Last Sassanids and the anti-Caliphate alliance with Tang

The video was made by our friend Cogito, while the script was researched and written by Matt Hollis

Sources:
Touraj Daryaee - King of the Seven Climes: A History of the Ancient Iranian World (3000 BCE - 651 CE)
Matteo Comparetti - The Last Sasanians in China
Matteo Comparetti - The Last Sasanians in China (2003) - Eurasian Studies
Touraj Daryaee - Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

#Documentary #Sassanids #Tang

[amirvtn]

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." W. Durant

[lukeseerden]

I'm not normally one to get very emotionally invested in stories from ancient history, as much as I enjoy them, but Peroz III's story really got me. Hearing his last words got me a little bit misty-eyed. It might be naive of me, but this seems like a rather wholesome tale of friendship between cultures, at least until the last part.

[VasileIuga]

So, Phocas ruined both Romans and Sassanids.

[sherlocksmuuug]

Ironically enough the Sassanids had no one to blame for this but themselves.

A few decades prior to the big arab expansions they had destroyed one of their client states, the arab Lachmids, who had functioned as a reliable bastion against any potential attacks from the arabian peninsula or the South-west in general.

This caused a power-vacuum that the new direct persian administration was unable to fill, which gave the newly united arab tribes the perfect opening to strike.

[nimbo]

As an Iranian, I have been desperately waiting for videos about post-Sasanid Persian dynasties and their reconquest attempts. Thanks a lot for the video!!

[tabyactayto]

In 1955, a tomb was found in China, which belongs to general Su Liang's wife. The tombstone says that she was dead in 874 and she was a Sassanian. She was Su Liang's wife and also his daughter, and they still believed in Zoroastrianism. That is 166 years after the death of Narseih

[TheHistoryofSpainPodcast]

I didn't know the Persian Sassanians directly contacted the Tang Chinese, interesting stories of the Silk Road... Like the contacts between Rome and China, or the Greeks of Bactria and China

[HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV]

Interesting. I knew the Sassanid family escaped to China, but I didn't know the specifics of it. This was pretty interesting and a great way for a bad day to get better.

[InspectHistory]

Another great content in this year, can't wait for the next year :)

[ga]

Finally some documents about non-Greeks and Romans
With respect to the civilization of the Greeks and Romans one of the best things in these channels is diversity keep going

[jimmyjin]

There are still few Zoroastrian buildings in China.

[vakhokuparadze]

5:01 love the AOE 2 Unit creation sound

[battlefront]

This was a beautiful and unique story! Thank you so much for your time on the Sassanids :)

Crazy to see how much the world got along back then.

[yousafmehmet]

As a Chinese, I'm ashamed of the fact that I haven't heard of this at all. Thank you Kings and Generals!

[aliteralgarbagecan]

peroz iii: "hey guys, can we have some troops to retake persia?"
tang dynasty: "sounds hard. how about some fancy titles and a fire temple tho?"
peroz iii: "..."
peroz iii: "nice"

[peymanmostafaei]

Man, Do you Want to Start a War? :)
By the way, thank you for your great videos. I look forward to your videos on the Iranian dynasties too.
Also, I have to mention YouTube is blocked in Iran and most Iranians like me use VPN to circumvent the blocking. That's why you see few IPs from Iran.

[supremelordoftheauspicious]

Take a shot everytime someone takes the throne.

[algeria]

OH MY GOD, THIS IS THE MOST PEACEFUL COMMENT SECTION EVER.
Literally this can only happen in your channel, GREAT STUFF MAN :D

[judsonwall]

The exiled Sassanid dynasty in China is one of my favorite historical stories. I always think of them as the exiled Targaryens in far away Essos, desiring a return to their kingdom and reconquest of their previous empire - but alas, it wasn’t meant to be.

[kingiking]

Beautiful video! As an Iranian I want to say that I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this. thank you so much for making such great contents! <3