History of the Seleucid Empire

[@selucusptolemy3149]

Great video! I personally respect the Seleucid empire because they were able to experience revivals after periods of decline. When a nation is in decline it is rare that they can come back stronger, this trait of perseverance is also seen in Rome. You only mentioned the revival with Antiochus the great but we must never forget about Antiochus IV who once again restored glory to the empire and nearly wiped the Ptolomies from the map, and Antiochus VII who inherited a crumbling empire but was able to almost beat back the parthians and recover all of its eastern territories.

[@peasantarcher2486]

How about the ottomans after a civil war caused by a defeat by tamerlane.

[@doctoroozehd9450]

Seleucid Empire in Rome Total War was an absolute unit of a faction and if you played them you are statistically 96% more likely to be a beefcake irl

[@PlanetZoidstar]

Way easier in RTW1 than RTW2. Good luck holding onto your Satraps.

[@greenpeacer99]

The First 20 Rounds are a pain in the ass

[@thomasdodd2548]

I can confirm. Nothing better than curbstomping the coalition of puny neighbouring powers that forms around you. Pathia, Armenia, Pontus, Egypt.... I'm now a Beefcake

[@PlanetZoidstar]

@@thomasdodd2548 Exactly, only Egypt is going to give you any real challenge due to starting size, high income and good unit rosters. The rest have piss-poor income and craptastic unit rosters early on. Compared to Rome 2 where you have multiple factions after your blood that aren't quite so weak AND your satraps are liable to turn on you within the first few turns.

[@bruhman2147]

Lmao I took over the whole map with the seleucid’s my faction heir literally was and western version of Alexander the Great he took over everything

[@torcaace]

Ahh yes. Seeing my empire just made my day...

[@parsaleilyabadi4219]

Fuck your empire

[@Lycurgus1982]

If you are, then you must know Arche Seleukia's motto. Can you tell me what "your" empire's motto is?

[@lastword8783]

NIKA please

[@terrornoob4844]

Seleucus Your son in law chandragupta maurya is greatest rule of india

[@Dominus_Augustus]

Until mine killed yours

[@thekingcreeperissexy]

I love seeing content about the Seleucids. The Seleucids will forever be one of my favorites.

[@jaygasper4853]

Me too, because there so rarely heard about even though it was a huge empire that lasted a good amount of time

[@torcaace]

0:46 hey that's me! 1:24 top 10 saddest anime deaths Oh

[@thirdtrysacharm6177]

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[@juliusdelacruz9342]

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[@klake5375]

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[@justinsankar1164]

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[@EpimetheusHistory]

Fantastic video! My favorite I have seen on your channel so far :) , Seleucid's are fascinating, such a unique period of time .

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thanks, Epimetheus! :)

[@christopherhardy8808]

Epimetheus Could you do a video about the Seleucids?

[@padelispadelidis4229]

@@christopherhardy8808 discord.gg/Yj2yusGHqU

[@labanwall7202]

when you make Seleucid great again and Rome just comes along and says NA

[@heathenfire]

Nice video. I'm from India. There was a famous historical TV show here about emperor Ashoka and the Mauryan royal family. So there were many episodes about Chandra Gupta Maurya's interaction with Selucus-1. Chandragupta married Selucus-1's daughter and there was a lot of drama and politics in the palace and fusion of indian and Greek culture.etc Your video reminded me of that show. Awesome video by the way!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thank you! And ooh interesting, I say Seleucus made a good deal, peace for marriage and in return, he got lots of war elephants, definitely helped him further down the line. :)

[@jaygasper4853]

I first learned about the Selucids doing a research paper on Chandragupta

[@zzzzz653]

@@AncientHistoryGuy it is unfortunate that you omitted the most crucial result of the war - Seleucus had come to win back territories east of Indus won by Alexander but which had subsequently been taken over Chandragupta. Seleucus not only failed in this, he ended ceded a vast territory comprising of 4 states of Gedrosia. Arachosia, Paropamisadae and Aria, all to the west of Indus.

[@exposedbhauturma130]

"historical" lmao. That show was a soap opera. It would be more just to call it an unintentional parody of history. Even Assassin's Creed is more "historical" than whatever that crap was

[@heathenfire]

@@exposedbhauturma130 i didn't say "historically accurate", just historical, as it was based on historical events.

[@teitr28]

For some reason I feel like this video is at 0.75 speed.

[@Boudiccat]

Thank god I wasn't the only one - at 1.25 playback it sounds normal to me

[@teitr28]

@@Boudiccat I kept it on 1.0, it was surreal, tried 1.25 but that made the animations weird.

[@Supergforce777]

The music’s slow beat made your brain think that

[@PranabMallick.]

@@teitr28 yeah

[@MercenaryCamp]

Nice video. I loved to play as Seleucid Empire in the first Rome Total war. They had too many territories by the way. With that level of logistics, it was extremely difficult to control such a vast area. Btw, splendid ambient on the background)

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thank you! And me too! Last time I played as them was in Rome 1, reconquered alexanders empire and got into a stalemate with Rome, I would take territory then they would take it back, then I would retake it and so on. Long time ago :D

[@Ellinon_Vasileus]

Rtw (europa Barbarorum mod)... So many hours, days, months on this game

[@owenb8636]

I liked seleucids too but all I remember about the early part of that campaign was siege battles 4 lyf

[@unspeakablemind260]

europa barbarorum @_@

[@surg23]

Funny that in Rome TW the Seleucid's have possibly the strongest unit roster in the game. Cataphracts, pike dudes and cretan archers right on their doorstep. Once you go Cataphract you never go back.

[@herbthompson8937]

i was never a fan of the super heavy cavalry. the very heavy cavalry still can have decent speed

[@funhistory7640]

1 mistake The seleucids were conquered by Tigranes II of Armenia , after the romans defeated the arminians at the battle of tegranocirta The romans took all Armenian provinces

[@davidrosner6267]

Did the Parthian Empire also expand to fill part of the power vacuum after the Romans defeated the Armenians?

[@Lycurgus1982]

The Seleucids were occupied during a long dynastic civil war by Armenia, but Tigranes II relinquished his hold on Syria and for a brief time the Seleucid dynastic houses were back at each others throats, until Pompey annexed it.

[@creamycereal]

Actually that’s wrong, the selectors held off the Armenians in southern Syria before with Roman help they retook Syria, but then of course Pompey came along...

[@mattbowdenuh]

Watching this after playing Imperator Rome :)

[@FlashPointHx]

Nice video! I was really drawn in by your thumbnail of it as well - nicely done!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thanks flashpoint! Loving your recent videos, they have been the perfect way to start the day over here in the UK! :)

[@christianenglert1620]

Why is it just now I'm discovering you're channel?? I love it!

[@jimmywax247]

Watching this really made me miss the scenarios you could play on Civilization II.

[@Axeltonn]

My favorite of the successor kingdoms along with Epirus.

[@janfarkas8953]

Indeed. Only Alex's empire tops them

[@aidansumner8364]

Epirus is less of a successor kingdom and more of a break-away state that already existed before Macedon incorporated it.

[@elsiealbert4169]

I will always follow the seleucid empire till the end.

[@thejadondaviscommentaries1613]

No one ever talks about the Maccabees when they talk about the Seleucids

[@eho6380]

Exactly! Someone who mentioned it.

[@Lycurgus1982]

It's the other way around. The Bible is a good example.

[@901kingful]

I love playing the seleucid empire in total war games.

[@EvilSmonker]

Love the wide variety of topics covered on this channel, all well done!

[@Lorzhov]

Seeing the older AHG videos with the comical text bubbles is so good!

[@S-ToFu]

they did well despite being surrounded by hostile factions everywhere

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Oh yeah thats for sure, most empires who are attacked in all fronts in ancient times quickly fall. They (Seleucids) managed to reconquered lost territories. When playing Rome total i turn mad to see all these enemies, imagine in real life

[@Punk1917]

you should lower the music a bit. Sometimes its hard to hear you

[@LookHereMars]

Got to love a cheeky bit of History. subscribed. 👍

[@michaelgoldsmith9359]

You didn’t mention during the peace deal for those elephants Seleucus gave up loads of eastern satraps to the mayrians which would have in value been able to buy the same amount of elephants 10 times over

[@crackshack2]

And then the Indians would ally with Antigonus.

[@sarthaksharma5772]

Tbh, Seleucus knew he could not defeat the Mauryas so he accepted the deal. Even let her daughter marry in the family

[@michaelgoldsmith9359]

Sarthak Sharma yea maybe they had to make the deal but he portrayed it as a good deal which it certainly wasn’t

[@human3213]

Lol cause selecus lost the freaking war Mairyans defeated him

[@bakanani8040]

@@crackshack2 Indians didn't ally with Antiognus, it was an economic relationship but they were closed to Selucids.

[@mr.hornblower9734]

Ever since the Triarii vid I've been following you. Really good stuff man.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thank you for sticking around! And thanks! :)

[@anuragmishra5680]

Selucus was defeated by indian king chandragupta maurya.after that he made peace

[@philRminiatures]

What a wide suject, and empire...Successions are sometimes bloody! Great vid!

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Indeed! The Seleucid Empire definitely had some whacky rulers that's for sure! Thank you! :D

[@Brutian96]

it is AntiOchus not antirikus other than that nice video.

[@_robustus_]

Brutian I have also heard the second syllable stressed

[@Moribus_Artibus]

I wish you went more in detail about Pompey’s war in the east and how exactly it all crumbled

[@justinmckay6309]

I love your videos

[@Aethelhart]

Good video with helpful maps, but you covered a lot of territory without showing it saying any dates, which would have added a ton to this presentation.

[@Agent1W]

The Greeks could rule the world. Alexander did. But he is dead. His empire is gone. And so we live in evil days...

[@karolean8342]

The new ambient music /sound is much better, I have to admit the old one didn't really fit with the whole thing.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thank you! Composing the backing track was weird as technically its a 12 bar blues, but its at atmospheric ancient twelve bar blues? And i agree, in the process of composing some new music for each series :)

[@kaisermoneybags4450]

i hope your channel gets big before you run out of history to discuss.

[@mustafaalwan6523]

4:50 worst day of my life .

[@janfarkas8953]

Yep😪😪

[@thescarecrow2710]

AWESOME VIDEO!!! CONGRATS

[@nmsregicide]

I cant believe I am only finding this channel now

[@sergiovieira8272]

Antiochos III Megas/Antiochos The Great, one of the most badass Greek Kings ever... ☺ Great video about one on of the most interesting of the Diadochi. Reminds me of the mind-blowing campaigns in the Europa Barbarorum mod for Rome-Total War with the Seleucids and the sheer amount of insanity im holding up against Ptolomaic Egypt, Pontus, Bactria, Parthia, Macedonia, Greek Poleis and, even the bloody Carthaginians once...

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

I agree the amount he did in the time he was king is mind-blowing. And never tried out the mod, always wanted to though. the last campaign I did in Rome 1 was the Seleucids, I managed to retake alexanders empire, and then got locked in a stalemate with Rome, I would take a territory then they would retake it, and then I would take it back and so on. :)

[@Persian_Queen_Cassandane]

@@AncientHistoryGuy Antiochus III the Great was a Persian-Greek king and his wife was Persian. Seleucids were a mix of Greeks and Persians.

[@Mr101spb]

This video doesn’t even tell you who conquered them. You can literally Google “Seleucid empire conquered” and it’ll tell you it was Tigranes the Great of Armenia.

[@TaeSunWoo]

I need to stop sleeping on the Seleucid Empire

[@jimmyfaulkner1855]

Great video! I was wondering should Antiochus III be labelled a successful or unsuccessful Seleucid King? Was he a good king or a bad king? I ask this because he ruled over a large region of the territory in Syria, expanded the empire’s territory, and was even referred to as “the great” or “great king.” He even declared himself as the “champion of Greek freedom against Roman domination.” However, he did lose many later battles to Rome and eventually much of the Seleucid territory would become subsumed by other powers. So, overall, should he be labelled as a successful or unsuccessful Seleucid King?

[@jota357]

That is an amazing question.

[@mattpliska]

That population figure is ridiculously high. The parthians never had more than 20 million. And the achaemenids had 40 million at most. 60 million would represent nearly half the worlds population

[@Lycurgus1982]

A snap history of the Seleucid Empire. Very entertaining, but it is missing a great many details.

[@Skull.man00]

I'm quiet interested in Seleucid history. They were quite a nation, in quite unique situation. Tbh, I feel kinda sad how Hannibal Barka managed to manipulate Antioch III into destroying his own empire without him even realizing. By that I mean the Seleucid war against Romans. Romans were at war with some parts of Greece. Seleucids interfered. Rome was actually kinda scary of Seleucids, they had no intentions about starting a war against Seleucids, and offered a peace deal, in favor of Seleucids. However, although Antioch III was more likely going to accept the peace, Hannibal Barka talked him out of it, and told him to go to war against Romans. Seleucids lost the battle, and after that Romans pushed hard into Seleucids, what started a downfall of Seleucid Empire

[@celtictemplar]

Great video as always, would you ever do a video on the Qin dynasty

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Sometime in the future! :)

[@funhistory7640]

Love you Great channel 2 vids in a week Why reupload ?

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thanks! And i tried to upload it this morning, and it just kept bugging out, so i decided the good old turn it off and back on again method, and reuploaded the video. Seems to have worked :D

[@florentberisha3095]

Amazing content success

[@george5677]

It’s funny to hear those factions like Pontus or pergamon when you play a lot of Rome 2 total war😂

[@kangaskhan7164]

*Persia 2: electric boogaloo*

[@shadhinov]

1:00 resulting in Seleucus getting his ass handed to him by Chandragupta Maurya. Since, the Mauryans were wise, they then decided to barter up a "peace treaty" which would cause Seleucus to fuck off back to Egypt.

[@sarthaksharma5772]

1:08 how can you forget that he had to give up provinces and her daughter married ChandraGupta Maurya

[@cherryyaki2248]

I have two questions. What kind of drugs were you taking when you thought that background music was a good idea and where can I find some?

[@cliffgriffen623]

Did I miss it or did you just got give the times on this stuff and figured it was all like the same day

[@KheptlaxaXonu]

Watch at 1.25 speed. Fantastic.

[@chrisbotos]

You are doing an amazing job keep going! KZbin recommended your channel to me and I am sure the same is going to happen to others. Expect rapid growth my friend ,now is your chance

[@vardansimonyan966]

one little thing, they conquered by Tigranes II of Armenia, and then handed to Romans as a part of peace treaty btw Rome and Arm

[@PatilAdi]

Chandragupta Maurya be like- “Hey that’s my bitch”

[@wankawanka3053]

Dreams

[@jagdishhooda7853]

Make avidio on saka saithian

[@Defiant_0103]

Who else is looking up the history of every faction in total war: Rome 2??? XD

[@DanishnSonic]

When i play rtw with the Selucids I'd take and migrate to the islands because i knew i can't win there, plus with enemies from all directions i can't really trade. Now I'm just fighting the Romans and doing pretty well. After that, Anatolia it is.

[@adhitya858]

ayyyy this is one my birthday

[@erik-7255]

Subbed at 5.6 wonder how far your gonna get.

[@idanzamir7540]

Hannukah intensifies

[@philvalz]

Nice! Didn't know that Parthia already was once independent before taking over former Persia for good until now.

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

What do you mean by "fromer" Persia, Persia is the name of a country/place which later came during the Sassanids,and moreover, both Parthians and Persians are of the same blood. (Modern Parthians are Afghans btw)

[@Persian_Queen_Cassandane]

@@LionKing-ew9rm Parthians have nothing to do with Afghanis (Pashtuns). Persians, Medes, Parthians are modern Iranians.

[@aradsstates9584]

Lion King parthians are not Afqans they’re iranians and afqans are iranian +mongolian+turks but their language and speaking is persian so they are iranian at all and their race were pure iranian before chengiz khan invasion of mongolians. And yes before mongolian and arabs there wasn’t any different between north iranians ,khorsasanians and some bacterians and soqdians because they were all parthians.

[@philvalz]

@@LionKing-ew9rm Sorry, maybe should have said for achaemenid empire instead.

[@adamorlowski4886]

Woohoo, good stuff.

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Thank you! :D

[@720Gainer]

What is your source that Ptolemy assassinated Alxender the Great?

[@ChevyChase301]

Ptolomy Keraunus killed Seleukos I

[@AnnieAreYouWokeEh]

Yeah but is access to armoured war elephants worth the difficult start?

[@globalwarninguk]

good video but what about Antiochus IV ?

[@sbarz106]

Here before Imperator Rome players invade this video

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

We are too depressed by the terrible state of it at launch to invade ):

[@schizoidboy]

Someone commented to me that the Carthaginians got their war elephants from the Seleucids, is that true?

[@bobsvagene3021]

I guess the Persians took their revenge at the end after all.

[@alaaasi]

Parthians are scythians not persian

[@Persian_Queen_Cassandane]

@@alaaasi Parthians and Scythians were Iranians, you idiot.

[@williamlee7672]

Couldn’t hear you talk. Turn music down or no music at all.

[@ChevyChase301]

Recently bought a coin of Seleukos Nikator. I believe I will display it on a map of the actions of the mauryan or 5th war of the diadochi

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

oooh awesome! :)

[@diegoragot655]

@@AncientHistoryGuy hello there, were the Gutians of Mesopotamia Iranian-speaking people?? or at least Indo-Europeans?

[@maxnetirtimon4121]

before Pompey conquered Seleucid's Tigranes the Great had conquered them

[@aradsstates9584]

Exactly armenia destroyed the seleucid dynasty 👌🏻

[@maxnetirtimon4121]

@@aradsstates9584 دقیقا

[@wankawanka3053]

@@maxnetirtimon4121 not really rome was the one who dealt the most damage parthia and Armenia just took advantage of that

[@wertin200]

Please for everything that you do good, remove the music it is far to loud and you already have quite a dimp voice

[@shubniggurath3221]

Nice

[@HistoryHouseProductions]

Two videos in a week!?!? *insert shocked Pikachu meme*

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Same here, more so because I even got next weeks video done as well! XD

[@stormyprawn]

@@AncientHistoryGuy well done thanks for the more regular video scheme!

[@lonelytemplar9579]

I was playing Rome: Total War while watching this

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

B.. but Alexander was a Slav the same as fyrom so why are his successor empires Hellenic? Joking I just hate hearing Slavs role-playing the Greek king and claiming him as their own

[@Xo-3130]

You do know that Slavs were not even an actual thing back then and the inhabitants of the Balkan are in part mix breed of whoever were living their or migrated...

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

@@Xo-3130 I know that but I hate how the Bulgars in the fyrom claim to be the same country as the kingdom of macedon

[@bruhman2147]

Watching this right after taking over the world in Rome total war lol

[@magistermilitum1206]

How is this complicated

[@sjeggy6]

Guess they should've saved oratory power. It would've instantly converted everyone.

[@mermory5071]

You need to add years

[@maji2758]

Neat video! The seleucids always seemed a little incompetent.

[@Nnothingg-]

Rip alexander

[@lucymiyu5754]

Seleucus was the most intelligent of diodachis 😮

[@owo5869]

Im a new subscribers im finding videos about Theben sacred band end up finding cathage

[@AncientHistoryGuy]

Similar names different units! Welcome to the channel! :)

[@mr.hornblower9734]

@@AncientHistoryGuy You should really make a Discord for your channel, I'd join for sure.

[@badixonly1]

Like tha animation

[@Nasengold]

You sure that in this time the "c" before "i" was already a modern english "c" sound and not still a "k"? Sounds really weird.

[@billdehappy1]

masedonia duh...

[@sao7967]

Eyyyyyyy But Iam sad..

[@calebrussell3549]

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy said the Romans,eating the Mediterranean sea for breakfast

[@Ellinon_Vasileus]

By grecomacedonian you mean Greek Wright??? Because us, makedonians we are Greeks.

[@IPendragonI]

No he meant Macedonian. While the Macedonians were Greeks at that time period they were not united. The Athenians called themselves the Athenians, Sparta called themselves Spartans and Macedon called themselves Macedonians.

[@Ellinon_Vasileus]

@@IPendragonINo offense but this doesn't make sense. Yes we still have are toponimical names as they did. Yes they call themselves Spartans Athenians etc but all of them was Greek and had almost the same culture in building cities. As we are still. Cretan, thracians, eipirotes, Macedonians etc... Calling something Grecomacedonian is like calling something Englondonian or Moschorussian!!!

[@gdi1093]

No, Greeks are Macedonian, not the other way around.

[@Ellinon_Vasileus]

@@gdi1093 you want to educate me about myself 🤣... Greeks (hellenes) is our ethnicity, our origin. All the other names are topological distinctions between ourselves and some is to categorize our "tribes" among the hellenic nation. Like a newYorker and a Washington citizen are both Americans, but they use those terms to saw from where they are. Nothing more nothing less. Greeks never really united not even now. But they new and recognize to the other tribe that they are the same. If you look close to our history, even single cities were divided and not united. It's our thing. Curse from the gods I don't know.

[@dacho707]

@@Ellinon_Vasileus your national identity is 200 years old

[@walterkovacs7365]

No Tyler we don't say Seleucid we say Parthian we're in 2nd century BC

[@JoseSanchez-rb4rz]

Where have you been all my life

[@martian6865]

'pom-pee' 'atro-clis' Wtf dude lol

[@mr.hornblower9734]

I've created an unofficial Discord server for the channel, to be able to interact with like minded people. If Ancient History Guy wants it taken down, I will oblige. If he joins, I will be transferring ownership. discord.gg/SRkCSXJ We have channels for all your history discussion needs, so join now!

[@wankawanka3053]

Rome kinda helped the parthians to establish themselves so they created their new enemy