Darius the Great: The Life and Times of the Great King of Persia in his Own Words (𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁)

In this program we'll take a look at the illustrious life of the great Persian King of Kings, Darius I, also known as Darius the Great. Regarded by many as the most powerful ruler of the Achaemenid Dynasty of ancient Iran, Darius I is also amongst its most controversial. We'll dive deeper into the life of great king, the contentious debate about his rise to power, and ultimately examine the words of Darius himself about his these and other aspects of his life and beliefs.
Contents:
00:00 Introduction and Historical Context
03:37 Early Life of Darius
05:14 Rise to Power as told in the Behistun Inscription
16:55 Lineage and Family of Darius
18:10 Rebellions and Troubles of 522 BC
20:43 Architect of an Empire: Satrapies, Reforms, Roads and Canals
25:19 Darius the Builder: Susa and Persepolis
33:50 Expansion of the Achaemenid Empire
35:25 The Ionian Revolt
37:17 Invasion of Greece and the Battle of Marathon
43:21 Thank You and Patrons
Special thanks to Farya Faraji for the music:
"Achaemenes"
"Shirin and Khosrow"
"The Riding Angaros"
"Memory of Cyrus"
"Spantodhata's Warning"
"The Apadana's Shadow"
"Battle of Cunaxa"
"Hyrcanian Lullaby"
"Immortals"
"Apranik's Charge"
"March of Achaemenes"
Check out more of his work that spans across many countries, cultures and time periods:
/ @faryafaraji
Additional Music:
Epidemic Sound
Special thanks to Malay Archer for creating the astounding machinimas that really brought this program to life using the Total War: Rome 2 Divide et Impera, Cyrus the Great campaign and Age of Bronze mod.
Check out more of his work here:
/ @malayarcher
Related Videos:
The History of Persepolis and a Walking Tour of the Site
• The History of Persepo...
Exploring the Royal Necropolis of Naqsh-e Rustam (Achaemenid Tombs / Sasanian Reliefs)
• Exploring the Royal Ne...
Cambyses II and the Persian Conquest of Egypt (Achaemenid Persian Empire)
• Cambyses II and the Pe...
Cyrus the Great and the Birth of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
• Cyrus the Great and th...
History of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Part I (550-486 BC; Cyrus the Great - Darius the Great)
• History of the Achaeme...
History of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Part II (486-330 BC; Xerxes I - Alexander the Great)
• History of the Achaeme...
Sources and Suggested Reading:
From Cyrus the Alexander - Pierre Briant
Ancient Persia: A Concise History of the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BCE - Matt Waters
The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period - Amélie Kuhrt
A History of Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Empire (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) - Maria Brosius
History of the Persian Empire - A.T. Olmstead
The Iranian Expanse - Matthew P. Canepa
Persepolis and Its Surroundings - Heidemarie Kokh
The Persians - Jim Hicks
The Authoritative Guide to Persepolis - A. Shapur Shahbazi
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[@SqwarkParrotSpittingFeathers]

Even if you could call the Torah/bible/Quran evidence, it’s poor. For example, if the bible is egregiously faulty then the main character’s existence is likely fantasy. If the existence of Yahweh/Allah is a fiction (Muslims believe in the first five books of the Old Testament) then the god man/prophet Jesus cannot stand, nor any Abrahamic Prophet, such as Muhammad. Faith based on the contents of the bible/Quran is worthless for the following reasons… Of the Canaanite gods. El was the top god (sort of Roman Saturn) Ba’al (Jupiter) was next, then down the line was the war god Yahweh (Mars). The Jews nicked him and made him the creator. All nonsense. The first line of the bible is clearly incorrect. The Earth was formed at least 9.8 billion years after the heavens. How did the creator get that wrong? And, the rest of the creation is wrong. It’s as if an ancient ignorant tribe wrote it all by themselves, no god to help. There are no waters above the firmament. Heaven isn’t up there either, we’ve been there. The tribes of the Middle East wouldn’t have known oceans would be frozen but for the heat of the sun. Yet, in the biblical account, water filled the oceans and outer space, all with no sun. The light that made up the day was created before the sun. The ancients had no concept it was the sun that caused day and night onto a rotating Earth. The moon isn’t a light. It’s fiction by an ignorant tribe with no access to a god creator. Adam was made from dirt by magic and he, this god, forgot about Eve, an afterthought. so not an all knowing and wise god then? Snakes and donkeys talk, nonsense fiction, right up there with Harry Potter, though JK Rowling was clearly a better writer with fewer continuity errors. This god set up Eve by placing this magic apple within her reach, before she knew right from wrong. Then punished humanity thereafter. What a vicious god, if not a fictional one. Nonsense fiction, by an ignorant ancient people writing about their mythology, their nation’s origins, steeped in the mists of the past, just the same as the Greek, Persian and Babylonian cultures write about their make believe gods who were equally fervently worshipped. Inanna, the dying and rising goddess was such an example. But many more dying and rising gods in the lexicon of ancient myths. Virgin births were pretty common too. Adam and Eve’s children (as Eve was a clone of Adam) and grandchildren (as Cain, Able and Seth only had Eve to produce offspring or with their unknown sisters) could only have been produced by incest, then double incest, according to the biblical account. But, as Eve was a clone of Adam, there would be no genetic diversity. Such a lack of diversity would have meant the death of the human species, ask the Hapsburgs. But then, their god wouldn’t have known about genetics? Of course not. The Exodus apparently didn’t happen according to all evidence, acknowledged by the Jewish archaeologists who have tried to find it. The Egyptians never wrote of their army being swallowed by the sea. Mosses may never existed. There is a massive amount of genocide in the bible by a god who failed to get the locals to behave. Genocide because the Israelites needed a land to make home. If a creator of the universe and humans could have just thought a new land, a new island, south of Cyprus, it would have appeared. Easy for a god, not so for an ancient tribe to pull off? Then, this god could have told these others how to behave and punished individuals, if that’s what was needed. But no, he went straight to mass murder. What? And, the greatest god in the universe was defeated by iron chariots: Judges1:19. That is so ridiculous, such a puny god. Or, is it because the story was a creation of a tribe that had no concept of future technologies or tactics to defeat these new Iron Age chariots? I’m sure that a human Napoleon type tactician could have done better than the all wise, all powerful fictitious creator god. Genesis 19 tells us of Lot being raped by this daughters. And yet this god is moral? He could have changed the course of their predicament, found him a younger wife or servant to sleep with, if a god. More incest. Abrahamic religion is a blood sacrifice barbaric religion. The books that were supposedly written by Mosses consist of a linguistic style that didn’t exist at the time of his “life”. It’s a fictitious narrative, written by the Jews to give their new nation an historical legitimacy, and unify them, in the midst of other powerful cultures in the Middle East. Didn’t help much though, they were constantly being invaded and subjugated by more powerful “gods” of other warring nations. Even Yahweh acknowledged there were other gods. Remember the Ten Commandments tablets that were conveniently broken and then without fuss, lost. An all powerful creator of the universe who missed the opportunity to create the tablets out of an advanced technology, Titanium or, something really exotic perhaps? Is that because the Jews didn’t know about such a thing with no understanding of the future? The forging and preservation of such a technology would have cemented the truth of their god. Broken conveniently disappeared stone tablets: clearly, no god involved. Noah and his flood occurred when the Egyptians where going about their cultural and religious practices that continued afterwards; and, their religion was not replaced by the flood family’s immediate ancestors, fanning out from the ark. The Pharaohs and their gods continued unabated. No Yahweh? More incest? The Chinese culture and writing developed along a continuum and they too were never taken the religion of Yahweh from the Middle East, by Noah’s relatives. And, the ancient Britons and Australians failed to notice they were meant to be dead. The New Testament, if it is read, critically, is inconsistent and evolves over time. Indeed, the gospels were not written for decades after the death of this Jesus, whose birth and death are still questionable and no date can be asserted with clarity. There’s no evidence that all the first born were killed either in Egypt nor by Herod. I think the Egyptians would have recorded such a calamity and the calamities of the plagues, but nothing. Was it all made up? There is real historical evidence of John the Baptist, but not of the greater Jesus. There is historical evidence of Apollonius of Tyana, who allegedly ascended to heaven, similar to Jesus, but there is no extra biblical evidence of Jesus during his lifetime. There is an historical record of Jesus Ben Pandera but, no Jesus the Galilean outside of the bible. Nothing. There’s Jesus ben Ananias, a rude peasant, who went around Jerusalem in 66CE prophesying its fall in 70CE; he’s recorded in documents outside the bible, but not the biblical Jesus. His alleged disciples never wrote anything they were uneducated peasants. Contemporaries never recorded his miracles nor his troublesome nature. The bible account says he was widely known and a divisive figure that the Romans never recorded. Neither did the Jews. And, the crucified were left to rot on the cross/pole on which they were hung as a warning to insurrectionists? No empty tomb, it’s a fiction to turn a myth into a “fact”. To turn a dead man or a fictional man into god. Pilate was, in real history, recorded history, a truly nasty contemptuous man, he would never have allowed the process of crucifixion as a warning to have been undermined. And, the alleged trial is a tale of the blood cult of scapegoating. Even Barabbus was a literary device representing scapegoating, suggesting it never occurred. Barabbus means, son of the teacher, or son of the father. The gospel writers where representing the two characters as essentially the same, one became the goat sacrifice. And, the twist was that the Jews shouted to let the murderer go, allowing the blame for Jesus’s death to be placed on the Jews and not the imperial Romans. It was very much a political narrative because the Jews and Romans where essentially at war, the destruction of the Temple in 70AD/CE, and this new sect/cult needed to distinguish themselves from the Jewish troublemakers, and the ongoing violence of the time. Paul never knew Jesus and only depicted him as a spiritual vision. He knew nothing of the man and nothing of his life or his teachings. More evidence that the Chrestos (anointed) was mythical? The first time the gospels were mentioned was in 180AD/CE by Irenaeus. Indeed, a very prominent Christian, Theophilus, said that he came to believe in Jesus from reading the Jewish Scriptures or, Torah. No mention of the gospels, no quoting of anything Jesus allegedly said. Best date for the gospels is circa, 170-182AD/CE. The myth of the god man Jesus was created over many years. Mark was first written, not until at least 70AD/CE, say Christian scholars but, as above, likely much later. No record of the star of Bethlehem, of the graves emptying, or the sky darkening. It’s fiction. No Mosses, Abraham, No Noah, no Flood. As for flying horses in the Quran, that’s straight out of Greek mythology. No one should believe in such nonsense today

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Thanks, great to hear! I'll continue to put out more ancient Iranian history in the near future. Thanks for watching and Nowruz Mobarak!

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Thanks so much and glad that you learned something new from this one. Thanks also for watching, really appreciate it!

[@artkoenig9434]

Thank you, Cy@ I really appreciate the many quotes of Darius' proclamations you have used Well done! I had to listen from beginning to end.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! Haha like the title says, Life and Times of Darius "in his Own Words" so I had to quote him quite a bit! As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

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What an amazing full story of Darius. I always love the citation of the primary sources. Thank you for the great work

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I'm sure that you also recognized some of stuff from the Louvre too! Thanks for support the channel from the beginning, really appreciate it!

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You're the best man. I love your series on Greek and Persian history and always listened to them on Spotify. I noticed that you were less active recently, and I'm truly gald you're back again. Wishing you all the best Cy! 🙌

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, really appreciate the feedback and glad you're into Greek and Persian history as I have a lot more of it planned for later on this year. Thank so much for the support and for watching!

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Haha I can't make them quick enough... I have so many topics I'd like to cover, just not enough time. Lot more on the Bronze Age coming up but I also want to move further down the timeline of antiquity and into early medieval history which I also find fascinating. Anyway thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

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Is it not amazing that this great administrator who gave us the idea of so many concepts, which are still prevalent in our daily modern life, is only known in the west as the guy who was defeated in Marathon?

[@HistorywithCy]

Yeah, and he technically wasn't there, he sent his generals instead. I think he was respected by the Greeks because they don't say too many negative things about him. The invasion of Greece that Darius ordered was more to punish Athens and its allies because and protect the Bosporus which the Persians controlled. Xerxes though is seen in a much more negative light due to his full-on invasion of the Greek mainland and ultimate defeat. Thanks for watching!

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Alexander spanked the Persians and took their lands

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Your videos are so engaging! I just prepared myself a cup of coffee, watched the video and took notes about it to further enhance my knowledge about the Persian empire. Thank you from Argentina!

[@HistorywithCy]

You're welcome, glad these are helpful and thanks for the feedback! Yo amo Argentina! I was in Buenos Aires in 2006 and 2008 to study economia...it is because of this I still say "vos" and say all "y" and "ll" with as a "sh" sound. One day I want to go back to visit Mendoza and Cordoba as I've seen photos and the area looks so beautiful. Anyway, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

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My pleasure, thanks so much for watching!

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The Behistun inscription is such a wonderfully Freudian document!

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Thanks, will do my best! Thanks for watching!

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I just subscribed after watching “complete… Sumerian civilization.” Could ask if you could make a playlist with all the “complete” videos?

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Sure, check out the playlist "Epic Civilizations and Empires." Thanks for watching!

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[@Breakfast_of_Champions]

Good one, especially some real footage from the ancient Persian sites mixed with the ancient text!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I like this format too and will do my best to do the same (live video + textual resources) as much as possible. Thanks for watching!

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Love your stuff, as always!

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Thank you, so glad you enjoyed this!

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Nowruz Mobarak!! All the best!

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[@Taharqo.saved.the.Hebrew]

By the time Darius set foot in Egypt with his great Persian empire, the Pyramids of Giza where already 2000 year's old , so Ancient Egypt was also Ancient in the times of Darius,

[@HistorywithCy]

Yeah I always find it fascinating that as far back in time as the Roman Empire is for us, Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations was just as old for them! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

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[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and more on the way!

[@GLeibniz1716]

One of the most overlooked great rulers his non military accomplishments are as significant as his conquests thanks and be safe!

[@HistorywithCy]

Agreed, thanks for watching!

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I love your content Cy, never stop

[@HistorywithCy]

Will do my best to keep going! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

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Phenomenal video of life Before the new gods~

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I love your presentations. I can even get my grandchildren interested

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Haha that's awesome... I can barely get members of my family to watch these, but then again they're not really into history (I'm trying to change that!). Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

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It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about (Darius) the great ...thank you 🙏(history with Cy) channel for sharing

[@HistorywithCy]

My pleasure, thank YOU for watching, really appreciate and more Persian history on the way!

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Thanks!

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Yet another amazing video. 👌🏻 It’s very intriguing what happened regarding Darius’ throne ascension. Makes you wonder about both Cambyses’ brother and Achaemenes. Thanks for the video. ⚔️

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and see what really happened. As always, thanks so much for watching and the support!

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[@HistorywithCy]

You're welcome, thank YOU for watching!

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[@HistorywithCy]

You're welcome and I love all the viewers! Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

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The most fascinating thing about this is, at least one of them - to me, is that just as dramatic and intricate events were happening in all human societies, both earlier and later, but since they left no writing, we just forgot

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Agreed...thanks for watching!

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Thank you 🙏

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[@205mohamad]

I think it’s possible that before Cambyses left for Egypt he put Bardiya in a regent role. Cyrus went to Babylon, Anatolia, and Scythia for his campaigns. His maternal grandfather went into Mesopotamia during his conquest of Assyria. There’s a precedent about Iranian rulers to be away from their capital and lands. So I feel like it makes sense that Cambyses would leave his brother in charge while he was gone. Now about the idea of Bardiya taking the kingship for himself, I’m a little split. On one hand, Cambyses was planning on campaigning as far as Carthage, so him suddenly leaving Egypt to go back to Persia feels off. But the only sources we have on Bardiya say he was actually dead by then. Couldn’t it be possible that after Cambyses died, Bardiya just inherited the kingship and that’s when Darius took the opportunity to enact his conspiracy?

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One of the GOAT's for sure.

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😊 I always look forward to your Official Pronouncement Narration 😊

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha thanks, it's one of my favorite parts of putting these together...the more quotes, the more fun I have. Thanks as always for tuning to in to these, really appreciate it!

[@all3ykat79]

Can you please cover the first two Artaxerxes soon please? They had very long reigns.

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

Wonderful work Cy, thank you as always for your hard work.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you found it interesting! Thanks as always for tuning in and stay tuned for the next one!

[@beasleydad]

You're too good to us. I can't afford to add your patreon or anything like that, but I still wish I could help. I've got a really good audio set up, I could read some inscriptions for you.

[@HistorywithCy]

No need, just you continuing to watch means a lot, so thanks for your support! Sure, will let you know although I'll admit, reading the quotes is probably my favorite part of creating the videos (besides researching them), so I might just stick to that...haha but thanks for the offer, really appreciate it!

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Now this is a surprise!

[@HistorywithCy]

Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Many of us would argue there is another Cyrus the Great. Thank you for the video, keep up the good work!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks my friend for continuing to tune into these, really means a lot and am thrilled you like the videos enough to keep coming back. Stay tuned for more...Egypt Dynasties 21-24 are next!

[@jayb-wickorsnow5956]

You da man Cy.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks so much for watching, appreciate it!

[@hamidrezabahrami4706]

Happy new year _ancient norooz 🎉

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you, same to you!

[@fanzy1338]

Darius the great is considered as one of the top 5 Great kings of all Iranians empires to include Shapur II, Nader Shah, Reza Shah, Mithridates II, and of course Cyrus the great.

[@HistorywithCy]

That's a great list! I would also add to Shapur II and Khosrow I...I'm probably missing a few. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

[@raulpetrascu2696]

"I did not lie, I did not lie, I'm legitimate, all I did was not a lie and you should punish anyone who says it's a lie because I did not lie" Hmm... he doth protest too much

[@annaquay4183]

Yes Cy!

[@JugheadJones03]

Great music.

[@HistorywithCy]

Glad you enjoyed it, it's all done by Farya Faraji. Check out his channel @faryafaraji. Thanks for watching!

[@just_kos99]

I really love your narration and your videos, and that you're named Cyrus yourself. Very cool.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you're enjoying these! Lot's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

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Mhhhhh sweeeeeeet sweeeeeeet knowledge

[@HistorywithCy]

Hope you enjoy it and thanks so much for watching!

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[@Lusssiinn]

I like this one

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you!

[@BlackMasterRoshi]

jeez, why doesn't he just MARRY Ahura Mazda!?

[@Quickshot0]

It certainly is possible to concoct all kinds of conspiracies on how Darius came to rule the Persian Empire, especially considering the sometimes unusual events that led to the crowning of leaders in other empires. It's to bad that we don't know enough to know if anything untoward happened for sure though, as it does seem something at least a little unusual went down there.

[@brando74]

Dear Cy. I LOVE your videos. I love history and in that subject your videos are top!!!! And I hope you (personly) don't take the bollywood version of Darius / Herodotes story of Cambyses for truth versions. Here is my version: Bardya loved his brother Cambyses. Bardya went to egypt with Cambyses. Neither Cambyses nor Bardya had any sons, which makes "Bardya's assasination by Cambyses" highly unlikely. (Who would take over the throne after them then?) I would go as far as saying after CAmbyses concoured Egypt, Bardya went back from Egypt to Pasargade and ordered to carve his brother Cambyses (which we mistakenly think it is the picture of Cyrus) as King of Elam (cloth), King of Babylon (the wings) and FAROE OF EGYPT (the helmet and crown ) at the gate of Pasargade. Bardya went back and carved the figure as soon as Cambyses became Faroe of Egypt. And it was DARIUS who later carved "I am Cyrus, an achamenid". dont forget cyrus never went to egypt and he would not alow ppl to carve him as Faroe when he was not one. So While Bardya was in Iran and Cambyses and Darius in egypt, Darius planned to eliminate them both. First he killed Cambyses. Then he went back to Iran and killed THE REAL BARDYA in Hamedan. So Smerdis, Magush, naghush etc are all Darius inventions. Why did Darius do that? most likely because he also was aware of the no-son-situation of Cyrus' kids. In order to keep maintain what Cyrus had achieved he killed them both and took the throne. And if he had not done so, today we would know about cyrus as little as we know about Alexander. There would NEVER had been a persian empire in over 200 years. So maybe it was the most wise thing (at that time) to do for Darius.

[@justinopara1018]

Continue to rest in perfect peace Shahanshan Darius the great! The greatest of the greatest!

[@armychowmein8021]

Cy drops a video? Drop everything and jump on youtube right away!

[@HistorywithCy]

Hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching!

[@HACUNA89]

1:07 can you explain those War Cats?!?!

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha that's actually from Herodotus who says that the Persian army used/threw cats at the Egyptians who where afraid of killing them because they were sacred. I think the artist just added that in the painting due to that. Other than Herodotus there I've never heard of cats being used for such purposes, in Egypt or anywhere. Thanks for watching!

[@HACUNA89]

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[@kaarlimakela3413]

Oh my! Time for Cy! 😊

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

The Persian kings of Cyrus the Great & Achaemenid dynasty were truly King of Kings! What an ancient empire! This is why Alexander the Great had such immense respect for Darius mother & family. Even to the point that Alexanders fellow Macedonians were mad at his display of "Eastern" culture. Darius had the misfortune of being King when Alexander rose to the Macedonian kingship. But i think he should still be looked at as a great ruler that fought multiple times trying to defend his kingdom & did not shy away from his duties.

[@sjoerdjuxta]

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[@JacquesMare]

Hi Cy, your followers on Spotify miss you...... 😢

[@HistorywithCy]

Hi! Oh I've been putting the latest, longer ones up there. Mycenaean, Akkadian and this one should all be there. Let me know if you're having any problems downloading it. Thanks for watching/listening, really appreciate it!

[@homuraakemi493]

These guys give me some serious beard envy

[@waltonsmith7210]

Why would Cambysis kill his own heir? Ask Ivan the Terrible.

[@Raven-dz7sp]

Can you do a video on ancient south arabians?

[@HistorywithCy]

One day for sure, need to do a bit more research on the topic... thanks for watching!

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

​@@HistorywithCyThe Kingdom of Kedar and the Kingdom of Thamud paid tribute to the Assyrian Empire. It seems that they were weak.

[@IStevenSeagal]

@@user-fl5mq9kp7gWho didn't pay to the mighty Assyrians? Arabian kingdoms also paid tribute to the Sumerian and Akkadian empires over a millennium earlier. That doesn't mean that historians shouldnt shed some light on these kingdoms.

[@futon2345]

Daryavesh ❤

[@HistorywithCy]

𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁!

[@futon2345]

@@HistorywithCy cockledoodledoo to you too! 🤣

[@AarreLisakki]

if the version Darius gives about the identity of Bardiya is questioned and its all we have to go on, why not go with an even simpler order of events: perhaps Cambyses II also died BEFORE Bardiya took the throne, in which case he did so not as an usurper but just by being legitimately next in line, and the entire story of intrigue is just there to justify Darius's usurpation? I mean if we're taking him to be lying and in fact being an usurper of the proper heir to the throne anyhow, isn't the simple story with just one usurper more parsimonious than a rather convoluted one with two? And a number of rebellions right after his coming to power as well as the warnings against disbelieving his version of the story in the very inscriptions that tell it certainly sounds like his version of the story was widely disbelieved at the time, and that the transfer of power was widely seen as illegitimate.

[@wezacker6482]

I agree. This is the simplest, and thus most likely, explanation. It's not like human society has not been known to pretend to go along with something everyone knows isn't true for any multitude of reasons...

[@henkstersmacro-world]

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[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks!

[@blockmasterscott]

Man, if this was introduced as a plot for a mini series, it would have been rejected for being too unrealistic. 🤣🤣🤣 But it really happened! 😯😲😧 Another reason why I love history. 👍💪👊

[@HistorywithCy]

Me too! If cowriters would just read more history books, I think we'd have a lot of really good shows and movies out there. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

[@Ikit1Claw]

I have a question: why do these inscryptions contain so many repetitions?

[@matthewmatt5285]

To perpetuate the the Greatness of Darious and his God AhuraMazda undoubtedly,.. Pretty Obvious~~

[@rubiespruyt693]

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[@SquirrelGrrl]

Cy! Your dictation of the words of the ancients makes me feel like I’m hearing the Kings themselves!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad you find the quotes useful... reading the primary sources is my favorite part of putting these together, adds a new dimension to the story in my opinion. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

[@beepboop204]

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[@penguinlordalan]

I think I'll throw out my own crack pot theory; What if Darius was a usurper, but Bardiya was infact a fake? A fake put on the thrown by Darius to justify his own Usurping. As you pointed out Cambyses was seen as a cruel leader, and may have been a Kin Slayer. It's not hard to imagine the Nobles at court and that Satraps wanting him gone, but with him killing the only other air of Cyrus it would be hard to justify a new leader. If we assume Darius orchestrated the whole thing then usurping the thrown without good reason would have just put a target on himself by any other ambitious satrap, so what if he had Cambyses "accidentally" cut himself at the same time a Usurper parading as his brother took over? It would be a great way to justify taking over and "reestablishing" the proper order. Plus as long as they get treated well I don't see why Cambyses family would rat on Darius, especially if they liked Bardiya and he was killed by Cambyses

[@Yasha_Drobitski]

It is remarkable that your map does include phinicia but does not mention Judea or Jerusalem. Why? Any specific reason to not depict it in your map?

[@DieLuftwaffel]

This video brought forth unto you by Acura Mazda.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

[@DieLuftwaffel]

@@HistorywithCy Keep making great content as always, and of course I'll keep watching :)

[@axelkeithgranath]

gore vidal creation vibes

[@Vexcenot]

From this side of the video to that side of the video

[@gamerk1625]

Zoroastrianism is so underestimated . It's quite ridiculous.

[@IStevenSeagal]

Until king Artaxerxes II came and messed it all up.

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

​@@IStevenSeagalWhy did he marry another woman other than his sister?

[@IStevenSeagal]

@@user-fl5mq9kp7g He introduced two other deities besides Ahuramazda, creating a tribune godheads. And he also introduced fire worship. Thus annulling Zoroastrianism from being a monotheistic religion. He's basically what Paul is to Christianity.

[@user-fl5mq9kp7g]

@@IStevenSeagal Man, these are just legends that talk about the first royal family that ruled the Persian Medians. And man, when the Persian immigrants came to Iran, they were fighting the indigenous people, and when they defeated the indigenous people, the Aryan tribes, they were fighting each other, and they were just tribes, and this happened in real history.

[@epistemophile369]

Alexander joined the chat 🗿💀

[@sahilhossian8212]

Lord of Darius the Great: The Life and Times of the Great King of Persia in his Own Words (𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁) momentum 100

[@ala.r609]

The historic legacy, and deeds of the Darius's the great as a liberator from the long tyrannical reigns of the tyrant and slavery system in Egypt to restore the Egyptian belief in the Sun god Ru, by the Egypt's great king, whom defaced false gods sculptural images, for the God of creation, life and goodness.

[@King-bahram]

If you want to know how far is the territory of my kingdom?? See how far the spear of the Persian man has reached. Darius the Great