It was one of the best videos that i've seen about Cyrus the great 👍 Thank you very much for making this video 🙏 However, i wish you havel mentioned other stories or at least the ones that were told by Xenophon and Ctesias too and told all the main three ones in more details (It's gonna be a long comment but it'll make many things clear) Herodotus story has too many flaws if you look deeply into the story I mean finding out about wine and instantly loving it and getting drunk ? Really ? Herodotus mentioned that he heard other stories too, but wrote the one that he liked the most because he thought it was more epic You know since the ending was similar to the ending of one of those mythical Greek stories (greed and arrogance leading great humans to their demise) and since Herodotus was a Greek, this story is very debatable and has many things wrong with it if you think about it Other Greek or Roman historians never even mentioned Tomyris or her tribe and each one wrote a different story The most famous one, doesn't always mean the most accurate one The most logical story about his death that i've heard up until now, is the one that Ctesias has written Ctesias had his mistakes while writing about Cyrus life but his record of Cyrus death seems way more logical and the fact that he worked at the Achaemeinid royal court kinda increases the accuracy since he could've had access to their history sources He's also written the numbers of casualties on both sides (though probably exaggerated numbers), the name of the king of the rebel Derbices, the number of Cyrus Scythian reinforcements and name of the Scythian king who led them Plus some information about how the battle went According to him, Cyrus fought the Derbices (Iranian tribal people in Hyrcania) and won the battle but died three days later because he was wounded in the middle of that battle That's enough time for his men to reach Pasargadae without his corpse rotting since Derbices territories were in the north of modern day Iran and that Cyrus didn't immediately die and it was way closer than Central Asia Unlike Massagetaes (eastern Iranic nomadic people), who lived in seperate tribes (like Greek city states), they lived in a unified satrapy and had more manpower than a Scythian tribe and even had allies with war elephants from India Meaning, they had the terrain advantage and enough manpower to fight an army of 80,000-100,000 men, specially when living in modern day north of Iran (where i live) These lands are perfect for Guerilla warfares According to Herodotus, the only advantage the Massagetaes had was a river which they let Cyrus army cross it without even harrassing it What kind of wise military commander would do that ? They were in open plains, with no city walls, no fortresses, no trenches, no natural barriers, not even enough manpower and they let the enemy pass their only line of defence How many people lived in ONE nomadic Scythian tribe in 530 BC ? 3,000 ? 4,000 ? Let's say 5,000-10,000 How many of them could fight ? While the Achaemenids are known for their large armies which are estimated between 50,000 to 200,000 They were professional fighters armed with almost any weapon imaginable at the time and were familiar with nomadic fighting styles and battle tactics (they themselves were nomads once) and were being led by the greatest warlord at the time who won every battle he fought against mighty empires or even other Scythian tribes according to other Greco Roman historians The terrain here in the north is great for a local army to defend against a superior invading force And if we take a look at Cyrus conquest map, he'd conquered territories up to Aral sea/lake in central Asia Massagetae territory is shown next to Dahae territories under Aral sea/lake in most of the maps and according to Cyrus map, he conquered that province and there was even a city fortress called Cyropolis near there While there's no evidence of Tomyris existence beside Herodotus few sentences If she had indeed killed him in battle and completely destroyed his army, then why there's no report of her raiding and plundering or even conquering the reach defenseless Achaemeinid territories or Cyrus son, Cambyses, a vengeful cruel man (at least according to Herodotus) campaign against them ? Darius the great mentioned the names of the people who REVOLTED against him, right after he became king, in his inscription, and the Scythians of Central Asia (beyond the jaxartes) were among the rebels (the man in the end of the line) And since the word revolt has been used, we can assume they were already conquered by Cyrus As far as i know, even Alexander's historians didn't say anything about his skeleton's head missing Ali Sami Shirazi also identified the two corpses/skeletons in his tomb as Cyrus and Cassandane's If what Herodotus says is true, and Massagetaes took Cyrus body and cut his head off, then what are those remains even doing in his tomb ?
@YargusKhan
10 ай бұрын
Yes true he didt great job I enjoyed it myself.
@sinontroyy
Жыл бұрын
Looking forward to a lot more informative and fun videos
@boringoldhistory
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching... new videos are on the way, maybe little late, but they will be coming. Through research on the next topic is taking way more time than expected...
@YargusKhan
10 ай бұрын
Great video , great narration
@Davidbrown-ih1vo
Жыл бұрын
Iran oldest country in the world Persian language very beautiful
@TomAndersonn
Жыл бұрын
China says hi
@xanshen9011
Жыл бұрын
Iraq is older.
@lepolaxbill7542
Жыл бұрын
50th subscriber🎉
@adhiladhi6890
Жыл бұрын
Nice explaining
@boringoldhistory
Жыл бұрын
Thanks...
@پژوهشگر
Жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@siavashamin951
Жыл бұрын
Anshan was west of Pasargarde, in the start you have put further South of modern day shiraz. You should have Googled for modern day Tall-e Malyan and used that as reference to the ancient site of Anshan as it was Elamit city that the persian was tributary. But once again you base your reference from Western point of view and mainly Herodotos and Xenofon that where notorius inaccurate in describing the asian proper high cultures.
@adhiladhi6890
Жыл бұрын
👍🏻
@TheColombiano89
Жыл бұрын
Subscribed. Sucker for Persian History.
@mohammadnaveedkhan5554
8 ай бұрын
Urdu caption plz
@hydrated2411
Жыл бұрын
The King of Kings title was given to Darius The Great
@blah204
Жыл бұрын
This is false. Cyrus the great was the first king to be known as “king of kings”
@abdulHaqqqq
Жыл бұрын
@@blah204 no evidence to back your claim
@mohammadnaveedkhan5554
2 ай бұрын
Urdu language translation
@motasch241
Жыл бұрын
This is all a false narrative. Kurosh/Cyrus might have been tolerant towars major religions but nevertheless he was a brutal conqueror and warlord. He waged war over many kingdoms and killed endlessly many men. Dont get it twisted. An empire remains an empire even if it was Persian or Iranian lol. We are no perfect people and like any other humans, our history is soaked in the blood of innocents.
@user-cg2tw8pw7j
Жыл бұрын
No, there is no evidence of the Babylonian priests saying that Cyrus is a good person and that God loves him
@ramtin5152
Жыл бұрын
So ? War was a normal thing back then and other nations were WAY more brutal than Cyrus Plus Media and Lydia attacked him first and Babylon aided Lydia in their invasion Even Babylonian people were ok with Cyrus taking over the kingdom because he was a better king Years later, the Greeks were the ones who started the whole Greco Persian wars and during the Alexander's invasion, it was again the Greeks who started war Greek and Babylonian sources clearly say Cyrus was truly a great benevolent king and even Alexander admired him
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