Roman Empire Vs Sassanid Empire: Battle of Edessa 260 AD | Cinematic 

Entire 600 years of persian - roman war should be a HBO series not Netflix.

honestly bro netflizx is bad

This is better than the historical garbage Netflix puts out. 👍

​@@michaelg.1786Wokeflix will give us Black South American Parthians and Sub-saharan Chinese Romans 🤦‍♂️

This should be a series so you don’t have to worry about cramming everything in

Don't forget how many Greeks settled in the lands of the Persians after Alexander the Great and the coins struct by the Arsacids with the term "Philellenas" in order to be liked by the Greek populations of Parthia and beyond. I totally respect the Persians. The Romans were mostly Greek anyway as Rome was just one city.

@@user-vg2ss1se7e i know and we cant forget that greeks worked in achaemenid army for many years as mercenaries. yes the persians and greeks have a really conected history. i respect both greeks and romans as they were the reseaon for us to develop and advance as well

@@user-vg2ss1se7e the Hellenistic period itself was an exchanged period of Persian and Greek culture, as for the Persians, they took many influences from Greek architecture, art and philosophy, and for the Greeks, they took many influences from Persian culture, fashion, customs, and administrative system method.

@@user-vg2ss1se7e And yes, the Parthians were interested in Greek culture, but they were also loyal to their own Iranian culture as well. But the most important point is that they were Iranian ppl and they were the ones who defeated the Seleucids. And the Parthian interest in Greek culture is not a bad thing, just as Alexander's interest in Iranian culture should not be a bad thing for you!!! 📚📚the book of : "the Persians seen by the Greeks under the direction of Dominique lanfant", french version : "Les Perses vus par les Grecs"👇🏻👇🏻 Chapter 14-8. People around Alexander reacted to the acceptance of Iranian customs. Cleitus and Flattery: One evening of drinking, Cleitus decries the flatterers' complacency towards Alexander and allows himself to belittle his military prowess. Alexander, mad with anger, kills him. Callisthenes' opposition to proskynesis: Alexander wants the Iranian custom of proskynesis (movement of homage) to be adopted for him. Convinced that his father is Amon and not Philip, he considers himself worthy of this divine distinction. If some of the Greeks around him granted it out of flattery, Callisthenes, a former student of Aristotle, considered it a disgrace and, like most Macedonians, refused it. Alexander has Bessus's nose and ears cut off, then orders his execution in Ecbatana before the assembly of the Medes and Persians. For the first time, Arrian passes a critical judgment on Alexander, citing his adoption of barbaric customs-indulgence in luxury, abandonment of Macedonian attire for Median clothing and the "Persian tiara of the conquered," despotic authority, and a lack of self-control, especially in regards to alcohol. Arrian doesn't specify when Alexander started adopting Persian customs but, like other authors, sees the halt in Hyrcania as a turning point, where Alexander feels he has successfully achieved his goal and firmly holds the empire. - ch. 8-14. Alexander's entourage reacted to the adoption of customs Persians---Arrian includes these later episodes about Cleitus and Callisthenes because they are related to the theme of adopting Persian customs. Cleitus and flattery: During a drunken night, Cleitus criticizes the flattery towards Alexander and belittles his military achievements. Enraged, Alexander kills him. Callisthenes' opposition to proskynesis: Alexander wants to be honored with the Persian custom of proskynesis (a gesture of homage). Believing his father is Ammon, not Philip, he considers himself worthy of this divine distinction.

interesting details 👍

Plus he was lured into plains that were perfect for the Sassanid battle tactics

And many others

I was also amazed that in every lost war Roman or Byzantines had very few ranged unit. They were highly dependent on heavy infantry and their shields.

Yes, it was that time.

Crisis of the third century boiiii

You have nothing to be proud of, those are not your triumphs, go milk your Camels. 😄

The Roman Empire army at there peak was almost 500,000 warriors so if Roman Empire exist today he was going to be 1 of the 10 largest army in the world today in 2023 that how big and powerful unified Roman Empire was without question one of the best and largest army compare to any Empire in history but when he come to war with Iran King Shapur I The Emperor Hunter made this Empire look like joke Rome was almost completely destroyed by him he killed 150,000 or more warriors out 500,000 warriors of Roman Empire in few battle is victory are better than Hannibal vs Rome by numbers and also is victory are as good as any military commanders or ruler in history just is victory vs Rome forget about Kushan Empire, Parthian Empire or any others that he beat also Valerian, the only Roman emperor captured alive in all history in only 3 battle the blows that Shapur inflicted upon the Roman army were indeed catastrophic and deadly since the time of Hannibal up to one third of Rome’s professional army (including officers) numbering around 150,000 troops or even more had been simply eliminated in only 3 battle ONLY 3 the greatest psychological blow was the capture of Emperor Valerian and his ceremonial chariot as commemorated in the Shapur inscriptions (SKZ Shapur Kaba Zartusht Greek lines 19-37) as well as the sites of Naghsh-e-Rustam and Bishapur. Never in the history of Rome had a Roman Emperor been captured alive. According to Ferril

​@@yaqubleis6311в 260 году Римская империя уже была изрядно ослабленна из за варваров на севере, и коррупции, и поэтому качество армии была не на пики. Если бы армия Рима встретилась на пики своей мощности.... но я думаю ты понял.

@@yaqubleis6311 yea I’ve seen naqshe rostam, it’s a national pride even for the devilish mullahs.

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Yeah there are rock reliefs across Iran showcasing some of the Sassanian history and in particular the victory of Edessa portraying the shah on horse back, Philip the Arab kneeling in front of him and emperor Valerian standing in gesture , it's located in the province of Fars(Basically Persis from the ancient times), relatively close to Persepolis. It's also very interesting to see how many of the ancient city names from the Sassanian era have remained exactly the same throughout all the centuries with minimal changes. I also read somewhere that the very bridge the romans built in Iran is still standing to this date but unfortunately with the current regime in power, the least thing they care about is Iran itself...

But Romans never defeated persians@

@Warmaker - I learned of it through a powerful and disturbing poem by the American poet Anthony Hecht. Then in 2010, I travelled to Iran, and while visiting Persepolis, I saw Shapur I's victory bas relief at Naqsh-e-Rostam, about 3 km north of Persepolis. The relief depicts Valerian kneeling in surrender in front of a mounted Shapur.

درود برتو ... دقیقا گل گفتی❤ اگه رومیان و ایرانیان یکدیگر را فرسوده نمیکردند ، عرب ها خیلی حقیر تر از این حرف ها بودند ک با ایرانیان و رومیان بجنگند... ای کاش جنگهای خونین 25ساله بین ایرانیان و رومیان سرنمیگرفت چقد خوشبخت میشدن و میموندی مردمان این دو سرزمین❤❤

​@@mohammadpirvandi-ln7pu وهل يخسر العرب المعركة و فيهم عمر بن الخطاب كاسر ضلع كسرى 😂

That was Philip

@@ShahanshahShahin shapur defeated tree roman emprores

@@gods_fall I know

The Roman Empire army at there peak was almost 500,000 warriors so if Roman Empire exist today he was going to be 1 of the 10 largest army in the world today in 2023 that how big and powerful unified Roman Empire was without question one of the best and largest army compare to any Empire in history but when he come to war with Iran King Shapur I The Emperor Hunter made this Empire look like joke Rome was almost completely destroyed by him he killed 150,000 or more warriors out 500,000 warriors of Roman Empire in few battle is victory are better than Hannibal vs Rome by numbers and also is victory are as good as any military commanders or ruler in history just is victory vs Rome forget about Kushan Empire, Parthian Empire or any others that he beat also Valerian, the only Roman emperor captured alive in all history in only 3 battle the blows that Shapur inflicted upon the Roman army were indeed catastrophic and deadly since the time of Hannibal up to one third of Rome’s professional army (including officers) numbering around 150,000 troops or even more had been simply eliminated in only 3 battle ONLY 3 the greatest psychological blow was the capture of Emperor Valerian and his ceremonial chariot as commemorated in the Shapur inscriptions (SKZ Shapur Kaba Zartusht Greek lines 19-37) as well as the sites of Naghsh-e-Rustam and Bishapur. Never in the history of Rome had a Roman Emperor been captured alive. According to Ferril

One story is that Shapur used him as a footstool then skinned him alive after which his skin was stuffed with straw and kept in a Persian temple. And only cremated after a later Roman Victory.

and Galerius's gangrene.

We are not like that sasanids were not slave owners we saw his lust for gold and rewarded him with molten gold as he wronged his people and betrayed them

Cool man, Ahura Mazda vs Ahriman!

@@user-vg2ss1se7e just for curiosity, do you speak Persian? or have you been in contact with someone who speaks Persian? Because the names Ahuramazda and Ahriman are known together only by Persian speakers😅

My friend, no, unfortunately I don't speak Farsi, but I have studied Classical Archaeology in England and I learned basic stuff about Zoroastrianism,. The impact of Persia on the western world is far greater than people understand, actually people haven't got a clue about it. Through the Greeks, ancient Persian culture has become part of our cosmos. We just don't know about it. I believe Greece and Persia shaped the modern world, the same way the shaped the ancient one.@@CyrusPersia-wv7zo

@@user-vg2ss1se7e I totally agree my friend, Greece and Persia were both great civilizations and world builders, great that you are knowledgeable and aware of this. I am also very interested in learning about ancient history and study it, but as a hobby, not a job. In the book I am reading, I have many references to cultural exchanges between Greeks and Persians. Really interesting and respectable 🇮🇷♥️🇬🇷

@@CyrusPersia-wv7zo I am not a professional, I only studied it, but then I studied International Affairs in the Middle East, so I am more aware of the cultural continuitions in the region and how it shapes what we seeing today. There is no doubt that Persian cultural and administrative values were transplanted to the West via the Hellenistic Kingdoms which Rome copied. Greeks copied the Persians and the Romans copied the Greeks. And I am really interested in what happened in Hellenistic Babylonia, Mesopotamia, and Bactria. There are many interested articles and studies on the subject. The Seleucids rebuilt all the mejor Temples in Uruk.

Right up my street, appreciate it brother

Or kings and generals as well, both give good overviews and lessons

The Sasanians defeated the Huns in history, and the leader of the Huns' army was the father of Attila

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j I think you mistook the Huns of Europe with the white Huns (Kidarites and Hephthalites) of central Asia

@@ramtin5152 It is true, but the European Huns in the era of Attila’s father tried to fight the Sassanids and Khosrow, and the Huns in Central Asia were allies of the Sassanids since the era of Shapur II.

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j As I told you before, the Huns tried to attack the Sassanids but there isn't much said about an invasion of Huns Only that a Hunnic army was defeated in Armenia (as I told you before) but they were probably a raiding party and were there to scout the area The Shahanshah of the Sassanid empire at the time of Attila was Yazdegerd II not Khosrow And no the central Asian Huns were not allies of the Sassanids ever since Shapur II the great Not always The script writer of the battle of Edessa video in Historymarche channel said that he has sources that the first Sassanid king, Ardeshir I, met a Hunnic king during his campaigns in central Asia and defeated the Hunnic king in battle Shapur II fought and defeated them and in the end they were made to serve in the Sassanid army in their battles with Rome In 395 AD, Basiq and Kursich led two detachments down the Euphrates, threatening the capital Ctesiphon Upon hearing that, the Sasanian army marched against them and the Huns retreated after taking some casualties One group however, was overtaken and completely defeated (though it seems the commander survived) The Sasanians took nearly all of the booty, and freed 18,000 captives The other group of Huns retreated through the Derbent Pass During the reign of Bahram V (who is called Bahram Gur because of his obsession with hunting onagers), while Bahram was occupied with the war with the Romans, his eastern neighbours, Kidarites, crossed the Oxus river and invaded the Sasanian realm, conquering the rich city of Marw/Merv and even reaching as far as westwards as Ray Bahram was thus forced to pay tribute to the Kidarites, in order to stop their incursions into his empire However, Bahram passed through the mountain chain on the southern shore of the Caspian sea, eventually reaching Merv There, his forces routed the Kidarites in a battle, killing their king in the process and capturing his wife, the queen of the Kidarites A general of Bahram pursued the Kidarites into Transoxiana and inflicted another defeat on them The war was concluded in 427, with Bahram cementing his name as a great champion of Iran The name of Bahram was long remembered amongst the people of the surrounding area The Sogdian city of Bukhara would later mint coins with his image In 450, Yazdegerd II launched an expedition into deep Kidarite territory in Central Asia, raiding and capturing forts and cities, which resulted in the accumulation of many captives and riches and managed to secure the eastern portion of his empire against the Kidarite incursions One of Yazdegerd's general was defeated by the Kidarites but the Kidarites were finally completely defeated by a Sassanid Hephthalite alliance but the Sassanids and Hephthalites became enemies and then the Sassanid king, Peroz I was defeated 3 times and killed in the end and most of eastern Sassanid provinces were conquered by Hephthalites However, the Hephthalites were stopped and heavily defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen and but since most of the Sassanid army was lost during those 3 battles, they weren't able to take back the lost territories But they took back the treasury of the king, all the plunders, Peroz daughter and the main priest of the king Kavad I was able to take back the great Khorasan from them after defeating them, a large part of the lost territories His son Khosrow Anushiravan finally defeated the Hephthalites and took back all the previous Sassanid provinces by an alliance with the Gokturks and conquered the southern half of the Hephthalite kingdom Years later 3 Perso Turkic wars happened : Perso-Turkic war of 588-589 Perso Turkic war of 606/607-608 (some say it was in 619) Perso Turkic war of 627-629 (can't even be called a war though) The first and second, which were the most important ones, were won by the Sassanids In the last one wasn't fought in Central Asia but in the Caucasus in the middle of the last Byzantine Sassanid war Gokturks invaded two Sassanid forts while the Sassanids were busy fighting Romans An army of 30,000 Gokturks defeated 10,000 Sassanid soldiers sent by Shahrbaraz and raided few territories but they went back to the steppes out of fear of a Sassanid retaliation

Not bad true, but the Persians never succeded in defeating the Greek Byzantines and taking Constantinople. Greeks and Persians have defined the history of the modern world.

@@user-vg2ss1se7e Byzantium Empire was not Greek Heraclius was not Greek

@@user-vg2ss1se7e they beat the best military commander in history Byzantium Empire Belisarius

Yes, right, they were Japanese. A person with called Herakleos wfo speaks Greek is obviously Greek. His children were named Herakleos, Constantine, Heraklonas, Eudoxia and Epiphania. What are these names, Greek or Chinese? Why didn't he name his children with other names?

@@user-vg2ss1se7e Heraclius was Armenian descent or Parthian Iranian origin form Armenia you was definitely not Greek idiot

Thanks 👍

I think he just enables "large army" in the custom battle menu.

Thanks for the visit

Sassanids from Attila total war. and the first one also was a persian song called "I'm cyrus".

@@parsarustami774 Thank you!

Even Roman could Copy Persian Cataphracht, The Original Persian Cataphracht still a biggest treat to them

No persian Sasani = KURDİSH

Even sasanid units

Christian authors who hated Valerian claim he was tortured by Shapur while others claim he was treated well According to the modern scholar Touraj Daryaee, contrary to the account of Lactantius, Shapur I sent Valerian and some of his army to the city of Bishapur or Gundishapur where they lived in relatively good conditions According to the early Persian Muslim scholar Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Shapur settled the prisoners of war in Gundishapur and released Valerian, as promised, after the construction of Band-e Kaisar

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Learn how to read it’s says 260

Says 260

Hemmm, no. Las guerras contra los sasánidas continuaron hasta el siglo VII.

Aha, how about a gladius blade through your guts...

Morirías...ni peros ni peras

@@jonathanperceo8090 he would shoot and run lol

​@@jonathanperceo8090 Not if he's a horse archer

Dispararias y te retirarias ,en cuerpo a cuerpo cualquier romano te destruiría en menos de 5 segundos

You read my mind

They are listed in the video description

Es un mod gráfico para la expansión de Empire Divided. No recuerdo cuál era.

the name is Rome II HD: Sol Invictus-

@@hectorleon7280 thanks!