Fun fact about Parthia: Did you know that they went well out of their was to ensure that Rome and Han China knew next to nothing about each other for the sole reason of profit via trade. To such an extent that when China decided to actually try and make formal contact with Rome, Parthia actively prevented their diplomats/messengers from leaving the country... How this never ended in conflict still baffles me.
Considering Geography and the Terrian Between the two, It should be obvious why it would never have in such a time period. Main Reasons would be Deserts, Mountains, and Natives that would tare up Armies and Supply lines. Any such armies trying to get from China to Persia and Vice Versa would likely never make it in the first place. It's not like China was Bordering Persia like Rome was.
Rome was able to establish contact with the Han eventually. The Han called Rome "Daqin", meaning "the great Qin" because they thought Rome was in par with their vast empire
@@CalacaRoja Literally every video on it says the Romans viewed them as another inferior culture. The Romans thought that about everyone that wasn't them, Go do your own research before assuming things.
Jews: "First, the heretic cult started by that carpenter intoxicates our people's mind! Now, the romans are sacking our riches!! THIS SH*T COULDN'T GET ANY WORSE!!!" Titus: "What an awesome Temple you have, guys!" 😎
Romans in the 1st Century: "Man, living in a beautiful and rich city like Rome is just awesome! Nothing could stop such prospe..." Caligula: "My sister who I had s*x with since we were 12 just died and I am going to recover from my depression by killing everyone who says something against me and spending all the Empire's money on games and cute things for my horse. By the way, I am a God now." Romans in the 1st Century: 😐
@@soroushtorabi98 those hats was in use in arashk period (beginning of parthians because they were nomadic horse rider Iranians similar to scythians) Later they use crowns for example on coins of queen musa of parthia
Xiongnu: getting their shit beaten out of them, the southern half clinging onto Han for protection and the northern half escaping through the Eurasian steppe into Scythian lands. Also Xiongnu: AAEEEEEEEUUUUUHHHHHOOOOOOEEEEEEEHHHHHH
@@sarubet8725 ? Actually here the Xiongnu kinda won at the end, as after Jin dynasty's collapse the remaining southern Xiongnu successfully besieged Chang'an and sort of stayed there until they got thrown off by the Qiang Empire of Qianqin.
@@portgasempire7867 No, they are two peoples but they were in the same group. Let me say more: Three thousand years BC a group of Aryans migrated from the north of the Caspian Sea to the plateau of Iran, this group was divided into three groups: Medes, Persians and Parthians. 1- The Medes were scattered in northwestern Iran and the Medes later united. 2- The Persians settled in the south of Iran 3- The Parthians also settled in the northeast of Iran. (Each of these tribes ruled Iran once or twice.) And the word "Iran" means the place where the Aryans lived.
@@SoldierofIRAN87 kurds are descendents of the medes, and its said that the parthains are now several ethnic groups like the talysh or dailemi or even the zazas in turkey. but only the achaemenids were persian as far as i remember right.
I descended from the noble agnatic lineage of the Medes and Parthia, from the likes of Vologases VI and Cyaxares (I'm not In Iran, btw). Persia backstepped my ancestors twice. Both the Achaemenids and Sassanians, which forced them into exile, twice. How do I know? Well, Parthia wasn't the first nor the last kingdom/empire they built.
@@portgasempire7867 No (depends on your meaning and history isn't concrete (well, nothing is)). Parthians aren't the type that would torture a POW, unlike Persians.
Funfact: the guy in the left in Han dynasty was Wang Mang, he usurped the throne of Han emperor and ruled for 14 years until get overthrow by Han restoration army
@@tuongtang8974 Well there was a standardized army in China even before Sun Tzu, but he was the one that standardized officer training. And the Neo-Assyrian empire had a standardized army before Zhou was even established but that's another thing.
I like how basically every human civilization did almost the same thing, greek-roman mythology had something like the age of gold, then silver, then iron, the age of heroes (the troian war times) and then the sh*tty present they lived in
@King Dahaka you are probably a mad iraqi or a turk with less that a thousands year history i can find any other reason why would you say such dumb thing
@@Taxnp xiongnu wasn’t just Turkic. It was a multi ethnic confederacy. Xiongnus population mainly consisted of people of north East Asian descent who descend from north East Asian hunter gatherers. If we’re talking genetically then the mongols of today are very much the descendants of the xiongnu. You see. The xianbei were just states that were formed by the people in the xiongnu. The mongolic people have always lived in the Mongolian steppes since the beginning. Not all mongols are the descendants of Donghu or xianbei. Only a few are. Genghis’s tribe does definitely descend from the Donghu but still most mongols today are very much the descendants of the xiongnu just like how most Turks are. There’s more evidence to suggest that the xiongnu was a multi ethnic confederacy rather than a turkic confederacy.
As a Turk, I liked the fact that there is an Xiongnu Khanate(Asian Hun). Generally, Turks or other races are never mentioned in historical videos. only british americans and germans
Lol, for the xiongnu khanate, you're using the song in praise of chinggis, while chinggis khan was born in late 1100s and he unified mongolia around 1206.
Xiongnu Confederation in the 1st century was horrible, constant internal turmoil & civil wars leading to it split combining with attacks from Han Dynasty that made it become a vassal of China
POV : You live in the first century in the kushan empire or yuezhi 🏇🏹🌾👱👩🏞️🕉️☸️ (steppa nomad) and nanyuei kingdom 🚣🛶⛵🌊🌳🌴🏝️🎋🌾👨👩 🪨 (jade and bronze culture) .'?&$#@30£- (tatto culture)
Actually its Not Xiongnu Khanate its Xiongnu Khaganate (its like kingdom and empire) Xiongu (known as Asian Hunnic Empire) was big and united too many Cultures inside of it (at this time they were all same except mongolians) (Finns, hungarians, estonians, bulgarians, koreans, some parts of japan, Turks, mongolians were the ethnicities of Xiongnu Today)
I wouldn’t really say vanished. The northern xiongnu went west and mixed in with the Iranians and became the Huns that would terrorize Rome later on. While the rest of the xiongnu just assimilated into other nomadic tribes in the eastern steppes or assimilated into Chinese culture. But their descendants are still alive to this day. Mongols,Turks,yeniseians and some Chinese people are are the descendants of the xiongnu
@@GenovaYork24 it’s still a matter of debate as to what ethnicity the Xiongnus ruling class was, but if you’re talking about the xiongnu in general. Then it was a multi ethnic confederation.
