Achaemenid Dynasty Family Tree

Chart by Matt Baker:
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Script & Narration by Jack Rackam:
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Animation by Syawish Rehman:
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Intro music: "Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod
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[@Emcee_Squared]

Yes I am interested in learning more about the Sassanids who came next.

[@daryoush3201]

@پیر الکساندر خان yeah but the Sassanids really saw themselves as the continuation, while the Seleucids and Parthians were "foreign invaders".

[@pooyahimself7961]

@@daryoush3201 not really the parthians and the sassanids called themselves a continuation of kianis which is a mythical dynasty so those guys saw themselves as successors of previous empires but seleucids were foreigners and acted as such

[@mahdi-oe6mk]

​@@daryoush3201 parthian wasn't foreign don't give them incorrect info

[@edwardviofengland8048]

Damn the Persian Empire is so underrated!

[@jakubolszewski8284]

And it's histry is so lost…. Thanks Alexander and Arabs xD.

[@edwardviofengland8048]

@@jakubolszewski8284 Yup Cyrus was arguably a better monarch than Alexander but his history is pretty much forgotten as of today

[@babitayadav4806]

@Ghost Ghost Persians spearheaded Islamic golden age and eventually retook self rule I don't think they have "lazy minds"

[@GrigRP]

@Ghost Ghost In what way were they lazy?

[@babitayadav4806]

@Ghost Ghost they were the first conquerors to assimilate their conquered people, before them the Assyrians and Babylonians killed their rival rulers with brutality and ruled their subjects like thugs the concept of superpower multi-ethnic empires was given by Cyrus the great that even alexander admired and which ancient empire cared about educating the populace As for their knowledge they had bad luck with invasions. umar himself burned the library of ctesiphon cause he believed no book other than koran was needed Later the abbassids modelled their house of wisdom in Baghdad after the school of gondeshpur which was built by the sassanians The concept of hospitals was given to us by sassanians which was later adopted by the late romans

[@drswag0076]

i'm still waiting for that Seleucid family tree video.

[@Maynard0504]

or the Ptolemaic family cricle

[@drswag0076]

@@Maynard0504 they did that already.

[@drswag0076]

@@creativecatalyst777 after they lost Persia, the Seleucids reigned as kings of Syria.

[@Imperiused]

Looking forward to the Sassanids and all the Persian dynasties that came after!

[@sayakchakraborty4206]

Dear Jack, You always seem so unrecognisable and out-of-place without your great jokes, and wacky animations and illustrations. Yours sincerely, A humble fanboy.

[@Artur_M.]

Heck yeah! Lately, I've been very much into this topic, in large part thanks to videos on by the History with Cy. BTW, the names of Persian monarchs we usually use are actually Greekified (Hellenized). For example, Cyrus was really Kurush (Kūruš). 8:38 Nice FMA reference! ;)

[@krakendragonslayer1909]

Hellenized and later transcripted into latin alphabet. "C" is the old symbol for modern "K". So proper Greek-Latin writing of "Kūruš" is "Cyrus". Problem is how English people read this letters not the transcription itself. Also your long "u", the "ū" is an artifact coming from the fact that in semitic alhpabet there is no symbol for our (Greek, Slavic) "y", so in Semitic aplhabet the "ū" is used instead.

[@jakubolszewski8284]

@@krakendragonslayer1909 But Kurush appear in Persian cuneiform, not one of semitic alphabet. And C is not modern symbol for K, just in Classical Latin C was read [k]. And what's our slavic y? In polish it's something like [ɨ] or more precisly [ɘ], but in ancient greek there was no this sound (maybe in Classical Latin was, see sonus medius). So Old Persian name Cyrus is as far we know 𐎤𐎢𐎽𐎢𐏁, that Kurusz (we don't know etymology of that name, but in one of theries it's from Elamite, and in that Elamite name there was U as well - Kurash).

[@firstofthefallen6034]

The homeland of the Achaemenids was Persis, not Media. Before becoming the King of Kings, they were kings of Anshan.

[@aliyaser7698]

An immigrant people fought the owners of the land and took control of their land

[@blackpilledchad1927]

Persis was created after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire

[@firstofthefallen6034]

@@blackpilledchad1927 The Greek name Persis-derived from Old Perisan Parsa-is an exonym for the region corresponding to modern day Fars province as opposed to Media, which corresponds to modern day Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, etc. The Kingdom of Anshan, the homeland of the Achaemenids, was located in Persis. As for your claim that "Persis was created after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire", in addition to being incoherent, it is flat out wrong. Herodotus used the term Persis to refer to the homeland of the Persians in "Histories" as well as "Enquiries" a century before the destruction of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the great. In fact, when Darius the great completed his new ceremonial capital, he called it Parsa, which the Greeks called Persepolis. Also, consider the following quote from EB: "The inhabitants of Persis were considered to be the rulers of the Achaemenian Empire and were exempt from taxation. As the homeland of the Achaemenian dynasty, Persis was closely associated with the monarchy. Cyrus built his capital at Pasargadae, and about 30 miles (48 km) to the southwest Darius I founded his new capital of Parsa, known to the Greeks as Persepolis (“Persian City”)."

[@blackpilledchad1927]

@@firstofthefallen6034 I just read more about it. I was wrong they named "Persis" a territory closer to India, that later became the kingdom of Persis. This territory was founded after the fall of the Parthian Empire and its rulers founded the Sassanid Empire. Now the original Persis i don't know where it is, but Persepolis was founded as you said because they came from Persis, but we don't know where the actual Persia was.

[@firstofthefallen6034]

@@blackpilledchad1927 Before overthrowing the Parthians and establishing the Sassanid Empire, Ardashir I was Ardahir V, the King of Persis-the same region the Achaemenids hailed from, i.e. the region corresponding to modern day Fars province. The Parthians and the Medians before them were not from Persis. That is why the Medians, the Achaemenids, the Parthians, and the Sassanids are all called Iranian Empires, but only the Achaemenids and the Sassanids are Persian Empires.

[@timurthelamest5630]

The Achaemenid dynasty and family tree also continued through to the Kingdom of Pontus which would ironically end up being the final bastion for Greek resistance against Roman rule, lol.

[@Terinije]

"He may have even invented some family members to insert himself." *sweats in Habsburg*

[@azymondias1135]

Those 6 dislikes are from Spartans

[@iSyriux]

6 dislikes from the Saljuqids

[@iSyriux]

And the Rashiduns and Abbasids and Qajars and ect.

[@scarymonster5541]

The seljuq and the others caliphate did not exist that time

[@EH23831]

Heheee 😆

[@avik4343]

@@iSyriux forcefully bringing up turks in to his convo

[@yogatonga7529]

I think one Phraates had a son, the famous hero Karen, whose descendants became the Kamsarakan of Armenia (which General Narses was a member of). The Hethumids of Cilicia were descended from them, during the Crusades they intermarried with some Europeans and the Dukes of Savoy are their descendants, as well as most European royalty. Funnily there are two dukes of Savoy who don‘t recognize each other, maybe it‘s in their genes. Edit: The Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi actually tried to marry a princess of the House of Savoy, but the Pope forbid the marriage.

[@user-xn6ek4ki7o]

They need to make a video about armenia

[@aliyaser7698]

Jesus is the Pope a prophet not the prophets sin So why does he say that he does not sin?

[@chandraguptamaurya5152]

All hail Cyrus king of Persia!

[@GrigRP]

Shut up paajeet.

[@chandraguptamaurya5152]

@@GrigRP No

[@qolalite6001]

He was only half persian.He was half persian(acheamenid) and helf kurdish(med)

[@aliyaser7698]

@@qolalite6001 Do you mean an illegal immigrant person who killed the landlords?

[@jason.h.zager88]

@@qolalite6001 his father was persian..thats all that matter as king. he was persian

[@arturcostrino2476]

Always excellent! Your videos are mandatory for me and for my students at the University. Thank you so much. Any chance we will see some charts on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the British islands during the Middle Ages?

[@stockbox8757]

Never been this early

[@augustuscaesar8287]

Please... you always come early..

[@nathanialroesler5656]

Hmmmm after that joke I'm not sure how to respond..... I'm early this time too I guess.

[@HinduPAGANcowpissdrinkerRAKESH]

Love to my persian brothers ❤️🇧🇩

[@sinapariroo7192]

THANKS BROTHER❤🌹

[@thomasdixon4373]

Awesome! Been waiting for this one

[@mohamedsirajeddinemansour]

Just started watching Hope there isn't anything suspicious in that family tree ... Yep , no more than the normal.

[@luizsa8300]

It doesn't show inbreeding or incest, so that's a plus.

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

Cyrus The Great . King of Kings A King Who Loved The World and Its People

[@thenoobprincev2529]

Hey Jack,Might be interesting to mention the possible connections and Claims of various dynasties and monarchs pre Islam and post Islam regarding descend of Pre Islamic Iranian dynasties. Some that Come to mind:Sassanids,,from parthians and Achaemenids,Dabuyids,Buyids,ShirvanShahs,And Qarvinvand from Sassanids,Safavids from Sassanids and the House of prophet,Samanids from A Certain Arcasid Noble of Sassanid Era And...Are some that come to mind.

[@Apollo1989V]

Darius from Daniel is thought to be either the governor of Babylon or Cyrus himself. After putting down revolts, Ezra records the paused work on the temple was resumed by Darius the Great. The pause was due to selfishness of returning Jews plus the neighbors purposely getting the higher ups to stop work on the temple.

[@aliyaser7698]

Moses, the original Jews, did not return from Iran because of the curse of God on them for killing the pipe

[@marvelousiran]

thanks for mentioning useful points, I really appreciate.

[@jrpipik]

The Anabasis, Xenophon's classic about the retreat of 10,000 Greek mercenaries through Asia Minor, was the basis for Sol Yurick's 1965 novel The Warriors, upon which the 1979 Walter Hill movie was based.

[@path_of_peace]

Hats off to your hard work...

[@aaronharris1592]

Great video guys

[@user-lr2hs9ok9j]

Hello! Can you make a video about the dynasties of rulers in Bulgarian History in the period 632-1946. Thanks!

[@atlasfrog5730]

First but for real tho Seeing "no views" on a big KZbinr's video was pretty weird...

[@halam899live8]

Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job

[@yiannicart]

Fantastic.

[@yasg3921]

Thanks

[@lucascruikshank260]

I'm in the middle of playing ck2 and trying to revive their state religion and become the new Persian empire (not sure what I'm gonna call it) so this is very topical and nice.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

The Lucasid dynsty

[@Stettafire]

2 not 3? That's interesting

[@lucascruikshank260]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 while I like that I try to keep my campaigns semi-realistic so it will probably either be Neo-parthian empire (my character has a parthian ancestor), the Vandadian empire (the starting character's name is Vandad), or I might name it the house name empire.

[@lucascruikshank260]

@@Stettafire I don't have 3 plus from what I have seen of 3 I would probably prefer 2 more though when I get the chance I'm gonna get 3

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@lucascruikshank260 house name is probaby the best but Vandadid or vandadian would be good too, Where did you start out as snd ehat start date

[@user-oz1sv8ds9s]

great, very interesting information

[@JG-my9mj]

I love all your videos! Would you be willing to do a genealogical video on Alexander the Great & the Diadochi?

[@yacobee]

awesome !

[@paulmagner5511]

Enjoyed this history thanks

[@f.pompeuroda3908]

Also China and Japan are really interesting

[@f.pompeuroda3908]

Amazing !!Well done. Really interested in the persian empire and all the dinsaties Dinastía aqueménida (550 a. C.-330 a. C.) Dinastía parta (247 a.C.-224 d. C.) Dinastía sasánida (224-651 d. C.) Dinastía saffarí (861-1003) Dinastía samánidas (819-999) Dinastía safávida (1501-1736) Dinastía afsárida (1736-1747) Dinastía zand (1750-1779) Dinastía kayar (1789-1925) Dinastía pahlavi (1925-1979)

[@T--kf6gs]

Long awaited..

[@TheWatcher5292]

Wicked video, i need to buy this chart haha As a joke video you should do a tree of the queens corgies

[@cgt3704]

Will you do Seleucid and Antigonid dynasties

[@renovatio93]

Ayyyy did this just get added? I was about to buy the world history and evolution chart off your site. Thank you for honoring the ancient Persians and being respectful. Please remember that many of the modern antagonisms are due to political tensions. The people themselves USUALLY have no qualms against each other. Some would like to tell you that Iran always had genocidal intentions against Jews because of the story of Esther, without telling you the whole story. Please remember the story of Cyrus. Cheers to peace between the nations!

[@user-fq8tf2oe7u]

Can you do Isaac newton's family tree? I looked everywhere and I found nothing about it

[@SeanHiruki]

Hope you cover the Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms next

[@mobitouchiha]

I love the chart. Two small things I noticed though: First the 29. dynasty. You claim a descend from Neferites I. for Harkot, but Hakors decent is very uncertain. I would propose to mark it with a question mark on the chart. Also, there was a second (very unsuccessful) Neferties II., son of Hakor (after the traditional counting), in 380 BCE, you left out. Much like Xerxes II., you left in, Neferites II. was deposed shortly after he was crowned. Secondly, where do you get the ascendence of Artaxerxes II. from Sogdianos from? As far as historiography (e.g. Plutarch, Berossos FGrH 680 F11) is concerned Artaxerxes was the eldest son of Darius II. and Parysatis, not the son of Sogdianus. Keep up the good work!

[@timlucakuhne451]

Finally! I waited so long to see this kind of video about the Achaemenid dynasty!

[@myriamercolino3361]

I knew on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia about Paiones people from Macedonia, so can be possible through my grandfather and my father one of my ancestors there's Cleopatra

[@ihab2002ahmad]

Is Amestris the country in Fullmetal Alchemist?

[@CollinBuckman]

Indeed, and Xerxes is also a (former) nation that plays an important role in the plot.

[@Kingofportals]

You should cover the Seleucid dynasty at some point in a video!

[@ferrjuan]

8:38 nice Fullmetal Alchemist reference!

[@Kingdom-of-wrestling]

Can you please try to make a video about the Muhammed Ali Dynasty and their family tree

[@xxtt224]

Yes I am interested in learning more about persian dynasties

[@manooxi327]

Tnx

[@leosoffer7884]

Can you do a Seleucid Empire family tree?

[@exceldude5228]

great video 👌

[@samsunglg6671]

This is one heck of a diary

[@z..a9562]

OMG .do you see that smoke coming out of my head ?? So much information i just recieved !!

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

Could you do a Tutorial about How you make your Family Tree / Charts. I'm still waiting ☹

[@mikhailjoshuapahuyo1431]

@James Bolton could u send the link? If u could?

[@abolfazlheydari6594]

Learning more

[@brandonarcega333]

How long does your charts made to be finished? I love your videos

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

What?

[@muditkhandelwal9658]

Hey can you make a video about the Gupta dynasty or the Maurya dynasty

[@masonsmith4435]

Does Achaemenid have any etymological link with Akkadian?

[@farshidrabbani]

well done. I would be happy if you made a video about Shahname's individuals :)))))

[@Lord_Skeptic]

You should do a video on the seleucid genealogy

[@jamesblackstone3569]

Hi, it was so good ; and please do the Sasanians dynasty too.

[@antidweller6373]

The Armenian language still has many parthian loanwords.

[@myriamercolino3361]

My grandfather and my father they was born on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia

[@MadKingOfMadaya]

*_09:35_**_ What open conflict are you referring to?_*

[@linusyootasteisking]

nice

[@thenaiam]

Wow, that full chart

[@JoaoMariaNunes]

good as usual...

[@user-xn6ek4ki7o]

We need ancient Armenia family tree video. Please!!!

[@azymondias1135]

Finally my country 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

[@AT-rg9rd]

@پیر الکساندر خان I'm not Persian, but do you think any of our ancient ancestors would be able to recognize us at all? All these events happened more than two millennia ago. Everything has changed everywhere, not just in Persia.

[@arta.xshaca]

Nothing wrong with thatپیر الکساندر خان

[@-RONNIE]

Good video 👍🏻

[@ruthhunter5645]

I am not seeing this chart in the store for purchase.

[@taraevasophea7743]

In my studies of comparative religions, i found that Gaumata that was 'killed' by Cyrus, was actually Gautama Buddha, that escaped that 'staged' killing, forgiven by Cyrus n was sent to very far far away , lastly spent his old age becoming a Sankya, Sage.. Not bcz his similarity of names, but after a few years of researching, i found out that.. n so were many historians who really dig into Gaumata history...

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

"Marrying his aunt or great aunt" Sweet home Albama

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

Sweet home persia

[@MrWaterlionmonkey]

Can you do the parthians and sassanadids

[@sardarzaid6465]

YAAAY🥳

[@myriamercolino3361]

And Persian Empire from Persia until to Egypt too

[@rohollahzamanpour1481]

Congratulations .. prograss every day

[@raashidkhatana700]

I want PDF of these charts

[@simonleary4315]

I liked it

[@iSyriux]

House of Sasan next please

[@a.a4943]

Please make a sassanid dynasty family tree

[@myriamercolino3361]

Paiones people and Dauni people on Gargano Mount in Northern Apulia

[@dangroom9120]

My gripe about Darius of Daniel and the Lion's Den being myth: I love how so many of these figures mentioned in the Bible are found corroborated by other non-Jewish archaeological finds. (Prior to these archaeological proofs, atheist and agnostic scholars proclaimed Biblically-listed events of the near east to be nearly all myth. This had at one time included the existence of Nineveh and the Assyrian Empire and Babylon and their kings, the siege of Jerusalem by Sennacherib against Hezekiah, etc.). Now, all of the major events and most of the characters have been corroborated by archaeological finds. Logic would dictate acceptance of a source whose self-stated purpose is accuracy that has been shown to be reliable over and over again. Logic would dictate that that source would not suddenly throw in a MYTHological Persian king... just because. Why wouldn't this Darius have been the Darius of the Daniel and the Lion's Den story? Why wouldn't he? You may not believe in the miracle of the story or may not be able to explain it, but you can't go against logic to reject the whole episode and that the people involved didn't exist straight out of hand like you did. Assuming myth in this case is absurd. If you'd rather, just say the story is uncorroborated outside the Bible (though logic says it is more likely accurate than not).

[@elgujamazmishvili4203]

I was very heartbroken when Pharnavazid dynasty wasn’t mentioned despite having Artaxid dynasty .

[@rathenrathen4092]

Fun fact: there is suspicious that Cyrus the great could be Dhu Al-Qarnayn

[@Wartensteiin]

Oh

[@ShahanshahShahin]

*Most people says that Dhu Al-Qarnayn was "Alexander The Great"* *_( The biggest history channel on KZbin "Kings & Generals" also made a video on this topic about Alexander being the Dhu Al-Qarnayn for the Muslim Arabs. )_*

[@rathenrathen4092]

@@ShahanshahShahin most of islam scientists refused that du that he wasn't Arabic and the second he didn't unite god unlike Cyrus

[@arta.xshaca]

Most probably not. DQ lived more than Cyrus, probably a supercentenarian. Alexander has lesser possibility. DQ may have been more older and thus his records are lesser and hidden...

[@semregob3363]

@@ShahanshahShahin Kings and generals are just smartasses who act like they know it all. Cyrus is probably the one

[@SYLVESTRIVS]

I love Jack on Useful kkk

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

Cyrus the Great of Persia was one of the greatest leaders that the world had ever known; he was the one in whose footsteps other empire builders would follow. From Alexander Of Macedon to countless Ottoman sultans and Roman emperors --it was the mighty shoes of Cyrus that they all attempted to fill

[@Raees720]

Brooooooo upload a video and tell us how you do your research. Plzzzzzzzzzz.

[@ethanjacobrosca7833]

I am quite disappointed that Matt simply brushed over the Sasanian Dynasty in this video. The Sasanians have a fascinating history. For one, after replacing the Parthians, they became the Roman Empire’s main rival, fighting many wars with the Roman and later Eastern Roman Empire. Second, Khosrow II almost restored Persia’s Achaemenid greatness because he expanded the empire as far as Anatolia and Egypt (even almost taking Constantinople, but even that failed). And finally, the last members of the Sasanian dynasty fled to Tang China after the Sasanian empire fell and tried to get Chinese support to reclaim his throne.

[@MadKingOfMadaya]

*_The amount of similarities between the Achaemenid Medo-Persian court and Greek Mythology are staggering_*

[@lsedge7280]

Cyrus wandered into the Fertile Cresent and there were three kingdoms. Cyrus felt pretty unimportant. Cyrus tried the first kingdom, but it was too big. Then Cyrus tried the second kingdom, but it was too small. So Cyrus tried the third kingdom, the Median Kingdom, and it was just right.

[@Shaden0040]

Have you done a lineage of all the norse gods? Babylonia Gods, Hindu Gods?Japanese or Chinese gods?

[@arta.xshaca]

I think you are talking about the Suryavansha, Chandravansha (translated as Solar and Lunar Dynasties) of South Asia, Pre-Xia Chinese Emperors, Mesopotamian and Germanic gods. He has not done actually and possibly will not.

[@ShahanshahShahin]

Love to my Persian brothers from India 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇷

[@sinapariroo7192]

LOVE to our INDIAN Brothers from PERSIA❤🌹

[@indranildutta5838]

@@sinapariroo7192 love and respect to persia

[@qolalite6001]

Brother this is Kurdish and Persia.Med=Kurdish =Acheamenid=Half Persian Half Kurdish

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

Cyrus The Persian . Cyrus The Great . Cyrus The Aryan . Cyrus The Father of Mankind

[@myriamercolino3361]

Persian Empire from Persia until to Macedonia

[@tahamohammad1741]

Please continue this to the Shah dynasty

[@hazelich9113]

2:55 But he didn't wanna kill a BABY!

[@ayandafedar4772]

I request you to make a video of Adil Shahi Dynasty (Bijapur Empire) of India👍❤️.