Empires of Ancient Persia explained in 10 minutes ( History of Iran ) 

It is a matter- Iranian and persian are not synonyms. Persians are a ethnic group that make up around 50% of Iran’s population and there are also Persians that are from Central Asia in countries like Tajikistan and Afghanistan (Tajiks). Kurds, Balochs, Azeris, Lors and Turkmens are all from Iran and Iranian, but they don’t belong to the Persian ethnic group. Therefore you can’t say that it doesn’t matter if we call them Persians or Iranians.

Admiralcurtis666 Not only the persians, every Iranian tribe used to refer as „Iran to their homeland, including Balochs, Kurds and Pashtuns who are not from modern day Iran. That’s also why I already said that persian and Iranian are not synonyms. Persians are one of several other Iranian tribes and except of that not every Persian is native to Iran as i already said.

Yeah well tell that to Iranians living under the horrendous Islamic regime, we've lost almost all respect mate. :(

SOLIDSNAKE99 Nothing new

Medes are Kurds not Persians

What did you expect? Let's make paras paradisia again. Even greater rebuild the ancient city's bloom the. Desert.

What did you expect? What Arab culture are you speaking of?

The muslim culture. I know it is not defined as "arab culture" now, but since it started on the arabian peninsula, the quran written in arabic and all muslims now either fully or partially speak or read arabic, we refer to it as arab culture.

As a non-Iranian,I consider the Sassanid era the most magnificent.An empire powerful enough to keep in line Rome(even threatened it with destruction) and the Eurasian nomads,extent it's sphere of influence in the Arabian peninsula and leaving a invisible legacy in western Asia.While the empire founded by Cyrus marks the high point of Iranian domination,the Sassanids were by far more efficient in matters of administration and warfare.The Persians under the Acheamenids were beaten by the Greek city-states,the Sassanids on the other hand crushed numerous Roman armies.

Islamic culture and society peaked in the 14 century. Now everywhere it is present it unfortunately stifles the societal, economical and cultural progress of the nation. It is a shame to see the homes of once great civilisations in North Africa, Egypt, the Levant and Iran so backward by todays standards.

Yeah, it really is a great channel. Consistently excellent videos.

Yes it's amazing lovely !! Reminds me of the sikh empire even though it lasted 50 years , it was beautiful peacekeeping for sikhs,Muslims Hindus all in equal status !! Maybe op should do a video

And that nothing lasts forever because... people. Oh wait, erosion.

Samuel Appiah it wasn’t the most fair, but it was the best a man could get for times to come.

The Sassanid's fairness to my people was won at Avarayr. The fairest persian rulers were the Achemenids, in their good years.

I had my mind blown the first time when I was reading a Justinian and Theodora biography that they hired whole Arab armies and the Persians where doing the same

The Persians had the Christian Arab kingdom of the Lakhmids in Iraq and the Romans had the Christian Arab Ghassanids in Syria.

You mean Zoroastrian? Zoroastrianism is monotheistic, probably one of the earliest monotheistic dualistic religions. But no, according to the history I've read, they were by and large Christian.

You mean the Sassanians were beaten. The Romans held on and beat the Arabs back, despite losing Egypt, Syria, and North Africa.

Nonamearisto hey now, it's still very sad that the Sassanids were beaten! Think what a Zoroastrian Iran and Christo-Zoroastrian Iraq would be like today..... Heavens on earth!

🌸 thanks, Iranic brother. We love you too

tat here too, from Zarat, Siyazan, Azerbaijan 🇦🇿✌

if you turks and arabs stay away of persia will be great for us as native persia

We where one nation until the Russian have separated us

Elam and median kurdish not persians

@Mahdi Jannati not exactly, but there are many castes group which are descended from arya race ,and we know this fact and are proud to be from Aryan people.

@Mahdi Jannati Arya in our Culture is a Person of Noble deeds He can be anyone who does his duties not a Race or Region

Because we Iranians and you Indians are actually from one same origin 👌❤️🇮🇷🇮🇳

@kourosh Hi I am indian and I am aryan most of the north indians i would say around 58% of us are indo aryan, most of our culture are inspired by aryans and our lang is originated from sanskrit which is also indo(indic) irani language

@@matinmehdipoor3000 yes and one of the indias richiest man tata is also parsi, during the time of islam invadation in persia their were few farsi who escaped and settled in india's state name gujarat and still in Gujarat there are few parsi's so india has largest no. of parsi's right now since india is secular country they are peacefully here

Thanks! :D

Emmanuel Matu i love parthians most

Parthians are the Iranian with moustache and horse riding skills, they were semi nomadic. They are the ones who preserved the real Iranian identity and kept their soul. I’m saying that because all Iranian people including Persians and Medes were all Nomadic once before they move to today Iran. They were all professional horse riders and archers with their magnificent long persian moustache living in Central Asia ans Eastern Europe steppes but when Persians and Medes came to the Iranian plateau they started establishing cities. They could live and farm without the fear of long cold winters. Therefore they had to adopt a new lifestyle that matches to this new life soon they realized there are other people living around so they adopted the Aramic culture from Elamites, Assyrians and Babylonians. So from all three ancient Iranian empires Parthians were the closest ones to the real Iranian identity however in Sassanid era lots of Iranian elements was brought back and it looked more Iranian in compare to Achaemenid Empire.

Emmanuel Matu I don’t know if you already saw the video but just Incase he did an entire video on the Sassanids, here’s the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HgrPT5uarKM.html

I think he just lacked the Parthians

@@onasimfar Ashkanian. Named after Ashk, also known as Arashk, in Farsi. The English version is Araces.

The Unknown oh I'm not saying I'm not interested in Muslim Persia. The problem is that Iran/Persia is its own civilization. There isn't and wasn't such a thing as "Islamic civilization". As one Iranian historian put it "why do we never speak of European history as Christian civilization". See what I mean?

Agni Royai That's not a fair assessment, throughout history most Muslim majority countries have been very inter-connected to a degree far greater than has ever been seen with people of other religious faiths that expanded to such a large size. The only other faith that really compares is Judaism. Islamic civilisation was a thing, you often had numerous completely different ethnic groups help each other out based purely on religion alone, e.g the Ghaznavids of Khorasan had Persians, Pashtuns, Turks, Punjabis and Arabs fight under their banner, and even though they acted independently, they still pledged allegiance to Caliphate.

dsr 478 That I would classify more as Middle Eastern history than Islamic. The whole notion of a Muslim/Islamic world comes not from the ummah concept but as an opposite to medieval Christendom. What we could call Islamic civilisation was very much centered in the Middle East while stretching into North Africa and Spain. The Muslim-majority countries of Asia usually had little or nothing to do with the affairs of the Middle East (Mughal India and parts of Central Asia maybe more so than others) and were not connected to the caliphate. If you're referring to the Caliphate specifically, that could justify usage of the term. In most cases it's simply a lazy misnomer, just as westerners tend to identify modern Muslims by religion instead of ethnic origin. The existence of the caliphate doesn't negate my original point that the study of a civilisation's history is not the study of religious history. And as I said, this is coming from Middle Eastern archaeologists and historians, not just from me

Agni Royai Yeah that's kinda what I meant. Countries like Indonesia and Malaysia cannot really be classified as part of this Islamic civilisation that we are speaking of. I would consider Islamic civilisation to be the Middle East along with all the Arab nations in Africa as well as Central Asia, Spain, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Most of the people in this general area belong to the same race (caucosoids) and look fairly similar (many of them are brown, bearded and wear baggy clothes). You could add India and Somalia/Ethiopia but that's a bit of a reach in my eyes.

dsr 478 I agree with everything there except Pakistan, just my opinion

sam som ما افهمك

Iran=Iraq😃

Ahmed love you too

Elias Frahat what is ur thoughts on gay rights in the Arab world? should it be banned? should someone just have the right to be gay in private? should gay night clubs and gay poorn be allowed??.

sam som لا اضطهاد لكن المثلية مرض و يجب معالجته لكن ليس بالقتل لا لا لا ما اريد يصبح حال الدول العربية مثل حال الغربية اخلاقيا

That is very interesting, is there a particular region in India where they live? Or is more everywhere?

The fleeing Zoroastrians first reached the shores of the state of Gujarat where they have lived among us Hindus in harmony, many of them have even migrated to big cities like mumbai.etc most of India's biggest corporates are run by Zoroastrians, like TATA. Can I just tell you how thrilled I am that you actually responded to my comment! Love your channel, I really liked the fact that you spoke about the Aryan invasion, there almost no good videos on that subject

Dhruva Narayan wow they escape huh for 1thousand year muslim rule india yea i know fairy tale

Dhruva Narayan my father persian i know history my people so stop lying

Suleyman ErtugruL muslims never could rule India For Thousands Of Years. But yeah in some parts of India like in Sindh they Did...Two Big Islamic Empire Were Delhi Sultanate Nd Mughal Empire. They Both Persecuted us Hindus nd tried to Destroy our Culture but We Hindus Always Fought Back. Go nd Seaech About Gujjara Pratiharas, Vijayanagara Empire, Maratha Empire, Ahom Dynasty, Gajapati Dynasties Of Odisha, Khalsa Sikh Empire....

زنده باد داداش

Baktrian

Love ya too.

much love brotha!

afghan is pashtun you dumbfuck. its khorasani Persian. fk afghan and afghanistan

Brandon Redmond well it's not really surprising when you think that it was the Sogdians who worked as tge middlemen in the Silk route and if I remember correctly it was a Sogdian scholar who translated the Buddhist manuscripts into Chinese and hence helped to spread that religion in Far East Asia.

Most of european languages are called indo-european, and the root goes back to Iran, if you are interested to know about root of languages, look for indo-european. It's quite funny and interesting

Brandon Redmond Hello Brandon, I’m able to speak Mandarin, Fuzhou Dialect, and Cantonese. Which Chinese language was influenced by Sogdian that you’re referring to. If you don’t have hard evidence then you can’t just say whatever you want as fact, and you can’t force it into a made-up lie.

Try Turkic languages, they were basically best buddies with the Sogdians and let them administrate their empires (until the Mongols massacred them for no reason, maybe for "softening" Turkic people)

Chee Keong Goh you are great too.

we appreciate your visit. always welcome.

I am honored, Thank you! :)

Are Persians and Zazas the same race?

The Crusader Historian what about parhtian😞

Parthians are cool too. I mean they decisively defeated the Romans. That's a feat.

The Crusader Historian oh cool

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@@user-wg1mv5hu5v There was no crusade to Persia. All of the Crusades in the Middle East were stuck around the Holy Land.

With the exception of Persians and Tatars ;)

@Naofumi Iwatani how about qatar kuwait united arab Emirates iran and saudi Arabia ?

@Naofumi Iwatani 😂😂 oil only makes 5% of Dubai economy u talk about extreme group as if the West is all peaceful

@Naofumi Iwatani behind ? Like how ? Some Arab state are richer than most European amd Asian countries

abcde fghij your are racist.

Iran is not the true name,its Persia!PERSIAN EMPIRE FTW!

king of horn african. Thanks.

king of horn african. Iran is a fake name created by some weird muslim fundamentalist that seeks to cause jihad.PERSIA SHALL RISE AGAIN.

+Untitled Lol Are you stupid or just ignorant? Iran basically means the "land of aryans" being officialized by shah Reza, an icon of western reforms in Persia/Iran. Get your facts correct.

Yes, yes I do. I am an Iranian. An Aryan. An ethnic Persian. Also, when did I say anything about mullahs. Xerxes combined Greek and Persian culture together.

Kostantinos Kalominidis Yes he adopted a lot from Persian culture and tradition and brought a lot of Greek culture and tradition into Iran

@@marmary5555 when did I say anything about Mullahs?

@@peniseusgiganticus9558 there is nothing Greek in Persian culture.

Thanks . Long live the nation and the country of HELLAS

Dara yes i love parhtian too

Im not Iranian but I guess If I would be I would considered Achaemenid Empire and Sassanid dynasties as my favorite.That is because Achaemenid Empire is surely the most famous,most classical and also achieved biggest territorial extend.Sassanids on their own part very very strong militarily.One of few powers able to fight with the Romans on equal terms and repeatedly dealing them humiliating defeats.In the art of siecraft they were as good as Romans,maybe even little better.In cavalry they were best in the world and they almost succeded even in reinstaling Persian borders in limits that Achaemenid Empire once had although only for a short time.Arcasid dynasty on the other hand seems rather week to me.Parthian state was decentralized and members of royal family constantly dammaging the realm with infinitive struggle for power.It also had strong multicultural character,well this is true also for Achaemenids,but in Partian case this multiculturalism was dominating perhaps too much over national core which was in Iranian people and culture.Sassanids on the other hand were opposites of Arcasids in this.They were almost ultranationalistic and far less tolerant to other cultures seeing Iranians as those best and giving stong emphasis on Iranian aspects of their Empire and history of these people.

Parthian: 247BC to 224 AD= 471years, Sassanid: 651AD to 224 AD= 427 years, parthian is 44 years longer almost half a century,

I also should mention that, during the Sassanian empire they tried to eliminate the Parthian elements from Iran's history even they changed the calendar to decrease Parthian's ruling years. The biggest difference between Sassanid/Achaemanids empires and Arascidis is they ruled by a central government and Parthians ruled by a kind of federative government. Each of these types has its own pros and cons, but history showed that when the central power is not meddling too much into everything a cultural progression will happen. As an example when Sassanids took the full support of Zoroastrianism, Mazdaki and Manavi sects are emerged as a kinda of reaction to the suppression, on the other hand the religious tolerance of Parthians resulted into the development of Zoroastrianism and even the first Avesta has been written during that era of tolerance. If we just consider the military victories and territory of each periods (even by knowing that one of the most decisive defeats o roman empire happened during the Parthian era), I also believe Sassanian/Achaemanid empire can be more fascinating but culturally I think partisans were more successful

i have to agree with you the Parthian empire is my favourite of the classical Iranian empires, shame that no one speaks or writes parthian and that there is little left of the language.

If i am not mistaken sapur was not Iranian but a Hebrew tribal king some of its people came to India they founded sapura called them selves Jain which seems corruption of Zion (Zionism)

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Is a great history

I didn't expect for the answer thx😲❤ Could you please make a movie about Cyrus the great?thx alot! and where are you from?

Definitely planning on making more videos on Persian history :) ...I was born in California

Thx:) good luck!

@@EpimetheusHistory thank you man❤❤

i think caliphate (rashudin &omaya &abassid ) is just mirror of culture of empire persia

Reasonable It is true Persia Persianized all outsiders who conquer it like Seleucid,Arab,Seljuk,Ilkhanate , Timuridt ,Safavid and Qajar

Persia is a civilization which get sick for sometime but never die .

@@striveforgreatness5423 the savafids were aziri/kurds. They were ethnically iranien, and are not really considered as outside force, however shah Ismalie's first language was turkic.

@@edrickhuge4637 oh shut the fuck up with your ethnic division *lies.* There were great numbers of Circassians, Mazandaranis and Georgians in the royal families, would you want to talk about that too? Of course not, because only Azaris and Kurds seem to be foolish enough to fall into the separatist Fab. Also, you seem to forget that the Safavids were an *Iranian Empire* and were the torchbearers of *Persian culture and arts.* Not "Kurdish" nor "Tork" / "Azari" but the sophisticated Persians. Btw I'm not a Persian myself, so your usual insults against the peaceful, poetic and charming Persians (of Fars region) won't affect me. Fuck off, will you?

Thanks :)

Thanks!

traditions and ancestry make us who we are as a nation.

Mesopotamian Kurd Parthians werent medes i dont believe. And kurds arent medes. Kurds are a mixture of a bunch of peoples.

Mesopotamian Kurd medes are not kurd plz stop to liar

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@@user-wg1mv5hu5v Ffs shut the fuck up

Yeah "claimed"

:D

Parthians are Kurdish history and have nothing to do with persians😂 stolen history

@@mandomando5292 parthians are no way Kurds. U can say some Mede's were Kurds .but parthians has nothing to do with Kurds.

@@mandomando5292 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@mandomando5292 You are absolutely wrong,kurds belongs western iranian branch and Parthian belongs easternsbranch

Mesopotamian Kurd Sepas baradar.

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Yeah.

@Maverick 百家姓啊，我这个姓小众而且不是汉姓，再说了基因检测只能查三代

Jay Williams Mainly because they were moving to the feudal/cast system I suppose. It probably was partially caused by Persia's state religion Zoroastrianism. Rome too eventually abandoned slavery and established a somewhat permeable feudal society.

Because of their believe and geography

HI Jay I am a Iranian living in America I always loved the achamanid Persians a lot. I think the reason why the Persians are not having slavery is because of King Cyrus's charter of human rights. Also for you to know that Persians are realated to a ancient noble tribe know as being noble so maybe it has also something to do with Iranian prehistory.

Jay Williams nooooo havinggg slave beacuse of our beliveee

Slavery is strictly forbidden in Zoroastrianism. Only Semites and Semitic cultures have/had no problem with slavery (particularly Judaism and Islam)