Iranians. One of the oldest and most respectable nations in human history no matter if we call them Persians or Medes or with any other name. Respect from Greece.
It is a matter- Iranian and persian are not synonyms. Persians are a ethnic group that make up around 50% of Iran’s population and there are also Persians that are from Central Asia in countries like Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Tajiks). Kurds, Balochs, Azeris, Lors and Turkmens are all from Iran and Iranian, but they don’t belong to the Persian ethnic group. Therefore you can’t say that it doesn’t matter if we call them Persians or Iranians.
Admiralcurtis666 Not only the persians, every Iranian tribe used to refer as „Iran to their homeland, including Balochs, Kurds and Pashtuns who are not from modern day Iran. That’s also why I already said that persian and Iranian are not synonyms. Persians are one of several other Iranian tribes and except of that not every Persian is native to Iran as i already said.
As an ethnic iranian, I am not sure which empire I consider the most fascinating, but the stories of Cyrus(or Koroush as we call him) are without a doubt what I like the most and what makes me most proud of my persian heritage. The fact that this ruler respected religious freedom, banned slavery, freed the jews of babylon, gave certain rights to women and nature in an era where these philosofies barely existed, gives me a little glimpse of hope in an age where the arab muslim culture is tearing our nation apart. May our people be enlightened of our potencial and strive to return our ancient principals. Thanks for a great video
The muslim culture. I know it is not defined as "arab culture" now, but since it started on the arabian peninsula, the quran written in arabic and all muslims now either fully or partially speak or read arabic, we refer to it as arab culture.
As a non-Iranian,I consider the Sassanid era the most magnificent.An empire powerful enough to keep in line Rome(even threatened it with destruction) and the Eurasian nomads,extent it's sphere of influence in the Arabian peninsula and leaving a invisible legacy in western Asia.While the empire founded by Cyrus marks the high point of Iranian domination,the Sassanids were by far more efficient in matters of administration and warfare.The Persians under the Acheamenids were beaten by the Greek city-states,the Sassanids on the other hand crushed numerous Roman armies.
Islamic culture and society peaked in the 14 century. Now everywhere it is present it unfortunately stifles the societal, economical and cultural progress of the nation. It is a shame to see the homes of once great civilisations in North Africa, Egypt, the Levant and Iran so backward by todays standards.
Yes it's amazing lovely !! Reminds me of the sikh empire even though it lasted 50 years , it was beautiful peacekeeping for sikhs,Muslims Hindus all in equal status !! Maybe op should do a video
1. India has large number of Parsi ( Zoroastrian) community. 2. Both Zend Avastha and Aryan Vedas have same deities and Gathas 3. Sanskrit and Persian language are way too connected ..
@Mahdi Jannati not exactly, but there are many castes group which are descended from arya race ,and we know this fact and are proud to be from Aryan people.
@kourosh Hi I am indian and I am aryan most of the north indians i would say around 58% of us are indo aryan, most of our culture are inspired by aryans and our lang is originated from sanskrit which is also indo(indic) irani language
@@matinmehdipoor3000 yes and one of the indias richiest man tata is also parsi, during the time of islam invadation in persia their were few farsi who escaped and settled in india's state name gujarat and still in Gujarat there are few parsi's so india has largest no. of parsi's right now since india is secular country they are peacefully here
It's great to see a video like this because all too often Persia is lumped together as part of "Islamic history", much to the annoyance of any Iranian historian or archaeologist. I personally find the Sassanian empire most fascinating because of its influence within the Middle East and into Europe and Asia. Btw your videos are well-researched but I never realized you do the excellent illustrations as well. Very accurate I must say
The Unknown oh I'm not saying I'm not interested in Muslim Persia. The problem is that Iran/Persia is its own civilization. There isn't and wasn't such a thing as "Islamic civilization". As one Iranian historian put it "why do we never speak of European history as Christian civilization". See what I mean?
Agni Royai That's not a fair assessment, throughout history most Muslim majority countries have been very inter-connected to a degree far greater than has ever been seen with people of other religious faiths that expanded to such a large size. The only other faith that really compares is Judaism. Islamic civilisation was a thing, you often had numerous completely different ethnic groups help each other out based purely on religion alone, e.g the Ghaznavids of Khorasan had Persians, Pashtuns, Turks, Punjabis and Arabs fight under their banner, and even though they acted independently, they still pledged allegiance to Caliphate.
dsr 478 That I would classify more as Middle Eastern history than Islamic. The whole notion of a Muslim/Islamic world comes not from the ummah concept but as an opposite to medieval Christendom. What we could call Islamic civilisation was very much centered in the Middle East while stretching into North Africa and Spain. The Muslim-majority countries of Asia usually had little or nothing to do with the affairs of the Middle East (Mughal India and parts of Central Asia maybe more so than others) and were not connected to the caliphate. If you're referring to the Caliphate specifically, that could justify usage of the term. In most cases it's simply a lazy misnomer, just as westerners tend to identify modern Muslims by religion instead of ethnic origin. The existence of the caliphate doesn't negate my original point that the study of a civilisation's history is not the study of religious history. And as I said, this is coming from Middle Eastern archaeologists and historians, not just from me
Agni Royai Yeah that's kinda what I meant. Countries like Indonesia and Malaysia cannot really be classified as part of this Islamic civilisation that we are speaking of. I would consider Islamic civilisation to be the Middle East along with all the Arab nations in Africa as well as Central Asia, Spain, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most of the people in this general area belong to the same race (caucosoids) and look fairly similar (many of them are brown, bearded and wear baggy clothes). You could add India and Somalia/Ethiopia but that's a bit of a reach in my eyes.
Elias Frahat what is ur thoughts on gay rights in the Arab world? should it be banned? should someone just have the right to be gay in private? should gay night clubs and gay poorn be allowed??.
Parthians are the Iranian with moustache and horse riding skills, they were semi nomadic. They are the ones who preserved the real Iranian identity and kept their soul. I’m saying that because all Iranian people including Persians and Medes were all Nomadic once before they move to today Iran. They were all professional horse riders and archers with their magnificent long persian moustache living in Central Asia ans Eastern Europe steppes but when Persians and Medes came to the Iranian plateau they started establishing cities. They could live and farm without the fear of long cold winters. Therefore they had to adopt a new lifestyle that matches to this new life soon they realized there are other people living around so they adopted the Aramic culture from Elamites, Assyrians and Babylonians. So from all three ancient Iranian empires Parthians were the closest ones to the real Iranian identity however in Sassanid era lots of Iranian elements was brought back and it looked more Iranian in compare to Achaemenid Empire.
Emmanuel Matu I don’t know if you already saw the video but just Incase he did an entire video on the Sassanids, here’s the link th-cam.com/video/HgrPT5uarKM/w-d-xo.html
Also I'm from India, we have the largest Zoroastrian population in the world, these were the Zoroastrians who fled from Iran to escape forced convertion to Islam. Anyway nice video
The fleeing Zoroastrians first reached the shores of the state of Gujarat where they have lived among us Hindus in harmony, many of them have even migrated to big cities like mumbai.etc most of India's biggest corporates are run by Zoroastrians, like TATA. Can I just tell you how thrilled I am that you actually responded to my comment! Love your channel, I really liked the fact that you spoke about the Aryan invasion, there almost no good videos on that subject
Suleyman ErtugruL muslims never could rule India For Thousands Of Years. But yeah in some parts of India like in Sindh they Did...Two Big Islamic Empire Were Delhi Sultanate Nd Mughal Empire. They Both Persecuted us Hindus nd tried to Destroy our Culture but We Hindus Always Fought Back. Go nd Seaech About Gujjara Pratiharas, Vijayanagara Empire, Maratha Empire, Ahom Dynasty, Gajapati Dynasties Of Odisha, Khalsa Sikh Empire....
I am a Chinese language speaker, though i am not native. In my efforts to learn more about the Chinese language, I learned that much of the Chinese language was influenced by Sogdian, which is a Iranian language. From Wikipedia: "During Tang China (ca. 7th century CE), the Silk Road's lingua franca in Central Asia was Sogdian. along which it amassed a rich vocabulary by loanwords." I know the sentence is a little non-grammatical, but there you go. Anyway, I have hoped to find a source of loanwords and influences from Sogdian in Chinese ever since. I just thought it was interesting to see the influene.
Brandon Redmond well it's not really surprising when you think that it was the Sogdians who worked as tge middlemen in the Silk route and if I remember correctly it was a Sogdian scholar who translated the Buddhist manuscripts into Chinese and hence helped to spread that religion in Far East Asia.
Most of european languages are called indo-european, and the root goes back to Iran, if you are interested to know about root of languages, look for indo-european. It's quite funny and interesting
Brandon Redmond Hello Brandon, I’m able to speak Mandarin, Fuzhou Dialect, and Cantonese. Which Chinese language was influenced by Sogdian that you’re referring to. If you don’t have hard evidence then you can’t just say whatever you want as fact, and you can’t force it into a made-up lie.
Try Turkic languages, they were basically best buddies with the Sogdians and let them administrate their empires (until the Mongols massacred them for no reason, maybe for "softening" Turkic people)
interestingly Greeks and Persians have many in common. I quess this is coming from the Alexander the Great era. Respect to the Persian history from Greece
Yes, yes I do. I am an Iranian. An Aryan. An ethnic Persian. Also, when did I say anything about mullahs. Xerxes combined Greek and Persian culture together.
+Untitled Lol Are you stupid or just ignorant? Iran basically means the "land of aryans" being officialized by shah Reza, an icon of western reforms in Persia/Iran. Get your facts correct.
It would be really cool to see you continue this to the modern day like from the Rashidun caliphate onward like the succeeding caliphates, Timur the Savafids, Qajars, and now the modern day. Really awesome video keep up the great work, this channels going to become huge😎.
For me as an iranian, the most fascinating period is the Parthian empire, because it was the longest Iranian dynasty and most of the Iranian cultural elements as well as Iranian textile industry, silk road (after they signed a mutual agreement with with Chinese government to secure and build roads for trade) started since that period also the generation of the stories behind the epic of shahnameh was mostly on that period. They along the median were the only Iranian dynasties which never conquered by invaders.
Im not Iranian but I guess If I would be I would considered Achaemenid Empire and Sassanid dynasties as my favorite.That is because Achaemenid Empire is surely the most famous,most classical and also achieved biggest territorial extend.Sassanids on their own part very very strong militarily.One of few powers able to fight with the Romans on equal terms and repeatedly dealing them humiliating defeats.In the art of siecraft they were as good as Romans,maybe even little better.In cavalry they were best in the world and they almost succeded even in reinstaling Persian borders in limits that Achaemenid Empire once had although only for a short time.Arcasid dynasty on the other hand seems rather week to me.Parthian state was decentralized and members of royal family constantly dammaging the realm with infinitive struggle for power.It also had strong multicultural character,well this is true also for Achaemenids,but in Partian case this multiculturalism was dominating perhaps too much over national core which was in Iranian people and culture.Sassanids on the other hand were opposites of Arcasids in this.They were almost ultranationalistic and far less tolerant to other cultures seeing Iranians as those best and giving stong emphasis on Iranian aspects of their Empire and history of these people.
I also should mention that, during the Sassanian empire they tried to eliminate the Parthian elements from Iran's history even they changed the calendar to decrease Parthian's ruling years. The biggest difference between Sassanid/Achaemanids empires and Arascidis is they ruled by a central government and Parthians ruled by a kind of federative government. Each of these types has its own pros and cons, but history showed that when the central power is not meddling too much into everything a cultural progression will happen. As an example when Sassanids took the full support of Zoroastrianism, Mazdaki and Manavi sects are emerged as a kinda of reaction to the suppression, on the other hand the religious tolerance of Parthians resulted into the development of Zoroastrianism and even the first Avesta has been written during that era of tolerance. If we just consider the military victories and territory of each periods (even by knowing that one of the most decisive defeats o roman empire happened during the Parthian era), I also believe Sassanian/Achaemanid empire can be more fascinating but culturally I think partisans were more successful
i have to agree with you the Parthian empire is my favourite of the classical Iranian empires, shame that no one speaks or writes parthian and that there is little left of the language.
Persians/Iranians both possessed and possess the deepest most richest culture and history. They persionized everyone who invaded, because of their civilized and advanced culture.
@@striveforgreatness5423 the savafids were aziri/kurds. They were ethnically iranien, and are not really considered as outside force, however shah Ismalie's first language was turkic.
@@edrickhuge4637 oh shut the fuck up with your ethnic division *lies.* There were great numbers of Circassians, Mazandaranis and Georgians in the royal families, would you want to talk about that too? Of course not, because only Azaris and Kurds seem to be foolish enough to fall into the separatist Fab. Also, you seem to forget that the Safavids were an *Iranian Empire* and were the torchbearers of *Persian culture and arts.* Not "Kurdish" nor "Tork" / "Azari" but the sophisticated Persians. Btw I'm not a Persian myself, so your usual insults against the peaceful, poetic and charming Persians (of Fars region) won't affect me. Fuck off, will you?
Im persian and its was perfeeeeeect video from iranian history !! Ilove sassanians cuse they fought verry nice with romans and theyr shahs( kings) was verry powerfull like. Shapur!1.shapur2.khosro anushiravan ( khosru the immortal soul) .khosru parviz the one who sieg the constantinople .and ithink shapur 1 was first king who capture the roman empror in the history !!!and sooo many other thinks. Tnx for this nice video love from house of the soren 💜
If i am not mistaken sapur was not Iranian but a Hebrew tribal king some of its people came to India they founded sapura called them selves Jain which seems corruption of Zion (Zionism)
Another great, great, great video. Every Empire of Persia is fascinating!!! Would like to know more about tech and sci discoveries also tje details between Emperor Maurice and Shaneshah Khoshrow lll.
I'm always fascinated at how dominant persian culture is in the region. Despite hundreds of years of occupation persian customs and language are still influential on the turkic and indian realms.
Thanks for making this documentary. I am an Iranian and thank you very much for explaining our history and culture to others. Cyrus the Great was a king of kings who did so many great things in his speeches that they seem legendary. In the meantime, there were and are countries that want to violate this issue. The Arabs and Muslims, and especially the Turks, respectfully insist on denying the existence of Cyrus the Great if he were more real than real. It was never fully stated how Cyrus the Great died. But the Greek writer Herodotus said for political reasons that he was killed in the war, which is completely wrong and has been repeatedly violated in recent research. We, the original Iranians, thank all those who value our history. Long live Cyrus
Hey I am from Persia and I watched both your videos and tbh they are amazing and great even when you compare them to other videos thank you for great content keep it up ❤
Thanks a lot for the video, good information. It's amazing how East and West claim distinction but in reality our cultures are fused with influences from the other. Keep it coming!
I love your work, it is accurate and explained in simple language. What I find ironic is that ancient Persians were considered barbarians in Ancient Greek literature whereas they were sophisticated and very advanced in many ways.
Hey man (what’s your name?) I just wanna say I enjoy watching your content. I was a modern history student during my high school. So history has always been fascinating for me. Keep up the good work mate. -CJ
You made a small mistake. You said that Canstantine made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, in reality he only made it legal to practice. Rome would only make Christianity the state religion much later.
No it was not in Milan 313.You are cofusing it with Christianity being allowed to be publically worshiped not made a state religion as Corentin correctly said.Its pretty common error.At Milan Christianity was legalized by Emperors Constantine and Licinius(although Emperor Galerius,once the biggest persecutor of Christianity,was actually and ironically the very first who legalized it already prior so-called Edict of Milan by Constantine and Licinius which is poppularly little known fact) while it was only Theodosius the First who made Christianity official state religion of the empire and at least in theory put into ilegality any other religion which was not Christian.That happened at the end of the very same century.
@@Ardeshir8 thank you Ardeshir Jan. Your comment deserves at least 1M likes. It's time to expose and debunk this separatist hype that Kurds have been having lately.
If you like wars with the Romans you should rather like Sassanids.During that dynasty they had far more wars with the Romans than during Parthians.And I agree that Sassanids were also much more "cool" .-)
You have it backwards The Sassanids were a much more formidable enemy. The Romans caused the collapse of the Parthian empire by overrunning Iraq several times. The Sassanids were able to match the Romans militarily but the Parthians were not.
Jay Williams Mainly because they were moving to the feudal/cast system I suppose. It probably was partially caused by Persia's state religion Zoroastrianism. Rome too eventually abandoned slavery and established a somewhat permeable feudal society.
HI Jay I am a Iranian living in America I always loved the achamanid Persians a lot. I think the reason why the Persians are not having slavery is because of King Cyrus's charter of human rights. Also for you to know that Persians are realated to a ancient noble tribe know as being noble so maybe it has also something to do with Iranian prehistory.
Still gets me amazed... Cyrus the great was prophesied in the Old Testament Bible to be a mighty righteous ruler. His name was even accurately mentioned 500 years before his birth.
Iranians. One of the oldest and most respectable nations in human history no matter if we call them Persians or Medes or with any other name. Respect from Greece.
It is a matter- Iranian and persian are not synonyms. Persians are a ethnic group that make up around 50% of Iran’s population and there are also Persians that are from Central Asia in countries like Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Tajiks). Kurds, Balochs, Azeris, Lors and Turkmens are all from Iran and Iranian, but they don’t belong to the Persian ethnic group. Therefore you can’t say that it doesn’t matter if we call them Persians or Iranians.
Admiralcurtis666 Not only the persians, every Iranian tribe used to refer as „Iran to their homeland, including Balochs, Kurds and Pashtuns who are not from modern day Iran. That’s also why I already said that persian and Iranian are not synonyms. Persians are one of several other Iranian tribes and except of that not every Persian is native to Iran as i already said.
Yeah well tell that to Iranians living under the horrendous Islamic regime, we've lost almost all respect mate. :(
SOLIDSNAKE99 Nothing new
Medes are Kurds not Persians
As an ethnic iranian, I am not sure which empire I consider the most fascinating, but the stories of Cyrus(or Koroush as we call him) are without a doubt what I like the most and what makes me most proud of my persian heritage. The fact that this ruler respected religious freedom, banned slavery, freed the jews of babylon, gave certain rights to women and nature in an era where these philosofies barely existed, gives me a little glimpse of hope in an age where the arab muslim culture is tearing our nation apart. May our people be enlightened of our potencial and strive to return our ancient principals.
Thanks for a great video
What did you expect? Let's make paras paradisia again. Even greater rebuild the ancient city's bloom the. Desert.
What did you expect? What Arab culture are you speaking of?
The muslim culture. I know it is not defined as "arab culture" now, but since it started on the arabian peninsula, the quran written in arabic and all muslims now either fully or partially speak or read arabic, we refer to it as arab culture.
As a non-Iranian,I consider the Sassanid era the most magnificent.An empire powerful enough to keep in line Rome(even threatened it with destruction) and the Eurasian nomads,extent it's sphere of influence in the Arabian peninsula and leaving a invisible legacy in western Asia.While the empire founded by Cyrus marks the high point of Iranian domination,the Sassanids were by far more efficient in matters of administration and warfare.The Persians under the Acheamenids were beaten by the Greek city-states,the Sassanids on the other hand crushed numerous Roman armies.
Islamic culture and society peaked in the 14 century. Now everywhere it is present it unfortunately stifles the societal, economical and cultural progress of the nation. It is a shame to see the homes of once great civilisations in North Africa, Egypt, the Levant and Iran so backward by todays standards.
Excellent video once again! The Achaemenid Persians are a perfect example of how a big Empire can still be fair and just to it’s subjects.
Yeah, it really is a great channel. Consistently excellent videos.
Yes it's amazing lovely !! Reminds me of the sikh empire even though it lasted 50 years , it was beautiful peacekeeping for sikhs,Muslims Hindus all in equal status !! Maybe op should do a video
And that nothing lasts forever because... people. Oh wait, erosion.
Samuel Appiah it wasn’t the most fair, but it was the best a man could get for times to come.
The Sassanid's fairness to my people was won at Avarayr. The fairest persian rulers were the Achemenids, in their good years.
1. India has large number of Parsi ( Zoroastrian) community.
2. Both Zend Avastha and Aryan Vedas have same deities and Gathas
3. Sanskrit and Persian language are way too connected ..
@Mahdi Jannati not exactly, but there are many castes group which are descended from arya race ,and we know this fact and are proud to be from Aryan people.
@Mahdi Jannati Arya in our Culture is a Person of Noble deeds
He can be anyone who does his duties not a Race or Region
Because we Iranians and you Indians are actually from one same origin 👌❤️🇮🇷🇮🇳
@kourosh Hi I am indian and I am aryan most of the north indians i would say around 58% of us are indo aryan, most of our culture are inspired by aryans and our lang is originated from sanskrit which is also indo(indic) irani language
@@matinmehdipoor3000 yes and one of the indias richiest man tata is also parsi, during the time of islam invadation in persia their were few farsi who escaped and settled in india's state name gujarat and still in Gujarat there are few parsi's so india has largest no. of parsi's right now since india is secular country they are peacefully here
Viva İran. Great Persia. Love to Persian people from Tat people from Azerbaijan. We love u Brothers
🌸 thanks, Iranic brother. We love you too
tat here too, from Zarat, Siyazan, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿✌
if you turks and arabs stay away of persia will be great for us as native persia
We where one nation until the Russian have separated us
Elam and median kurdish not persians
Fantastic work!
It's great to see a video like this because all too often Persia is lumped together as part of "Islamic history", much to the annoyance of any Iranian historian or archaeologist. I personally find the Sassanian empire most fascinating because of its influence within the Middle East and into Europe and Asia. Btw your videos are well-researched but I never realized you do the excellent illustrations as well. Very accurate I must say
The Unknown oh I'm not saying I'm not interested in Muslim Persia. The problem is that Iran/Persia is its own civilization. There isn't and wasn't such a thing as "Islamic civilization". As one Iranian historian put it "why do we never speak of European history as Christian civilization". See what I mean?
Agni Royai That's not a fair assessment, throughout history most Muslim majority countries have been very inter-connected to a degree far greater than has ever been seen with people of other religious faiths that expanded to such a large size. The only other faith that really compares is Judaism.
Islamic civilisation was a thing, you often had numerous completely different ethnic groups help each other out based purely on religion alone, e.g the Ghaznavids of Khorasan had Persians, Pashtuns, Turks, Punjabis and Arabs fight under their banner, and even though they acted independently, they still pledged allegiance to Caliphate.
dsr 478 That I would classify more as Middle Eastern history than Islamic. The whole notion of a Muslim/Islamic world comes not from the ummah concept but as an opposite to medieval Christendom. What we could call Islamic civilisation was very much centered in the Middle East while stretching into North Africa and Spain. The Muslim-majority countries of Asia usually had little or nothing to do with the affairs of the Middle East (Mughal India and parts of Central Asia maybe more so than others) and were not connected to the caliphate. If you're referring to the Caliphate specifically, that could justify usage of the term. In most cases it's simply a lazy misnomer, just as westerners tend to identify modern Muslims by religion instead of ethnic origin. The existence of the caliphate doesn't negate my original point that the study of a civilisation's history is not the study of religious history. And as I said, this is coming from Middle Eastern archaeologists and historians, not just from me
Agni Royai Yeah that's kinda what I meant. Countries like Indonesia and Malaysia cannot really be classified as part of this Islamic civilisation that we are speaking of.
I would consider Islamic civilisation to be the Middle East along with all the Arab nations in Africa as well as Central Asia, Spain, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most of the people in this general area belong to the same race (caucosoids) and look fairly similar (many of them are brown, bearded and wear baggy clothes). You could add India and Somalia/Ethiopia but that's a bit of a reach in my eyes.
dsr 478 I agree with everything there except Pakistan, just my opinion
Love to Iran from your neighbour of Iraq :)
sam som ما افهمك
Iran=Iraq😃
Ahmed love you too
Elias Frahat
what is ur thoughts on gay rights in the Arab world? should it be banned? should someone just have the right to be gay in private? should gay night clubs and gay poorn be allowed??.
sam som
لا اضطهاد لكن المثلية مرض و يجب معالجته لكن ليس بالقتل
لا لا لا ما اريد يصبح حال الدول العربية مثل حال الغربية اخلاقيا
As an Iranian I should say youve done a great job
Thanks! :D
I really would love to see more videos on Sassanid and Parthian Empires.
Emmanuel Matu i love parthians most
Parthians are the Iranian with moustache and horse riding skills, they were semi nomadic. They are the ones who preserved the real Iranian identity and kept their soul. I’m saying that because all Iranian people including Persians and Medes were all Nomadic once before they move to today Iran. They were all professional horse riders and archers with their magnificent long persian moustache living in Central Asia ans Eastern Europe steppes but when Persians and Medes came to the Iranian plateau they started establishing cities. They could live and farm without the fear of long cold winters. Therefore they had to adopt a new lifestyle that matches to this new life soon they realized there are other people living around so they adopted the Aramic culture from Elamites, Assyrians and Babylonians. So from all three ancient Iranian empires Parthians were the closest ones to the real Iranian identity however in Sassanid era lots of Iranian elements was brought back and it looked more Iranian in compare to Achaemenid Empire.
Emmanuel Matu I don’t know if you already saw the video but just Incase he did an entire video on the Sassanids, here’s the link th-cam.com/video/HgrPT5uarKM/w-d-xo.html
I think he just lacked the Parthians
@@onasimfar Ashkanian. Named after Ashk, also known as Arashk, in Farsi. The English version is Araces.
Also I'm from India, we have the largest Zoroastrian population in the world, these were the Zoroastrians who fled from Iran to escape forced convertion to Islam. Anyway nice video
That is very interesting, is there a particular region in India where they live? Or is more everywhere?
The fleeing Zoroastrians first reached the shores of the state of Gujarat where they have lived among us Hindus in harmony, many of them have even migrated to big cities like mumbai.etc most of India's biggest corporates are run by Zoroastrians, like TATA.
Can I just tell you how thrilled I am that you actually responded to my comment! Love your channel, I really liked the fact that you spoke about the Aryan invasion, there almost no good videos on that subject
Dhruva Narayan wow they escape huh for 1thousand year muslim rule india yea i know fairy tale
Dhruva Narayan my father persian i know history my people so stop lying
Suleyman ErtugruL
muslims never could rule India For Thousands Of Years. But yeah in some parts of India like in Sindh they Did...Two Big Islamic Empire Were Delhi Sultanate Nd Mughal Empire. They Both Persecuted us Hindus nd tried to Destroy our Culture but We Hindus Always Fought Back.
Go nd Seaech About Gujjara Pratiharas, Vijayanagara Empire, Maratha Empire, Ahom Dynasty, Gajapati Dynasties Of Odisha, Khalsa Sikh Empire....
Finally !!! I have been waiting for this for a year now
Finally one about Persia!! Great video!
Very good! That was the most accurate description of persian empires in such a short time. Thanks
Epimethius you’ve quickly become my favourite channel on TH-cam! Thanks for your brilliantly made videos and unbiased presentation.
I am honored, Thank you! :)
Are Persians and Zazas the same race?
Very nice !!! THIS IS PER-SIA!!!!!
I am a Chinese language speaker, though i am not native. In my efforts to learn more about the Chinese language, I learned that much of the Chinese language was influenced by Sogdian, which is a Iranian language. From Wikipedia: "During Tang China (ca. 7th century CE), the Silk Road's lingua franca in Central Asia was Sogdian. along which it amassed a rich vocabulary by loanwords." I know the sentence is a little non-grammatical, but there you go. Anyway, I have hoped to find a source of loanwords and influences from Sogdian in Chinese ever since. I just thought it was interesting to see the influene.
Brandon Redmond well it's not really surprising when you think that it was the Sogdians who worked as tge middlemen in the Silk route and if I remember correctly it was a Sogdian scholar who translated the Buddhist manuscripts into Chinese and hence helped to spread that religion in Far East Asia.
Most of european languages are called indo-european, and the root goes back to Iran, if you are interested to know about root of languages, look for indo-european. It's quite funny and interesting
Brandon Redmond Hello Brandon, I’m able to speak Mandarin, Fuzhou Dialect, and Cantonese. Which Chinese language was influenced by Sogdian that you’re referring to. If you don’t have hard evidence then you can’t just say whatever you want as fact, and you can’t force it into a made-up lie.
Try Turkic languages, they were basically best buddies with the Sogdians and let them administrate their empires (until the Mongols massacred them for no reason, maybe for "softening" Turkic people)
love from an afghan persian
زنده باد داداش
Baktrian
Love ya too.
much love brotha!
afghan is pashtun you dumbfuck. its khorasani Persian. fk afghan and afghanistan
interestingly Greeks and Persians have many in common. I quess this is coming from the Alexander the Great era. Respect to the Persian history from Greece
Yes, yes I do. I am an Iranian. An Aryan. An ethnic Persian. Also, when did I say anything about mullahs. Xerxes combined Greek and Persian culture together.
Kostantinos Kalominidis Yes he adopted a lot from Persian culture and tradition and brought a lot of Greek culture and tradition into Iran
@@marmary5555 when did I say anything about Mullahs?
@@peniseusgiganticus9558 there is nothing Greek in Persian culture.
Thanks . Long live the nation and the country of HELLAS
Excellent video! I loved the Achaemenid Persians and the Sassanids
The Crusader Historian what about parhtian😞
Parthians are cool too. I mean they decisively defeated the Romans. That's a feat.
The Crusader Historian oh cool
@@thecrusaderhistorian9820 Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
@@ГрустныйДобряк There was no crusade to Persia. All of the Crusades in the Middle East were stuck around the Holy Land.
Nice! I did a backpack travel around Iran two years ago! Great culture and people !
Chee Keong Goh you are great too.
we appreciate your visit. always welcome.
Iran is beautiful country.
abcde fghij your are racist.
Iran is not the true name,its Persia!PERSIAN EMPIRE FTW!
king of horn african. Thanks.
king of horn african. Iran is a fake name created by some weird muslim fundamentalist that seeks to cause jihad.PERSIA SHALL RISE AGAIN.
+Untitled Lol Are you stupid or just ignorant? Iran basically means the "land of aryans" being officialized by shah Reza, an icon of western reforms in Persia/Iran. Get your facts correct.
GREAT a cool vid on persian history before bedtime
It would be really cool to see you continue this to the modern day like from the Rashidun caliphate onward like the succeeding caliphates, Timur the Savafids, Qajars, and now the modern day. Really awesome video keep up the great work, this channels going to become huge😎.
With the exception of Persians and Tatars ;)
@Naofumi Iwatani how about qatar kuwait united arab Emirates iran and saudi Arabia ?
@Naofumi Iwatani 😂😂 oil only makes 5% of Dubai economy u talk about extreme group as if the West is all peaceful
@Naofumi Iwatani behind ? Like how ? Some Arab state are richer than most European amd Asian countries
For me as an iranian, the most fascinating period is the Parthian empire, because it was the longest Iranian dynasty and most of the Iranian cultural elements as well as Iranian textile industry, silk road (after they signed a mutual agreement with with Chinese government to secure and build roads for trade) started since that period also the generation of the stories behind the epic of shahnameh was mostly on that period. They along the median were the only Iranian dynasties which never conquered by invaders.
Dara yes i love parhtian too
Im not Iranian but I guess If I would be I would considered Achaemenid Empire and Sassanid dynasties as my favorite.That is because Achaemenid Empire is surely the most famous,most classical and also achieved biggest territorial extend.Sassanids on their own part very very strong militarily.One of few powers able to fight with the Romans on equal terms and repeatedly dealing them humiliating defeats.In the art of siecraft they were as good as Romans,maybe even little better.In cavalry they were best in the world and they almost succeded even in reinstaling Persian borders in limits that Achaemenid Empire once had although only for a short time.Arcasid dynasty on the other hand seems rather week to me.Parthian state was decentralized and members of royal family constantly dammaging the realm with infinitive struggle for power.It also had strong multicultural character,well this is true also for Achaemenids,but in Partian case this multiculturalism was dominating perhaps too much over national core which was in Iranian people and culture.Sassanids on the other hand were opposites of Arcasids in this.They were almost ultranationalistic and far less tolerant to other cultures seeing Iranians as those best and giving stong emphasis on Iranian aspects of their Empire and history of these people.
Parthian: 247BC to 224 AD= 471years, Sassanid: 651AD to 224 AD= 427 years, parthian is 44 years longer almost half a century,
I also should mention that, during the Sassanian empire they tried to eliminate the Parthian elements from Iran's history even they changed the calendar to decrease Parthian's ruling years. The biggest difference between Sassanid/Achaemanids empires and Arascidis is they ruled by a central government and Parthians ruled by a kind of federative government. Each of these types has its own pros and cons, but history showed that when the central power is not meddling too much into everything a cultural progression will happen. As an example when Sassanids took the full support of Zoroastrianism, Mazdaki and Manavi sects are emerged as a kinda of reaction to the suppression, on the other hand the religious tolerance of Parthians resulted into the development of Zoroastrianism and even the first Avesta has been written during that era of tolerance. If we just consider the military victories and territory of each periods (even by knowing that one of the most decisive defeats o roman empire happened during the Parthian era), I also believe Sassanian/Achaemanid empire can be more fascinating but culturally I think partisans were more successful
i have to agree with you the Parthian empire is my favourite of the classical Iranian empires, shame that no one speaks or writes parthian and that there is little left of the language.
Great content as usual. Thank you for your work.
As always, a very interesting and informative video, I really love all your history videos
Good shit my boy loving the content
Persians/Iranians both possessed and possess the deepest most richest culture and history. They persionized everyone who invaded, because of their civilized and advanced culture.
i think caliphate (rashudin &omaya &abassid ) is just mirror of culture of empire persia
Reasonable
It is true Persia Persianized all outsiders who conquer it like
Seleucid,Arab,Seljuk,Ilkhanate , Timuridt ,Safavid and Qajar
Persia is a civilization which get sick for sometime but never die .
@@striveforgreatness5423 the savafids were aziri/kurds. They were ethnically iranien, and are not really considered as outside force, however shah Ismalie's first language was turkic.
@@edrickhuge4637 oh shut the fuck up with your ethnic division *lies.* There were great numbers of Circassians, Mazandaranis and Georgians in the royal families, would you want to talk about that too? Of course not, because only Azaris and Kurds seem to be foolish enough to fall into the separatist Fab. Also, you seem to forget that the Safavids were an *Iranian Empire* and were the torchbearers of *Persian culture and arts.* Not "Kurdish" nor "Tork" / "Azari" but the sophisticated Persians. Btw I'm not a Persian myself, so your usual insults against the peaceful, poetic and charming Persians (of Fars region) won't affect me. Fuck off, will you?
Im persian and its was perfeeeeeect video from iranian history !! Ilove sassanians cuse they fought verry nice with romans and theyr shahs( kings) was verry powerfull like. Shapur!1.shapur2.khosro anushiravan ( khosru the immortal soul) .khosru parviz the one who sieg the constantinople .and ithink shapur 1 was first king who capture the roman empror in the history !!!and sooo many other thinks. Tnx for this nice video love from house of the soren 💜
If i am not mistaken sapur was not Iranian but a Hebrew tribal king some of its people came to India they founded sapura called them selves Jain which seems corruption of Zion (Zionism)
History is so beautiful thanks for making these awesome videos
I LOVE my country's history😊🇮🇷❤
Is a great history
I didn't expect for the answer thx😲❤ Could you please make a movie about Cyrus the great?thx alot! and where are you from?
Definitely planning on making more videos on Persian history :) ...I was born in California
Thx:) good luck!
@@EpimetheusHistory thank you man❤❤
Another great, great, great video. Every Empire of Persia is fascinating!!! Would like to know more about tech and sci discoveries also tje details between Emperor Maurice and Shaneshah Khoshrow lll.
Very impressive. A lot of information condensed down into a small space, intelligently explained and neatly illustrated, bravo!
Oi nice video, I love how you put so much effort and dedication into your work. Much details and information captivate readers like me.
I'm always fascinated at how dominant persian culture is in the region. Despite hundreds of years of occupation persian customs and language are still influential on the turkic and indian realms.
Thanks for making this documentary. I am an Iranian and thank you very much for explaining our history and culture to others. Cyrus the Great was a king of kings who did so many great things in his speeches that they seem legendary. In the meantime, there were and are countries that want to violate this issue. The Arabs and Muslims, and especially the Turks, respectfully insist on denying the existence of Cyrus the Great if he were more real than real. It was never fully stated how Cyrus the Great died. But the Greek writer Herodotus said for political reasons that he was killed in the war, which is completely wrong and has been repeatedly violated in recent research. We, the original Iranians, thank all those who value our history. Long live Cyrus
Hey I am from Persia and I watched both your videos and tbh they are amazing and great even when you compare them to other videos thank you for great content keep it up ❤
Thanks a lot for the video, good information. It's amazing how East and West claim distinction but in reality our cultures are fused with influences from the other. Keep it coming!
The continuous existence of an Iranian state and identity since antiquity gives us a unique look at the cycle of civilization.
traditions and ancestry make us who we are as a nation.
I love your work, it is accurate and explained in simple language. What I find ironic is that ancient Persians were considered barbarians in Ancient Greek literature whereas they were sophisticated and very advanced in many ways.
As a proud Persian from the Western Iran (Afghanistan) , thank you for your great video about my nation and my mother land (great Iran)!
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Excellent job. Thank you for a non-biased presentation of pre-Islam Iranian civilization.
Even tho they put my boyz the Byzantines in difficulty, il like how the Sasanids kinda fixed all and made Persia great agaian!
Great video 👍👍👍
Please do more detailed videos of each of these mentioned Persian empires as well.
Thank you
Great video! Thanks for your great work and for sharing!
Thank you for making the video 😊 My favorite is the Sassanids
Thank you for all the hard work you must put into these videos! It shows progress over the past year I've been following you!
0:26 Susa is Shoosh in Persian
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Thanks for this video hello from Iran and by the way subscribed :) keep up the good work bro!
Great job - I like the perspective FROM Persia/Iran rather than the perspective of other states in terms of their relations.
Great video, I hope you continue this great series
Love Iran from Tajikistan zendabod Persian ♥️🇹🇯🇮🇷♥️
Thank you this video was well made and accurate , I’m from Iran🇮🇷 and I loved it
Hey man (what’s your name?) I just wanna say I enjoy watching your content. I was a modern history student during my high school. So history has always been fascinating for me. Keep up the good work mate.
-CJ
You have done a great job, easy to understand and concise too. Thanks
Nice one. Thanks 🙏🏻
Great video, great job on the research and execution! Keep it up!!
Thanks!
Great video
Well done. Honestly, I watched intending to scoff at your claim 'in ten minutes', but your chronology has depth.
Great job man, i appreciate the effort put into each video (being a one man job) keep it up!
Thanks :)
This ancient history documentary blew my mind! So much rich history packed into one video.
perfect! I am Iranian and this helps me with my project
Nice informative video man, Keep it up!!!
Excellent, would you be able to do more detail on specific rulers or golden eras or something? Like the 1st sassanian golden era or something?
This was better than I even expected. Very fascinating
I am Chinese, according to my family name, my ancestors came from Parthia Empire, and settle down in middle China 2000 years ago. Wish to visit Iran.
Yeah.
@Maverick 百家姓啊，我这个姓小众而且不是汉姓，再说了基因检测只能查三代
This was so excellent. I learned so much. Thank you :)
You forgot to mention the Parthians claimed ancestry from the Achaemenids and Cyrus the great. Great vid though.
Mesopotamian Kurd Parthians werent medes i dont believe. And kurds arent medes. Kurds are a mixture of a bunch of peoples.
Mesopotamian Kurd medes are not kurd plz stop to liar
@@persianguy1524 Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
@@ГрустныйДобряк Ffs shut the fuck up
Yeah "claimed"
Great as always. You are a fantastic historian and video maker. Congrats
Well done!👍🏻
Mesopotamian Kurd Sepas baradar.
@@cyrusthegreat1893 Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
PLEASE more video on military equipment/weapons! Love the channel.
Nice work! Will there be a part 2, for post-Islamic Persia to Iran today?
You have an excellent channel, rich with content and an excellent enthusiastic presentation you provide. AWESOME!!
Parthian shot that like button lol
:D
Parthians are Kurdish history and have nothing to do with persians😂 stolen history
@@mandomando5292 parthians are no way Kurds. U can say some Mede's were Kurds .but parthians has nothing to do with Kurds.
@@mandomando5292 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mandomando5292
You are absolutely wrong,kurds belongs western iranian branch and Parthian belongs easternsbranch
Another excellent summary
The documentary was very beautiful
Brilliant summary. Informative and concise.
Make persia great again. Make persia zorostrian again. Long live zorostrian persia.
Would love to see more Roman videos, maybe about Germanicus! Either way great video once again keep it up!
Nice video. Western civilisation is rooted in magic and the worship of wisdom began in Ancient Persia far before Greeks.
Zarathustra Yes. Zarathustrianism was the first to embrace the one God ✨ Ahura Mazda 🌷
Zarathustra Iran and Iraq
Very well researched...great job.
Another great video!
I wonder, have You ever considered doing something about the Polish-Lithuanian state?
Compare to most vdeos you do the best job. Thank you
You made a small mistake. You said that Canstantine made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire, in reality he only made it legal to practice. Rome would only make Christianity the state religion much later.
Corentin Bellanger In the council of Nicea?
No it was in Milan in 313.
Theodosius.
No it was not in Milan 313.You are cofusing it with Christianity being allowed to be publically worshiped not made a state religion as Corentin correctly said.Its pretty common error.At Milan Christianity was legalized by Emperors Constantine and Licinius(although Emperor Galerius,once the biggest persecutor of Christianity,was actually and ironically the very first who legalized it already prior so-called Edict of Milan by Constantine and Licinius which is poppularly little known fact) while it was only Theodosius the First who made Christianity official state religion of the empire and at least in theory put into ilegality any other religion which was not Christian.That happened at the end of the very same century.
@@paprskomet Привет и Скажи мне Был Крестовый поход на Персию🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️Иран🇮🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇮🇶⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇪🇬⚔🇨🇵✝️⚔☪️🇹🇷⚔🇪🇦✝️⚔☪️🇸🇦⚔🇻🇦✝️
LOVE IRAN FROM YOUR BROTHERS IN BULGARIA
Im kurdish i lowe iran guti elam mad kurdish iranian empire
Cyaxares Gordyene Media I hope we can day live together under one roof again brother!
Kurds and persian are strong together
This brotherhood should never die
Mesopotamian Kurd first of all that's all on the fucked up regime in Iran and secondly, that's What you get trying to keep your separatist attitude!
Mesopotamian Kurd yeah, it's called Iran!
@@Ardeshir8 thank you Ardeshir Jan. Your comment deserves at least 1M likes. It's time to expose and debunk this separatist hype that Kurds have been having lately.
I like your style. U are a good story teller.
Epimetheus have u heard about the Recent Malaysian Elections and also Fantastic Video.
کارتون عالی بود لطفا ادامه بدین
I like the Parthian era in that they had wars with Rome.
Sassanids were more badass and had more epic wars with Rome.
If you like wars with the Romans you should rather like Sassanids.During that dynasty they had far more wars with the Romans than during Parthians.And I agree that Sassanids were also much more "cool" .-)
Rene Sarabia i agree but sassanids were cool too
Ο Τραπεζίτης/Τhe Banker
Sassanians draw with Romans but
Parthians defeated them decisively
You have it backwards
The Sassanids were a much more formidable enemy. The Romans caused the collapse of the Parthian empire by overrunning Iraq several times. The Sassanids were able to match the Romans militarily but the Parthians were not.
An excellent summary, thanks!
Why is Iran so good to slaves or not having slaves
Jay Williams Mainly because they were moving to the feudal/cast system I suppose. It probably was partially caused by Persia's state religion Zoroastrianism. Rome too eventually abandoned slavery and established a somewhat permeable feudal society.
Because of their believe and geography
HI Jay I am a Iranian living in America I always loved the achamanid Persians a lot. I think the reason why the Persians are not having slavery is because of King Cyrus's charter of human rights. Also for you to know that Persians are realated to a ancient noble tribe know as being noble so maybe it has also something to do with Iranian prehistory.
Jay Williams nooooo havinggg slave beacuse of our beliveee
Slavery is strictly forbidden in Zoroastrianism.
Only Semites and Semitic cultures have/had no problem with slavery (particularly Judaism and Islam)
Still gets me amazed... Cyrus the great was prophesied in the Old Testament Bible to be a mighty righteous ruler. His name was even accurately mentioned 500 years before his birth.
Yeah. The old Testament is very accurate indeed! For example the world is only about 6 thousand years old!!
You should do 1 on Greece and the Greek states
no
@@saeedvazirian cope poor iranian
I love your narration.
hi from northestren of iranin plateau❤ i love sassanids and parhtian
Excellent video and great job.
Sassanid empire and safavid empire are my favorites❤
Great video sir.