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Great video. I'm always interested in Silk Road and Chinese-Non Chinese relations. I would highly suggest that you lower the background music or even better not have it for most or all of the video. I find generic background music to be distracting and unnecessary. I firmly believe people want to hear you speak/get information and not hear background music.
Chinese relations with Persia were so strong during the late Sasanian Empire because the Chinese had supremacy in Central Asia - the area that connected the two civilisations. But in 751 AD, precisely a hundred years after the fall of the Sasanian Empire, the Chinese lost the Battle of Talas (in modern day Kyrgyzstan) to the Abbasid Caliphate, who went on to replace the Chinese as the masters of the Central Asian region. From then on, Islamic influences replaced Chinese ones in Central Asia, and China was cut off from the region, and therefore reoriented away from Central Asia and the Middle East.
People keep talking about battle of talas. But that wasn’t at all a important battle for Tang Dynasty. Tang still holds great power and lose close to nothing from this conflict. The real incident that makes tang weak was always the an shi rebellion
@@ironheart5830 As cool as it might've been, you can't blame them for not really caring about Central Asia past a certain point. The Muslims at least had a motivation in the form of spreading their religious influence, but there wasn't really anything of strategic importance there for the Tang. At one point the Chinese sought Central Asia for good horses, but the Tang already had enough territory in the north to make this a non-issue.
@@limonbattery I don't think the Tang dynasty cared so much about who ruled Iran and Central Asia, probably no more than the Europeans did about the fall of the Ming dynasty.
Paper Cat The battle allowed the Abbasids to send as many missionaries as they want leading to Central Asia becoming Muslim, it is important but not for China.
Kings and generals have made a video about the ant caliphate Alliance which is what this video talks about but the kings and generals channel talks about it in more detail. They have also made a series on the early Muslim conquests including the conquest of Persia.
@@mobeenkhan824 They're where I first learned about this, but it's cool to see more channels discussing it too. Everyone knows that the Sassanids were displaced with the rise of Islam, but not many stop to think of what happened to them beyond that.
I'm Persian and proud of your work. Mainstream media try hard to ignore our glorious history. When I see videos like this I'm thankful for people who do this. Thank you
@@jeuxdeterre6205 I think you just forgot that 2500 years ago China was a little part of our empire and the korean empire was older than China let alone Persian empire. Where civilizations begun
Haven't checked this channel in a while, but damn!! It's already close to 50k subscribers. I remember when I got here, it was only 5k something. So glad this channel is growing up quickly. The combination of being historically accurate and entertaining (often in a funny way), is this channel's greatest forte. And yes, the Sassanid refuge to Tang was one of the most underrated events in history. We're talking about the big boys of the second half of the first millenium here.
iranian student of history here.great channel with great contents some corrections : ctesiphon was located in mesopotamia not in media as you shown in the video,also persian emperors never paid tribute to chinese and never considered themseleve vassals of chinese emperor not before the fall of the empire
Yes, exactly Sasanian Empire was a superpower during the reign of Shapur I and II and again during Khosrow Anushirwan and Khosrow Parvez up until 626 CE.
Hey CJ, will you possibly do an episode on the Sogdians somewhere in the future? Can't really talk about Tang Dynasty's globalist outlook and cosmopolitan lifestyle without their presence in East Asia and beyond.
Somebody tell Ubisoft to set their next Prince of Persia game in Chang An (Xian) and call it Last Prince of Persia and gamers will go WTF why’s it in China ?! when they boot up the game 😛
@@CoolHistoryBros how would have she according to this theory? It looks interesting. There are many theories like this. Joan of Arc, for example, was rumored to have escaped the pyre.
It was actually based on a poem written about her long after her death, so it can't be relied upon for factual accuracy. In Japanese folklore, Abe no Nakamaro brought her to Japan. Some Shinto legend even say that she was a Shinto God who went to China in disguise to ruin the country because it was rumoured that Tang wanted to attack Japan. Those legends are not based on any historical facts, of course, but it would make really fun game plots.
honestly, i want to give you praise for basically nailing the names of everything you are saying. like, it feels legit, alot of people will say something like "sorry if i butcher the names, im trying my best." but you can tell that an ounce of effort was even put into trying to say it correctly. so, i thank you for that. also, just the sheer amount of research you guys probably have to do for the video, is commendable.
Strange how history reflects itself in the present. Now Iran is seeking China's aid in the face of US sanctions. The names might have changed but it is the same characters performing the same play.
Not really. Modern day Iran and modern China have little to do with the nations of the past and alliances shift every few decades. Iran was a US ally for most of the 20th century - such as when Iran was under the Shah's rule. China was sort of an ally of the USA after the Sino-Soviet split as China became hostile to the USSR.
@@Intranetusa I see it quite differently. The isolationist image we have of Iran & China is very much a recent phenomena. In the past both regions were very cosmopolitan and interacted with each other. It was only during the Ming & Qing Dynasties that China started looking inwards. In the later half of Mao's rule China had a split with Russia, but the relationship has thawed considerably in recent years.
@@426mak Yes. The Iranian Revolution and the Communist Revolution turned both Iran and China inwards and quasi-isolationist, which is in contrast to the historically much more open and cosmopolitan nations and governments that ruled over these regions in the past.
@@Intranetusa Modern day Iran and modern China have deep connections to the empires of the past. The people of Iran and China are keenly aware of those connections and their ambitions are tied into them. China and Iran are the most successful perennial superpowers in history, and it's quite likely that they will follow their typical pathways forward. The western view of history as strictly linear is both self-serving and short sighted. And China today is proving just how wrong that view is.
Good video and very interesting story. There is a mistake though: the city of Ctesiphon was near modern day Baghdad. Next time you could make something about the relations between the Tang dynasty and the Islamic powers who followed the Sassanids, or about the way in which the Byzantines stole the secret of silk from China and began producing it in their own empire. If I remember well two Byzantine monks stole some silkworms, and the mulberry leaves needed to feed them, and hid them in their canes. This would make an interesting video.
Of course we are. Even about a week ago a Japanese mother died(called Saba baba yee. She was a hero for us. especially in Iran-Iraq war. I am sad for her. She made a great story between Iran and Japan.
I really enjoyed the video! Thank you for doing it. I thought it was interesting and sad the Sassanids got in trouble due to bad luck. But glad the Tang was nice enough to offer them sanctuary.
5:50 is very interesting to me. I had always thought that "波斯" was the translation of the Greek word "Persia" (in its English form) and I was unaware that the word was used in ancient times in China, since the ancient Chinese had direct contacts with the ancient Iranians (without relying on any mediation from Greek speaking people). Althought it is possible that the ancient Chinese got the name "Persia" from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, or people from other "Greekified" (due to the conquest of Alexander the Great) areas of Asia. It's really strange that the ancient Chinese of Northern Zhou would consider "波斯" to be the name of a king rather than the country.
The word "Persia" in itself stems from foreign ignorance. It's equivalent to calling China "land of the Hans" out of nationalism, despite there being numerous other ethnic groups.
i believe there was a civil war and terrible plague famine and destructive wars an one province which was arab in the civil war won over the other provinces as opposed just to external invasion of arabs later on we saved our culture and language unlike egyptians who lost it and made a rennesanse come back at 15th century cultural hegemony of persianate world was at every court goverment judicery laws and taxation were conducted by persians in persian language from india to ottomon empire and science and advisors of mutazila scientific movement of islam was led by them and even the calander remained the same as sassanians cause it was easier for agriculture tax datesand later on persian art being more cosmopolitan in accepting paitings and icon than strict sunni interpertation to more sufis and shias
This is good stuff. We’re taught that the Arabs just steamrolled over the Sassanid Persians after being worn out from decades of fighting the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. I knew something about The Sassanian Empire’s relationship with T’ang Dynasty China but didn’t know they had such a good relationship. 🙏🏽
The Sassanian Dynasty was the second golden age of Persia they had good relationship with not only Chinese Kingdoms but with various Indian kingdoms too
1:33 if I'm not mistaken, Kitab Ajaib-ul Hind roughly translates to A Book On The Wonders of India. I wonder why the author gave the book such a misleading name. Japan and India are quite far apart.
Gyeongju was the capital of Shilla for 992 years . Because it is located in the southeast of Korean peninsula, It was less attacked and therefore lots of artifacts and ruins are still remained compared to Seoul. There were some rock-made statues of Persians ,guarding the loyals tomb. There were even some stutues of persians playing polo, Which is known that persians brought this sports through the Silkroad.(It became one the most played sports In Goryeo and early Joseon).In Kitāb al Masālik w’al Mamālik (The Book of Roads and Kingdoms), written by persian geographer Ibn Khurdãdhibah ( 820∼912) , lots of muslims settled in Shilla. Some people of ʿAlawīyyah even exiled to Shilla to escape from Umayyad Caliphate. ancient Korea was actually more related to Islam society then nowadays.
Wow! That is literally such an interesting historical tidbit! Now I really wish some history youtubers would make a video on that very topic. Thank you for bringing that to our attention tho
The Audio doesn't sound right with Stereo. I have no idea how to say it, but vaguely described: It feels like some tones are louder on the right and most others are louder on the left. Or maybe the right is delayed.
Persia has had a great influence on Chinese culture, which is always underestimeted. For example, Chinese style buildings usually have two lion statues in front of the door. It is siad a Persian custom. The Chinese word for lion, 狮子, was actually derived from Persian because China did't have lions. The earlist Christianity in China was introduced by Persians, and the story was recorded by a famous tablet called 大秦景教流行中国碑. China's giant company, Alibaba, took its name from a well-known Persian story.If you think about it, much of Chinese culture is actually introduced by Persians along the Silk Road.
Wak wak refers to the Archipelago of East India (Malaysia & Indonesia), and it seems that many people still believe in that mythized story of Wak Wak a Persian reference of Japan. meanwhile medieval Persian names for Vietnam and Cambodia are al-Sanf (Champa), Luqin (dai Viet) and Rmir (Cambodia). The Ilkhaanate reference for Dai Viet (Annam in Yuan sources) as "Kafjih-Guh, with capital Lukin-fu" or Jiaozhi quo with capital Hanoi. Luqin = Lukin = Long Bien= Hanoi.
Kyushu island was called WA by the Chinese, not wrong at all, Wak Wak was no specific place but the Generic term for ISLANDS occupying the Imaginary of unreachable and Fabulous Wealth. The Persian descriptions of WAK more or less overlap with the old Chinese narratives of WA as located beyond the Ocean and Next to where the Sun rises Ibn Khordadbeh mentions Waqwaq twice: ''East of China are the lands of Waqwaq, which are so rich in gold that the inhabitants make the chains for their dogs and the collars for their monkeys of this metal. They manufacture tunics woven with gold. Excellent ebony wood is found there. Gold and ebony are exported from Waqwaq.'' There are Monkeys in Japan, gold and wood were widely exported to China in the Medieval era. Marco Polo who never visited Japan, reports after learning from the Chinese - THE land is rich in GOLD
This means the end of Iran... China now has access to Irans' resources... China would suck as much stuff they can. China doesn't give a shi*. China legit kills their own people and you think they would care for Iran, they just want to use iran. Not to mention Iran's government is corrupt and literally none of the money will be spend on Iran's people.
I suggest you watch the series "Longest Day in Chang An" , so far it is the most realistic cinematic portrayal of Tang dynasty, to get you the glimpse of how glorious the Great Tang was.
It is not impossible that he married the royalty, many non-Chinese people during the Tang dynasty did. But I can't find any records of him marrying a specific high profile member of the royal family in the old and new book of Tang.
Persian mixed with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Can you imagine the food? Architecture? Armor, weapons, and fashion? Be a good basis for a fantasy setting, be it a Lord of the Rings like movie, or an Elder Scrolls game or level in something like Spyro.
I remember reading up on this and it was just fascinating. Just goes to show Tang was very Cosmopolitan and accepting. Also the Tang got their clothing style from Sogdia/Persia. They called the clothing “Hufu” and was colorful robes with upturn collars and women wore them too. The Round Collar robes also was influenced from Sodians as well as the Xianbei when Northern Wei ruled northern China.
The videos great, but my only gripe is that the maps for the Achaemenids and Sasanians are a bit off. The former should have the lands west of the Indus River in its control. The Sasanians should also have Mesopotamia, and Ctesiphon was on the banks of the Tigris.
I really wish a video about the romance of three kingdoms or about the Sima clan (I love the series “advisor alliance” and “growling tigers, soaring dragons”)
There are too many conflicting accounts regarding Bodhidharma and it is difficult to separate the legends from the facts. Some sources say that he's from India and he's popularly depicted to be so in China.
I always wondered how different history would’ve been if the Chinese were able to come to the aid of the Persians against the invading Arabs and defeat them.
Good video, however the Sassanians defeated the Byzantine army to the point that there was a peace treaty between them where Byzantine was obligated to stay within its borders but the Sassanian congress of the elite was outraged and did not see that as a victory but as a compromise. So this is where all the internal wars started in Iran when within 5 years 12 kings and queens were replaced. This in turn total demoralized and unstablized the empire. In the mean while there were wars with barbaric Turkick, Huns, and Arabic tribs in 3 different fronts which also had weakend the emperial army. This is exactly when the barbaric Arabs took note of the weak situation of the Sassanians and started their attacks to Iran which took the. 200 years to conquer but then different Persian dynasties rose against the genocidal Arabs and kicked them out of Iran forever.
i believe there was a civil war and terrible plague famine and destructive wars an one province which was arab in the civil war won over the other provinces as opposed just to external invasion of arabs later on we saved our culture and language unlike egyptians who lost it and made a rennesanse come back at 15th century cultural hegemony of persianate world was at every court goverment judicery laws and taxation were conducted by persians in persian language from india to ottomon empire and science and advisors of mutazila scientific movement of islam was led by them and even the calander remained the same as sassanians cause it was easier for agriculture tax datesand later on persian art being more cosmopolitan in accepting paitings and icon than strict sunni interpertation to more sufis and shias
Great video. I'm curious to why you didn't use a map of the Tang Dynasty that portrays its control over the Tarim Basin and Western Regions? Tang control over those areas (with investments in infrastructure and security) allowed the silk road trading networks to prosper much more. It was thanks to the Tang control of the Western Regions (which stretched into Central Asia and was not far from the edge of the Sassanid Empire) that allowed the Sassanid Royalty to be able to easily flee to Tang China.
@@CoolHistoryBros I mean the map in the beginning and the map at 8:30 both show the Tang territories cut off around Gansu province and doesn't show the Tang's control over the Western Regions that stretched its boundaries close to the eastern edge of the Sassanid Empire. I believe the Tang's Western Protectorate was established by 640 so its territories would've been close to the Sassanid Empire by the time the Sassanid royalty wanted to flee from the Caliphate invasion.
مه فشاند نور و سگ عو عو کند هر کسی بر طینت خود میتند - مولانا رومى The moon sheds light and the dog barks: everyone proceeds according to his nature - Rumi
1:39 How much did you actually research about this? (Vaq Vaq) It kinda looks similar to the island/islands of al-Wakwak en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Wakwak
Thats really fantastic that persian empire had have 700 years of war with Roman and Greek empire . But always be a friend with China . As we see the persian conflict with western world goes on and the persian genetic is working
China supply Asia with Silk..but Philippines supplied The Solomon Kingdom(Israel) and Egypt and China/Japan/India with Gold and Silver.....The Empire of Spain coveted the Gold and Silver of Philippine from year 1521 AD..to 1800 AD...including USA...Philippines paid the Empire of England worth $ 20 million worth of 21 carat of Gold bars in the Treaty of Paris when England defeated the Empire of Spain.
Fascinating - in the content certainly but also in the presentation with nearly perfect (98%) pronunciations of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese names, while assuming that the presenter’s mother tongue is Farsi (100%).
@@littledovecitydust i think the sino japanese war had at least something to do with the formation of the prc. The communist chinese army and the nationalist chinese armies and whatnot.
@@averagetype5heavyenjoyer not really. The Communist Party was formed in 1921 to serve as an advisory party in coalition with the Nationalist Party. This worked when Sun was in power. But when Chiang took over, he started massacring the Communists and purging them from Parliament positions. This led to the communist uprising and the long march. Eventually the Communists settled in Northern Shaanxi and Chiang flew into Xi'an to oversee the eradication of the Yan'an Soviet zone, but he was house arrested by his generals, forcing him into a second alliance against the Japanese aggression. The Communist red army officially became the 8th route army within the national revolutionary army.
Ming Dynasty are also have strong ralationship with Persia East Asian countries are all patically influenced by Persian in the past time, include music, argriculture and Zoroastrianism
Briefly, but the Eastern Roman Empire pushed them back to the original front. Although his second map was completely inaccurate as the Sassanian was shown not to have control of Mesopotamia (Asoristan) and Ctesiphon for some reason is in the mountains of western Media.
@@kaykhosrow3263 ^Exactly. The truth is whenever Sasanians expand to eat out a huge chunk of Roman land, it's written off as "temporary". In the meanwhile the weekend raid of Mesopotamia under Trajan which was held for LESS than 6 months gets plastered everywhere and Roman fanboys throw a girlish fit over anyone who points that out.
Mandarin was official language of East Asia ，just like Latin language to EU Both academic and historical communication required Chinese characters For example, in Japan, normal people calling mountains as “Yama”(Origin-Japanese). But in serious occasion, mountains should be “San/山” （Chinese） So Japanese famous attractions is not "Fuji-Yama" but should be "Fuji-San" Their advanced political words were all from Chinese，for example their leader should be Ten'nō / 天皇, a Chinese word means (Ten)heaven-(nō)emperor Even their country's name was a vocabulary built from the perspective of Chinese people Nihon(Japan) means sun-root, this positional vocabulary was spoken to the Chinese “centralism”. So in WWII, they try using "Yamato" as their own name, but still when they been extreme nationalism and doing suicide charge， they shoutting “Banzai ！”， which is still a Chinese word meas "Ten-thousand year(for the King)" As for Vietnam and Korea, they even use Chinese surnames directly
Persian-Chinese links were quite long and intimate. There were close relations throughout next several dynasties, especially the Yuan and Ming. Some Chinese today (Han and Hui) have Persian ancestry. The opposite "maybe" true as well, (I'm guessing) as there were Chinese interacting in Iran from the time of the Mongol Conquests.
5:19.... huh, now that IS interesting! I had learned the exact opposite way around... that Westerners named it Iran after we won WW1 and that THEY had always called themselves Persians. lol, guess whoever taught me that was wrong! {ding ding ding} The more you know....
no they are rich ... they are not refugees as you think and only dozens of them travelled to Silla，most of them doing business in China mainland，the natural conditions in western China are similar to their home If you can read Chinese , you will know how Tang Dynasty novels describe and document them
@@TK-my7jg Indeed they came as merchant and some actually became official in Silla. But if you also look at the situation in the middle east, some of them just came to Silla for survival.
@@TK-my7jg Pax Tang era was a peace time in East Asia. Even Koreans from Silla and Balhae became Tang officials. Very interesting period, traveling and trading was booming for everyone.
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you need to fix 3d sound, its weird
Great video. I'm always interested in Silk Road and Chinese-Non Chinese relations. I would highly suggest that you lower the background music or even better not have it for most or all of the video. I find generic background music to be distracting and unnecessary. I firmly believe people want to hear you speak/get information and not hear background music.
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Your doing great service to us English speakers thirsty for this knowledge.
Here here!
Chinese relations with Persia were so strong during the late Sasanian Empire because the Chinese had supremacy in Central Asia - the area that connected the two civilisations. But in 751 AD, precisely a hundred years after the fall of the Sasanian Empire, the Chinese lost the Battle of Talas (in modern day Kyrgyzstan) to the Abbasid Caliphate, who went on to replace the Chinese as the masters of the Central Asian region. From then on, Islamic influences replaced Chinese ones in Central Asia, and China was cut off from the region, and therefore reoriented away from Central Asia and the Middle East.
People keep talking about battle of talas. But that wasn’t at all a important battle for Tang Dynasty. Tang still holds great power and lose close to nothing from this conflict. The real incident that makes tang weak was always the an shi rebellion
Tang dynasty China Should had it own Monroe doctrine :(
@@ironheart5830 As cool as it might've been, you can't blame them for not really caring about Central Asia past a certain point. The Muslims at least had a motivation in the form of spreading their religious influence, but there wasn't really anything of strategic importance there for the Tang. At one point the Chinese sought Central Asia for good horses, but the Tang already had enough territory in the north to make this a non-issue.
@@limonbattery I don't think the Tang dynasty cared so much about who ruled Iran and Central Asia, probably no more than the Europeans did about the fall of the Ming dynasty.
Paper Cat
The battle allowed the Abbasids to send as many missionaries as they want leading to Central Asia becoming Muslim, it is important but not for China.
Finally someone made about this, lets goooooo
Kings and generals have made a video about the ant caliphate Alliance which is what this video talks about but the kings and generals channel talks about it in more detail. They have also made a series on the early Muslim conquests including the conquest of Persia.
@@mobeenkhan824 They're where I first learned about this, but it's cool to see more channels discussing it too. Everyone knows that the Sassanids were displaced with the rise of Islam, but not many stop to think of what happened to them beyond that.
Actually, Kings and Generals Made a video about the las sassanids un Tang China. Anyway, the More the better
I'm Persian and proud of your work. Mainstream media try hard to ignore our glorious history. When I see videos like this I'm thankful for people who do this. Thank you
marg bar ayatollah
If this is glorious history, than how should the Chinese feel? With a 5000 year old history and only invaded in the 19th and 20th century?
Persian is a great culture
@@jeuxdeterre6205 China had been invaded a lot of time and not just in 19th and 20th Century
@@jeuxdeterre6205 I think you just forgot that 2500 years ago China was a little part of our empire and the korean empire was older than China let alone Persian empire. Where civilizations begun
Haven't checked this channel in a while, but damn!! It's already close to 50k subscribers. I remember when I got here, it was only 5k something. So glad this channel is growing up quickly. The combination of being historically accurate and entertaining (often in a funny way), is this channel's greatest forte. And yes, the Sassanid refuge to Tang was one of the most underrated events in history. We're talking about the big boys of the second half of the first millenium here.
He knows how the algorithm works, the algorithm favours channels that upload frequently, glad he is taking advantage of this.
If I'm not mistaken, Abe no Nakamaro (Chinese name: Cháo Héng) also became the governor of Annam (Vietnam).
That's right. Lots of interesting stuff happened around him. He was in the right place at the wrong time.
@@CoolHistoryBros please do on asian jurisprudence
@天罚 Using your logic you Chinese are just children of Mongol,Manchu and Japanese soldiers then? lol
@@teovu5557 Of course not, hes talking about how vietnam being part of China for 1000 years.
@@teovu5557 Just like you are the child of my dog, right?
iranian student of history here.great channel with great contents
some corrections :
ctesiphon was located in mesopotamia not in media as you shown in the video,also persian emperors never paid tribute to chinese and never considered themseleve vassals of chinese emperor not before the fall of the empire
Yes, exactly Sasanian Empire was a superpower during the reign of Shapur I and II and again during Khosrow Anushirwan and Khosrow Parvez up until 626 CE.
u r right, I'm history student of China
Can we talk about how Aladdin was supposed to be Chinese in the original story he was in?
Way ahead of you, buddy.
I've already made a video about it: ua-cam.com/video/z9byjwstN18/v-deo.html
Hey CJ, will you possibly do an episode on the Sogdians somewhere in the future? Can't really talk about Tang Dynasty's globalist outlook and cosmopolitan lifestyle without their presence in East Asia and beyond.
Somebody tell Ubisoft to set their next Prince of Persia game in Chang An (Xian) and call it Last Prince of Persia and gamers will go WTF why’s it in China ?! when they boot up the game 😛
It would be even more awesome if they cover the conspiracy that Yang Guifei faked her death.
@@CoolHistoryBros how would have she according to this theory? It looks interesting. There are many theories like this. Joan of Arc, for example, was rumored to have escaped the pyre.
It was actually based on a poem written about her long after her death, so it can't be relied upon for factual accuracy. In Japanese folklore, Abe no Nakamaro brought her to Japan. Some Shinto legend even say that she was a Shinto God who went to China in disguise to ruin the country because it was rumoured that Tang wanted to attack Japan. Those legends are not based on any historical facts, of course, but it would make really fun game plots.
So if they incorporate the Yan Guifei conspiracy, the game would technically take place in China and Japan, basically any where but Persia.
I'll totally would buy it.
honestly, i want to give you praise for basically nailing the names of everything you are saying. like, it feels legit, alot of people will say something like "sorry if i butcher the names, im trying my best." but you can tell that an ounce of effort was even put into trying to say it correctly. so, i thank you for that.
also, just the sheer amount of research you guys probably have to do for the video, is commendable.
Great video!
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Strange how history reflects itself in the present. Now Iran is seeking China's aid in the face of US sanctions. The names might have changed but it is the same characters performing the same play.
Not really. Modern day Iran and modern China have little to do with the nations of the past and alliances shift every few decades. Iran was a US ally for most of the 20th century - such as when Iran was under the Shah's rule. China was sort of an ally of the USA after the Sino-Soviet split as China became hostile to the USSR.
@@Intranetusa I see it quite differently. The isolationist image we have of Iran & China is very much a recent phenomena.
In the past both regions were very cosmopolitan and interacted with each other. It was only during the Ming & Qing Dynasties that China started looking inwards.
In the later half of Mao's rule China had a split with Russia, but the relationship has thawed considerably in recent years.
@@426mak Yes. The Iranian Revolution and the Communist Revolution turned both Iran and China inwards and quasi-isolationist, which is in contrast to the historically much more open and cosmopolitan nations and governments that ruled over these regions in the past.
The games the game, players may change. But the game is the game, it just got more fierce
@@Intranetusa Modern day Iran and modern China have deep connections to the empires of the past. The people of Iran and China are keenly aware of those connections and their ambitions are tied into them. China and Iran are the most successful perennial superpowers in history, and it's quite likely that they will follow their typical pathways forward. The western view of history as strictly linear is both self-serving and short sighted. And China today is proving just how wrong that view is.
Good video and very interesting story. There is a mistake though: the city of Ctesiphon was near modern day Baghdad.
Next time you could make something about the relations between the Tang dynasty and the Islamic powers who followed the Sassanids, or about the way in which the Byzantines stole the secret of silk from China and began producing it in their own empire. If I remember well two Byzantine monks stole some silkworms, and the mulberry leaves needed to feed them, and hid them in their canes. This would make an interesting video.
Ah, you're right. I must have confused the position of Therhar and Van Lake which I used as marker.
Awesome piece in the link between ancient Persia and China
I'm Japanese. It's fascinating to know the connection between Japan and Iran, because Iran has really significant and underrated culture and history.
The Arabian nights in also a Arabic copy of the earlier work in Sassanid Persia known as "Hazar Afsaneh" or 1000 tales
@@Shahanshah.Shahin That's interesting too
Of course we are. Even about a week ago a Japanese mother died(called Saba baba yee. She was a hero for us. especially in Iran-Iraq war. I am sad for her. She made a great story between Iran and Japan.
@@Shahanshah.Shahin هزار دستان.
There are many weebs/otakus in iran.
I really enjoyed the video! Thank you for doing it.
I thought it was interesting and sad the Sassanids got in trouble due to bad luck. But glad the Tang was nice enough to offer them sanctuary.
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Very great. I loved that. Even I did not know there is any koshname. We read Shahname of ferdowis.
Another video with great content! Thank you!
Can you make a video about the connection of Rome to China and the interactions between China and Rome?
5:50 is very interesting to me. I had always thought that "波斯" was the translation of the Greek word "Persia" (in its English form) and I was unaware that the word was used in ancient times in China, since the ancient Chinese had direct contacts with the ancient Iranians (without relying on any mediation from Greek speaking people). Althought it is possible that the ancient Chinese got the name "Persia" from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, or people from other "Greekified" (due to the conquest of Alexander the Great) areas of Asia. It's really strange that the ancient Chinese of Northern Zhou would consider "波斯" to be the name of a king rather than the country.
In fact the Persians were the ones mediating contact between the Chinese and the west.
The word "Persia" in itself stems from foreign ignorance. It's equivalent to calling China "land of the Hans" out of nationalism, despite there being numerous other ethnic groups.
great thank you for sharing
Dear Cool History Bros, please do a video or series of video on the kingdom of Tibet and if it interacted with china. That would be sweet. Thank you.
Wow I wouldn't have expected NordVPN to sponsor you
Well, I guess it's due to the international appeal.
@@CoolHistoryBros yeah that's probably why
Your multilingual pronounciation is awesome.
Can you also do Mughal Chinese Relations as well? And General Chinese-Muslim relations?
Just found your channel and LOVE it! Thanks!
Awesome as always!
I'm not Iranian but I am proud of my Sassanian neighbors, too bad they lost to the Arabs.
i believe there was a civil war and terrible plague famine and destructive wars an one province which was arab in the civil war won over the other provinces as opposed just to external invasion of arabs later on we saved our culture and language unlike egyptians who lost it and made a rennesanse come back at 15th century cultural hegemony of persianate world was at every court goverment judicery laws and taxation were conducted by persians in persian language from india to ottomon empire and science and advisors of mutazila scientific movement of islam was led by them and even the calander remained the same as sassanians cause it was easier for agriculture tax datesand later on persian art being more cosmopolitan in accepting paitings and icon than strict sunni interpertation to more sufis and shias
Do you hate arab and muslims?
more content please !!! best content
This is good stuff. We’re taught that the Arabs just steamrolled over the Sassanid Persians after being worn out from decades of fighting the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire. I knew something about The Sassanian Empire’s relationship with T’ang Dynasty China but didn’t know they had such a good relationship. 🙏🏽
But they were worn out
The Sassanian Dynasty was the second golden age of Persia they had good relationship with not only Chinese Kingdoms but with various Indian kingdoms too
It's amazing how interconnected everything is. I had no idea that a war all the way in Korea affected the Persians and Arabs.
Oh! So this is where Fujisaki Ryu's manga "Wāqwāq" came from.
Oh, I forgot that he still draws manga after Houshin Engi.
1:33 if I'm not mistaken, Kitab Ajaib-ul Hind roughly translates to A Book On The Wonders of India. I wonder why the author gave the book such a misleading name. Japan and India are quite far apart.
Japan is but one of the many places mentioned in the book.
@@CoolHistoryBros I was thinking will you make videos about the Raja Raja Lalit Aditya (Raja is a title) invasion of Tibet and central Asia, please.
Wow! You’re growing so fast! Congrats bro!
좋은 정보 감사합니다
Thank you for the helpful information.
Congrats on the sponsor guys! and awesome topic here, thanks again for highlighting things that otherwise would just be left ignored.
Gyeongju was the capital of Shilla for 992 years . Because it is located in the southeast of Korean peninsula, It was less attacked and therefore lots of artifacts and ruins are still remained compared to Seoul. There were some rock-made statues of Persians ,guarding the loyals tomb. There were even some stutues of persians playing polo, Which is known that persians brought this sports through the Silkroad.(It became one the most played sports In Goryeo and early Joseon).In Kitāb al Masālik w’al Mamālik (The Book of Roads and Kingdoms), written by persian geographer Ibn Khurdãdhibah ( 820∼912) , lots of muslims settled in Shilla. Some people of ʿAlawīyyah even exiled to Shilla to escape from Umayyad Caliphate. ancient Korea was actually more related to Islam society then nowadays.
Wow! That is literally such an interesting historical tidbit! Now I really wish some history youtubers would make a video on that very topic. Thank you for bringing that to our attention tho
@@imagonnasah8319 People yes, religion no.
It was Nice and informative
I assume Vietnam wasnt mentioned by the Persian then because it was the annam province of China :) ?
Most likely.
U think?!
@@djtan3313 i assume. Do u reed?
The Audio doesn't sound right with Stereo.
I have no idea how to say it, but vaguely described:
It feels like some tones are louder on the right and most others are louder on the left. Or maybe the right is delayed.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I think I know what to do to fix this issue in future episodes.
Persia has had a great influence on Chinese culture, which is always underestimeted. For example, Chinese style buildings usually have two lion statues in front of the door. It is siad a Persian custom. The Chinese word for lion, 狮子, was actually derived from Persian because China did't have lions. The earlist Christianity in China was introduced by Persians, and the story was recorded by a famous tablet called 大秦景教流行中国碑. China's giant company, Alibaba, took its name from a well-known Persian story.If you think about it, much of Chinese culture is actually introduced by Persians along the Silk Road.
Wak wak refers to the Archipelago of East India (Malaysia & Indonesia), and it seems that many people still believe in that mythized story of Wak Wak a Persian reference of Japan.
meanwhile medieval Persian names for Vietnam and Cambodia are al-Sanf (Champa), Luqin (dai Viet) and Rmir (Cambodia). The Ilkhaanate reference for Dai Viet (Annam in Yuan sources) as "Kafjih-Guh, with capital Lukin-fu" or Jiaozhi quo with capital Hanoi. Luqin = Lukin = Long Bien= Hanoi.
Kyushu island was called WA by the Chinese, not wrong at all, Wak Wak was no specific place but the Generic term for ISLANDS occupying the Imaginary of unreachable and Fabulous Wealth. The Persian descriptions of WAK more or less overlap with the old Chinese narratives of WA as located beyond the Ocean and Next to where the Sun rises
Ibn Khordadbeh mentions Waqwaq twice:
''East of China are the lands of Waqwaq, which are so rich in gold that the inhabitants make the chains for their dogs and the collars for their monkeys of this metal. They manufacture tunics woven with gold. Excellent ebony wood is found there. Gold and ebony are exported from Waqwaq.''
There are Monkeys in Japan, gold and wood were widely exported to China in the Medieval era. Marco Polo who never visited Japan, reports after learning from the Chinese - THE land is rich in GOLD
True friendship. China and Iran have just signed a 400 billion deal for 25 years.
This means the end of Iran... China now has access to Irans' resources... China would suck as much stuff they can. China doesn't give a shi*. China legit kills their own people and you think they would care for Iran, they just want to use iran. Not to mention Iran's government is corrupt and literally none of the money will be spend on Iran's people.
@@Karim-jp5ko Iranian regime won't last much. Iranian people will gain power in few years.
Wow nice video
Tang dynasty. It was such a golden age, until now Southern Chinese called themselves Tanglang, meaning People of Tang, not Han.
Ironically Chinese during the Tang Dynasty called themselves Han and 漢國/Kingdom of Han is also one of China’s offical name during the Tang Dynasty.
I suggest you watch the series "Longest Day in Chang An" , so far it is the most realistic cinematic portrayal of Tang dynasty, to get you the glimpse of how glorious the Great Tang was.
Glory again.
The Tang identity is severely damaged by the NTD cult.
@@littledovecitydust who is this NTD cult.
I just love this period of highly interconnected civilization in Medieval era.
Mohamed Elhassan
I think mentioned Vàq Vàq is australia. There is city or town in Australia named Wagga Wagga
Great video, tho the ctesiphon isn't there you moved north a lot lol, it's in mesopotamia near baghdad
Well i read somewhere that Peroz or Narseih married into Chinese nobility and turned native ......
It is not impossible that he married the royalty, many non-Chinese people during the Tang dynasty did. But I can't find any records of him marrying a specific high profile member of the royal family in the old and new book of Tang.
@@CoolHistoryBros
Well if not from royality perhaps from the court nobility
Keep up with good work though and thanks
Checking out the video per recommendation in History Slack Group!
Persian mixed with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Can you imagine the food? Architecture? Armor, weapons, and fashion? Be a good basis for a fantasy setting, be it a Lord of the Rings like movie, or an Elder Scrolls game or level in something like Spyro.
I remember reading up on this and it was just fascinating. Just goes to show Tang was very Cosmopolitan and accepting. Also the Tang got their clothing style from Sogdia/Persia. They called the clothing “Hufu” and was colorful robes with upturn collars and women wore them too. The Round Collar robes also was influenced from Sodians as well as the Xianbei when Northern Wei ruled northern China.
Some influence not all . Wei was already heavily Chinese influenced . You over exaggerate the influence on clothing .
The videos great, but my only gripe is that the maps for the Achaemenids and Sasanians are a bit off. The former should have the lands west of the Indus River in its control. The Sasanians should also have Mesopotamia, and Ctesiphon was on the banks of the Tigris.
It is map of Yazdgerd empire. That was second kasra or Khosrow parviz
Yes, very few know that Chang'an was the New York City back in those days.
Oh yeah!! King and general did mention this
I really wish a video about the romance of three kingdoms or about the Sima clan (I love the series “advisor alliance” and “growling tigers, soaring dragons”)
Surprised you actually didn't mention *Bodhidharma!*
He was the founder of Zen (Chan/Seon) and he was Iranian.
There are too many conflicting accounts regarding Bodhidharma and it is difficult to separate the legends from the facts. Some sources say that he's from India and he's popularly depicted to be so in China.
I can v much see ancient Persian spirituality in Zen philosophy...
@@CoolHistoryBros but his look is not Chinese even in Chinese paintings
He is an Indian prince.
Bodhidharma was not a Prince he was an Indian Buddhist monk from south india who travelled to China via the ancient Indo-Pacific maritime trade route
The story of early nestorian Christians in China is also fascinating.
Yep
@denha yes but some Christian did went east.
Sassanian Persians were Zoroastrian
Oh my goodness, the auto generated subtitles in the first 15 seconds are just comical.
" some of the people of Anxi (Persia) went as far as Silla (Korea) thru our lands " - Jiao Wien
I always wondered how different history would’ve been if the Chinese were able to come to the aid of the Persians against the invading Arabs and defeat them.
Good video, however the Sassanians defeated the Byzantine army to the point that there was a peace treaty between them where Byzantine was obligated to stay within its borders but the Sassanian congress of the elite was outraged and did not see that as a victory but as a compromise. So this is where all the internal wars started in Iran when within 5 years 12 kings and queens were replaced. This in turn total demoralized and unstablized the empire. In the mean while there were wars with barbaric Turkick, Huns, and Arabic tribs in 3 different fronts which also had weakend the emperial army. This is exactly when the barbaric Arabs took note of the weak situation of the Sassanians and started their attacks to Iran which took the. 200 years to conquer but then different Persian dynasties rose against the genocidal Arabs and kicked them out of Iran forever.
i believe there was a civil war and terrible plague famine and destructive wars an one province which was arab in the civil war won over the other provinces as opposed just to external invasion of arabs later on we saved our culture and language unlike egyptians who lost it and made a rennesanse come back at 15th century cultural hegemony of persianate world was at every court goverment judicery laws and taxation were conducted by persians in persian language from india to ottomon empire and science and advisors of mutazila scientific movement of islam was led by them and even the calander remained the same as sassanians cause it was easier for agriculture tax datesand later on persian art being more cosmopolitan in accepting paitings and icon than strict sunni interpertation to more sufis and shias
Great video. I'm curious to why you didn't use a map of the Tang Dynasty that portrays its control over the Tarim Basin and Western Regions? Tang control over those areas (with investments in infrastructure and security) allowed the silk road trading networks to prosper much more. It was thanks to the Tang control of the Western Regions (which stretched into Central Asia and was not far from the edge of the Sassanid Empire) that allowed the Sassanid Royalty to be able to easily flee to Tang China.
What do you mean? It's there in the second half of the video.
@@CoolHistoryBros I mean the map in the beginning and the map at 8:30 both show the Tang territories cut off around Gansu province and doesn't show the Tang's control over the Western Regions that stretched its boundaries close to the eastern edge of the Sassanid Empire. I believe the Tang's Western Protectorate was established by 640 so its territories would've been close to the Sassanid Empire by the time the Sassanid royalty wanted to flee from the Caliphate invasion.
I m Arabic and I love the Wark you doing with our history ❤️
Came because curious of the title, subs because I can't stop binging to the channel lol.
Fascinante.
مه فشاند نور و سگ عو عو کند هر کسی بر طینت خود میتند -
مولانا رومى
The moon sheds light and the dog barks: everyone proceeds according to his nature
- Rumi
天地一逆旅，同悲萬古塵
- 李白
The universe is just a hotel in our life-trip, every passers felt sad about this
- Li Bai
Tang Dynasty was also known as The Kingdom of Han and The Middle Kingdom
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1:39 How much did you actually research about this? (Vaq Vaq)
It kinda looks similar to the island/islands of al-Wakwak
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Wakwak
The Sasanian Emperors also called themselves as the Shahanshahs of China.
Thats really fantastic that persian empire had have 700 years of war with Roman and Greek empire . But always be a friend with China . As we see the persian conflict with western world goes on and the persian genetic is working
It's a shame there were no huge mountains and deserts between Rome and Persia, it would have certainly helped in their relations
That's bc china was usually too busy fighting with itself.
I had never heard of china before this channel.
That looks like the Afsharid map (which is another Iranian empire) rather than the Sassanid map
That was fantastic
Im from iran and they didn't teach us this information in school because of their politics
China supply Asia with Silk..but Philippines supplied The Solomon Kingdom(Israel) and Egypt and China/Japan/India with Gold and Silver.....The Empire of Spain coveted the Gold and Silver of Philippine from year 1521 AD..to 1800 AD...including USA...Philippines paid the Empire of England worth $ 20 million worth of 21 carat of Gold bars in the Treaty of Paris when England defeated the Empire of Spain.
VAQ VAQ means Dog's bark in Persian
Fascinating - in the content certainly but also in the presentation with nearly perfect (98%) pronunciations of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese names, while assuming that the presenter’s mother tongue is Farsi (100%).
Day 1 of asking for a video on the history of the prc from 1930 to 2020.
The PRC didn't form until 1949
@@littledovecitydust i think the sino japanese war had at least something to do with the formation of the prc. The communist chinese army and the nationalist chinese armies and whatnot.
@@averagetype5heavyenjoyer not really. The Communist Party was formed in 1921 to serve as an advisory party in coalition with the Nationalist Party. This worked when Sun was in power. But when Chiang took over, he started massacring the Communists and purging them from Parliament positions. This led to the communist uprising and the long march. Eventually the Communists settled in Northern Shaanxi and Chiang flew into Xi'an to oversee the eradication of the Yan'an Soviet zone, but he was house arrested by his generals, forcing him into a second alliance against the Japanese aggression. The Communist red army officially became the 8th route army within the national revolutionary army.
@@littledovecitydust well, damn. So what about when the communist party came to power? That war against sparrows? Tiananmen square?
@@averagetype5heavyenjoyer you want me to walk you through fifty years of history? Maybe I should send you my bitcoin address.
Please make one video about the shahmiri dynasty of kashmir and china
6:35
Ob the upper part of the picture there is text that I dont recognize. What language is it?
Maritime trade routes are also important IMO
please set the subtitle to english
Ming Dynasty are also have strong ralationship with Persia
East Asian countries are all patically influenced by Persian in the past time, include music, argriculture and Zoroastrianism
Nope not that strong as the Tang Dynasty
Yes, Safavid had great relation with them.
@@Shahanshah.Shahin I do not think Khosrow parviz think that 😂
0:21
Sassanid was a big empire at it greatest times
Egypt Levant Yemen Oman East Arabia Anatolia Caucus Central Asia were Sassanian Lands too
Briefly, but the Eastern Roman Empire pushed them back to the original front. Although his second map was completely inaccurate as the Sassanian was shown not to have control of Mesopotamia (Asoristan) and Ctesiphon for some reason is in the mountains of western Media.
@@dabo5078 most maps show romans controlling mesopotamia, which was for 2 years, then why not Sassanid 20 years of levant, egypt anatolia and rhodes?
@@kaykhosrow3263 ^Exactly. The truth is whenever Sasanians expand to eat out a huge chunk of Roman land, it's written off as "temporary". In the meanwhile the weekend raid of Mesopotamia under Trajan which was held for LESS than 6 months gets plastered everywhere and Roman fanboys throw a girlish fit over anyone who points that out.
I am gonna tell my sisters kids that This was the history Channel
good to know which period japan and china on
most videos don't show it
how did the communicate back then? everyone spoke mandarin?
Mandarin was official language of East Asia ，just like Latin language to EU
Both academic and historical communication required Chinese characters
For example, in Japan, normal people calling mountains as “Yama”(Origin-Japanese). But in serious occasion, mountains should be “San/山” （Chinese）
So Japanese famous attractions is not "Fuji-Yama" but should be "Fuji-San"
Their advanced political words were all from Chinese，for example their leader should be Ten'nō / 天皇, a Chinese word means (Ten)heaven-(nō)emperor
Even their country's name was a vocabulary built from the perspective of Chinese people
Nihon(Japan) means sun-root, this positional vocabulary was spoken to the Chinese “centralism”.
So in WWII, they try using "Yamato" as their own name,
but still when they been extreme nationalism and doing suicide charge， they shoutting “Banzai ！”， which is still a Chinese word meas "Ten-thousand year(for the King)"
As for Vietnam and Korea, they even use Chinese surnames directly
Persian-Chinese links were quite long and intimate.
There were close relations throughout next several dynasties, especially the Yuan and Ming.
Some Chinese today (Han and Hui) have Persian ancestry.
The opposite "maybe" true as well, (I'm guessing) as there were Chinese interacting in Iran from the time of the Mongol Conquests.
More southeast asian history plz
Theres a reason Jack decided to name his company Alibaba, everyone in China knows Alibaba from their early childhood stories.
Ali baba was a Persian story which was translated into Arabic around 800 CE.
@@Shahanshah.Shahin exactly
Can I ask a question really quick, which source stated that the Sassanids paid tributes to Tang China and considered themselves vassals to China?
Prior to Peroz III they didn't
@@Shahanshah.Shahin i see.
Fall of tang dynasty ultimately landed this persian in japan.
Not this person but his descendants
5:19.... huh, now that IS interesting! I had learned the exact opposite way around... that Westerners named it Iran after we won WW1 and that THEY had always called themselves Persians. lol, guess whoever taught me that was wrong! {ding ding ding} The more you know....
That’s not where Ctesiphon is supposed to be 😐
Is it me or does anyone get whispers on the right side of my ear from the video
it feels like the microphone audio was balanced more rightwards than leftwards
@@Argacyan Yeah I think that is the case, because I assumed it was my earphones since they're the cheap kind, susceptible to audio issues and such
Some Persians became refugee in Silla.
no they are rich ... they are not refugees as you think
and only dozens of them travelled to Silla，most of them doing business in China mainland，the natural conditions in western China are similar to their home
If you can read Chinese , you will know how Tang Dynasty novels describe and document them
@@TK-my7jg Indeed they came as merchant and some actually became official in Silla. But if you also look at the situation in the middle east, some of them just came to Silla for survival.
@@TK-my7jg Pax Tang era was a peace time in East Asia. Even Koreans from Silla and Balhae became Tang officials. Very interesting period, traveling and trading was booming for everyone.