Why did the Persian Empire Collapse?

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Why did the Persian Empire Collapse?

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Olmstead, Albert T. (1948). History of the Persian Empire. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-62777-9

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Prevas, John. Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's Ill-fated Journey across Asia. Da Capo Press, 2004

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[theliberator]

Cyrus the Great is one of my favourite rulers in history. Being known as the inventor of human rights is a pretty damn good selling point to his character.

[cyrusthegreat]

That’s the empire that I founded. Well done by the way! 👍🏻

[daysofoldhistory]

I feel you could make a great series out of the Persian Empire and what followed, especially given recent events! Keep it up!

[TheWillofD]

The largest empire ever existed until then, one of my favourites.

[asheghanemahdi_]

i am iranian I love Cyrus and all the historical dynasties of my country and thank you for this video

[ario]

Big Persian Empire, I ❤️ GREAT CYRUS👈

[melodicnostalgic]

As an Indian, I have noting but respect for the Great Persian Empire !!!

[BRADY-vyfp]

Who would win??
The largest empire the world has ever seen and the most powerfull at the same time in terms of military.
One Greek boi with his gang.

[nice]

I know people will disagree with me but this is one of the most inaccurate videos on the Persian empire. Let's first start you told very little about the satrap system and forgot how the Persian empire administered the land. The conquered land was an satrap of the Persian empire. They could have their own laws and governors, they just had to respect the people they ruled over. In return they would have gave a very small amount of tax and soldiers. They would not need them because the Persian army had around 200 000 soldiers. Many empires 200 years after the fall of the Persian empire could not raise that amount of soldiers.

If the people did not accept the satrap offer an tyrant would rule the state as long as the people would start liking Persia. Then a government of their likings will be directed.

Then the next thing. You do not really talk about Dariush the Great and Cambyses. But that is understandable. If you wanted to complain about being ruthless you could have started with him not Xerxes the Great.

Xerxes the great was but everything that you said. He was not ruthless. I have not heard anything about taxes being raised and his campaign in to Greece was not an complete failure.

He did not hoard money or did not construction stop under his time or ever. Infact he is remembered as the greatest construction of the Persian empire. Have you heard about the Xerxes canal?

The decline of Persia did not start at Xerxes the Great but at the civil wars of Persia. Darius the third was just recently Shahanshah of Persia. The administration was heavy. The troops of Persia was good fighters but the satrap soldiers were weaker.

Persia was lost because of Alexander the Great. But also because of civil wars, bad luck and Xenophobia.

Another thing the official language of Persia was old Persian. They had an unique alphabet but used the assyrian babylonian alphabet.

Sorry for my spelling also.

Edit: Wanted to say this. I don't want to diss Alexander but he was not seen as an liberator in Persia expect Egypt. Even the Greeks of Iran liked Iran more, not just now but during the Parthian time. That is why we like Greeks in Iran.

The dictatorship was there because of the civil war.

The last thing I might be wrong here but Persia was never near economic disaster.

[kimi]

Why did the Persian Empire Collapse?
me: which one?

[dteddy]

I would say that although the Empire had declined it wasn't on the verge of any internal collapse. It was still extremely wealthy and formidable, even if it hadn't had a ruler of the caliber of Darius or Cyrus for over a century. If Alexander hadn't of conquered it, it very well could have continued on for quite some time.

[topografer]

The Persia Empire is my favourite Empire after Byzantine (which probably happens because I'm Greek)
To this day, I consider modern-day Persia, Iran, an amazing nation with great civilization and history
I wish that the west, which Greece sadly is a part of, wasn't that iran-phobic (same with Russia too)

[therongjr]

It's the Persian Empire!
Wow, that's big.™️

[PUBGMOBILE-xfuz]

Persian empire by soldiers of afghans tajiks and Iranians 🇦🇫♥️🇹🇯♥️🇮🇷

[thepowerful]

1:07

At least it's not raid shadow legends

[valensaisrep]

The first empire to ever rule the east and the west. That’s why Cyrus was called the king of kings.

[sonnyocad]

Personally, the Achaemenid Empire seems more like a federation than the typical empire; they kept at least a few of the original leaders in charge, and the laws of the land largely stayed the same, so the main interaction was a shared military and tax system.

[themissionproductions]

Correction: that was the end of the Achaemenid Empire not the Persian Empire.

[matinmehdipoor]

I'm so proud of my countrys ancient history

[PalePinkThink]

So a couple of things you got wrong:
1. There were 3 Iranian tribes in the Iranian Plateau:
Media, Parthia, Persia

The first one to dominate everyone else were the Medians and they had a large empire of their own.

Cyrus The Great was the grandson of the last Median emperor, who revolted in protest of his grandfather's corruption.

2. Xerxes wasn't by any means weak. He won the battle against the Greeks eventually but a series of natural disasters that haunted both him and his father in the lower Greek region made it kinda casualty-heavy to conquer that area.