The History of the Parthian Empire: Every Year

[@ShahStark]

I like how the video acknowledges the fact that the Parthians had more than one capital at once. Often times a big deal is made of the Romans sacking Ctesiphon when in reality that was hardly a huge blow and more of a strategic retreat to allow the Romans to overextend themselves and allow the Parthians to counter attack.

[@dariusalexandru9536]

It was a big blow nontheless

[@ShahStark]

@@dariusalexandru9536 If it was the Parthians would’ve collapsed

[@jacksonidonthaveone7753]

Ecbatana was far more strategically valuable. It didn’t really matter if Ctesiphon was sacked but if Ecbatana fell it would spell doom for the Parthians.

[@alqamenesh7433]

It was one of the largest cities on earth sitting on a fertile plain and was the fulcrum of numerous trade routes Losing a place like this/having it looted is a rather big blow

[@alqamenesh7433]

@stark You don't magically collapse when the enemy sacks a massive city. It doesn't even necessarily hold true whenever some state historically lost their capital and kept on going. You suffer a major drawback though

[@TheAnakinn]

Armenia be like: "Okay, I'm your vassal" "Or am I?" "Okay, for real this time" "Just kidding!" "Fine, we're better together" "Psych!" There must have been a rebellion every other decade

[@themetroidprime]

Rome and Parthia being like to abusive divorced parents fighting for the custody of the kid.

[@realyoriginalchanel3218]

It wasn't rebellions, the Armenia's switched between a Roman and Parthian tributary

[@HragFarraGaming]

lol I'm Armenian and this is too good.

[@Lockfly]

Armenia was ruled by a part of the Parthian royal family almost the whole time so it's more like mini civil wars

[@yaqubleis6311]

Both Greek Empire the Seleucid Empire and Greco Bactrian Empire and others like Armenian Empire were vassal of powerful Parthian Empire

[@SnapplyPie]

Truly the vassal swarm before it was cool.

[@deleetiusproductions3497]

I think Rome had a lot of vassals too.

[@SnapplyPie]

@@deleetiusproductions3497 Indeed

[@aminyt8742]

Armenia and Iranians during rome: I hate you but I love you

[@zyanego3170]

Tsundere Armenia.

[@FourOf92000]

Armenia every year, including immediate neighbors, would be a big project but I'd love to see it

[@ahscott2001]

They’re pretty brave to exist in the same time period as the Romans and the Han Dynasty.

[@mint8648]

According to gibbons it was the best time to be alive

[@tommy-er6hh]

It is not bravery if you are stuck between the two and the Scythian tribes in E Russia. The Parthians are first mentioned as a tribal ally/vassal of the Mede and Persian empires in the Iranian NE. The Indo-Ayan language tribe were a vassal under the Greeks, until they revolted and started the Parthian Empire. Later when the Sassanid Persians took over again, i believe the Parthians went back to being a vassal, until the the Arabs came on the SW side and the Turk tribes came in from Asia.

[@shinsenshogun900]

The accession of Commodus brought upon the vast world a heralding age of woe, betrayal, suffering, and hope

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

@@tommy-er6hh E Russia is on the Pacific coast

[@tommy-er6hh]

@@andriusgimbutas3723 oops.

[@Cyrus-the-great-]

Parthian soldiers were very good at shooting and riding, and with the help of General Sorena they defeated Rome. They had a good strategic battle.

[@glima519]

Armenia: existing Parthian Empire: for me?

[@aryanwitheredone]

3:52 Persia: gets removed from vassals Parthia: I'm in danger

[@loading2933]

I like how they were chiling while rome was having a brutal civil war.

[@juliusevola2801]

Thank you parthia for destroying crassus.

[@unclesam5230]

Crassus should have won

[@Oldaccount46282]

@@unclesam5230 why?

[@unclesam5230]

@@Oldaccount46282 for the glory of ROME that’s why

[@SomeGuy5555]

@@unclesam5230 it's not all about glory of rome

[@hiteshkumarv9253]

​@@unclesam5230nah he was filth

[@howiestauder4574]

I didn't really know too much about the Parthian Empire before I watched this video thanks to you I now know a lot about it! Keep up the great work!

[@ariaghorbani9375]

Han was just too far and had lots of enemies such as Mongols. They could not spend much time on parthia

[@ariaghorbani9375]

But I agree with you about rome . They were smart and brave that they could resist against an empire with had got 20 % of population of the world .

[@harrisonshone7769]

Given that they were one of the major powers, up with the Romans and the Chinese, we know very little about them.

[@sombreiro1878]

we know a lot since it was the second Persian Empire

[@pooya4434]

Unfortunately, The Persian kingdoms were not very good at recording information...

[@dominicguye8058]

This was not a very literate society

[@mrnoob7638]

@@pooya4434 well yes but remember Alexander burnt all our citys

[@pooya4434]

@@mrnoob7638 he did, but it was only in the Achaemenid era.

[@angrymonkeynoises]

The Iranic peoples history is so amazing dude

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Yes for ancient times

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@papazataklaattiranimam you are so mad cus Iranic history is too much for you🤣your history is JOKE compared to iranic history cope harder

[@docpossum2460]

@@brightburnedits4278 Why'd you blow up on him?

[@SomeGuy5555]

@@papazataklaattiranimam WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?????

[@yaqubleis6311]

Iranic history is the best history compare to any group of peoples

[@bpsalami9864]

You forgot that Maka (country near modern day Qatar/Oman/UAE/) was a Parthian satrap.

[@brightburnedits4278]

To all turkic trolls that are crying here😂😂Parthian Iranic dynasty founded like 10 states they founded the Parthian Empire this Empire was super power in there time form the time Mithridates II of Parthia the Great the Parthian Empire was super power form more than 300 years and one of Rome deadliest enemy Battle of Carrhae is too much for joke Turkic history and also how many Turkic empires were super power in there time for more than 300 years ??? only the Ottoman LOL 😂 Turkic history is joke Parthian dynasty also founded the Indo Parthian Empire , Arsacid dynasty of Armenia , Arsacid dynasty of Iberia , Arsacid dynasty of Caucasian Albania , Chosroid dynasty , Guaramid dynasty and others House of Karen were Parthian origin and were descended from the Parthian dynasty who ruled Armenia the Kamsarakan were there Cadet branches the Pahlavuni were Cadet branches of Kamsarakan and also Hethumids were Cadet branches of Pahlavuni all those dynasties were Parthian origin one of the greatest commander in history was Parthian origin name general Surena even Subutai use to copy this legendary commander now cry in replay turkic clowns🤣🤣🤣🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯💪

[@BigYeti01]

Why u mad tho, farsi lived in south iran always not central asia ;)

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@BigYeti01 the funny think is that you dont even know that persian and parthians are the one the Iranic tribes you need to teach history kid dont cry

[@SDArgo_FoC]

@@brightburnedits4278 The man is angry, oh no

[@yaqubleis6311]

Both Greek Empire the Seleucid Empire and Greco Bactrian Empire and others like Armenian Empire were vassal of powerful Parthian Empire

[@twistzaok]

Iran has such a beautiful history

[@dapperduncle1972]

@@Brave.heart11 Kurds are still Iranic

[@twistzaok]

@@Brave.heart11 ok so I shouldve write iranic people mybad

[@dertyp7916]

@@twistzaok no you made no mistake I say that as a non Persian these people just want to get salty this was on the Iranian land so this is iran

[@Souljaboy68-m8e]

03:08 Rome strong moment

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

Honestly, that was I what I came here for. It went all down hill after Traianvs.

[@viracocha6093]

*takes it for a year* WOW IM SO STRONG

[@Souljaboy68-m8e]

@@viracocha6093 sacks and conquers it 5 times in its whole war series while the Persians never got Costantinople. Indeed strong.

[@a.d.t.mapping]

@@Souljaboy68-m8e Parthians never did (they didnt like going on the offensive), though i remember the Sassanids getting close

[@Souljaboy68-m8e]

@@a.d.t.mapping yes the sasanids did get close by sieging the whole city with the help of avars and other slavic tribes (a city alone against 3 empires) but the byzantines decisively defeated the Persians by counter attacking and capturing even Ctesiphon later before the arabs attacked both empires : "The loss in the siege came just after news had reached them of yet another Byzantine victory, where Heraclius's brother Theodore scored well against the Persian general Shahin.[12] Furthermore, after the emperor showed Shahrbaraz intercepted letters from Khosrau ordering the Persian general's death, the latter switched to Heraclius' side.[18] Shahrbaraz then moved his army to northern Syria, where he could easily decide to support either Khosrau or Heraclius at a moment's notice. Still, with the neutralization of Khosrau's most skilled general, Heraclius deprived his enemy of some of his best and most experienced troops, while securing his flanks prior to his invasion of Persia.[19] In the next year, Heraclius led an invasion into Mesopotamia once again, defeating another Persian army at Nineveh. Afterwards, he marched on to Ctesiphon where anarchy reigned allowing Heraclius to extract ever more favorable terms as one Persian king was overthrown by another. "

[@Clover_el_alma_amarilla]

Probably the most underrated Indo-Iranian people, it would be interesting to see how history would have developed if their language and identity had survived.

[@yaqubleis6311]

Parthian Empire is among the best Empire in history they were superpower Empire for more than 300 years just think about this

[@pescavelho6151]

"Sakastan" was the land of the Scythians that made it all the way to India.

[@rathemis2927]

Wasn't Parthian written from right to left? The names of the "kings" seem to be written backwards in this video.

[@YuzuruHakushaku]

the map have two problem one small and other big, small one is when you tried to put Parthian script as well I cannot see why you did not put Persian pronunciations too because some are totally different with these Greek versions, big one is you did not consider Parthian rule in Armenia way after the desolation of the empire and we do know in a period Parthia ruled over Sothern Pakistan which you did not show.

[@tommy-er6hh]

Well, it was a good try, but i noticed he did not put in the Arabian tributary tribes around the Persian Gulf either. But that is minor.

[@Jegrygerfede]

Nice

[@whyareyoureadingmynickname8158]

RIP Parthia, you were my favorite in "Rome: Total War".

[@mehrab6878]

same

[@jeffbenton6183]

Same!

[@mahdi8456]

same

[@maganimag3968]

😸😸😸

[@willval21]

Armenia kept going back and forth so much. Parthia was like, you are mine; and Armenia was like nope! Good video :-)

[@morten4966]

What happened at the coastline in 1 AD near Characene and Elymais?

[@aminyt8742]

Sassanid dynasty rised up and destroyed Them. Later The Third Iranian Empire formed

[@samxiang4669]

I'm gonna guess that that inlet of the Persian Gulf silted up from the Tigris or Euphrates

[@aminyt8742]

@@samxiang4669 No it isn't. It was the rebel of The Persia Province that replaces the Monarchy

[@KaiserFredVIII]

@@aminyt8742 I don't think you've noticed what Sam Xiang is talking about. At around 1CE (and again at ~100CE) the coastline in the Persian Gulf, near where the Tigris/Euphrates reach the sea, changes.

[@yaqubleis6311]

@@aminyt8742 4 don’t forget the Median empire

[@hayamkhan3841]

One of the best pathan empire in history who defeated greek empire.proud parni eastern iranic pathan

[@onlyfacts4999]

Crassus' nightmare

[@johncao6516]

Fun fact, the Parthians told the Han Dynasty explorer Gan Ying (who was trying to find the Roman Empire) that he had to sail across "the Western Sea" to get there and it takes up to 3 years to do so. Gan Ying turned around after learning this and never reached Rome.

[@priestunicorn1384]

The Persian Dynasties actually did this a lot just to prevent an alliance between the two

[@johncao6516]

@@priestunicorn1384 Probably more about monopolizing the silk road trade than preventing alliance. Ancient China has almost no capability of large scale expeditions all the way to Persia because of all the desert and mountains in the way.

[@brightburnedits4278]

Long live iranic people🇮🇷🇦🇫🇹🇯

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Iranized people* Proto-Iranic people have more common with Lithuanians than Iranians

[@brightburnedits4278]

Today Turkized people like azeris uzbeks and turkmens are Mixed Whit Iranic And Mongolic people Proto_Turkic people Have more common whit Mongols And Iranians more than Turks

[@rougehawk]

2:43 Thought I was listening to a Covert Cabal video for a second XD

[@Dersimite]

History of Armenia and Sasanian empire, pls.

[@orxy5316]

Actual very good video, if any criticism is that it could have focus on the border changes that happened during the Kushan-Parthian conflicts

[@yaqubleis6311]

Greco Bactrian Empire was vassal of Parthian Empire Sometime between 163-155 BC, Mithridates I invaded the domains of Eucratides, whom he defeated and seized Aria, Margiana and western Bactria from.[11] Eucratides was supposedly made a Parthian vassal, as is indicated by the classical historians Justin and Strabo

[@yaqubleis6311]

@@Azad_İla Sassanian Empire and Achaemenid Empire are the 2 most powerful Iranic Empire and after is Parthian Empire and Safavid Empire the Safavids have Kurdish ancestry

[@wolfgang1667]

@3:07 Trajan taking a trip to the Persian Gulf.

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

Love Iran from Bulgaria 🇧🇬🤝🇮🇷

[@IdrisLivi]

❤🇮🇷🇧🇬🇧🇦🇦🇱❤

[@brightburnedits4278]

Tnx

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@@brightburnedits4278 np my indo Iranian brother 🇧🇬🤝🇮🇷

[@bulgariannationalist1637]

@[OZN] Polak no

[@authentic_candor]

Rip Crassus

[@yakinseahorse7642]

RIP Publius Although they were the ones who invaded Parthia and also Crassus got rich from some very suspect firefighting business practices

[@amirmohamadsamavat4654]

Iranian empire with the best commander like sorena 🗿👑🇮🇷❤️‍🔥

[@seyyedaminzedfantube3909]

Thank you 💞💞

[@Mohammad_ns747]

Parthian Empire🇮🇷👌🏻

[@ChristopherTanne-se3pz]

Herodot say an original word of meders. He sad „spako“ means dog. In russian means „sobaka“ indoeuropeans 😎

[@brightburnedits4278]

Prathians🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷💪

[@becauseyesisnotaword]

Probably been pretty tough and strong to survive around the Roman Empire, Along with the Han dynasty

[@themetroidprime]

They got lucky enough that the Han embassadors sent to Rome in order to propose an alliance never got there.

[@kosa9662]

@@themetroidprime Sometimes you need to help your luck..

[@oracle372]

@TheMetroidPrime They didn’t get there because the Parthians intercepted the ambassador, and due to the Roman foreign policy they wouldbe reject anyway.

[@jeffbenton6183]

The Han dynasty was no threat to the Parthians. In fact, they were probably a source of strength for them. The Parthian Empire got rich by, among other things, controlling a key part of the Silk Road. That and the Han were looking for western allies to help them fend off nomadic invaders who were attacking from their west (Parthia's east). One more point about the Silk Road - it was the Roman Empire's only source of quality steel (since they didn't know how to make it - they thought it was naturally occurring because of quasi-steel deposits in the Alps) so Parthia often had better weapons and armor than the Romans when the two squared off. You're right that the Parthians were strong. For most of the united Roman Empire's history (and that of the West Roman Empire) terrain and their opponents mostly forced the Romans to become supreme at infantry and counter-infantry tactics. This made it tough for them to deal with Parthia's predominately calvary armies on open ground (though at the same time, the Parthians themselves often lacked decent infantry so wars between the two empires usually ended in stalemate).

[@chohani47]

What about the Indo-Parthians based in the Indus valley? Were they independant of the Parthians or yet another client/vassal state?

[@K.Pershing]

They broke off from them

[@yaqubleis6311]

2 different Empire

[@maganimag3968]

Parthia. Iran. Thank u🌺😸✌

[@gonzalosanchez1538]

why does the characene coast expand into the sea in the year 100 AD?

[@yaqubleis6311]

Long live Iran Iran has the best history compare to any country form Achaemenid Empire to Parthian Empire to Sasanian Empire to Safavid Empire and many others top 10 Iranian Empire in history of Iran are better than any 10 Empire of any country many country don’t even founded 10 Empire in history LOL 😂 10.Buyid Empire best ruler Fanna Khusraw 9.Saffarid Empire Ya’qub The Coppersmith 8.Samanid Empire best ruler Ismail Samani 7.Median Empire best ruler Cyaxares 6.Ghurid Empire the famous Ghor brothers Muhammad of Ghor and Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad 5.Afsharid Empire best ruler Nader Shah 4.Parthian Empire best ruler Mithridates I the Great and Mithridates II the Great 3.Safavid Empire best ruler Shah Ismail and Shah Abbas the Great 2.Sasanian Empire best ruler Shapur I the Great and Khosrow I The Immortal Soul 1.Achaemenid Empire best ruler Cyrus the Great

[@McuThar]

@@Brave.heart11 Kurds are Iranic and only safavid and median was Iranic kurd on this list

[@SomeGuy5555]

@@Brave.heart11 proved then

[@Mahmud-u1n]

Parthian Empire 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷.

[@barakat4503]

Great, you have salah al dîn as your pfp, wah he a turk too?

[@brightburnedits4278]

Ottoman Empire🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷

[@TrueMakedonia]

Parthians were not turks you fool

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@barakat4503 hes troll just like other turks

[@wakeup-r8h]

@@barakat4503 Yes Salahaddin Ayyubi Turk in Seljuk turks in the brothers The Turkish names in Tughtegin,Turanshah.

[@christopherhardy8808]

Philip I of the Seleucids was a vassal of Mithridates II of Parthia until Mithridates died

[@shahanshah9584]

چرا تا این اندازه اشکانیان رو کوچیک کردید؟ هرجا نقشه ای از دولت های ایرانی هست تا حد مرگ کوچیک میشه یه سری ایرانی هم. از کمبود محبت دارن از اینا تشکر میکنن

[@aminyt8742]

داداش همینقدر بود قلمرو اشکانیان.. الان مثلا کجاش اشتباه زده؟

[@nimaghayed5258]

چرا عکسه یک سرباز کومان دا گذاشتی ؟ 🧐📿

[@kaiserisbetterthanaustrianguy]

اشکانیان تقریبا در همین حد بود حالا نمیدونم شاید یذره کم کرده باشن🗿❤👊

[@amir_206.]

​@@aminyt8742اشکانیان در سال ۴۰ ق.م تمام اناطولی رو داشتن که نشون نداد در دوران مهرداد دوم هم تا هیمالیا پیشروی کرده بودن که سکه ها و اثارشم هست که اونم نشون نداد

[@ho3einxerxes988]

Thank you for making video about my country history❤🌹🇮🇷

[@jeffbenton6183]

I've long been curious: how much do people talk about Cyrus in Iran?

[@ho3einxerxes988]

@@jeffbenton6183 every person in iran loves him. If you ask iranians " name one of your heroes in iran history, the first name that comes to every iranian mind is cyrus the great. He is famous for his victories and creating the human rights.

[@ho3einxerxes988]

@@jeffbenton6183 where are you from bro?

[@jeffbenton6183]

@@ho3einxerxes988I'm from the USA. I like to think of Cyrus as the first federalist. The man was a legend

[@ho3einxerxes988]

@@jeffbenton6183 i want to know something. What is the opinion of your people about iranians? I know the usa media doesn't tell good things about us I want to know your people believe the lies or think good?

[@amberfarmer2869]

Comment for engagement

[@JackTheSlayer-ok5eq]

Hello

[@hasibtune]

Tajik iranshar Parthians 💚🤍🖤

[@Hj-te6mm]

My brother Tajiks are bactrians Parthians were Caspians

[@Hj-te6mm]

My brother Tajiks are bactrians Parthians were Caspians

[@hasibtune]

@@Hj-te6mm they aren’t caspian even merv and neshapur are Tajiks cities but bacteria was in east which is Tajikistan Afghanistan part of china and to Pakistan in the same time aryens was in west with Herat neshapur and merv to sistan in the south

[@Hj-te6mm]

​@@hasibtune you're being completely wrong neshapur is not related to Tajiks at all Tajiks used to speak bactrian The northern regions of Afghanistan and parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan spoke bactrian (the word bactri in here means shining not other meanings)the Bactrian was influenced by ancient Persian too Khosrow Anushirvan created a new shahrestan by regions which were already in Iran, and by adding the regions that had been captured by the Kushan Empire, he created shahrestan khorasan The word Dari is shortened form of the word Darbari, which means court which was the Persian language was the language of the Court which was Persian. Today's Persian language has its roots in Middle Persian, after the Arab invasion of Iran, the new Persian with the Arabic alphabet, with a slight change from Middle Persian, came into being. Bactrian was only spoken in the northern regions of Afghanistan and parts of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

[@hasibtune]

@@Hj-te6mm it’s right neshapur is pur Tajik and was a big city of Khurasan learn your history

[@ZAZA-y2c]

Dailem İranic / ZAZA history Parhian Sasani Ziyarid Bavanidler (Büveyhiler 971 Anatolia) Dersim_ZAZA

[@SelfbellHistory]

no

[@Zwedix]

​@@SelfbellHistoryHe says right, ask any Zaza you want, and he will say Zaza to the Sassanids

[@kian9822]

Zaza and dailem are persian they are persian DNA

[@ariyahawk8575]

Surena

[@alirrzafarahani4596]

Yuyu thanks for such a great video like this and keep up the good work🇮🇷❤

[@IloveRumania]

"Bye," said the Parthians. ... "Hi," said the Parthians, taking over the entire place.

[@pigchunk2216]

Roman Empire outlasted Parthia and the Sassanids.

[@brightburnedits4278]

Roman empire smoked by sassanids

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@TomSeliman99 Shapur I the Great killed more than 250,000 Romans in 3 battles and 1 siege he defeated emperor Phillip the arab in the battle of Misiche and destroyed a Roman army formed by 60 000 soldiers, he defeated emperor Gordian III in the battle of Barballisos/Barbalissos and destroyed another Roman army formed by 60 000 soldiers again, then he defeated and captured Valerian in the battle of Edessa and destroyed 70 000 Roman soldiers while he only had 40 000 soldiers and Siege of Dura Europos he killed 60,000 Romans and all that aside, he sacked over 30 Roman cities and brought people of the Roman empire to his own empire and also pushed Odenathus back not once but twice at the gates of his capital 😂😂😂😂

[@chohani47]

Sure but Iran outlived Rome. Rome fell,Constantinople fell. Iran has continued to exist as a state or at very least a culture since the times of the Achaemenids

[@pigchunk2216]

@@chohani47 Mongolians say otherwise.

[@Britishdarnlib]

@@brightburnedits4278 it's almost as if Rome was going through some kind of massive crisis at that point

[@suleimanthemagnificent1494]

Interessing!

[@brightburnedits4278]

Greeks destroyed one Iranian empire the Achaemenid Empire under one of the worst ruler in history of Iran but Iranians like Parthians and Scythians destroyed 3 Greek empires the Seleucid empire, Indo Greek and Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Mithridates the Great the poison king of the Pontic empire who spoke 22 languages and Rome deadliest enemy was Persian origin IRANIC ORIGIN NOT GREEK descendants of the the greatest ruler and military commander in history CYRUS THE GREAT

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Hellenic empires conquered most of Iranic people but not even single Iranic state ruled most of Greeks. Keep coping :-D

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

How about Greco-Persian wars 😅

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Xeres iranian king beat the hell out of greecs and conquer macedon some greec cities even greec capital athen and sacked their capital🤣alexander was macedonian he destroyed one iranian empire but iranians destroyed 3 greec empire🤣🤣

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Lol Seleucid Emperors were Iranian and Greeks by blood who rule Iran LOOOL Alexander the Great got married to the Persian Princesses. Plutarch " Alexander was overwhelmed by the beauty of Persian women in particular, and they were his weakness. Some historians believe that one Persian with beautiful eyes could even have been the cause of the Alexander’s death. " Seleucus I Nicator , the most successful successor of Alexander the Great, got married to the Persian noblewoman Apama. Seleucus I Nicator was badass, he got about 70 percent of Alexander the Great’s Empire. Seleucus’s Successor was his son by Queen Apama. The Seleucid emperors were Greek-Persian because of : 1. Seleucus’s Persian wife, Apama. 2. The Seleucid Emperors practiced incestuous marriages, so Apama was The Seleucid Emperors’s ancestor from their both sides (their fathers and their mothers) 3. Some of The Seleucid Emperors got married to the Persian princesses of Pontus, the Pontus kings were Persian and the Pontus dynasty founded by the Persian Mithridatic dynasty which have been directly related to Darius the Great, Cyrus the Great. And Culturally the Pontus dynasty were Hellenized-Persian and ethnically Persian. Cleopatra was Greek Macedonian-Persian. Cleopatra and the majority of the Ptolemies did have Persian ancestors. There was two Persian princesses, the princesses were from the Seleucid Empire ( Persian- Macedonian Greek ) and the Pontus dynasty ( Persian ), both of whom married Ptolemaic kings and that is how Persian blood entered the dynasty. Cleopatra’s ancestors were the prominent companions of Alexander the Great, Seleucus I Nicator and Ptolemy I Soter, and Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great. Cleopatra I, the Queen of Egypt was Persian-Macedonian Greek. 2/3 of Cleopatra I was Persian and 1/3 of her was Greek. Cleopatra I was the ancestor of Cleopatra VII's mother and the ancestor of Cleopatra VII's father, because the Ptolemaic dynasty practiced 300 years of incestuous marriages to remain pure, so Cleopatra I was Cleopatra’s ancestor from her both sides (her father and her mother). Laodice III was Cleopatra I’s mother. Laodice III was a Persian princess of Pontus and a Seleucid Queen. She was daughter of the Persian King Mithridates II of Pontus. Laodice III was Antiochus III the Great’s wife and he was the Seleucid Emperor. Antiochus III the Great was Greek-Persian and he was Cleopatra I’s father. Antiochus III the Great’s mother was Persian. In 300 years only Cleopatra spoke the Egyptian language. Cleopatra was ethnically Greek Macedonian-Persian. During the rule of the Ptolemies in Egypt their language was Greek. Cleopatra was the only Ptolemy that learned the Egyptian for the political reasons. Cleopatra was a red-head tend to paler skin. Cleopatra was fluent in the Persian language as well.cry kid

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@brightburnedits4278 Those Hellenic Empires were already invaders in Indo-Iranian lands lmao and you lost greco-persian wars despite heavily outnumbered Hellenic tribes

[@Joel-r6d9t]

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[@Mahmud-u1n]

Parthia 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷❤️🤎💛💚💜🧡💙❤️.

[@عرشیاحسنزاده-د1ل]

@@Mahmud-u1n parthians turks 😂

[@Mahmud-u1n]

@@عرشیاحسنزاده-د1ل Yes Parthian in the Scuthians Turks.😄

[@عرشیاحسنزاده-د1ل]

@@Mahmud-u1n سبحان الله

[@عرشیاحسنزاده-د1ل]

@@Mahmud-u1n scythian Iranian

[@shirdool6202]

I am happy to be Iranian.

[@IranAzadLoading]

I think you should include all Arsacids, from Iberia Albania to Indo Parthia

[@CleberSantos-io9bk]

🇮🇹 Italy vs. 🇮🇷 Iran

[@samhendren9126]

Any good books on this period? Do we have any surviving primary sources from the Parthian side or does most of what we know about them come from Western sources?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Sources are mostly from Roman, Hellenistic, Armenian and Syriac sources though

[@rezaabdulhosseini8405]

Great Job Thank you emperor

[@xshandy5812]

The founder of Parthian Arsacid dynasty (Aršak/Arsaces I) was alegedly a descendant of Artaxšaça/Artaxerxes II of Achaemenid dynasty, so the lineage would go back to Haxamaniš/Achaemenes who ruled 705-675 BC. 🇮🇷💪 He took his revenge over Alexander The Great's Empire

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Most people don’t know but in fact Roman Empire used to have many Parthian concubines in their harem.

[@dapperduncle1972]

Gosh, Turks are so desperate to claim and mock Iranian history 😂

[@Clover_el_alma_amarilla]

​@@dapperduncle1972What do the Turks have to do with the Romans?

[@yazovgaming]

What Harems?💀

[@hughmungus1960]

Good stuff!

[@LeeLee-fw3hw]

With some study on Parthia Empire and away from controlled agenda his-story you might tie it to the lost tribes of Israel. Great rabbit hole search LOL

[@Clover_el_alma_amarilla]

The Parthians were Indo-European, not Semitic

[@ho3einxerxes988]

Every roman legioner has a weakness That is an IRANIAN SOLDIER🇮🇷🗿

[@kinghenrybeauclerc9337]

Romans are much more powerful than Persians.

[@ho3einxerxes988]

@@kinghenrybeauclerc9337 yeah with just 30% of winning in roman iranian wars😂😂😂😂😂estorank ruma🗿

[@pigchunk2216]

Obviously not if Rome managed to vassal half of Parthia and Loot the Capital.

[@farbodalimardani6206]

@@pigchunk2216 so Rome captured Iran's capital 2 times in parthian age . But it's not a good reason to say . Rome was stronger than Parthia . In most of Rome_persian wars . Parthians and Persian defeated Rome empire with fewer troops than rome soldiers . And also winned wars more than romans

[@pigchunk2216]

@@farbodalimardani6206 yet the Roman’s survived and surpassed them.

[@robertfisher8359]

This makes me even more interested in the Persians. Those were some MASSIVE border shifts early on. Makes me wonder what was going on.

[@armandom.s.1844]

As far as our sources say, by 130 BC Seleucids had reconquered far more lands than just Mesopotamia, pushing into inner Media and regaining control over Parthia's former vassals like Elymais and Persis. Maybe an exaggerated account, but Justin says that Antiochus Sidetes take every Parthian territory except Parthia itself. That campaign is often disregarded. Very good video overall.

[@abasmalekiii381]

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[@brightburnedits4278]

🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫😍

[@brightburnedits4278]

@Humayra Nazneen One of the must powerful empires ever nightmare of the romans shapour ll arab slayer nightmare of the arabs conquered many lands and destroyed many nation 421 years of superpower then fall to muslims due to civil war and byzanite persian wars

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@brightburnedits4278 Lost 29 battles and won only 1 against bedouins…

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@brightburnedits4278 Qutayba ibn Muslim and Khalid =. Nightmare of Iranic

[@brightburnedits4278]

Shapour ll destroyed arabs half of arabia were vassal of sassanids. and Rashidun Attacked Sassanid when it was In Civil War🤣Sassanid more 450 Years of Supowerful almost lasted more than 6 Turkic Empires😂

[@brightburnedits4278]

Chinese tang dynasty destroyed and conquered turkic people like noting but they got defeated by Iranic Persian Warrior Abu Muslim🤣 more than 200 years Turkic peoples run away form Abu Muslim to Tang Dynasty and after they run back run to Abu Muslim because of the Tang Dynasty 🤣🤣 they join Abu Muslim the best warrior in is time in battle of talas because they were scared of Tang Dynasty 🤣😂

[@Anwwoo]

Parthava empire

[@hossintahri6264]

🇹🇯🇦🇫🇮🇷

[@zyanego3170]

Glory to the Shahanshah

[@محمد-د6غ2ه]

🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷😍

[@Sintoolkicks]

According to the prophecy, only a king can defeat the Parthians.

[@Noeaap]

Fartian empire

[@brightburnedits4278]

Cry

[@SelfbellHistory]

Parth=Pahlaw not fars

[@Rad509]

Make one Abt the NZ wars

[@michaelthomas5433]

As it was counting down to CE all I could think was "it's gonna blow!". ?;- )

[@محمد-د6غ2ه]

امپراتوری ایران🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷😍

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Had Julius Caesar lived longer, he would have destroyed the Parthians before the Sassanids.

[@NigwardTheSquid]

How do you know this

[@WILLIAN_1424]

That's not how history works, sorry.

[@Ali-bu6lo]

Trajan was also a great conqueror but he only managed to take over Armenia and Mesopotamia. I don't think Caesar could have conquered the Iranian plateau itself.

[@ShahStark]

Lmao no

[@jeffbenton6183]

Caesar certainly planned to do that, but I'm not sure he could've pulled it off. It would've involved a huge army and some serious negotiating skill to deal with all the vassals. He might've been significantly disadvantaged by the fact that the Parthians had steel weapons and armor whereas the Romans only had iron.

[@wenos0228]

When No step back geografic review?

[@maxhoshaw3203]

Hi

[@alex180111]

Thanks to this video I just learned there is no year 0. I'm shocked.

[@yipengguo2732]

That’s why year 2000 was still 20th century.

[@lossecretosdelahistoria5018]

Parthia

[@Zwedix]

Kurdish

[@Narrator_of_Tarikh07]

Scythians

[@unhomesenzill4366]

First

[@perspolise7104]

Partia 550 b.c

[@imperialmarshalyoutube]

Your map style seems to be getting old.

[@SnapplyPie]

Not really, why do you say that?

[@lexingtonbrython1897]

Don't change what ain't broke

[@deiansalazar140]

A parth time empire.

[@jesusexposed1848]

I knew JESUS wasn't real

[@barakat4503]

What does this have to with the video?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Hellenistic Iranic Empire

[@Tapinaktopmakcisi]

Joke Empire

[@brightburnedits4278]

Seljuc is persinate turkic empire

[@brightburnedits4278]

@@Tapinaktopmakcisi you mean turkic empires??yes they are JOKE all of them persinate🤣

[@christopherhardy8808]

Parthian kings styled themselves as philhellenes, friends of the Greeks

[@Dersimite]

*Hellenistic-era

[@samdressman3055]

Hi, said the Parthians...

[@Kingofportals]

You can tell all the infighting in the late 100s and early 200s allowed for the even stronger Sassanids to take over, the Sassanids nearly conquered Byzantium and probably if all worked in their favor could have survived to the present!