The Hidden History of Xerxes I: The Great King of the Persian Empire

Xerxes I was a king of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled ancient Persia between 486 BC and 465 BC. He is known primarily for his campaign against Greece, particularly his attempt to defeat Sparta, one of the prominent Greek city-states. During his reign, the famous Battle of Thermopylae took place, where the Greek fleet won a decisive victory over the Persians, preventing the expansion of the Persian Empire in Greece. Xerxes is remembered as one of the most prominent rulers of the vast Persian Empire, whose attempted domination over Greece was a significant turning point in ancient history.
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[@moviekris0426]

If you want to see a character portrayed in two vastly different ways, watch “300” and then watch “One Night with the King”

[@parsarustami774]

And non of them were accurate 😂 they always portrayed persians as completely different civilization in every movie that persians are included. like they don't want to accept the fact that persia/Iran before Islam was completely a different civilization from any middle easterns even still is but unfortunately today is not rules by an actual persian or iranian. it rules by bunch of turban wearer's called "mullahs" who were actually immigrants during islamic conquest

[@farhatk6054]

@@parsarustami774 A simple DNA will disapprove your racist remark

[@parsarustami774]

@@farhatk6054 nobody cares about my DNA I'm talking about historical accurate persian civilization.

[@Mithruna]

both movies are dumb fairytales told by racist and dumb hollywood

[@user-jb6nk2tr4b]

As Persian say to you: Persian always be middle eastern for ever@parsarustami774

[@-RONNIE]

Thank you for the video & information

[@ville4090]

300 did him dirty by portraying him as a bald, shiny, and effeminate Johnny Sins.

[@lester225butler8]

This portrayal is very much off as well

[@tyrrant1374]

They did the whole Persian civilization dirty. They were a really great civilization its just that we controlled the history and they got the bad reputation

[@macprog1994]

how do you know did you personally know him?

[@brett0]

Johnny Sinns is bald

[@ville4090]

@@brett0 johnny sins has a short beard. 300 xerxes is hairless apart from the eyebrows.

[@rubencanizalez7431]

Excellent documentary …. You all bring history alive!!!!

[@arthurvasquez3994]

I really liked this documentary it gave me a lot of information in my research. Keep up the good work.

[@rabiakanwal5440]

A great lesson I have cleared my whole concepts😊

[@charliemcternan8190]

Another great story of old kingdom

[@tyrrant1374]

I like how you mention according to Herodotus. For those who don't know Herodotus wanted his stories to sound cooler so he might have exasperated just a little tiny bit xD(i choose to believe him because i like my history like that)

[@brianfpp540]

Exaggerated.....exasperated means frustratingly annoyed.

[@tyrrant1374]

@@brianfpp540 yeah thanks for the correction

[@Macros-vs3uv]

​@@tyrrant1374can u edit ur coment please?

[@miladd237]

1:45 Another key point for Xerxes being more fit for the role of Shahanshah was that her mother was the daughter of Cyrus the Great…

[@silverchairsg]

During my National Service in the army in Singapore, there was a sergeant in battalion HQ named Xerxes. The regimental sergeant major, whose English wasn't super good due to him having lower educational attainment and hailing from a Chinese dialect speaking home, always called him Zeus. 😆

[@cyraxthecyborg1440]

Clearly this guy has never seen the historically accurate xerxes biopic called 300

[@bretttobin9632]

So the south park interpretation was inaccurate ?

[@christianchauhan23]

❤🤍💙 all your videos mate👍

[@Historyfactory0]

Please which software donu use for video editing

[@muhammadsulaiman1361]

Veteran Russule said, the graveyard is full of the great people. But the world bring out the new legendary figures who are called the Genus's

[@israelicitizen]

This is the western point of view of the story.

[@YeahYeahb-tch]

The whole world will bow to you, if only you bow to ME Am I not a merciful god- Xerxes I

[@CARL_093]

Mortal enemy of leonidas

[@Valkron11]

And those other "boy lovers" 🤨

[@marcanton5357]

@@Valkron11 "Boy love" was a crime under capital punishment in Sparta, and most other Greek states, exile being the other popular punishment.

[@Galy]

@@Valkron11 gay brotherhood gave the spartans strength

[@jimmyfarari3823]

​@@Galy😂😂

[@jimmyfarari3823]

Meet the spartan lol

[@jimmyfarari3823]

No the allied greeks or other "greeks"(quotations because it was not united and they were allies with greece during the cyrus the great) were the results of revolts and they were very smart and did a lot of revolts in couple of other places in persian empire

[@jap.adazol6720]

Sounds familiar with the movie "300"?

[@smerdis1588]

خشایار شاه ۱ هخامنشی😍

[@bomb7102]

Long live Xerxes the Great❤👑💪

[@dessertflower78]

And his real last name is Convist and he's the brother of Zeus, Matthias Convist and also the brother of my grandfather Van Gold!!!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🌻🌻🌻

[@vakasm8227]

This video is less about xerxes and more about how "great" the greeks were.

[@nickschuyler]

Better than Most, but still Historically biased for the Greco-Romans. . The clue is ALWAYS that technology wins - not by brains, but by resources. This is also why the Americans beat the sea-locked Japanese...the Greeks had Btonze,the Persians did not. There were no superior tactics, only Steel vs. Raffia.

[@stephenadu5332]

Was his wife Queen Easter?

[@SouthernBoxing]

Yes, his wife was Queen Esther.

[@rs0600338]

His actual name was "ksharashra".

[@alshahab545]

Khashayar Sha is his name in modern persian.....

[@momwomen6402]

SYRES THE GREAT KING OF PERSIA MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE YEARS BEFORE HIS BIRTH 💫🌹❤️💕💖😊🇮🇷🌹💫

[@ahmadahmed214]

What are you talking about? When these two were fighting, they were not fighting in Europe but western Asia and North Africa. The Persian king, king xerxes wrote to Greeks, saying, we share the same lineage, we won't fight how brothers". The Greeks betrayed the Africans between and joined their brothers Persian. Not place was called Greece back then, ur, chaldea and western Asia all the to India were inhabitants and ruled by Africans. Anyone who studied real history would know this. The king, king xerxes was mixed race king not Eurasians, his mother was scythian from the Mountains who actually his people came from. The Greeks were not called Greeks, the were called Oxus people or sherpardkings. All this just lies and if you actually read the letter from king, xerxes you know this. And when go to Ta-merry modern-day Egypt you found what they call " Amarna letters" found in the government offices of the Egyptian King, king Iknaton testifying to the people of western Asia including ur, chaldea and all the to Syria and its not the people we see today. The made man river suez canal was created by Europeans to separate from Africa, because all that land was African lands which the Greeks themselves promised to protect in exchange they would get their easiest education in sudan, Fezzan modern-day Libya, Ethiopia, Egypt.

[@JGRICH61]

Must be AI images!?

[@lotennaokeke3414]

This is "Sparta!"

[@tmeezulsingh]

And it's Philip who wanted revenge alexender was just doing beacuse his father prepared a lot for this

[@axelrenesuzuki9334]

Oh 😮 the king Persian empire wow hohoho I love that this video new history I love that this video my dear brother father absolutely yes I love that this video.😊

[@Arjenbakker1988]

Wow, dude. Are you okay?

[@axelrenesuzuki9334]

@@Arjenbakker1988 aye i'm find friend why? 😁

[@wh0tube]

Hohoho wowowee wawa haha yaya yo! 👍

[@cct7558]

My son is descended from Zarius, Xerxes, multiple Irish Kings and Ghengis Khan. Not a bad blood line.

[@pokegan52]

13:40 there is nothing great about Alexander. He built nothing.

[@lordhosseinlh]

Not much about xerxes though and more about Greeks.

[@Thutmosis7]

I doubt he looks like that

[@parsarustami774]

That's the most accurate persian we saw if not the most. Because west always portrayed persians as indians and Arabs for some reason. persians doesn't wear turban and their clothing and architecture and army and culture and pretty much everything is completely different from any middle easterns.

[@alshahab545]

He is truly the God King of kings and gentility.....❤

[@tmeezulsingh]

It's Medes not medis

[@nspread8953]

Why’s he wearing a wig?

[@joemagnus5085]

So totally AI generated content eh? Hera-dotus😅 😅😅😅

[@jimmyfarari3823]

friend please hahahahaha 300 won against persians army plus immortals????? Hahhababahahaha. Baba you got it backwards . The whole persians army, all together in numbers which contains world most multicultural most ethnically diverse army in the known world, total 100 000 to 150 000 max total whole army in all persia. Total deathtoll of persia for these battles and all that is 5 000. And there were 10 000 immortals in total altogether. Sparta lost and Athen was sacked 😆😂😆 you think 300 Spartans won and it was not 300 it was 7000 other soldiers in there on 300 side and when they saw the immortals they all ran away and then oh also the part that Zeus the god of ocean supposedly destroyed them it only destroyed the bridge and the persians were on the shore. Immediately right after a bride was built using ships put together side by side so they can go passed it to Athen or something else it was called i hope i am not mistaken on the name maybe it was not called athen but thank you for your messages and being polite i know man when i saw the movie 300 i cried for Leonidas too 😢😔😭😪 but the reality is far from Hollywood and movies. Damn!0!! I like Hollywood version of Xerxes better he looks more godly and more 😈👿 than his real picture. hehe. So nothing happened to them and also on the 2nd movie of 300 Darush was not even there that battle that the greek won yes it did happen but it was against themselves. One "greek" official comes to Darush and begged him to let him in and darush accept because he was generous and felt bad for the guy because he was hurt and he goes like "oh great king of kings darush please give me an sort of like a police escort to go home because I am scared of persians attacking me and darush agrees and then right on the border the greek attack their own people at a very end of the border. The battle was not important because it was not a battle the greek defeated the police escort and saw that as a victory against persians plus making the Spartans look like God all that to unite anyways history should be said exactly as it happened and later as we all know Alexander the great from Macedon destroyed persia and later when he passed away there was sulucdic empires then again persians in the name of parsian or parthian empire later changed to ashkanians empire then sasanid empire then to khwarazmian in which chengiz khan killed 15 millions Iranian persians Muslims oh it was crazy hehe Alexander the great all over again then through years and years of wars and resistance finally mongols were driven out then it cam Shahanshah again and now back to Islamic Republic of Iran and again became small ...thank you .😊😀.

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

Watch Jason Reza Jorjani’s interview “The Iranian Renaissance and the Aryan Imperium” & you’ll see what the true Iranian/“Persian” people actually looked like. Xerxes looked nothing like he’s depicted in the thumbnail to this video. The very small amount of indigenous Iranians who still exist today are actually Aryan. From Xerxes’ time. They have very distinctive Western faces, blonde, red & brown hair, etc. Some wavy, some straight-but all fair features with green, blue and grey eyes. In the video I mentioned you can see photos of the remnants from modern times & as you’ll see they’re exactly as I describe, wearing their tribal clothing and style from their glorious High Culture. Just an FYI before I save the video to my “watch later” list.

[@vishnuprasad3103]

Please google about yamanaya clans look likes ... aryans are yamanaya people ... yamanaya people are light brown people or white people and black hair look like indian people ... please google it

[@vishnuprasad3103]

Indians are the true aryans ... the aryan word come from indian language sanskrit ... and aryan holy books are vedas ... sanskrit is aryans holy language

[@vishnuprasad3103]

The ancient name of india is aryavartha ... means the land of aryans

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

@@vishnuprasad3103 The Iranian name “Iran” literally means “land of the Aryans”. Ireland also means “Land of the Aryans”.

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

@@vishnuprasad3103 Aryans across the planet are described as having blue eyes… Even the Vedic texts describe the Brahmans as having fair features and blonde hair

[@zartanr6601]

First of all he didn't look like a European!smfh

[@xxel_shanoxx]

The Greeks: “Great King?”

[@alexyeo6632]

Why is he a Western European in this video..?

[@ryanmugele5582]

Probably AI, but seeing as he was likely Indo-European like the Medes, he may of looked like Eastern European. Seeing as the prevailing ancestors of the Europeans were Steppe peoples as well as the ancestors of the Medes it would make sense. Modern day Iran(Aryan from the name of the Indo European peoples that it receives it name) and Iraq have plenty of different ancestors, including the Indo-Iranians, Arabs, and Turks. Whereas this era was semitic and Indo-Iranian. I am sure there were plenty other but I dont think the art looks western European. Although a decent amount of the Crowns etc do that they portray him wearing.

[@shadowborn1456]

Persians have Eastern European facial features tbh

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

​@@shadowborn1456Are you talking about Slav immigrants and slaves?

[@parsarustami774]

That's the most accurate persian we saw if not the most. west always portrayed persians as indians and Arabs for some reason. persians doesn't wear turban and their clothing and architecture and army and culture and pretty much everything is completely different from any middle easterns.

[@user-cg2tw8pw7j]

@@parsarustami774 They are Indo-European peoples, but they mixed with the indigenous people of Iran

[@donq2957]

Xerxes was historically accurate of what Xerxes felt on the inside. I am Persian. I feel the same way living in America. I just admit.

[@hamid.r.salehi]

Not Persia, but IRAN 👍👍👍👍👍

[@urbctwentyeight]

I named my dog Xerxes ❤

[@payambeigi1689]

I named the cockroach in my yard Alexander ❤

[@AlphaPlanet8]

You are the real dog 🤡 you were my dogs stop barking 🐕

[@KeepitUpwatch]

ville patrick absouletly true racist as heck andvectreme exageratiob inbthis video a millon men can uim agine that andvfood suplliez grt out herr with theracistlies

[@freethinker3054]

He failed to use religion to make his empire strong for generations., Islam did and washed away Persia.

[@rubencanizalez7431]

I see why truks and greeks hate each other!!! Mortal enemies….

[@parsarustami774]

What does this have to do with turks?

[@archravenineteenseventeen]

​@@parsarustami774Persian = turks

[@SouthernBoxing]

The Turks where probably in Siberia/Mongolia at the time living as nomads.

[@user-jv1vq1dg4f]

Clearly this guy has never seen the historically accurate xerxes biopic called 300