Why did the Persian Empire Collapse?
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Abu Sa’id reported: On the day of the battle of Badr, the Romans were victorious over the Persians and the believers were pleased by that. Allah had revealed, “The Romans were defeated in the nearest land, but they will be victorious after their defeat in a few years. To Allah belongs the matter before and after, and on that day the believers will rejoice,” (30:1-4). Thus, the believers rejoiced at the victory of the Romans over the Persians. Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2935 perishes, there will be no (more) Khosrau after him, and when Caesar perishes, there will be no more Caesar after him. By Him in Whose Hands Muhammad's life is, you will spend the treasures of both of them in Allah's Cause." حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، قَالَ وَأَخْبَرَنِي ابْنُ الْمُسَيَّبِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " إِذَا هَلَكَ كِسْرَى فَلاَ كِسْرَى بَعْدَهُ، وَإِذَا هَلَكَ قَيْصَرُ فَلاَ قَيْصَرَ بَعْدَهُ، وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ لَتُنْفِقُنَّ كُنُوزَهُمَا فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ ". Reference : Sahih al-Bukhari 3618 In-book reference : Book 61, Hadith 125 USC-MSA web (English) reference : Vol. 4, Book 56, Hadith 815 (deprecated numbering scheme)
is there a part 2 cause I didn't see islamic conquest
Can you imagine the CHAIN of empires: Roman, Persian, Indian and China? If *Suez Canal* exist(or natural breanch in litosphere) i believe that would be possible XD (imagine the sea TRADE!)
@@a.e.1965 also Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars are not Persians
Cyrus the Great is one of my favourite rulers in history. Being known as the inventor of human rights is a pretty damn good selling point to his character.
You should read Darius the great too, he connected Asia to Europe by bridge, red sea to meditrania and invented many things, still used today, banks and roads, and "chappar" the grandfather of roads, the persian architecture still usefull today, persian engineering was much more advanced than Greece or Rome's.
The God-King Thank you.
@@topgears7775 He also became emperor by lying about the previous emperor and tainting him with false accusations.
Lol he didn't invent human rights lol. People didn't just kill the first person they saw before Cyrus. There were civilisations before him, and a civilisation cannot run without rights.
@Lord Voldemort "Hammurabi before him moved forward ": Wrong. Hamurabi's law was not humanistic. Eye for eye, hand for hand, owning others human as slave, dominance of men over women, religious intolerance, .... These are not humanistic. His was just the first 'law'. Cyrus's law was first 'humanistic law'.
That’s the empire that I founded. Well done by the way! 👍🏻
Thanks Cyrus, you are Great!!!
Knowledgia My pleasure, my friend! Thanks!!! 🙏🏻
@@cyrusthegreat1893 The most important question, shall you be called after your ancestor Teispes or Achamemnes?!
Nathan Carrier Achaemenid.
@@cyrusthegreat1893 3 Words: Alexandros ho megas.
The largest empire ever existed until then, one of my favourites.
It also ruled over 44% of the population at its height. That percentage has never been beat.
mongolian empire? british?
@@zxow did the British empire control more than 44% percent of the World's population? Same goes with Mongols
yeah i know i was just talking about the size
@Κωνσταντῖνος GR No. www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-empire-by-percentage-of-world-population/ www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=27633 nationalinterest.org/feature/the-5-most-powerful-empires-history-12296 Other empires had much larger populations, but the Achaemenid Empire held the largest percentage of the population. Keyword being percentage.
As an Indian, I have noting but respect for the Great Persian Empire !!!
Hello, I love the people of India from Iran and its civilization
The Persians and Indians are related.
@@xshandy5812 Yes, We basically understand each other's Language to an extent, Share similar Culture, Food and Habits.
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Legendary persia
I feel you could make a great series out of the Persian Empire and what followed, especially given recent events! Keep it up!
cant wait
Talk about the religion of Persian kings too.What made them so tolerant of other’s beliefs. Alexander was a thug. He ruined a great civilization.
Conspiracies, revolts, economic decline, hmm starting to sound a lot like America atm, what's next assassinations?
Skelath Ackamanids founder ,Cyros, was a true Zoroastrian.He was born only 1200 years after Zoroaster .So he was a real deal as you read his prism. The last Ackamanid shah was still a good guy.But,he was not lucky. America is founded on a way more solid ground.Founding fathers even referred to Zoroaster teachings when they wrote the constitution.Read Benjamin Franklins letter to Jefferson. I believe America will change its direction.Its the best ever mankind created .I agree there is a lot of bullshit going on but we Will be ok.
@@Ehsan331 I would like to believe there wont be riots over the results of the election but with riots / protests becoming more common and acceptable I just have no faith, regardless I live New Zealand and due to your countries turmoil there have been statues over here taken down, protests, and people want one of our cities renamed, as well as various streets and suburbs. With all the ruckus in the USA the youth and radicals in other countries also want a piece of the action, your countries conflicts are reverberating around the world.
i am iranian I love Cyrus and all the historical dynasties of my country and thank you for this video
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With all honesty do you like the Khalifat omar?
@@texis4060 I have no feelings for omar ,,,I expressed my opinion as an Iranian
I am European and amazzing Iranic Antic history
@@HELESPONTify thank you so much dear friend 🖑🖑🖑❤❤❤❤❤☺☺☺☺☺💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Big Persian Empire, I ❤️ GREAT CYRUS👈
Arab : hold my zamzam
Xerxes was a noob though
@salam why you speak english?
Khalid bin walid:hold my sword
@@alexthegreat5009 You just Go cry kidd 👶 😢
Why did the Persian Empire Collapse? me: which one?
Javad Kassari becouse of greeks invasion
All of them. (Btw this sounds like a quote from Saving Private Ryan)
the one in 300 😂😂
@@IPendragonI Title of the video is misleading. Series of Persian or persianated empires/kingdoms/dynasties ruled over Persia stretches from 700 bc to 1979 ad. Like Median, Achaemenids Parthian, Sasanian, Seljuk, Khwarazmian, Timurid, Safavid, ... Which one? This video is just talking about achaemenid. Correct title: why did the achaemenid empire collapse?
@@gcrecords1731 that just involves achaemenid. What about other persian empires
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Ah the great rival Greek kingdom, salut to Persian from indonesian
Its not a greek kingdom but okay
@Garren greece wasnt even unified, the macedonians unified it and then took over persia and collapsed with the death of alexander
@@zizi_609 Greece consisted from city states, kingdoms and colonies.. Greek Macedonia kingdom was the greek superpower of the time. Phillipos elected as General of Panhellenic Union for campaign against Persia
The Persia Empire is my favourite Empire after Byzantine (which probably happens because I'm Greek) To this day, I consider modern-day Persia, Iran, an amazing nation with great civilization and history I wish that the west, which Greece sadly is a part of, wasn't that iran-phobic (same with Russia too)
What's about Maurya Empire and Gupta Empire ?
@@himanshumirdha2408 😂every subcomment section filled with some Indian
@@thecritiquer9407 😀
Byzantines never existed they where romans
@@hattorihaso2579 can't argue with that
So a couple of things you got wrong: 1. There were 3 Iranian tribes in the Iranian Plateau: Media, Parthia, Persia The first one to dominate everyone else were the Medians and they had a large empire of their own. Cyrus The Great was the grandson of the last Median emperor, who revolted in protest of his grandfather's corruption. 2. Xerxes wasn't by any means weak. He won the battle against the Greeks eventually but a series of natural disasters that haunted both him and his father in the lower Greek region made it kinda casualty-heavy to conquer that area.
Xerxes was not weak by any means that is true and is definitely not the caricature that is portrait by Holywood. But he did not eventually defeat the Greeks he had won some initial battles and suffered casualties in the fleet by harsh weather conditions in the Aegean and in the end he got defeated in the final naval battle in Salamis which was the Greeks' last stand. After that the fleet was incapable for battle from the casualties and withdrew to Persia but the army was still undefeated and stayed in the middle part of Greece under Mardonious (Xerxes son in law) for the final battle with the Spartans and Athenian main forces. But winter had arrived and war was a very difficult task for anyone at that times so the Persians had to camp and wait for the weather to get better. During this time due to the harsh weather conditions, lack of proper hygiene and hostile behaviour of all around them the Persians had outbreaks of various illnesses which resulted in the death of many Persian soldiers. In spring a weaker Persian army faced the reorganized Greeks at Plateais were they were defeated for one more time. So Greeks won both final battles.
Artin Yousefi lpartians was scityians saka kurgans turkhis iranians and sarmatians kazak kipcak turkhis iranians hebrew uyghur saka kazak and mamluk roma gypsy turkhis iranians mamluk of ghaznavids iran korasan ans delhy sultanat .khusan empire's kumans kipcak and khazar khaganate turkhis iranians hebrew they own empire's kazak khaganate
Even turks selciuks was formed by kazak hebrew kipcak and mamluk of ghaznavids roma turkhis iranians in area korasan iran transoxiana
Artin Yousefi As a matter of fact, you’re right. My father was the king of Änšhān ( old Persia ) and my mother was the princess of the Mede Empire, which was ruled by my grandfather whom I overthrew due to his corruption and unpopularity.
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Personally, the Achaemenid Empire seems more like a federation than the typical empire; they kept at least a few of the original leaders in charge, and the laws of the land largely stayed the same, so the main interaction was a shared military and tax system.
Its was ruled like the U.S today......with the Shah in Iran being like the commander and chief only more powerful.
Personally I think the persian system is the best in human history
Persian empire by soldiers of afghans tajiks and Iranians 🇦🇫♥️🇹🇯♥️🇮🇷
I would say that although the Empire had declined it wasn't on the verge of any internal collapse. It was still extremely wealthy and formidable, even if it hadn't had a ruler of the caliber of Darius or Cyrus for over a century. If Alexander hadn't of conquered it, it very well could have continued on for quite some time.
no it wouldve broke apart alexander got in the middle of a revolt and the entire collapse
I find it odd people get offended and try and find an excuse for military defeats instead of just acknowledging that instead of the loser being exceptionally weaker than normal the conqueror was exceptionally powerful.
@@Callsign_Prophet Xerxes conquered 70% of Macedonia in an attack on Athens, but the Macedonians did nothing. The empire had weakened, so Alexander conquered it.
alexander failed to conquer Iran. The Persians always win. Iran won.
@@saeedvazirian fucking persians lose on the greeks
Who would win?? The largest empire the world has ever seen and the most powerfull at the same time in terms of military. One Greek boi with his gang.
@Asura Khæñ Then why did Macedonians participate in the olympic games where only Greek tribes participated?
@Asura Khæñ Read some books, learn history and then talk... thank you! :D
@čp they spoke ancient Greek and we're located in greece idiot
The largest empire the world had ever seen won. The fact that you have to say in terms of military tells you who the victor is. Lol.
@@BRADY-vy2fp because macedonians are greeks,
Hi sir Another great history video.. Nice to watch... Keep up the good work.. Thanks for the video..🙏👍😊
It's the Persian Empire! Wow, that's big.™️
Thats what she said!
Ah the Greeks just had the idea of thinking about stuff and right over here alexander just had the idea to conquer then entire Persian empire, it was a great idea he was great. 😂🇬🇷bill wurtz
@@peterstamatiou4530 And now he's dead. Hopefully the rest of the gang will be able to share his empire evenly between them? 🤞🏻
Have u heard about the mangolian empire
@ And the Mongols just invaded most of the universe. "Nice going, Genghiz! I'll bet that will last a long TIME!" (These are all quotes from a very popular KZhead video. Search for "history of the entire world I guess" by Bill Wurtz.)
The first empire to ever rule the east and the west. That’s why Cyrus was called the king of kings.
Like 30 people were called king of kings lol
@@odin6276 he was the first one
@@hamzaabbass1300 nah, that’s a title that goes back hundreds of years before Cyrus starting with the Middle Assyrian Empire.
Well Alexander defeated the ''king of kings''
@@ordinaryfilms5594 Greece was conquered twice before alexander invaded persia. Then he got deafeted by afghans.
Great video! I really enjoyed this!
Alexander the Great: I'm about to end the largest Empire the world have ever seen.
Aung Bandar mongols: hey can i join you guys..
Alexander was't great ,he became one great becouse of Persia!
30bil Pelángi lets say western supermacy.... btw the fact that they werent anything white is what the intresting thing is
@@topgears7775 fuck off, chill down your nationalist bullshit I respect the Iranian people and they are one of the top builders of empires in the world but that bullshit about "western propaganda", "whites", "knowledge" as you you are telling is pretty bullshit, of course, a lot of stuff came from Iran but because before the Iranian people were the Mesopotamian one and the Indians, the Iranian learnt from them and the Egyptians too, Iranian are one of the Indo-European family groups, no one group is better than other groups, that is why there are a lot of common words with a lot of languages, the only exceptions are from the Celts and Magyar people in Europe and the Turks one in Anatolia today Turkey, the Library of Alexandria had knowledge from around the all world, Egypt, Greek, Mesopotamian, Persian, Levantine, Punics, Anatolian and even Indian one, so of course the mainly scholars studied there, overall because the Ptolemaic dynasty ordered to do it and so preserved the knowledge, the Romans even before be a kingdom they already had laws and rights, the Etruscan and Latin people already had laws and a lot of stuff from them are the Code of Laws today we have, even the Institutions like a Parlament and a Senate because them, democracy and republics are a reality because of them. If you want to see how the "Western world" think over the Greek ethnicity about thousands of year ago look at Assassins Creed Odyssey.
but he was poisoned by woman or his wife idk
I know people will disagree with me but this is one of the most inaccurate videos on the Persian empire. Let's first start you told very little about the satrap system and forgot how the Persian empire administered the land. The conquered land was an satrap of the Persian empire. They could have their own laws and governors, they just had to respect the people they ruled over. In return they would have gave a very small amount of tax and soldiers. They would not need them because the Persian army had around 200 000 soldiers. Many empires 200 years after the fall of the Persian empire could not raise that amount of soldiers. If the people did not accept the satrap offer an tyrant would rule the state as long as the people would start liking Persia. Then a government of their likings will be directed. Then the next thing. You do not really talk about Dariush the Great and Cambyses. But that is understandable. If you wanted to complain about being ruthless you could have started with him not Xerxes the Great. Xerxes the great was but everything that you said. He was not ruthless. I have not heard anything about taxes being raised and his campaign in to Greece was not an complete failure. He did not hoard money or did not construction stop under his time or ever. Infact he is remembered as the greatest construction of the Persian empire. Have you heard about the Xerxes canal? The decline of Persia did not start at Xerxes the Great but at the civil wars of Persia. Darius the third was just recently Shahanshah of Persia. The administration was heavy. The troops of Persia was good fighters but the satrap soldiers were weaker. Persia was lost because of Alexander the Great. But also because of civil wars, bad luck and Xenophobia. Another thing the official language of Persia was old Persian. They had an unique alphabet but used the assyrian babylonian alphabet. Sorry for my spelling also. Edit: Wanted to say this. I don't want to diss Alexander but he was not seen as an liberator in Persia expect Egypt. Even the Greeks of Iran liked Iran more, not just now but during the Parthian time. That is why we like Greeks in Iran. The dictatorship was there because of the civil war. The last thing I might be wrong here but Persia was never near economic disaster.
Were can i learn more?
@@THX-bz8bi What part do you want to learn more about? I would start to watch documentaries on KZhead even then podcasts. There is one really good talking about the achaemedin empire. Then I would look for it in books. If you have an specific topic about the Iranian empires i could either explain or give you good sources to read.
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It's not about dissing. Alexander was a man-child taught a lot of propaganda. He was a cunt who did nothing to achieve anything. Not to mention a mass-murderer. I'm not afraid of dissing someone who isn't worth glorifying.
@Lord Voldemort he didn't build any empire at all. The empire was built by Cyrus and maintained by Persians. Invasions don't create states. They never do. Maybe rump states. He was a mass-murderer megalomaniac racist slaver, none of which the Persians were. Where is your glorification of Persians, then? Twatbucket.
Literally nobody: Confused bulgars: hippity hoppity greek history is now our property
"N Macedonia". Long live Κωνσταντινούπολις!
Don’t you mean the N Macedonian slavs? (Not that I think that)
@@_robustus_ Slavadonia
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Wot?
Thank you very much for such momentous task of condensing the vast history of this particular age where conquests were the subject of the day. 🙏 🙏 🙏
Correction: that was the end of the Achaemenid Empire not the Persian Empire.
The ended of Persian Empire when Arab conqured Sassanid Empire, Litterally destroyed the entire career of the Persians.
@@Xavier-fk7wm نخیر هنوز ایران سرپاست و خواهد جنگید ایران و ایرانی را نمیتوان نابود کرد
@@Xavier-fk7wm no lol 😂😂😂
Your correction is not a correction, because Historians call it the end of the Persian Empire.
@@user-pe5zk3of1z Iran is muslim coubtry now it was Zoroastrian in the past.
From Ethiopia to India (base on the Bible) this Empire is even bigger in reality
Bible is not an authentic source really
@@user-ox1mv7bw3u you say that because you're Muslim and you're forced to believe what you read in Koran! Don't start to start an argument here kid.
Lol...islam is ultimate ture.
Great work keep going
Great video keep feeding us knowledge 😉
The Achaemenid empire was probably the only empire that could be said was genuinely a good empire, not an oppressive one.
@@Mrnoobestreturns all of these empires were horrible to live in what are you talking about
@@Mrnoobestreturns i didnt mean good as in successful at conquering or whatever, i meant good in a moral sense.
Nobody can not compare Alexander the Great to Cyrus the Great, Alexander inherited the best army in the world while Cyrus literally started from the bottom and made his way to the top
Doesn't matter really does it because sirus is as dead as Alexander
Ste Comer It does matter if you want to study leadership. Cyrus the Great is one of the best leaders in history and built one of the most impactful empires in history from almost nothing while being opposed by the greatest powers of the time.
All educated Greeks admire Cyrus as well as Alexander. Cyrus was a True king. The Greeks of that time respected Cyrus
@@limnmark if they did they wouldn't invade Cyrus' nation and kill its people. That's not how respect works.
@@saeedvazirian They respected them. Greek historians wrote about Cyrus. But it was a kind of revenge and Alexanders ambition.
Yes please. Gib more ancient history.
Your research is excellent. Cheers...
The production quality is great, the maps are great, and this is the best video yet.
Greece: *exists* Xerxes: "I guess it's free real estate" *Years Later* Persia: *exists* Alexander: "well, I guess it's free real estate" *Years Later again* Alexanders Empire: *exists* Parthians: "well, I guess it's free real estate AGAIN"
Earth: *exists* Tribal human beings: hurr Durr this land is *ours* y *ours*
*years later again* Arabs: Hibbity hobbitty, Bersia is now my broberty.
There was no Alexander's Empire. Such a thing didn't exist. The Parthians were also Persians btw, so they retook their own territory.
@@saeedvazirian Na das stimmt nicht ganz, die Parther waren zwar auch ein iranisches Volk aber eher sowas wie ein Brudervolk der Perser, sprachen demnach auch eine andere Sprache. Sie lebten anscheinend etwas ähnliches wie Zoroastrismus aus, nur noch archaischer als bei den Perser aber ja an sich verloren Alexanders Generäle die das Reich übernahmen es schnell wieder an den iranischen Völkern und die Perser nahmen es sich später als Sassaniden wieder von den Parthern, jedoch genossen die Parther im Sassanidenreich immer noch privilegien als Adelige und Generäle.
@@haitamc5611 Years later again Persians: Persia is my property again Mongols: its free real estate
Well done. Excellent work to all.
Love how you tell history, to the point with the most relevant facts, thanks, and its fun
An excellent breakdown of my favorite ancient empire, if only they hadn't suffered weak leadership :( Also stockpiling wealth causing issues is rather applicable to today's US government, the one percent and others.
Every Empire in this world has to be finished.
Like the USA with its imperialist government. one day the imperialism of the USA will be collapsed. it will be very soon.
@@mohsenrahimi398 not soon
@@MamtaSingh-il4lk I won't be surprised if it happened in this century
@@mohsenrahimi398 yeah meanwhile we keep innovating, inventing and discovering. So much downhill slide lol
@@MamtaSingh-il4lk you can watch what happened in Afghanistan lol
cyrus was kind and he was good too people :) im glad that im from iran
allah akbar
@@gamer228r No dude :)) we don't say that .. we want peace for us and for the world .. if any one step forward to destroy this peace for us (like usa and israel) we defend and we drag everything to the ground with us So next time you want to be funny do it for someone else
@@mohammadmg2015 Islamophobic
@@gamer228r oh when people say Allah Akbar it’s just making fun of Islam a lot of the time he was trying to defend it not be islamaphobic. He said how Muslims wants to make peace not destroy like terrorists
@@heberthr.6978 Look .. let me tell you the truth Before our revolution, shah was serving usa and uk .. our people didn't want that, they wanted to be free and thats how our revolution won After that .. we had very unique people .. we had scientist that got killed by usa at that time Anyway we managed to control our bad situation through years .. They forced iraq to fight us .. they forced us to fight with Bahrain (we didnt) they (usa) destroyed our airplane with women and kids inside After all of this, you want us to be friend with them ?? No, we are a powerful country now and we will be more powerful than now , no one can tell us what to do or not to do, if they start a war we are the ones who end it They (isis) said we will get Tehran in 3days :)) but our general soleimani said we will end you in 3months :)) which one happend my friend? You want it or not we are getting stronger and if israel or any country mess with us .. we are the one who ends them :) If you have any questions you can ask (sry for my bad english)
greetings from Greece too our old friends ( and enemies :p)
You skipped a lot of incarnations of the Persian Empire in the opening bit: the Arsasid version, Parthian version, Selucid v, Abbasid v, Kwarziam v, and more.
Proud Being Related To Persian Empire.👍 Sadly Fall of Persian Empire Was Fall Of Everything For Our People And Communities.
if PERSIA wouldn't have fallen, probably the world would be in better shape with human right of Cyruss the great been implemented more and we would have better society in todays world we would have been better of with 2000 years of continues of refining it
I'm so proud of my countrys ancient history
Yeah That old good days. Your history defeated by Alexander and we Indians defeated him "Alexander". 🙂🙂
@@borenyaboruah i agree bro. That man is crazy. As an indian i feel so bad after seeing his comment. Don't u know how many times Iranian generals defeated Indian rulers.
@@whosimpson3934 not our history . just one of our empires
@@whosimpson3934 and we conquered india 2 times so shut up
@@whosimpson3934 ur dimoands are still in our country😅
Persians: You can practice your religions and cultures Egyptians: So we ca- Persians: No
@@fairweather1704 why?
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You deserve way more subs
I will have, but i have to work more than that
Thanks for the videos. But pls pay attention to the friendly comments. 0) At the beginning of the video, the Parthians are missing, the ones who defeated Alexander’s successors. 1) There was no previous empire! This is the first empire in the whole history of the world. 2) Babylon was different from Egypt. 3) As mentioned by another viewer, it is ee-run, not eye-ran (FYI, same applies for Iraq). 5) Cyrus WAS great. He unified, he built, he managed, he ruled, he implemented regulations … so, he WAS great. Same with Darius. He continued what Cyrus had accomplished plus more. So, he WAS great. On the other hand, Alexander … why is he considered to be great by the people of the west?! Because he was a lucky invader?
He was great because he took sophisticated Iranian culture at the time and brought it to Europeans hordes. Also he took the title "The Great" from the Persian rules, as a sort of homage to the empire and continuation of Iranian leadership.
actually Assyria is considered to be the world's first proper empire. Although the Persian empire was certainly one of the first few
Love ur Videos 😍
Short answer: The Persian Empire was to awesome to be here anymore this lame world is not worthy of it's existence!
Too awesome*
Too awesome Alexander conquered it
@K D shut up
@@yeeyee5057 nope, he failed. Failures are failures.
@@yeeyee5057 and died by poison and his generals got driven out......you guys are really forgetful
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Damn it seems like most empires fall because of internal problems inside their staff. Rome, persia, Argentina years ago. So everyone falls because of internal problems.
The caliphates also
@@Sikandros No one cares about em dam Taliban Al Qaeda Isis caliphates
@@Daniel-sj9ms that’s what the Visigoths said until they got raped
Argentina ?? 😂😂
Jews
I found out after my father passed he wasn't just English but his family roots had Indian and Persian in them
I am Persian from Iran and I had travelled to India I love Indian culture right now I am living in Europe, I gees you must be Sorostian, am I right honey?
@@orionclouds3741 I don't know what that is but what I have on me is from my father's family living in India for 120 years and the were a strong military family and it's a mix of Brit ,french , Persian,indian
@@Nicoletta222contessa.castle Anyway you are so beutiful and gorgeous I would love to dating with you sweety 😍💓
@@orionclouds3741 that would be lovely but my Punjabi Sikh lover will not be happy with that,but thank you 🤗
@@orionclouds3741 Dude he has wife and kids😐😂 . What happed to the world?
Nicely explained.
Persia was in a very good condition a lottle before Alexander’s campaign. After a period of Turmoil Artaxerxes recovered stability in Egypt, reconquered the Greek ionia region( although philip tried to help the ionian cities) and also conquered some Greek island in the aegean amd the empire was in good state. Then he died and there was a an imbalanced condition. The next emperor took charge and didnt restore balance or not yet fully. And under these conditions the well organized Army of Alexander and Alexander with the great strategic and leadership actions campaigned.
I love Cyrus the great ❤🇮🇷
Amazing video ! Please make a video about Sassanid empire !
Cyrus the Great was a Zoroastrian, but not a prophet, but others called him a prophet and learned human rights from him. Abolished slavery. He did not oppress the people of the defeated country and he respected women and children. And they even say that in a failed country, when his assistant talks about collecting tribute and taxes, he says let them pay tribute to me wholeheartedly. He did not de-religionize or de-language in any country. He had only one wife. He died on the borders of his country while defending his country and his body was handed over to Pasargad. And with the infrastructure he designed, half the world lived in glory and peace in the shadow of Iran for 220 years.
Persia (Pārse) is the name of one of the Eran’s providence, it’s the province which the city of Shiraz is located at, in ancient times the city used to be called Anshan, from Sasanian era its known as Shiraz. So Persia is not the name of all of Eran. The same with Parthia (Parthaova) which is the old name of khorasuan (the north eastern province+Afghanistan). Both Parthaova and khorasuan means “the east” in Ancient Eranian languages.
The answer is: 1. Sa'ad ibn Abu Waqas 2. Khalid ibn al-Walid *mic drop
@Hoàng Nguyên who is george v . But any way khalid and sad ibn waqas weren t conquared all of iran but iraq .. and yeah iran conquared by mongol,seljuq,timorids,arabs and greeks but they couldnt finish us like other countries ..lol
Both war criminals.
Fuck them both
I love how none of these stupid names had any lasting impact on Iran. The Persians ruled the Persians with Persian culture and a Persian language, another 2500 years.
Arabia remains meaningless except for oil revenues.
NIce video mate ! VIVA PERSIA !
بسیار عالی و زیبا بود ممنون 🌹
The empire collapsed twice, both times at the hand of very competent generals with smaller armies. Alexander and Khalid.
Haitam chouiekh Two of the greatest military commanders ever.
@Hassan A Well he defeated them in several continuous battles and left the rest to be done by someone else while he witched his attention to byzantium. He also died from sickness not in battle
@Hassan A Yes it is. Those defeats destroyed the Morale of the persians, killed hundreds of thousands of their soldiers and cavalry. After that the Persian empire was basically dead.
@Hassan A He still won 10+ battles against Persia. He was in his late 40s during those battles too. Al Qaddissiya was the final nail in the coffin for the sassanids.
@Hassan A I suggest watching some KG. Those battles involved 10k+ soldiers from each sides. Khalids sweeping victories didn't make them any less of battles.
Never realized how much Persia had in common with ancient china
Because there is none similarity😊
mehran Lidtiham no bro there is many
there wasnt. this video is not at all accurate
What's the similarity ?? You are confusing them with Turks. Turks live in central Asia and they invaded China , the Mongolian empire .
Great thanks! Finally, figure out what James Mill is talking about in his history of British India :）
Good information
Just one correction; You missed Parthian empire. they came before Sasanians. They spoke Persian although they were not originally from Pars province.they had a claim to be from the bloodline of an Achaemenid king, so altogether they must be counted one of the most glorious Persian dynasties.
Thwy didn't speak Persian they spoke Parthian
@@artinrahideh1229 There is no language called Parthian language. They spoke Old Persian (Pahlavi).
@@nimash6273 you can research about the parthian language
They spoke Middle-Persian language which is slightly different than classical Persian language which people speak today in Iran. @@artinrahideh1229
Persia or Iran, Iraq, etc. Has always been very mystical and unique. I hope I could go there one day.
Ye Iraq mostly
Persia=Iran,not Iraq
Modern day Iraq etc are fake the real power is Iran
You mean mesopotamia
iraq is arab country
8:50 Wasn't the reason they didn't attack because they knew that Alexander needed a victory in order to gain spoils to pay his relatively huge army. They thought that if they did'nt attack eventually the army would just fall apart because of no pay?
It is interesting,,,Thank you ❤👌
I never realised how important Egypt was in all this, since it was constantly rebelling
And was constantly defeated and occupied.
@@0-equals-1-trilliontiger67 yes. egypt has always been militarily weak
their first flag, their religion, and a lot of their people were originally from the African continent and was plagiarized into what is being promoted in this video but not mentioned
@@Utubelover513 you're stupid as fuck. God learn some history
@@micahistory their first flag is A straight copy of Horus in depiction. Zoroastrianism is a copy of the kemetic mystery system. Perseopolis in Iran has hundreds, if not, thousands of statues and structures that all resemble the Nile valley African representation. There's a book called when Egypt ruled the east.go buy that and don't come back on here until you're finished reading it. Especially with a name like history in your tag. Idiot
It didn't collapse, Alexander defeated its armies, same story with Carthage vs Rome
@@erfanmoshtagh oh chill dude, instead of bringing up unrelated don't know molested boys and sympathy, you could have just explained your view point, Mr I know everything. I was saying that Persia didn't collapse, they were doing very well managing vast empire with multiple ethnicities and extremely wealthy state, they just lost to Alexander, which in my book it's not a collapse but an utter defeat that caused the end of the empire
Civil war (Cyrus the young vs Artaxerses II), Satrapal revolt (around 370 BC), murders in the court for king's succession, economic stagnation and revolts all over the empire due to high taxation in the last 70 years indicates clearly that the persian empire was in a collapse
@@erfanmoshtagh I'm from the East. Alexander destroyed the Persians. That's a fact not an opinion.
@@ramtin89 civil wars/revolts are not an indication of a collapse if they are resolved. Most empires/countries have those but do not collapse. A collapse is when they revolt/civil war/fracture permanently or at least for a significantly long time. That generally happens because an empire overreaches its logical bounds and can no longer administrate it effectively. However, the Persians were quite good at administration and logistics, it didn't collapse because of that. Sure, the Ionian wars and previous civil wars weakened the Persians to the point that Alexander could exploit them them, but they never collapsed. They were conquered by Alexander the Great. Being conquered isn't generally referred to a collapse, a collapse implies that you internally fractured to the point of no return. I think the issue here is that you're having a hard time swallowing the pill that the Persians were conquered by Alexander.
The dynasties that followed the Acheamenids like the Selucids ,Parthians, Sassanids etc were also Persian empires. In fact Persia remained a monarchy well after Greece and Rome/Italy became democracies
I love your channel! You also present Persia and the other sides. Cyrus has a lot of respect in the bible Sure Greece and Rome were Great but of course they did all the writing.
As soon as in-video sponsorship advertisements stop, my down votes stop. A the very least, just put a 5 second ad into the very end, sneaking a 2 minute ad into the start of the video is shady.
From the very beginning, his name was Iran, not Persia This is written in the inscriptions of Darius and Cyrus and they introduced themselves as the king of Iran and not the king of Persia. In the clip, it is said that this empire is now in Iran, but this mistake has been called Iran from the very beginning, according to the text of Cyrus' inscription.
It's sad that they use Greek exonyms for such a massive and well-known empire.
It wasnt called iran in achaemenid era
Actually when the alexander came to the iran he destroyed the most beautiful palace's ... The iran country had so much rulers and dynasty . if you could share more details from other dynasty's of iran it would be very great . Thank you for the information ❤️
Alexander didn't that evil to word parsian compare to Xerxes or Darius.
@@lavosicohe did
I don't think he did and even if he did it's most probably other Greeks who destroyed them when Alexander took over Alexander loved Persian culture and even integrated their culture into his own life
it's HARD. it's SAD. although I read it so many times , every time I see how powerful we were and how pity we are now it breaks my heart. from being the inventor of human rights , we got to a point which we have to fight for surviving . defiantly it's not what we deserve to be ...
@amir fallahالان تو داری برای زنده موندن تلاش میکنی ؟ منظورت اینه که اگه کار نکنی از گرسنگی میمیری ؟ یا خانه تو از دست میدی ؟ چرا ایران رو انقدر بد معرفی میکنی در هیچ زمانی توی تاریخ ما اوروپایی ها دوست ما نبودند که تو از وضعیت ایران به اونها این طور میگی دنباله چی هستی ؟ ایران ما قوی تر وصلح طلب تر از همیشه است و شروع کننده هیچ جنگی نبوده و نیست ما 2500 سال قبل در این امپراتوری بزرگ هر ملتی با هر زبان رنگ پوستو با هر دینی ازاد در کنار هم زندگی میکردن الان یه کشور 300 ساله در غرب با کشتن ملیون ها سرخ پوست و به بردگی گرفتن ملیون ها انسان شریف سیاه پوست با بیشترین هزینه نظامی جنگی به ما میخاد ازادی و حقوق بشر رو یاد بده ما اگر هم فقیر بشیم که نمیشیم یاز هم غرور ما این اجازه رو نمیده در باره کشورمون این طور نظر بدیم
Very interesting video thank you I'm also very proud to be Macedonian Canadian myself
There is a mythical story that says" A usurper king called "zahAk" that took the throne of Iranian kingdom by acts of Sorcery and treachery. A man named "kAveh" fought against the usurper and captured him. Then kAveh took zahAk to mount Damavand and left him in chain inside a cave for ever and for good. Then kAveh rendered the throne to "Fereydoon" and …. I carefully analyzed this mythical story and I found out that, this story however is mythical but sounds like a big undeniable real historical news is hidden in the whole story that never have been noticed by any scholar before. It may sound like a crazy typical ufo claim in history. But it is easy to prove that the character of "kAveh" is real and very historical. It is easy to prove that "kAveh" or in Median language "kavi = Boss or head of certain group of craftsmen- Kavi of blacksmiths" was the leader of a revolutionary act that overthrown Astyages the last "kai = king" of Median empire and rendered the throne of Median empire to Cyrus II of Anzan ( Anshan).
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you should re-do the video with dates showing up on each events
Dayum. That transition from the lion to the Persian empire was clever asf! 2:28
Rome couldn't destroyed Persia until God sent His messenger to Mecca to make a new empire. The empire with the oldest known religion collapsed in just a few years the arrival of the last messenger. Allah the greatest
No.Persian empire collapse from Greeks thousand years before Rome. They was free to ancient religion because Greeks was open minded people. Later East Rome which actualy was again greeks had some wars with Persians but never Persia was target for them.
FYI: Persia was and has always been called Iran, by its inhabitants. It is the west who referred to it as "Persia" until the shah of Iran officially changed the name to Iran in 1935.
I've heard it's the opposite
The name came from the Aechemenids introducing themselves to the Greeks by first naming off the territories they had conquered (So Fars, Media, Egypt, etc). The first territory named was Fars, where the Greeks took the name Persia from.
oh you nailed it. yeah you are absolutely right. Thank you for your informative video. If it was not for your videos I would have never know about this thank you. we need a movie about cyrus the great. The movies like 300 painted a very wrong picture about persian empire.
It's amazing how the largest country in history at that time got conquered so quickly
Because a soldier betrayed our commander and said that the Persian army wanted to attack from behind, and Alexander realized that Persia had a role to play, otherwise if that soldier had not been a patriot, you know, the Greeks would not have been our opponents.😉😉😉😉😉
Except that there's no what if in the world. Intelligence is also a part of warfare, remember?
@@uibasma4474 yes
Did Persia really collapse or did it just go through a series of “new management” phases for a few thousand years? As I recall my history the Persians were always a going concern during the same time period of the Roman Empire. They didn’t really “fall” until the Mongols came calling.
I agree with this. Although their fall happened earlier with Muslim invasions and it's ban on Iranian culture. The subsequent weakening of the empire was one of the reasons why Mongols had such an easy time conquering Iranian lands.
Xerxes was not a weak king… People claimimg this tend to go (solely) by ancient Greek sources. For example tablets found have given a more nuanced and fair image of him. And not as a weakling. And the empire did not start to decline with him. On the contrary, the Empire was still very stable and going strong the second half of 5th century BC. I just listened to professor John I. Lee in ”The Persian Empire” talk about this.
This video is knowledgeable
The use of Aramaic as official language being not the language of the conquerors was very wise. As if we use English and only English, maybe a modernised, revised English, EU English, for EU-level communication after Brexit. I would welcome it.
Damn that empire T H I C C double C that’s how u know it’s big
Its name is so big and it's purple I love it!
you should see the Ummayad Caliphate.
*Laughs in Mongol Empire*
@@haitamc5611 what Umayyad Caliphate. Burning and raping? Lol
Proud makedonian🇬🇷💙🌿
It's really amazing that such a small country could conquer such a huge one so quickly
Because there was a lot of hate towards the Persian people especially from Egypt and Babylon they loved Alexander and called him the great and even tell him that the gods has blessed him and they has supported him with all the information and resources and tactics startegy of the Persian empire which leads Alexander to put very successful plans and he brings the shame to the arrogant people of Persian empire which leads them to cry like a babies Because they always win by tricks and dirty ways
@@aboodbb8774 yeah but it's still crazy how a micro state conquered the largest country of history (up to that time)
@@micahistory then maybe it's a myth?
@@jason.h.zager88 wtf?
@@aboodbb8774you forgot Valerian roman king kneels before shapur 1 Persian king
What is that background music sounds nice
Alexander had lost the battle of jellum in india by king Raja porus & also persains who took part in the battle of jelum.the persains who were settled in india and todays Pakistan's region of punjab and all the way to indus valley up to sind was conquered by Cyprus the great the first Royal super power empire at that time
Not only pakistan punjab region also in many states like ratan tata is persian.
@@AbhishekChauhan-rj9wg mostly are in pakistani punjab other indian people where nothing to do with them india is not country on those time
@@itsmee6663 India is so old just its name changes nothing else.
@@AbhishekChauhan-rj9wg india is only name of region wich is locked on east of indus river indian are not one nation there so many nations are excited marathi tamil etc
@@itsmee6663 do you know about great ashoka or mourayan empire then study about it.
My answer: Persian Empire went through a long decline during Artaxerxes II:s rule. Egypt gained it's independence on 401bce. There was a Civil war between Cyrus the younger and Artaxerxes II. Persians had to leave from Khwarazm around 400bce and from northern Caucasus couple decades later as well as southern Indus. The big Authonomy of the satraps was no more. In 370-360 bce, The great satraps revolt began. Many of satraps from Asia minor started rebellion trying to gain independence by the help of Egypt. At the end that revolt was brutally won by the King of Kings. At the start of Artaxerxes III's reign, the Empire had almost like a civil war, when strapies Fought with themselves, with other satrapieas and with the king. But eventually Artaxerxes got the satrapies calm. Then he marched he's army to Egypt and took it. Conquest of Egypt was necessary, but it consumed many resources. He was a brutal king, but he was needed to get things back to tracks. At the end of his reign, the Empire was again as great as it used to be. Artaxerxes III could have stopped alexanders conquest If he lived longer (though he was like 90 when he was murdered). But then another civil war broke out when Artaxerxes and his son was murdered and replaced by former general Darius III. And right after that civil war, Alexander's conquest began. -Xerxes I was a very strong ruler -Artaxerxes I was also strong, wise and tolerant ruler -Darius II was strong but bad ruler. He lacked the authonomy of satraps for example. -Artaxerxes II was a weak ruler and he's reign was a decline for Persian Empire. Empires Borders were srinking from all directions. -Artaxerxes III was the king, the empire needed, He restored it's Borders and influence. But he was eventually murdered -Darius III was not a good king at all. He was the last option to be the King when Artaxerxes III, Artaxerxes IV and Bagoas were dead. If I said something wrong, please correct me.
This video really likes its strong monarchs. Just because a monarch was weak didn't mean the administration was bad. That's what the latter is for: to keep an Empire from depending on a single man for its stability. The Empire was still very strong in the time of Alexander. But they made the fatal mistake of fighting Alexander directly, rather than listen to Memnon of Rhodes and use a scorched Earth policy to break Alexander's army. But they fought him again and again and again, all to no avail. But the succeeding Parthians and Sasanians (with the exception of the Arabs) wouldn't make the same mistake. From what I know, Xerxes was a strong leader and a good King. Just less so than Cyrus or Darius.
Fun fact: Rise and fall of the Persian Empire is prophesied in the Bible, book of Daniel. In these prophesies are also 3 other kingdoms of men Babylon , Meedo-Persia, Creece, Rome and their cronolocical order starting from Babylon that was allready existing Daniel explaining to king of Babylon his dream that God gave t0 him. These prophesies are so obvious that people have clamed that these are written after things happened. But qumran deadsea scrolls dated 150 Before Christ prove that is not the case. There is also text saying that before second temple destruction " Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness," meaning Jesus sacrifice that Jews dont accept until this day as a nation ( even there is million Jews believing he is their Messiah ) so the texts are not convinient to Jews and is also prove of authenticity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel * Daniel 11.2> Perisian empire and following things Dream Daniel 2:31-45 human satue depicting human kingdom Babylon being golden head, chest/hands meedo-persia, torso Creece, and the two legs >Rome 4:7 > dream about humbling of the Babylonian king Vision of the human empires in the end: 8
150 BC was like 200 hundred years after achemenid empire's fall, so you are contradicting yourself.
@@julicor98 first smart one congratulations you have passed the test!
@@julicor98 Actually You still would need to explain Rome and second temple destruction. (and many other things ) And it is attached to book of Daniel time of Nəḇūḵaḏneṣṣar[d]), king of Babylon c. 605 BC - c. 562 BC, was the longest-reigning and most powerful monarch of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.[2][3] As we know even though some found book is dated 150y bc it dont mean its originally not written e.g 350bc maybe first in eye witness/oral tradition as its record about what Daniel spoke to Nebukadnessar. so we have book prophesying 2 things correct before thouse things happened claiming to be written that time when all these kingdoms were yet to come. Offcourse one who dont believe in God dont believe this but fact is that there is already correct prophesies. It even depicts that Rome that would be last is two legs with 10 toes. Rome was split in two. Qumran scrolls contains also many other books like complete book of Isaiah that has Prophesies about Jesus (e.g Isaiah 53 read the scroll >> dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah ) And comfirms that todays bible is not changed or written afterwards as there is only minor letter mistages. ( even though bible has so much more evidence of authency more than any other book as it has all the places detailed blueprints of the structures and genealogies endles names who begat who that are pain to read but makes it authentic )
didntopen the link (error 404 ) dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah If dont find just type> Book of Isaiah digital dead sea scrolls ( click the scroll >click the text to english translation )
After thousands years of many Persian empires and many battles and difficult times , still Iran is standing strong and powerful within itself and world wide .Iranian culture and system will not change or being changed by out side force for thousands of years to come .Simply the best and most successful Empires of all time in every aspect ! Great video and Great job !
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So you think the current islamic culture is something to be proud of?
@@issaabdulsada4267 why not, tell us about yours
This isn't iran Now become Muslim country Our history is being destroyed😔
@@issaabdulsada4267 islam is not the problem
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First of all :Persia had more than one (1) Empire, after the Achemenian Alexanders adventures took place,Alexander did not want revange ,he just went out and challenged his opportunities and Live. After Alexanders invasion and the Diadochaens the Parthien Empire came, also Persian,than the Sassanid Empire,so in Persian History there is about 3-4 times "Persian Empires" arising or created,the greatest was the Achemenid Empire,the longest the Sassanid Empire.