Sassanian Persian Empire (امپراتوری ساسانی Sassanid Empire) - Shapur I
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2020
- In this second episode of the Sassanian Persian Empire series we take a look at the reign of Shapur I. He would famously capture the Roman emperor Valerian at the Battle of Edessa. He would also build on the foundation laid out by his father Ardashir I. Shapur would reign for 28 years between the years 242 and 270.
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Book Sources:
Sasanian Persia Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia - Eberhard Sauer
Sassanian Elite Cavalry - Kaveh Farrokh
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire - Parvaneh Pourshariati
Sasanian Persia - The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Touraj Daryaee
Rome's Enemies - Parthians and Sassanid Persians - Osprey Publishing
Shadows in the Desert - Ancient Persia at War - Kaveh Farrokh
The Cambridge History - Part 3 Seleucid/Parthian and Sasanid Periods - E. Yarshater
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Its really great to learn about the magnificent era of pre islamic Persia.....Kuros, Shapur, Anushirvan ❤❤❤love to my aryan sisters and brothers in Iran from Hindostan🇮🇳❣️🇮🇷
Shapur I, the Roman nightmare, the developer of the great Sassanid Empire and the conqueror of Kushanshahr, Edessa, Cappadocia and Syria, and the conqueror of the three Roman emperors Gordianus, Philip, and Valerian, who would have easily conquered Asia Minor if the Eastern conquests had not occurred. ،
Payande Iranshahr Bozorg .... 🙏
Valerian: I lead the greatest army in the world everyone should kneel to us
Shapur the great: hold my derafsh kaviani
lol
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very accurate , almost like you witnessed it, everyone knows the Brits and french always lie i mean the Romans lol
Dude, this is great, I love your artwork in this video, and of course, your telling of the story. Amazing job man, keep it up!
Cheers and thanks Cy. It was a long haul this one hehe. Will tell you next time we chat!
Finding Cy here: a crossover of my two new favorite creators!!!! You guys are both awesome!
@@maykonjunkes6027 We are going to be working on a collaboration as soon as our schedules permit. Excited about it so stay tuned!
@@maykonjunkes6027 Thanks man, appreciate it! Like YH said, we're planning something fun for you all...stay tuned!
This is a well searched and quite detailed documentary, I see your animations are improving, as well as your oratory skills, thank you for telling stories of Sassanian history with Persian perspective, hope you continue the series!
Part 3 is now up as I was away for a while!
@@YoreHistory Manichaeism was made in Rome religion to destroy Iranian belief system.
This videos are amazing! Sassaninds started the golden age or let's say the Renaissance of middle east. Later on when arabs conquered Persia they started using the art and mind of sassanids, which started during Abassids and led to Islamic golden age. They created the real Persian culture during their time and they were the ones who created the Islamic culture. Sassanids in my perspective are the best dynasty in Persia and dynasty which influenced many other dynasties for hounded of years. They truly deserve to have movie or a TV show.
The islamic golden age wouldn't have occured if Leo the mathematician hadn't set up the department of mathematics at the house of wisdom in baghdad.
@@Neater_profile It was the individuals who made the golden age happen, through good tutelage and scholarship.
@@Neater_profile Interesting. Any chance you could give a link? I've been looking on the net and can't find anything.
there is no such thing as persian art .. its all copy and paste from the semitic Mesopotamian arts / statues.
lol at persians creating islamic culture .. persians have always been followers of other cultures whether its mesopatimian semitic or arab semitic
Thank you for making these amazing videos about Iran's history ❤❤🇮🇷
Thanks for watching!
One of the best history channels i ever seen !!!! As a iranian ihave to say verry accurate and not sided with roman or iranians ! 💜love and peace from IRAN SHAHR
I have to point that people didn't worship fire as zoroastrians but also consider it as a symbol of light and holiness which is referred to ahoramazda.
(Indeed they preyed (there were 5 time for praying in a day which was adapted by Muslims in after centuries) in front of fire which they believed is the most sacred creature of mazda).
Thank you so much for such a great and accurate documentary.
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Cheers. Correct. It was a good period for the religion with many Fire temples being built. As far north as Armenia there are ruins of them. Thanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory how did you come to learn so much about Persian culture? I’m a lawyer and get interrupted in court by judges saying discriminatory things like “another swine fearer” while I’m presenting evidence. It just seems like you’re the only one that even cares Iranians exist... because there is no Iranian lives matter movement whatsoever.
@@GoogleUserOne Have a since childhood Iranian friend. We were both immigrants to Canada (me from Netherlands) and would play fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons where we shared each others Mythos, Legends and history...so was my first exposure. Then just really dove in as I got older as it is so seldom covered and when it is its usually as the "bad guys" which isn't right for a series of empires that contributed so much to the world.
And being half German i got the nazi crap when I was a kid so i hear you on ignorance but still in a courtroom?
instead of assuming both come from same source(1god), its easier to accuse others as copycat
Shapur I is my favorite Sassanian king, and this episode is great, really professionally done, love your work.
Hes in my top 3 as well. Thanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory shahpur II : Hold My chains xD
Good old days before birithish come in our politics (qajar empire) ❤
thk you for show our history to people in the world 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
One of my favourite regions and history which doesn't get enough coverage in my opinion so trying to change that :) Thanks for watching!
Russia,Mongolia,Arabs etc: am I a joke to you?
@@arianrezaie4729 I dont get it
@@armin3068 they all had a far greater share on where Iran is now than the British
@@arianrezaie4729 they take our country but we made our country again and save some of our culture but birithish Infiltrated to our kingdom and our politics and doing something that we do not progress
and try to destroy iran like Separation of Afghanistan from Iran and .........
Thank you my dear Baradar (brother) may Ahora Mazda gives you great life
Thank you my broeder (brother in my native dutch) and you in return :)
The saddest part of the episode was its end. :) Your quality exponentially grows each time.
Thanks Count :)
You're my favorite yt channel hands down
Cheers and thanks!
Amazing as always! was waiting for this
Awesome presentation. I really enjoy your new upload as you have really improved the overall quality of your videos.
Your telling of the stories are great , wonderful, lovely , excellent, thanks a lot for your great work
Yore videos are becoming more and more professional than before. Cheers
Thanks Arash, appreciate you watching!
I've been binge watching your content for the past day. I like how you make your videos and the content. Thank you 😊
Thanks so much for watching! Much more coming. Cheers and hope you had a great weekend!
Terrific episode bro. Excellent research, portrayal and narration. Historically so accurate. Kudos and three cheers to you!!!
Cheers and thanks for watching!
I love these videos, can’t wait for the next one, keep it up
Your videos are going to gets better and better, Dorood, You are showing Iran History in the most deserving formation unbiased and based on History.👌🏻👏🏻
Thanks Arads, appreciate your watching all these months, cheers!
Yore History 💚I deserve to be here for sure👏🏼😊😎.
Amazing job, I really enjoy watching your videos on Iranian history! I really hope Kartir will be mentioned in the next epizode, as he is a very interesting but too often overlooked character, despite how incredibly influencial he was in the internal politics of the early Sasanian Empire. Not only was he a lowborn who became one of the most important people in the empire, possibly responsible for installing Bahram III on the throne. Many sources also suggest that he was the main rival of Mani at the royal court, and the reason behind Mani's eventual imprisonment and death, as well as the creation of an organized structure of the Zoroastrian Church.
Please continue the series! We need it!
Great work as always
Great job! I really enjoyed it you deserve much more subscribers
Thanks for watching!
Great info, thank you 🙏🏼
Wonderful video. I can't wait for part 2.
Part 3 you mean :) Ardashir was part 1. Will have it started as soon as I complete the current video.
What an extremely informative video. Thank you.
If you love history you can watch videos at channel "Kings and Generals"
Thanks a lot. Wonderful
What kinds of Sassanian sources do we have today? Everytime i try to study its and Parthian history, seems like im reading the history of its engagements with Rome, haven´t found much on internal politics or how it even worked.
In any case, this was a great video, keep up the good work.
If you check my description you can see some Iranian authors who have based a lot of their findings on archaeological evidence and text translations. Will cover much more as this series progresses. We know quite a bit more about their empire than we did the Parthians for example who will likely remain a bit of an enigma until more information is uncovered (archaeological).
Encyclopedia of Iranica has intensive coverage of all Iranian dynasties to-date in English. A collection of history of Iran researched for 40 years by Iranian scholars.
Love the ancient historical documentaries ! Just recently subscribed !
Thanks for watching Noah! Just on a bit of a holiday break then back to creating!
@@YoreHistory take all the time you need and happy holidays
Cant wait for more of that life as a viking series you been working on
I am officially resuming work on the Yore History series and yes that one as well. Just needed a creative break and well ive had it :)
Amazing work mate.
Cheers, thx for watching!
A good video. I enjoyed how this time period was depicted. Great job.
Cheers Broken Bridge, back to some Yore History content for the next content before we swing around again.
@@YoreHistory---Awesome.
Loved this episode please cover Khosrow I Anooshirvan in the future 🙏
Ep 3 is 2 to 3 days
Great job Yore History,I don’t know either your are connected to Iranian or you are just interested in History and Iranian History as well,anyway your recently video was an amazing one and I had really enjoyed watching it
Good job and may the Ahuramazda bless you 😅
Just interested :) I am from Holland (Netherlands) now living in Canada. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
you guys are amazing👍👍👍👍👍
One guy, but thanks. Appreciate you watching! :)
Love it!
shahpur 1 was greatest roman enemes in all time.victory on three roman emperor this wars was phenomenal!!!
Thanks for watching Masoud!
That would be hannibal
Great video as always.
My favorite Sassanid king is Shapur II. consider making a video about him.
This is a series so yes will be a video about him :)
@@YoreHistory awesome
Extremely underrated channel
My favorite serie. I can't wait to see the following episods.
2 to 3 more days!
Excellent
Great job 👏
So, this is what Shapur used to do before he was a Cricketer of Afghanistan's national team.
Great video man. The only criticism that I have is about the battle animations. The way the battalions merge into each other, overlap, and then cross over is pretty confusing. I think just having the squares push against each other would be better.
Thanks and yes if the sides are simply ramming i show that but in both cases troops did overlap. The Savaran cataphracts charged through the infantry. I tried showing it side by side but didnt look right. Thanks will work on options but usually sides didnt engage full cavalry onto infantry like this. Cheers thx for watching!
You forgot to mention that the reason Shapur was forced to retreat was because of the enormous amount of loot and slaves he had taken from the wars couldn’t be defended by the Sassanians while battling with the Romans at the same time
Correct. I should have caught it in the edit but missed this. I tried to cover everything but as with anything...inevitably something will get missed. :(
nice!
I was waiting for the Iranian to take Egypt and most of Turkey but u end it.. God job anyway it was very interesting and useful information..
Part of a series...it will be continued :)
@@YoreHistory good :) i will be waiting
Thank you! Thanks for reviving my interest in history. Btw can you tell me what software you use for art?
Hi Muhammad, you bet. I use Adobe Photoshop for the maps and flags etc then Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
@@YoreHistoryThanks! You are legend!
Brilliant
Are you going to make the rest soon? cause I think this serie may be a lot more popular than before.
I will be after a couple Yore History episodes. This one is off to a slow start for some reason which I think may be releasing it on US thanksgiving which is my largest audience. Hopefully it picks up :)
Please continue this series, or I will find out your location, and come to your house and politely ask you to continue it!!!
LOL...I will. I am just avoiding dates due to past disappointments. But let us say it's close! :)
Magical Realism 💚❤️
father 😭❤️🇮🇷
Are you Kurdish? Shapur is Kurdish.
can't wait for Russian Empire, i love sassanid too !, i hope you cover Emperor aurelian and his interaction with sassanid
What interactions did Aurelian directly have with the Sassanid Empire? As far as I know, the closest he got was to Palmyra, before he planned his invasion of Persia. Would love to know more
@@AJ_MUR oh yeah i forgot, but he was preparing for an invasion into Sassanid heartland before he got murdered in the balkan :( i really hate praetorian guards
We all really miss you man
I hope you come back soon
I will!
@@YoreHistory great !
You talked about the armors in the previous video. Is the lamalar armor much more resistant than the chain mail against thrust and cuts ?
Not so much thrusts and cuts but its primary advantage was mobility...particularly for horse archers as it freed the arm mobility for the high tensile string draws of the recurve bows.
When is the next episode of this series coming out?
shahpur II is one of the my favorite king ever
I just released a video on him :)
The way you tell the story is very attractive.
Iranshahr was basically fighting to get back, set free and restore "Asha'" and order to the lands that was deceptively and brutally captured by the Roman colonizers and enslavers who had decisively finished off the Hellenic Greek world a few centuries ago after the Iranic Mithridates the great's attempt to set the Greeks free from Roman expansionism and aggression.
Shapur the Great with the help of the innovativeness and progressive mindset of the wise and the bravery of the glorious Asvaran knights, captured 3 Roman emperors and treated them not bad at all according to the the Iranshahr's value system.
They captured one Roman emperor, and we don't know how he was treated
@@histguy101
3 Roman Empires were captured by king Shapur the great.
Roman fetishist?
@@histguy101 3.not1
@@behiran2252 You're confused. He captured Valerian. He didn't capture any other emperors
@@farshads3367 Facts are facts. Pointing out your error doesn't make one a "fetishist"
My men were are you we miss your videos
I will be back I just have a lot going on in real life between a new job, a move literally this month to a new place etc. My creativity is tapped after work so just been reading/playing/watching. I will be back just timing, promise!
shapur sigma male : use roman emperor as step to get on his horse
Oh ok so you upload it again...😁
Yes sorry had an error :)
Shapur the Bane of Princeps. Too bad these emperors didn't have awesome godly powers like Caligula had, it would have come in handy for them.
Haha yes Caligula indeed had some mighty powers to wield.
yeeeees
why u stopped here!? No more Persian History fo you ma man!?
Definitely more just real life has taken priority and some curveballs my way...dealing with them. Hope to be back to videos one day soon.
Great. What do you think of Iran's history?
A long and rich history would about sum it up :)
@@YoreHistory Yes. You mentioned the Sassanians borrowed their chain male from the Romans but isn't chain male Scythian in origin? (Evidense from 5th century bc) Passed down to Celts then Romans?
Quite the transformation from the Parthian! Never heard of manichaeism before, let alone being the rival of Christianity! Are we talking about Hong Kong and Cantonese cities?
Yes would have included what would become Canton region. Was during the Tang dynasty and lasted till the 1200s. Cheers :)
Will you continue this?
I will yes. Just do not have a firm date. Working on starting up again and have been for a while so don't want to disappoint more than I have already :(
@@YoreHistory It's fine. Absolutely take your time if it means your quality stays this good 👍
Where is CTESIPHON the capital on Your geographic chart ?
Where it should be located :) 3:13 and anywhere you see the map it shows it.
Iraq today
Shahpur the great..king of iranshahr🇮🇷❤️🫡
Waiting for the next part...🥲 what happend. Shapur 2. 🙏
@@altinmares8363 i know them but thanks ❤
I would like to see a video of you about saffarids. I personally find the Saffarids very interesting and believe that the Saffarids was the first Muslim empire of the Iranians and the hero Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar is very underrated
@علي يا سر he defeated the abbasids don't worry
@علي يا سر And i am Persian and i know that the Saffarids beat the Abbasids
@@xshandy5812 I'm sorry, brother, but are the Saffarids part of the Sasanian family, because they were in the Daylam region, and the Sasanian and Parthian nobles fled to this region?
I want full history
Part 3 is also up now...hope to have series done by summer.
@@YoreHistory i hope so sir i love old empire and battles and entire history in one video just lije paratian iranuan empire full doccumantry please
first
You got a bone and you can chew it! 😁
Why is the Achaemenid Ardashir known as "Artaxerxes" while the Sassanid Ardashir is just "Ardashir"?
Ardashir is the Modern Persia/Middle Persian name of Artaxšaçā, which is spelled in Old Persian. Artaxerxes is the latinized version of Artaxšaçā. Why is there a difference? During the Achaemenid Era, Old Persian was the primary language. As such, we use the (latinized) Old Persian names such as Artaxerxes (Artaxšaçā) and Cyrus (Kūruš), while we use mostly Modern Persian for Sassanid names like Ardashir and Khosrow.
"Roman emperors attack Shapur I with armies that have 60 000 and 70 000 soldiers"
Shapur I comes with 40 000-50 000 soldiers : Hippity hoppity you guys are my property.
The roman army was strike by a plague so I don't know how much that count
Unfortunately when it comes to war...everything counts :(
@@YoreHistory I mean if the roman simply won the battle of edessa we will probably don't even know the name of setmius odenathus so i will not complain to much
@@Sovrike Agreed.
@@Sovrike Shapur did what he wanted. He raided Roman lands, gained great victories and treasures. But the Romans weren't the main problem for the Parthians and Sassanids. The problem was the Iranic people in the East (their battle tactics were similar to Parthians and Sassanids and they were a pain in the neck during the reign of Mithridates II) and the Turks. Shapur wasn't conquering the Roman territories, he was just raiding them.
One question? Parthiyans were live in sassanyds empire? Or they were had their own land?
Parthian empire was earlier. It explains in this episode that the Sassanian dynasty started in Persis when it was part of the Parthian Empire. In this episode under Shapur I they overthrow the Parthians and slowly take over their lands as well. The Parthians started in the NE and I cover this in the other series on the Parthian Empire. :)
THanks for watching!
@@YoreHistory thank you
@@YoreHistory also this makes me proud as a Persian
Shatriya Putra in short is called Shapur
Bro why your gone
Ill be back soon!
Battle of Edessa: Roman army: 140000 and Persian army 130000,according to shapour 1 the great in gireshman and hertsfeld book.
درسته،منابع رومی برای کوچک نشان دادن ساسانی گفتن 40هزارتا،درحالیکه بالای 120تا بوده
There's no way the armies were that large. Where did all these soldiers come from? There were simultaneous wars going on at other Roman fronts at the same time
That includes servants camp followers and engineers
King Shapur I was the most brilliant Persian King since Cyrus the Great.
Sorry, alexander severus campaign?
It is in the 1st episode about ardashir I shapur 's father .
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IRANSHAHAR 💪🏽🌹Land of the Kings
I hope you translate your videos into Arabic
As the channel grows I will cover other languages. Based on getting those who can help with subtitles. Ill start with the languages the videos represent first and grow from there so yes at some point Arabic as well but Persian/Parsi first ;)
As an Iranian I've to say, wouldn't be better if Shahpour would tell Valerian ok mate, listen, I'll set you free now but promise to me that these two empires will never come to war against each other anymore
?!!
Haha agree completely...since when have we humans mostly sided with common sense though? ;)
@@proconsul6840 I think one of these two empires should stop invading and investing into defending, they had everything, Sasanian empire for example had middle east with some more gifts combine and i know they don't give enough information about it in even our schools let alone other country's schools but they were so respected by other nation and as i mentioned they had EVERYTHING
people loved them, shah was god himself on earth, more than 50 nations gathered as a country, what we call today china worshiped Sasanian, India was completely over their influence, one of Shahan shah once said
today we're at the point that
1)our knowledge conquers minds
2) our religion conquers hearts
3) our sword conquers armies
and roman empire was completely equal to them in west, so one of them should say okay, that's it, why we should fight?
the problem is both of them were so arrogant and I've to say especially Sasanian, they thought they're god on earth
the problem with us (Iranian) is that in some point we think, well that's it, we conquered the world and then we stop defending, it same happened with Achaemenid empire, if u look at one of their capital, Takht-e-jamshid it hasn't even any wall around it or a stronghold to defend it, why u may ask? because they didn't think it is necessary at all.
same happened to Sasanian, idk if they told u in school or not but there was a huge campaign before Sasanian fall, and they finally completely defeated roman empire and restored achamanied empire's lands which it was their goal from the beginning. they promised Iranian that they were restore those lands and at the time it had become even bigger than Achaemenid empire because they had all achamanied empire lands combine with some more territory such as what we call Yemen today and some part of KSA and many part of western boarders, but then they suddenly stop and said well that's it we defeated the enemy and it's like they had lose their cause and the empire which is now so bigger crumbled on it's weight and Arabs took the advantage of a destroyed empire.
@@johnwashington5179 imagine rome west with papers, iron heavy plough, Chinese and Indian maths, primitive altiforni, Chinese agricolture
It was a time when only two empires rules the world The Romans and Persians sassanids
Marvellous Images & story, specially telling of the Persian accounts next to the pile of roman propaganda nonsense. everyone knows of the Iranians' good behaviour toward prisoners of war.
Ask Americans
Even the previously captured gladiator-like and enslaved or mercenary Germanic tribesmen, neither had the motivation and belief to serve the Roman emperor nor the power to withstand the Iranshahr's Cataphracts!
Later, the free Germanic(Romans called Germans Barbarian) and Iranic Sarmatian Alans finished off the western Roman empire for good and set up their own kingdom all over the Europe. Iranshahr had an important role to provide certain kinds of support to them against their common enemy. Hats off, the eastern Roman empire was tougher though as they effectively weaponized everything they had including certain religions. One of the two after-on fabricated government-based religions was called "the radicalized form of the other one" by Armenian sources. ;)
I think you ment northern China where the Uyghurs Uyghurs khanate was
And if I'm not mistaking Shapur lost northern Mesopotamia in his later years to Palmyra until Khusrow the second
Dident he do deeper to central Asia?
I meant southern china as i was speaking about the religion manichaesm. But wasnt until later shahs that territory went further. I will show that in future episodes.
❤️The richest kingdom of Iran (Sassanians)❤️
viva iran
Two likes from me and one dislike from poor Valerian soul.lol
Lol, may he RIP.
Yore History 😅I wish and hope
Ardeshir the frist sasanid king, took 90 crowns off the head of kings , who dared him to fight.with, He send hirbud hirbudan Tansar,to king padashkhargar.king of mazandaran, for submiting. Tansar told the king of mazandaran., beaware of 90 crowns , fell off the head of kings., and try not to be 91 crowns on his feet. show your wisdom. and , Ardeshir will be kind to you., Book of letter of Tansar by Mojtaba Minuwe ., kharazmi publication.
the Romans always lied to look victorious.....like the story of capturing the queen of palmera which never happened
They definitely did on occasion...but then again most empires fell prey to lying or shall we call them...major exaggerations :)
@@YoreHistory exaggeration is when where army beats another army of 20,000 and claims it was 100,000 but to lose a battle and have your army butchered and claim victory that is an outrageous lie
@@eqbal321a Oh for sure just saying the Romans werent the only ones. History is full of lying regimes :)
@@YoreHistory yes you are write but a lot of western historians take the words of romans as above all
@@YoreHistory I request you to make a videos about the Raja Lalitaditaya of Kashmir, this man should also be talked about in world history because of his deeds.
His empire was large, he was great conquerer, it is said that he win and fought more wars than Alexander The Great.
He unvaded Tibet, Afghanstan, central asia
He also defeated the army of muslim calipahte in central asia.
His boy Varus killed him self
Shapour ll could easily conquer arabia after he defeated arabs he could ended those arab