In the second of this two part series on the Achaemenid Persian Empire, we continue with Darius the Great’s son, Xerxes and some of the main events of the Greco-Persian wars, and then follow the lives of his successors up to Darius III and the fall of the Achaemenid Empire with its conquest by Alexander of Macedonia, a.k.a. Alexander the Great.
Contents:
00:00 Intro and Recap
01:33 Xerxes (486-465 BC)
03:43 Xerxes Invades Greece
08:47 Battle of Thermopylae
11:18 Battle of Salamis
12:40 Battle of Plataea
14:40 Xerxes after Greece
18:26 Artaxerxes I (465-424 BC)
25:57 Darius II (424-404 BC)
30:07 Cyrus the Younger and the Battle of Cunaxa
31:17 Artaxerxes II (404-359 BC)
36:50 Artaxerxes III (359-338 BC)
39:20 Philip II and the Rise of Macedonia
42:25 Darius III (336-330 BC)
44:47 Alexander of Macedon and the Battle of the Granicus River
47:44 Battle of Issus
50:17 Battle of Gaugamela
53:40 The Last Days of Darius III
57:38 End of the Achaemenid Empire and Aftermath
58:54 Thank you and Patrons
Special thanks to Malay Archer for creating the astounding machinimas that really brought this program to life using the Total War: Rome 2 Divide et Impera, Cyrus the Great campaign and Age of Bronze mod.
Malay Archer
I’d also like to thank Farya Faraji and Walker Masuda for their contributions to the soundtrack of this program. Be sure to check out their work as well!
Farya Faraji
Specific tracks used in this program:
Apranik’s Charge
Achaemenes
Dushanbe
Hyrcanian Lullaby
Shirin and Khosrow
In Pythagoras’ Mind
The Riding Angaros
Spring in Persepolis
Walker Masuda – Artwork and Music Production
Additional music by Epidemic Sound.
Related Videos:
What to learn more about ancient Persian history? Check out the ancient Iran / Persia playlist:
History of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Part I (550-486 BC; Cyrus the Great – Darius the Great)
Before the Achaemenid Empire: Early Kings and the Founding of the Persian Kingdom of Anshan
Cyrus the Great and the Birth of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Cambyses II and the Persian Conquest of Egypt
The Early Medes and the Median Empire | Supplemental Podcast #3
The Neo-Babylonian Empire (Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nabonidus)
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This is such a great video, love your work 👏👏👏
My history teacher Cy
Wow really loved your content 👍🙏👍
Well done mate.
Darius the Third? Pffft, more like Darius the Turd.
Awesome video Cy ❤❤❤
Iran is very, very old. Iran is the most ancient country in the world. Peace be upon Cyrus the great🙏🙏🙏🙏👑👑👑👑. Greetings to the patriotic kings of Iran.💚🤍🦁🌞👑❤️
The music you used for the intro is so hype and badass
🌺a big thank you🌷
My one favorite part is when Alexandross had Darius buried in the tomb of Kings.
Amazing content man, as a Persian myself I loved it. Thanks.
HOWEVER!
I do admire Alexander profoundly, but man, the Fall of the Achaemenid really hurts
I really do admire Alexander, but man, the fall of the Achaemenids really hurts
Heroditus is much more accurate than You give Him credit for .. He gets maligned by so called scholars because of his writing style.. but he is more times accurate then wrong he just tells different sides of the same story..
Just found this channel. Great video and part one also. Would you cover the history of Parthia too? I suppose Seleucids and Greek Bactrian kingdom before that?
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What an epic video. Only Cy can create such an entertaining and captivating lesson on such a long and storied empire.
This is the most romanticized loss in history.
Buddies got more ads than a woke kids got dads
Persian Empire is the greatest and the largest empire in the world so far. Achaemenid Empire in 480 B.C. Also known as the Persian Empire, that 44% of the world was persian and from the Achaemenid throne in what is now modern-day Iran, making it history's largest empire
PERSIAN EMPIRE (480 B.C) — 44%
Qing dynasty (1800) – 37%
Northern Song Dynasty (1100) – 33%
Western Han Dynasty (1) – 32%
Mongol Empire (1290) – 31%
Roman Empire (1500) – 30%
Yin Dynasty (280) – 28%
Ming Dynasty (1600) – 28%
Qin Dinasty (220 BC) – 24%
Mughal Empire (1700) – 24%
Tang Dynasty (900) – 23%
Delhi Sultanate (1350) – 23%
British Empire (1938) – 23%
Empire of Japan (1943) – 20%
Maurya Empire (250 BC) – 19%
Former Qin (375) – 19%
Northern Zhou (580) – 16%
Macedonian Empire (320 BC) – 15%
Empire of Harsha (647) – 15%
Gupta Empire (450) – 13%
Northenr Wei (500) – 13%
I appreciate that you mention the diferent points of views.
It gives more perspective into what was happening.
Would be interesting to have a video discussing the Zoroastrian origin and influence on this empire.
Love the channel. This kind of history is my passion.
All history belongs to the victor, which really leads me to question. One or two ingredients can never give one the full flavor, as such I question all this, ALL OF IT!!
Thank you for part two! The benefit of being here late is being able to watch them back to back lol. I'm looking forward to learning about the Macedonian successor states after the death of Alexander.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ 🙂
Thank you
The background music reminds me of John Fahey.
Excellent video 👏👏👏 Your commentary is informative and so interesting
Excellent video 👏👏👏 Your commentary is informative and so interesting
Have you done the Sassanids yet?
It would be nice to know more about the immortals. I was really surprised when he said there were Judeans in this unit.
Like this thanks
Based
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euboea, classic island for people mispronouncing it due to poor romanisation… i know you pronounce it right in other videos, so no shade, just sort of funny! good video!
Türkçeye çeviri olsaydı çok memnun kalırdım.🙏⚘️
Hey man I heard that Plutarh was smelling like sh*t
Is that a true?
Can you confirm that?
Hi . The King Darius medes was mede. Not Persian .. why all the world lies and say that he is persian
Would love to see a video on the Sassanians
Story is Cyrus,s Army off and on had problems in main Greeks when they returned back the Greeks they were narrow road to the Main land greek one side was Mountain and other side was the sea . when they tried to Pass them Greek they rolling huge stones from the top of mountain to the Army . they returned back and they went to the Cypress Inland they built twenty thousands sheep to sail to the main land . These sheep got destroyed by sea storm after that this country stay away from the Seas until 1970 !
Cyrus was educated by Stylirlk his Turk grand father up to 7 years to 25 years old according stories I have learned them , weather right or wrong they are stories ! in age of 25 he decided to go visit his fathers family that they were governor of Elam when Syrus returned back he killed his grand father and he took over Mada ( owners of 4 years old sheep ) empire ! He was grove up in Hamdon and all Turks consider him as a Turk . When he got to the Babylon doors of city were open on his face because that was grand son of their Ally ! he knifed them on the back and took over Babylon …..
No one knew him until 95 years ago in Iran , Jewish stories and greek none senses brought him back to home . Turks when they learned about true nature of their empire they stay away from the Army…………… Gay man came in and Took over the large Media small Media which it were land of the Turks remained independent ….
This was excellent coverage
That was a strong bloodline
Fantastic 2 part series mate, well done!! Thoroughly interesting, thoroughly engaging, extremely well researched and put together and very entertaining.
Where did you get the background music for this video? Is it like Traditional Persian music or something? I thought it was an endless loop until I heard the background vocals when Egypt came up and the vocals at the end…
Your videos are so resourceful and interesting! I've been binging them lately and it's been a lot of fun, can't wait to learn more 🙂
波斯人是黑頭髮大鬍子的西亞人！
西亞就是亞洲人和印度半島非常密切！
哥貝力克雖然屬於土耳其，但是位於伊朗山脈面臨波斯灣的土地，北緯37度，蘇美爾是北緯30度，但是兩者的經度非常接近！
哥貝力克石陣距今12000，據悉就是舊約聖經伊甸園所在！
如果經常看韋伯太空望望鏡高解析度的宇宙照片，就會感覺地球真的非常小！
Great stuff, but uggghh, Alexander :/
❤️🇮🇷🇮🇷🔥wow