Battle of Talas, 751 AD ⚔️ Part 2/2 ⚔️ معركة نهر طلاس‎

[@HistoryMarche]

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[@maulanakarman8955]

*Karluk horseman charged head long into Gao’s flank!*

[@maulanakarman8955]

Eh?

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[@abdullahbawazir2627]

ياليت تترجم للعربية .. وشكرا

[@oddish2253]

Those turks were probably ancient uygurs.

[@alisa9626]

I like how in every battle you cover the birds are flying over the battlefield and preparing themselves for a feast

[@yaverkundi]

haha

[@mutolover3851]

They know what's up. 🐦 Bird teaching his son; "Watch these wingless things slaughter each other, we're eating good tonight!"

[@reteguy7338]

@@mutolover3851 not related to this video but is there any other birds species other than Vultures that would gladly eat human corpse?

[@mutolover3851]

@@reteguy7338 Yes Crows and Ravens

[@lyndonjames9178]

@@mutolover3851 didn't know that! Thanks

[@wisdomleader85]

What's interesting is that the Abbasid Caliphate sent troops to help Tang Empire suppress the An Lushan rebellion just 6 years after this battle.

[@HistoryMarche]

Indeed. Relations between the Abbasids and the Tang improved quite quickly. Embassies were exchanged soon after Talas and, as you said, the Abbasids sent aid to China.

[@RexGalilae]

Sharing the silk road meant that all hostilities could easily be mended as both empires depended on the other for trade

[@HistoryMarche]

@@RexGalilae Yeah, the overall strategic value of the Silk road pretty much dictated relations

[@abcd9283]

Yes, after the battle a treaty was signed and both empires became friends.

[@wael4070]

That conflict was mainly only business (silk road and control the turkic tribes of the region)

[@tamimi724]

I like the way of organizing the story, first a well detailed yet focused background, then the main event.. Good work on this one!

[@HistoryMarche]

Much appreciated!

[@skyhappy]

agreed, historical context is necessary when talking about battles

[@Timur_aka_Tamerlane]

These maps are honestly some of the most gorgeous things ive ever seen.

[@HistoryMarche]

That's very kind of you. Thank you.

[@Bleatmop]

Love the non-European stories of history that this channel provides. I've learned so much and I thank you for that!

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoy it!

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He is biased.He showes Muslims as weak.

[@calicabdi2696]

@@jonyhyder6506 بالطبع سيكون منحازا ضد المسلمين بالضرورة لأنه ينقل من مصادر غربية

[@Nicola.M7]

@The voices in my head say I'm not schizophrenic how did you know? wheres your sources

[@barbiquearea]

This battle literally felt like a game of chess, with both commanders having very similar troop types and deployment.

[@SantomPh]

and stuck in a "board" with limited flanking potential.

[@isseabdirahmanweheliye9010]

@@SantomPh until one side uses his trump card and finish the game

[@williamrobert9898]

@@isseabdirahmanweheliye9010 checkmate

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Lol the Chinese invented chess and they lost it haha

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[@alex119251]

Depth of context, battle, and history is what sets you apart from other channels. Thank you for these two awesome episodes on the battle of Talas!

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you like them! Thank you very much for watching.

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We need more entertainment, but the informative kind 😉

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What lockdown??

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@@thelightningking9640 covid, duh!

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Me a Swede: *What lockdown?!*

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@@jacksonguillory8114 lockdown been over dude

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HistoryMarche, I love love love your channel. Always high quality content and covering stuff that you don’t find frequently on KZbin. I’d love to see a documentary on Al Andalus and the science technology and prosperity that came along with it. I feel like not many KZbin channels cover this rich era of history. Keep up the great work!

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ksawarior]

i swear your channel are the only one that doing muslim/arabs battles there just, i love learning other cultures battles from your channel greetings from saudi arabia :)

[@HistoryMarche]

Happy to hear that! Thank you very much for watching.

[@px391]

There's also another one that is 'Kings and Generals', but this channel is THE BEST ONE!

[@syedkhalil9630]

I love how u gave a detailed background before the actual war. The detailed background draws us in and makes us feel more invested in the war.

[@mohammadmutari6214]

Thank you for posting this greetings from Saudi Arabia

[@HistoryMarche]

My pleasure. Thank you very much for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

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down with aal e saud especially with MBS

[@Abdulrahman-tt2sf]

You Arabians above all people should enjoy it the most that it's part of your glorious history

[@donjon6244]

Abdul rahman الهاشمي Arabs are conquered by the prophet Muhammad u should be thanking the Muslims

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Don jon Muhammad was an Arab you dumbass

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The Battle of Tlas River proved the pillars of Islam in Central Asia, which brought out great Muslim scholars such as Al-Bukhari and Al-Tirmidhi

[@Shinkaizen]

It was because of David's narration, all of your videos are very engaging & addictive. Keep it up!

[@bekjanshabdan7647]

Heyy! I live in Talas! Great to watch those events covered by you guys! Appreciated

[@HistoryMarche]

Awesome! Thank you!

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Admirable things are simple demonstration of incidents in an organized manner, flow and pitch of sounds , amazing stuff

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I like your methods of narrating the events, especially using sources from both sides of the war. Clear and objective!

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You should absolutely keep doing this cuz we don't really have a lot of history channels that does this and they need each other's backs keep up the good work!

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you sir for visiting the channel.

[@dheiyomain6775]

@@HistoryMarche Your very much welcome

[@DreamerFromBeyond]

Wow two videos at once? what a treat! thank you!

[@HistoryMarche]

Hope you enjoyed it!

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Two titans clashing each other, that is epic !

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[@ragab25Jan]

Thats a beautiful display of history And the music at the end is breathtaking

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching.

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Really impressive and comprehensive coverage, congratulations, yours is one of the best historic chanels of KZbin. I hope you have plans to cover precolumbian America (The expansion and fall of the Inca or Mexica Empires could be really nice to see) and the Great Northern War.

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Can you cover the civil wars within the early Islamic empire? I think this topic is never discussed on any of the channels

[@yub2.045]

That would be very interesting, I wanna see how things worked on the inside

[@TheWillofD7978]

You mean the ridda wars? Or first fitna?

[@DrKhan-hd4cd]

@@TheWillofD7978 all civil wars (wars within the Arabian peninsula, post-Islam)

[@al-muwaffaq341]

Salah Al Din he’s probably talking about the first fitna

[@TheWillofD7978]

@@DrKhan-hd4cd ok bro i get it its the first fitna you're talking about Ali ibn Abi Talib against Muawiya.

[@iceblade997]

I got recommended a video by you guys yesterday night, and this is already my 4th video watched. I've already subscribed and (rare for me) hit the bell for notifications. I really like how you guys do the videos - an indepth video explaining the situation and reasons behind the battle, then an indepth video on the battle itself. That way you understand not just the immediate effects, but what happened after and why the battle was so important. I'd never even heard of the battle of Talas for example. You make great content. Please keep it up.

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[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you sir.

[@umhvdfjkczxcgjdryjndfjobff]

Hey I’m from Talas. I remember hearing about Chinese princesess’s remnants in a museum

[@khaiophirgrad7717]

Where is Talas in modern day? is it in Uzbekistan??

[@alhashmy1310]

@Ali Al-Jubouri r u iraqi ?

[@alhashmy1310]

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@@khaiophirgrad7717 its now in kyrgyzstan

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@@alhashmy1310 I'm also an Iraqi🙂👌🏻

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سبحان الله الحمد لله لا اله الا الله الله أكبر لاحول ولاقوه إلا بالله استغفر الله العظيم وأتوب إليه اللهم صل وسلم على نبينا محمد.

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best history channel ever with this detailed maps any time i watch the videos i pause them and think of the best tactics for each army thank you very very much

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much for watching.

[@fitnetwork7350]

am here mentally tortured every day by exams, assignments and tests because of a chinese guy who discovered the method of making paper :(

[@HistoryMarche]

Consider yourself lucky. Imagine doing those same exams by having to carve your text into clay tablets 🤣🤣

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You are only Tortured if you Believe so...

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@@HistoryMarche haha lol , true ❤️❤️

[@simenonhonore]

Very clear description of a complex situation. Appreciate the differing accounts given.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much for watching.

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

When the estern world did have all superpowers of the world

[@HistoryMarche]

Yep, for most of recorded history these parts of the world were wealthy and powerful beyond belief. Heck, even a thousand years before Talas the Persians wrote about Transoxiana as being a region that would greatly benefit the empire, etc.

[@RandomGuy-df1oy]

@@HistoryMarche Love your channel, another brilliant video. Battle of Talas is really a neglected battle for sure.

[@abcd9283]

Yes, For most part of the recorded history...

[@АлексейП-т2е]

China and India had all the stuff everyone wanted. And if you had gold and silver, you could get

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In many ways, the current state of the world, where power is concentrated in the West, is an anomaly For much of world history, the superpowers were mostly from the east

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Excellent work.

[@mahirhussain4581]

This is excellent content as always, thank you. Would love to see you cover the Battle of Mu'tah, really fascinating and I've yet to find a truly comprehensive account of it. Khalid ibn Al-Waleed is said to have broken nine swords during this battle!

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[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you for the visit :)

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[@HistoryMarche]

Thanks for watching!

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don't stop to make videos like this the history is very accurate

[@jozz2248]

I wonder how that goes down when two armies call off battle for the day?

[@yub2.045]

I'm not sure, but this is probably not possible in our modern times

[@HistoryMarche]

Simply put, tiredness. Troops just kind of call it quits and the commanders basically have to organize an orderly withdrawal to rest everyone. Battles fought in hand to hand combat didn't go on non stop for hours. The battle did last for hours, but the fighting didn't. Namely, the troops would fight for a few minutes, break off, then shove each other a bit, yell insults at each other, then clash some more, etc. In addition, more disciplined armies (like the Roman army) would rotate troops in the front. So the front 1-2 rows would fight for 5-10 minutes and once their strength gave way they would rotate to the back, while fresh soldiers would step up front to take their place.

[@yub2.045]

@@HistoryMarche That sounds a lot more peaceful and organized than our times.. Our times you only see complete violence and destruction

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GoogleSearch: da*cing i*raelis that is because we have weapons that are capable of such destructive power.

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@@yub2.045 that's because destruction sells well. have you ever seen news about a hospital fire or some other major tragedy from another counry? have you seen news about new hospitals opened in a foreign country? Or in your own? safety does not sell well. But if you have a look at some numbers, it is clear to see: we live in the best and safest era of mankind.

[@YounisWrites23]

The Battle of Talas has made us (The Muslim Ummah) prideful as we have beaten China very effeciantely.

[@Omar-pe5gy]

Like before watching the video, you deserve this ,I am from Saudi Arabia.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you so much 😀 Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@christianwarren1350]

The past 24 minutes have just cured my depression

[@HistoryMarche]

Hehe, that's very good to know. Thank you for watching.

[@SebaIzu]

What an interesting and climactic battle! I didn't know of this interaction. Loved the narration and the buildup of the video story. Really enjoyable!

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much!

[@uamalik777]

Can you please cover Battle of Marj al-Saffar 1303... This was a very critical battle between Muslims and Mongols

[@HistoryMarche]

Absolutely I will cover that!

[@aladdin8407]

HistoryMarche to be honest marj al saffar is one of my favorite battles , but funnily enough, not because of the battle itself , but because of the incredibly high tension religious and political drama that happened BEFORE the battle in Damascus, the panic of the damascus people over the mongols , the public disillusion , ibn taymiyah practically smashing himself into the mix in the boiling political situation, the princes and sultans arguing over what to do , questions raising about reinforcements failing to arrive thus abandoning damascus causing more panic, king Naseer Ad-Deen leading the battle against the mongols led by Noyan while being only around 18 years old and winning!! , all in great detail too , its quite astonishing, definitely movie or tv show material and that’s all before the battle, the battle itself certainly wasn’t uneventful too , Historically it has great implications, being the last battle that saw the Arabs fight the mongols , but if you cover it I really hope put focus on the high stakes / high tension drama in damascus that happened before the battle and the involvement of religious personalities like The imam ibn taymiyah who had a major role in the pre battle drama, not to mention he fought in it too , and hilariously he was involved in a delegation that was sent to Ghazan himself, all other religious clerics in the delegation were dead silent and terrified , except Ibn Taymiyyah who insulted ghazan to his face questioning his religiosity and calling him a oath breaker despite that he later managed to negotiate the release of muslims / non muslim hostages that ghazan has recently acquired, it sounds absurd but it happened and that’s why its one of my favorites Another one who had not just as much drama yet way more historical implications , was the battle of Manzikert led by Alp Arsalan who wore his death shroud and told his soldiers that “whoever wants to run away then let him run away , If I die then you shall bury me in this shroud” , he won the battle and ended up capturing the roman emperor romanus , needles to say the battle’s ramifications were unprecedentedly huge

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[@HistoryMarche]

Awesome! Thank you for the visit.

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[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you for watching :)

[@abdulmuqtadiral-rafae6979]

At the end of this video began the golden age of knowledge. When many scientists appeared and education began to spread fast

[@RexGalilae]

The recipe to make paper was discovered when the Abbasids saw the PoWs carrying them. They went on to be employed as expert paper makers in the empire, earning money while the empire prepared to change scientific discovery and learning forever Fascinating times

[@GoldsteinShekelbergSwartz]

Well it is refered as islamic golden age, not golden age of knowledge. Europe golden age of "knowledge" started later and Chinese and greeks "golden age" have already happend. When you have a big population and a big empire not having some scientist is quit strange. It is nothing new, and muslims treatet it like it is something spescial while many other civilizations have had longer and better "golden age" then them(Chinese, greeks, romans, indian and europeans). The diffrent we dont need to go back thousands of years to find sicentist of our tribe.(amoung Nobel prices and scientific papers)

[@GoldsteinShekelbergSwartz]

@Syed Ahmed "Idk about that. What constitutes knowledge has differed throughout history but in the Oxford History of Islam it states that there was no civilization that practiced as much philosophy and knowledge as Muslims prior to the advent of modern science." Esposito founded the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University in 1993 and is its founding director. The center received a $20 million endowment from Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal "to advance education in the fields of Islamic civilization. Direct funding from Saudi Arabian Prince. Nothing to see here. "Tony Huff states the same as well. The difference is, you have no history of science as Muslim empires led the world for 600+ years in this endeavor. Crying about today is not going to change history nor deny the future." Are you refering to Toby e. huff The Rise of Early Modern Science? He is a proffesor in Sociology. 25,5 % of those proffesors in USA are marxist and he is not even a historian. Have you read hes book, probably not since you could not even get his name right. Have I read the book? Nope. But if I have to read a book to see your argument then your argument is very bad. You can expect the other person to read huge amount of books to understand you comment. 99,999999% in the world have not read those three books you have named in your comment. Somebody dont know that the Easter roman empire is Christians or they cover it up. In the 200's, the Romans had what historians generally call "the Crisis of the Third Century." A collapsing monetary system, foreign invasions and civil wars threatened to tear the empire apart, and it's a miracle that Rome survived the Crisis at all. However, the empire that did survive was fundamentally changed, with trade networks in the west in particular being greatly weakened. The explanation for this is fairly straightforward: with the collapse in social and economic order, people didn't feel as safe travelling in the roads. In the east, this was somewhat offset by the greater return on investment - in the west, people stayed home much more, resulting in the beginnings of a system we now call feudalism. The Romans resolved the Crisis with a fairly dramatic solution: they divided up the Empire. Though it took a little while for the system to get worked out and stick, the bottom line is that the empire was split into western and eastern halves. The eastern half, containing Greece, Anatolia, Egypt and the Middle East, was much wealthier than the western half. When Romans ceased to be in control of various Roman institutions in the western half,the trade networks further deteriorated, leading to even greater wealth disparity. Here's the thing about scientific advancement: it is frightfully expensive and it is, to be blunt, a luxury good. It's something you take care of after you pay for the actual necessities of life, which explains why Alexandria, in the then-fantastically wealthy Egypt, was an important center of learning from the time of its founding until the High Middle Ages. Athens and Constantinople were also important centers - Paris and London, not at all. This was before the internet and movable type, so books were: The only means of communicating most knowledge Fragile and therefore difficult to move Expensive In other words, if you weren't where the advances were already taking place (the eastern half of the Roman Empire), you weren't where the books were, so you were operating at a disadvantage. This goes a long way in explaining why it appears that what was once the Western Roman Empire experienced a collapse in learning in the aftermath of Rome's fall. They didn't really - the effective knowledge subsidy from the east just ended and the west didn't have any good way of making up for that. And this wasn't all of Europe, either - the Eastern Roman Empire, which we now call the Byzantine Empire, was still in about as good a position scientifically as it ever had been. So this question really only makes sense if we ignore a rather sizable chunk of Europe. We shouldn't, so let's not. A lot of this goes back to the Enlightenment. Most Enlightenment thinkers you can name were from Britain, France, Germany and the Low Countries - which were some of the wealthiest countries in the 1700's. In particular, we want to look at Edward Gibbon, who wrote a hugely influential text called The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, where he: Blamed Christianity for the fall of the Western Roman Empire Generally spoke kind of derisively about the heavily Christian Byzantine Empire, whose name he also popularized This 1-2 punch was highly controversial at the time, and has come to be generally rejected by academia since, but has hit the big-time in popular consciousness because of how astoundingly readable Gibbon was and remains. It also comes from a time and place where Protestants, deists and atheists were making the arguments and were generally trying to undermine the authority of the Catholic Church, a body that they viewed as antiquated, corrupt or both. Saying that the Church was responsible for the Fall of Rome and the subsequent Dark Age, even though both the Fall and the Dark Ages were overstated, served those interests well. "Furthermore, people don’t make “science” in a vacuum. Please read the works of Thomas Kuhn in his book, “the structure of scientific revolutions”." vacuum : a space from which most or all of the matter has been removed, or where there is little or no matter I never did such claim. Thomas Kuhn A shift in professional commitments to shared assumptions takes place when an anomaly "subverts the existing tradition of scientific practice" . Maybe you shoul read it?

[@JKTProductionzIncNCo]

@@GoldsteinShekelbergSwartz It seems you guy are both half right. There have been many golden ages. I mean once the USA collapses the west is probably not going to recover for quite some time. Time will only tell. I mean after the collapse of the Ming while the Qing were successful they didn't have as much innovation as the Ming did by comparison. Especially when you compare their populations. Most societies have at least 1 golden age. And very few have 2. Let alone 3 or more. In that regard you can argue Arabs under Islam have had only 1 long lasting golden age. Eastern Europe & Southern Europe under Rome. Western Europe under Pax Francia & Pax Britannia. North America under Pax Americana. But the 2030s and beyond are going to probably look increasingly alien to North Americans & Western Europeans. While from as far as I can tell the rest of the world will increasingly try to return to their roots.

[@zayedalshamsi7321]

Øystein the modern science started with the Muslim golden age yes other golden ages were glorious but there achievements have little to do with the modern day.

[@Sarzoor_Afghan]

Narrator is giving us the feelings like we are in middle of the battle. 🔥

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Excellent video and great montage .Thanks to everyone who worked on it.

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoyed it

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Thank you for your videos, these are a treasure trove! Much love

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you like them!

[@Hero-yu4om]

I like this format, one video sets up the scene, and one shows the battle

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much.

[@BijiMustardGas]

Great video as always, Marche! Looking forward to the next one.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you sir!

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[@HistoryMarche]

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[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jonbaxter2254]

Never thought of arab armies fighting chinese ones for some reasons. Always thought they were too far away but this is interesting

[@shadownight9956]

Those times Arabs were kickinggg asses hard like they even fight romans like who can fight with those guys XD

[@sultanmomenofzenata177]

its islamic armies not arab speacily with abbasid since they ralyed on persian a lot .

[@houseplant1016]

@@sultanmomenofzenata177 No mostly Persian and Arabic.

[@grimgoreironhide9985]

@ehsan_iq The Abbasid army at Talas did have Persian speaking peoples in it. They probably made up half the army. Abbasid are a multi cultural society. They won support from non Arab Muslims because the Ummayyads were racist towards non Arabs. The biggest supporters of the Abbasids were the Persians and other Iranians. The Abbasids era was basically the end of Arab dominance of the Muslim world. Its when Persians and Turks committed a cultural and ethnic coup over the Arabs. They were still Muslims but were now strong enough to resist total Arab assimilation. Its like how the Norman's became assimilated by their Anglo Saxon peasants.

[@kunnu6752]

@@shadownight9956 But they lost many battles against Tang prior to the Battle of Talas

[@samdumaquis2033]

Wow, great historical content

[@Detroit911]

It remains today the only battle in history where an Arab empire directly clashed with the Chinese in a war of supremacy for the control of Central Asia..

[@stevemraz3883]

I believed in the first part of his video, the Tang Chinese had already defeated the Umayyad Arabians twice. This is the 3rd battle.

[@pointrainbow3091]

​@@stevemraz3883Even though we lost the battle of Rus, the Abbasid Dynasty sent an emissary to our Tang Dynasty for peace the next year.

[@pointrainbow3091]

​@@stevemraz3883The main reason for losing the war was that Gao Xianzhi underestimated the enemy.

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Great video HistoryMarche, it coincided with my birthday, so it was a great gift for me. Thank you, I am looking forward your next work.

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoyed it! Happy birthday, have fun today!

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That's very kind of you, thank you.

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Epic stuff. Now I'm inspired to go back to my giant realistic map of Eurasia to do something similar but in Age of Empires 2 HD.

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7:57 lmao of course they did......some things never change.

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I know what you mean 🤣

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Yeah, always has been

[@BZY-bu9wr]

They're probably right, the Tang easily defeated a coalition army of Tibetans, Turks and Umayyads. The Abbasids would be a piece of cake without mercenary treachery.

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@@BZY-bu9wr then they could have won on the first or second day only

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I love this channel ...... the way of starting ...... the way of explaining and most importantly revealing the true history and incidents of ancient wars ..... Amazing ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@mohammadaminshahshahani3782]

Like all other revolutions, Abbasid revolution also devoured its children: Abu Muslim, Onceَ an Ally of Zyad ibn Salih and his superior, killed him and sent his head to caliph. The irony is two years later, Abu Muslim himself was beheaded by the next caliph.

[@SantomPh]

ambition overrides duty. The death of many an Empire, including the Tang.

[@arcanumviator]

Sentiment of joy in glory remains fresh even today

[@user-up1hv5ez2q]

In fact, Arab sources say that the two armies were equal in number. Each army numbered about 100,000 soldiers and 6 years after this battle, the Arabs and the Chinese became trading partners for a thousand years Thank you for this great production

[@EroticOnion23]

100,000 each? In a desert? 0.o

[@ahamki1]

they were at most 40,000 each if even that

[@lolasdm6959]

100,000? What did they drink?

[@absurd7292]

We want more . Nice job💖💖

[@ahmedw5]

Beautiful! I have always found this battle to be one of the most interesting in history. The far easterners and the middle easterners clash for supremacy over transoxania!

[@Boric78]

Well done HistoryMarche - kicking arse today

[@HistoryMarche]

Haha, thank you sir.

[@romelnegut2005]

HistoryMarche, I get what you're saying by this being a tactical draw but I believe the Abbasids won a tactical victory. Yes, they didn't take advantage because of the different reasons that made a push to the East impossible but they stopped the Tang right on their tracks. I believe that the Tang Empire would have considered an invasion in the West sooner or later.

[@HistoryMarche]

I think what you meant is that the Abbasids won a "strategic" victory, which is true. The tactical victory didn't yield too many gains due to the situation both in China and within the newly formed Abbasid Caliphate. But the main gain was strategic for the Abbasids, because in the long run they were able to be the only real major power in Central Asia, thanks to the victory at Talas. They probably couldn't realize right after the battle just how significant it would be in the centuries to come. But, in history, timing is everything and it just so happened that the timing of the battle was tremendously good for the Abbasids, as no one else seriously challenged them in Central Asia for quite a while.

[@romelnegut2005]

@@HistoryMarche You understood my point and yes, given the fact that the former Caliphate lost every battle they fought against the Tang and the Abbasids were trying to recover from that civil war, no one would have taken seriously. The Abbasid commander was wise to draw that local tribe to his side, if that is true since the winners love writing the history as they see fit, which turned to be the decisive factor. Now, if those troops would have never got into battle alongside the Abbasids, do you believe that the Tang army would have won the battle because of their superior infantry or would the Abbasid cavalry would have been too much for the Tang mercenary cavalry to deal with, thus leading to the collapse of the entire line?

[@alfarabi73]

This "victory" for the Arabs in the Chinese historiography is a bit akin to how Poitiers is portrayed in Arab historiography: The winners have written about it as if it were epochal in relevance, but the losers have portrayed it as an insignificant, minor skirmish. There is a bit of truth in both perspectives, of course.

[@johnl.7754]

Romel Negut maybe for the Tang/Chinese it was not as important religiously to conquer/convert the area (they battled mainly for the country/ruler) vs for the Abbasids who fought/conquered for god/religion.

[@shadownight9956]

HistoryMarche funny that the person who put abbasids in power was a Khorasanian(Persian) commander and after that abbasids kills him and his son just because of some racism of Arab towards ajam(non Arabs) abbasids were more ruthless and treacherous than ummayids asking me abbasids timing to come in power was so lucky like until the their poor management got the better of them and their calaphite got degraded to ground until mongols came to finish them off

[@nohandlenotme]

This is why I follow your streams, complete history affirmation!

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much for visiting :)

[@HistoricalWeapons]

I made an analysis vid on Chinese crossbows during this time period if your interested

[@HistoryMarche]

That's some nice content, thanks for the heads up. Really liked the video. I've shared it in my Community Tab, I think at least some of my viewers will find it interesting, as I did.

[@أحمدمحمد-ك9ي3ذ]

شكرا على المجهود الجبار❤

[@alexanderhanooman]

Simple and sweet.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@phoomphgaming5538]

I love these 2 parters bc as with everything context is important. Great content tho guys, still being enjoyed a year later.

[@sinan1913]

Awesome stuff ! Please do the Islamic conquest of Persia . Or The fall of Acre 1291

[@HistoryMarche]

I definitely will. Thanks for visiting the channel.

[@sultanmomenofzenata177]

​@@HistoryMarche i dont know if u will see this but u made a mistake in the end of the battle of yarmouk video when u said Khalid ibn al waild transformed the islamc armies to more efficient figting forece in a decad or something , Khalid had no hand on that since he was most of the time just a general like others such as Omar ibn al as or al muthana , islam give the arabs the high moral and the unbreakable fighting spirit and the logical thinking in every matter of life militry warfare as well so most of commanders were really good but of course khalid was a military genius, like most of the old roman general were very capable but scipio or ceaser were upove everyone , the hard agile body of early arab muslim and the fast movment also their ability to reseste hunger hardships was a compinde gift of the desert life and islamic teacheing of the importent of patient and resestnce so the speed , manover ,use of terrin hit and run tactics , was not khalid invantion but rather how arabs fight back days what khalid did was useing that to the best in the battles he led also the only major change he did at Yarmouk was to make muslim infantry figh in tighter kind a chohort formation to similate the roman why of fighting and to make light muslim infantry able of holding ground .

[@TheWillofD7978]

Best channel of history so far 😎

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much.

[@alisa9626]

I agree.. quality over quantity is a thing we lack nowadays in KZbin

[@ahmedsayd3202]

Well done 👏👏 Waiting battle of cannae and Al Qadusiyah 😊

[@shyasaturtle]

Thank you for making this amazing video. It literally got me biting my nails. It was like a perfect drama with plot twists. ^_^

[@HistoryMarche]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@shyasaturtle]

@@HistoryMarche :)

[@abdousalem3079]

The battle was more of a stalemate. I think both superpowers knew it's not favorable picking on each other and decided to pick on the little guys instead.

[@AnhTrieu90]

The Chinese had to deal with rebellion whilst the Caliphate was newly formed and wasn’t capable of exploiting the Chinese situation.

[@RexGalilae]

Also, they both were in good relations and had to end the war quickly because it was hurting trade along the silk road Both empires became best buddies after

[@a.h.s.3006]

A lesson which the Khwarzmian Sultan did not learn when dealing with Ghenghis Khan

[@mehmedtheconqueror4801]

Round of ovation for this awesome video and channel

[@ircoming]

I've been enjoying these kinds of stories about the past. if you can visualize them. I believe they can be more entertaining than famous series like GOT

[@denniscleary7580]

More videos are always welcome

[@hkchan1339]

Pretty sure the Abbasid Caliphate version of the battle is the real one, because if General Gao tell this truth back home he will be granted death for losing the battle. So he probably cook something up so he can blame the defeat on the mercenaries

[@oi7548]

@Jerry Ren The numbers of fighters in the chinese army seems very strange, according to -Graff, David A. (2017). THE REACH OF THE MILITARY: TANG. Journal of Chinese History. In the 8th century the Tang empire had established 10 outposts at it's greatest Western frontier, with the five largest fielding a combined force of 55,000-91,000 men and if we add the Ferghanians and Qarluqs allies i really doubt that the number chinese fighters in this battle was 30 000, this feeling is accentuated when I see the number of casualties of the chinese army in the Tongdian(801) text (about 30000 dead).

[@dongf2618]

@@oi7548 I read under the Tang dynasty, each general can only command 20,000 soldiers by himself, and he brought about 10,000 Tang soldiers to the campaign, which is actually pretty logical.

[@lancecorona2388]

Congratulations, good jop, specially the translation to arapic its very beautiful and without wrongs.

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you very much!

[@batuchen6103]

I don't know why Chinese version was discounted in the video. There are two points here: 1. All the Tang records here came out from General Gao Xianzhi and his army supervisor. So even if the actual story is different, then is't only because Gao Xianzhi lied. 2. Karluks at that time was Tang's vassal rather than just a bunch of random tribes and it has its own ruler just like other Turkic khanates. So 20,000 Karluks was very possibly controlled by their own leaders. Anyway, in Tang's own history records 旧唐书, victories and defeats were both equally recorded.

[@thehazewatcher9424]

God I love this channel you deserve so many more subscribers

[@6principlesforcartography61]

Don’t know your sources. But neither the 2 books of Tang and other sources I read mentioned about the formation of the 2 sides.

[@HistoryMarche]

Those aren't all of the sources I used.

[@6principlesforcartography61]

@@HistoryMarche Then please tell me your other sources. I don't remember any Chinese sources like Zi Zhi Tong Jian or Tong Dian had more detailed descriptions. Meanwhile, neither the translated Arabic texts I have access to like al-Bad’ wa al-Tārīkh had details about the battle formation and tactics description. It only talked about Ziyād suppressed the rebellion of local city states in Middle Asia, defeated Chinese army and then captured war prisoners. It also mentioned Abu Muslim wanted to take the chance to invade China, yet gave up the plan due to his conflict with Ziyād. Another souce, The Complete History (al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh) by The Complete History, had even fewer description. I wonder if you have more detailed credible source.

[@6principlesforcartography61]

@@HistoryMarche Tong Dian and Old Book of Tang are the earliest sources in Chinese texts that had a complete narration about the origin and result of the war. The latter is more detailed and is completed earlier （945 AD）than al-Bad’ wa al-Tārīk (966 AD)，which is the earliest Arabic file that mentioned about the incident. If you did search for the battle, I don't think you should overlook Old Book of Tang.

[@BZY-bu9wr]

@@6principlesforcartography61 This channel is cheap dramatization, the "details" are mostly crappy conjecture.

[@TheEnginator]

One of the most important turning points in Turkish History. Turks started to convert to Islam en masse after the Battle of Talas.

[@ilmaio]

Back then like nowadays, there is the chinese version, and the truth...

[@ilmaio]

@Jerry Ren the caliphate outsmarted the persians, the romans and the chinese. In these centuries it was an unstoppable expanding power. In war you are not supposed to play nice. The Turks sided with the muslims against the chinese, being in their right to do so. Henceforth the battle was lost for the Tang. What I find funny is the need to try to deceive history. Every empire in history won and lost, grew and falled, without need to blame the Turks. The Tangs got beated, period. In war nobody cares why.

[@DillonONeil]

China has been sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong for centuries

[@jackcc429]

Unlike his predecessor, Gao treated the Tang's vassal kingdom in brutality, he was bound to lose when he lost the heart of the local, and btw don't exaggrated the outcome of the battle, it was the latter An lu shan rebelion that destroyed the empire.

[@Maxium1352]

@Syed Ahmed He means the Caliphate has collapsed into multiple arab nations nowadays, while china remains as a whole and played an important role in the world. Tang dynasty was succeeded by modern china, which arab naiton can claim itself as the successor of the Abbasid Caliphate ?

[@MS-qd1jj]

@@Maxium1352 the legacy of the caliphate and their values lives on in the current muslim world (not Arab world). The values of the Tang were crushed by the rising Han.