred. Barabbus means, son of the teacher, or son of the father. The gospel writers where representing the two characters as essentially the same, one became the goat sacrifice. And, the twist was that the Jews shouted to let the murderer go, allowing the blame for Jesus’s death to be placed on the Jews and not the imperial Romans. It was very much a political narrative because the Jews and Romans where essentially at war, the destruction of the Temple in 70AD/CE, and this new sect/cult needed to distinguish themselves from the Jewish troublemakers, and the ongoing violence of the time.
Paul never knew Jesus and only depicted him as a spiritual vision. He knew nothing of the man and nothing of his life or his teachings. More evidence that the Chrestos (anointed) was mythical?
The first time the gospels were mentioned was in 180AD/CE by Irenaeus. Indeed, a very prominent Christian, Theophilus, said that he came to believe in Jesus from reading the Jewish Scriptures or, Torah. No mention of the gospels, no quoting of anything Jesus allegedly said. Best date for the gospels is circa, 170-182AD/CE. The myth of the god man Jesus was created over many years. Mark was first written, not until at least 70AD/CE, say Christian scholars but, as above, likely much later.
No record of the star of Bethlehem, of the graves emptying, or the sky darkening. It’s fiction. No Mosses, Abraham, No Noah, no Flood. As for flying horses in the Quran, that’s straight out of Greek mythology. No one should believe in such nonsense today
Thank you for yet another exceptional video. I didn't know the Persians had their own version of the Suez Canal that far back in time! Persian / Iranian history is so fascinating; I look forward to your future videos on the topic!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Thanks so much and glad that you learned something new from this one. Thanks also for watching, really appreciate it!
You're the best man. I love your series on Greek and Persian history and always listened to them on Spotify. I noticed that you were less active recently, and I'm truly gald you're back again. Wishing you all the best Cy! 🙌
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback and glad you're into Greek and Persian history as I have a lot more of it planned for later on this year. Thank so much for the support and for watching!
By the time Darius set foot in Egypt with his great Persian empire, the Pyramids of Giza where already 2000 year's old , so Ancient Egypt was also Ancient in the times of Darius,
Yeah I always find it fascinating that as far back in time as the Roman Empire is for us, Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations was just as old for them! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Regards from Bulgaria! I appriciate your hard work and useful content 🇧🇬
It amazes me how quickly you make these videos. I am very impressed and very grateful for having a channel with such frequent and well made videos for my niche bronze age and ancient near eastern interest :)
Haha I can't make them quick enough... I have so many topics I'd like to cover, just not enough time. Lot more on the Bronze Age coming up but I also want to move further down the timeline of antiquity and into early medieval history which I also find fascinating. Anyway thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
What an amazing full story of Darius. I always love the citation of the primary sources. Thank you for the great work
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I'm sure that you also recognized some of stuff from the Louvre too! Thanks for support the channel from the beginning, really appreciate it!
Love the quality of your videos, thanks for the upload!❤
Thank YOU for watching, really appreciate it!
Is it not amazing that this great administrator who gave us the idea of so many concepts, which are still prevalent in our daily modern life, is only known in the west as the guy who was defeated in Marathon?
Yeah, and he technically wasn't there, he sent his generals instead. I think he was respected by the Greeks because they don't say too many negative things about him. The invasion of Greece that Darius ordered was more to punish Athens and its allies because and protect the Bosporus which the Persians controlled. Xerxes though is seen in a much more negative light due to his full-on invasion of the Greek mainland and ultimate defeat. Thanks for watching!
Alexander spanked the Persians and took their lands
Another triumph of a video Cy, thanks so much. This channel just goes from strength to strength.
Thanks, really glad you're enjoying the channel's content...working on the next one (Egypt Dynasty 21-24), stay tuned and thanks for watching!
One of the most overlooked great rulers his non military accomplishments are as significant as his conquests thanks and be safe!
Agreed, thanks for watching!
Love from Japan. As a student of history I'm relatively ignorant when it comes to the oldest cradle of civilizations, as your gem in this series saved my day! Keep it up! I'll continue to share your detailed engagement of ancient Asian studies on instagram and with my Bible study friends!
Thanks so much for the feedback and really glad you found the video useful! Thanks also for sharing the content, really means a lot! Lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
And of course thank you so much for the free content it’s magnificently beautiful it’s priceless
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Extraordinary report; the early Persian empire is amazing to contemplate. Thank you for this report.
Thank YOU for watching and glad you enjoyed this. I'll have a lot more on Persian history coming... next topic related to it will be the Greco-Persian Wars.
The Behistun inscription is such a wonderfully Freudian document!
Good one, especially some real footage from the ancient Persian sites mixed with the ancient text!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I like this format too and will do my best to do the same (live video + textual resources) as much as possible. Thanks for watching!
Love it when you put anything up!❤🆙
The most fascinating thing about this is, at least one of them - to me, is that just as dramatic and intricate events were happening in all human societies, both earlier and later, but since they left no writing, we just forgot
Agreed...thanks for watching!
I just subscribed after watching “complete… Sumerian civilization.” Could ask if you could make a playlist with all the “complete” videos?
Sure, check out the playlist "Epic Civilizations and Empires." Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks!
Beautiful, always a treat to watch your videos
Thanks, so glad you're enjoying these! Thanks for watching!
Ah yeah…. This is the good stuff. Keep it coming Cy!
Will do, thanks for watching!
the production value on these videos are better than some tv series
Best video to watch before nowruz
Nowruz Mobarak!! All the best!
@@HistorywithCy thank you
You made my day
Words cannot express how I yearn for each and every video of yours.... truly, thank you
Comments like this make my day and motivate me to put out more...thanks so much for the support, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy dude, you are by far my favourite educator online, I can't stress it enough on a simple comment how so much more of my time I am willing to gladly spend watching your videos start to finish...again, I really can't thank you enough for the time you put into all of this!!
Yet another amazing video. 👌🏻 It’s very intriguing what happened regarding Darius’ throne ascension. Makes you wonder about both Cambyses’ brother and Achaemenes.
Thanks for the video. ⚔️
Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and see what really happened. As always, thanks so much for watching and the support!
Thanks!
I think it’s possible that before Cambyses left for Egypt he put Bardiya in a regent role. Cyrus went to Babylon, Anatolia, and Scythia for his campaigns. His maternal grandfather went into Mesopotamia during his conquest of Assyria. There’s a precedent about Iranian rulers to be away from their capital and lands. So I feel like it makes sense that Cambyses would leave his brother in charge while he was gone.
Now about the idea of Bardiya taking the kingship for himself, I’m a little split. On one hand, Cambyses was planning on campaigning as far as Carthage, so him suddenly leaving Egypt to go back to Persia feels off. But the only sources we have on Bardiya say he was actually dead by then. Couldn’t it be possible that after Cambyses died, Bardiya just inherited the kingship and that’s when Darius took the opportunity to enact his conspiracy?
thank you for your content.
I love your content Cy, never stop
Will do my best to keep going! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
I can't thank you enough for this video. Great works!
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful work Cy, thank you as always for your hard work.
Thanks, glad you found it interesting! Thanks as always for tuning in and stay tuned for the next one!
Great work! Always love the presentation of these videos.
Thank YOU for watching, really appreciate it!
Thank you 🙏
Thank YOU for watching!
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Happy new year _ancient norooz 🎉
Thank you, same to you!
I love history! Many thanks ❤... Best way to find common ground even today... Very Little things changed in humanity... BEST REGARDS FROM BUCHAREST ROMANIA 🍀🤗😊
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this. I have to visit Romania one day as you all have a very fascinating history, beautiful country and many things to see! Mulțumim pentru vizionare!
Brilliant! One of your best. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
"I did not lie, I did not lie, I'm legitimate, all I did was not a lie and you should punish anyone who says it's a lie because I did not lie"
Hmm... he doth protest too much
I like your videos, they are informative and relaxing 🙌
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and more on the way!
Continue to rest in perfect peace Shahanshan Darius the great! The greatest of the greatest!
One of the GOAT's for sure.
Many of us would argue there is another Cyrus the Great. Thank you for the video, keep up the good work!
Thanks my friend for continuing to tune into these, really means a lot and am thrilled you like the videos enough to keep coming back. Stay tuned for more...Egypt Dynasties 21-24 are next!
such an excellent, informative and well delivered creation.
history with Cy' the Great 😉
Appreciate the kind words and glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Love your stuff, as always!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed this!
Thank you again! We love Cy! We love Cy!
You're welcome and I love all the viewers! Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
The Persian kings of Cyrus the Great & Achaemenid dynasty were truly King of Kings! What an ancient empire! This is why Alexander the Great had such immense respect for Darius mother & family. Even to the point that Alexanders fellow Macedonians were mad at his display of "Eastern" culture. Darius had the misfortune of being King when Alexander rose to the Macedonian kingship. But i think he should still be looked at as a great ruler that fought multiple times trying to defend his kingdom & did not shy away from his duties.
I love how the Persians gathered all the great ancient civilizations in one place.
jeez, why doesn't he just MARRY Ahura Mazda!?
I really love your narration and your videos, and that you're named Cyrus yourself. Very cool.
Thanks, glad you're enjoying these! Lot's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Cy drops a video? Drop everything and jump on youtube right away!
Hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching!
Why would Cambysis kill his own heir? Ask Ivan the Terrible.
May Ahuramazda helps you on your journey Cy. 🙏🏻
Dear Cy. I LOVE your videos. I love history and in that subject your videos are top!!!! And I hope you (personly) don't take the bollywood version of Darius / Herodotes story of Cambyses for truth versions. Here is my version: Bardya loved his brother Cambyses. Bardya went to egypt with Cambyses. Neither Cambyses nor Bardya had any sons, which makes "Bardya's assasination by Cambyses" highly unlikely. (Who would take over the throne after them then?) I would go as far as saying after CAmbyses concoured Egypt, Bardya went back from Egypt to Pasargade and ordered to carve his brother Cambyses (which we mistakenly think it is the picture of Cyrus) as King of Elam (cloth), King of Babylon (the wings) and FAROE OF EGYPT (the helmet and crown ) at the gate of Pasargade. Bardya went back and carved the figure as soon as Cambyses became Faroe of Egypt. And it was DARIUS who later carved "I am Cyrus, an achamenid". dont forget cyrus never went to egypt and he would not alow ppl to carve him as Faroe when he was not one. So While Bardya was in Iran and Cambyses and Darius in egypt, Darius planned to eliminate them both. First he killed Cambyses. Then he went back to Iran and killed THE REAL BARDYA in Hamedan. So Smerdis, Magush, naghush etc are all Darius inventions. Why did Darius do that? most likely because he also was aware of the no-son-situation of Cyrus' kids. In order to keep maintain what Cyrus had achieved he killed them both and took the throne. And if he had not done so, today we would know about cyrus as little as we know about Alexander. There would NEVER had been a persian empire in over 200 years. So maybe it was the most wise thing (at that time) to do for Darius.
😊 I always look forward to your Official Pronouncement Narration 😊
Haha thanks, it's one of my favorite parts of putting these together...the more quotes, the more fun I have. Thanks as always for tuning to in to these, really appreciate it!
You're too good to us. I can't afford to add your patreon or anything like that, but I still wish I could help. I've got a really good audio set up, I could read some inscriptions for you.
No need, just you continuing to watch means a lot, so thanks for your support! Sure, will let you know although I'll admit, reading the quotes is probably my favorite part of creating the videos (besides researching them), so I might just stick to that...haha but thanks for the offer, really appreciate it!
if the version Darius gives about the identity of Bardiya is questioned and its all we have to go on, why not go with an even simpler order of events: perhaps Cambyses II also died BEFORE Bardiya took the throne, in which case he did so not as an usurper but just by being legitimately next in line, and the entire story of intrigue is just there to justify Darius's usurpation? I mean if we're taking him to be lying and in fact being an usurper of the proper heir to the throne anyhow, isn't the simple story with just one usurper more parsimonious than a rather convoluted one with two?
And a number of rebellions right after his coming to power as well as the warnings against disbelieving his version of the story in the very inscriptions that tell it certainly sounds like his version of the story was widely disbelieved at the time, and that the transfer of power was widely seen as illegitimate.
I agree. This is the simplest, and thus most likely, explanation. It's not like human society has not been known to pretend to go along with something everyone knows isn't true for any multitude of reasons...
These guys give me some serious beard envy
Daryavesh ❤
𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁!
@@HistorywithCy cockledoodledoo to you too! 🤣
Great music.
Glad you enjoyed it, it's all done by Farya Faraji. Check out his channel @faryafaraji. Thanks for watching!
Darius the Great was our Shah or Shahanshah, he wasn’t just a king 🤗 *The Shah* is so much more than some petty king or a tyrannical emperor. He is the Father of his people, the Guardian of Iranshahr, and the most devoted and loyal patriot in the entire nation. He would sacrifice himself for Iran without hesitation, and it’s that love for Iran that makes for a good, beloved Shah - just like our last Shah, our late great Shahanshah Aryamehr aka Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who along with his father were the GREATEST SHAHS since the father of all Iranians and the world’s first Zionist Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago 🙏🏽
That is why we Iranians have not forgiven the Western governments for what they did to our Pahlavi Shahs, our SAVIORS, ousting Reza Shah Bozorg va Kabir in 1941, then ousting his son Shahanshah Aryamehr in 1979. That POS Jimmy Carter even sent the US military to Iran to force our Iranian military to stand down and not protect the people of Iran from the Marxist and 1slamist terrorists coming to rap3 and murd3r us! And the Western governments, academia, and media have been lying about it, about us, about the Pahlavis, ever since.
Long live Israel & IDF & Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Long live the Shah Reza Pahlavi II 👑
Long live IRANIAN Iran 💚🤍❤️🔥🦁☀️
1:07 can you explain those War Cats?!?!
Haha that's actually from Herodotus who says that the Persian army used/threw cats at the Egyptians who where afraid of killing them because they were sacred. I think the artist just added that in the painting due to that. Other than Herodotus there I've never heard of cats being used for such purposes, in Egypt or anywhere. Thanks for watching!
It is remarkable that your map does include phinicia but does not mention Judea or Jerusalem. Why? Any specific reason to not depict it in your map?
Is that Rough Riders Anthem that I hear?
Cy! Your dictation of the words of the ancients makes me feel like I’m hearing the Kings themselves!
Thanks, glad you find the quotes useful... reading the primary sources is my favorite part of putting these together, adds a new dimension to the story in my opinion. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Hi Cy, your followers on Spotify miss you...... 😢
Hi! Oh I've been putting the latest, longer ones up there. Mycenaean, Akkadian and this one should all be there. Let me know if you're having any problems downloading it. Thanks for watching/listening, really appreciate it!
Man, if this was introduced as a plot for a mini series, it would have been rejected for being too unrealistic. 🤣🤣🤣
But it really happened!
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Another reason why I love history. 👍💪👊
Me too! If cowriters would just read more history books, I think we'd have a lot of really good shows and movies out there. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Mhhhhh sweeeeeeet sweeeeeeet knowledge
Hope you enjoy it and thanks so much for watching!
Fun fact my mother named me Darius :)
The historic legacy, and deeds of the Darius's the great as a liberator from the long tyrannical reigns of the tyrant and slavery system in Egypt to restore the Egyptian belief in the Sun god Ru, by the Egypt's great king, whom defaced false gods sculptural images, for the God of creation, life and goodness.
Daryavayush, Not Darius
Chandragupta, not Sandracottus
Kurush, not Cyrus
Khshayarshah, not Xerxes
ArthaKshya, not Artaxerxes
*Kurush* (Cyrus)
*Kaᵐbūjiya* (Cambyses)
*Dārayavaʰuš* (Darius)
*Xšayaršah* (Xerxes)
*ArtaKšatra* (Artaxerxes)
Oh my! Time for Cy! 😊
Can you do a video on ancient south arabians?
One day for sure, need to do a bit more research on the topic... thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCyThe Kingdom of Kedar and the Kingdom of Thamud paid tribute to the Assyrian Empire. It seems that they were weak.
Personally i like the version where Darius conspired, but uh... he was a great king
If you want to know how far is the territory of my kingdom?? See how far the spear of the Persian man has reached. Darius the Great
Alexander joined the chat 🗿💀
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It's about Iranian history and you didn't active persian subtitle
I'll look into it. Thanks for watching!
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What watching yet another video by Cy - how to write like a king....
He was probably a real usurper not Bardiya/Gaumata, he probably managed to kill both Cambyses and Bardiya and with that ending Cyrus the great family tree, he was probably not related at all to them, but nevertheless he was succesful leader and king.
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This guy totally usurped the throne. His entire "Nah ah I didn't do it" is so blatantly him saying he didn't with a wink and a nudge.
I believe Darius was telling the truth. Stop doubting his words!
Hi. If you watch the video, you'll see that I'm not doubting his words, just presenting two sides of the discussion and what scholars today think. Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for the reply. I really enjoyed watching the indepth view of one of the greatest leaders of Persia. It was highly informative and insightful. I hope to watch more of such great stuff!
Cambysis, not camb👁sis.... as in Hedeby,
Darius, not Dar👁us
Hi thanks for your comment. With all due respect, that is actually not correct. The way it's said in the video is the way that all of my professors of ancient Iranian history have said it (I have taken several classes on Persian history). While people may pronounce it differently, and that's fine, to each his own, the standard, perhaps most correct way to say the name is as it's pronounced in the video. Thanks.
Great was only one King in History...ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Not really, what did he create , he only conquered the corruption of the Persians 300 years after Cyrus the Great, Darius the third was not directly a descended from Kings, he was not a legitimate King and easy to over throw, Where as Darius the Great built an empire, all roads lead to Persepolis, he built what is today the suez canal, he created the Persian pony express which was used in the US before the telegraph, What did Alexander do, he burnt the Persepolis out of sheer drunken vengeance
BAGA AZRAKA AURAMAZDA HYA IMAM!
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𐏐 𐏃𐎹 𐏐 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐎶 𐏐 𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰𐎡𐎹𐎶 𐏐 𐎠𐎤/𐎢𐎴𐎢𐏁𐏐 𐎠𐎡𐎺𐎶 𐏐 𐎱𐎽𐎢𐎺𐎴𐎠𐎶 𐏐 𐎧𐏁𐎠𐎹𐎰/𐎡𐎹𐎶𐏐 𐎠𐎡𐎺𐎶 𐏐 𐎱𐎽𐎢𐎺𐎴𐎠𐎶 𐏐 𐎳𐎼𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎠/𐎼𐎶!!!!!!!!
Darius seized power then used religion to legitimize his coup lol..still, a great king.
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All this is the reason why Iranians will never be forced islamized and forced arabized!
NEVER!
They didn't need or want ISlam in the first place!
Islam was a downgrade by any standards and measures to Persians!
Iran will be free again.
Jesus: You mean, do you think your mother is a prostitute?
@IStevenSeagal "Darius and Xerxes were Muslims ? HUH? He ruled from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE
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@IStevenSeagal I am not surprised people like you dont like to read!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@IStevenSeagaldarius wasn't a Muslim
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I wonder why the Persians didn’t invade India ??
Search original name of Darius & Cyrus & Artaxerxes. That will give you why.
And the satrapy mentioned here is a Sanskrit word.
They probably did, it was just never recorded because there were no Greeks on that side of the empire to write about it. Also the Indus River is a great defensive border.
@Adsper Alexander's army mutinied while fighting Indian forces.
@@akhripasta2670 Yes, but that was because his army had to march all the way from the Hellespont to reach India. The Persians on the other hand would only have had to cross a river to enter India.
The Persian did control the Northwestern parts of India up until maybe the Satluj river.
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Yes Cy!
Thank you, Cy@ I really appreciate the many quotes of Darius' proclamations you have used Well done! I had to listen from beginning to end.
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! Haha like the title says, Life and Times of Darius "in his Own Words" so I had to quote him quite a bit! As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Thanks!
Thanks so much, appreciate the support!