Persia's Link to Japan, Korea and China - The Last Sassanid Prince of Persia in China

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While Persia is firmly established in the Western historical narrative. It wasn't unknown in East Asia. This is the story of their connection withJapan, Korea and China.

BTW, check out Cy's video here for the origin of the Achaemenid Persian Empire:

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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Persia and Japan
1:50 Persia and Korea
4:54 Names of Persia and China
7:03 Sassanid Empire crumbling
8:22 Seeking Tang dynasty's help
9:35 Peroz's last stand

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📚SOURCES:
Touraj Raryaee, 2009, Sasanian Persia
Hamidreza Pashazanous & Esmaeil Sangari, 2018, The Last Sasanians in Chinese Literary Sources
AKBARZADEH, Daryoosh, JAPAN’S NAMES IN THE PERSIAN SOURCES
Houra Yavari, 2016, PERSIAN GULF IN PERSIAN LITERATURE
Jalal Matini, 2008, KUŠ-NĀMA
Hee Soo Lee, 2014, 1,500 Years of Contact between Korea and the Middle East
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[CoolHistoryBros]

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[donp]

Your doing great service to us English speakers thirsty for this knowledge.

[BygoneChina]

Chinese relations with Persia were so strong during the late Sasanian Empire because the Chinese had supremacy in Central Asia - the area that connected the two civilisations. But in 751 AD, precisely a hundred years after the fall of the Sasanian Empire, the Chinese lost the Battle of Talas (in modern day Kyrgyzstan) to the Abbasid Caliphate, who went on to replace the Chinese as the masters of the Central Asian region. From then on, Islamic influences replaced Chinese ones in Central Asia, and China was cut off from the region, and therefore reoriented away from Central Asia and the Middle East.

[cejbnqi]

Finally someone made about this, lets

[ALI-bmpb]

I'm Persian and proud of your work. Mainstream media try hard to ignore our glorious history. When I see videos like this I'm thankful for people who do this. Thank you

[billh]

Haven't checked this channel in a while, but damn!! It's already close to 50k subscribers. I remember when I got here, it was only 5k something. So glad this channel is growing up quickly. The combination of being historically accurate and entertaining (often in a funny way), is this channel's greatest forte. And yes, the Sassanid refuge to Tang was one of the most underrated events in history. We're talking about the big boys of the second half of the first millenium here.

[alirezaebrahimi]

iranian student of history here.great channel with great contents
some corrections :
ctesiphon was located in mesopotamia not in media as you shown in the video, also persian emperors never paid tribute to chinese and never considered themseleve vassals of chinese emperor not before the fall of the empire

[ryanwidjaja]

If I'm not mistaken, Abe no Nakamaro (Chinese name: Cháo Héng) also became the governor of Annam (Vietnam).

[GilangRabbani]

Hey CJ, will you possibly do an episode on the Sogdians somewhere in the future? Can't really talk about Tang Dynasty's globalist outlook and cosmopolitan lifestyle without their presence in East Asia and beyond.

[alanchoichang]

honestly, i want to give you praise for basically nailing the names of everything you are saying. like, it feels legit, alot of people will say something like "sorry if i butcher the names, im trying my best." but you can tell that an ounce of effort was even put into trying to say it correctly. so, i thank you for that.
also, just the sheer amount of research you guys probably have to do for the video, is commendable.

[mebadiheidar]

Very great. I loved that. Even I did not know there is any koshname. We read Shahname of ferdowis.

[zmz]

Somebody tell Ubisoft to set their next Prince of Persia game in Chang An (Xian) and call it Last Prince of Persia and gamers will go WTF why’s it in China ?! when they boot up the game 😛

[theythought]

I'm actually happy about the sponsor for once

[dubuyajay]

Can we talk about how Aladdin was supposed to be Chinese in the original story he was in?

[rjrastapopoulos]

1:33 if I'm not mistaken, Kitab Ajaib-ul Hind roughly translates to A Book On The Wonders of India. I wonder why the author gave the book such a misleading name. Japan and India are quite far apart.

[tonbopro]

Awesome piece in the link between ancient Persia and China

[DaylenAmell]

5:50 is very interesting to me. I had always thought that "波斯" was the translation of the Greek word "Persia" (in its English form) and I was unaware that the word was used in ancient times in China, since the ancient Chinese had direct contacts with the ancient Iranians (without relying on any mediation from Greek speaking people). Althought it is possible that the ancient Chinese got the name "Persia" from the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, or people from other "Greekified" (due to the conquest of Alexander the Great) areas of Asia. It's really strange that the ancient Chinese of Northern Zhou would consider "波斯" to be the name of a king rather than the country.

[mak]

Strange how history reflects itself in the present. Now Iran is seeking China's aid in the face of US sanctions. The names might have changed but it is the same characters performing the same play.

[ffn]

Dear Cool History Bros, please do a video or series of video on the kingdom of Tibet and if it interacted with china. That would be sweet. Thank you.

[thecrusaderhistorian]

I really enjoyed the video! Thank you for doing it.

I thought it was interesting and sad the Sassanids got in trouble due to bad luck. But glad the Tang was nice enough to offer them sanctuary.