How 10,000 Greeks Defeated an Empire: The Epic Battle of Marathon 490 BC | DOCUMENTARY
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- Step back in time to 490 BC and witness one of history's most legendary battles - the Battle of Marathon. Discover how 10,000 Greek hoplites faced off against the might of the Persian Empire and emerged victorious against overwhelming odds.
In this video, we delve deep into the strategies, heroes, and aftermath of this pivotal clash that shaped Western civilization. Learn about the ingenious tactics of Miltiades, the bravery of the Greek soldiers, and the dramatic run of Pheidippides that inspired the modern marathon.
The Battle of Marathon was more than just a military engagement; it was a defining moment that showcased the resilience and tactical brilliance of the Greek forces. This victory not only safeguarded Athens but also laid the groundwork for the rise of Classical Greece, influencing the course of Western history.
This battle was created using Rome 2 Total War game engine and the following modifications:
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Legendary Empires HD - Greece
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DEI - Realistic Charges, Speed, And Mass
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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 The Persian Invasion
01:16 Composition of the Armies
02:49 Battle Strategies and Tactics
03:23 The Battle at Marathon
04:46 The Phalanx clash with the Persians
06:00 Greek center gives ground
08:12 Persian flanks collapse
08:44 Persian center retreats to the ships
10:18 Persian defeat
10:53 Marathon aftermath
Keywords:
Battle of Marathon, Greek history, Persian Empire, Miltiades, Pheidippides, Greek hoplites, ancient battles, historical battles, Greek-Persian Wars, Marathon 490 BC, military strategy, Greek victory, Western civilization.
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As an example of how drastic and dire and critical the Greeks felt the situation was the skeleton of a 13 year old Plataean boy was found in the small burial mound for the Plataeans near the much larger Athenian burial mound
Every man and boy was sent,it was life or death,freedom or slavery,freedom or death
Who knew that the Ancients fought their battles to such sick beats!?
Greeks were awesome Alexander is my Hero
Alexander was a Macedonian close but not quite
@@suzukimethracer7796 ok he a Macedonian still my hero
@suzukimethracer7796 Macedonians were another Greek tribe. It was a bit different back then. Different tribes sharing same gods, same religion & same mentality. His father Phillip when he came to Athens to convince the Athenians to follow his to the war against the Persians, didn't use a translator, Spoke Greek and came to a debate with Dimosthenes, one of the Athenian leaders. If you ever be lucky and visit Phillip's grave at Aegae, everything is writers in ancient Greek. Aristotle taught Alexander and the other young aristocrat boys using Greek language and not Japanese or some other language. If you are referring to the Slavs of North Macedonia, they arrived in the area in 580AD more than 10000 years after. Have a look to the restoration of Phillip's palace. Everything is Greek.
@@suzukimethracer77963:14 And Aristotle's was speaking slavobulgarian bozo
these ancient greecs are astounding , living in cities that could be ennemies and I don't understand how they constitued a civilisation finally .
Another great video my friend! I love how you implemented facial closeups of the main characters. Keep up the great work!
Thanks a bunch my friend!
Awesome video, man 🔥
Keep up the good work 👍
Miltiades was the first coach who play overlap by using side backs and wingers, 3-0 from first half
The greek strategy was flawless. They waited until the cavalry and part of the infantry were on board to attack.
Nice video
Thanks!
always an amazing presentation. well done. though your AI butchered Milthiades name, lol. still awesome
My bad
mIGHTY gREEKS
Nice
Thanks
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Soo when's Battle of Kadesh under Total War:Pharaoh engine?
It will be a while. I just did this battle
Cannae ahh strategy
Long live freedom and peace Friendship and competition should be permanent
The good old days 😅
Hello.!
What's up?
güzel video. ama bir hiç bir yunan bir TÜRK kadar olamaz. ηρέμησε γείτονα 💐
This video is not about turks my friend
If Darius The Great really wanted to conquer the whole Greece he wouldn't have sent only 26,000-30,000 men
Conquering Greece was actually Xerxes' (his son) goal
That army was there for Eretrians, Athens and some other minor cities or islands that aided the Ionians in their revolt
Not only they'd interfered in the matters of his own empire but one of Darius son in laws (if I'm not mistaken) died fighting the rebels
Maybe the Greeks saw it natural for them to help a fellow Greek (even though almost all of their city states were at war for centuries) but they had no right, lands or territories in Ionina both in reality and in Darius eyes
Him sending an army to retaliate was a logical action not something he did out of greed
facts
Ionia was colonized from the Bronze Age, by Greek colonists, free people.
The Achaemenid Empire was founded 1000 years later.
The Persians paid dearly for their audacity to violate the freedom of these people.
Facts.
@@wardafournello Ionians were conquered by the Lydians first, not the Persians
And don't act as if Greeks didn't conquer or took other people's freedom from them
The Achaemenids were tolerant rulers who allowed their subjects, Persian or not, to practice their cultures and religions while Greeks were the true slavers who saw themselves superior to everyone including the Macedonians (who were also Greek) and later even Romans
They tried to Hellenise the people they conquered unlike the Persians who didn't force their culture or religion on others
Cyrus The Great offered Ionians a chance to fight against their overlords when the Lydians invaded his empire, they refused and helped the Lydians and naturally, a ruler wouldn't have turned a blind eye on that
The Persians conquered the Ionians along with their overlords
And the Greeks paid a heavier price by invading Iranian lands
Remember the Parthians
The semi nomadic people from a small kingdom who destroyed the largest Greek empire (Seleucid empire) and the largest Hellenic kingdom (Greco Bactria) after Alexander
After that, the Greeks went under Iranian, Roman and Turkish rule for over 2,000 years
@@ramtin5152
"Persians tolerant rulers"??!!! lol . "Greeks took other people's freedom"??!! lol.
The Greeks taught other peoples what freedom is.
Divine Greece ,long live Hellas.
@@wardafournello Yes and it's literally one of many things that the Achaemenid empire is known for ever since the reign of Cyrus The Great who was respected even by Alexander
Plus they respected and gave their women way more rights than Greeks gave to their own
If they weren't tolerant rulers then they would have done what arab muslims and Mongols did to the conquered people
Yes, they were not innocent and not kind to the ones who rebelled but Alexander, Romans and others were the same if not more brutal
Oh please don't try to make it seem as if ancient Greeks were saints
Claiming that they were innocent pacifist people whether before or after the Persians arrived is the most delusional thing someone could say
They either conquered each other or other people
Greeks slavery was way more brutal than any kind of slavery in the Achaemenid empire
Take a look at what the slaves in Sparta went through
It's just one example out of many
as persian i think Datis is even more fool than Crassus. he rather didnt see the flanks that were obviously collapsing and didnt use the man in reserve that he have in center to strength the flanks or he is just and idiot.
but NGL good play by the greeks though.
Yes you had the numbers definitely lucky Sparta could not make it or could have been worse
@@suzukimethracer7796 you? lol talking like i was in command. its not about sparta or athens or any other greek city states they had bad general every body with little knowledge of ancient/medieval warfare knows that if you get attacked in rear you are done even the army will lose moral dosent matter in numbers.
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Sparta was corrupt to the core, Athenians had to fend for themselves several times in that war.
¡Ajú, ajú! ggg.
In Marathon battle were 600 ships. Should you do the maths that's 42 soldiers on every ship. I do believe that us something missing. Eitger they were more ( army) or someone lost counting. At any rate, they were stpped there thus no farsi belly dance or knees and foreheads on the ground until the king of kings decision who is going to live and who's going to die, for all of us in europe. Main reason the greejs went to persia a few times after that. Last time just before the romans. Whenever the easteners aren't dealt with turks are to be found outside vienna
Video title is somewhat hyperbolic. The Greeks didn't "defeat an empire" at Marathon as Alexander would do that later. Darius I was a solid general and it would have been interesting had he attempted to take all of Greece rather than his idiot son Xerxes.
this doesn't have much to do with the story as told by Herodotus ....
Wrong. Both armies formed perpendicular to the shoreline
interesting
😂Alexander is a legend, Herodotus says he reached Iran in 4 days, it was winter, how is it possible for him to cross the mountains, before conquering the cities of Syria, Lydia, and so on. It took him 4 days to reach Persepolis, so let's be honest! Was Persepolis the capital of Cyrus?! Susa was the center of the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander grew up in Cyrus's palace as a child, and Cyrus was taken hostage by the son of Emperor Cyrus. In order not to rebel against him, this is also true!!! The name of the empire was Esi Kochuluchi😂
chi difende la propria terra ha una forza in più vedi i russi a stalingrado
Drapaj si mevot
Proof that slavery dosnt do well
Greeks were practicing slavery way more than the Achaemenids
The whole Greco Persian war started because Athens and Eretrians interfered in the matters of the Achaemenid empire
If Darius The Great really wanted to conquer the whole Greece he wouldn't have sent only 26,000-30,000 men
Conquering Greece was actually Xerxes' (his son) goal
That army was there for Eretrians, Athens and some other minor cities or islands that aided the Ionians in their revolt
Not only they'd interfered in the matters of his own empire but one of Darius son in laws (if I'm not mistaken) died fighting the rebels
Maybe the Greeks saw it natural for them to help a fellow Greek (even though almost all of their city states were at war for centuries) but they had no right, lands or territories in Ionina both in reality and in Darius eyes
Him sending an army to retaliate was a logical action not something he did out of greed
My friend ..... when on earth persians rulled over odrysians and getians? They got their asses kicked harder than Marathon when they tried to invade... Stop forging history!
How they created fabricated stories
Such as?
Die Griechen waren sehr tapfer, aber solange die Geschichte nur aus den griechischen Quellen sind 😂😂😂😂😂
why the story only comes from the Greek sources ? The persians didnt write anything for the grecopersian wars ? unfortunately for you, Muhammad was not born yet. to write history as he wants.
@@ilipap3695
Doch, die Iraner hatten die größte Bibliothek der damaligen Zeit, die Alexander der Schwanzlitscher in Brand gesteckt hat.
Nur seltsam ist, so bald aber die Geschichte nicht mehr von nur einer einzigen Quelle, nämlich nur griechische Quellen, berichtet wird, hat man ein anderes Bild von Iranern.
Aber nebenbei erwähnt .... wenn die Griechen so tapfer waren, wieso haben sie nicht mehr tapfer gekämpft gegen Römer, Araber und Türken, während Iraner 750 Jahre gegen die Römer, über 200 Jahre gegen die Araber und 500 Jahre gegen die Türken Krieg geführt haben ???
Eine Frage eben 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Please laugh at me, which Greek army has been able to defeat Iran so far?! My friend, Byzantium, don't lie to me, don't trust anyone's words, refer to your intellect, see our documents and then talk, ten thousand people were fighting against a hundred thousand people, field warriors, and cavalry, whoever you are.😂
Superficial BS from amateurs eager to make a few dollars. We get too much of this stuff.
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