Love from Japan. As a student of history I'm relatively ignorant when it comes to the oldest cradle of civilizations, as your gem in this series saved my day! Keep it up! I'll continue to share your detailed engagement of ancient Asian studies on instagram and with my Bible study friends!
Thanks so much for the feedback and really glad you found the video useful! Thanks also for sharing the content, really means a lot! Lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
As always what a great video. As an Iranian, I have to admit that I have learned more about Iran's history from your videos than from history books in school. Keep the good work man.❤❤❤
Iran!!!! I feel embarrassed to say this but i only recently found out the truth about iran and it's people. I just want to visit iran in my lifetime. It's so beautiful and the people are so diverse and kind. I have no specific point to my comment, i just wanted to shout yay for Iran's people
Thank you for yet another exceptional video. I didn't know the Persians had their own version of the Suez Canal that far back in time! Persian / Iranian history is so fascinating; I look forward to your future videos on the topic! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Don’t forget he basically said with an excuse too “Yeah… I did tons more than this, but it’s alot dude, not even I’d read it”. basically saying “I did too much to write about, so I won’t write it, but I’m awesome.”.
You're the best man. I love your series on Greek and Persian history and always listened to them on Spotify. I noticed that you were less active recently, and I'm truly gald you're back again. Wishing you all the best Cy! 🙌
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback and glad you're into Greek and Persian history as I have a lot more of it planned for later on this year. Thank so much for the support and for watching!
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! Haha like the title says, Life and Times of Darius "in his Own Words" so I had to quote him quite a bit! As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I'm sure that you also recognized some of stuff from the Louvre too! Thanks for support the channel from the beginning, really appreciate it!
It amazes me how quickly you make these videos. I am very impressed and very grateful for having a channel with such frequent and well made videos for my niche bronze age and ancient near eastern interest :)
Haha I can't make them quick enough... I have so many topics I'd like to cover, just not enough time. Lot more on the Bronze Age coming up but I also want to move further down the timeline of antiquity and into early medieval history which I also find fascinating. Anyway thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
By the time Darius set foot in Egypt with his great Persian empire, the Pyramids of Giza where already 2000 year's old , so Ancient Egypt was also Ancient in the times of Darius,
Yeah I always find it fascinating that as far back in time as the Roman Empire is for us, Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations was just as old for them! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I like this format too and will do my best to do the same (live video + textual resources) as much as possible. Thanks for watching!
Is it not amazing that this great administrator who gave us the idea of so many concepts, which are still prevalent in our daily modern life, is only known in the west as the guy who was defeated in Marathon?
Yeah, and he technically wasn't there, he sent his generals instead. I think he was respected by the Greeks because they don't say too many negative things about him. The invasion of Greece that Darius ordered was more to punish Athens and its allies because and protect the Bosporus which the Persians controlled. Xerxes though is seen in a much more negative light due to his full-on invasion of the Greek mainland and ultimate defeat. Thanks for watching!
@@DeezzzzzzNuts12And then, the Iranian free mens (Parthians) spanked Greeks much harder, and their lands (Greece) were easily conquered by the Romans and remained for more than 2000 years under Roman/Ottoman rule, while Persia could rise again with multiple empires 🔥 +No mention that after alexander conquest, it took only 50 years for the Persians to stabilise an independent Iranian kingdome In Iran's Fars province, After the chaos caused by the death of Seleucus I, Baghdad I declared independence in Persia in 280 BC, and the dynasty of Farataka began in Iran's Fars province. less than 50 years after, the Parthians declared independence and liberated northeastern Iran, cope!!!
Your videos are so engaging! I just prepared myself a cup of coffee, watched the video and took notes about it to further enhance my knowledge about the Persian empire. Thank you from Argentina!
You're welcome, glad these are helpful and thanks for the feedback! Yo amo Argentina! I was in Buenos Aires in 2006 and 2008 to study economia...it is because of this I still say "vos" and say all "y" and "ll" with as a "sh" sound. One day I want to go back to visit Mendoza and Cordoba as I've seen photos and the area looks so beautiful. Anyway, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Haha that's awesome... I can barely get members of my family to watch these, but then again they're not really into history (I'm trying to change that!). Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Thank YOU for watching and glad you enjoyed this. I'll have a lot more on Persian history coming... next topic related to it will be the Greco-Persian Wars.
@@HistorywithCy dude, you are by far my favourite educator online, I can't stress it enough on a simple comment how so much more of my time I am willing to gladly spend watching your videos start to finish...again, I really can't thank you enough for the time you put into all of this!!
Yet another amazing video. 👌🏻 It’s very intriguing what happened regarding Darius’ throne ascension. Makes you wonder about both Cambyses’ brother and Achaemenes. Thanks for the video. ⚔️
Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and see what really happened. As always, thanks so much for watching and the support!
The most fascinating thing about this is, at least one of them - to me, is that just as dramatic and intricate events were happening in all human societies, both earlier and later, but since they left no writing, we just forgot
I think it’s possible that before Cambyses left for Egypt he put Bardiya in a regent role. Cyrus went to Babylon, Anatolia, and Scythia for his campaigns. His maternal grandfather went into Mesopotamia during his conquest of Assyria. There’s a precedent about Iranian rulers to be away from their capital and lands. So I feel like it makes sense that Cambyses would leave his brother in charge while he was gone. Now about the idea of Bardiya taking the kingship for himself, I’m a little split. On one hand, Cambyses was planning on campaigning as far as Carthage, so him suddenly leaving Egypt to go back to Persia feels off. But the only sources we have on Bardiya say he was actually dead by then. Couldn’t it be possible that after Cambyses died, Bardiya just inherited the kingship and that’s when Darius took the opportunity to enact his conspiracy?
Darius the great is considered as one of the top 5 Great kings of all Iranians empires to include Shapur II, Nader Shah, Reza Shah, Mithridates II, and of course Cyrus the great.
I love history! Many thanks ❤... Best way to find common ground even today... Very Little things changed in humanity... BEST REGARDS FROM BUCHAREST ROMANIA 🍀🤗😊
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this. I have to visit Romania one day as you all have a very fascinating history, beautiful country and many things to see! Mulțumim pentru vizionare!
Thanks my friend for continuing to tune into these, really means a lot and am thrilled you like the videos enough to keep coming back. Stay tuned for more...Egypt Dynasties 21-24 are next!
"I did not lie, I did not lie, I'm legitimate, all I did was not a lie and you should punish anyone who says it's a lie because I did not lie" Hmm... he doth protest too much
The Persian kings of Cyrus the Great & Achaemenid dynasty were truly King of Kings! What an ancient empire! This is why Alexander the Great had such immense respect for Darius mother & family. Even to the point that Alexanders fellow Macedonians were mad at his display of "Eastern" culture. Darius had the misfortune of being King when Alexander rose to the Macedonian kingship. But i think he should still be looked at as a great ruler that fought multiple times trying to defend his kingdom & did not shy away from his duties.
Haha that's actually from Herodotus who says that the Persian army used/threw cats at the Egyptians who where afraid of killing them because they were sacred. I think the artist just added that in the painting due to that. Other than Herodotus there I've never heard of cats being used for such purposes, in Egypt or anywhere. Thanks for watching!
Haha thanks, it's one of my favorite parts of putting these together...the more quotes, the more fun I have. Thanks as always for tuning to in to these, really appreciate it!
It certainly is possible to concoct all kinds of conspiracies on how Darius came to rule the Persian Empire, especially considering the sometimes unusual events that led to the crowning of leaders in other empires. It's to bad that we don't know enough to know if anything untoward happened for sure though, as it does seem something at least a little unusual went down there.
You're too good to us. I can't afford to add your patreon or anything like that, but I still wish I could help. I've got a really good audio set up, I could read some inscriptions for you.
No need, just you continuing to watch means a lot, so thanks for your support! Sure, will let you know although I'll admit, reading the quotes is probably my favorite part of creating the videos (besides researching them), so I might just stick to that...haha but thanks for the offer, really appreciate it!
Dear Cy. I LOVE your videos. I love history and in that subject your videos are top!!!! And I hope you (personly) don't take the bollywood version of Darius / Herodotes story of Cambyses for truth versions. Here is my version: Bardya loved his brother Cambyses. Bardya went to egypt with Cambyses. Neither Cambyses nor Bardya had any sons, which makes "Bardya's assasination by Cambyses" highly unlikely. (Who would take over the throne after them then?) I would go as far as saying after CAmbyses concoured Egypt, Bardya went back from Egypt to Pasargade and ordered to carve his brother Cambyses (which we mistakenly think it is the picture of Cyrus) as King of Elam (cloth), King of Babylon (the wings) and FAROE OF EGYPT (the helmet and crown ) at the gate of Pasargade. Bardya went back and carved the figure as soon as Cambyses became Faroe of Egypt. And it was DARIUS who later carved "I am Cyrus, an achamenid". dont forget cyrus never went to egypt and he would not alow ppl to carve him as Faroe when he was not one. So While Bardya was in Iran and Cambyses and Darius in egypt, Darius planned to eliminate them both. First he killed Cambyses. Then he went back to Iran and killed THE REAL BARDYA in Hamedan. So Smerdis, Magush, naghush etc are all Darius inventions. Why did Darius do that? most likely because he also was aware of the no-son-situation of Cyrus' kids. In order to keep maintain what Cyrus had achieved he killed them both and took the throne. And if he had not done so, today we would know about cyrus as little as we know about Alexander. There would NEVER had been a persian empire in over 200 years. So maybe it was the most wise thing (at that time) to do for Darius.
Darius the Great was our Shah or Shahanshah, he wasn’t just a king 🤗 *The Shah* is so much more than some petty king or a tyrannical emperor. He is the Father of his people, the Guardian of Iranshahr, and the most devoted and loyal patriot in the entire nation. He would sacrifice himself for Iran without hesitation, and it’s that love for Iran that makes for a good, beloved Shah - just like our last Shah, our late great Shahanshah Aryamehr aka Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who along with his father were the GREATEST SHAHS since the father of all Iranians and the world’s first Zionist Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago 🙏🏽 That is why we Iranians have not forgiven the Western governments for what they did to our Pahlavi Shahs, our SAVIORS, ousting Reza Shah Bozorg va Kabir in 1941, then ousting his son Shahanshah Aryamehr in 1979. That POS Jimmy Carter even sent the US military to Iran to force our Iranian military to stand down and not protect the people of Iran from the Marxist and 1slamist terrorists coming to rap3 and murd3r us! And the Western governments, academia, and media have been lying about it, about us, about the Pahlavis, ever since. Long live Israel & IDF & Netanyahu 🇮🇱 Long live the Shah Reza Pahlavi II 👑 Long live IRANIAN Iran 💚🤍❤️🔥🦁☀️
That's a good idea, thanks so much for the suggestion. I'll look into it though I'll cover then in some detail in at least two future videos I have coming soon. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!
@@HistorywithCy any chance of some kind biblical/Torah/Koran levant history. Palestine/Lebanon from Egypt/Hittite with those few hundred years of Judaism in there that weird Zionists (xtian + jew) think brings eternal rights and salvation?
Hi! Oh I've been putting the latest, longer ones up there. Mycenaean, Akkadian and this one should all be there. Let me know if you're having any problems downloading it. Thanks for watching/listening, really appreciate it!
@IStevenSeagal Man, these are just legends that talk about the first royal family that ruled the Persian Medians. And man, when the Persian immigrants came to Iran, they were fighting the indigenous people, and when they defeated the indigenous people, the Aryan tribes, they were fighting each other, and they were just tribes, and this happened in real history.
I think I'll throw out my own crack pot theory; What if Darius was a usurper, but Bardiya was infact a fake? A fake put on the thrown by Darius to justify his own Usurping. As you pointed out Cambyses was seen as a cruel leader, and may have been a Kin Slayer. It's not hard to imagine the Nobles at court and that Satraps wanting him gone, but with him killing the only other air of Cyrus it would be hard to justify a new leader. If we assume Darius orchestrated the whole thing then usurping the thrown without good reason would have just put a target on himself by any other ambitious satrap, so what if he had Cambyses "accidentally" cut himself at the same time a Usurper parading as his brother took over? It would be a great way to justify taking over and "reestablishing" the proper order. Plus as long as they get treated well I don't see why Cambyses family would rat on Darius, especially if they liked Bardiya and he was killed by Cambyses
Thanks, glad you find the quotes useful... reading the primary sources is my favorite part of putting these together, adds a new dimension to the story in my opinion. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Man, if this was introduced as a plot for a mini series, it would have been rejected for being too unrealistic. 🤣🤣🤣 But it really happened! 😯😲😧 Another reason why I love history. 👍💪👊
Me too! If cowriters would just read more history books, I think we'd have a lot of really good shows and movies out there. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Love from Japan. As a student of history I'm relatively ignorant when it comes to the oldest cradle of civilizations, as your gem in this series saved my day! Keep it up! I'll continue to share your detailed engagement of ancient Asian studies on instagram and with my Bible study friends!
Thanks so much for the feedback and really glad you found the video useful! Thanks also for sharing the content, really means a lot! Lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
As an observer of the community, I am also engaged
As always what a great video. As an Iranian, I have to admit that I have learned more about Iran's history from your videos than from history books in school. Keep the good work man.❤❤❤
Thanks, great to hear! I'll continue to put out more ancient Iranian history in the near future. Thanks for watching and Nowruz Mobarak!
Iran!!!! I feel embarrassed to say this but i only recently found out the truth about iran and it's people. I just want to visit iran in my lifetime. It's so beautiful and the people are so diverse and kind. I have no specific point to my comment, i just wanted to shout yay for Iran's people
Thank you for yet another exceptional video. I didn't know the Persians had their own version of the Suez Canal that far back in time! Persian / Iranian history is so fascinating; I look forward to your future videos on the topic!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Thanks so much and glad that you learned something new from this one. Thanks also for watching, really appreciate it!
“Haters will say its photoshopped”
-Darius
Don’t forget he basically said with an excuse too “Yeah… I did tons more than this, but it’s alot dude, not even I’d read it”. basically saying “I did too much to write about, so I won’t write it, but I’m awesome.”.
You're the best man. I love your series on Greek and Persian history and always listened to them on Spotify. I noticed that you were less active recently, and I'm truly gald you're back again. Wishing you all the best Cy! 🙌
Thanks, really appreciate the feedback and glad you're into Greek and Persian history as I have a lot more of it planned for later on this year. Thank so much for the support and for watching!
Thank you, Cy@ I really appreciate the many quotes of Darius' proclamations you have used Well done! I had to listen from beginning to end.
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! Haha like the title says, Life and Times of Darius "in his Own Words" so I had to quote him quite a bit! As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Love the quality of your videos, thanks for the upload!❤
Thank YOU for watching, really appreciate it!
What an amazing full story of Darius. I always love the citation of the primary sources. Thank you for the great work
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! I'm sure that you also recognized some of stuff from the Louvre too! Thanks for support the channel from the beginning, really appreciate it!
Regards from Bulgaria! I appriciate your hard work and useful content 🇧🇬
Another triumph of a video Cy, thanks so much. This channel just goes from strength to strength.
Thanks, really glad you're enjoying the channel's content...working on the next one (Egypt Dynasty 21-24), stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Been waiting on this 1
Enjoy!
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It amazes me how quickly you make these videos. I am very impressed and very grateful for having a channel with such frequent and well made videos for my niche bronze age and ancient near eastern interest :)
Haha I can't make them quick enough... I have so many topics I'd like to cover, just not enough time. Lot more on the Bronze Age coming up but I also want to move further down the timeline of antiquity and into early medieval history which I also find fascinating. Anyway thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
And of course thank you so much for the free content it’s magnificently beautiful it’s priceless
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Thanks for making these awesome videos. Your channel is a sweet relief and a great source to chill and learn about a time long long ago.
Thanks so much, really appreciate the kind words, glad you enjoy the content and am learning from it, makes my day! More on the way, stay tuned!
By the time Darius set foot in Egypt with his great Persian empire, the Pyramids of Giza where already 2000 year's old , so Ancient Egypt was also Ancient in the times of Darius,
Yeah I always find it fascinating that as far back in time as the Roman Empire is for us, Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations was just as old for them! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Made my day
Love it when you put anything up!❤🆙
Good one, especially some real footage from the ancient Persian sites mixed with the ancient text!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I like this format too and will do my best to do the same (live video + textual resources) as much as possible. Thanks for watching!
Ah yeah…. This is the good stuff. Keep it coming Cy!
Will do, thanks for watching!
Always top notch content. So much detail, great work.
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed this...stay tuned for more and thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy The pleasure is mine and the community as a whole. Keep it up.
Beautiful, always a treat to watch your videos
Thanks, so glad you're enjoying these! Thanks for watching!
Love your work ❤ keep it up ☀️🌙🔥
Thanks, will do my best! Thanks for watching!
One of the most overlooked great rulers his non military accomplishments are as significant as his conquests thanks and be safe!
Agreed, thanks for watching!
Is it not amazing that this great administrator who gave us the idea of so many concepts, which are still prevalent in our daily modern life, is only known in the west as the guy who was defeated in Marathon?
Yeah, and he technically wasn't there, he sent his generals instead. I think he was respected by the Greeks because they don't say too many negative things about him. The invasion of Greece that Darius ordered was more to punish Athens and its allies because and protect the Bosporus which the Persians controlled. Xerxes though is seen in a much more negative light due to his full-on invasion of the Greek mainland and ultimate defeat. Thanks for watching!
Alexander spanked the Persians and took their lands
@@DeezzzzzzNuts12And then, the Iranian free mens (Parthians) spanked Greeks much harder, and their lands (Greece) were easily conquered by the Romans and remained for more than 2000 years under Roman/Ottoman rule, while Persia could rise again with multiple empires 🔥
+No mention that after alexander conquest, it took only 50 years for the Persians to stabilise an independent Iranian kingdome In Iran's Fars province, After the chaos caused by the death of Seleucus I, Baghdad I declared independence in Persia in 280 BC, and the dynasty of Farataka began in Iran's Fars province. less than 50 years after, the Parthians declared independence and liberated northeastern Iran, cope!!!
Your videos are so engaging! I just prepared myself a cup of coffee, watched the video and took notes about it to further enhance my knowledge about the Persian empire. Thank you from Argentina!
You're welcome, glad these are helpful and thanks for the feedback! Yo amo Argentina! I was in Buenos Aires in 2006 and 2008 to study economia...it is because of this I still say "vos" and say all "y" and "ll" with as a "sh" sound. One day I want to go back to visit Mendoza and Cordoba as I've seen photos and the area looks so beautiful. Anyway, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
@@HistorywithCy It's great that you have our native sounds. If you ever come to Cordoba I'll be glad to be a kind of tourist guide! Stay safe friend!
@@leandrobalmaceda5631 Will do and thank you!
I just subscribed after watching “complete… Sumerian civilization.” Could ask if you could make a playlist with all the “complete” videos?
Sure, check out the playlist "Epic Civilizations and Empires." Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks!
I love your presentations.
I can even get my grandchildren interested
Haha that's awesome... I can barely get members of my family to watch these, but then again they're not really into history (I'm trying to change that!). Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
The Behistun inscription is such a wonderfully Freudian document!
Best video to watch before nowruz
Nowruz Mobarak!! All the best!
@@HistorywithCy thank you
You made my day
Extraordinary report; the early Persian empire is amazing to contemplate. Thank you for this report.
Thank YOU for watching and glad you enjoyed this. I'll have a lot more on Persian history coming... next topic related to it will be the Greco-Persian Wars.
Excellent Cy thank you for all your hard work :-)
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching!
I can't thank you enough for this video. Great works!
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
the production value on these videos are better than some tv series
Words cannot express how I yearn for each and every video of yours.... truly, thank you
Comments like this make my day and motivate me to put out more...thanks so much for the support, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy dude, you are by far my favourite educator online, I can't stress it enough on a simple comment how so much more of my time I am willing to gladly spend watching your videos start to finish...again, I really can't thank you enough for the time you put into all of this!!
Yet another amazing video. 👌🏻 It’s very intriguing what happened regarding Darius’ throne ascension. Makes you wonder about both Cambyses’ brother and Achaemenes.
Thanks for the video. ⚔️
Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I've thought about that a lot. I wish I had a time machine so I could go back and see what really happened. As always, thanks so much for watching and the support!
Great work! Always love the presentation of these videos.
Thank YOU for watching, really appreciate it!
The most fascinating thing about this is, at least one of them - to me, is that just as dramatic and intricate events were happening in all human societies, both earlier and later, but since they left no writing, we just forgot
Agreed...thanks for watching!
Wonderful work Cy, thank you as always for your hard work.
Thanks, glad you found it interesting! Thanks as always for tuning in and stay tuned for the next one!
thank you for your content.
Brilliant! One of your best. Thanks!
Thanks so much for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Farya faraji music go crazy. Wonderful video.
I think it’s possible that before Cambyses left for Egypt he put Bardiya in a regent role. Cyrus went to Babylon, Anatolia, and Scythia for his campaigns. His maternal grandfather went into Mesopotamia during his conquest of Assyria. There’s a precedent about Iranian rulers to be away from their capital and lands. So I feel like it makes sense that Cambyses would leave his brother in charge while he was gone.
Now about the idea of Bardiya taking the kingship for himself, I’m a little split. On one hand, Cambyses was planning on campaigning as far as Carthage, so him suddenly leaving Egypt to go back to Persia feels off. But the only sources we have on Bardiya say he was actually dead by then. Couldn’t it be possible that after Cambyses died, Bardiya just inherited the kingship and that’s when Darius took the opportunity to enact his conspiracy?
I love your content Cy, never stop
Will do my best to keep going! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Darius the great is considered as one of the top 5 Great kings of all Iranians empires to include Shapur II, Nader Shah, Reza Shah, Mithridates II, and of course Cyrus the great.
That's a great list! I would also add to Shapur II and Khosrow I...I'm probably missing a few. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
nice ! thank you
You're welcome, thank YOU for watching!
Love your stuff, as always!
Thank you, so glad you enjoyed this!
I love history! Many thanks ❤... Best way to find common ground even today... Very Little things changed in humanity... BEST REGARDS FROM BUCHAREST ROMANIA 🍀🤗😊
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this. I have to visit Romania one day as you all have a very fascinating history, beautiful country and many things to see! Mulțumim pentru vizionare!
I like your videos, they are informative and relaxing 🙌
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and more on the way!
such an excellent, informative and well delivered creation.
history with Cy' the Great 😉
Appreciate the kind words and glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you again! We love Cy! We love Cy!
You're welcome and I love all the viewers! Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
I might heard the name, but now I'm ready to learn. Bring it on!
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about (Darius) the great ...thank you 🙏(history with Cy) channel for sharing
My pleasure, thank YOU for watching, really appreciate and more Persian history on the way!
Now this is a surprise!
Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Many of us would argue there is another Cyrus the Great. Thank you for the video, keep up the good work!
Thanks my friend for continuing to tune into these, really means a lot and am thrilled you like the videos enough to keep coming back. Stay tuned for more...Egypt Dynasties 21-24 are next!
Phenomenal video of life Before the new gods~
Thanks!
Great video thank you
Thank you 🙏
Thank YOU for watching!
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Happy new year _ancient norooz 🎉
Thank you, same to you!
I really love your narration and your videos, and that you're named Cyrus yourself. Very cool.
Thanks, glad you're enjoying these! Lot's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
You da man Cy.
Thanks so much for watching, appreciate it!
"I did not lie, I did not lie, I'm legitimate, all I did was not a lie and you should punish anyone who says it's a lie because I did not lie"
Hmm... he doth protest too much
One of the GOAT's for sure.
The Persian kings of Cyrus the Great & Achaemenid dynasty were truly King of Kings! What an ancient empire! This is why Alexander the Great had such immense respect for Darius mother & family. Even to the point that Alexanders fellow Macedonians were mad at his display of "Eastern" culture. Darius had the misfortune of being King when Alexander rose to the Macedonian kingship. But i think he should still be looked at as a great ruler that fought multiple times trying to defend his kingdom & did not shy away from his duties.
1:07 can you explain those War Cats?!?!
Haha that's actually from Herodotus who says that the Persian army used/threw cats at the Egyptians who where afraid of killing them because they were sacred. I think the artist just added that in the painting due to that. Other than Herodotus there I've never heard of cats being used for such purposes, in Egypt or anywhere. Thanks for watching!
Really good music!
The music was done by Farya Faraji... definitely check out his page @faryafaraji for a lot more!
😊 I always look forward to your Official Pronouncement Narration 😊
Haha thanks, it's one of my favorite parts of putting these together...the more quotes, the more fun I have. Thanks as always for tuning to in to these, really appreciate it!
It certainly is possible to concoct all kinds of conspiracies on how Darius came to rule the Persian Empire, especially considering the sometimes unusual events that led to the crowning of leaders in other empires. It's to bad that we don't know enough to know if anything untoward happened for sure though, as it does seem something at least a little unusual went down there.
Cy drops a video? Drop everything and jump on youtube right away!
Hope you enjoyed it and thanks so much for watching!
You're too good to us. I can't afford to add your patreon or anything like that, but I still wish I could help. I've got a really good audio set up, I could read some inscriptions for you.
No need, just you continuing to watch means a lot, so thanks for your support! Sure, will let you know although I'll admit, reading the quotes is probably my favorite part of creating the videos (besides researching them), so I might just stick to that...haha but thanks for the offer, really appreciate it!
jeez, why doesn't he just MARRY Ahura Mazda!?
Dear Cy. I LOVE your videos. I love history and in that subject your videos are top!!!! And I hope you (personly) don't take the bollywood version of Darius / Herodotes story of Cambyses for truth versions. Here is my version: Bardya loved his brother Cambyses. Bardya went to egypt with Cambyses. Neither Cambyses nor Bardya had any sons, which makes "Bardya's assasination by Cambyses" highly unlikely. (Who would take over the throne after them then?) I would go as far as saying after CAmbyses concoured Egypt, Bardya went back from Egypt to Pasargade and ordered to carve his brother Cambyses (which we mistakenly think it is the picture of Cyrus) as King of Elam (cloth), King of Babylon (the wings) and FAROE OF EGYPT (the helmet and crown ) at the gate of Pasargade. Bardya went back and carved the figure as soon as Cambyses became Faroe of Egypt. And it was DARIUS who later carved "I am Cyrus, an achamenid". dont forget cyrus never went to egypt and he would not alow ppl to carve him as Faroe when he was not one. So While Bardya was in Iran and Cambyses and Darius in egypt, Darius planned to eliminate them both. First he killed Cambyses. Then he went back to Iran and killed THE REAL BARDYA in Hamedan. So Smerdis, Magush, naghush etc are all Darius inventions. Why did Darius do that? most likely because he also was aware of the no-son-situation of Cyrus' kids. In order to keep maintain what Cyrus had achieved he killed them both and took the throne. And if he had not done so, today we would know about cyrus as little as we know about Alexander. There would NEVER had been a persian empire in over 200 years. So maybe it was the most wise thing (at that time) to do for Darius.
Darius the Great was our Shah or Shahanshah, he wasn’t just a king 🤗 *The Shah* is so much more than some petty king or a tyrannical emperor. He is the Father of his people, the Guardian of Iranshahr, and the most devoted and loyal patriot in the entire nation. He would sacrifice himself for Iran without hesitation, and it’s that love for Iran that makes for a good, beloved Shah - just like our last Shah, our late great Shahanshah Aryamehr aka Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who along with his father were the GREATEST SHAHS since the father of all Iranians and the world’s first Zionist Cyrus the Great, over 2,500 years ago 🙏🏽
That is why we Iranians have not forgiven the Western governments for what they did to our Pahlavi Shahs, our SAVIORS, ousting Reza Shah Bozorg va Kabir in 1941, then ousting his son Shahanshah Aryamehr in 1979. That POS Jimmy Carter even sent the US military to Iran to force our Iranian military to stand down and not protect the people of Iran from the Marxist and 1slamist terrorists coming to rap3 and murd3r us! And the Western governments, academia, and media have been lying about it, about us, about the Pahlavis, ever since.
Long live Israel & IDF & Netanyahu 🇮🇱
Long live the Shah Reza Pahlavi II 👑
Long live IRANIAN Iran 💚🤍❤️🔥🦁☀️
Can you please cover the first two Artaxerxes soon please? They had very long reigns.
That's a good idea, thanks so much for the suggestion. I'll look into it though I'll cover then in some detail in at least two future videos I have coming soon. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!
@@HistorywithCy any chance of some kind biblical/Torah/Koran levant history. Palestine/Lebanon from Egypt/Hittite with those few hundred years of Judaism in there that weird Zionists (xtian + jew) think brings eternal rights and salvation?
Is that Rough Riders Anthem that I hear?
I love how the Persians gathered all the great ancient civilizations in one place.
Continue to rest in perfect peace Shahanshan Darius the great! The greatest of the greatest!
Why would Cambysis kill his own heir? Ask Ivan the Terrible.
Hi Cy, your followers on Spotify miss you...... 😢
Hi! Oh I've been putting the latest, longer ones up there. Mycenaean, Akkadian and this one should all be there. Let me know if you're having any problems downloading it. Thanks for watching/listening, really appreciate it!
1:12 music name?
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Great music.
Glad you enjoyed it, it's all done by Farya Faraji. Check out his channel @faryafaraji. Thanks for watching!
May Ahuramazda helps you on your journey Cy. 🙏🏻
I have a question: why do these inscryptions contain so many repetitions?
To perpetuate the the Greatness of Darious and his God AhuraMazda undoubtedly,..
Pretty Obvious~~
It is remarkable that your map does include phinicia but does not mention Judea or Jerusalem. Why? Any specific reason to not depict it in your map?
Zoroastrianism is so underestimated . It's quite ridiculous.
@IStevenSeagalWhy did he marry another woman other than his sister?
@IStevenSeagal Man, these are just legends that talk about the first royal family that ruled the Persian Medians. And man, when the Persian immigrants came to Iran, they were fighting the indigenous people, and when they defeated the indigenous people, the Aryan tribes, they were fighting each other, and they were just tribes, and this happened in real history.
I like this one
Thank you!
These guys give me some serious beard envy
Mhhhhh sweeeeeeet sweeeeeeet knowledge
Hope you enjoy it and thanks so much for watching!
I think I'll throw out my own crack pot theory; What if Darius was a usurper, but Bardiya was infact a fake? A fake put on the thrown by Darius to justify his own Usurping. As you pointed out Cambyses was seen as a cruel leader, and may have been a Kin Slayer. It's not hard to imagine the Nobles at court and that Satraps wanting him gone, but with him killing the only other air of Cyrus it would be hard to justify a new leader. If we assume Darius orchestrated the whole thing then usurping the thrown without good reason would have just put a target on himself by any other ambitious satrap, so what if he had Cambyses "accidentally" cut himself at the same time a Usurper parading as his brother took over? It would be a great way to justify taking over and "reestablishing" the proper order. Plus as long as they get treated well I don't see why Cambyses family would rat on Darius, especially if they liked Bardiya and he was killed by Cambyses
Cy! Your dictation of the words of the ancients makes me feel like I’m hearing the Kings themselves!
Thanks, glad you find the quotes useful... reading the primary sources is my favorite part of putting these together, adds a new dimension to the story in my opinion. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Can you do a video on ancient south arabians?
One day for sure, need to do a bit more research on the topic... thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCyThe Kingdom of Kedar and the Kingdom of Thamud paid tribute to the Assyrian Empire. It seems that they were weak.
Daryavesh ❤
𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁!
@@HistorywithCy cockledoodledoo to you too! 🤣
Personally i like the version where Darius conspired, but uh... he was a great king
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From this side of the video to that side of the video
Man, if this was introduced as a plot for a mini series, it would have been rejected for being too unrealistic. 🤣🤣🤣
But it really happened!
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Another reason why I love history. 👍💪👊
Me too! If cowriters would just read more history books, I think we'd have a lot of really good shows and movies out there. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Oh my! Time for Cy! 😊
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Was Darius left handed?