Carrhae 53 BC - Roman-Parthian War DOCUMENTARY
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- Previously we have made an animated historical documentary on the battle of Nisibis bit.ly/30vmmwO between the Roman and the Parthian empires. But that battle was far from first - two empires started fighting immediately after their borders touched and that war led to the iconic battle of Carrhae in 53 BC, during which the Romans of the triumvir Marcus Crassus fought against the Parthians of Surena.
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Serious archer here... Not "compound bows" composite bows.. I'm looking down at my compound bow in it's case right now and it's a highly tuned piece of modern engineering. My recurve which is a composite bow is good and fun, but no where near the power of the compound system with it's large cams (pulleys) on each end which would eat their bows for breakfast even at the same draw weight..
Crassus: Don't worry they'll run out of arrows eventually!
*2 hours later*
Roman: They're not running out of arrows!!
Never count on your enemy running out of ammunition when they have you surrounded and also possess logistical dominance.
Crassus: How the hell do they even have that many arrows?
*cut to way back at the Parthian line, a bunch of Parthian guys are squatting with a pile of sticks and pointy rocks*
Parthian messenger: Boss wants 500 more arrows, stat!
Parthian arrow makers: Come on...we just sent 500 arrows a minute ago. Give a guy a break already!
Rip
Crassus: NANI!!!
@Jared nah more like the polish Calvary going up against German tanks and vehicles in ww2
Messenger: "Caesar! Crassus had been defeated in Parthia!"
Caesar: "I bet he didn't build a wall."
@@dolfyhilter577 it's a reference to caesar building a wall at Alessia when fighting the gauls.
Messenger : No sir he tried to use the NOOB Box and Parthians have "unlimited Arrows" and "GoD arrows" enabled.....report them to UBisoft SIRE !
Gaudencio Azarcon pfffffft.
His second mistake, was not building a second wall.
@@shadow-monger5189 EXACTLY!
Guy kills 30k romans and inflicts the most severe defeat on them since Hannibal, and get rewarded by having his head chopped off by his king. So much for loyalty.
Imaginează ți ce pericol ar putea avea un asemenea om pentru coroana ta daca ai fi fost în locul lui Orodes.
As the saying goes, don't over do it and make the King look bad.
He outshone the king himself
if king gives you all of his army, you should use it against him, if king gives you small portion of his army, you should use it to make your own country somewhere else, but never ever return this army, that was a mistake, Surena was too innocent for his time
@@rnkishi The funny part is that many otherwise loyal generals turned traitor simply because they feared they'd be killed if they didn't act.
Even to this day children in Iran are named after Surena , that's how much of a legend he is among Iranians.
Cars,Robots,Streets many stuff in Iran is named after General Surena.
I'm not sure that that name brings luck
I hope they don’t become too great in the future or else they will meet the same fate as the original
PrimalForlorn
Don't worry italians aren't assassinated because of julius name.
PrimalForlorn XD
Parthians: Open console
Unlimited_ammo
Romans: wtf hax
lol
Lmao
i think it's fair. The Romans always used `Unlimited_manpower`
@@karimm.elsayad9539 Just gave the parthians more targets to shoot at
"They should be running out of arrows about now" last words of centurion Naughtius Maximus
Damn
Mrkabrat “I had a great friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus”
@@jruth77 *snickers*
Arrows can't pierce armor, we'll be fine
-Deadius Minimus.
@@JonatasAdoM Parthian Arrows can't penetrate Roman Armour, Carrhae was an inside job!
Cassius: The King of Armenia says we can pass through his Kingdom. Crassus: Ohhhh, all those hills.....
Well still wasn't necessary : as long as they kept close to the river (to defend flanks and insure supplies) and did not venture fearlessly onto open ground... I mean what the heck was the plan ? Even if the Parthians had lacked ammo, what then ? catch back horses on bare feet will you ?
I feel so sad about that battle :(
LoL. That's the historical fact he didn't mention.
Apparently the offer to pass through Armenia may have been a trick by the Armenian king to get the Romans to fight off the Parthian invasion of Armenia, because the Parthian main armies were invading Armenia at the time.
@@Intranetusa
You mean a win-win situation? Instead Crassus takes 3 insignificant towns, waits out the winter while Armenia is taken out, and the Parthains build a standing army specifically to counter the army Crassus had.
@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues No, you're confusing the chain of events. Armenia wasn't defeated until AFTER Crassus lost at Carrhae. The Parthian king was invading Armenia at the same time when Surena fought Crassus at Carrhae. The Armenian King basically wanted Crassus to defend Armenia and fight off the bulk of Parthia's forces. Crassus decided to invade Parthia instead because most of the Parthian armies were distracted in Armenia.
Furthermore, the Parthians didn't "build" a standing army specifically to counter Crassus. This isn't Rome Total War where you can train an army in a single season. The Parthian King took the bulk of the army to invade Armenia, while Surena was left with a small atypical cavalry army of horse archers and cataphracts (both of which involved men with years, if not decades of training) to merely "delay" Crassus.
Crassus take a snickers . You are acting like you have caesar's military genious mind when you are hungry.
Indeed Caesar knew how to play allies and enemies off one another. He held the world record for pitched battles fought *till Napoleon.* I've read "Caesar life of a colossus" and what that man was able to do while not only winning battles but out maneuvering his domestic enemies politically was mind blowing. I honestly think he qualifies as one of the world's first true geniuses.
@@CrazyNikel Is there a comparison of how many pitched battles people fought? Other generals such as Khalid ibn al-Walid, Alexander, and Subutai were were undefeated, with generals such as Subutai iirc overruning more land and more kingdoms than any other commander.
To be fair, Caesar likely wouldn't have been succesful even if he fared better than Crassus at Carrhae. Caesar's best general Marc Antony launched an invasion of Parthia with 100,000 troops and that invasion also failed. Trajan launched an even bigger invasion one and a half century later that was temporarily successful but ultimately resulted im a stalemate with conquered territories given up. The Romans and Eastern Romans would continue fighting the Sassnids for the next several centuries to a stalemate.
@@Intranetusa Comparing Antony to Caesar is like comparing a -amateur- street fighter to the world's foremost battle expert. Antony was never close to Caesars genius. But Antony did somehow managed to smash a Parthian army before he blundered into lands he didn't know. And would continue being Antony's way in life. A loud brash soldier, not a great general though. *Caesar knew how to use allies and enemies on the political level,* unlike Crassus or Antony.
Wow, that's an old one
Somebody off screen keeps throwing gladii at important figures. It’s very dangerous pls stop D:
At least it's not Cassandra stabbing maps.
"UwU whats this?"
*is kill by gladius to head*
It’s Maximus decimus meridius throwing them why of course!
Important figures keep stumbling and dying in History Matters.
Meanwhile in King and Generals there's always someone throwing gladius on important figure's portraits. That's why it's so hard to find what they looked like.
VARO GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS! Ops... wrong battle.
As for Arminius, the Romans shall have their revenge !
@@Cancoillotteman well, actually the Roman had their revenge against the german tribes by the expeditiin of Germanicus.
@Zayed Haroon "Your man are fleeing the field the field of battle!" Aniway, if I could replentish my ammo like that in Rome 2 with the Partians i would never lose a battle.
@@Gaetano2005 Exactly, this what I said, Romans never forget a grudge ;)
Unlikely that happened as it was only 3 legions
I love it when you guys cover the Parthian wars
There will be more, probably :-)
Kings and Generals it would be an interesting comparison of this war verses Donald Trump's current actions
Uh.... I'm trying to see the connection with a 21st century billionaire..... There's none.
Jorge Espinoza The fact he had the same might is right attitude... As a scion of a rich family and a real estate mogul, the anti-hero of this story met his end when he rashly tried to invade Iran. However before that, his illustrious exploits included shady real estate deals, building a wall to hem in some very bad people from the south, and engagement in incredibly public affairs with women behind his wife’s back.
Sounds familiar? What if I told you that this happened over 2000 years ago in a galaxy far away? Well, not really far away, actually on the same planet that we are on now. And the man we are talking about is Donald J. Trump. My mistake again, we are talking about Marcus L. Crassus, and the L. stands for Licinius.
You might be familiar with the name if you watched the series “Spartacus”. He’s the Roman general who battled Spartacus and his army. In real life, Crassus was quite the character. Ambitious, greedy, and power hungry, there was no trick too sleazy when it came to making a buck.
Money, money, money
One of his major achievements was creating the first fire squad in the city of Rome. At that time, Rome was growing rapidly and since many of its buildings were not built with the greatest of care, fires were ever-present. Crassus saw a hole in the market and decided to fight these fires.
However, if you think it was for some altruistic purposes, you are in for a rude awakening. Whenever a fire broke out, the men on Crassus’ fire squad would rush over to the burning building and proceed unto…
They would proceed unto doing nothing. Actually, what they in fact did was go to the owner of the burning house and ask him to sell for cheap. Then they would go to the owners of the houses nearby and ask them to sell as well. If any of them refused, then they would just let the houses burn down to the ground!
In this way, Crassus managed to buy up significant real estate. However, this was not enough for him. He had other tricks up his sleeve. Marcus allied himself with Sulla, Rome’s dictator of the moment, and took advantage when Sulla decided to kill off his enemies in a series of proscriptions.
The way these proscriptions worked is that Sulla started off with a small list of his opponents that he wanted killed. However, the list kept getting larger by the day, and many guys sensing an opportunity added some other juicy names on it as well, not for any political stance in particular, but just because they had some nice property that these unsavory characters wanted to get their hands on.
One of the guys who profited handsomely from the proscriptions was Crassus. Whenever a guy got executed, there was Crassus, waiting to snap up his property for cheap.
Crassus was also linked to a very public sex scandal. Apparently, he bedded Licinia, one of the Vestal Virgins. Now, this was a big deal since the Vestal Virgins were considered sacred and sworn to keeping their virginity as a sign of religious devotion. The thing about this sexcapade was that Crassus did not sleep with Licinia because she was hot, but because he wanted to get his hands on her house!
Building a wall and making Mexico pay for it
As previously mentioned, Crassus was also the general who was tasked with bringing down Spartacus and his rebellion. How would he do it? His brilliant idea was to build a wall! Yes, a wall came into play.
Spartacus and his army had retreated to the Bruttium Peninsula of Italy. If you look on a map of the country, this is the boot trying to kick Sicily away. Crassus decided to build a wall from sea to sea in order to hem these bad hombres in. Unfortunately, it didn’t work and Spartacus managed to break through.
After defeating Spartacus, Crassus set his sights on the highest offices. In order to do that, he formed what later came to be called the First Triumvirate with Julius Caesar and Pompey. After 10 years of hanging out with these two guys, Crassus decided to go mess around in Syria. However, this was not enough for him, and he set his sights on places a bit further out, like Iran.
Well, actually back in the day, it was the Parthian Empire, a state ruled by the Parthians, who are related to Persians, who are now known as Iranians. The Parthian Empire stretched over vast areas of land in today’s Iraq and Iran, and Crassus thought that he could win eternal glory if he just crossed over and lobbed some missiles.
Boy was he wrong! At the first significant battle of the conflict, the Battle of Carrhae, not only was his army soundly defeated, but Crassus also lost his life. There is a story that after his death, the Parthians cut off his head and poured molten gold into it, just to make fun of his greed.
I got my hands on the button
Fast forward two thousand years to 2019. What happened a few days ago? The story goes that Donald J. Trump (the J. stands for John) wanted to lob over a few missiles into Iran. However, the order was rescinded before any of the airstrikes could proceed.
What we now have is another real estate mogul, greedy for money, and hungry for fame, leading a country and messing around in the Middle East. Donald Trump has been elected the President of the United States, and he ain’t kidding around.
What will the future bring? Maybe what we should remind ourselves is that Crassus was living in the dying days of the Roman Republic. Kind of like now...The republic is dead.... And we have Empire
@@marysunshine2027 I suppose you are writing a history doctoral dissertation?
Do you have proof that Donald Trump has committed the extortion Crassus did in his time?
Or is it just convenient to paint every billionaire with a broad brush, or only a chosen few due to their worldview, as the media does? 🤷♂️
You think people got the point when Trump fired John Bolton? You do know Bolton was trying to get us into a war with Iran right?.... That's the real reason why he's lashed out against Trump lately.
Actions speak louder than hate.
Surena: "yes I've defeated the undefeated Romans now I returned to my king for the good news"
Orodes II: "capture him and kill him for treason"
Surena: "oh"
More like : "pikachu face" Surena
despite being ordered by the king himself the fact still remained that Surena defeated his brother in battle and arrested him in the capital, he was a "King maker" which is dangerous in the eyes of the King.He was also ordered only to harass the Roman army not defeat it until the king arrives (thats why the king only gave him 10,000). all this paired with Surena`s huge popularity and charisma scared the king and made him move. It was a wrong move but typical by Rulers of these period to secure their throne.
Orod did the right things surena was popular in armys and it was dangerous for all parthian cause when he taken the power many dies and he was just a commander not king who could rule persia
@@viraloracle5151 well, whatever reason Orodes had it was obviously stupid b/c they not only threw away one of their greatest commanders (seriously, besides hannibal, who else could do this?) they basically made it clear to anyone else with talent and ability that the penalty for saving the nation is death. Orodes might very well be the single most worthless king any nations was cursed with.
@@tikletik oh you sweet summer child, history is long and full of blunders. It's not that uncommon of a thing to happen, Roman Emperor's and Ottoman Sultan's alike would execute, undermine, or banish their best leaders to secure their throne. It's especially poignant when we have such clear records showing how foolish the move is with hindsight: Valentinian the 3rd executing the undefeated Aetius doomed western rome.
Working with this documentary made me realize how strong the Parthians were ever since the beginning of their establishment.
The early Parthian kingdom became a vassal state under Seleucid king - Antiochus III after his conquest in Parthia but a few years later, the Parthians managed to beat the Seleucids afterward and transform the small Parthian kingdom into a mighty Empire.
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Anyway we can get your Gemfx preset, noble sir?
You are awesome, Malay Archer.
I love your work and hope to be as good as you one day.
Greetings from Perú.
Aleksa Petrovic It is 1600AD mod for Empire Total War.
ediscool9 it is default setting.
Juanfrancisco Costa thanks!
The parthian horse archers were some extremely skilled archers, riding at high speed and hitting the romans continously
“Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.” -- Marcus Licinius Crassus.
"That's a nice quote Crassus. I think I'll share it with my living children."
Too bad the parthians heard that and used it for their arrows. LOL
@@TheSecondVersion oof
That's true only above certain level of wealth & personal success. Otherwise, it is just GREED.
Parthian soldier: Allright crassus that's enough quotes for today *pours molten gold into his mouth*
the last part of this, the murder of Surena by his ungrateful king left me in utter shock.
@tikletik
I know this comment is quite old. But some sources say it was because Orodes II was threatened by Suranas' growing popularity. And executed him likely out of jealousy. Don't outshine the king as they say.
I think the whole part where the Parthians remove their robes as they charge to reveal their armor probably has to be one of the most badass episodes in history. Imagine, you're a Roman legionary and you see these guys charging up to you in silk and linen robes. You're heavily armored in hamata and shielded by your big scutum. The whole time, you're thinking this will be easy, that these are just regular, unarmored barbarian horsemen, no match for your superior armor and weapons. But then, just as the Parthians are about to charge, they all rip off their robes in unison and then, to your horror, the truth of the situation becomes apparent. These aren't just regular barbarian horsemen, this is a powerful empire on its own, that these horsemen you face are unlike anything you've ever seen before. You realize in this moment that the enemy you're facing is encased head to toe in armour. Its at this point, you realize, that this battle may not entirely go your way. If I was a Roman legionary, that's the point I'd be shaking. I guess it says something about their discipline that they were able to hold together as long as they did.
@ابوالفضل مازنی Romans called barbarians any people without written language but there were others factors as well. They probably considered Parthians barbarians at first who took over the falling Seleukids before they saw how organized they were. Parthians came from the northern steppes, that region was considered uncivilized. Civilization was from India, Afghanistan, Iran then directly west from Iran to Egypt and then all the way west to Tunisia. Northwest from Persia, Turkey then Greece and finally Italy. Everything else was considered, barbarian, uncivillized and savage. You can be offended all you want but that's how they classed countries back then. Today it's first world, developong, third world.
@@abcdc197 Technically that's incorrect for the second part, the classification system for 1st/second/third world meant something entirely different and was related to western propaganda about communism, and people use it incorrectly through misnomer now. Greece used a term of Occidentalism and Orientalism, anything to the east was the Orient, and anything to their west was the Occident.
@@mb5616 Greeks saw Persians as barbarians... Aristotel called them barbarians. They saw anything non Hellenic Barbarian. Romans had different views based on timeline. In late Empire from what they understood civilization is Roman Empire, Sassanid Empire and far away India. So i basically nailed the countries. Everything else they consider barbarians. Were there civilizations beyond those? Ofc there was China, East Africa, todays Yemen and Oman but Romans which left most records hardly knew anything about those. Regardless that's their view. Chinese saw British as barbarians. It took British to raze of Emperor's palace to the ground and blow up Emperor's armies with modern weapons of the time for China to realize they were superior and stop calling them barbarians. Like no kidding British had in peace terms as one of important things for China to stop using that term for Europeans. It's really all individual view of each nation not a fact.
@@abcdc197 Romans considered Parthians as barbarians, it's noted in their own history. Cassius Dio even notes how foolish Rome is for its wars with historical Iran.
I would love to have a time machine just to sit and watch this kid of thing
In terms of losses, this battle was years away from the Roman disasters at Cannae and Arausio but it remains one of Rome's most devastating defeats during its existence as a Republic and Empire (before the splitting between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires).
don't forget teutoberg
@@frankieseward8667 this was double the losses of teutonberg forest and right before some of caesers campaigns so he couldve used those troops.
also the romans got revenge for teutonberg by and were about to conquer it before germanicus was recalled to rome for some reason.
also crassus was killed at carrhae, an event that helped cause the roman civil war that changed history as it left a massive power vacuum in the first triumvirate.
teutonberg was still significant just nowhere near as signicant as this
@@chezburger1781 Agreed! Just because more soldiers died in another battle it doesn't make it "more significant", but rather the repercussions of said defeat is what makes it more significant.
This is why Cannae, in all of its undoubted fantastic tactical masterclass, is not more relevant than other battles that cascaded into far more extreme consequences. While rome definitely panicked in horror after Cannae, the Senate and the republic didn't crumble into a violent civil war that changed its political landscape as a direct result in the way this battle did.
I still think Cannae is awesome, though
@@Kawabongahlive my reply was more geared to teutonberg but i agree, smaller battles can be more significant than larger ones.
cannae was defo a major blow but the romans could still draw upon more recruits and it didnt spell the end for the republic while a battle like stamford bridge (random example ik) was smaller but far more significant, ending the viking age in england
It was more devastating than Cannae and Arausio. At those battles Romans eventually eliminated the enemy,but at Carrhae the Roman advance in general stopped,Republic toppled,and Rome went from offensive to defensive mode, followed by domestic wars and conflicts,which eventually caused its fall.
19:51 reminds me of when Arminius was killed by his own people :(
Also of when Flavius Aetius was murdered by Emperor Valentinian III as his reward for defeating the Huns under Attila at Chalons.
Emperor Aurelian is what i think of everytime.
Saved the collapsing empire, brought it to such heights again.
And is murdered while taking a piss by his troops.
Or Aetius who, after driving back Attila the Hun, was murdered by his emperor Valentinian III of the collapsing Western Roman Empire.
It's said after Aetius' murder, an advisor of Valentinian III scolded him: "Know that you have cut off your right hand with your left."
@@codysing1223 Your thinking of Caracalla emperor from 198-217 AD he got stabbed by one of his soldier stopping to take a piss on the way to a temple in Carrhae coincidentally, dudes name was Justin Martalis and he was pissed that Caracalla didnt promote him to centurion so he walks up like a coward and stabbed him in the back
The case of Arminius is only superficially similar, though - Arminius was not executed shortly after his victory to prevent rebellion (from the king's perspective) but was killed after long years of internal struggle and wars between the Germanic tribes and various factions within them.
"Crasus, you fool" Iulius Caesar.
The battle gave an expression used even today in Spanish: "Craso error" ("Crasus error") which basically means "screwing it up big".
Lulius Caesar? LoL
@@alihasangaming6969 Iulius, with I.
@@alihasangaming6969
IVLIVS
Crassus means "big", so craso error means "big mistake"
Great video! minor correction, Parthians used "Composite" bows with composite material not Compound bows which are modern tech and have pullies utilizing compound effect and let-off.
Am I the only one who enjoys more all the prologues to the battle than the battles itself? Great work!
People underestimate how much work and research are behind this video. Thank you very much for this amazing history telling and graphics. All the historic details are accurate and neutral. Best to you!
Dang, Crassus got destroyed. But only you guys could make me enjoy a video about a Roman defeat. As always an awesome video.
I always enjoy a good Roman whooping.
I always enjoy munching on people. Rawr!
@@TyrannosaurusRex5027 Well said, Tyrant King.
Deserved end for what that greedy fook did to Spartacus and co.
11:15 Jesus, that envoy has balls of steel to goad them like that
20:00 Wtf
Also, thank you for maintaining that graphical roll-call of the units. It looks outstanding!
Joden Paolo Peroy Thank you for your feedback :)
Surenas was becoming too popular and powerful. Orodes feared his betrayal
@@lorisuprifranz figured it out as well. The comment was just a general reaction of mine.
Surenas was supposed to distract the Romans, not take all the glory of the king XD
the political situation in kingdoms and the like are always fragile and surenas with his great victory became a threat to the king. if the king's political rivals would be able to seduce surenas into rebelling or him wanting the thone for his own, He likely could raise enough support to overthrow the king
Achaemenid Dynasty - kings Cyrus,Darius and Xerxes
Parthian Dynasty - kings Mehrdad(Mithridates) and Farhad (Pharaates)
Sasanian Dynasty - kings Shapour and Khosrow
( Great king of kings of Persia )
@@rolex1231 yes thats true 👍
Šâhanšâh (King of Kings) basically means Emperor and Šâhanšâhi means Empire.
And two of the greatest in this list shapour and cyrus the great😍😍
Honestly Ismail the Great of Safavid dynasty and Nader Shah of the Afsharid dynasty were great kings too, tho not Farsi Persians they still ruled a Persian state in the Persian way
Was Xerxes really that great ?
Actually we Iranians still use the embassador's statement to say something is impossible
In Arabia they say. Hair will grow on my tongue in the same context
law ming same thing but for implying that you have emphasized something before
Lol 2000 years later and still no one can think of a more badass comback. It's definitely a top tier roast 👌.
You can only use it if your balls drag on the floor tho
@Stephen Bidgood have you checked?
@@SupremelyFly well it depends, already long before that i did enjoy very the Spartan "If" answer to the Persians ^^
Wow Surenas is such a cool commander!!! I would like to see how he fought the Romans in the up coming battles
*watch til the end of the video
*N E V E R M I N D*
:-D
Do not regret 😂 if it was not cool, then the pressure of Ruth would not be
Historia Civilis made a great video about this a while ago. It is an interesting battle to analyse the mistakes made.
It wasn't so much "mistakes" but a complete miscalculation of the enemies capabilities. Getting into a noob box makes sense if you are assuming that the much smaller force you are facing will run out of ammo within an hour.
@@lolwutyoumad I agree. That is one of the most important factors. I just put mistakes as a general, encompassing word to include what went wrong, what they did in response and what they could have done to mitigate or prevent failure. Such as more emphasis on scouting ahead or potentially sticking with the conventional tactic of extending the line to prevent flanking as they were going to do before Crassus changed his mind.
For some reason, I prefer Invictus' video on this battle. It's easy to focus on the Roman defeat, but Invictus took a different look at it. Plus, this video says the Roman Morale broke when they saw Publius' head on a lance, but then they held until nightfall. Doesn't sound like their morale broke. The Parthians had a great strategy and executed it to perfection.
@@shorewall yes, he has three videos about this battle and things related, one to explain Crassus logic (What Was Crassus Thinking? - The "fool" of Carrhae), other about possible roman prisioners reaching China and "Avenging Crassus" about Parthian and Roman expeditions years after Carrhae. "Fool" of Carrhae was probably the best video ever made about this battle.
PS: BTW, the Channel is Invicta, isn't it?
True they are superb
Surena: Sir, I defeated the Romans!
Orodes II: You won?! That's treason!
Surena: *Visible confusion
Orodes probably manufactured some phony accusation and since this is said to be treason I would have liked to hear exactly what the charge was. "You disobeyed my plans to sacrifice yourself when delaying the Romans" Or "You were"nt supposed to defeat them,only delay them which is treason"
@@yulusleonard985 Parthia was"nt even an Empire 650 years before and the rest of your statements are either Historically incorrect or pure speculation.Good day to you sir
@@yulusleonard985 Thats an oversimplification but whatever.Have a nice
@@ethericboy😂😂😂😂 one word from the air.
A story later emerged to the effect that after Crassus' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth as a symbol of his thirst for wealth.
Thus the Parthians avenged the death of Spartacus.
Doubt the story is true but yeah I've heard it
My favorite battle, thanks for covering it. please continue the series of Roman-Iranian conflicts;
with Regards from Persia
One of the most painful to my eyes, as I love the Romans. But I guess this is what comes of disrespecting your opponent, Crassus had it coming.
Also cover the conquest of CTESIFONTE, capital of Parthia' empire,by the Romans ( Traiano, 116 AD - Marco Aurelio,175 AD - Settimio Severo 197 AD)
@@Cancoillotteman far as I know
Crassus was a rich man in Rome who wanted to have fame as a Roman general leader, right?
@@marvinsilverman4394 well it's like hugely more complicated than that but to make it short he was (politically) the equal of Caesar and Pompey Magnus. To remain at their level he thought an easy and quick victory against the Parthans would make him as popular and much richer than the other two
According to some historians, the Surena family was also very influential during the Sassanid era, they lived in Tabaristan (current day Mazandaran province) where many of the Iranian historical famous generals are from including Rustam.
"Rustam yali bood dar Sistan
manash kardam Rustam e Dastan
A famous man at the start and at the end
Baradar, they were from Sistan and they were awarded Mazandaran and Armenia for their service to Parthians/Sassanians. They are not Mazandarani, they are Hephtalite/Kidarite in origin.
Look up Gondophores and the indo Parthian kingdom, they are not related to any Mazandarani at all
The Parthians killed St Thomas for spreading christianity in their empire
These videos are getting better and better. Great work Kings and Generals.
I've been watching this channel since 2017 or so- it's absolutely wild the quality that y'all continue to put out and I feel as though this may be the best one yet. Keep it up 👍🏻
You do a great job bringing History alive, thanks!
It's so hard to express how amazing this documentary was, wow! definitely in the top 5 K&G documentaries. The envoy part was the best :) Keep up the great work.
Nice that you found some actual footage of the armies. This is quality content.
Actually its a game. Whats more its mod for a game
Such an epic channel, thanks for always providing tons of context!
Parthian had one of the most fearsome cavalry and tactics of history.
@@pongangelo2048 actually the polsi copied the Mongol war tactic
@@skkhammuansangngaihte4989 Mongols weren't even around. They've had this tactic since fighting alexander. It could have originated from the Scythian, or nomadic Iranians in the north.
@@thegodofthegods1084 turks and mongol or any nomadic have that tactiv
@@skkhammuansangngaihte4989bro we didn't have turks on that time . The places you. Call it turks country they were iranian people on there . And this tactics is coming from scythia & parthians . They were iranian
@@skkhammuansangngaihte4989dickhead
So Parthia invented both the cataphracts ( precursor to European knights) and the hit and run tactics of mongols
Parthian Tactics give +4 dmg to Cavalry Archers
That cavalry charge must have been the coolest looking military action in ancient history
By the gods! This channel has always good surprises. Thanks man.
one of my favorite channels,Your voice just makes history better my friend
One of the long term changes brought about by this war was that Rome stopped using chain mail, Lorica hamata, for its soldiers as arrows could penetrate it much more easily. Instead they wore armour made up of metal strips called Lorica segmentata. Though it gave better protection it was heavier and not as flexible as chain mail.
"There is a question that I have always wanted to ask you. When your old friend Crassus was captured by the Parthians is it true that they poured molten gold down his throat? Because that would really sting". - Mark Anthony to Cicero HBO Rome.
@@the_rover1 It is a scene from the second season already after the assasination of Julius Caesar where Mark Anthony puts his request to the Senator Marcus Cicero about being Governor of Gaul rather than Macedonia. In which Cicero originally rejects the notion saying to Anthony that the Senate would not like it as he would be postioned under arms in close proximity to Rome and that he Anthony should just make his threats now as Cicero states he does not like to give in to mere implication. And so Anthony threatens Cicero with the above quote which was the alleged real life fate of Marcus Crassus at the hands of the Parthians after the disastrous battle of Carrhae.
This documentary is fantastic. K&G your videos are always like that. THANK YOU !
Thanks for watching!
This is probably the best video covering Carrhae anywhere on TH-cam, so goo job keep up the awesome work. But I enjoy the recent videos about “the birthplace of history”: ancient Mesopotamia more than anything else on this channel. Please continue with those.
Surena was a smart and brave Iranian General, he considered every thing before starting the battle
Surena Kürdish?
@@rayzinlgdyeattigibizonumNo he was from Khorasan, east of Iran.
Cannae - When the ground speaks Carthaginian.
Carrhae - When the desert speaks Parthian.
Teutoburg Forest - When the forest speaks German.
Thanks for a great video! I have seen and listened to many recountings of the Battle of Carrhae. I was pleasantly surprised by how much more complete and informative this one was. The usual narrative focuses on how badly Crassus blundered, ignoring his advisers and achieved little successes during his campaign. But here we see how he had some initial success, and was simply outgunned and unable to improvise effective counter tactics. It would be interesting to see how Cesar would have dealt with such a Parthian army, or whether he wrote anything about this defeat.
Cesar would have retreated after the first and second charge of the heavy knights and be like "Nope, didn't sign up for fighting an experienced, lethal and modernized army like this. Let's go back to Gaul" 😂
Realy nice! Keep the good job going! I could view all of your videos about ancient rome during any moment of the day.
Thanks! :-)
Rome most epic bruh moment
😩👌🏻👌🏻
Nope adrianople
Erik Hunt nope Edessa
this battle was though the worst defeat for the Romans in terms of Kill Death Ratio, according to Roman Historians themselves 20,000 Romans died and 10,000 got captured while parthians lost only between 35-50 Cataphracts and Horsearchers and all this while outnumbering the Parthians 4.5 to 1, in my idea Crassus defeat was the most humiliating his only defence is that Romans never faced such an enemy.
The Romans lost over 100k troops at Arausio and 60-70k troops at Cannae.
@@Intranetusa arausio is definetly exaggeration
Me: "Why don't we know Surana as one of the greatest generals of antiquity?" (19:56) "Oh."
His tactic in this battle is being teached in the war academies.
@@taghavibalatarin6543 really where?
@@nebsam7137 United States Military Academy West Point
Extremely well-made. Great job!
Thanks for this great educational video! Such a great quality!!
as an iranian i was excited in the whole duration of the video . please cover more roman-persian wars
Yes, just like the conquest of CTESIFONTE, capital of Parthia' empire, by the Romans with Traiano, Marco Aurelio, Settimio Severo (116, 175, 197 AD). Noukaretam.
@Águila701 don't cry. they were persians. you can't change our histoty sorry😉
Águila701 Iran
@Águila701 dude we say persian(fars) in farsi(persian language) to all of Arians(medes,persians,parthians,sekaha...)
iam baloch from parthians, iran symbolic name is persia our holy country
Another excellent video. Please make one about Anthony campaigns against Parthia.
keep up the great work!! i love your videos they are the best
Some of the best videos on this platform
Thanks for yet another great video. As an Iranian, I appreciate your coverage of the history of that part of the world.
ty so much for this amazing video man well done.
pls make more videos about parthian-roman wars
Mohammad Ghezelli are you Iranian?
@@suren2313 yeah I am Iranian
and you maybe an Armenian
Finally! Been waiting for this video :)
A great dialog and pronunciation. Praise to you.
Marc Antony threatening Cicero: "Tell me, when your friend Crasus was captured by the Parthians, is it true they poured molten gold down his throat before cutting his head off? I'd imagine that would really sting..."
Orodes II: "Congratulations on your victory over the Romans at Carrhae, Surena! The reward for your services to the Parthian Empire is a painful and agonizing death."
Finally the video i have been looking for!!!
Love your videos Kings and Generals! Most videos was made perfect though some of them are not that great yet I still love it... :)
"Now, with new video game technology, you are about to see this great battle as never before, the vast numbers of soldiers, the troop formations, how they fought, and how the battle was won. Get the view the Generals wished they had"
History Channel's Decisive Battles
When you're a noob who just figured out the box formation,
But your opponent is a Chad Eastern faction expert and a real life Genghis Khan.
@John the Armenian and dead. I guess I should've written "Genghis Khan reborn".
@@sakshampandey7342 Well the guy was also born earlier than Genghis
Not only that but he was also a cheater haxor who used the unlimited ammo exploit.
Well yes, but no... Crassus tactics would have carried the day if the Parthians didn't have so many arrows, and I don't think that a line would hold as much as this "noob box" as people are calling it.
Genghis Khan preborn.
Just an amazing presentation of past history battles. You know man just cannot govern man seems like an impossible task even now. Thank for sharing love all these videos that have come out.
Thanks, more on the way!
Had to come back to this amazing video!
Great content! for the first time i disabled Adblock to support a channel. Keep it up.
We appreciate it!
Parthia against Rome in Carrhae: “I call this, the pro-gamer move”
I just sat down. Haven't even watched it yet, but I know I'm going to love it.
We appreciate your trust!
@@KingsandGenerals I loved it.
I truly hope you guys cover the Dacian and Eastern campaigns of Trajan. I’m excited for them.
Surena didn't even bother bringing 10,000 Immortals of Persia. Just a thousand heavy knights and 9,000 horse archers 🏹 cleaned almost 30,000 well equipped legionaries. Wow 😮
They were deployed in Armenia at the time. King Orodes was waiting for Crassus to come to Arminia to face him. The king didn't anticipate the Surena's force will finish the Romans off.
"We bring from the mountain
A tendril fresh-cut to the palace
A wonderful prey". from the bacchae uttered while Crassus' head was used as a prop.
Wow this video was extremely well made. So good. 10/10.
Thanks!
@@KingsandGenerals درود مرد شریف
Great documentary! very informative.
I was waiting for this battle one of my favourite
@@the_rover1 yeah the peak of nomadic tactic
This would make for an absolutely amazing movie!
yea i always loved the idea about a movie based on this battle, could start showing Crassus rise and Parthian power struggle for the throne later half the battle itself ending with the death of crassus and the betrayal against Surena.
Fantastic video as always!
Awesome video as always!
Imagine beating romans for the 1st time in 150 yrs and ur king kills u lmao
@Death by Cross bruh indeed
Bruh I want to cry each time i read your comment.🤦🏻♂️why life of young successful person should be ruined because of kings fear.
@@aradsstates9584 fax
They had been defeated in the last 150 years, just not so crushingly.
@@Malhaheifnrifbwkmqvs Parthia. It was 1st time in 150 years. Check your eyes again
Hi kings and generals
One thing i like your channel is you use bc and ad instead of bce and ce...
Nice way to learn history...
Never heard of surena...
Thanks to you for learning history with great animation...
I like your channel...👍
Agreed 100%, I prefer BC and AD.
Excellent. Well documented. Thank you.
Amazing as always.
I love these videos about Iranian history! Thank You.
Crasus: I'm ready to sacrifice my hole army to save my son
Parthian cathapracts: yeah about that...
I can’t believe this channel stil has no 1m followers. Awesome job again👏👏
We'll get there!
I love your animations!!
Thank you for posting more iranian history
It's soooo good. When I think of great empires in history, I think of Rome, China and Persia.
Crassus _sweating_ : flips helplessly through the strategy manual while the legions are being shot down:
"There's no tactic or formation against Bitch Fight and Bitch Moves in here! ..."
I love your series about the Parthian Wars.
So far the best video with best animation and length is similar to a episode of tv series.
I found Surena's execution less surprising and disappointing than I found Crassus' abandonment of his wounded on the battlefield. They weren't just faceless drones and servants; they were tough and loyal Roman legionaries, when that meant considerably more than it did in the later days of the Empire. He and his subcommanders just left them behind, to suffer horribly through an endless night and then get destroyed like sick cattle in the morning. "Loyalty" only goes one way, when you're dealing with rich men; no matter the flags they fly.
Another well done,very interesting video
Fantastic work, so interesting