The Entire History of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) / Ancient History Documentary

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Persia seems to be massively underrated in historical terms. Thanks for the videos these are amazing

I have always been fascinated by Cyrus the Great since childhood when I read a book about him and Astiagis, his grandfather. And now, when I have lots of Iranian friends I see how nice and most of all smart people they are. This comes from the great ancient history of the country. One of my students was from Iran, and she was the most hard-working student I've ever known.

This was the best non biased documentary about Persian history that I've ever seen. Well done.

I am Zoroastrian, Parsi, living in Bombay, this is part of my ancestry, lots of missing history but roughly this is it, thank you.

Most everything civilized about the modern world, appeared first in Persia, even furniture styles and design. There are classic styles of furniture attributed to Europe and Great Britain that are copies of classic Persian furniture design, refined and distinctive. The culture, style and art of Persia/Iran today still reflects the deep roots of modern culture. We owe a debt.

I'm from Rome and in all the Roman empire's maps of our books in school, you can see that we have never conquered the Parti's kingdom (Parthia) . They could resist and win against Romans themselves. As a Roman i have Persia in high regards. 🇮🇹Respect🇮🇷

Whenever we had history class and talking about Greece and Rome etc there was always this mention of "The mighty Persians" and one day I just asked my teacher "Hey why don't we learn anything about this?" Didn't really get an answer. If you don't know Persia you would think it's just a savage warrior civilization, but instead much of the Greek wisdom has its origins in the Persian courts, Heraclitus was not Greek as often believed but a Persian man. We westerners cannot continue to think that civilization started with Greece and Rome, Persia established freedom of religion, laws etc thousands of years before that, this is the world history we should all know!

I remember feeling the obligation to watch documentaries like this back in school but now this is all I watch now that I'm outta school.

The Persian civilization was Mentioned in the OLD TESTAMENTS, how fascinating!! Very inspiring!! And as a Korean, our ancient Kingdoms once had a strong trading ties with Persia and India through Silk road... it was written in our historical annals(in the form of bamboo woods before the paper was invented) found in the monasteries here and in China..

As a Persian, I am proud of myself and my ancestors. I love my language and our history. I want to say that we say Koorosh intead of Cyrus, Daryosh instead of Draius and much more different pronunciation for the names that you have used , but it was totally fascinating 😊❤

Thank you for covering parts of Persian history. Unfortunately both Persian history, literatures and ancient science is very underrated today. Hopefully by discussing more on this topic, we would be able to show the world, the great sides of Iran. Not political conflicts and wars. Love from Iran, somewhere on earth...

Amazing - this I never learned in history, not even college. Thank you.

As you educate yourself, you quickly realize the things you were taught in school is mostly propaganda for your home country. I particularly like how the Persians respected other cultures and beliefs.

Thank you for this inspiring documentary. I pride myself to be of Persian roots.

As a Persian i am telling you you did the great job 🙏🏼

Cyrus the great was utterly phenomenal. He was a brilliant statesman, warrior, humanist and.....gardener. Yes, I said gardener. His garden designs and inspirations have been handed down over centuries and centuries to the current day. All the great Greek and Roman gardens were lifted directly from his gardens, which were illustrated constantly during his time. Just one of his many astonishing attributes. Oh yeah, and the beginnings of true democracy. That's another Cyrus innovation. The greeks again lifted his ideas and carried them forward.

Love and peace from Persia to all of You !!! 💚💚💚

Brilliant documentary, thank you! The Persian rulers really were impressive in their ability to unite different factions for a common purpose and conquer lands far and wide. Really fascinating. I have just discovered your channel and will definitely be watching more videos, keep up the good work!

Greeting and respect to all, As a Persian i am much grateful for all your kind and heartwarming words. As your human fellow, I hope we all can put our differences aside to save our only Mother Earth and Race. Much Love From your Persian Friend.