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Great videos.

why do we call them persians if they called themselves iranians? Same logic to call dutch people germans.

i havent heard the podcast but i bet they did not have enough ditches.

This is such a great explanation of Persian Wars, I love it! I especially like the analysis of what the Persians and Greeks were really like when we look at them from current moral standard pov. It's on point.

Yes, knowing the facts is one thing, being able to interpret them totally another....

Hey its the ditchman!

Ditch guy is now telling us to ditch the aristocracy and I am 100% here for it.

Ditch you should start a channel:)

so in greco-persian wars, we ACTUALLY DO have surviving sources from the Persian side and that comes from Dio Chrysostom which he literally says: "I heard a Mede say that the Persians do not agree at all with the Greeks’ version of events." instead, he (from what he hears from that med) provides us with the Persian version of events which is like this: Darius sent Datis and Artaphernes against Naxos and Eretria, and after they captured and looted these cities they returned to the king but A few of their ships-not more than a dozen ships-were blown off course to Attica and the crews had some kind of scuffle with the locals at the marathon which they managed to repel the Greek attacks get on their ships and returned to Asia. Later on, Xerxes made war on the Spartans. He defeated them at Thermopylae and slew their king Leonidas. Then he captured the city of Athens, razed it, and enslaved those who did not flee. When this was done, he made the Greeks pay him tribute declared himself 'victor of the war', and returned to Asia. so according to Persians, NOTHING WENT WRONG in their battles against the Greeks but the thing is today NOBODY actually knows the Persian side of events.

René (my dad) passed early this morning. I'll be honest, I was watching this mostly to hear his voice again. I might read a lot of military history in the next few months. Thanks for hosting this Josh!

Greecks unified battle was not against Persians it was the trojian war that took place over 700.years before.

There is very little reason to question the idea that Western Civilization was in danger. I like mr Konijnendijk as much as the next guy but he is clearly either ignorant of the facts or more likely chooses to be blind to them out of political correctness. Persia didn't snuff out other civilizations, but it is irrelevant to their intentions in Greece because we KNOW what those intentions were. What happened to the Ionian Golden Age? What happened to Miletus and Eretria? Heck the Persians even occupied Athens for a brief time both in 480 and 479 BC. What did they do to the city then, pray tell? Would he describe it as a "mostly peaceful" occupation? It is weird to me that someone with as much academic credit as mr Konijnendijk could wilfully ignore the truth in favor of pushing modern revisionist propaganda about the oh so benevolent Persian empire.

Excellent, thank you!

Because Persians allow subjects to keep their customs and culture they are now viewed as benevolent by modern historians... Wow talk about prostrating yourself to the king.

Great, thanks!

Roel , I hope one day I can go to one of speaking events and or take a class . Probably one of the best speakers that’s easy to follow . Really appreciate all your content

I love that this man is conscious of the ditches meme and is embracing it

Why don't you gonna talk about black people in the European Ancient World ?

Why does he say nothing about black soldiers in the Persian Empire. WHY ?

I really enjoy listening to Roel talk about history, but I have found his sentiments always a little harsh when it comes to the popularisation of classical Greece. Very much so there is a inflated narrative that through the defeat of the Persians, the Greeks defended western civilisations and values, and for sure we do not know that should the Persians have won were would have not gotten to where we are now. However to say that the Greeks were abhorrent for embracing slavery, and the status of women, etc, is unfair given that at the time this was the standard amongst most civilisations world wide. Its not like they wasn't the case in Persia, or Egypt, or other large cultures of the time....

I trust this dude. Seems solid.

9:56 - So, like... almost every civilization, ever? Hardly makes the Greeks uniquely bad.

Ditches!

Bro Start a podcast

Roel has 99 problems, but a ditch ain't one

the most interesting history expert I have seen "Dr. Roel Konijnendijk"

Petition for Roel to start a podcast talking about ancient wars in history and ranking them by their use of ditches

the ditch doctor keeps digging

wow excellent and so detailed, cant wait for the next - great to know more about this major character in history, thanks to Josh and Irene for this excellent video 🙂👍

Thank you both of you. This was very engrossing. Very intricate back-story. Exceptional scholarship tying all the particulars and details together.

Ditches?

I actually came to youtube today to watch the aftermath of the us presidential debate, but watching the ditch king is wayyyyy more interesting. as always ty, dr. ditch!

Still digging in preparation......just need those pesky ice zombies to make an appearance 👀

I know Roel will say “enough with the f…g fire” but why haven’t the Greeks/Persians use some sort of flaming liquids to disrupt formations? I presume if you threw some oil in a jar onto your enemy and then some fire they would break, no?

Host: Where did Persia go wrong? Ditch guy: When you dig into it.....

Saw ditch man, immediately watched

I love your website and I promote it on my own site. It's funny how we in the Napoleon-studies community reviewed the trailers on YT not realizing how much worse the movie was in its totality when it came out. 9:30 - Cringiness is perfect description..... for the whole movie project. Waiting for your next video overview of the movie. I trashed it in my two reviews.

Please 🥺

Awesome.

omg he knows The Warriors and that it was inspired by Greek history. It's impossible not to like him.

Its easy to figure out what went wrong for the Persians. Not enough ditches.

The Persian Empire fell because they didnt dig enough ditches

Question: Who was filming landing on Moon? :) Somebody have to be first, in this case cameraman :)

Very underrated battle yet showing the danger in countrrinf cavalry charge

When Elizabeth Longford, who only died 2 decades ago, was writing her history of Wellington she could have met old very old people who were there at the Dukes funeral.