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@poposmoko Persia was a region of Iran, it'd be like referring to all of America as Dixie or all of the UK as England. Furthermore the Persians were they're own distinct people distinct from other Iranians of the time such as the Medes or Parthians. Post-Cyrus these peoples started to blur into a single group but prior to this the Persians were a distinct identity and the founders of said Achaemenid Empire.
One single man created the Achaemenid Empire, and then one single man conquered it. Well, they also had a pretty big and well-trained army each, but you know what I mean.
@@Anwwoo Purely realistic is impossible with 30 thousand men is impossible. The Persians were imperialites, but less so than the Romans and Greeks. The Egyptians, the people of Anatolia supported Alexander if you see the map if Alexander's empire is not the whole of the Perian Empire. Some states have gained their own autonomy.
Alexander could've been defeated early with Scorched Earth tactics since his treasury would've run dry in a month or so. A Greek general actually proposed this but unfortunately it wasn't put into practice.
EmperorTigerstar uploads a video on the Achaemenid Persian Empire, who are famous for (among other things) their elite soldiers called the Immortals at the same time OSP uploads a video about Immortals. Coincidence? Probably.
@@crashverde1686 Persepolis was their ceremonial capital, Susa was their winter capital, Ecbatana was their summer capital, and Babylon was the main centre for the bureaucracy
Persians: *man life really is great being a continent spaning empire* Alexander the great: *I would say I'm going to end this empires career but the meme is dead*
It’s amazing that half of the world’s population at the time lived under the rule of this empire. It just puts into perspective how large and powerful the Persian Empire was.
0:07 Persian uprising 0:07 Conquest of Medes by Cyrus 0:10 Conquest of Lydia and Ionia by Cyrus 0:12 Conquest of Parthian and Eastern lands 0:13 Conquest of Babylon by Cyrus 0:18 Cyrus' battle with the Scythians and eastern tribes 0:20 The Kingdom of Cambodia and the conquest of Egypt 0:21 Suppression of Guillaume the Great's rebellion and the reign of Darius the Great 0:24 Conquest of East and Saka by Dariush 0:26 The arrival of the Achaemenids in Europe and Greece 0:34 The Ionian Rebellion 0:37 Suppression of the Ionian rebellion and the Battle of Lada and the conquest of Macedonia 0:39 Egyptian rebellion during Xerxes era 0:40 Suppression of the Egyptian rebellion 0:42 The battle of Thermopylae and the conquest of Athens (the peak of the conquest of the Achaemenids) 0:43 Battle of Plateau 0:51 The reign of Ardashir I 0:52 Greece's involvement in Egypt's rebellion 0:55 The head of the Egyptian rebellion and the start of the cold war between Iran and Greece 1:20 The rebellion of Cyrus the Younger and the separation of Egypt 1:23 The beginning of Achaemenid weakness 1:37 The great revolt of the satraps 1:41 Suppression of western satraps 1:50 Egypt returned to Iran 1:55 Alexander's attack on Iran 1:57 done
Technically it was the first major and effective empire the world had ever seen , there were great expansionist nations before them but they lacked the disciplined bureaucracy , taxation and millitary systems and even alexander used their legacy as a conqueror 👍
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan There are the Kaifeng Jews of China, though they're pretty small in number, there were also around 25,000 jews who sought refuge in Shanghai for a time during the Nazi period. And yeah, there's a North African Jewish diaspora, which was specially bolstered after the Reconquista was concluded since many Jews and Muslims had to leave Iberia to avoid persecution and/or forced conversions.
*The rest of the world:* "Alexander you can't be hoping to defeat the strongest empire in the world single-handedly. Don't be foolish." *Alexander the Great:* "Haha sarissas go boop boop!"
When you take into account how long it took to travel, transport, and communicate across the Achemenid Empire, it would be like managing an empire that spanned over 8x the earth's landmass area today. It also had about half the world's population at the time, which today would be over 4 billion people. Just to put into modern perspective how massive and influential this state was.
considering the greeks defeated the persians twice while divided in thousands of small city-states and kingdoms and now were united i will choose the hellenic league
@@TheHunterOfYharnam lmfao no. They got invaded, they still won because they decapitated the enemy. Also Darius and Xerxes achieved their goals in GP1 and 2. Suck it. Iran won.
Some people didn't realised that Persian empire ruled Afganstan, Turkumastan, Uzbakestan and Pakistan. With Tajikistan, too, they are called Khurasan, and the capital city in the Sasanid empire was Maru (Mari) in Turkumanstan. Some of the Khurasan lands still in Iran today, but you should know that it's not all Khurasan. Khurasan is a geographic natural big land, starting from the end of the high lands of Iran, until the two rivers of Aral sea.
That brief blip of having part of Greece, only to immediately lose that and everything west of the Bosporus the next second, was amazing. XD As was the abrupt disappearance as Alexander the Pretty Alright blasted through the whole thing.
Nick McGargill well his own empire disappeared so soon like it was an westerns dream.peace in Middle East was something before Alexander under Achaemenids not chaotic Alexander successors ... glad that romans and parthians end their whole career and parthians took the revenge as Achaemenids successors.
During the reign of Artaxerxes II, the Greek had just finished their decades long Peloponnesian War. With Spartan victory and thousands of now out of work soldiers milling around, Cyrus the Younger rebelled against his brother and hired 10 thousands of Greek mercenary as his auxiliaries. At the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus' forces was winning, but all came to be moot when Cyrus is killed in combat. This left the Greeks thousands of miles far in the interior of a now very hostile country whose ruler just put down a rebellion in which they participate in. The surviving Greek fought their way to the Black Sea to link up with Greek colony there and this account is documented in Xenophon's Anabasis. Decades later Alexander would take these first hand account of the 10 thousands to good use against Darius II. One good place to speculate alternative history is how the world would look like had Cyrus not only survive Cunaxa but overthrow his brother? Those Greek mercenary would be handsomely rewarded and Alexander wouldn't have Anabasis to work with.
History is so random. What if Alex never dies and conquers Rome (at that time a small city state) and Carthage. What if he dies in the middle of his campaign. What if the Persian revolt gets smashed. It's so random.
Abdul those were Spartans !! Dont use Greeks for them .you should understand the people who cyrus payed to them to fight against his brother ,was Spartans not other hellenic peoples!! Its like I say Iranians ,but Iranians had diffrent tribes .which the most famous ones for the Greeks (hellenic people )was medes and Persians !! Parthians _sogdians _Scythians_long hat (Cimmerians _royal scythians _massagatae) _bactrians _khwarazmians _hum varagha scythians (saka) and ........ Greeks also had diffrent tribes and city governments and you should separate all of them. They were not one single nation as greeks ,this is lie !!! And also if cyrus the younger was won that battle I'm sure the Sparthians over throw him 😂😂😂 no any doubt about it .Sparthans had plans to over throw the achaemenid empire and they had secret alliance with the egypt and that's the reason ,Egyptian rebelled exactly the same period when cyrus the younger was ready to over throw his bigger brother artaxerxes 2 .sparthians got powerfull in balkan area and Athens was also got weak !! And yeah if cyrus the younger was the winner ,100%achaemenid was destroyed 65 Years earlier
Artaxerxes 2 played well with the Spartans and athens and thebes and he also got back the Ionia and the islands and Cyprus. Darius the second made the Spartans way powerfull to handle them and artaxerxes 2 able to made both athens and Spartans weak And he also got ready to get back egypt but another rebelled from Cyprus Happend who got alliance with the Athens !! Also dont confuse everything up for yourself ,Macedonia was diffrent topic and he just got power out of nowhere it doesnt relate to the athens or Spartans problems with Achaemenid Also I'm sure if Artaxerxes 3 (or his true name is vahuka or bahman the second )was alive and they didnt had murder him in 338 BC ,he can easily beat down Alexander in granicus battle (the first and most important battle ) .Artaxerxes 3 able to got back Egypt and he able to made Asia minor more calmer than before and he had alot of battles in 20 years of his period power
@@farnabazat5395 While the Ten Thousands were lead by a banished Spartan general Clearchus, the group was comprised of people who fought on both sides of the war. Xenophon is Athenian for example and was elected as an officer to replace those assassinated by a duplicitous satrap.
What were your sources? Because I also was interested in how the empire was divided into satrapies, but from all publicly availiable maps, never have I found one that was even remotely similar to that.
Hi Emperor Tigerstar, your video helped me so much, but I was wondering, where did you get the information for the map size of the persian empire? I'm trying to draw a map of it, but I'm having a hard time. I researched on what the map is supposed to look like, but it's so many different maps, I dont know which one to choose?
Hey, EmperorTigerstar! I hope you'll see this.. If you'd do another "a new change in the map" series, make sure to add the new missisipi flag! It finally got approved by the government. Until the next time, Cheers!
Christian Englert yeah I can tell you are definitely fat and smelly by that comment. There’s more to history than the greco Roman world and ww2 tanks lol. Also said barbarians ruled over Greeks longer than Greeks did the Persians LOL!
Well Alexander was a great warrior but these people don't seem to give any credit to the great Achaemenids for all the contribution they had! Personally I learnt a lot from them and used them to establish my Mauryan Empire
According some if not many historians the Neo Assyrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser III or the Median Empire under Cyaxares or Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II were the first super power but according to most historians the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great was the first super power according to most historians the first super power country was Iran and the first superpower emperor was Cyrus the Great Cyrus without question is one of the most successful and best military commander in world history if not the best , conquering most of the world known to the Achaemenid Empire including the 2 most powerful Empires of is time the Median Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire
Très bon travail (comme toujours) Je ne sais plus si je vous ai déjà posé la question, mais pouvez-vous me dire quel logiciel utilisez vous pour la création de vos cartes s'il vous plaît ?
@@abielsjsjs3555 Yes. also, but after the assasination of Philip II, greece declared independence, and waged war to Macedon, then Alexander, razed Thebes for example
Achaemenid Empire won more than 85 % of there war and battle more than any Empire in history they only lost the Second Persian invasion of Greece and Macedon invasion of Iran but under Darius the Great they won the Ionian Revolt and First Persian invasion of Greece against the Greeks Achaemenid Empire won more than 85 % of there war and battle more than any Empire in history and control more than 40% population of there time by population the Achaemenid Empire was the largest empire in history make the Achaemenid Empire the most powerful Empire in history
He was never a hero but a murderer During the Achaemenid period, the whole country was in peace, security, happiness, poverty, and poverty was very low, and it was a very developed country that today, like the Achaemenids, could not progress in that way.At that time, everything was real democracy and there was no oppression. If there was, they would have been arrested by the authorities and there would be no slavery at that time and all religions would be free.And at that time we did not attack, but the countries that wanted to be under our dynasty. The Egyptians called the king Pharaoh.We were all inventing new things at that time and the world was totally evolving. We could have created this modern world today but an assassin conquered Iran more easily when the country did not have a king and was betrayed and there was civil war in the country and the Iranians died standing up.
El hecho de macedonia conquistar el gigantesco imperio Persa es simplemente asombroso!! Es como si Paraguay conquistara Brasil Impresionante lo hecho por Alejandro El Magno
Jajaj si. AUNQUE cabe aclarar que en aquel tiempo el imperio aquemenida estaba en crisis política por las constantes revueltas de babilonios y egipcios
نکته جالب چیزی است که شاید تا کنون نشنیده باشید، اما با شنیدن آن شاید بتوانید درک کنید که داستان اسکندر مقدونیه و تسخیر شاهنشاهی ایران احتمالا یک دروغ بزرگ تاریخ نویسی کمبریج انگلستان است... چرا که ایرانیان از دوران باستان تا به امروز بشدت وطن پرست بوده اند و هیچوقت در تاریخنویسی با دشمنان ایران و مهاجمان به ایران خوشرفتاری نمیکردند اما جالب است بدانید که در مورد اسکندر کاملا نظر دیگری داشته اند ... هیچ یک از مورخان و شاعران و حماسه سرایان ایرانی، به اسکندر حمله نکردهاند و هیچکدام او را دشمن خارجی معرفی نمیکنند... در بزرگترین کتاب حماسی و تاریخی ایران که از نظر محتوای تاریخی و حماسی و طبقه بندی اساطیر و اسناد تاریخ ایران و جهان مسکونی آن زمان، تقریبا شبیه به تاریخ هرودت است اما با یک تفاوت که کتاب ایرانی شاهنامه نام دارد و به نظم و شعر سروده شده... معتبر ترین کتاب تاریخ ایران در جهان و به گفته اکثر دانشمندان و باستان شناسان جهان، برترین کتاب تاریخ جهان است. در شاهنامه فردوسی و بسیاری دیگر از کتب تاریخی ایران، اسکندر برادر ناتنی داریوش است ... یعنی پدر اسکندر پادشاه هخامنشی بوده و مادرش دختر فیلیپ بوده است... در منابع ایرانی، فیلیپ به شکل فیلقوس آمده و پدربزرگ اسکندر است. یعنی دختر فیلقوس، مادر اسکندر بوده و داریوش و اسکندر از سمت پدری، برادر بودند ... جالب اینجاست که اسکندر را به عنوان آخرین پادشاه هخامنشی معرفی کرده اند و پس از آن در ایران سلسله اشکانیان و در غرب هم سلسله روم شکل گرفته است. یعنی در این میان، سلسله سلوکی وجود نداشته است. در هیچ کدام آثار تاریخی ایران از سلسله ای بنام سلوکی سخنی به میان نیامده است
Kousvet Kousvet the great differences: Alexander just conquered and after his dead his empire collapsed and his empire wasn’t as big as Achaemenid empire . Cyrus the great created an empire by mostly Human rights,multinational,multicultural,multi ethnical empire and then conquering and his empire lasted for more than 2 centuries+the known world except Greece and Egypt were always at peace under Achaemenid rulers.while Alexander successors ruined every places with unfinished unlimited civil wars.
@@aradsstates9584 i do not really know why Cyrus is that infravalorated comparing with Alexander, maybe it is because of westernization of things since Alexander was greek but in the occidental world Cyrus is only known by history nerds.
@@aradsstates9584 You are right, but the Seleucid, (althougth more persians than macedonians) mantained a multi-cultural multi-ethnical and anti-slavery empire, who extended basically 5/6 of the Persian empire.
@@kousvetkousvet4158 mAYBE is because Alexander was used by his pretenders (Ptolomy, Antigonus, etc) while Cyrus sucession was much more easy, (not that of Cymbasis but, enough) also it could be because Cyrus fought fewer battles than Alexander, as before Darius, once you slain the king all fell, but with Alexander he had to dispatch satrap after satrap. plus Alexander also conquered Greece, so, the Greeks famous for their romantization where forced to accept him, or end like Demosthenes of Athens. Plus the jews love Cyrus in a light who nobody love a conqueror, because his liberation of the Jews, so the west also like him. Plus he was overshadowed by his own succesors like Cymbasis, Darius, or Artaxerxes III,
1:51 Persians: "no doubt, this empire is the strongest on earth, it has always lived and will outlive us all, it cannot be destroyed." 8 years later History: 1:55
I consider the Achaemenid Empire to be the world's first superpower, but not a global power (New World was still disconnected from the Old World). It spanned several continents, numerous cultures, was really influential in defining the course of history, and had a lasting dominant position in politics, economy, military and culture. The fact that it lasted in a strong position for more than 2 centuries until Alexander's conquests is in itself quite impressive as well!
Thanks to our Father Cyrus the Great The only man who neither massacred, nor looted, nor raped, nor killed, nor burned, the only man whose name appears in all the books of Abrahamic , and he is the first man to stop slavery and write human rights He is the only man who deserves the Nickname of Great 🇮🇷 🇹🇯 🇦🇫
To those intrested in the military history of the Empire, a list of all the battles (Know so far) *Under Cyrus The Great* (from 0:05 to 0:16) Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of Hyrba” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of the border” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of the Pasagrade hills” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The battle of Pteria” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The battle of Thymbra” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The siege of Sardis” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Babylons at “The battle of Opis” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Sakans at “The battle of Jaxartes” Persians under the sha personal command are defeated by the Sakans at “2 battle of Jaxartes” Under Cambyses II (from 0:16 to 0:21) Persians under Polycrates defeat the Egyptians at “The Siege of Gaza” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Pelusium” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Memphis” Continued in the commentaries...
*Under Darius the Great* (Part 1 from 0:21 to 0:32) Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of the Tigris” Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of Zazana” Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The siege of Babylon” Persians under Vaumisa defeat rebels at “The battle of Arbela” Persians under Hydarmes defeat rebels at “The battle of Marush” Persians under Hystaspes defeat rebels at “The battle of Parthia” Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of Kundu” Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Zuzza” Persians under Artabardiya defeat rebels at “The battle of Rakha” Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Tigra” Persians under Vaumisa defeat rebels at “The battle of Vautisara” Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Uyama” Persians under Artavardiya defeat rebels at “The battle of Parga” Persians under Gobyras defeat rebels at “The battle of Elam” Persians under Takhmaspada defeat rebels at “The battle of Sargata” Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 2 battle of Memphis” Persians under Intraphernes defeat rebels at “The 2 Siege of Babylon” Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Karakum” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Indians at “The Siege of Taxila” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Indians at “The Siege of Karachi” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Scythians at “The Siege of Budinoi”
Under Darius the Great (Part 2 from 0:32 to 0:40) Persians under Arystagoras are defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Naxos” Persians under Artaphernes are defeated by the Greeks at “The 2 siege of Sardis” Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Greeks at “The battle of Ephesus” Persian garrison in Amathus defeat Cypriot rebels at “The siege of Amathus” Persian fleet is defeated by a Greek contingent at the battle of “The keys of Cyprus” Persians under Artybius defeat the Cypriot rebels at “The battle of Salamina (Cyprus)” Persians under Hymaees defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Chios” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Dardanus” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Abydos” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Percote” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Lampascus” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Paesus” Persians under Otanes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Calzomenae” Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Cyme” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Marysas” Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Laburanda” Persians under Dauryses are defeated by the Ionians at “The battle of Pedasus” Persians under Datis defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Lade” Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Miletus” Persian garrison defeat Byzantine rebels at “The siege of Thasus” Persian garrison are defeated by Byzantine rebels at “The battle of Chios” Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Malene” Persians under Mardonius defeat Thracians at “The battle of the Persian Camp” Persians under Datis defeat the Greeks at “The 2 battle of Naxos” Persians under Datis defeat the Greeks at “The Siege of Karystos” Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Greeks at “The siege of Eretria” Persians under Artaphernes are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Marathon”
*Under Xerxes* (from 0:40 to 0:50) Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 3 battle of Memphis” Persians under Megabyzus defeat rebels at “The 3 Siege of Babylon” Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 4 Siege of Babylon” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Greeks at “The battle of Thermopylae” Persians under Artemisa are strategically defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Artemisum” Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Athenians at “The capture of Athens” Persians under Artemisa are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Salamis” Persians under Artabazus are defeated by Greek rebels at “The siege of Potidaea” Persians under Artabazus defeat Greek rebels at “The siege of Olynthos” Persians under Mardonius are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Platea” Persians under Artayntes are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Mycale” Persians under Artayctes are defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Sestos” Persian garrison is defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Byzantium” Persians under Boges are defeated by the Delians at “The siege of Eion” Persians under Tithraustes are defeated by the Delians at “Eurymedon”
*Under Artaxerxes* (from 0:50 to 1:10) Persians under Achaemenes are defeated by the Delians at “The battle of Papremis” Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The 4 siege of Memphis” Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The siege of Propostis” Persians defeat the Delians at “The battle of Mendesium” Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The siege of Byblos” Persians are defeated by Delians at “The siege of Kition” Persians are defeated by Delians at “The 2 battle of Salamis (Cyprus)” *Under Artaxerxes II* (from 1:20 to 1:42) Persians under the sha personal command are defeated but kill the pretender Cyrus the Younger at “The battle of Cunaxa” Persians under Pharnabazus II defeat the Spartan fleet at “The battle of Cnidos” Persian garrison defeat rebels at the “Battle of Kition” *Under Artaxerxes III* (from 1:43 to 1:52) Persians under the Sha personal command are strategically defeated by the Egyptians at “The battle of southern Palestine” Persians under Phocion defeat Cypriot rebels at “The battle of Cyprus” Persians under the Sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 5 siege of Babylon” Persians under the Sha personal command defeat rebels at “The siege of Thampascus” Persians under the Sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Pelusium” Persians under the Sha personal command *defeat the Macedonians under Philip II* at “The siege of Perinthus”
*Under Darius III* (From 1:54 to 1:58) Persians under Memnon of Rhodes defeat the Macedonians at “The battle of Magnesia” Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of the Granicus” Persians under Hegsistratus are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Miletus” Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Halicarnasus” Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by the Macedonians at “The siege of Mylete” Persians under the Sha personal command are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of Issus” Persians under Azemilcus are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Tyre” Persians under Batis are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Gaza” Persians under the Sha personal command are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of Gaugamela” Persians under Aryobazanes made a last stand at “The battle of the Persian gates” *Under “Artaxerxes V”* (not covered) Persian garrison at Cyropolis is defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Cyropolis” *Without Sha* (not covered) Persians under Oxyartes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of the Sogdian Rock” *The end*
What are the sources for the names in Old Persian of all the satrapies? For example for "Gidrusia" (Gedrosia), "Fuinisha" (Phoenicia) and "Faragia" (Phrygia)?
@@calebgoodfellowcg I know that's the case for the other place-names, but as for the ones I mentioned, those do not appear in the Behistun inscription, and I also doubt they're Old Persian.
As a note, the borders for some of the satrapies are estimates due to a lack of available information.
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where did you get the name tigerstar from i cant remember
@@nascarfast48 I immediately thought from the Warriors book series.
@@MegaSilver Oh thats what it was called now i remember thank you for telling me
@poposmoko Persia was a region of Iran, it'd be like referring to all of America as Dixie or all of the UK as England. Furthermore the Persians were they're own distinct people distinct from other Iranians of the time such as the Medes or Parthians. Post-Cyrus these peoples started to blur into a single group but prior to this the Persians were a distinct identity and the founders of said Achaemenid Empire.
One single man created the Achaemenid Empire, and then one single man conquered it.
Well, they also had a pretty big and well-trained army each, but you know what I mean.
Huh, what goes around comes around
@Hassan A Lol it was both actually.
with his 30,000 Greek warriors btw.
@@Anwwoo Purely realistic is impossible with 30 thousand men is impossible. The Persians were imperialites, but less so than the Romans and Greeks. The Egyptians, the people of Anatolia supported Alexander if you see the map if Alexander's empire is not the whole of the Perian Empire. Some states have gained their own autonomy.
Alexander could've been defeated early with Scorched Earth tactics since his treasury would've run dry in a month or so. A Greek general actually proposed this but unfortunately it wasn't put into practice.
EmperorTigerstar uploads a video on the Achaemenid Persian Empire, who are famous for (among other things) their elite soldiers called the Immortals at the same time OSP uploads a video about Immortals. Coincidence? Probably.
thats not even such a crazy coincidence tho
@@smorcrux426 Hence the 'probably'.
@@smorcrux426 ישראלי אחי?
@@EL-oj6uq כן, וואי אני לא זוכר שכתבתי את התגובה הזאת
I always love it when you have 4 capitals at once!
Even south africa gonna be jealous
Fun fact: I don't have four capitals!
@@crashverde1686 Persepolis was their ceremonial capital, Susa was their winter capital, Ecbatana was their summer capital, and Babylon was the main centre for the bureaucracy
@@TonyFontaine1988 Ctesiphon was founded as Seleukeia much later.
@@TonyFontaine1988 Ktesiphon was the Parthian and the Sassanian capital of Persia
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Some guy named Alex: I came, I saw, I conquered, and I died
I've seen this quote on Rise of Kingdoms is it from somewhere else?
@@kevinmendoza6386 nice bait mate
@@kevinmendoza6386 Its I came, I saw, I conquered. I think it is from either alex himself or One of the Spanish conquistadors bois.
and my empire fell apart
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1:55 Alexander the Great joined to the game.
Beat me too it lol
Ha
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And it was over in literally two seconds.
like a coward attacking a crumbling kingdom that wasn't at war with the greeks. Good reflection of values.
Persians: *man life really is great being a continent spaning empire*
Alexander the great: *I would say I'm going to end this empires career but the meme is dead*
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@@arsha1434 and how would you know that good sir?
Or is that a baseless accusation?
@ The Hetman Mapping
Imagine making alts to like your replies
@@arsha1434 yeah lol dude you believe what you will.
330BC and the meme was already dead.
Everybody gangsta till' the macedonians invade
I’m about to do what’s called a pro gamer move
Alexander:
@@Scenariania ohai
@@nascarfast48 👋
@@Scenariania how do you do on this fine day
Here comes the Assyrian Empire! Never mind it’s the Babylonian, Median, it’s the *Persian Empire*
Wow, thats big
🎵Time to conquer all of Indiaaa🎵
Or
🎵...most of Indiaaa🎵
I see you everywhere
y
It’s amazing that half of the world’s population at the time lived under the rule of this empire. It just puts into perspective how large and powerful the Persian Empire was.
oh, glad to see you're still active GP.
also, when are you making a new video gp? i wanna know as your content is very good.
Thank you! Sometime during the Fall
@@galacticpenguintv6752 Np! also, glad to hear that gp! keep up the amazing work mein fruend!
As I'm Persian I tell you that Iran is not that Iran now. Our Iran was those moments. Nowadays we're just living like slaves.
Makedonia:
Here comes assyrian empire
never mind, is babylonian, median-
*IS THE PERSIAN EMPIRE*
"wow, that's big"
by bill wurtz
Move over Lithuania, here comes Moscow. Ivan wants to make Russia great again.
_China is whooole again~_
_Then it broke again~_
Everything was going good, but then a shonen protagonist was born in Macedonia.
lol
Did you mean antagonist?
@@henrykkeszenowicz4664 Nah, Alex was too pretty and unstoppable to be the antagonist.
@@thevoidlookspretty7079 he was literally stopped by the Persians. Lmfao. Iran won.
@@saeedvazirian Source?
The Achaemenid Empire is one of the most interesting empires of world history in my opinion
You should read about Mesopotamia Babylon and Assyrian and akkadian and Sumerian..........because the Persian empire is just copy past from them
karar fadi Alkadwy well then you are just making my point: the Persian empire is a mixture of those empires thus being even more interesting
They are in the bible
@@kararfadialkadwy8838 cry arab its not your bussines
They are cool, but have you looked into the Assyrian Empire?
0:07 Persian uprising
0:07 Conquest of Medes by Cyrus
0:10 Conquest of Lydia and Ionia by Cyrus
0:12 Conquest of Parthian and Eastern lands
0:13 Conquest of Babylon by Cyrus
0:18 Cyrus' battle with the Scythians and eastern tribes
0:20 The Kingdom of Cambodia and the conquest of Egypt
0:21 Suppression of Guillaume the Great's rebellion and the reign of Darius the Great
0:24 Conquest of East and Saka by Dariush
0:26 The arrival of the Achaemenids in Europe and Greece
0:34 The Ionian Rebellion
0:37 Suppression of the Ionian rebellion and the Battle of Lada and the conquest of Macedonia
0:39 Egyptian rebellion during Xerxes era
0:40 Suppression of the Egyptian rebellion
0:42 The battle of Thermopylae and the conquest of Athens (the peak of the conquest of the Achaemenids)
0:43 Battle of Plateau
0:51 The reign of Ardashir I
0:52 Greece's involvement in Egypt's rebellion
0:55 The head of the Egyptian rebellion and the start of the cold war between Iran and Greece
1:20 The rebellion of Cyrus the Younger
and the separation of Egypt
1:23 The beginning of Achaemenid weakness
1:37 The great revolt of the satraps
1:41 Suppression of western satraps
1:50 Egypt returned to Iran
1:55 Alexander's attack on Iran
1:57 done
Persia: just chillin' with their thicc empire for 200 years
Alexander the Great: I'm about to end this mans whole career
>saying thicc
See that one was coming.
His own empire didn't last for 1 year after his death
Alexander the Great he is not from Greek. He is from north macedonia
@@thinkandcreate9755 shut up man! Shut up for once
Alexander: "Imma ruin this guy's whole career"
😏
That was Philip's idea, not Alexander's. Alexander carried it out.
The career still continued...
Technically it was the first major and effective empire the world had ever seen , there were great expansionist nations before them but they lacked the disciplined bureaucracy , taxation and millitary systems and even alexander used their legacy as a conqueror 👍
Greetings from Greece. Go Persia!
😐
good boy, loyal to the superior Persians.
@@saeedvazirian what the hell are you talking about?
Thank u ur good Greek some ppl of ur country dont understand what video talk about
@wanka wanka The Persians literally conquered greece and went unconquered, this is why Iranians speak Farsi today. The Persians always win. Iran won.
In Hebrew we have a sain:
"מהודו ועד כוש"
Which means this empire was extended all the way from India to Ethiopia.
Itamar Ben Shmuel your name sounds Arabic
@@ShaheenJc My family's origin is from Morocco. We are Moroccan-jews.
Far but not that far
@Abu Troll al cockroachistan There are the Kaifeng Jews of China, though they're pretty small in number, there were also around 25,000 jews who sought refuge in Shanghai for a time during the Nazi period. And yeah, there's a North African Jewish diaspora, which was specially bolstered after the Reconquista was concluded since many Jews and Muslims had to leave Iberia to avoid persecution and/or forced conversions.
@@sergiowinter5383 it technically reached India tho
1:55
Persia: After all these revolts, I AM STILL STRON-
1:57
Macedonia: Oopsie, I just smashed a random fly.
That's a really T H I C C fly you have there, alex
Alexander: *Dies to a common cold*
calling the Persians a fly.
still butthurt that the Persians conquered his parents' anuses.
Should have titled this the First Persian Empire.
Sande not really
Tony Fontaine I’m talking about the first Persian empire. It was the median empire. They were iranic people.
Tony Fontaine yeah. But not only three, there were more than just three.
@@TonyFontaine1988 the Parthians where not from Pars, anyways "this Empire" Xasxa was the one who ruled over 50% of the world peoples
Eh, in the video itself, it's labeled as being the Achaemenids specifically. I'd call that good enough.
music: kevin macleod~the mummy returns
tks alot guy.
Tks man
I keep coming back for the music. So much energy. I wish I knew what the source was so I could find more like it.
What a good video again, congratulations.
Cyrus is the greatest ruler in history period. Change my mind
Stalin had a thick mustache that makes me wet every time
You cannot convince me otherwise that Putin is Jesus back on Earth .
@@stefann2461 bruh if it's for that go and see the thick beards that the kings of various states of mesopotamia had.
I read Cyprus 🇨🇾 😂
There was nobody quite like Cyrus. He was prophesied in the Bible by name before he was born.
Cool & Interesting! :)
Thank you. I really apreciate your work. I'm not totally sure how accurate it is. But, at least I think I get a good sense.
Good job !
*The rest of the world:* "Alexander you can't be hoping to defeat the strongest empire in the world single-handedly. Don't be foolish."
*Alexander the Great:* "Haha sarissas go boop boop!"
Library goes book book
Alexander had two hands plus an army.
He was weak enough to be killed by his own guards 😂😂🤣🤣
@@hghg8991 since ur so powerful how about u try taking over the strongest empire of the time :)
@@idk-sq4rs what?
1:56
Macedonians joined to server
@HMC Macedonians are not fully Greek.
@@katitobyt yeah but they weren't Macedonians either
@@stefann2461 Macedonians are Slavified Greek I think. Like Bulgars,Proto-Bulgars were Turkic but because of they chose Christianity they Slavified.
Zodiac
Macedonians are not greek
@@olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari1326 Kanka,bence Makedonlar Slavlaşmış Yunan.Bulgarlar gibi,Ön Bulgarlar Türktü ama Hristiyanlığı seçtikleri için Slavlaştılar.
Great job !
Jesteś pierwszy brawo!
@@luxtayii3473 dziękuje xd
@@Warsawke ohai
Now this,
This is the video I was looking for.
I'd love to see the entire Persian timeline, as in, all the persian empires
Western Asia minor: THIS IS SPARDA!
😃Love this channel
When you take into account how long it took to travel, transport, and communicate across the Achemenid Empire, it would be like managing an empire that spanned over 8x the earth's landmass area today. It also had about half the world's population at the time, which today would be over 4 billion people. Just to put into modern perspective how massive and influential this state was.
Who would win:
One of the largest empires to ever exist that stretches from India to Greece
Or one Macedonian boi.
considering the greeks defeated the persians twice while divided in thousands of small city-states and kingdoms and now were united i will choose the hellenic league
Hey, the Achaemenids ruled only a small part of India! I conquered all of those territories so this is primary data!
@@TheHunterOfYharnam The Persians won the greco Persian wars.
@@saeedvazirian no they didn't
They lost both of their invasions and got conquered
@@TheHunterOfYharnam lmfao no. They got invaded, they still won because they decapitated the enemy. Also Darius and Xerxes achieved their goals in GP1 and 2. Suck it. Iran won.
Don't be sad that it ended. Be grateful that it happened
who tf is sad
@@red-vg2dsIranian, Tajiks and the lovers of Persian culture, history and mythology.
I like it when you show the nations at war with the nation about the video. Nice vid tho 👌
Beat go mad hard
Some people didn't realised that Persian empire ruled Afganstan, Turkumastan, Uzbakestan and Pakistan. With Tajikistan, too, they are called Khurasan, and the capital city in the Sasanid empire was Maru (Mari) in Turkumanstan.
Some of the Khurasan lands still in Iran today, but you should know that it's not all Khurasan.
Khurasan is a geographic natural big land, starting from the end of the high lands of Iran, until the two rivers of Aral sea.
The capital at Maru was after the fall of Ctesiphon? or was a second capital?
Khurashan means greater Iran. Iranshahr os Persia. All those countries you named were conquered by Iranians
It's war not cald Maru it was called Merw
"let's have a revolt!"
15 years later: "we've eaten the universe. What now?"
That brief blip of having part of Greece, only to immediately lose that and everything west of the Bosporus the next second, was amazing. XD As was the abrupt disappearance as Alexander the Pretty Alright blasted through the whole thing.
I really like the song you used. It makes me think of a Middle Eastern tinderbox
*Alexander the Great:* "Want to see a magic trick?? Watch me make the Achaemenid Empire disappear!"
Nick McGargill well his own empire disappeared so soon like it was an westerns dream.peace in Middle East was something before Alexander under Achaemenids not chaotic Alexander successors ...
glad that romans and parthians end their whole career and parthians took the revenge as Achaemenids successors.
During the reign of Artaxerxes II, the Greek had just finished their decades long Peloponnesian War. With Spartan victory and thousands of now out of work soldiers milling around, Cyrus the Younger rebelled against his brother and hired 10 thousands of Greek mercenary as his auxiliaries. At the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus' forces was winning, but all came to be moot when Cyrus is killed in combat. This left the Greeks thousands of miles far in the interior of a now very hostile country whose ruler just put down a rebellion in which they participate in. The surviving Greek fought their way to the Black Sea to link up with Greek colony there and this account is documented in Xenophon's Anabasis. Decades later Alexander would take these first hand account of the 10 thousands to good use against Darius II.
One good place to speculate alternative history is how the world would look like had Cyrus not only survive Cunaxa but overthrow his brother? Those Greek mercenary would be handsomely rewarded and Alexander wouldn't have Anabasis to work with.
History is so random. What if Alex never dies and conquers Rome (at that time a small city state) and Carthage. What if he dies in the middle of his campaign. What if the Persian revolt gets smashed. It's so random.
No they wouldn't have. The Persians always win. Iran won.
Abdul those were Spartans !! Dont use Greeks for them .you should understand the people who cyrus payed to them to fight against his brother ,was Spartans not other hellenic peoples!! Its like I say Iranians ,but Iranians had diffrent tribes .which the most famous ones for the Greeks (hellenic people )was medes and Persians !! Parthians _sogdians _Scythians_long hat (Cimmerians _royal scythians _massagatae) _bactrians _khwarazmians _hum varagha scythians (saka) and ........
Greeks also had diffrent tribes and city governments and you should separate all of them. They were not one single nation as greeks ,this is lie !!! And also if cyrus the younger was won that battle I'm sure the Sparthians over throw him 😂😂😂 no any doubt about it .Sparthans had plans to over throw the achaemenid empire and they had secret alliance with the egypt and that's the reason ,Egyptian rebelled exactly the same period when cyrus the younger was ready to over throw his bigger brother artaxerxes 2 .sparthians got powerfull in balkan area and Athens was also got weak !! And yeah if cyrus the younger was the winner ,100%achaemenid was destroyed 65 Years earlier
Artaxerxes 2 played well with the Spartans and athens and thebes and he also got back the Ionia and the islands and Cyprus. Darius the second made the Spartans way powerfull to handle them and artaxerxes 2 able to made both athens and Spartans weak
And he also got ready to get back egypt but another rebelled from Cyprus Happend who got alliance with the Athens !! Also dont confuse everything up for yourself ,Macedonia was diffrent topic and he just got power out of nowhere it doesnt relate to the athens or Spartans problems with Achaemenid
Also I'm sure if Artaxerxes 3 (or his true name is vahuka or bahman the second )was alive and they didnt had murder him in 338 BC ,he can easily beat down Alexander in granicus battle (the first and most important battle ) .Artaxerxes 3 able to got back Egypt and he able to made Asia minor more calmer than before and he had alot of battles in 20 years of his period power
@@farnabazat5395 While the Ten Thousands were lead by a banished Spartan general Clearchus, the group was comprised of people who fought on both sides of the war. Xenophon is Athenian for example and was elected as an officer to replace those assassinated by a duplicitous satrap.
Did not appear in my subscribe feed, only saw this because of your poll x
Can you do a video on the three English civil wars? Great vid also.
The best persian empir🤩
Ayy Persian Gang
1:55
Alexander the Great: Mum said its my turn to play on the computer
The most precise satrapies borders I have ever seen & all greek and persian conflicts depicted (when some yellow into red)
Alexander it's your turn for the play
I gotcha
you lost
What were your sources? Because I also was interested in how the empire was divided into satrapies, but from all publicly availiable maps, never have I found one that was even remotely similar to that.
I have apparently found them, if anyone is interested, I can give a link
@@user-zp9cl3fu1t i know its been 2 years, but do you still have the link?
Hi Emperor Tigerstar, your video helped me so much, but I was wondering, where did you get the information for the map size of the persian empire? I'm trying to draw a map of it, but I'm having a hard time. I researched on what the map is supposed to look like, but it's so many different maps, I dont know which one to choose?
you should choose the Middle East map
can i know the music name? i want to play Rome total war 2 as Sassanid and reform Achaemenid Empire while this music plays on background
good job!
can you make history of the Greeks including greco bactria and Indo greek?
Me and the christain bois looking for biblical events.
Jewish bois too
Im taking world history this year, this will come in handy
0:35 greatest extent
Formation of the Achemenid Empire: Well, that was quick.
Fall of the Achemenid Empire: Well, that was quick.
0:49, Leonidas I: THIS IS SPARTA!!
More like Athens
What happened to Khwarazm (The northernmost satrap) during Artaxerxes II's rule? 1:22
Hey, EmperorTigerstar! I hope you'll see this.. If you'd do another "a new change in the map" series, make sure to add the new missisipi flag! It finally got approved by the government. Until the next time, Cheers!
Inb4 tons of eye rolling comments about Alexander by people don’t even know anything about Achaemenid history or HS world history
Stay salty barbarian
Christian Englert yeah I can tell you are definitely fat and smelly by that comment. There’s more to history than the greco Roman world and ww2 tanks lol. Also said barbarians ruled over Greeks longer than Greeks did the Persians LOL!
But I saw the movies and History channel!
Well Alexander was a great warrior but these people don't seem to give any credit to the great Achaemenids for all the contribution they had!
Personally I learnt a lot from them and used them to establish my Mauryan Empire
@@chandraguptamaurya5152 no he wasn't lol
"Nice empire you have there... it would be a shame if someone conquered it"
-Alexander the Great
which music did you use in this video? can I have the name please?
what is the name of the music???!?!!
According some if not many historians the Neo Assyrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser III or the Median Empire under Cyaxares or Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II were the first super power but according to most historians the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great was the first super power according to most historians the first super power country was Iran and the first superpower emperor was Cyrus the Great Cyrus without question is one of the most successful and best military commander in world history if not the best , conquering most of the world known to the Achaemenid Empire including the 2 most powerful Empires of is time the Median Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire
Öccördöng sömö öf nöt möny höstörööns
Keep believing that %44 lie???😂😂😂
@@kaldirdimgobegi 3% turk? 😂😂😂😂
When you have four capitals you know you're powerful
Could you do a detailed mapping western front WWI? There are no good videos about it...
Très bon travail (comme toujours)
Je ne sais plus si je vous ai déjà posé la question, mais pouvez-vous me dire quel logiciel utilisez vous pour la création de vos cartes s'il vous plaît ?
Paint (ou Paint.net ) et Windowd Movie Maker
@@DailyKosia c'est du très bon (et très long) travail, je vais prendre le temps d'en faire pour mes vidéos.
Merci pour ces très bons partages
I thought you could only create client states if you reached admin tech 22, apparently it existed before 1444
Achaemanid Empire: you cant defeat me
Greeks: i know but he can
"ALEXANDER THE GREAT"
The funny was who Alexander first defeated the Greeks
No , Philip second
@@abielsjsjs3555 Yes. also, but after the assasination of Philip II, greece declared independence, and waged war to Macedon, then Alexander, razed Thebes for example
The Persians won.
So alexander was defeated by the Iranians. It is time you left the Internet and learnt history. Thank you.
Do you have the name of the song and artist?
1:20 cyrus the younger going crazy😂
Achaemenid Empire won more than 85 % of there war and battle more than any Empire in history they only lost the Second Persian invasion of Greece and Macedon invasion of Iran but under Darius the Great
they won the Ionian Revolt and First Persian invasion of Greece against the Greeks Achaemenid Empire won more than 85 % of there war and battle more than any Empire in history and control more than 40% population of there time by population the Achaemenid Empire was the largest empire in history make the Achaemenid Empire the most powerful Empire in history
They lost the first invasion in marathon
He was never a hero but a murderer
During the Achaemenid period, the whole country was in peace, security, happiness, poverty, and poverty was very low, and it was a very developed country that today, like the Achaemenids, could not progress in that way.At that time, everything was real democracy and there was no oppression. If there was, they would have been arrested by the authorities and there would be no slavery at that time and all religions would be free.And at that time we did not attack, but the countries that wanted to be under our dynasty. The Egyptians called the king Pharaoh.We were all inventing new things at that time and the world was totally evolving. We could have created this modern world today but an assassin conquered Iran more easily when the country did not have a king and was betrayed and there was civil war in the country and the Iranians died standing up.
i love the achaemenid empire and all but this is some extreme coping man just take the l lmao
What a coincidence. I have finished to read "Creation" by Gore Vidal, and now I found this video
At the end there it was just Alexander the meh talking about, "Persia goes yeet!"
El hecho de macedonia conquistar el gigantesco imperio Persa es simplemente asombroso!! Es como si Paraguay conquistara Brasil Impresionante lo hecho por Alejandro El Magno
Jajaj si.
AUNQUE cabe aclarar que en aquel tiempo el imperio aquemenida estaba en crisis política por las constantes revueltas de babilonios y egipcios
All empires are built like this
نکته جالب چیزی است که شاید تا کنون نشنیده باشید، اما با شنیدن آن شاید بتوانید درک کنید که داستان اسکندر مقدونیه و تسخیر شاهنشاهی ایران احتمالا یک دروغ بزرگ تاریخ نویسی کمبریج انگلستان است... چرا که ایرانیان از دوران باستان تا به امروز بشدت وطن پرست بوده اند و هیچوقت در تاریخنویسی با دشمنان ایران و مهاجمان به ایران خوشرفتاری نمیکردند اما جالب است
بدانید که در مورد اسکندر کاملا نظر دیگری داشته اند ... هیچ یک از مورخان و شاعران و حماسه سرایان ایرانی، به اسکندر حمله نکردهاند و هیچکدام او را دشمن خارجی معرفی نمیکنند... در بزرگترین کتاب حماسی و تاریخی ایران که از نظر محتوای تاریخی و حماسی و طبقه بندی اساطیر و اسناد تاریخ ایران و جهان مسکونی آن زمان، تقریبا شبیه به تاریخ هرودت است اما با یک تفاوت که کتاب ایرانی شاهنامه نام دارد و به نظم و شعر سروده شده... معتبر ترین کتاب تاریخ ایران در جهان و به گفته اکثر دانشمندان و باستان شناسان جهان، برترین کتاب تاریخ جهان است. در شاهنامه فردوسی و بسیاری دیگر از کتب تاریخی ایران، اسکندر برادر ناتنی داریوش است ... یعنی پدر اسکندر پادشاه هخامنشی بوده و مادرش دختر فیلیپ بوده است... در منابع ایرانی، فیلیپ به شکل فیلقوس آمده و پدربزرگ اسکندر است. یعنی دختر فیلقوس، مادر اسکندر بوده و داریوش و اسکندر از سمت پدری، برادر بودند ...
جالب اینجاست که اسکندر را به عنوان آخرین پادشاه هخامنشی معرفی کرده اند و پس از آن در ایران سلسله اشکانیان و در غرب هم سلسله روم شکل گرفته است. یعنی در این میان، سلسله سلوکی وجود نداشته است. در هیچ کدام آثار تاریخی ایران از سلسله ای بنام سلوکی سخنی به میان نیامده است
Feeling proud and a bit sad as a descendant of the Achaemenid emperors.Wish i could be worthy of my great ancestors .
Aur app ko kaise pata ke ap aulad-e-Achaemenid ho? Kya Kouroush-e-Azam ko apne sath betha kar dna test liye the?
Bhai humain hamari history par fakhar hona chahiye naka doosron par mera matlab ha indus y civilization
What is the music pleeeeease?
Music lit
Peop,e only remember Alexander the Great conquering this lands, but a persian man made it much before than him.
Kousvet Kousvet the great differences:
Alexander just conquered and after his dead his empire collapsed and his empire wasn’t as big as Achaemenid empire .
Cyrus the great created an empire by mostly Human rights,multinational,multicultural,multi ethnical empire and then conquering and his empire lasted for more than 2 centuries+the known world except Greece and Egypt were always at peace under Achaemenid rulers.while Alexander successors ruined every places with unfinished unlimited civil wars.
@@aradsstates9584 i do not really know why Cyrus is that infravalorated comparing with Alexander, maybe it is because of westernization of things since Alexander was greek but in the occidental world Cyrus is only known by history nerds.
Kousvet Kousvet exactly brother
@@aradsstates9584 You are right, but the Seleucid, (althougth more persians than macedonians) mantained a multi-cultural multi-ethnical and anti-slavery empire, who extended basically 5/6 of the Persian empire.
@@kousvetkousvet4158 mAYBE is because Alexander was used by his pretenders (Ptolomy, Antigonus, etc) while Cyrus sucession was much more easy, (not that of Cymbasis but, enough) also it could be because Cyrus fought fewer battles than Alexander, as before Darius, once you slain the king all fell, but with Alexander he had to dispatch satrap after satrap. plus Alexander also conquered Greece, so, the Greeks famous for their romantization where forced to accept him, or end like Demosthenes of Athens.
Plus the jews love Cyrus in a light who nobody love a conqueror, because his liberation of the Jews, so the west also like him.
Plus he was overshadowed by his own succesors like Cymbasis, Darius, or Artaxerxes III,
1:51 Persians: "no doubt, this empire is the strongest on earth, it has always lived and will outlive us all, it cannot be destroyed."
8 years later
History: 1:55
It DID outlive them. Iran is still here. Suck it.
You don't even read history, just your pseudoscience fantasy. Haha athenian temples go brr
I looked away for 2 seconds and it disappeared
Nice
Can we get an F for Darius III? He barely got to be King before the Macedonians invaded
I consider the Achaemenid Empire to be the world's first superpower, but not a global power (New World was still disconnected from the Old World). It spanned several continents, numerous cultures, was really influential in defining the course of history, and had a lasting dominant position in politics, economy, military and culture. The fact that it lasted in a strong position for more than 2 centuries until Alexander's conquests is in itself quite impressive as well!
Alexander just said hello for literally 3 seconds
Beat empire ever
I'm farsi korasan and IRAN ❤🤍💚
IRAN History 2500
Actually 7000 years dude
@S U right
Wow, that's big
0:42 Greeks! Together we ride!
PS What's the music?
Thanks to our Father
Cyrus the Great
The only man who neither massacred, nor looted, nor raped, nor killed, nor burned, the only man whose name appears in all the books of Abrahamic , and he is the first man to stop slavery and write human rights
He is the only man who deserves the Nickname of Great
🇮🇷 🇹🇯 🇦🇫
The "man" in the Quran is more likely Darius. The Rashidun rulers did those things aswell.
Yeah he is but not all Iranian king sassanid did kill a lot of people especially Arabs
To those intrested in the military history of the Empire, a list of all the battles (Know so far)
*Under Cyrus The Great* (from 0:05 to 0:16)
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of Hyrba”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of the border”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Medes at “The battle of the Pasagrade hills”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The battle of Pteria”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The battle of Thymbra”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Lydians at “The siege of Sardis”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Babylons at “The battle of Opis”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Sakans at “The battle of Jaxartes”
Persians under the sha personal command are defeated by the Sakans at “2 battle of Jaxartes”
Under Cambyses II (from 0:16 to 0:21)
Persians under Polycrates defeat the Egyptians at “The Siege of Gaza”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Pelusium”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Memphis”
Continued in the commentaries...
*Under Darius the Great* (Part 1 from 0:21 to 0:32)
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of the Tigris”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of Zazana”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The siege of Babylon”
Persians under Vaumisa defeat rebels at “The battle of Arbela”
Persians under Hydarmes defeat rebels at “The battle of Marush”
Persians under Hystaspes defeat rebels at “The battle of Parthia”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The battle of Kundu”
Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Zuzza”
Persians under Artabardiya defeat rebels at “The battle of Rakha”
Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Tigra”
Persians under Vaumisa defeat rebels at “The battle of Vautisara”
Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Uyama”
Persians under Artavardiya defeat rebels at “The battle of Parga”
Persians under Gobyras defeat rebels at “The battle of Elam”
Persians under Takhmaspada defeat rebels at “The battle of Sargata”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 2 battle of Memphis”
Persians under Intraphernes defeat rebels at “The 2 Siege of Babylon”
Persians under Dadrasi defeat rebels at “The battle of Karakum”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Indians at “The Siege of Taxila”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Indians at “The Siege of Karachi”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Scythians at “The Siege of Budinoi”
Under Darius the Great (Part 2 from 0:32 to 0:40)
Persians under Arystagoras are defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Naxos”
Persians under Artaphernes are defeated by the Greeks at “The 2 siege of Sardis”
Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Greeks at “The battle of Ephesus”
Persian garrison in Amathus defeat Cypriot rebels at “The siege of Amathus”
Persian fleet is defeated by a Greek contingent at the battle of “The keys of Cyprus”
Persians under Artybius defeat the Cypriot rebels at “The battle of Salamina (Cyprus)”
Persians under Hymaees defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Chios”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Dardanus”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Abydos”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Percote”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Lampascus”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Paesus”
Persians under Otanes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Calzomenae”
Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Cyme”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Marysas”
Persians under Dauryses defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Laburanda”
Persians under Dauryses are defeated by the Ionians at “The battle of Pedasus”
Persians under Datis defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Lade”
Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The siege of Miletus”
Persian garrison defeat Byzantine rebels at “The siege of Thasus”
Persian garrison are defeated by Byzantine rebels at “The battle of Chios”
Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Ionians at “The battle of Malene”
Persians under Mardonius defeat Thracians at “The battle of the Persian Camp”
Persians under Datis defeat the Greeks at “The 2 battle of Naxos”
Persians under Datis defeat the Greeks at “The Siege of Karystos”
Persians under Artaphernes defeat the Greeks at “The siege of Eretria”
Persians under Artaphernes are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Marathon”
*Under Xerxes* (from 0:40 to 0:50)
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 3 battle of Memphis”
Persians under Megabyzus defeat rebels at “The 3 Siege of Babylon”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 4 Siege of Babylon”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Greeks at “The battle of Thermopylae”
Persians under Artemisa are strategically defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Artemisum”
Persians under the sha personal command defeat the Athenians at “The capture of Athens”
Persians under Artemisa are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Salamis”
Persians under Artabazus are defeated by Greek rebels at “The siege of Potidaea”
Persians under Artabazus defeat Greek rebels at “The siege of Olynthos”
Persians under Mardonius are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Platea”
Persians under Artayntes are defeated by the Greeks at “The battle of Mycale”
Persians under Artayctes are defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Sestos”
Persian garrison is defeated by the Greeks at “The siege of Byzantium”
Persians under Boges are defeated by the Delians at “The siege of Eion”
Persians under Tithraustes are defeated by the Delians at “Eurymedon”
*Under Artaxerxes* (from 0:50 to 1:10)
Persians under Achaemenes are defeated by the Delians at “The battle of Papremis”
Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The 4 siege of Memphis”
Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The siege of Propostis”
Persians defeat the Delians at “The battle of Mendesium”
Persians under Megabyzus defeat the Delians at “The siege of Byblos”
Persians are defeated by Delians at “The siege of Kition”
Persians are defeated by Delians at “The 2 battle of Salamis (Cyprus)”
*Under Artaxerxes II* (from 1:20 to 1:42)
Persians under the sha personal command are defeated but kill the pretender Cyrus the Younger at “The battle of Cunaxa”
Persians under Pharnabazus II defeat the Spartan fleet at “The battle of Cnidos”
Persian garrison defeat rebels at the “Battle of Kition”
*Under Artaxerxes III* (from 1:43 to 1:52)
Persians under the Sha personal command are strategically defeated by the Egyptians at “The battle of southern Palestine”
Persians under Phocion defeat Cypriot rebels at “The battle of Cyprus”
Persians under the Sha personal command defeat rebels at “The 5 siege of Babylon”
Persians under the Sha personal command defeat rebels at “The siege of Thampascus”
Persians under the Sha personal command defeat the Egyptians at “The battle of Pelusium”
Persians under the Sha personal command *defeat the Macedonians under Philip II* at “The siege of Perinthus”
*Under Darius III* (From 1:54 to 1:58)
Persians under Memnon of Rhodes defeat the Macedonians at “The battle of Magnesia”
Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of the Granicus”
Persians under Hegsistratus are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Miletus”
Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Halicarnasus”
Persians under Memnon of Rhodes are defeated by the Macedonians at “The siege of Mylete”
Persians under the Sha personal command are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of Issus”
Persians under Azemilcus are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Tyre”
Persians under Batis are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Gaza”
Persians under the Sha personal command are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The battle of Gaugamela”
Persians under Aryobazanes made a last stand at “The battle of the Persian gates”
*Under “Artaxerxes V”* (not covered)
Persian garrison at Cyropolis is defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of Cyropolis”
*Without Sha* (not covered)
Persians under Oxyartes are defeated by Alexander III of Macedon at “The siege of the Sogdian Rock”
*The end*
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What are the sources for the names in Old Persian of all the satrapies? For example for "Gidrusia" (Gedrosia), "Fuinisha" (Phoenicia) and "Faragia" (Phrygia)?
A lot of them come from inscriptions like the behistun and others that are in old Persian rather than Greek
@@calebgoodfellowcg I know that's the case for the other place-names, but as for the ones I mentioned, those do not appear in the Behistun inscription, and I also doubt they're Old Persian.
According to nex Oxford research they ruled 12% of world population not 44% as sometimes claimed.
Ok panturk bot
True pantirkestanian