Persian Civilization Best Civilization

Joined Aug 2011
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Hello

I made this video on Ancient Persia it is Nine Minute Video so go easy on me.

Please like, comment and favourite the video.

youtube.com/watch?v=3w9Zn821nl0

Enjoy
 
Joined Feb 2010
629 Posts | 0+
Cambridgeshire, UK
It's quite nice if it's meant to be a "tribute" video, as it were, to the Persians/Iranians although maybe a little heavy going in the middle as it could use some more of those voice overs at the beginning to break it up. However, if this is meant to be an educational video then I find it a bit dubious how one can say it predated Rome by 4,000 years (Achaemenid Empire was only 500 years before the Roman one) and it does seem a lot like a propaganda video if so, as it states that everything comes from Iran (including a misunderstanding of what Indo-European means) which is worrying.
 
Joined Aug 2009
5,747 Posts | 10+
Belgium
The map is often sketchy, for example when talking about Cyrus maps are included which are clearly of the era of Cambyses and Darius not Cyrus plus some are rather liberal in alloted territory. A lot of historical inaccuracies, or rather make-believe. You lump the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassasian dynasty altogether, for the record the Sassanians wouldn't take kindly to that as they despised the Parthians as Hellenised outsiders, which was to an extend true, since as you know the Parthians came from the Pahlavi, a steppe people not even native to the old Persian empire. Though it's not totally unwarranted to call them all Persian, it's just tentative to take into account for one the heavy hellenised nature of the Parthians. As for the conflicts with Rome, fair enough, yet unlike the Romans the Persians never managed to sack any Roman capital (multiple times) and the nature of their victories and the wars altogether is also something special, more complex at least then the video suggests. The "first human civilisation predating..." is really the most dubious part... unlike the above I can find no reason to attach any value to it, it's utter nonsense (you must be referring to Mesopotamian culture as a whole, which is in no way just Persian, but more like Sumerian). The human rights of Cyrus are nothing compared to the modern human rights just like Greek democracy has little to do with modern parliamentary democracy if only for the name, so not saying that it in itself is incorrect, yet that your formulation is historically inaccurate. Afaik the majority of the people in both Europe and the Middle-East and the Indus valley at the time stem from the migratory Indo-Europeans, so not from Iran/Persia, we arguably all have the same roots, not the roots the video suggests though. After that it gets more nonsensical.

I liked the first part somewhat, then halfway I realised it only got more chauvinist with the minute and in all honesty a lot of half-truths in there.
 
Joined Mar 2011
5,554 Posts | 1+
Bedfordshire,England.
Dupe alert Cyrus,you have created 2 of the same threads.
You might want to PM a mod to delete this one as there are less posts on it.
 
Joined Jun 2006
10,363 Posts | 32+
U.K.
Cyrus, one of these threads must go. I can delete this one and move the other here if you like.
 
Joined Nov 2011
81 Posts | 0+
USA
All civilizations contributed to the evolution of humans. It is silly to pick one over the other and call it best.
 

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