The Classical Middle East: Every Year

[@alexdelvecchio1879]

I like how Rome and Persia are duking it out for 700 years, and then the caliphate comes out of the middle of nowhere and that's that.

[@victornunes900]

"To be continued"

[@error9106]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend eh

[@xenotypos]

"Rome" was mainly the shadow of its former self though. It just had the name.

[@tommy-er6hh]

@AbanG GedanG Sassains were one family of Iranian Persians who took over from their Parthian (& Mede) cousins. Different names to distinguish different times. Otherwise it is mostly Iranian/Persian down to today which is confusing.

[@srikrishnak196]

Yes. It's like two of them strangling each other and then caliphate says 'Boys, ready or not here I come !'

[@a.h.tvideomapping4293]

Him stopping at 628 (the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate) is the mapping equivalent of a scream being cut halfway through that scream

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Nah, it's more like when you cut away just before something is being smashed into pieces.

[@a.princeft7385]

ROME & PERSIA: Why am i hearing boss music? Muslims: Hold my Peace(Salam)

[@creamycereal]

A. Ahmad1963 Rome beat the boss level

[@a.princeft7385]

@@creamycereal Correction: U mean Rome barely survived the Boss Level!?

[@a.princeft7385]

@@creamycereal And Actually No, Another correction: Who knows, facts says there will be more muslims in Europe near 2100 than christians.

[@doesntmakeanysence2u]

Armenia getting passed around like a village bicycle 1:42 - 3:15

[@casinoheimdall9328]

yes, but nevertheless it is still there. Amazing

[@simsim5265]

And at the end : "Meh, let's share it between us"

[@samlund8543]

“Why is Armenia getting passed around like a slut at a party?” “Why are you asking questions that you already know the answer to?” Not sure where I heard this, but someone definitely said this

[@Veriox22]

Someone give this man a prize for the amount of effort he puts in his videos. Good job!

[@raminkhajavi9513]

Tell him to stop using the eurocolonizer term middle east!

[@a1xndd795]

@@raminkhajavi9513womp womp

[@kaznika6584]

​@@raminkhajavi9513Seeth. Cope.

[@itsonlyeric8505]

somebody please give this man a praise on how many effort and time he has spent into making videos like this one i especially love the History of Asia video!

[@raminkhajavi9513]

Tell him to stop using the eurocolonizer term middle east, which is mostly part of Asia!

[@OllieBye]

This is the second of a three-part Middle East series. Make sure to watch the first part if you missed it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/parWZ3iHqdV2gM0

[@lupettoversilia]

👌occhei🆗

[@AhmedPathanMA]

Thanks Ollie. Lots of Love

[@sfogbobi387]

Absolutely loved the attention to details such as if a province is a client state or annexed, like the Heroridan tetrarchy and the joint-controlled Armenia!

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

It is a traitorous kingdom. When the Roman army was marching in the state of Armenia, the Armenians betrayed them and allied themselves with the Persians.

[@VENOM-yq5lv]

nope, it is a kingdom of survivors... since its existence, the Armenians have been surrounded by many different hostile nations/kingdoms, and they never had a time when they could live peacefully without being bothered by the neighbors. Currently today a crumble of that kingdom still exists and its people are suffering from Turko-Azeri aggression which try their very best to erase the word Armenia, Armenian, and its culture from the Armenian Highlands @@عليياسر-ذ5ب

[@papastalin1543]

2 countries ruling entire middle East. Man geography for kids was easy back then 😂

[@SpokoistvieSupreme]

now : goverment get attacked by rebel and rebels get attacked by rebels. confused 😵

[@hudayiask536]

Its easy unless we dont count map is changing like in every year

[@sadiqahmed4143]

Me :- that's too boring need more countries

[@humanistcollector5980]

Later there were Ottoman Empire VS Persian dynasties (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zcq4h8iMx4jbc).

[@Christian_Sannino]

Yeah

[@rojymmapping7456]

Armenian People : Should we join with the Romans or the Persians? Armenian Ruler : yes

[@renerpho]

Gotta love your 'or' questions.

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

No, it was more like: Rome: Give him to me! Persia: No he's mine! Rome: No he's mine! Persia: REEEEEEEEE Rome: Alright you asked for it! *War begins* Both: I am tired.Let's stop Rome: So are you going to give him to me? *Continue that for a few centuries*

[@wildfire9280]

@@goldmanstaxxx6408 “made” yeah sure

[@Keyhan-c8c]

Hellens and Iranians been fighting eachother for arround 1300 years from about 720 century b.c. to 640 a.d. This long period of conflicts and exchanges was ongoing between two sides as mentioned below: Medo-Lydian (130 years) Persian-Greek (250 years) Parthian-Selecuid (120 years) Parthian-Rome (370 years) Sasanian-Bysantium (430 years)

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

👍

[@JcDizon]

The Arab expansion and the Turks moving to Anatolia changed everything though, they moved between the Greek and Persian homeland so now they can't fight each other between their borders anymore.

[@Keyhan-c8c]

@@JcDizon yes its sad .i wish they could fight forever 😀

[@aradsstates9584]

Mr. World Wide the Iranian plateau is the first homeland of Iranians historically but with Iranian imperialism and cultural influences and of course politics these borders had changed a lot.

[@JcDizon]

@@mr.worldwide3841 I guess inside modern Iran, that's where Persian culture came from so I called it their homeland. I guess Greek homeland is somewhere in Modern Greece.

[@nazacro]

Great video Ollie! The sheer amount of the diadochi is great to see portrayed accurately and I was surprised also by the amount of client states Romans had - I thought it was mostly all under direct control. Great stuff as usual.

[@NeoWish]

Yo

[@elicref7989]

4:03 Persia: Why do I hear boss music?

[@patriotofpersia2238]

Abu Lulu stopped the music 🇮🇷

[@-3696]

@@patriotofpersia2238 A coward stabbed an old man in the back while he was praying, nothing to be proud of.

[@patriotofpersia2238]

@@-3696 He took revenge from murder savage omer And if you want to see our bravery you can ask abu Muslim (Behzadan) who fucked up biggest Islam umyyed chalipet

[@-3696]

@@patriotofpersia2238 The puppet of the Abbasids who died like dog after using him?

[@patriotofpersia2238]

@@-3696 Only omer dead like a dog Abu Muslim destroyed umyyed cancer state and you can call him anything but he did It Also we have fucked abbasid chalipt too, you cam check out what yacob leis and babak khoramdin did to Abbasid and how buyid dynasty of Iran conquered Baghdad and how Khawaja Nasruddin Tusi The prime minister of the Ilkhanate made hulako khan to destroy Abbasid

[@Arshahan]

Armenia 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲✊ neither the romans nor the persians ever could establish total control over Armenia. We love both Italians and Persians 🇮🇹❤🇦🇲❤🇮🇷. Armenia = where Europe and Asia clash. This is why Armenians consider themselves both carriers of Roman (European) and Persian (Middle Eastern) heritage.

[@noienzalbe9661]

Armenia was the Sassanid satrapia since 431CE.

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

Love Armenia from Iran❤,,, but dude I think armenia was part of Persia in the time of Acheamenid/safavid/Qajar/Afshar empires and was sometimes was part of Parthian and sasanid Persia and Roman empires

[@aradsstates9584]

cyrus a2579 Armenian rulers under parthian vs Sassanid iranian empires and Rome were parthians(Arsacid dynasty of Armenia established after battle of Rhandia which parthians under rule of vologases the first defeated the Romans and vologases brother (Tiradates)became king of Armenia/the treaty of peace offered by parthian king which both powers shared Armenia but the king always be from parthian Royal family the Arsacids)so i think somany Armenian people could have iranian origins as they have parthian influences in their language and parthian names like Suren and Karen.

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

@@aradsstates9584 👍👍

[@Arshahan]

@@aradsstates9584 yes the Arshakuni (Arcasids) dynasty has a lot of blood ties with the Parthians

[@turcanadian]

Next one would be probably Middle Ages Era

[@erhardheydin5043]

Islam spread by sword not by peace, Khalid ibn al Walid executed thousands of prisoners in battle of Ullais, because he promised Allah to do so if he was victorious

[@HassanalBolkiahSoyjak]

@@erhardheydin5043 Pretty cool huh? Chad moment. However "spread by sword" means forceful conversion which did not exist in Islam. But of course like all nations, the Caliphate expanded with a military. But this makes the persians look pathetic that they lost to Khalid despite outnumbering em 4:1

[@lordmalek1999]

@@erhardheydin5043 Now look to the middle East, all of the old history dies with its kingdoms that were on it's lands, and yet the Islam remain till today. If it was by swords no one would have accepted the Islam as a religion but brcasue the Islam didn't force anyone to accept it and with it's peaceful and high well of morals by a time other countries was spreding by *killing* , *destroying lands* , *burning* , *raping* and other awful things that the rest of the world was doing while Islam focused on giving people *rights* , *safe* , *peace* and *protect for the men and women*

[@drswag0076]

@@erhardheydin5043 Islam yes but an empire spreads by sword. so yeah.

[@sepep6288]

@Rafael Martins conquered Constantinople*

[@Storeenzo]

Armenia : Being Belgium before it was cool

[@TahaWasiq]

Great job! I am eager to see the next.

[@eyuin5716]

Great video as always. Especially love the fact that you decided to use the Native Names of the Empires.

[@OllieBye]

Are you on Discord? It would be great to speak to you more often. I feel like we kind of lost touch a bit after the Asia video was finished.

[@eyuin5716]

@@OllieBye Yeah if you need my input for anything, I’d be more than happy to help. I don’t really use Discord though, I’m far more comfortable using Email to communicate.

[@xenotypos]

About that, why though ? If he did that for all the countries around the world, it would be a mess. Even the greeks and rome weren't exactly called like it is in english now. Well I don't want to criticize the video: the english names were written somewhere so it's ok, good video. Just saying, that I don't think it's a problem to use your own language's names either.

[@wtz_under]

@@xenotyposi think its for the aesthetic. either way, Ollie Bye has that sophistication in his map animations, it contrasts quite a lot

[@GiuseppeSan]

The sheer amount of diligence that went into this is incredible, the most is absolutely amazing as well. Brilliant work.

[@realmless4193]

So, the Persia-Rome dynamic was about half of classical middle eastern history? Wow, that dynamic was freaking stable.

[@aradsstates9584]

Realmless more than half 60%

[@realmless4193]

Can't wait for part 3!

[@ΣτράτοςΤσουκάρης]

I wonder what would have happened if Armenia of Tigranes II and Palmyra of Zenobia had lasted more. They could have been real "game-changers", especially as buffer states between 2 superpowers of that era.

[@Scenariania]

The video: Persians, then come the Byzantines/Eastern Romans. *then the caliphate begins*

[@awedelen1]

I like the colors used, the music is nice, and the legend information is interesting. 👍🏼

[@retf8977]

Amazing effort... As a middle eastern (Egyptian), I am extremely amazed by the amount of research and work and effort put into this video... Can't wait until the next period of middle eastern history is uploaded! Peace

[@realmless4193]

I'm surprised these masterpieces aren't at the top of your most popular lists yet.

[@ArmanMartirosyan23]

🇦🇲 ARMENIAN kingdoms of Greater Armenia (or simply Armenia), Armenia Minor, Commagene, Sophene and Cilicia 🇦🇲 Armenia at its greatest extent at 1:40 (in orange color) under King Tigran the Great 👑

[@a.h.tvideomapping4293]

Then Persia and Rome play volleyball with Armenia for 6 damn centuries

[@bartatuarua2473]

Greatest-king falan dediği şu tekte alınan kralımsı tigran beyler boşuna aramayın haritada

[@LoveAndPeace2004]

Osrhoene and sophwnw were Assyrian kingdoms. The Commagene was Ancient persian-greek kingdom and Cilicia was just a roman province, before romans, cilicia was babylonian, assyrian and persian.

[@LoveAndPeace2004]

*Sophene

[@doraorak]

@@bartatuarua2473 adamların "krallığı" yol geçen hanına dönmüş bir roma bi persler kim giriyor kim çıkıyor belli değil bir de utanmadan övünüyorlar :p

[@wickedavatar4746]

I like how you show the name of evey kingdom even the northern Arab kingdoms of nabatean and hatra and Qedar and palmyra and elamais but not the southern ones

[@justacrow9847]

Elamias were not Arab. These were people indigenous to Iran's south west who had their own kingdom for over 4000 years until they were annexed by Cyrus the great and since then the area has remained a part of Iran.

[@mapleshade2913]

4:01 *Holy Music Stops*

[@aguyonasiteontheinternet]

rightfully so :trol:

[@MuhammadThakur-si9ot]

Holy music starts*

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

2:19 Perfection!

[@aidandoles6354]

mhm

[@ThamesMapping]

Great video as always!

[@-3696]

Thanks for showing the tribes in Arabia.

[@dompedrito25]

Damn, Armenia didn't pass one year without being disputed between the persians and the romans.

[@Nashkelov]

Nice video 👍🏻

[@lupettoversilia]

This is shorter You can be more credible with your comments kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3m7koiurLBmmdU

[@aradsstates9584]

As Iranian i love the map in first place before Alexander/in 247 bc(Arsaces 1)/40 bc and 620 ce 😍💎 Well done 👏🏻💎Great job

[@woefulfisher]

It's all been so foolish. So many centuries of fighting, millions of death, only for the civilizations of Iran and Eastern Rome to be destroyed by some desert sheepf**kers... It's such a pity that Persians and Greeks could not agree over territorial disputes in Caucasus and Mesopotamia, and then coexist together. And now Russians and Ukrainians are butchering one another by hundreds of thousands - all while wahhabis are taking over all of Europe. History repeats itself in the most tragic way.

[@deldarel]

So much care. Even the cities change over time!

[@realmless4193]

This series is the pique of mapping so far

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

Trajan: *becomes emperor* Seleucids: Why do I hear boss music?

[@allanjbucknol4414]

Shouldn't it be the Parthians

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

@@allanjbucknol4414 Yes my mistake.

[@aradsstates9584]

Grand Moff Tarkin Mithradates the great of Parthia: becomes the king of Kings Rome and All Hellenistic States specially Seleucids :damn we should goodbye to the Alexander Dreams forever.

[@joaquito5540]

Good video ollie 👍👍👍

[@aradsstates9584]

Parthians had captured Commagene after the Antony campaign in 30 BCE.

[@maps1756]

FINALLY! JUST FOR US THE FANS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

0:49 *Top 10 saddest anime moments of all time*

[@Dodlo32888]

For parsians

[@hamounkavir]

I love the way you write persian endonyms for dynasties and kings 👌👌👌 (parthava, eranshahr ... ) 👌💚

[@iSyriux]

Parthian endonym would be Parthaw

[@arioarashdadkhahaseman1889]

@@iSyriuxpahlaw The true name of Parthian in their language is Pahlawi which they were Pahlawans(Iranian Heroes)of our legendary history (book of kings)

[@ShahanshahShahin]

@@arioarashdadkhahaseman1889 The Parthians called themselves as Parthav in Parthian (Parthav) language when the sasanian came theuy named them as Pahlaw

[@aradsstates9584]

This magnificent video has 4 parts: Part1:Achaemenid Persian empire ruling the known world Part2:Alexander conquest and Alexanders successors ruling the known world. Part3:Parthian empire and Rome ruling the known world +birth of christianity and Armenia is all that important. Part4:Sassanid empire and Rome ruling the known world(religion is all that matters)and birth of Islam at the end. *Achaemenid,Parthian and Sassanid empires were Iranian empires. *about Median empire and Achaemenid empire (from Cyrus the great until Darius the great) as Iranian empires it’s on previous video about Ancient Middle East. Part1: 0:11 - 0:50 Part2: 0:51-1:40 Part3: 1:07-2:41 Part4: 2:42-4:05

[@yaqubleis6311]

the best Empires of Middle East were Iranic Empires like Median empire, Achaemenid Empire , Parthian empire, Sassanid empire, Safavid empire, Ghurid empire, Samanid empire , Durrani empire and many more

[@ramtinfazeli5106]

@@yaqubleis6311 Don't forget the Afsharid empire Nader Shah was one of the greatest kings of Iran

[@aradsstates9584]

@@yaqubleis6311 I dislike Hotaki, Dorani, and also Kushanid empire which you forgot here: they were Iranic but they weren't Iranian empires(Iran as a nation, not Iranic ethnicities)like Hotaki and Dorani we're aliens to Iranians because they were based on Pashtun and afqan ethnicity not a great nation like Iran or Kushanid empire was Iranic but it was based on Boodaism, unlike Parthians and Sassanids which were both Iranic and Iranian empires.

[@aradsstates9584]

@@yaqubleis6311 we had one thing like Greece, Armenia, and Georgia others didn't have which is old nationalities as multiethnic countries. baby born countries based on ethnicity don't get it, you know what I mean?

[@aradsstates9584]

@@yaqubleis6311 ethical countries don't have a great and powerful culture so they steal others' history based on racism and ethnicities or organism which is a joke because nowadays none of us is pure blood for specific ethnicity or origin.

[@TheEmpireofStarovaltia]

0 views 30 likes 9 comments *KZbin Drank a lot of vodka*

[@americanstarovaltianmappin5624]

Lol Hi Joy

[@imrukiitoaoffire1908]

Dranked. Drankened. Drankeneded. Drankenededid.

[@berkesahin6723]

Dranked ?

[@macedoniaoneandindivisible8127]

Drank*

[@alessandrovitoria7818]

DRANKENISTAN.

[@dodolulupepe]

480 BC - only country on the map is the Achaemenid Empire (and the Qedar vassal)

[@froggyirq7194]

Qedar is not vassal

[@dodolulupepe]

@@froggyirq7194 well whatever it is

[@fasoooli2751]

@@froggyirq7194 what was it then

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

@@fasoooli2751 nothing, Alexander came for about 10 years and Rome conquered Greece and Persia came back😄👍

[@aradsstates9584]

Mithradates the great of Parthia: I have become the king of Kings. Rome and All Hellenistic States specially Seleucids: damn we should goodbye to the Alexander Dreams forever.

[@ousali1340]

Can somebody answer the following questions:1.how many wars were fought in history(including civil wars and excluding revolutions) 2.how many revolutions were made in history 3.how many mythologies people used to believe in 4.how many philosophies are there 5.how many empires and kingdoms were there in history 6.how many famines were there in the world 7.a list of the real languages

[@Smitology]

The answer to each of those questions is way too many to count, as well as it being very hard to define what counts and what doesn't.

[@RichardNixonsStrongestSpunk]

The simple answer is that we can't. Wars, mythologies and famines have been around far longer than our ability to record them

[@Warsawke]

Great job

[@aradsstates9584]

I love this map more than any map .

[@Ellis307]

Not as knowledgeable on elsewhere in the region but I would perhaps add the major Bukoloi Revolt in Egypt in the late AD 160s-early AD 170s. Also the Great Judean Revolt AD 66-73, the Kitos War and the Bar Kochba war.

[@louisking5694]

Holy persia ❤

[@aradsstates9584]

Rome(Republic,Empire and Byzantine ) vs Iran or Persia(Parthians and Sassanians): when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.

[@Undertaker5712]

Should say Darayavahus II instead of III starting at 0:32

[@saikrishnak8631]

yeah

[@miguelconti2304]

Incredible how Rome’s sphere of influence reached so far

[@aradsstates9584]

Miguel Conti in my view as Iranian, Rome is the true establisher of European civilization and the main reason Greeks civilization became part of it, before Rome I'm sure Greeks were completely relative to the known world which didn't include most of Europe but included Asia minor, middle east and central Asia with Greece.

[@eric11]

@@aradsstates9584 thanks for these word even iran was a great civilization

[@mahdimehdi445]

@@eric11 well yes but actually no ,it didn't influence any thing ,even if it did ,it was destroyed by the Arabs and was changed by some arab things

[@king_halcyon]

Nothing so incredible in front of the great Old Indo European people's expansions!

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@mahdimehdi445 The Arabs, my friend, thank you for teaching us about Greek fire. We will use this invention to invade Sicily and southern Italy and plunder the city of Rome.

[@Gangsterdu69]

Armenia now : Rome ? Byzantium ? Where are you guys , c'mon it's not fun anymore comeback please 😭

[@sagamaster124]

😢.

[@philippebyrnes1213]

Brilliant idea. Love the execution although being able to slow it down 10x would be nice. Well done!

[@user-sz9dj1pl9o]

Great video! I enjoyed it very much! It would be great if you also did a new history of the Greeks video, including all of the Mediterranean and Black Sea colonies, as well as all of the Hellenistic kingdoms in India-Bactria

[@smi758sthxd81]

Thank you Olli bye

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

Amazing video. Especially how it depicts the scale of the Roman Persian conflict. Three mistakes though. Ptolemy I of Egypt died in 282BC, Pontus wasn’t immediately annexed into Rome after the mithridatic wars until 70AD and the Lakhmids were made a Persian province in 602.

[@justacrow9847]

The start of the video is great; 200 years of Peace in the middle east. It was never repeated after that.

[@aradsstates9584]

just a crow damn right because there was an Achaemenid Persian empire.

[@only_fair23]

There were no major wars, there were plenty of battles

[@CCP-Lies]

When Rome join the server, everyone got kicked but Parthia and Sassanid don't

[@bnorg1596]

Romans & Persians were two superpowers

[@Christian_Sannino]

Romans and Persians were two great powers

[@rngverseoffical]

Egyptian Soldier: We are being invaded! Pharaoh: Oh no, anyways. Egyptian Soldier: ? Pharaoh: They can't keep us down forever. It's never worked. Egyptian Soldier: ... Ok.

[@Revelator999]

Fun fact: Roman Emperor Heraclius offered Khosrou II a treaty in 624 A.D. to end the war earlier that would've allowed the Persians to keep all the territory they had gained minus Anatolia and Lazica. Had Khosrou II accepted the treaty, then it's likely that the Sassanid Empire would've been spared from Muslim conquest as the Persians would've had more time to rebuild, more territory, resources, etc. Meanwhile, the Eastern Roman Empire would've been able to focus more on the more homogeneous parts of their empire. Shame it didn't occur, in large part due to the pride of the Persians and them not willing to accept a treaty favorable to them unless forced to do so..

[@erfan.]

is that so? I mean I already hated Khosrow II and now my hatred even grew more :D the guy screwed up everything and made the country weekend both internally and externally

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

Khosrow 2 destroyed both sides mostly persia😑

[@viraloracle5151]

the most popular and badass Sassanid King was Shapur II he defeated 3 Roman emperors but under Khosrow II sassanids empire ruled from egypt to india to Turkey "The Sasanian Empire at its greatest extent c. 620, under Khosrow II " he maybe was a "WAR WAR WAR" guy, but still the king that ruled the largest territory.

[@erfan.]

​@@viraloracle5151 I agree with you on Shapur but about Khosrow, the thing is his ascension to the throne was by getting help from the Roman emperor and in return he gave up a piece of land that was obtained by the hard work of many previous kings of Iran. and then after the death of the emperor who had helped him become king, he used that as an excuse and launched a useless grand campaign against the Romans that in the end achieved nothing but destruction of both empires. He also caused so much internal problems and a civil war that crippled the Sassanids to the core. Although I think the start of the civil wars was even before he became king but he did not help either and worsened the situation even more. so all and all I'm not an expert but i think he was the main reason for the downfall of the Sassanids. Imagine if the emperor who had helped him wasn't deposed :( maybe the two empires could have remained friends and helped each other against the barbarians that were rising in all corners of the world

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

@@viraloracle5151 Shapur I

[@ЕнотАнатолий]

Very strange that there is no azeri commentators with their favorite theme, that Armenia didnt exist)

[@ЕнотАнатолий]

@Pecu Alex its pointless to prove anything to azeris, they grew under the yoke of propaganda and unfprtunately not able to perceive reality. Its useless to spend time for argue with people devoid of analytical thinking.

[@ТирионЛаннистер-ц1ф]

@Şahin Asgerov lol. Are you from Mars?

[@ТирионЛаннистер-ц1ф]

@@ЕнотАнатолий they are not azeris. Azeris are armenian, kurdish, persion brothers. They are oguz-turkomans from Turkmenistan

[@Siciliansuperman]

@Şahin Asgerov Azerbaijani's were originally caucasian and spoke a northeastern caucasian language called Udi. Those were the Caucasian Albanians. Then they were iranicized and began to speak Azeri which was a variety of iranic language. Then they were Turkified when the Oghuz Turks moved into the area from central asia. Most of Azeri dna is indigenous to the area but there is about 10% east asian/siberian dna that comes from the Turkic tribes. Armenians and Georgians do not have this asian dna that Azeris have. So you are partly correct that Azeris are indigenous but they also received Turkic admixture in the early modern period. Anatolian Turks and Caucasian Turks (Azeris) both have this East/Asian Altaic inheritance along with the Turkish language.

[@cma30001]

​@Şahin Asgerov How does this conflict with what he said? He said Azeris (or whatever you want to call them) are 90% indigenous and 10% Turk. Turkish tribes settled in north-west Iran because it was the best pasture lands for nomads, for example, with this small population of nomads (relative to the local population) mixing into that regions population.

[@aradsstates9584]

99 percents of the video is about Iranian empires 60 percents of it also is about Roman empire Less than one percent of the video is about Islam 50 percents of the comments is about Islam. You comment in the wrong video 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[@joel7647]

There will be a third part That will pick up here and go all the way to 2020

[@aradsstates9584]

Joel well third part is logical for islam lovers to comment as much as they want.but i must notice that Arabic empires except Abbasid caliphate didn’t last long but yes Islam as religion changed the whole surface of the Middle East.I believe Middle East only faced true peace under Achaemenids rule.before and after it this place was war introducer.

[@aradsstates9584]

Joel Rome Iran exists today in 2020 with its unique culture and civilization not magnificent like before Islam but still with unique Identity.well its true that Iran is still Islamic(shia which is anti arab caliphate)but I’m not muslim myself. Also Countries like Tajikestan,Afqanistan and maybe one day Kurdistan have the same civilization,culture a origins.

[@-3696]

@@aradsstates9584 The Arab Caliphate were not just Abbasids, Umayyads, and Rashidun. Just saying...

[@aradsstates9584]

صقر د i have no problem with Arabs only idiot racist people have problem with nations I’m not one of them.

[@Zaferalmc]

610 r.a. Muhhamed became prophate 622 Hegeria to maddine 630 conquest of mekke or bekke 633-656 conquest of sasanids or persia 588-589 first gokturk - sasanid war 608-609 second gokturk - sasanid war 627-629 third gokturk - sasanid war (alliance gokturk with eastern rome empire) there is some needs to think abouth this informations...

[@tuomoautio373]

The video is very clear and informative. The color scheme has been picked well, making this quite visually appealing video. I wonder if you will compile all the parts into one piece after publishing the last part.

[@tusharkolhe3571]

Bro...I praise your effort on these videos extensively...your research for each empire or land form and putting it on understandable graphics!...keep it up...

[@nikipansini46]

4:03 pic taken moments before disaster

[@TahaWasiq]

3:57 this was the real disaster. 4:03 just the after shock.

[@vinfacts11]

and yet 0:50 is not a disaster?

[@TahaWasiq]

@@vinfacts11 Good point!

[@nikipansini46]

@@vinfacts11 yup,definetely

[@thearabianwolf3996]

Those Persians and Romans are foreigners in the Middle East don’t you see Arabs were here before all of them

[@ilect1690]

I love how the map cropping makes it look like the fall of rome never happened (which it didn't ofc)

[@henrik1220]

4:04 "What could go wrong?"

[@saikrishnak8631]

but still the romans outlived the caliphate.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@saikrishnak8631 The Romans pay tribute to the Arabs

[@saikrishnak8631]

@@عليياسر-ذ5ب yeah some times

[@j0nni235]

I like how the video ends at the Rashidun beginnigs/prologue, very nice cliff hanger! Also, Rashidun Caliphate was the greatest Caliphate and Empire to have existed. Assalaamu 'Alaikum to my brothers and sisters! Ummah Zindabad!

[@gharibkhodabakhshi6888]

In the past, the territory of Iran was very large, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, and eastern Turkey, and today's country of Iran together formed Greater Iran. The families of the Iranian ethnic groups are: Tajik, Pashtun, Ossetian, Kurdish, Baluch, Persian, Punjabi, Lor, Azeri, Tat, Talesh, Hazara, Talesh, Armenian, Afghan, Gilak, Zaza, etc. The Persian Empire was the first great empire in the world and the oldest country in the world is Iran ، Many people think that only Persians are Iranians, but Persians are just a group of large Iranian ethnic families ، The empires of Iran are: Elamites, Madians, Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanids, Al-Buwayh, Saffarids, Taherians, Samanids, Khwarezmshahis, Safavids, Afsharians, Zandids, Qajarians. Of course, the Seljuks, the Ghaznavids, the Timurids were Turks, but they considered themselves the great kings of Iran and spoke and wrote in Persian. Of course, the Qajars were also of Turkmen origin, but they also loved Iran and spoke Persian and considered themselves The kings of Iran knew .Historians consider 7 countries as ancient and native countries, which are: Iran Ancient🇮🇷 , China Ancient🇨🇳 , India Ancient 🇮🇳, Rome Ancient🇬🇷 , Egypt Ancient 🇪🇬, Ancient Mexico🇲🇽, Ancient Africa 🇿🇦. Tajikistan is part of the Iranian Empire and the Samanid rule was Iranian Tajik. 🕋🕌🦁👑🇹🇯🇺🇿🇹🇲🇮🇷🇵🇰🇦🇫👑🦁🕌🕋❤🌼

[@kezsut-online]

Thank you for a very interesting and informative video, as usual! But... It seems in this video nothing much happens to Jerusalem in 70 AD - no destruction, no renaming...

[@Ruben-by4oy]

back then it was not a religious center of 3 religions so, no one cared

[@KH-hw4cu]

Next video is Spread of languages in Euroasia prt 2 please

[@coe3408]

Two times when the Jews were almost able to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem: under emperor Julian the Apostate 3:08, and when for a short time the Sassanians took over the Levant 3:59

[@csf1237]

always impressing me. دائما اعجابي

[@-3696]

Where is the Kingdom of Kindah? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindah

[@dodolulupepe]

cool, didn't know about that :D

[@GreenArt4]

This video missed the Upper Egyptian rebellion around 200BC

[@Dodlo32888]

0:47 bro literally did speed run 💀

[@shia_pan_iranist]

That's why Alexander was myth, you can't reach central Asia from Greece in just 3 years !

[@visionplant]

Would be cool to see the provinces of Rome as well

[@kenaujak]

“Jesus was just born” “And now he’s dead”

[@aradsstates9584]

Kenaujak Jesus never born

[@dodolulupepe]

@@aradsstates9584 technically he was but he also existed before. He was sent down as a baby to be born but he himself was not born then

[@enivo2363]

And now he’s alive!

[@JoaoOliveira-yf3vv]

Good work! From Brazil.

[@csf1237]

Alô amiguin

[@ArmanMartirosyan23]

Waiting for Azeris to claim Albania and Atropatene as their ancestors 🌚🍿

[@ArmanMartirosyan23]

(A reply to someone who deleted it now). Yes friend, you are correct. Iranian Azerbaijan ≠ modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan. The word “Azerbaijan” always meant the successor of Atropatene in Persia/Iran, but in 1918 Turk Azeris stole it for their land. Iranian Azerbaijanis like you are the REAL successors of Atropatene, and we Armenians respect our ancient friends! Our problem is with Turkic Azeris who steal Iranian Azerbaijani culture (among Caucasian Albanian and Safavid) and claim it as theirs, while clearly these are all lies... Cheers to you 🇮🇷 🇦🇲

[@khudmanikhan5273]

@@ArmanMartirosyan23 Yes they are our ancestors... Because seljuk turks mixed with people of Albania and Atropatene. And we are descendants of them. What about you armenians? Do you think you are descendants of people of Urartu or Hittites.??

[@khudmanikhan5273]

@EXTRA LARGE if iranian azerbaijanians( or iranian turks) have no connection to altaic why they speak turkic language?

[@khudmanikhan5273]

@EXTRA LARGE the official language of Seljuk empire,safavid empire and Qajars were persian. Also persians lived under rule of these altaic empires .So why modern day persians don't speak turkic?

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

@@ArmanMartirosyan23 🇮🇷❤🇦🇲

[@Man-rm5mo]

The good old times🇦🇲🇮🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷🇬🇪

[@cyrusa-ww3ib]

Yea and Islam destroyed all of them😊😪

[@Man-rm5mo]

cyrus a2579 I am not against Islam but I can agree pre-Islamic times were better in my opinion

[@aradsstates9584]

cyrus a2579 I don’t want to be biased about Parthians but we didn’t had great empire like Arsacid Parthians which with heroic characters like Arsaces the great came in to power so soon(at hellenistic age which there were all Hellenic states all around)and lasted for 5 centuries with unification between Aryan tribes after arabs conquest but in fact faced something upset (weak Iranian dynasties,Turks,Mongolians ...).we always be blamed to forgotten the parthians they did something others couldn’t (completely restored Iranian culture and civilization more pure than before which influenced by Mesopotamia during Medes and Achaemenids)Sassanids continued what Parthians started + wrong Theocratic ideas which demolished secular Ideas of Parthians...

[@mohamedred5746]

@@aradsstates9584 You can blame Muslims all the day but in Abbasids Caliphate tarde you well and respect your Culture

[@snowlover1037]

@@cyrusa-ww3ib I guess I can blame people like for destroying Native American cultures

[@hadihosseini1923]

00:10 xsaca= Iran biggest empire ever existed 💪

[@tyrex3559]

The Mongol Empire and European Colonial Empires are larger than the Persian Empire. the Roman Empire was slightly larger than the Persian Empire.

[@mehrdad5767]

@@tyrex3559 ✊🤣

[@tokmakchibashi]

@@mehrdad5767 😂

[@mahdi-oe6mk]

Not at all, roman empire wasn't bigger than Achaemenid​@@tyrex3559

[@zdazdiko8750]

Where is Azerbajian lol. Oh wait a min. They dont have the history yet lol

[@dodolulupepe]

Almost no modern countries have history now lol. For example most countries in Europe didn't even exist as a concept back then.

[@justacrow9847]

Azerbaijan was a province of Iran back then and to this day still much of it remains so.

[@dodolulupepe]

@@justacrow9847 Not all the time, some of the time it was like 50 independent states, never a united Azerbaijan though.

[@justacrow9847]

@@dodolulupepe Azeris are ethnic Iranians from Median descend that some moved north along the coast of Caspian sea into the Caucasus region. Even those who weren't under direct rule of Iran were from the same stock. Azeris, Daghestanis and Ossetians are Iranians.

[@dodolulupepe]

@@justacrow9847 Cool, idk really at all about Azeri history, I wasn't trying to argue, I was just saying that a lot of the time they had like a lot of tiny states

[@Lordofdeatg]

Armenia🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[@johnmars5282]

I wonder if Irem of the pillars actually existed during the classical era, so many legends and hearsay about it, but little to no evidence.

[@Athos1776]

So nobody is going to comment about how that one Arabian tribe is called “kalb” Lmao

[@fasoooli2751]

"dog" lol

[@renerpho]

@@fasoooli2751 Funny enough, it means "calf" in German. Always gets me confused.

[@NoName-sz5lu]

They are known as the Kalbis.

[@fasoooli2751]

@ItzSkylerUwU. YT yes it's from arabic qalb

[@renerpho]

While we're at it: In Albanian it means "to rot".

[@gharibkhodabakhshi6888]

In the past, the territory of Iran was very large, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, and eastern Turkey, and today's country of Iran together formed Greater Iran. The families of the Iranian ethnic groups are: Tajik, Pashtun, Ossetian, Kurdish, Baluch, Persian, Punjabi, Lor, Azeri, Tat, Talesh, Hazara, Talesh, Armenian, Afghan, Gilak, Zaza, etc. The Persian Empire was the first great empire in the world and the oldest country in the world is Iran ، Many people think that only Persians are Iranians, but Persians are just a group of large Iranian ethnic families ، The empires of Iran are: Elamites, Madians, Achaemenids, Parthians, Sassanids, Al-Buwayh, Saffarids, Taherians, Samanids, Khwarezmshahis, Safavids, Afsharians, Zandids, Qajarians. Of course, the Seljuks, the Ghaznavids, the Timurids were Turks, but they considered themselves the great kings of Iran and spoke and wrote in Persian. Of course, the Qajars were also of Turkmen origin, but they also loved Iran and spoke Persian and considered themselves The kings of Iran knew .Historians consider 7 countries as ancient and native countries, which are: Iran Ancient🇮🇷 , China Ancient🇨🇳 , India Ancient 🇮🇳, Rome Ancient🇬🇷 , Egypt Ancient 🇪🇬, Ancient Mexico🇲🇽, Ancient Africa 🇿🇦. Tajikistan is part of the Iranian Empire and the Samanid rule was Iranian Tajik. 🕋🕌🦁👑🇹🇯🇺🇿🇹🇲🇮🇷🇵🇰🇦🇫👑🦁🕌🕋❤🌼

[@___E]

Armenia isn't Iranian and ancient Africa isn't just one civilization

[@arioarashdadkhahaseman1889]

@@___E I respect Armenians .definitely you have your own nationality and nation but somany of your dynasties were Iranic as well.❤

[@TurkiyeMustPeaceWithIsraelKSA]

Stopped the video just before the ☪️ancer arrived

[@omaroragb]

bro what islam aint a cancer lol that all because isis and al qeada and usama broo works of just some guys doesnt mean all of us muslims i am anti isis and al qeada and usama

[@dodolulupepe]

Hey Ollie Bye, when are you going to release Medieval Middle East: Every Year? Also does it go to 1453?

[@dodolulupepe]

@Alexandru Bogdan Stirbu yeah I see ik this was 3 weeks ago

[@HoneyMad_History]

Bad video, too many mistakes, for example: 1) The State of Hatra was created in the 2nd century AD, not in the 2nd century BC 2) The Seleucids in 200-191 controlled part of Thrace and the entire coast of the Hellespont 3) Characene didn't control Seleucia on the Tigris, or Ctesiphon (with the exception of 127 BC) 4) Armenia and Sophena were part of the Seleucid Empire in 200-189 BC. 5) The Frataraka K'dom never existed, because the Frataraks were the governors of Persia under the Seleucids and Parthians 6) The Parthians captured Parthia itself only in 235 BC, before that the Seleucid governor ruled there for 12 years 7) The Corduane is not shown at all 8) since 387, for some reason, the Sassanids have controlled the important fortress of Dura-Europos, although they did not control it 9) The Lakhmids became vassals of the Sassanids since the beginning of the 4th century after Shapur II's campaign against the Arabs, it is shown here that they became vassals only in the 6th century 10) The Lakhmids were part of Persia since 602 and lost their independence These are only the most noticeable mistakes, in fact there are many more.

[@DailyKosia]

Very nicely done! I'd suggest maybe just adding the ('Byzantine') name, as it is called nowadays.

[@aguyonasiteontheinternet]

the name of ‘Byzantine’ was made up by Renaissance reformists which thought that the mere existence of Rome (or at least a rump state) didn’t fit their narrative of Rome and Ancient Greece being a long-lost era, so they uncovered the old Greek name for Constantinople (Byzantium) and named the Eastern Romans that. not saying the Renaissance was a bad thing for Europe, just that the reformists of that era made several deliberate mistakes to realize their dream.

[@theocraft0143]

I think the Parthians had full control over Csetisphon

[@theocraft0143]

@Antonio Ferrara near Baghdad

[@aradsstates9584]

TheoCraft 014 I was looking for this comment which is the really good one. Arsacid Parthian empire or Aryanam was a decentralized empire and with 4 capitals, the thing is this empire was parliamentary and the king of kings was the symbol power of Parliament so Ctesiphon wasn't the main capital which Parliament wasn't established there but it was Hecatompolis in Parthava as the main capital but in civil wars which led by Parliament itself, the Parthian kings established themselves in other capitals and find great followers for themselves and in civil war periods you can see in the map some other capital states become bold like Parthava. The Ctesiphon capital was the embassy in relations between the Parthian empire with Rome or western vassal states which the most Important one was Armenia. The capitals of the Parthian empire included: 1.Hecatompolis (the main capital in Parthava) 2.Ecbatana(Hegmatane) in Madai or Media 3.Susa in Elamais And 4.Ctesiphon in Characene

[@johannesnicolaas]

00:49 Alexandros the Great enters the building...

[@cagantaylanozgun7892]

You can do detailed history of christianism

[@dionadair8195]

Caliphate: Oh look, Rome and Persia are fighting. Don't worry... *draws scimitar* They'll both lose.

[@albertnovikov9229]

1:40 MAGA! (Make Armenia Great Again)

[@calm1tbh]

Oof

[@kelvinosas6518]

I am just here for the celtic music, God Celtic music is bae!😊😊😊😊😊