I think this video will get a lot of Bannerlord players.
@butifarras4 жыл бұрын
More like Rome total war
@FordyTheConeSmoker4 жыл бұрын
CK2 as well
@monkeymanbob4 жыл бұрын
Yup. Always nice to get some learning through a medium you enjoy.
@alyssinclair85984 жыл бұрын
No predicting my arrival. It is very rude
@spaguettoltd.79334 жыл бұрын
Not to mention AOEII players
@salarrajabalizade98784 жыл бұрын
Epimetheus thank you for showing the REAL history. my country ( Iran) is one of the oldest civilizations and has many wonderful things in its long history but due to some reason many people does not know about my country's rich history. Thank you for youre good job.( AND I LOVE THE ARTWORKS)
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Salar! Glad you liked it!
@aradsstates95844 жыл бұрын
Epimetheus i would love if you read my comment up there and i know your opinion.
@mehrdad57674 жыл бұрын
@@EpimetheusHistory brooo
@user-mw3uf3ku3k3 жыл бұрын
Well I will give you the reason. Iran is in conflict with the west which obviously acts as if everything that is old Iranian history is nonexistent. At the same time, Iran is ruled by an islamic government that is against everything before the birth of the prophet. The government would rally a lot of support if it just blended its policy with this strong iranian nationalist sentiment, but somehow they are blind. As a result of this, the culture and history of Iran is being wiped out from both outside and inside which is a shame, truly. What you can do as an Iranian is to support local nationalist and zoroastrian newspapers and organisations and most importantly read and educated your fellow compatriots about this history. With this movement, the government is slowly but surely realising that it must make this history an important part of its policy.
@timmccarthy8724 жыл бұрын
Yeah I got cataphracts in my eyes, had to get corrective surgery.
@magomedkartoev95504 жыл бұрын
No you have Lincoln Continental
@nhmooytis70584 жыл бұрын
Magomed Kartoev haha!
@progadkri56624 жыл бұрын
Your artwork is addictive.
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Glad up like it! :)
@rennor34984 жыл бұрын
Interesting to know that Cataphracts wouldn t have existed if humanity didn t know how to breed horses large enough and strong enough to carry a man in full armor
@jacoblinde74864 жыл бұрын
That's a part of history that people often forget about, myself included. It's kind of shocking to think back on how illogical cavalry probably would seem from an ancient point of view, before horses had been bred for riding and combat.
@mariocassina904 жыл бұрын
@@jacoblinde7486 you watched lyndibeige
@alexlaza53014 жыл бұрын
Well, ancient China and its northern neighbors also adopt Cataphracts but with smaller eastern breeds of horses. Probably less effective than their western counter-part in comparison, but still a very powerful force.
@khafaniking12304 жыл бұрын
jason mcallister The video and literally a ton of others not the subject spell t out for you that the horses today have been bred to be larger and stronger, enough to carry men in full armor. The horses of the ancient past were not large/hardy enough to carry, or at least couldn’t practically accommodate them, especially if you factor that the stirrup wouldn’t be invented for centuries after their domestication. Hence why chariots were king, because wheels allowed man to still take advantage of a horse’s pulling power.
@khafaniking12304 жыл бұрын
@jason mcallister Lmao there’s no need to yell or be rude. I’m just saying there’s literally thousands of years of evidence that run counter to your argument that because horses weigh 1000 pounds and above today, and can accommodate carrying people, that they’ve always been able to do that. It’s not about common sense, because yeah on a surface level I’m sure that a lot of people like yourself have always thought horses have been this big, but when you give a cursory look at the facts and history, you’ll see a clearly different picture. Horses used to be smaller, it’s just that simple.
@Rodzyniastyyyy4 жыл бұрын
Pre-Islamic persian region is one of the most interesting subjects for me.
@aydnmesuttorun83974 жыл бұрын
iran is a lost country decimated by arabs. It is very sad but they sort of did that to theirselves (by attacking and wasting their precious resources against Eastern Romans , which made them astronomically vulnerable to araps afterwards...)
@ReasonAboveEverything4 жыл бұрын
HolyTea or Sörkl I wonder how high and mighty place middle-east would be without Islam.
@Rodzyniastyyyy4 жыл бұрын
Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Iranophile, I really enjoy reading about Islamic dynasties like Safavids etc. but there is just something about 'pure' Persia...
@iNFCxx4 жыл бұрын
@HolyTea or Sörkl The Arabs have won we fucked the Persian and Roman Empire We expelled them from North Africa, subjugated the Berber tribes, occupied Andalusia for more than 800 years, and our territory still extends from Iraq to the east to Morocco to the west We are the greatest civilization That's a fact Whether you like us or not,
@aydnmesuttorun83974 жыл бұрын
@Ghufran dumb bitch your race and religion exists becauee of us turks. You woild be wiped off the planet had our ancestors ddidnt conquer lands neighboring your children fucking shit lands. Anyway our Tengri is enough for us
@AdobadoFantastico4 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that the style of the drawing mimicks medieval esthetics. Feels more appropriate to me than trying to dramatize with cinematic drawings.
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it :)
11 ай бұрын
Cataphracts have always fascinated me since I first encountered them in Age of Empires 2 and both their history and their evolution have been a topic worth seeing. The impressive thing about the Cataphracts is that after them, it took Western Europe several more centuries to achieve the level of armor that the Persians and Byzantines had at the end of antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages; It must have been impressive to see the heavy cavalry of those two Empires charging against each other on the battlefield, their gleaming silver and gold armor shining in the sun.
@GeoGyf5 ай бұрын
Indeed! The Military Manuals of the Eastern Romans say it clearly. Against Persians (who have equally well-armored troops) anti-armored weapons are preferred like the mace, the axe with a spike head and so on. Against the Persian Cataphracts a very heavy spear (log spear) was also introduced, the Menavlion (Menavleeon) and the troops that used it were called the Menavliatoi (Menavlion-bearers). The only thing in the manual about lets say Celts or Britons, is to avoid battles in swamps.
@mikeoxmaul454 жыл бұрын
You imagine how hot it would be in full armor *in the desert*
@manufacturedfracture4 жыл бұрын
Bronze is so shiny when clean it could reflect the heat greatly. But still hot.
@CirosKhan4 жыл бұрын
Iran is a mountainous country
@u3fnoob6883 жыл бұрын
One of the reasons they lost to muslims
@theanonymousmrgrape59113 жыл бұрын
@@CirosKhan well yeah, but the borderlands with the Romans were pretty darn deserty.
@DieNibelungenliad3 жыл бұрын
That's why the lighter armored Arabs conquered them.
@theknave44153 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind that stirrups weren't generally used in Europe until after 500 or 600 AD. Before the Sarmatians (leather stirrups), almost no one used any type of stirrup, at all. Keeping your seat during a cavalry 'meeting engagement' meant that most riders ended up fighting on foot. ;) (Stirrups were first introduced in India several centuries earlier, though, and made of leather.)
@newname49413 жыл бұрын
Roman horses also were alot smaller than those of medieval knights.
@Armorius21994 жыл бұрын
The Seleucid cataphract combines Greek aesthetic with Iranian practicality. The best of two great cultures!
@jotaro26904 жыл бұрын
Yes
@davidking62424 жыл бұрын
Alexander's dream made manifest
@gabe64754 жыл бұрын
@Otis C-14 tf do you mean
@stockingsstuffer63024 жыл бұрын
@Otis C-14 edgelord lmfao
@okhan_roudbaraki4 жыл бұрын
The amount of research you do for each one of your videos is admirable and of course the amount of work you do to create them. enjoyed watching this video, thanks from a fellow Iranian.
@sadradehbashi35984 жыл бұрын
Your name isn't Iranian.
@danmaertens78723 жыл бұрын
Well done on the drawing, really captures the weight of the armor.
@EpimetheusHistory3 жыл бұрын
Thanks man!
@thesenate59132 жыл бұрын
They have a weird resistance to pikemen and halberdiers, so they're a very good unit.
@theSavageHippie2 жыл бұрын
And a weakness to archers
@bobsmith38382 жыл бұрын
And camels for some reason.
@ciranopunalesvigliarolo37882 жыл бұрын
@@bobsmith3838 Actually, cataphracts are resistant to camels and heavy camels
@bobsmith38382 жыл бұрын
@@ciranopunalesvigliarolo3788 That's what I meant, resistance to camels.
@wv8d4 жыл бұрын
Cataphracts: the guy who said the joke Knight: the guy who repeated it but louder
@justmymage4 жыл бұрын
The drawing is really great. Horses, the armour, facial expression on the rider on the right. Really makes it seem cool and gives an insight to a moment of battle between the two cataphract riders. Great work. Please do more if at all possible.
@hamd83754 жыл бұрын
I love how you called it "armoured horse - human collaboration"
@cyrusa-ww3ib3 жыл бұрын
Your information about Persia is really good
@Kublaioi Жыл бұрын
It's truly astonishing how Turks like to claim Iranian and Eastern Iranic history like this.
@hayalamca6185 Жыл бұрын
Today dialects of Turkish is spoken as native language in Europe, in China, in most north Russia and in Iran. Can you imagine how and when this language spread to this territories? You cant find a bit of history of Eurasia withought Turks mentioned. Name a second language spread so much in geography in time. Just modern history langages may compete like English and they are not native mostly.
@maddogbasil Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure for the longest time Turks were pretty much ruled most of persia for almost a thousand years
@he462011 ай бұрын
@@maddogbasil No at most 300 years Then Persians in the time of Safavids kicked them out of their country and make another native Persian empire after Sassanids
@robertvahedi335010 ай бұрын
@@maddogbasilThis is one of those pan Turkic claims. A huge area up there was always populated by various Iranic tribes. Turks kept trying to push from east without success until arabs weaponized Islam to destroy Persia as severe as possible, after which Turks gained more access to that area.
@robertvahedi335010 ай бұрын
@@hayalamca6185How about Persian? Even Ottomans spoke Persian in their court.
@miketacos90344 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say, your drawing skills have improved so much, and this drawing is badass. Keep it up, Epimetheus!
@tobago36794 жыл бұрын
Always had a fascination with the cataphracts and heavy cavalry. Great drawings and thank you for the video!
@Samuray19553 жыл бұрын
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@Warmaker012 ай бұрын
Flashbacks to my time playing the original Rome Total War in the mid-2000s. Roman heavy infantry facing cataphract charges with no spears / pikes to counter. Cataphracts also having maces with armor piercing buff. So even if the cataphract user was lazy and did not cycle charge, they'd still crush Roman legionaries in melee. Very few things could take Roman heavy infantry head on, 1 unit vs 1 unit, and win. Cataphracts were one of them.
@3452te4 жыл бұрын
The Cataphracts especially Byzantine Cataphracts & Clibanarii are such a legendary cavalrymen that I would prefer them over Knights. Why! Being seasoned & well trained soldiers that have to deal with the heavy armour and dealing the climate they were on. These guys got my respect. Awesome video. :)
@miguelmontenegro35204 жыл бұрын
They were great and all, but when people brought gunpowder and arcabuzes, they were kinda a glass canon. Would face the same fate as the knights.
@3452te4 жыл бұрын
@@miguelmontenegro3520 Byzantine Kataphracts haven't seen the advent of gunpowder as they were dramatically reduced to special roles in Constantinople until the 4th crusade. Like the skoutatoi that disappeared by the early 11th century AD or before that. They were ultimately replaced by Koursores, Pronoiars, Athanatoi and even the Varangian Guard. Sadly their last major battle was with against the Bulgars.
@miguelmontenegro35204 жыл бұрын
@@3452te Did they rout the bulgars? I Hope they did. Greek Rome is awesome.
@3452te4 жыл бұрын
@@miguelmontenegro3520 they won the battle of Kliedion during Basil II reign then yes. They routed them.
@6principlesforcartography614 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget that cataphracts were also master of horse archery, which is a skill not practiced by knights.
4 жыл бұрын
I love smashing Cataphracts into Infantry in Rome 2 and watching soldiers fly through the air
@miguelmontenegro35204 жыл бұрын
Warhammer brought flying infantry to a whole new level
@rockstar4504 жыл бұрын
It’s gold but absolutely incorrect historically.
@mick2d24 жыл бұрын
You want to try Bannerlord. You can be the one on the horse, doing the smashing! ;)
@brohvakiindova44524 жыл бұрын
@@mick2d2 but in bannerlord apparently a 800kg (potentially more) warhorse in heavy armor charging an enemy at top speed so like 50kph at least does roughly 20 damage in real life getting hit by a horse at those speed you're completely wrecked in bannerlord it's like: *thud* "ahhh that kinda hurt" until after 5 consecutive charges they would eventually faint :D unless you charge into their backs which apparently negates almost all damage
@mick2d24 жыл бұрын
@@brohvakiindova4452 It's still in early access. I think they're in the process of tweaking those things. When I hit infantry, it's usually with a couched lance! Nobody has survived that. 😜
@Crafty_Spirit4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic job on the drawings, one of your best outputs so far 👌🏽 Very vivid and lushly coloured 🔥
@seatonking81363 жыл бұрын
I love the educational and historical value behind all the videos. Plus the art is awesome, hats off to you for the art particularly.
@NickG_3 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested, SAVAR Shodan means to ride and SAVARAN means riders in Persian. And Dehqan class refers to businessmen class. Btw, according to Age of Empires game logic, only Byzantine had Cathaphracts
@m.thorton93053 жыл бұрын
also Crusader Kings
@yohopirate2 жыл бұрын
The Sassanid cataphract frontal charge also protects the horse archers and infantry from Roman missile fire. The disappearance of pikemen among western infantry is perhaps another reason for cataphract predominance
@he462011 ай бұрын
Iranian empire (Achaemenid, Parthians and Sassanid) cataphracts Very nice video👏
@Alfred_Leonhart4 жыл бұрын
That is some beautiful armor on the Persian, I want it.
@brianfuller76913 жыл бұрын
Cataphracts definitely had an interesting military history. This was an informative video.
@grimgoreironhide9985 Жыл бұрын
The Chinese and Koreans also had Cataphracts. Their experience with either fighting or ruled by Steppe Nomads influenced their decision to field Cataphracts. Achaemenids were not exactly the first to use Cataphracts. The Cataphracts originate from the Iranic Steppe nomads who inhabited Central Asia. The Persians migrated to Iran and took with them their Steppe heritage in warfare.
@SquirrelGrrl4 жыл бұрын
Your art is spectacular! Really sets it apart and makes your channel unique. Thank YOU for this great channel!
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
I am glad you like it :) Thanks EngineGal
@andrew1jl2 жыл бұрын
holy shit you drew that?? amazing work. loved the video !!
@peanutwars4 жыл бұрын
I love the drawing ! And I love your channel man I love the topics you pick I want you to know how much it means to me that you do this for us I love you thank you for your hard work I find this stuff so fascinating !
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Devon! Reading this comment was a great way to wake up while drinking my coffee :)
@byzantinetales4 жыл бұрын
I have been drawing cataphracts for my comic book. This video helped me a lot on the historical background of the unit.
@ramtinfazeli51063 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a cool comic book What's the name ?
@byzantinetales3 жыл бұрын
@@ramtinfazeli5106 theophano: a byzantine tale
@thedoruk63244 жыл бұрын
1:19 - The Alexander's conquest has been summarized to *magnificently!*
@thedoruk63244 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam I Adore this Chanel :]
@thedoruk63244 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam kolay gelsin bakacağım kesinlikle 👍
@HistoricalWeapons2 жыл бұрын
very skilled artist. I really like the small details you pay attention to. must take hours just to make one of these
@UsefulCharts4 жыл бұрын
Congrats on 300k!
@erfan3857 Жыл бұрын
There are some places in Iran we call it zor-khane ... it means house of power you can see Pahlevani sport there
@brazy84274 жыл бұрын
Great video, I find it immensely interesting learning about the arms, armour, and tactics of these ancient warriors. Additionally, the drawings are superbly done!
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! It definitely was a fascinating epoch
@parjai974 жыл бұрын
@@EpimetheusHistory will we get a video on how you draw them?
@user-wg1mv5hu5v4 жыл бұрын
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@menaseven90934 жыл бұрын
The Iranian Parthian and Sassanian armies using a combination of cataphracts and horse archers made them the majority of the time invincible to the Roman army. Nice to learn that the cataphracts influenced the European knights.
@_semih_4 жыл бұрын
Honestly that 'horse archers' weren't a part of Sassanian army. Horse archers were nomadic Turkic mercenaries. Yes Even Byzantine used Turkic horse archer mercenaries and they named them "Turcopols".
@aradsstates95844 жыл бұрын
Semih Sargın horse archers used in sasanid untill the middle of it.also horse archers first created by schytians not turks.parthians developed cataphracts and horse archers and became the master of all other peoples including greeks,schytians,Iranians and romans in plus parthians were Iranic people like most of schytians ,turks came to geography of Iranian platue as hephalites (they origin is disputed) but guk Turks which destroyed the hephalites with unity with the Sassanids were turkic.
@marmary55553 жыл бұрын
@@_semih_ just chill with your panturkic nonsense.
@brendanvanecko5824 жыл бұрын
Congratulations epimetheus I love watching your videos! Keep up the good work I can’t wait for you to get popular like you should be.
@FellTheSky4 жыл бұрын
They also cost 70 Food and 75 Gold
@AnshulPresents4 жыл бұрын
Paladins are better 🤭🙃
@royalflush52284 жыл бұрын
@@AnshulPresents cataphract deal area damage
@pragadeeshwar9233 жыл бұрын
@@AnshulPresents paladin dies to halberdiers easily
@user-mw3uf3ku3k3 жыл бұрын
Those were te glory days boys. Shout out to the coolest version of a bipolar world. USA vs USSR ? The fuck is that ? Rome vs Iran is the chad version of the cold war.
@bubuluwithagoldendudul97093 жыл бұрын
700yrs of war > 60yrs :D
@dogeofgreatness22223 жыл бұрын
Rome vs Iran? Da faq is that? The real rivalry is Iranian plateau vs Anatolia (Persians vs Greeks,Rome-Byzantinve vs Sassanid-Parthia, Ottoman vs Safavid,Afshar,Qajar and etc)
@viraloracle51512 жыл бұрын
@@dogeofgreatness2222 the first conflicts of Rome against Iran was western Rome (Italy) against the Parthians with Crassus from Italy invading, so Rome vs Iran is more correct. the conflict of Eastern Rome based in Anatolia against Iran began much later.
@persiandude23784 жыл бұрын
Greetings and many thanks for this great video about my favourit warriors . And my country and my culture Many thanks from the house of sassan to you . May shahanshah bless you :)
@Smartacus984 жыл бұрын
Iranian military history never gets enough love compared to their Greek and Roman counterparts. Ironic considering the Iranians were one of the few peoples the Romans encountered that they were never able to overcome.
@curtiswong72804 жыл бұрын
Probably because of their defeats in greece, people just assume they're bad at warfare overall; they are in fact of course one of the finest and most well-disciplined armies of the age.
@__0-0__4 жыл бұрын
nah is just logical things to do, given the bias greek and roman bias in western historian deeply rooted, and how they view culture other than their own as not that important at all.
@JavidShah2463 жыл бұрын
In Shāhnāmeh( book of kings), ferdowsi amazingly explains the weapons and their purpose in a verse and sequentially: بروز نبرد آن يل ارجمند، بتيغ و بچاقو، بگرز و كمند بريد و دريد و شكست و ببست، يلان را سر و سينه و پا و دست. In the battles day, the Great warrior By sword, dagger, mace and lasso Cut, tore, smashed and tied up Warriors Heads, chests, legs and hands.
@EpimetheusHistory3 жыл бұрын
Great verse
@Alim-od2uz3 жыл бұрын
For whom that may be interested: This literary technique is called "laff o nashre morattab" (ordered grouping and dispatching) Note the order: Sword -> cut -> heads Dagger -> tore -> chests Mace -> smashed -> legs Lasso -> tied -> hands And the pronunciation of the verses is: Bé ruzé nabard ān yalé arjmand Bé shamshir o khanjar bé gorz o kamand Borid o darid o shekast o bebast Yalān rā sar o siné o pā o dast
@farhankoozechi9432 жыл бұрын
@@Alim-od2uz لف و نشر و به اینگلیسی عالی ترجمه کردی 👍👍💪
@romanbarna131611 ай бұрын
When I was a teenager, my history teacher claimed that it wasn't possible to field heavily armored cavalry until the invention of the stirrup. I pointed out that cataphracts were a thing for hundreds of years before the stirrup was invented, but he wouldn't budge.
@SalmanibnFarsi4 жыл бұрын
damet garm. I am thankful someone makes videos about my ancestors. most iranians will speak highly of qasem but forget their history, gone are the days of rustam suren pahlav, shapur, and such.
@dale69474 жыл бұрын
8:32 Lance guy is about to get messed up by that mace
@dale69474 жыл бұрын
@Vitruvius Antarchius What about a mace pommel?
@9051team4 жыл бұрын
@@dale6947 Gasp! To dare put the pommel at the front! You've blasphemed the holy pommel!
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@Vitruvius Antarchius - It's not. Pommel is auxiliary and somewhat hard to use.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@Vitruvius Antarchius - I watch Skallagrim and it is from that kind of channels where I learned that pommel is hard to use in combat, rather used for the death blow instead. I prefer Schola Gladatoria anyhow.
@weldonwin4 жыл бұрын
You mess with best, you mace in face
@viriato65253 жыл бұрын
Don't forget the Nisean horses. A warmblooded oriental horse, related to the Arabian and Akhalteke horses.This breed was very important for cataphracts. It was strong and agile.
@ahumpierrogue1374 жыл бұрын
Have you ever considered a video on the evolution of cavalry organization and usage in China? I feel it’s a pretty interesting topic.
@Jordan-cs6bn4 жыл бұрын
Dude you’re very good at drawing. Keep it up!
@joshuaboer16174 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on 300k subscribers man! You've earned it!
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Joshua! :D
@kavehofraghae18164 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Thank you for all the informative details on the Sassanid war machine. At the height of Sassanid might under Bahram, Khosrow, and Khosrow II, a Sassanid cavalry charge must have been the most terrifying thing in the entire world. It would have looked like the charge of the Rohirrim, but with even more heavily armored cavalry units like the Savaran, Azadan, Pushtigban, etc. I think the Sassanid Dynasty is the single most overlooked empire in all of world history.
@dshepherd1072 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation & loved your illustrative art
@hansholbein10473 жыл бұрын
Thank you to Rome Total war for making sense of the names in this vid
@jasonnguyen34763 жыл бұрын
that drawing is sick!!! you got talent!
@arashghanbari59074 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video about our culture my friend. You nailed every point. I couldn't add anything else to the video as a Persian myself on this topic.
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@grungeguy974 жыл бұрын
I'm not surprised that Persians were so heavily involved in the development of the cataphracts. From the Achaemenids to the times of the Abassid Caliphate, Persians were on the cutting edge of research, technology, and governance compared to others they interacted with.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the main reason was that they were much more inclined, partly because of geography, towards cavalry in general.
@__0-0__4 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz no only that, it's also because how their society work, and how egalitarian they are. Like how they allow commoner or low noble into higher rank, is one of good example how they able to improve and maintain they brilliant military structure.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@@__0-0__ - Wast that the case? Persia had nobility since ancient times and I feel that was a reason both behind the development of the cataphract and also behind their defeat before Arabs, who had surely a much less stratified society.
@__0-0__4 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz Still though, they is still have far better system than medieval europe. And the only reason why the sassanid defeated by the arabs is just like any other empire. They get weak, corrupt, forgotting their ancient ideals just like how western rome are.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@@__0-0__ - What part of Medieval Europe? Here in Vasconia we had a very good system in the early Middle Age (with legacy all the way to present day, even if weakened by foreign invasions). In other places like Italy or Switzerland republics appear later on. Not everything was the Carolingian system, and even the Carolingian system was far from uniform, and Charlemagne himself was criticized for raising slaves to nobility rank, so, well, complicated.
@KateFergeson3 жыл бұрын
Subscribed. Thank you so much for posting a video on catapfracs. Key to cavalry research
@odin013 жыл бұрын
Another great one! I love your drawings, and they are definitely one of the things that make your videos great. Suppiluliuma will always look like your drawing in my head!
@EpimetheusHistory3 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! Also Suppiluliuma is one of the funnest names to say :)
@dankeykang8684 жыл бұрын
Imagine developing the best heavy cavalry for centuries and getting destroyed by some camelriders in 20 years
@TheColombiano894 жыл бұрын
They also smashed combined Byzantine-Sassanian armies. The Arab commanders had been very cunning and with the religious fervor of the 7th century with the death of Mohammad they would reach western China to the Balkans and Iberia. At first viewed as merely raiders they would become a serious threat to both empires.
@amir90534 жыл бұрын
TheColombiano89 Both empires were weak at that time perfect time for the Arabs to strike this is known arab tactic stab someone in the back when he is not looking.
@ShahStark4 жыл бұрын
They ruled said camel riders for centuries. Both empires had been weakened and LACKED properly trained men. Don’t meme history
@angrymonkeynoises4 жыл бұрын
Both empires suffered from Bubonic Plague, Political and Social Instability, the Persian Empire was already in Civil War between the Parsig and the Parthian Clans in the north and east of the country. The Political Instability was so profound that 13 emperors were crowned between 628-631.
@angrymonkeynoises4 жыл бұрын
The Plague of Sheroe (627-628) or Sheroe's Plague was an epidemic that devastated the western provinces of the Sasanian Empire, mainly Mesopotamia (Asorestan), killing half of its population,including the reigning Sasanian king (shah) which the plague is named after, Kavad II Sheroe (r. 628). (Text from Wikipedia) Could you think how destructive is to loss half of the population from your political base and the most rich province of the Empire?
@teutonieth3 жыл бұрын
one thing i'm intrigued about is their armors. Not just that of the Cataphracts but Hittite, Scythian, Alan and other cultures known for their mounted warriors.
@damuses14524 жыл бұрын
Splendid. Thank you for this. The Persians were top notch military powers.
@user-jv3mm6vt6e4 жыл бұрын
As a persian who knows the military history of this land: NO.
@mehrdad57674 жыл бұрын
@@user-jv3mm6vt6e fuck off
@FromaTwistedMind3 жыл бұрын
Many believe that King Arthur's use of mounted knights or horsemen goes to prove that he was a Roman auxiliary who stayed in Britain when the Roman's left in the early 5th century. He used them to defeat larger numbers of Angle and Saxon infantry. Great picture btw.
@mazdikhan25563 жыл бұрын
Arthur is a myth he's not real
@Nazdreg13 жыл бұрын
The figure of Arthur is a myth but he is embedded in a conglomerate of real events. Conflicts between Saxons and Britons happened and it is true that Sarmatian auxiliary heavy cavalrymen were stationed in Britain. Mix in a medieval author adding some knightly flavour into the story (like we nowadays see Shakespeare's characters in suits doing business) and we have the weird mix that are Arthurian legends. Still, it is not unlikely that the source for Arthurian knights were Sarmatian Cataphracts. German authors have done similar things with the Nibelungen story, which is also based off of events during the migration period (conflicts between Ostrogoths, Burgundians and Huns) that were turned into medieval stories with added fictional characters.
@Nazdreg13 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dun_Nechtain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badon Nationalism didn't exist back then. And most sources we have are Anglo Saxon. I wonder where you got the idea that it was anti saxon. That would be the same as saying Teutoburg Forest didn't happen as the accounts we have are from Germanic nationalists. This is ridiculous.
@urseliusurgel43653 жыл бұрын
@Paulo Ramos There were several historically attested Arthurs in Britain in the late 6th century, one was a son of a king of Dal Riada (the Scots). This, at the very least, suggests that the name was current in Celtic-speaking Britain in the period. Gildas also says that a British king was originally the charioteer of 'The Bear'. There is a possible connection between the name Arthur and 'art-', which can mean 'bear' in Celtic languages (paralleled by 'arctos' in Greek).
@urseliusurgel43653 жыл бұрын
@Paulo Ramos The Romans used praenomen, cognomen and nomen, but in Dark Age Britain people, even kings usually had a single name, though some had nicknames, such as Maelgwn Hir (Hir = tall) or Caradoc Vreichvras (Vreichvras = 'strong-arm'). Arthur is not only found in High and Late Medieval romances, but is mentioned in early Welsh poems, such as 'Llongborth', and in the 'Mabinogion'.
@Lycurgus19827 ай бұрын
I believe an even better starting point to address "cataphracts" would be to talk about the picked bodyguard of the steppes. These tribes were the ones responsible for this cavalry tradition being handed down to other Iranian tribes that became sedentary, further south in their migrations. Their introduction to the west in any real substantial form first came from the Persians. Alexander had neither the time nor the means to integrate these arms into his army, however the Seleucid king Aniochus III anabasis to the eastern portions of the Seleucid empire saw one of the most impressive military reforms in history. The integration of various degrees of barding for horse and cavalryman.
@a1n9t8o93 жыл бұрын
Artwork looks great!!
@zhongxina76012 жыл бұрын
virgin teutonic knights vs Chad sassanid cataphracts
@matthewtenorioduenas2022 жыл бұрын
Ha
@kingdomofbird81742 жыл бұрын
Sassanid and in future Byzantine
@mate55712 жыл бұрын
@@kingdomofbird8174 *roman
@Noface1212 жыл бұрын
Can you let this garbage meme die already? Jeez.
@wankawanka3053 Жыл бұрын
Winged hussars 😉
@curseoftheegglady4 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on the 300K!
@Amadeus84844 жыл бұрын
Your voice is PERFECT to listen to when I eat Chicken Wings :) thought you should know...
@mistahillshistory19164 жыл бұрын
I would have imagined a more southern accent fitting better. 🤷
@EpimetheusHistory4 жыл бұрын
:) Food and KZbin is a perfect combination
@james_baker4 жыл бұрын
Chicken wings? Damn you Amadeus, now I have to go out.
@Amadeus84844 жыл бұрын
@@EpimetheusHistory Yes but the specifics of you and Chicken Wings...
@Amadeus84844 жыл бұрын
@@james_baker Try the Cajun when you listen to him lol
@HittokiriBatosai2 жыл бұрын
I'm loving these KZbin history channels. Academic history classes rarely go outside of Europe, and even then rarely outside the Greco-Roman world and their children (France, Britain, etc). This serious look into the other ancient empires without the patronizing aliens talk is really appreciated
@shimmyhinnah2 жыл бұрын
Agree 100%!
@XanderKalas3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos! Packed with information and to top this, your drawings are awesome!! Tnx for the hard work that you put into the research and the creation of these gems!
@EpimetheusHistory3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@endo_kun_da2 жыл бұрын
The drawing looks great, keep that up!
@MoeShinola12 жыл бұрын
Here's a video idea: Why were the Arabs able to conquer so wide an empire, and so quickly, defeating the might of knights like the Cataphracts? I've always wondered.
@stevesmith21712 жыл бұрын
Because they had more of them?
@yaqubebased1961 Жыл бұрын
The arabs were battle hardened, hardy people who also had one of the greatest generals of all time. Iran had just been through a devastating civil war and a long series of plagues. Their noble houses had all abandoned the country, which meant no Cataphracts since they relied solely on royal funds and the royal house had no suitable heir. Many betrayed their countrymen, as well.
@ejoji4245 Жыл бұрын
They fought 2 exhausted empires
@eveei Жыл бұрын
timing, numbers, leadership, one could argue will
@Kaiyanwang82 Жыл бұрын
Rome and Persia exhausted each other with an avoidable war.
@kgb9763 ай бұрын
Their ancient tanks,yes but also i like how the design and role rhymed with tanks today Scaled Armor = ERA
@KingRichardDeLeonheart Жыл бұрын
Fighting the parthians sounds like cancer
@AryaOghuz Жыл бұрын
When a gamer tries (and fails) to learn history
@KingRichardDeLeonheart Жыл бұрын
@@AryaOghuz I am sorry sir, but I did not articulate the meaning of what I meant in the most formal manner. The point I meant to get across is that having to be in a war with these people would be more annoying then fighting other people as their very effective tactics allowed them to shoot at you, ride off, and ward off your cavalries counter attacks. The reason I worded my prior message the way I did is because I am a young boy who plays video games, watches videos about history (especially when it pretains to battles), and I was commenting in a youtube comment section and therefore did not feel the need to use formal language.
@user-wr3uy8wu3z Жыл бұрын
Перевод?
@roastingskeleton3345 Жыл бұрын
Fighting the sasanids is like having cancer but always have a seizure every 20 minutes
@CirosKhan4 жыл бұрын
Yet Iranian Cataphracts don't get enough recognition imo
@_semih_4 жыл бұрын
Not Iran. Iran is a country that established in 19th century. Say "Persia" instead Iran. Iran is a trash country
@mehrdad57674 жыл бұрын
@@_semih_ its same idiot
@CirosKhan4 жыл бұрын
@@_semih_ Persia is what foreigners called Iran. Iranians call their cou try Iran and themselves Iranians. "Persia" is a Greek term for "Parsi" which is now "Farsi" because Arabs can't/or didn't pronounce the letter "P".
@saeidgholibeik98654 жыл бұрын
@@_semih_ Sargin Sargin Sargin! When are you going to learn. Read some books for everybody's sake. Don't talk about a nation that for 1150 years has been either the SOLE SUPER POWER (e.g. Achaemenid) or shared the world with Romans such as other IRANIAN dynasties (e.g. Parthians and Sasanids dynasties). IRAN includes Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanians, Safavids, Afsharian and many more great dynasties that brought great civilizations to our world. The Iranian plateau has over 7000 years of civilization. I hope you don't rely on stories and read some books!
@salarrajabalizade98784 жыл бұрын
@@_semih_ persian were one of the third tribal groups that lived in land of iran (iranshahr = aryan land) and in history the land is know as persia cause persians made more than 50-70 percent of the population ( along side with medes and parthians ).they called it iran since the beginning. evidence of this can be found on the great Cyrus's cylinder and in shahnameh ( iranian epic poet-i really recommend reading this one )
@sidneylu96594 жыл бұрын
Great video. Overall the style of your videos are one of the most enjoyable ways to learn history.
@timlamiam3 жыл бұрын
The west never surpassed the Byzantines in technology for as long as the Byzantines were around....
@zjackshot3 жыл бұрын
That's not really true near the end, despite not inventing gunpowder it was the Italian states that perfected it at this time period the byzantines had stagnated at this point and couldn't get good access to his technology due to their poor relations.
@timlamiam3 жыл бұрын
@@zjackshot the fall of Byzantium had nothing to do with technology and more to do with the decline of state functions. They did not have the means to indefinitely fight on 3 or 4 fronts for centuries. They made a good go as it is lasting so long. They sold the tax rights of their own ports to pay for mercenaries to help fight, that by the time of Byzantium's fall, they did not even own the rights to shipping across the Hellespont. That's not due to any lag in technological prowess.
@taotekoncha62753 жыл бұрын
People don't realize that the renaissance happened because byzantine intellectuals moved to Italy after the fall of Constantinople, what means the west never reached the technological advances of byzantine empire
@user-cg2tw8pw7j Жыл бұрын
@@taotekoncha6275 Jesus what did you think because of the books you stole from the Middle East
@user-cg2tw8pw7j Жыл бұрын
@@timlamiam They did not defeat his command more than once, and they used to pay the tribute, weak and serious
@doubleoheck-50664 жыл бұрын
Why you dont have millions of subscribers i never know. Such brilliant content ! Very educational
@1roanstephen4 жыл бұрын
You have provided much education and enjoyment. Thank you.
@matthewanderson6769 Жыл бұрын
Love your Channel mate, excellent source of world building inspiration.
@cristianvillanueva87824 жыл бұрын
What I love about you Epimitheus is that you dont typically just cover one area of the world, I really appreciate that. I would love to see more videos on ancient China and India
@barwnamga36473 жыл бұрын
Winged Hussars taking notes
@earltaylor18934 жыл бұрын
Congrats!! 300,000! I’ve always been fascinated by cataphracts and I enjoyed learning more about their origins. Your drawings are perfect and remind me of the art from Eruopa Barbarorum
@davidwilliambarker3 жыл бұрын
I very much appreciate your videos, and you artwork is wonderful. Thank you so much!
@johnschools66173 жыл бұрын
Too bad they didn’t have stirrups to make them more stable in the saddle.
@ideclaredwaronyourfrenchas41233 жыл бұрын
This is the reason why norman knights alongside with the use of crouched lance would btfo Roman cataphracts
@kalziumbones1557 Жыл бұрын
Love the drawing
@TheZerech4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making this video! I love the history of the kataphrakts.
@AmrodOfDale4 жыл бұрын
Awesome content! Since I started playing ancient strategy games the Cataphracts have fascinated me for years. Really happy to see your channel make an episode on them! I wasn't aware that you made the drawings, well done! I love how the style reflects the topic and the era, gives it a great historic feel. Cheers!
@miguelmontenegro35204 жыл бұрын
Imagine how the Cataphracts would react if they discovered modern cavalry is faster, got even more armor and menages to transport up to 9 men.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
The Inquisition wants to know your address. What you say sounds to witchcraft!
@lastword87834 жыл бұрын
Theyd think of them as armored chariots or wagons powered by magic.
@miguelmontenegro35204 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz I've gone to the mass regularly. I'm safe... for now.
@LuisAldamiz4 жыл бұрын
@@miguelmontenegro3520 - Except from the virus, I guess.
@TheDAWinz4 жыл бұрын
@@lastword8783 Lol they knew about combustion back then, they just thought it was only useful for childrens toys.
@walkingdead71154 жыл бұрын
Damn never been this early to your videos. 3 minutes Keep up the good work my dude
@thewowfowyay73354 жыл бұрын
what excellent videos, I get lost in the detail, perfection, and pure awesomeness of these videos.
@YaMumsSpecialFriend4 жыл бұрын
Good on you mate, consistently nice work and well deserved subscriber numbers👌🏻
@arianrezaie47294 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking my suggestion and making a better video than i ever could have imagined could you ever do a video about the history of science in the middle east?🙏👍
@arianrezaie47294 жыл бұрын
And thanks for the drawings i just knowticed ther the only historicly accurate persian style drawing i have seen
@dsnielsen75644 жыл бұрын
8:35 realy nice work on the painting it looks amazing.
@maxbrandt64 жыл бұрын
Nice artwork and I just learned something never touched upon in history class. Keep up the fine work!
@regular-joe4 жыл бұрын
Rich content, superbly presented. I love learning from your channel!