Ancient Persian Army
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2010
- Ancient Persian infantry and cavalry from both the Achaemenid Dynasty and the Sassanid Dynasty. Those arts are made by Angus McBride and others. Some of them are also made by Persian artists. If you want to know about these two empires here's some information:
The Achemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire by geographical extent in ancient times; at the height of its power, the empire encompassed approximately 8 million km2. The empire was forged by Cyrus the Great, and spanned three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. At its greatest extent, the empire included the modern territories of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of Central Asia, Asia Minor, Thrace and Macedonia, much of the Black Sea coastal regions, Iraq, northern Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and all significant population centers of ancient Egypt as far west as Libya. It is noted in western history as the foe of the Greek city states during the Greco-Persian Wars, for emancipation of slaves including the Jews from their Babylonian captivity, and for instituting the usage of official languages throughout its territories. The empire had a centralised, bureaucratic administration under the Emperor and a large professional army and civil service, inspiring similar developments in later empires
The Achaemenid Persian empire was invaded by Alexander III of Macedon, after which it collapsed and disintegrated in 330 BCE into what later became the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Seleucid Empire, in addition to other minor territories which gained independence at that time. Iranian rule was re-established in the region starting from the rise of Arsacids in middle of 3rd century BCE.
The Sassanid Empire (also spelled Sasanid Empire, Sassanian Empire, or Sasanian Empire), known to its inhabitants as Ērānshahr and Ērān, was the last pre-Islamic Persian Empire, ruled by the Sasanian Dynasty from 224 to 651. The Sassanid Empire, which succeeded the Parthian Empire, was recognized as one of the two main powers in Western Asia and Europe, alongside the Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire, for a period of more than 400 years.
The Empire was founded by Ardashir I, after the fall of the Arsacids and the defeat of the last Arsacid king, Artabanus IV. The Empire lasted until Yazdegerd III lost control of his empire in a series of invasions from the Arab Caliphate. During its existence, the Sassanid Empire encompassed all of today's Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Dagestan), southwestern Central Asia, part of Turkey, certain coastal parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf area, and areas of southwestern Pakistan. The name for the Sassanid Empire in Middle Persian is Eran Shahr which means Aryan Empire.
The Sassanid era, during Late Antiquity, is considered to have been one of Persia's/Iran's most important and influential historical periods. In many ways, the Sassanid period witnessed the peak of ancient Persian civilization, and constituted the last great Iranian empire before the Muslim conquest and the adoption of Islam. Persia influenced Roman civilization considerably during the Sassanid period, and the empires regarded one another as equals, as suggested in the letters written by the rulers of the two states addressing each other as "brother". The Sassanids' cultural influence extended far beyond the empire's territorial borders, reaching as far as Western Europe, Africa, China and India. It played a prominent role in the formation of both European and Asiatic medieval art. - Розваги
In reality though, Sassanid cavalry was the best at the time, especially the hand picked Pushtigan. It is even said that the only way the Roman cavalry could counter with the Persian cavalry is by being deployed in greater numbers. Thanks.
the Persian Cataphracts are believed to be the first Knights, the byzantines called them "armored" warriors it would later inspire the European knights through the Byzantine empire.
True. Unfortunately Eurocentrism still in effect today.
In reality Asian countries From Persia, Southeast Asia, East Asian countries were once Powerful Kingdoms exist. Far more advanced than Europe.
Actually asians are smart people.
Im a proud Arab and I respect Persian people.
You have our respect too - a proud Persian
@@FuckNWOMK the persians humbled your ancestors and keep humbling you now enjoy your burned butthole
@@FuckNWOMK Hold your foolishness at bay, Ionian, for this piece of dirt you call home is patronised but by the inhabitants of Pars.
Well i found one arab that respect to us. So i will respect u too
@@AliHuffman have my respect from.Algeria
north African barbe and arab
Proud Half Persian here, 1st Knights who later inspired the European Knights. 1st Human Rights, 1st Abolished slavery, 1st Religion to inspire all other religions
Swords and horse riding appears in Europe long before Iran
@@fauconleger7067 Indo-Europeans were one of the first people riding horses so no Iranians were before Europe
@HanselManCan the shavings of the emperor written by him self said everyone was free 🙃 you can’t keep a empire that big otherwise people are gonna rebel against you so there were no slaves we never had slaves
@@j.s2326 Iranians descend from IE, what are you talking about
@@fauconleger7067 the people who settled in Iran were Indo-Europeans 🙃
My mothers father is persian Proud to be I am half persian
Hitit Anatolian im pruod to iranin
That makes you like 30% persian not bad
@MGS5 Mosquito I hope you know what Aryan means though.
@The Eternal Anglo انته فيلي
Do you feel upset when you see people being corrupt and immoral, if you get pretty angry that means your a persian.
I am a proud descendant of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid and Sassanian Persians. The greatest empires the world has ever known.
The army that humbled ancient world
Persian Empire was Biggest and great empire in the world, ( Viva PERSIA & PERSIAN people forever )
Hail to the King Darius, Cyrus, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Valash
nice video
great video thanks for posting
The meaning of the word "IRAN" means the land of Aryans. All the Iranians especially Persians have Aryan genes in them even if they are mixed with other ethnic groups. And remember Germans are not pure Arians neither, since they have been also mixed with other ethnic groups in Europe for 3000 years especially with the wickings (Blue eye blond hair). The Aryans got separated in two groups, one went to today's Germany, and the other went to today's Iran.
Pure aryans are in india come meet usss🙏🙏🙏❤️
I am half German and half Iranian couldn't be prouder
very good
جالب بود ممنون
Persians allowed the Jews to go back to Jerusalem so I like them for that.
zendabaad takijistan khorasan iran we msust be united
the story of nativity, which is the message of Christian and practically the foundation of middle age Europe is taken from the Avestan story of Mithras. the similarity is shockingly noticeable. the Romans were hundreds of years behind the Sassanian society. Roman idea of fun was watching two men spill each others guts out. the Sassanians idea of fun was poetry, horse racing and wrestling. which is what the Europeans began to rediscover in the late middle ages.
liked it
Can you tell us what books these modern historical/military illustrations are taken from, so I can look for them for my library on ancient warfare?
The ancient Iranians had really advanced culture they had great scientists and poets we had great empires
name of song is: conquest of paradise
its made by a greek artist/group i really dont know myself, but the name is vangelis, those who made the music that is. hope that helps ;D
I am a Serbian with a very very distant Persian origins dating back to king Balash. (My surname is Balash)
You have a parhtian pahlavic name
@@mehrdad5767 Yes. Balash comes from Valagash or Vologases.
how much Persian DNA do you have?
nice song
Whats The Song? I would like to use it for my movie that I am making on the Battle of Marathon
Vangelis - Conquest of Paradise.
I find the fact that the kardaka wears no armor amusing, seeing as the Achaemenids equipped any line infantry with at least a scale corselet.
Whats the name of the music?
the Scythians existed at the same times as the Sassanias. regardless, they are people of the same civilization. the Sassanian armies deployed cavalry that was unmatched. later Roman armies adopted similar cavalry to that of the Sassanians, the Sassanians adopted Roman siege capabilities. however no Roman army never defeated any Sassanian army in an open field battle. the Sassanians would run loops around Roman formations, firing arrows into them, legions could not charge cavalry.
Proud Half Persian Here, the 1st Knights, the 1st Human rights, 1st Religious freedom, 1st Abolished slavery, 1st Religion to inspire all other religions.
@TheKourosh1990 I meant to say "wouldn't"
I would have serious doubts about the source your are quoting from, the first charter of Human Rights came from Iran, the first Charter of equality and democracy also came from Iran, The Persian empire was the only empire that allowed all races and religions to live side by side in harmony and equality. Besides Persians were never Sun worshipers, they were Zoroastrians who worshiped God and who believed the fire to be a sacred element created by God.
What the song language ???
Latin
The song please
Conquest of paradise
Zende bad Paars
Parhâm Âzari: Zende bad Baluch!!
Anwar Pasha so what
Allah bless Persia.
@@anwarpasha9289 داداش عقب مونده اسر حجر تو فاز قوم گرایی همه از یه نژادیم
@@tasinal-hassan8268 allah bless kurdistan too😌❤️
Music plz
Raven Sarmona it is Vangelis conquest of paradise
Siya Shilla thnx 😝
what happened to you persia oh my beloved country persia
I do not get it why Scythian's costume usually by mistake is presented as Persians???? the Persian costume is clearly depicted in Susa and Persepolis and many other discovered reliefs and some wood paintings in current Turkey.
Persia gave the world - First Battleships - The War Galleons and First Armored Horse Cavalry - The Cataphracts. The Persian Cataphracts were so much Feared and Respected, It is said when the enemy saw Persian Cavalry Charge, They knew they had already lost !!!
Fun Fact : We Indians still dress in the same clothes as shown in 0:40. Its called "Panache".
doste aziz az daste hamen pashtonhai khaen mardom parse afg schekanja meschan
duschmana mekhwahan culuture parsi ma khorasanian ra az bein bebarand
zendabaad takijistan iran khorasan i love all my persian peoples we muss be united
duschmana mekhwahan culuture parsi ma khorasanian ra az bein bebarand
Well if you are getting your information from the sources that say 300 spartans killed 1 million persians in the battle than You can also come up the story you stated from "History"!
within the Byzantine Empire, i don't know that much about persia to affirm it :)
btw, same thing was happening in Byzantium, too much intrigues inside the court, and after Heraclius died, a lot of different emperors rose to the throne, some even throught coups d'etat. and when muslim hordes came, many of the monophisites and nestorian, and many other religious sects within the byzantine empire, refused to fight.
battle of Carrhae easy 1 to remember? 40,000 romans vs 10,000 persians or shapur first who defeated 3 of the roman emperor by himself 1 was in battle of Edessa and battle of misiche and last but not list emperor Philip but he had to agree that Armenia lay within Persia’s sphere of influence He also had to pay an enormous indemnity to the Persians of 500,000 gold denarii.
someone said i use to be the warrior of persian army on my past life
Their army was pretty big so it's not unlikely!
@@helloweasel1295 yep. the person said,my army was defeated by king of solomon because of a curse when we step on their land. idk if this is true. i hope anyone can give a comment.
yes persia and byzantium were superpowers of late antique, but my point is that sassanid government was unstable and full of discontents. first persians converted to islam were sassanid officers, who even've helped arabs to conquer whole persia; it doesnt depend only on weakness of wearied sassanid army but also on weakness of government and their politics. persia was easily defeated by arabs but rome could stand against them.
The Persian and Byzantium make alliance against the Muslims but that doesn't work
Persian empire: was built by 3 tribes, each wanting to get on power so they weren't really united. lolz plus they didn't suck they were strong at their good moments.
parthan??
the system of knighthood was pioneered in Iran during the Sassanid empire. whether Europeans got it directly from the Sassanians or from the Romans doesn't matter, it still originates from the Sassanians not Romans or Byzantine. the Byzantines survived because they didn't have as much problems as the Sassanians. in the end they both fell to the same enemy. that was the Turks in the north and Arabs in south. the only thing that saved the Sassanians was geography not anything they did.
you are right man, sorry for my manners.
cataphracts were actually scythian origin, romans adopted it from sassanids but the roman versions were more effective, becuase they could cause their enemies more casualties than persian cataphracts. romans looked like neither north european nor middle easterns, they were brighter coparing to persians but they had often black-dark brown hair as they r described by some historians. but during of that periods there were large number of nordic auxillaries in roman armies.
Long Live Iran
Hi from 2022 🇮🇷
cataphracts where Sassanid. the Scythians were a people who were related to the Sassanids. they are regarded as Iranian people like Persians, Kurds, Baluchi, Lurs...etc the Sassanid empire was built on and by those people.
Persians are one of my favorite Indo-European peoples (Aryans)
Arian is the Indian word for "Nooble" Caucasoid people are people who originated somewhere near the Caucasus mountains which are located between Asia and Europe. Caucasoid race migrated to different places on the world. Europe, Middle-East, Northern India, Egypt etc 1000's maybe million's years ago, by the time the evolution changed the appearance of the people. The people who were in the hottest places their skin get darker because they needed some melanin in their skin which act
Painde iran🇮🇷😢❤
i meant persians during sassanid period, because persian is a race and sassanid is a dynasty. lol the romans never feared persians, they beat persians,they survived till 15th century ad while persia was complete islamized till 7th century ad. there r more evidences that persians've used non-persians in their armies(christian arabic lakhmids for example)
Indeed, the same source I quoted from also says the Persians weren't Idol worshippers, but them seeing WHITE SKIN as a SIN against the SUN has nothing to do with SUN worshipping, they just saw LEPROUS SKIN as a SIN against the SUN,nothing to do with SUN worshipping, and the Persians weren't that LIBERAL either, because they severly OPPRESSED the Egyptians and were known for ENSLAVING other nations, I know you may have your PRIDE, but you must let theTRUTH of HISTORY speaks for itself.
Arians were a religious group. And yes it's true Aryans is only referring to an ancient Middle Eastern tribe, in the 1940s/50s we used the word as a substitute for Indo-Europeans. Now everyone concludes that was inaccurate. It's more appropriate to call ourselves Indo-Euros. That didn't mean we were trying to be something we weren't.
first of all sassanian court was full of betrayal and internal strifes, for example from 628 to 632 AD there were more than ten persian kings coming to the throne. in persian society there were only some nobles and rich ones, who were allowed to studying. many of non-persians hated sassanid lordship, as the lakhmids betrayed them and were not loyal to them during rashidun expansions. persians were racist and disrespektfull to other nations.
Persians armies of the sassanid dynasty were some of the best of their time. few could stand up to them. they humiliated Roman armies who had extremely well organized armies. all armies eventually grow weak. the sassanid army was defeated because they occupied too many territories in Roman occupied Anatolia, this made them vulnerable to the nomadic tribes to the north and south, Turks and Arabs in particular. they were eventually occupied by those two people, as was Rome by the Germanic people.
The Persian were have ATraitors inside the Roman empire as now have alot of them
کسی میدونه اسم این اهنگ چیه
bc 576 irani
آهنگ هندی است از فلم کویلا
bc 576 irani اسم اهنگ هست(( فتح بهشت)) و موسیقی متن فیلم کریستف کلمب محصول حوالی سال نود میلادی هالیوود
@yashil17 My conclusion is there is no such a thing as pure Aryan race today.
Zendebad hame ke je zabone Irani harf mizanan ;)!
proud persian
Iranian Ancestors From 🇮🇷🇮🇷Iran has All the Persian People.
@yashil17 This tribe came from what is called Russia today, they split, one group went to central Europe known today as Germany and the other group went to what is called today Iran. But during 3000 to 2500 years Iranians/Persians got mixed with the local tribes, and those in Germany got mixed with wickings and other European tribes, that means since both of this groups got mixed over and over we can’t tell how a pure Aryan looks like.
Romans got invaded as well, maybe not by Arabs, but by Germans. the Roman government had all sorts of betrayal and coups, countless civil wars over power. the Christian faith originates from middle east not Italy, as i mentioned earlier, it has shocking similarities the Sassanian Mithraism religion. both civilizations lost in the end. but at the hight of their power, they made equally as significant contributions for future generations. the Sassanians were the Romans of middle east, no less.
2:03 poor leopard
ban hunting worldwide
Go see pictures in Persepolis
3 drop blood Achaemenid Empire wtf?
ban hunting worldwide why?!
just to clarify something, they were not the Persians, they were the Sassanians, and the Romans feared them. the Romans stood no chance against them in open fields. the Romans held the Sassanians only in cities and castles. the Romans had far bigger armies than he Sassanians because Romans levied troops from conquered people while the Persians only recruited from their warrior and knightly cast because it was considered an honour to be given the chance to fight for the kingdom.
@Batman25798 rly?
yes u r right, because monophysites were considered by byzantines and later even by crusaders as pagans. there were also many intrigues within of roman court, but they survived invasions of arabs and turks(later). because their politics was better and contentment within of roman society was considerable unlike persian society. secondly romans suceed to recapture some of lost terriories while persia was lsmaized after only one century after rise of caliphat!
@Luccasio1 Btw, he is not black, he have golden brownish color. Persians are Caucasians but not the Nordic race.
funny how iranians of today think they are pure aryans after thousands of years of intermingling with arabs and turks... i'm of course NOT saying that there are no "pure" iranians or kurds left, just saying that it is rare, eventhough someone might have an aryan fenotype that individual still can be mixed
@Hafez21hafez21
germans are nordic , the germanic tribes migrated from scandinavian peninsula to central and western europe
read a book
Rome was sacked in 476AD by the Visigoths. the Sassanid empire was conquered in 651AD.
List of King of Persia*
Darius
Cyrus
Ahueserus
Xerxes
Artajeres
what about Kisra or Khosrow and Yazdejir???
@@klabumalami6699 sasanid empire not achamenid we love achamenid empire. Sasanid was powerful too but achamenid made some rules and kind things that we respect to them
lol what was exact descended from sassanian government system? there is not even one similarity between sassanid dynasty and europe in middle ages. it is true that the civilizations've influenced each other but europe is not considerably influenced by persians. in sassanid empire there was only one person with absolut power empire, the emperor, while romans had during early periods senate and later after christianisation religion had major role in romam society and government.
my point is not, who is better or, who got more victory or who made tribute to whom. all i am try to say is have respect ,and stop calling Persian losers while they had their golden time and won many battles. as the romans did too i can not stop naming roman victories maybe 5 time Persian onces. but point is they both were good, I respect Rome at same time I demand u do same for my country and my people. Thank you for listening.
perhaps medieval Europe and the Islamic civilization was built by taking the best from both civilizations. the Islamic civilization took advantage of the achievements of the Sassanians as well.
yup my bad about Parthia, but they are 1 of the 3 builder tribes so that is why I called them Persians, cause i am from Iran we don't separate them. from ourself and where u think Islamic art and architect came from huh? it was sassanid design which been proven. and i can name numerous scientist which were Persian who invent and grow the science.
what do u mean with religious dissents? within of each empire or zaratustra against christianity? by the way there r more important reasons for fall of persia. for example 2 much intrigues within of sassanid court, disloyality of non-persians to persians because of their tyranny, even parthian hordes denied to support persia against arab invadors and lakhmids also hated sassanids!
Fuck they knew how to dress
Persia were a great and still a
great
don't forget.. at the time islam was expanding, both Byzantium and the Sassanids were depleted because of wars and religious dissent (in the case of byzantium, the monophites that pretty much facilitated the conquest of the muslims)
the cataphract is Sassanid in origin. so is the system of knighthood. the Romans copied the Sassanians in that area. the Romans have also been westernised. you don't think Romans had blond hair and blue eyes do you? Romans were south Europeans, they look middle eastern in origin not north European. the history of Rome and Italy is been reconstructed for European people to understand, they weren't north European. the Byzantines were Greek/Romans like the Safavids who were Greek/Iranian people.
@GiannisKJ19
Seeing that the Greeks were defeated manu times by Persia as well, I would go so far and say that Greeks were superior militarily.
i don't see how u can conclude that?? Persian held off romans but Greeks crumbled ,and Seleucid empire fell under Parthia 1 Iranian tribe.
@TheKourosh1990 Haven't you noticed most spartan fanboys are 12 year old Americans?
Also, the Spartans killed 20,000 Persians NOT 1 Million, so get your FACTS straight before speaking on your OWN IMAGINATION.
yes scythians were also iranic people but they lived before sassanid empire in eurasian steppes and there are evidences that scythians used kind of heavy cavalries, which were very similar to later cataphract, persians had adopted many things from them like scythian chariot, sagaris(pickaxe) and .... . anyway as i said roman cataphract were more effective than persian ones, persia was a great empire but their military power was not impressive!
They were the first Knights, even before that era. The reason they don't call them Knights is not historical or scientific, it is political. The british and other europeans have adopted Knights and knighthood to such a high degree that they even have orders and they have Knight as a title.
It offends them that they adopted it from the Persians (because they are racist and weak individuals who can't accept the truth) so they try to find loopholes to differentiate european knights and won't accept where it came from. I know, I studied history and had them as teachers and they even told me. You wont believe the level hypocrisy and racism that influences western historians and the lies being told by them. They even go as far as to steal and claim historical artifacts or inventions as their own if they can get away with it. One of the reasons I changed my studies.
Their language came literally from our language 😂😂 they’re always jealous of our history
iran now abig threat to the world and to the USA and it must stop because it have alliance with isreal
I like the achamenids best they were the most tolerant and very organised.
They are believed to be with one true God
@sspersian if you don't believe what i tell you then look it up yourself. my keyword for you is "HAPLOGROUP"
i have italian, spanish and nordic ancestry (germanic and baltic) FYI.
And one thing, I'm not here to bash the Iranian history and definitely not the Iranian people. I'm here to bash your conceit and wishful thinking.
i am not saying the Sassanians were perfect or better than the Romans, i am saying they were equal to them in every way if not better in some areas. they were both the super powers of their time. they only fell to the nomadic invaders because they exhausted each other and spent a lot of resources fighting each other leaving themselves vulnerable to attack. if it hadn't been for that, the Arabs and Turks would never have been able to beat them.
Peace upon Zarathustra to God 🇮🇷🇮🇱😭🙏🙏
Dude One of our queen was jew her name was ester. He reported 1 bad man to king. I don't know what did happen between us but peace to u
Saxons in Europe, mostly north of England - have a thing with pure Iranian bloods! nice song.
@Daski69 as i've said many times (perhaps not below this vid) there are still true aryans left among the iranians, yet the iranians as a whole cannot be considered a WHITE people. The intermingling with arabs and mongols has left its traces.
Indian mercenary units were a regular part of most persian armies
The main problem with the Iranians is that they think that Arabs hates them because they are persian, Arabs are not racist at all, and the history can prove that.
Arabs are suctarian, they hate iranies because most of iran people are Shi'ite, but the Sunni persians are like brothers to us we love them and we are ready to sacrifice our selfs for them.
The shiite considered non Muslims in the islamic ummah, they even worship hussain and ali more than god him self! And hitting thier selfs and crying for hussain, muslims dont do that.
+Sasuke uchiha oh yeah, why?
+Arabian ambassador why is it that almost every terrorist group are sunni coincidence I don't think so
+Sasuke uchiha aha very good quastion, i can answer that, the reason behind it if i may summary it in one word is (oppression )
there wasn't any terror activities until the establishment of israel, and the global support to the Arabic dictators (agents of the west) and the manipulation of religion.
also, ignorance considered a main reason.
Why do Sunni's always hate on Shia can't the mind their own fucking business at least we don't blow are self up and kill people.
@samioa I have never stated that being Aryan signifies a Nordic physical appearance. I base my arguments on science and not semantics. Haplogroup researches show that Iranians are not pure Aryans. Of course you have some traditions left but you speaking your original language means nothing. Take a look at the Kurds, look into the eyes of an anthropologist and claim that they are Aryans.