History Summarized: Ancient Persia

From the depths of Zach Snyder's comic book pile, comes a story of ancient Persia, and how they fought against the Spartans, bravely commanded by Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman. The battle, set in downtown Manhattan, will be one to Watch...men.
I should really re-evaluate my sources.

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[DRofYouTube]

as a Persian, I would like to thank you for talking about how Cyrus was actually super chill, and how the Persians weren't just some big bad that the Greek had to defeat. Their culture and religions were not forced away and people were free to just kinda continue on with their lives, not to mention, Persia was one of the few places that gave women equal rights back then.

[CynicalRaven]

Apparently the Jews were just as impressed with Cyrus' generosity as you are Blue. My favourite fact about the enlire builder is that to date, he was the only foreigner ever given the title of 'Messiah' in the Hebrew scriptures.

[joshuakusuma]

Fun fact: the Romans loved Chinese silk so much that they were considering banning it since it was starting to put a dent in their economy. They were paying way too much for silk and not enough for other stuff like iron, for example.

[TheAcdcninja]

Cyrus sounds like how I play RPG’s. Run around the world fighting and conquering, but then never turn down some random old lady that asks you to find her lucky teapot.

[Eric-dcwt]

Once my history teacher told us that one of the reasons the persian empire grew so much was because they didn't try to use force in order to expand their culture to other territories, on the other hand they prefered to respect each location, thus they were free to keep practicioning their own culture. Although they were still under the persian empire

[Ozzymandiyas]

Brazilian schools teach how the Achaemenid Persia had an amazing bureaucracy and how inclusive and open it was, how benevolent they were. What I did not know was that this benevolence towards the conquered extended afterwards the fall of Achaemenid Persia, as that period is not really taught in our school, at least not when I attended.

[Pikazilla]

Persia was considered to be the largest Empire ever in terms of the percent of the world's population it controlled at its peak; 44%. In comparison; the British Empire controlled 20% of the world's population.

[A_A_N_C_]

I swear I was about to pay the highest tier on your patreon to do a Persia summary. Ahura Mazda watches over me, proven.

NARRATOR: Here comes the Assyrian Empire.

NARRATOR: Nevermind, it's the Babylo-

NARRATOR: Media-

CHORUS: It's the Persian Empire!

IO: Wow, that's big.

[bradycunt]

The Persians were generally cool. They were pretty apathetic about how you lived. Sure they wanted expansion, but the were generally ok

[diphyllum]

My favourite detail in the death of Crassus is that when his head was brought to the capital they were performing the Bacchae of Euripides, which involves a dead king's head being offered to the gods, so they used Crassus's head as a prop in the play. Possibly the single most badass moments in theatrical history, and it shows just how Greek Parthian culture was. Also, that play is really cool and everyone should check it out.

[hamiltontrash]

"Fight me, Scrubs!"
~Cyrus

[KTChamberlain]

Cyrus the Great always had good press, and you gotta respect a man like that.

[kayrosis]

Pre-islamic Persia has always been one of my favorite cultures, nice to see a video like this on them, I even learned a few things.

[colaocha]

The Median empire has a reputation of being Mean, I guess they're a...






pretty Average empire

[Stateira_Cyrus]

Iran (Persia) has a great civilization, culture, rich mythology, and history. Persians (Iranians) gave to the world many great scientists, poets, and philosophers. Many things in this world are invented by Persians 1. Sulfuric acid by Rhazes 2. Computation of 2π by Jamshid Kashani, the Persian astronomer, and mathematician. 3. The first practical windmills for the first time in the history of the world were in Iran. 4. Ethanol by Rhazes 5. A mechanical planetary computer by Jamshid Kashani 6. An ancient type of evaporative cooler and refrigerator 7. Ice Cream 8. Rosewater 9. The art of tile-work was invented and perfected in Iran. 10. The first time that cake was used in a birthday party was by Darius the Great 11. Qanat, 12. Polo 13. Algebra by Khwarizmi 14. Post system, 15. Fork, spoons and many different invents.
There are some Persian words from ancient times in the English language like Paradise, Magic, Bazaar, etc.

Rhazes was a Persian (Iranian) polymath, physician, alchemist, philosopher, and important figure in the history of medicine. Rhazes is considered the father of psychology and psychotherapy, the father of pediatrics, a pioneer in ophthalmology, making leading contributions in inorganic and organic chemistry, also he is the author of several philosophical works, and also first to categorize the Hospital dept as well. Many scholars consider Rhazes one of the greatest medical doctor.

Persians in 500 BC used gold spoons and forks and special gold cups at their dinner tables. The cutlery discovered in Pasargadae in Iran appears to pre-date the Greco-Roman cutlery by almost 1000 years.

Cyrus the Great wrote the first Human Rights Charter. United Nations uses the Cyrus Cylinder as a pillar of one the earliest declaration of human rights.

In Persia, in Persepolis palace female workers even had paid maternity leave. Persians were also known for having women take part in high governmental positions such as in Construction, Administration, Politics, etc as evident by the record-keeping clay tablets throughout Persepolis in Iran. This is something that would not be seen until at least many centuries after.

Persian language is one of the oldest living languages. Persian literature is one of the world's oldest literature. The Persian literature described as one of the great literatures of humanity, and it is one of the four main bodies of world literature. Many great philosophers, poets, and scientists were inspired and influenced by the Persian language and literature.

[Omega]

Its the stormtrooper-effect:
Those with the greater numbers must be the bad guys!

So when we hear of 300 greeks fighting against 1.000.000 persians, there is no question whom we will root for.

[alyssaagnew]

Great and good are seldom the same man, but Cyrus was certainly both.

[anontrash]

When your country's human rights were better 2500 years ago then they are now

[teengamerboss]

Everytime I watch one of Blue's videos he's like "that's an interesting topic for another video." And I'm like "you're MCU credit teasing us damnit!"