PART 1 - First Time Reaction To Alexander The Great - The Greatest General in History? Epic History
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- 🏛️ About the Video:
"Epic History TV" delves into the legendary life of Alexander the Great, exploring his remarkable military tactics and conquests that have led many to label him as the greatest general in history. This documentary-style video provides insights into his strategic prowess and the historical impact of his campaigns, which stretched from Greece to Persia and beyond.
Join us as we watch and react to the analysis of Alexander the Great's military genius for the first time! This video promises to uncover the strategies and decisions that enabled Alexander to conquer vast territories and forge one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Watch our reaction to see how we're fascinated by his tactical mind and the historical significance of his achievements.
🎥 What to Expect in This Video:
First Impressions: Our initial reactions to the portrayal of Alexander's early life and rise to power.
Historical Analysis: Discussing key battles and strategies highlighted in the video, and their impact on Alexander's legacy.
Perspective on Leadership: Reflecting on Alexander's leadership style and his ability to inspire and command his armies.
Overall Learning: Evaluating what this video teaches us about Alexander the Great and whether it supports the claim of him being the greatest general in history.
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I can't believe they found original battle footage!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alexander posted it on tiktok
@@Torjus_ Ha!
And in color too!
Back in the day, we watched these hilites on black and white TV.
Iron maiden!!;;
ALEXANDER THE GREAT ORIGINAL Μέγας Αλέξανδρος🇬🇷
He destroyed all of Thebes except for Pindar's house, he was one of his favorite poets.
And why?
Because Thebes were helping the Persians fighting Greece.
Yeah Alexander the greatest of all 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🔥 the guy was a master mind he done so many things (also other things than just war)
Hey, Im gonna assume youre greek because of the flags in your comment and if you are, could you explain to me why Greeks seem to be fighting with Macedonians a lot nowadays?
@Plymouth-Wanderer because "North Macedonians" aren't really Macedonians that's why, but they claim to be Macedonians and descendants of Alexander the great and yeah I am Greek altho I put the flags to showcase that Alexander the great was greek pretty much
@Plymouth-Wanderer at any case these people claim to be Macedonians and Alexander's descendants , which is a lie and a propaganda , the true Macedonians were Greeks not slavs
@@-BlackMamba- but Macedonians and Greeks are genetically pretty similar right? So why have this feud?
@@Plymouth-Wanderer historically Macedonians were Greeks , these people that are living today in North Macedonia aren't even close to Greeks, the 1/3 of the population is Albanians, and the rest are of Slavic origin , literally Bulgarians and serbians , so no if u are talking about the north Macedonians no , they aren't similar to us , if u are talking about historical Macedonians then yes they were Greeks, also if u ever wondered why we call NORTH Macedonians that's bcs the real Macedonia is a province in Greece , and the real Macedonians are there that are pretty much Greeks ofc , overall Greeve is many tribes of people together that were considered to be "greeks" , like Macedonians, Athenians, Spartans Thebians etc so yeah
Epic History is simply the best.
It is..
I really hope you do Napoleon's videos from EHTV next, it will blow your mind
Alexander the Great was not just a conqueror. His purpose was to exchange values and knowledge, resulting in the prevalence of Greek civilization and the creation of the Hellenistic era.
Scientific sequence in the campaign of Alexander the Great:
Doctors: Drakon ,Glaukias , Kritodemos, Filippo the acarnanian ,and Ippoktates son of Ippocrate.
Historians,Topographers: Aristovoulos kassandrephs , Kallisthenes nephew of Aristoteles.
Painters, poets, musicians: Athenodoros from Thessaly ,Lykon ,Apelles ,Lysippos,Aristonikos.
Fortune tellers , Prophets : Aristandros , Kleomenes from Sparta.
Joseph Campbell wrote about the enormous contributions to Western Civilization that followed in the wake of Alexander's conquests. In fact, would Western Civilization have ever EXISTED without Alexander?
Just like Napoleon and Julius Caesar were not just tyrants and conquerors
I find these 3 are one and the same
Yuppp!
All of the Napoleon videos are the best thing on TH-cam.
Back when he began senior school (aged 12), 35 yrs ago, I introduced my oldest son to Mary Renault's epic trilogy of historical novels about the life of Alexander. Each of my children went on to read them. Hence, I have two grandsons with the names Alexander, and Sikander, the readers were so impressed. I commend them to you: Fires from Heaven, The Persian Boy, and Funeral Games.
Iron Maiden-- Alexander The Great
YES! I was coming on to make this exact request. Why not react to Iron Maiden's song Alexander the Great when they finish this series of videos?
A brilliant history lesson.
@@kurtpflegl30A brilliant suggestion.
Certainly the most important for the influence he had on the history of the world, but there are 2 generals who surpassed him. Scipio Africanus, undefeated, while Alexander was defeated by the Indian Porus, and by the greatest, the Mongol Subotai, the one who conquered everything between the Yellow Sea and the Adriatic.
His history is epic, Alexander is the GOAT general
I dunno i find thats debatable, Julius Caesar's military genius is on the same level for sure and i would argue that Napoleon's was also pretty impressive for his time
However between these 3 then i would certainly agree that they are all up for GOAT status
I really enjoyed studying Alexander the Great
Now you have to react to Iron Maiden: Alexander the Great. It's an awesome song and history lesson.
Armor. Those that could afford it had full torso plates, most people wore cloth with metal plates attached kind of like today's body armor; what look like pleats are individual plates. The armor was bronze.
Many historians compare the Peloponnesian War (Sparta vs Athens) with WW1. It swept away the old order and led to the rise of Macedon. Alexander and his mother may have been behind the assassination of his father!
I wouldn't definitely say Alexander, but definitely say his momma. She was cruel and conniving.
Alexander and Olimpias had nothing to do with the death of Philip.
We know exactly how Philip was killed and why.
@@hariszark7396 But it looks like the encouraged the assassin to kill Philip because Alexander was going to be replaced as heir by the child of Philip's newest wife.
@@kenbattor6350 No. Philip had great expectations from Alexander and we can see that in his high class training in every aspect possible.
Don't forget that Alexander was trained together with his best friends/officers to form a great force against Persia. Philip was not going to throw all that away and replace Alexander by any means.
@@hariszark7396 Alexander was going to be replaced as heir
the Battle Footage shown in this Video is actually a Game called Rome 2 Total War
Poem "In 200 BCE" by Cavafy
“Alexander, son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaimonians...”
We can very well imagine
how completely indifferent the Spartans would have been
to this inscription. “Except the Lacedaimonians”-
naturally. The Spartans
weren’t to be led and ordered around
like precious servants. Besides,
a pan-Hellenic expedition without
a Spartan king in command
was not to be taken very seriously.
Of course, then, “except the Lacedaimonians.”
That’s certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.
So, “except the Lacedaimonians” at Granikos,
then at Issus, then in the decisive battle
where the terrible army
the Persians mustered at Arbela was wiped out:
it set out for victory from Arbela, and was wiped out.
And from this marvelous pan-Hellenic expedition,
triumphant, brilliant in every way,
celebrated on all sides, glorified
as no other has ever been glorified,
incomparable, we emerged:
the great new Hellenic world.
We the Alexandrians, the Antiochians,
the Selefkians, and the countless
other Greeks of Egypt and Syria,
and those in Media, and Persia, and all the rest:
with our far-flung supremacy,
our flexible policy of judicious integration,
and our Common Greek Language
which we carried as far as Bactria, as far as the Indians.
Talk about Lacedaimonians after that!
I missed some time in my college history class for a special intern assignment. When I returned, we had a test and one essay question was about Alexander the Great. I wrote the lyrics to the Iron Maiden song and got a 10/10 on that question. The professor wrote in the margin “Excellent! Talked about things we didn’t cover in class.”
I highly recommend you guys react to the song.
This is my favorite reaction video of this series on Alexander.
Great channel to review and for you as well.
Excellent commentary
I love watching these kind of reactions. I don't comment so much because there is nothing to really add after your completion of reaction. I had a major in music and two minors... History and psychology. So I really enjoy your take. Thanks guys and keep up the great work. I enjoy the variety. 🤟👏🍻
Most Greeks armor was, for the wealthy, a bronze cuirass(breastplate), bronze helmets, a lot wore shin and forearm protection, footwear was mostly just sandals.
Regulars wore, in most part, a linothorax, which is just super thin linen, glued over thin linen, over and over until you have a solid bit of protection. Remakes we’ve done today show they were very sturdy for what they were. Then the same, bronze caps and helmets, more forearm and shin protection and sandals.
Then the poorer or, agile soldiers wore robes, linen, what they had at home.
Alexander had Aristotle as a teacher.
Aristotle had Plato as a teacher and
Plato had Socrates.
Imagine that.
YESSS!! I am so glad you guys are reacting to this. I love everything from Epic History TV.
I named my son after Alexander the Great .
Their armour differ according to the type of unit of soldiers were part of.
For the common Shieldbearers-Hoplites their armour was made from Bronze and their blades from simple Iron, making their blades both capable of hacking and slashing.
For the Phallangites (The backdone center piece and front of the army Pikemen) they had a lighter armour made from linen (Their armour's name Linothorax, literally translating to Linen Breastplate) in order to keep their unit as maneuvarable as possible knowing that speed is not their strong suit but have to keep up with the rest of the units in order to maintain a their formidable formation. They still carried a Bronzen shield although a little smaller one again in an attempt to not weight them down and keep cohesion.
Now their cavalry units were mostly light armoured usually made from linen aswell just like the Phallangites. Speed being their main strength circle charging at the enemies and deliver shocking and devastating strikes until a breakthrough.
In short:
For anyone literally heavily equipped it would be made from Bronze.
For anyone medium equipped it would be made from Linen.
And anyone who would be considered light armoured it was simple leather or no armour at all, having a piece of clothing on them while speed being their main strength with a decently sized wooden shield to protect them as they would skirmish from relatively safe distance with javelins, bows or slings that they would carry.
Alexander was one of the most fascinating , and in many ways admirable, figures in history. Mary Renault , a gifted historical novelist in the late twentieth century, wrote three biographical novels about him. The best one, covering his career from his acendency to the throne to his death, was the best, and became a runaway best seller. It is called The Persian Boy, and it makes you feel like you were there.
Hell yeah! Big fan of PERSIAN BOY (and Renault's work in general)
@@gigi-ij1hk Renault's other great trilogy, of the Theseus story, is also massively enjoyable.
@@anotheryou218 Have read KING MUST DIE and BULL FROM THE SEA but wasn't aware there was a 3rd one?
@@gigi-ij1hk Ah, yes, you are right. I mis-remembered. Been several decades. Thanks
i prefer her non-fiction book, The Nature of Alexander.
Y'all do a great job. Entertaining, informative and fun. Nice vibe all the way around.
Brilliant, thank you, love ancient history!💖👍
Alexander my goat
Spreading Hellenism across the world
Alexander was a superb general but above all he was the most brilliant tactician this planet ever saw! The way he changed his plans and adopted in the battlefield in SECONDS (battle of Gaugamela for example) was unique.
Some facts that you do not know (about the video-until this point):
1)the city of Thebes revolted against Alexander. He won and he allowed the Thebans to live. They promised they will not revolt again, but they lied and after the SECOND revolt, he completely raised Thebes to the ground. He spared only one house. The house of Pindarus!
2)when Alexander crossed vosporus-before the battle of Granicus- he threw his spear to the sand, like his ancestor Achilles had done during the Trojan war, and he promised to liberate the Greek cities of Asia Minor and then conquer Persia. And as you know, he kept his promise…
3) He exterminated the Greek mercenaries in Granicus battle because he saw them as traitors (and they were). It was a panhellenic campaign against Persia, not to conquer Persia, but to liberate the Greek cities of Asia Minor from the Persian occupation. Those Greek mercenaries had no reason to remain under Persian service during that time. They were traitors and Alexander did well to make an example of them
4)his father, king Phillip, believed that a marching army into a campaign must never be bigger than 50000 men. That was the best number in order for the expeditionary force to be both capable but also manoeuvrable and sustainable
Ive been obsessed with ancient history for years and years, and Alexander the Great is the Goat! I sesrch for new videos. About him all the time. Thats awesome your woman is down with lesrning history. Excited to see your minds be blown by Alexander.
Those visuals are from a PC game you can buy called "Total War"
The reaction content I always dreamed of 😍
Great stuff here! I've always believed Alexander's story is one of the best in history with some mystery in how he really died possibly. His military achievements are crazy and I loved how he would lead his army from the front, not the rear. The U.S. West Point Military Academy still studies his tactics on the battlefield to this day. Great video!!!
Room under the stairs ❤
Love the history videos. I'm gonna go check out part 2 after this and I'll wait for you guys to watch the series. Great reaction as usual guys and Peace out 🙏 ✌️ ☮️
18 year olds in the 40s are so much different that 18 year olds today .. just imagine the 18 year olds during alexander the great's era ..
I mean yeah, they died pretty young usually. Life sucked back then 😂
I wonder what 18 would be back then for us now. Like 20-30s? 40s even?
Hard times create great men.
To answer on the armor and general equipment. The average Greek Oplite of Phalangite would be wearing an armor made of several layers of unprocessed Linen connected with each other with a type of fish glue (which made it weak against water). For the more Elite troops like the Companion cavalry, the warriors would wear linen breastplates with metal plates attached on top of them for extra protection or metal breastplates made of bronze or less commonly from iron. The shields would be made of wood with either leather or bronze layered over it. The spears would have an iron main tip but would also have a (usually) second tip made of bronze on the other side. That would be used to either finish off wounded opponents, or as a secondary weapon in case the main tip was damaged or the spear was broken. It is important to note that almost all helmets would be made of bronze and unlike the classical Greek city states who would mainly use Corinthian or Thesallian type helmets, most Makedonians would use the Phrygian type helms. Last, there is a debate between historians on the use of leather type armor at that period of time but it is generally assumed it would not be used. Leather armor was used however during the later Hellenistic era by some of the successor kingdoms but only in small scale. The secondary weapon of the Macedonian Phalanx soldier would more often than not be the short stabbing Spartan spathi though the kopis (longer curved cutting sword) would still be used largerly from the classical Greek soldiers. Last but not least, the Macedonian cavalry would be using the Thessalian horses who where said to be quite big for the time period and were mostly used as shock cavalry unlike the Persians who used smaller horses in a more "hit and run" type of warfare.
Im named after him. My favourite history subject.
Alexander and his army didn't use metal for armor. Instead, they used linen '' linothorax '', a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of line, compressed with each other , it is like the minor version of the today , kevlar .
Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, commonly known as Saladin, was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant
This guy is also one of the greatest generals to have existed.
I enjoyed your reaction. Very informative>
Should check out iron maiden Alexander the great awesome tune
Invicta is a channel mentioned in this video. He's done a video (16 mins) on Bucephalus the warhorse of Alexander the Great. It is a video I highly recommend watching as it details Alexanders love for his horse from when he first broke it as a child in a bet against his father and all his generals that he could not ride such an untamed horse, through to the conquering of the entire empire until the horse's eventual death. I don't think a greater tale of a man's love for his animal exists.
Alexander the Great was very orthological thinker, he was taught by Aristotelhs to be both compassionate and strict... thats why u will see that in many battles he let free the enemy and in some he didnt..and he was 18 years when hes father died not 20. he started he's campain against Persia at 20 years old.. and yes he lead hes army on multiple occasions with hes trustworthy horse Voukefalas that some historian say that it was so well trained to be able to kneel and help hes master to come back on so he was never left behind by hes horse
Very cool thing to react to!
Iron maiden - Alexander the great (studio version) is one of the best things i’ve ever heard!! I recommend it A LOT!
Great reaction! It's so good to see these history videos, epic history and kings and generals have very great videos.
16:13 actually the people were living long at that time.
Remember that Leonidas was *60* years old at the battle of Thermopylae and Socrates was over 70 when he died with poison.
So....
His father Philip the second of Macedon... Was the true unsung genius behide .. Alexanders brilliant, heroic, and sweeping conquests..
as much i study Alexander's history, so i believe that Alexander was Philip's creation.....
Very interesting, and very nice that you guys continue doing epic history videos! The narrator there is really good too...excellent actually.....and the subject matter,very interesting..this is a big chunk of ancient classic history thats going on there....both military and in other areas...
If you do watch "300" don`t forget to check out sequel. Not as good as the first but not bad.
the sequel was horrible mate...
@@JohnDoe-dn9ez For you maybe, but i did`nt send my commit to you, mate!
When you are done, you should do Hannibal
One of the best generals
The reason they go into so much details with the names is cause the ones that serve alexander closely heavily influence early Middle Eastern history
HE OR SHE WHO CRIES WHEN THEY SEE HEROES HAVE A PEICE OF HEROISM IN THEM.
Btw it wasn't just the 300 Spartans at thermopoli, the Athenian were off the coast in a naval battle with Persia. And in the land battle they had people from other city states aswell.
You should do a reaction to the Iron Maiden song entitled "Alexander the Great" from their "Somewhere in Time" album.
Great song and a great history lesson in it, too.
I don't know about greatest general, but one of the greatest conquerors. It's insane how some people just completely changed the world. Persia being built by Cyrus the great, led by Darius the great and this guy on the peripheral of a magnificent empire comes and destroyed everything they built. Much like ghengis, napoleon and Hannibal, people who understood how to truly change the world around them and we're placed in the right time.
If you guys enjoyed this little history lesson on Alexander The Great, be sure to check out the IRON MAIDEN song of the same name from 1986, on one of your upcoming music reactions! See if you think the boys managed to cover the subject in just under 9 minutes!
On fact they were not 300 yes 300 Spartans but accompanied by allies nant thousands actually
I honestly hope someone makes a video comparing Akexander the Great to Cyrus the Great. Both were excellent generals.
You should read "The life of Charlemagne" by Einhard. " It's a really good book. Also, you should make a video about your workout routines. I'm trying to get healthy and eat better, but I'm stuck on workouts or yoga? I'm just trying to better myself, and I'm stuck on that kinda stuff, and you guys seem so genuine. All the best, my homies.
This is a phenomenal series
Epic History has a video also on Alexander's speach during Opis mutiny later on the Campaign, which u ought to take a look
Didn't realize you guys had branched off into history. Yes, people have always been warlike and I fear always will be. Any chance you two will be covering the almost legendary frozen realm of Canuckia?
After Alexander passed, the Greeks were convinced they could take revenge on Macedonia - a world super power. They didn't burn Athens to the ground, but for all purposes the great democracy of Greece ended.
There were some who didn't think Alexander should inherit the throne because his mother was not Macedonian. Philip had another infant son with a Macedonian wife who they thought was the true heir. In Alexander's eyes, they had to go bye bye, and so did his half brother in order for him to be secure on his throne.
You Guys are the Best... ❤❤
The greatest gift to the world Greeks have given was the written language.
Here is an example of how GREAT THE GREEK LANGUAGE WAS ,IS,AND WILL BE ...
I always wished to address this Assembly in Greek, but realized that it would have been indeed "Greek" to all present in this room. I found out, however, that I could make my address in Greek which would still be English to everybody. With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I shall do it now, using with the exception of articles and prepositions, only Greek words.
Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a Panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my euharistia to you, Kyrie to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of his Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.
1959
Kyrie, it is Zeus' anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonize the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, they energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria. Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been anti-economic. In an epoch characterized by monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia, which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not hyper-antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practicable now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymus organizations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economies. The genesis of the programmed organization will dynamize these policies. Therefore, I sympathize, although not without criticism on one or two themes, with the apostles and the hierarchy of our organs in their zeal to program orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my Hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.
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Iran actually has something to do with Persia considering the country was named Perisa up until 1931. It can trace it roots back the original Persian Empire and beyond. Many variants of the Persian Empire has existed throughout history including the Parthian and Sassanid Empires which were the greatest nemesis of the Roman Empire.
Persia is the name given to this state by the Greeks. They have always called themselves Iran
@@user-pg9qb3wy7s Fun fact: Palestine and in a broader sense Mesopatamia are also greek names
Once you are done with Epic History Alexander and Napoleon, please react to The World at War 1973 series. Including so much detail and interviews with survivors and players from all sides of world war 2.
The army's armor was made from linen. Cloth made from flax.
It was lacquered and layered.
That's not to say that the leadership (wealthy) did not wear bronze.
“Kings and Generals” has an excellent series on Alexander the Great.
Hannibal says hi.
Το δεξί @ του Αλέξανδρου ήταν.
Let’s try to get some Coast Contra reactions on the channel. I know you both would appreciate the bars!!!
Never freestyle & Give up the goods
His father king Philip is often very overshadowed by Alexander and underrated he created the phalanx and army Alexander would use and gave Macedonia a full treasury without his hard work Alexander wouldn't have been able to invade persia and btw the footage in the video is from the video game total war rome 2 i highly recommend it it's a good game i hope you do napoleon's series after this it's their best series yet
one of my all-time favorite games!
@@chuckleezodiac24 i love the totalwar series i just bought the warhammer series
I used Osprey for my painting military miniatures.
Proud to be Greek 🇬🇷❤️
I searched iron maiden reaction, and this came up.
Maybe you guys should do that song next lol
There's probably a more accurate record of these battles than many others. In most cases both sides were into preserving written accounts, win or lose. Compare that to the Battle of the Little Bighorn which is recounted largely through the oral history of the victors 150 years ago. Custer's actual maneuvers are still speculative.
The armor at this time would have been Bronze (a copper tin alloy), or the Linothorax (there's debate about how and what Linothorax was made of, but layers of linen would have been a component). Armor would have been very expensive, especially bronze. Outside of the core infantry and cavalry of the Makedonian army and the wealthier allied troops, soldiers would likely have no armor besides a shield and helmet. The Hellenistic world loved color, and many of these items would have been elaborately painted, especially shields.
There were many types of armor.
Linothorax, linen light armor, bronze armor, leather armor etc.
Spartans had great armor and shields for example.
Because theyvwere fighting in close formation and proximity of the enemy.
spicy information is that Philip was assassinated during the celebrations for the wedding of his daughter Cleopatra who married her to her uncle, her mother's brother. Many believe that it was done on the orders of Olympias, who after Philip's 8th marriage had left him, but after the murder she returned to the palace, forced his youngest wife who had recently given birth to kill herself and burned the newborn baby boy, so that there would be no other successor for the throne apart from Alexander!
I love the way they give the #'s for all the Greek troops but when it comes to the none greek no #'s. Well if he had 40,000 with 24000 Greek not on horse back and only 1,200 riders there were at least 14000 none Greek troops. as u can see these troops played the most important part in this battle as they allowed the Cav to get around the flank and then held it while the Cav made the Persians retreat.
UI see this is not the first vid I have seen on Alex and I have read more then one book on him but less then 20. U need to read Ptolemais 1 writings about him. Ya they are a little wild on # and such but he gives u a picture of the man that is like no other b/c he actual was one of Alex's Generals. He was a few yrs older than Alex but not that much.
I recommend looking up Alwxanders greatest speech by epic history if its not part of there playlist
Callisthenes was the official historian of Alexander the Great's campaign, who was ordered to write the facts completely objectively. Apart from him, the expedition was followed by doctors, natural scientists, geographers and of course the Greek fleet which followed Alexander from the shores of Asia and mapped the first map of the entire then known world including China.
Idk why they said 300, it is well known there were more than 300, likely 3000, but still a small force compared to what Xerxes brought. It sucks that the geography has changed so much over the millenia, these battles were ancient for the romans... it's amazing we have details from this time. If only we had more eastern works.
For another compelling history video, you should react to “The fallen of World War II”. An eye opener!
Images are from a loved strategy game called Rome Total War 🙂
Bro really hit hard the Persians
3:35 they all talk about Athens and Sparta but they forget so many other Greek city-states of that era with great power and importance like Korinth, Thebes, Macedonia, Aetolia, Ionia and more.
And a lot more in Italy, Sicily, Asia Minor or middle east.
If that’s not a Segway into an Iron Maiden reaction I don’t know what is
we should have evolved by now, there should be no more war.... I think that is why it's difficult to understand how the last four years could have happened... So King Philip was the father of Alexander.. that's interesting.... Life was so brutal, yet educated back then.... very interesting guys...the Spartans were programmed from youth to be fighters... can you imagine living in those times... life was short and scary I should think... .thank you...
The armors were likely linothorax, made with many layers of linen, more effective against arrows than metal armors.
In the most famous mosaic of Issus battle, Alexander is wearing it 0:03
One armor type that the macedonians used was made layers of linean, they supposed to be better then metal against arrows and much lighter.
Epic History, Napoleon series is the most amazing war series ever made.
I remember the movie 300 which was about the 300 Spartan men who went out to fight the Persians