First Royal Persian Visitor Describes European Life (1873) // Incredible Journey of Naser Al-Din

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Voices of the Past

Voices of the Past

3 жыл бұрын

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Extracts from "Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia during his tour through Europe in A.D. 1873"
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@tsarnature6587
@tsarnature6587 3 жыл бұрын
That foreshadowing in the end though.
@anathema2325
@anathema2325 3 жыл бұрын
"O how laughed heartily.." hehe, would be neat if that throw away remark started it all.
@iratepirate3896
@iratepirate3896 3 жыл бұрын
@@anathema2325 *Seinfeld theme begins playing*
@palsyr4307
@palsyr4307 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah Joe but you were the first to recognize the state of.. you know what nevermind
@jackstarr4726
@jackstarr4726 3 жыл бұрын
Even Stalin was creeped out by that...
@mew11two
@mew11two 3 жыл бұрын
You gonna go execute a few Jews for being Zionists (even if there is no evidence of them even being Zionists), Stalin?
@blueridgebonsai4124
@blueridgebonsai4124 3 жыл бұрын
The English: Ah fok it's rainin again innit This Persian guy: I have become moistened
@wesma8000
@wesma8000 3 жыл бұрын
lmao
@15098D
@15098D 3 жыл бұрын
I feel that
@sarmeetsingh4650
@sarmeetsingh4650 3 жыл бұрын
just giving you your 500th like lol
@trenthill7781
@trenthill7781 3 жыл бұрын
This made me laugh heartily.
@chickenmadness1732
@chickenmadness1732 2 жыл бұрын
came to the comment section looking for 'moistened' lmao
@maxkennedy8075
@maxkennedy8075 3 жыл бұрын
3:00 “They danced and represented some interesting situations” is a polite way of saying “I have absolutely no idea what was going on but it was pretty cool I guess”
@AlexP-jz9sg
@AlexP-jz9sg 3 жыл бұрын
Or the women were scantily clad.
@MisterCOM
@MisterCOM 3 жыл бұрын
I think that it was because they couldnt understand the language used in the play
@gostavoadolfos2023
@gostavoadolfos2023 3 жыл бұрын
@@MisterCOM its ballet what language?
@rheinhartsilvento2576
@rheinhartsilvento2576 2 жыл бұрын
I know! I loved that 😃
@justindo5234
@justindo5234 2 жыл бұрын
It means they bend or show body parts not supposed of girls. Modesty in movements and dress was his country tradition.
@LeMarTV1
@LeMarTV1 3 жыл бұрын
''we laughed heartily''
@huyclare8665
@huyclare8665 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely hilarious, i am in tears.
@RossPeterson06
@RossPeterson06 3 жыл бұрын
Lol
@senorsiro3748
@senorsiro3748 3 жыл бұрын
“...and he made no reply.” It was at this moment that events were set in motion that would change the world forever.
@sirholycow
@sirholycow 3 жыл бұрын
"Oh yeah, it's all coming together." - Rothschild, 1873
@leeroy4958
@leeroy4958 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not laughing.
@andrzejklein7846
@andrzejklein7846 3 жыл бұрын
How was your visit to the theatre? "They danced and represented some interesting situations."
@pslogge
@pslogge 3 жыл бұрын
I laughed with this comment
@tommeakin1732
@tommeakin1732 3 жыл бұрын
Translation: _"I had no idea what the fuck was going on; but I'd hate to appear uncultured and/or rude, so...._
@jasmikko
@jasmikko 3 жыл бұрын
They're not impressed lol
@MCPiriri
@MCPiriri 3 жыл бұрын
@@pslogge And I laughed heartily.
@AaronJ323
@AaronJ323 3 жыл бұрын
He's discribing how cringey the situation was.
@iratepirate3896
@iratepirate3896 3 жыл бұрын
He liked England, then it started raining.
@fuferito
@fuferito 3 жыл бұрын
Notice the generalized term _Ferengistan_ the Persian royal visitor uses for Europe, 'land of the Franks.'
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
Although it originally mean Franks, modern uses of the word is a catch all for Western Europeans.
@moulayismail1546
@moulayismail1546 3 жыл бұрын
The Europeans were known in the arab world as "Ifranja" too. Especially the crusaders.
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
@@moulayismail1546 Interesting, Arabs used the Farsi word too? Isn't there a word for it in Semitic?
@ArtisanWindchimes
@ArtisanWindchimes 3 жыл бұрын
They also say “Yurub”
@user-wk2uf5yo7x
@user-wk2uf5yo7x 3 жыл бұрын
@@GrigRP the term el franj come from arab not farsi
@stearrow_3245
@stearrow_3245 3 жыл бұрын
It tickles me that a persian king went to the UK on a holiday and got dragged to Madame Tussauds...
@loopernoodling
@loopernoodling 3 жыл бұрын
And watched some firemen training. You'd have thought they would have taken them grouse shooting, or watched an exciting military display!
@luxborealis
@luxborealis 3 жыл бұрын
"Bro, we are Iranians in London bro! Lessago see the wax figures bro!"
@SlayerRiley
@SlayerRiley 3 жыл бұрын
@@luxborealis RUBBER DINGHY RAPIDS BRO!
@jonbaker1697
@jonbaker1697 3 жыл бұрын
Firemen training and Madame Tussauds was cutting edge at that time
@aceofswords1725
@aceofswords1725 3 жыл бұрын
@@jonbaker1697 ... and prussian ballet!
@juanzulu1318
@juanzulu1318 3 жыл бұрын
"We arrived in England. And it rained". 😂👍
@WorthlessWinner
@WorthlessWinner 3 жыл бұрын
"Why don't you just buy a country, Mr. Rothschild?"
@blazefairchild465
@blazefairchild465 3 жыл бұрын
I was just struck why the house plant most people have seen in homes is called the wandering Jew. They didn't have their own country. Duh. I always thought this name came from the reason the plant itself is so easy to grow & moves house to house that way. There is a big tradition in my family to share a house plant with a newly wed couple when they are setting up a house. I still have my grand mothers, mom's & aunt's plants the grew from parts of their own in my home though they are gone now. With the exception of the wandering Jew. When I asked why no one had brought me one, my mother inlaw told me , I would have to break part off ,& root it myself. Took me years to understand , that was to teach me how to root & grow my own.
@chadwickreno8499
@chadwickreno8499 3 жыл бұрын
Oy Vey!
@bryanwhelan351
@bryanwhelan351 3 жыл бұрын
'what could go wrong?'
@gofish7388
@gofish7388 3 жыл бұрын
And that's how the nation of Israel was born.
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery 3 жыл бұрын
They have, it's called the United states corporation of America
@lysimachosdiadochos7203
@lysimachosdiadochos7203 3 жыл бұрын
Reaping cart sounds way cooler than lawn mower imo.
@FonicsSuck
@FonicsSuck 3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me, I must reap my lawn post haste.
@kayyomars
@kayyomars 3 жыл бұрын
This definitely wasn’t the first Persian royal visitor in Europe. Nader Shah’s son, Joseph von Semlin, was raised in Austria in the 1700s and converted to Christianity.
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 3 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing he never went back, am I right?
@RandomGuy-df1oy
@RandomGuy-df1oy 3 жыл бұрын
Well Nader Shah was not of Persian origin.
@alexaagerger3695
@alexaagerger3695 3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomGuy-df1oy By your logic neither was Nasser Ad-Din Shah
@RandomGuy-df1oy
@RandomGuy-df1oy 3 жыл бұрын
@@alexaagerger3695 Yes that is true he wasn't of Persian origin aswell. "Iranian" would make much more sense.
@alexaagerger3695
@alexaagerger3695 3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomGuy-df1oy maybe but at their time Persian and Iranian were synonymous anyways
@d4n4nable
@d4n4nable 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing how London has changed. Nobody would describe the people this way anymore nowadays.
@megenberg8
@megenberg8 3 жыл бұрын
his articulate description of the English was so true, they are enlivening with a quick wit & animated features so endearing, not to mention that curious accent everyone loves world-over! i have always been an Anglophile.
@TheSquidPro
@TheSquidPro 3 жыл бұрын
@@megenberg8 Now it's Pakistan, how times change.
@micha2909
@micha2909 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheSquidPro The Shah would be disappointed if he travelled all the way to England just to see it's Pakistan now, because actual Pakistan would have been much closer for him.
@noneimportant5951
@noneimportant5951 3 жыл бұрын
@@TheSquidPro keeping coping u racist 😎😎🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰
@TheSquidPro
@TheSquidPro 3 жыл бұрын
@@noneimportant5951 Well any glance at a census will tell you what I've stated, and any glance at a newspaper will relish you with articles criticizing Europeans for their many faults. It is a far cry from the admiration and delight of the Shah here during the peak of the British. I must ask what I'm supposed to be coping with as it is an observable fact.
@haroon420
@haroon420 3 жыл бұрын
The comment at 8:20 onwards about trying to save lives whilst also destroy lives is amazing. It’s so true.
@Mar184
@Mar184 3 жыл бұрын
I mean, it makes perfect sense in the light of nationalism. Save lives in your own nation, destroy the lives of others whenever it ever slightly furthers your own nation's interest. And we haven't gotten one step further in overcoming national selfishness in international politics in those 150 years since then.
@stephenrogoff
@stephenrogoff 3 жыл бұрын
That mention of the Rothschild at the end. Oh boy!
@chadwickreno8499
@chadwickreno8499 3 жыл бұрын
Oy vey!
@Cyndayn
@Cyndayn 3 жыл бұрын
times have certainly changed
@ja_aq.ov_
@ja_aq.ov_ 3 жыл бұрын
*judeo-islamic values intensify*
@joshm3484
@joshm3484 3 жыл бұрын
He tells Rothschild to pretty much create Israel. How's that going for Persia (Iran) now?
@B-kl8vj
@B-kl8vj 3 жыл бұрын
@@joshm3484 Persians also freed the Jews from Babylon. Still waiting for a thank you card.
@luxborealis
@luxborealis 3 жыл бұрын
"Maybe you lot should pay to create a land for all the Jews." **hearty laugh intermission** "With some luck we won’t have to pay." "...well, at least it is good Persia and the Jewish people will forever be at peace."
@DrHavoc1
@DrHavoc1 3 жыл бұрын
They did pay, a lot. The land where some of the largest cities in Israel were built was bought by the Rothschild family. Israel and Iran had good relations pre Islamic Revolution, both being US allies. To this day theres an oil pipeline built by Iran in Israel, intended to pump Iranian oil from the red sea to the Mediterranean, avoiding the Suez canal.
@ranro7371
@ranro7371 3 жыл бұрын
@@DrHavoc1 nonsense they only owned 7% of Palestine
@DrHavoc1
@DrHavoc1 3 жыл бұрын
@@ranro7371 7% of the territory that includes trans jordan
@fusionreactor7179
@fusionreactor7179 2 жыл бұрын
@@DrHavoc1 They payed the American governmemt to supply arms so they could genocide Palestine, salt the earth, and exterminate/remove 80% of the population. Israel is a genocidal settler colony, alien to the region.
@drpk6514
@drpk6514 2 жыл бұрын
@@DrHavoc1 LOL you cant buy mountains, rivers, lakes... If they had bought it they didn't have to invade it by armed forces and ethically cleanse hundreds of towns and villages and send over 750,000 people to exile...
@laurenzkoeppler3013
@laurenzkoeppler3013 29 күн бұрын
This man is my great great grandfather. The Pahlavi Dynasty took away many valuable possessions my family had. My grandma was raised extremely rich, but she moved to Germany after the expropriation. For example Shemiran, which is a large territory in Theran that used to be owned by my family, named after their last name: Shemirani. I am now more German than Persian, I don‘t speak Farsi, but I will not forget my Qajar ancestors.
@daytodaylivin4418
@daytodaylivin4418 2 жыл бұрын
Germany: everybody works France:everybody is depressed England: it rains Everybody: sounds about right 😂
@dflynn6138
@dflynn6138 3 жыл бұрын
The ending was a little funny.
@ignacio4159
@ignacio4159 3 жыл бұрын
In retrospect it is
@htoodoh5770
@htoodoh5770 3 жыл бұрын
Lol yes
@Siska0Robert
@Siska0Robert 3 жыл бұрын
Shah: "you should buy a country!" Rotshild: "haha, that's funny!" (takes notes furiously)
@perperson199
@perperson199 3 жыл бұрын
It's a good idea
@micha2909
@micha2909 3 жыл бұрын
What do you want, Iran? It was YOUR idea!
@nowhereman6019
@nowhereman6019 3 жыл бұрын
I loved that donkey banter.
@amiraliseyedi9986
@amiraliseyedi9986 3 жыл бұрын
It's sad that in our country Qajar dynasty is look back on with shame and Shahs from that period regarded as clowns so no one really reads their journals and diaries despite all the amazing things that happened in them.
@himalayas1647
@himalayas1647 3 жыл бұрын
They were not as rich as the pahlavi dynasty
@pslogge
@pslogge 3 жыл бұрын
In specialised literature the Qajar art period in highly regarded.
@viraloracle5151
@viraloracle5151 3 жыл бұрын
they are looked down too because they lost their final war against Russia (making persia losing the caucasus region to russian empire )
@marzbanofmerv2324
@marzbanofmerv2324 3 жыл бұрын
@@viraloracle5151 they never could have won those wars, Persia simply didn't have the resources and population to contend with Russia.
@sorrybro4890
@sorrybro4890 3 жыл бұрын
@Ghost Ghost what?? The safavids were one of the best dynasties Pahlavi is the worst iran was puppet state to The west
@LOLERXP
@LOLERXP 3 жыл бұрын
You're telling me the Shah of Persia met a Rothschild in 1873 and basically invented Israel? Lmao
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 3 жыл бұрын
plot twist
@luxborealis
@luxborealis 3 жыл бұрын
"There’s no way this can come back to bite our peoples"
@rilluma
@rilluma 3 жыл бұрын
history is crazy
@mew11two
@mew11two 3 жыл бұрын
Based Shah
@mew11two
@mew11two 3 жыл бұрын
@@luxborealis I mean, it's the Islamic Republic that has issue with Israel not the Shah
@VoicesofthePast
@VoicesofthePast 3 жыл бұрын
Sorry about the delay! Here is the fixed version. Enjoy one and all!
@dimonik12
@dimonik12 3 жыл бұрын
Those last few sentences say so much
@papazataklaattiranimam
@papazataklaattiranimam 3 жыл бұрын
It would make more sense to use the term Iranian, since he himself was not Persian.
@codekillerz5392
@codekillerz5392 3 жыл бұрын
What was wrong with the other one?
@dimonik12
@dimonik12 3 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam You just change that everytime to make us look stupid :)
@Claxiux
@Claxiux 3 жыл бұрын
Please don’t perpetuate the wrong name of Persia. It’s always been Iran !
@xenotypos
@xenotypos 3 жыл бұрын
It's important to emphasize that it was just two years after the Franco-German war, the worst war in French history with WW2. Even if you forget the territorial loss, considering the amount of money they had to pay to Germany it's no wonder they looked depressed or skinnier. It's like deciding to visit France in 1941.
@Larrypint
@Larrypint 3 жыл бұрын
How much they had to pay and how much territory they lost? Is it comparable with Germans reperations and territory loss after ww1?
@xenotypos
@xenotypos 3 жыл бұрын
@@Larrypint The lost territory was Alsace - Lorraine, the territory France got back after WW1. And what they had to pay was 5 billion Francs, which was said would cripple the French economy for like 40 years (but it didn't, and surprisingly, with a lot of reforms the gov managed to pay it relatively quickly). I don't know how it compares with Versailles, considering economies and populations were larger in 1918 (and were always larger in Germany). So to be proportionately identical, it had to be larger. But it has to be noted that this war not nearly as devastating as WW1, thus this money benefited Germany a lot. While in WW1 all countries lost, nobody really won (except outside Europe, like USA). For Bismarck in 1871, the aim was to neutralize the French threat by emptying their finances. That was also the aim of France after WW1, to incapacitate the German threat. Because it's always concerning to have such a neighbour. "Punishing" was secondary imho.
@swevixeh
@swevixeh Жыл бұрын
Tbh France in 1941 would be a lot less dirty, unsafe and depressing than modern France.
@jakedemaggio8649
@jakedemaggio8649 Жыл бұрын
@@swevixeh now that I think we can all agree with.
@jakedemaggio8649
@jakedemaggio8649 Жыл бұрын
@@xenotypos I believe the “Versailles Treaty” absolutely crippled Germany & was excessively cruel. Which from what I’ve read led to the Weimar Republic along with hyper inflation. I agree no one really “won” that war, the Germans didn’t really need to surrender anymore then the French did, (which the German population saw as a betrayal by the ruling class) they Were both Devastated. Truth is WW1 & WW2 were largely the same conflict w/ a brief pause in the middle due to the heavy losses both economic & human. Apparently the treaty, Weimar conditions like hyper inflation, along with the humiliation & betrayal felt by Germans is what led to such a extreme form of Nationalism and the rise of Hitler. I think that could of been avoided had the Versailles Treaty not been seen as so unfair. No one really won the world wars, in particular the individual countries that participated. I know some people think the US ‘won’ because we kind of inherited SOME of Britains former global economic & military status but the truth was America was long on its way as the worlds superpower. We actually loaned Europe (especially British) a large portion of the money needed to rebuild their nations. Americans population was fiercely opposed to entry into both world wars, which was seen as the result of old beefs & grudges from ‘old world’ that we Americans have left behind. It wasn’t until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor which at the time was seen as a direct unprovoked attack on the US by the Japanese, it was enough to convince Americans to enter the war particularly against Japan. The losers of the world wars were the main participants, especially Europe, their former colonies & Asia which went right into communism. What did Britian Or France win besides huge losses, same for Germany who lost a huge chunk of its nation to the SSR/communism & wasn’t reunited until the late 80’s. Russia/SSR took gigantic losses, the loss of life along with putting an enormous amount of added economic pressure to an already fragile economy. Japan had nuclear bombs dropped on them after they were already defeated. The bombs were dropped mostly as a deterrent to the Soviet Union, the Cold War started before ww2 ended, we should view it as a tragedy.
@michaeltribbet9213
@michaeltribbet9213 2 жыл бұрын
The last minute of this is possibly the most incredible thing I’ve heard on this channel
@learningagain4094
@learningagain4094 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it actually stunned me.
@laetitia7088
@laetitia7088 3 жыл бұрын
As an Iranian I gotta say we have the most negative image of our Qajar dynasty as it caused us losing Caucasus to the soviets in their era so we barely read about their journals but after this video I realized he hasn't been a bad person over all and that Rothschild part just blew my mind. Made me laugh so hard. Peace and love to everyone✌❤.
@nimaakhtarkhavari8766
@nimaakhtarkhavari8766 3 жыл бұрын
They screwed up the country in every possible way, isn't that enough reason for a negative image?
@viraloracle5151
@viraloracle5151 3 жыл бұрын
Russian empire bro not soviets. (iranian here) soviets came to power during Pahlavis.
@payamabbasi3555
@payamabbasi3555 3 жыл бұрын
@@nimaakhtarkhavari8766 two of the greatest empires of that era decided to take parts of a weak country for themselves, at least Qajars played a good role and didn't let them colonize Iran like India, history is not all black and white
@macseyyed7967
@macseyyed7967 3 жыл бұрын
@@payamabbasi3555 these powers didn't colonise Iran because they were not interested in doing so. Iran was a literal playing field for them as one directly occupied the northand the other the south. Much like how Afghanistan wasn't "colonised" to act as a barrier between them. Also you need to remember that a mere half a century before the Qajars came along, Iran WAS one of these greatest empires in the world.
@marmary5555
@marmary5555 3 жыл бұрын
@@macseyyed7967 they were very much interested in colonizing Iran. They just didn't succeed
@biscuitsbrown3330
@biscuitsbrown3330 3 жыл бұрын
being a household cavalry veteran I like the shout out
@singularity844
@singularity844 3 жыл бұрын
Wow the idea for the state of Israel might have been implanted by a Persian (Iranian) - mind blown.
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 3 жыл бұрын
Meh! Zionism was an old English idea but maybe this slip of tongue helped to extend the neo-crusader project to some Jews.
@sdssdds8415
@sdssdds8415 3 жыл бұрын
zionism is older than the old testament.
@singularity844
@singularity844 3 жыл бұрын
@@sdssdds8415 they had their nation of Israel in the Bronze Age. Then they lost it
@micha2909
@micha2909 3 жыл бұрын
The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt with the help of another Persian Shah, Cyros the Great, in the 6th century BC.
@mudra5114
@mudra5114 3 жыл бұрын
@@LuisAldamiz Nah, the Persians were in this way back. Cyrus the Great was a great Zionist of his time. BTW, many conservative Englishmen were pro- Arab, pro Palestine during the 30s.
@tommeakin1732
@tommeakin1732 3 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but sometimes I end up really liking some of the people in these accounts, just from listening to fifteen minutes of their writing and perhaps seeing a few pictures of them. Though I do worry about how "twisted" their attitudes might be in accordance with the politics of their time, and my ignorance of that time period might be stopping me from seeing that. It's clear in some previous accounts that the writer says favourable things about their ally, whilst looking down on their ally's enemy
@tommeakin1732
@tommeakin1732 3 жыл бұрын
@Herdan I did a tiny bit of reading after this and saw that they went to war not that long before this - that's some interesting context. But he also seemed quite disregarding of the French, which made me wonder if he had any biases against them
@PaulvonOberstein
@PaulvonOberstein 3 жыл бұрын
It does seem that the 40 years before the outbreak of WWI was the apogee of European civilization.
@EyeLean5280
@EyeLean5280 3 жыл бұрын
YAY! And don't apologize! The extra anticipation makes the fulfilment all the sweeter.
@VoicesofthePast
@VoicesofthePast 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks! I am now going to drink a beer.
@godlovesyou1995
@godlovesyou1995 3 жыл бұрын
@@VoicesofthePast YAY
@genericalfishtycoon3853
@genericalfishtycoon3853 3 жыл бұрын
@@VoicesofthePast Cheers mate, enjoy. I'm burning some fine hasheesh while listening myself. Many thanks from across the pond here in 'Murica.
@223sushi
@223sushi 3 жыл бұрын
The insight into the mindset of people and their lives in the past is always a treasure to know.
@jamesdavis2448
@jamesdavis2448 3 жыл бұрын
the end is priceless
@arrow1414
@arrow1414 3 жыл бұрын
The only complaint I have of this episode is that a modern diesel locomotive horn is used to signify a train instead of a proper 19th century European steam engine whistle!
@leergut858
@leergut858 2 жыл бұрын
You're a train guy, arent you?
@jean-lucpicard3012
@jean-lucpicard3012 2 жыл бұрын
You're not?
@arrow1414
@arrow1414 2 жыл бұрын
@@leergut858 Yes.🚂
@lasha3688
@lasha3688 2 жыл бұрын
There is something very touching about these videos :) great work!
@danielbakergill
@danielbakergill 3 жыл бұрын
The best travel writers always came from the Mid East.
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
@Boş İşler Müdürü Yes. Sumerians and Egyptians were the first to use alphabets.
@micha2909
@micha2909 3 жыл бұрын
@@GrigRP Sumerians and Egyptians were the first to use writing (quite complex cuneiform and hieroglyph scripts), the guys who invented the first simple Alphabet were the Phoenicians.
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
@@micha2909 True, cannanite and phonecians were the first to use alphabets, not all writing systems are alphabets. Phonecians were also middle eastern.
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 3 жыл бұрын
yeah, the way arabic literature was written translates well to english
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 3 жыл бұрын
@Volition Iskey The way middel eastern literature of old* was written translates well to english
@yorp4161
@yorp4161 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull! That shah has some great insights
@stanisawzokiewski3308
@stanisawzokiewski3308 3 жыл бұрын
2:02 its interesting that "Farangi" is still used all the way from west africa to south east asia to describe europe and white people in general. The word originating from the word Frank back in the 8th century
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
It's not to describe Europe it general, in common usage it refers to North Western Europeans. We wouldn't call Greeks or Italians farenghi for example.
@stanisawzokiewski3308
@stanisawzokiewski3308 3 жыл бұрын
@@GrigRP good to know! Thank you. Is there a word similiar to rum/romaion still in use to describe southern europeans? And is the word Lech/lechistan used to describe eastern europe?
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
@@stanisawzokiewski3308 Rum is mostly used in a historical context, we don't really have a catch all for Southern Europeans, just call them with their nationality. For example, Greek = Yunani. Not sure if we have a word for Slav but we call Russians = Roosi
@ArtisanWindchimes
@ArtisanWindchimes 3 жыл бұрын
@@GrigRP East Africans call Russians “Roos”
@user-wk2uf5yo7x
@user-wk2uf5yo7x 3 жыл бұрын
In Morroco western people are called "el gwar" "nsara" and "kafrine bellah"
@pizzadude2233
@pizzadude2233 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm early. Love your videos man, History time and Voices of the past are truly 10/10 channels.
@vincentlacasse2155
@vincentlacasse2155 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating perspective!
@patriciapalmer1377
@patriciapalmer1377 3 жыл бұрын
He was truly a gentleman in his remarks and admirable in his respect for all those he met. I would have liked meeting and knowing him.
@MaxLeGrand33
@MaxLeGrand33 3 жыл бұрын
The Shah: You should create a state for the Jews. Rothschild: Way ahead of you, buddy!
@painmt651
@painmt651 2 жыл бұрын
I am glad that I always had a great interest in history. These videos are very enjoyable.
@galapagoensis
@galapagoensis 3 жыл бұрын
This was probably the most insightful bit so far that gives us a preamble to what’s to come.
@mr.meesicks1801
@mr.meesicks1801 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your beautiful videos!
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery 3 жыл бұрын
DITTO AHMED, ditto! Praise Jesus Christ 🙏🔥💚
@nothingtoospiffy7913
@nothingtoospiffy7913 3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome 💚💚💚👽👽❤💞💋 Heil Satan!
@bopeep268
@bopeep268 3 жыл бұрын
Technically the first Royal Persian visitor in Europe was Xerxes. Might have been a forcefull visit...but he still visited.
@guaycura
@guaycura 3 жыл бұрын
Xerxes' father, Darius, was the first one but, again, in a forcefully arranged visit too and not very welcome by the Greeks.
@bopeep268
@bopeep268 3 жыл бұрын
@@guaycura wait, which part of Greece? Ionia or Greek peninsula?
@guaycura
@guaycura 3 жыл бұрын
@@bopeep268 The mainland Greece where first Macedonia and Byzantium were dominated. Later he returned during the First Persian War to punish Athens for its help to the Ionian revolt only to be stopped at Marathon.
@bopeep268
@bopeep268 3 жыл бұрын
@@guaycura wait, are you talking about Darius the Great?
@thenoobprincev2529
@thenoobprincev2529 3 жыл бұрын
Darius The Great of Achamenid dynasty had a famous Scythian campain which took him all the way to more or less modern Ukrain-Russian border. Also Timur lame,The Persianate Mongol descended ruler of Iran too had massive campains in the Territory of the Golden horde. So our boy Naser Shah is Just the first in modern history.
@Cherb123456
@Cherb123456 3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, thank you!
@Morgana0x
@Morgana0x 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, I found it very interesting.
@Numba003
@Numba003 3 жыл бұрын
It’s kinda fun to get a more modern account. I know next to nothing about 18th and 19th century Middle East, Ottomans, etc. This was fun to listen to, and excellent as always besides! Thank you guys! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
@gostavoadolfos2023
@gostavoadolfos2023 3 жыл бұрын
Shah : why don't you buy a country for jews. Palestinians: heavy breathing ☹😰
@swaythegod5812
@swaythegod5812 2 жыл бұрын
😂
@SwabianWookie
@SwabianWookie 2 жыл бұрын
best part is that he tried to separate a jew from his money with no interest only for the welfare of others ! IMAO what great sense of humour these Persians have!
@solssun
@solssun 3 жыл бұрын
this is such a brilliant channel
@deanedge5988
@deanedge5988 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly illustrated.
@UlysseLaarwall
@UlysseLaarwall 3 жыл бұрын
I like how the main comment about France is "TF is going on with their politics ?"
@brokenbridge6316
@brokenbridge6316 3 жыл бұрын
This royal had a really interesting time in Europe. He sure had some really insightful conversations with some people.
@anastasia10017
@anastasia10017 3 жыл бұрын
excellent video
@thedandyscopic
@thedandyscopic 2 жыл бұрын
Loved it ! ✅😍
@BoilaFrog
@BoilaFrog 3 жыл бұрын
So that’s who gave him the idea!!!! Thanks a lot H.M. !!!
@EricManzane
@EricManzane 3 жыл бұрын
i watched the video and them laughed heartily'
@ogajodocenario
@ogajodocenario 3 жыл бұрын
God how I love your channel
@ryangerrard4048
@ryangerrard4048 Жыл бұрын
Loved the description of England, oh to go back in time!
@spinnetti
@spinnetti 3 жыл бұрын
Love these... So interesting to hear voices of the past experiencing other cultures. My ancestor (John Middenhall) opened trade with India. Would love to hear his story.
@naveenchaudhry7368
@naveenchaudhry7368 3 жыл бұрын
Hmm interesting, tell me more please.
@noahtylerpritchett2682
@noahtylerpritchett2682 3 жыл бұрын
I love this Persian man. I met many a great Persians myself. They are a great people. Some are rude but most are overall kindhearted to me.
@papazataklaattiranimam
@papazataklaattiranimam 3 жыл бұрын
Bro he wasn’t a Persian , the title “Persian Visitor” is competely wrong , he doesn’t know the difference of Iranian and Persian
@noahtylerpritchett2682
@noahtylerpritchett2682 3 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam while im well aware of the Turkic origins of the ruling family they considered themselves Persian after too long assimilation and intermixing. Similar to how the British nobility are now ethnically British and not Norman anymore.
@papazataklaattiranimam
@papazataklaattiranimam 3 жыл бұрын
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 They never considered themselves (especially its founder) Persians, but the mistake Europeans made was to call any state that ruled Iran "persia". Even the name of the state "Qajar" is the name of a Turk tribe. Even Ilkhanates, a Mongol state, was wrongly referred to as Persia by Europeans.
@noahtylerpritchett2682
@noahtylerpritchett2682 3 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam given the Qajars assimilated. It doesn't matter. In analogy what happened to the British monarch happened to the Qajar monarch. It assimilated. Even Biologically influenced. Not the founders. But the 1800s? Yea.
@macseyyed7967
@macseyyed7967 3 жыл бұрын
@@papazataklaattiranimam The europians refer to the land of Iran as Persia. Albeit inaccurate even at the time of the ancient Greek, it still applies no matter who rules the land. And our friend here already explained how assimilation works, but I'm sure you are oblivious to it on purpose.
@LVXMagick
@LVXMagick 3 жыл бұрын
Aww I love you Coco!! She is BEAUTIFUL 🥰
@sirholycow
@sirholycow 3 жыл бұрын
The ending of this vid is just...wow.
@norfolkenchants1238
@norfolkenchants1238 3 жыл бұрын
"They contrive fresh engines such as cannons, muskets, projectiles and similar things, for the Quicker and more Multitudinous slaughter of the Human race. He who's invention destroys man more surely and expeditiously, Prides himself there on and obtains decorations of honour" That's sound like something you would read from the logs of an extraterrestrial Anthropologist.
@Hurmeri
@Hurmeri 3 жыл бұрын
How would you know? For all we can tell, it may be that the only creatures to avoid/survive the hypothetical Great Filter (and then survive the challenges that come next) all regard existence in these kinds of matter-of-fact, "it's a 'kill or be killed' universe" terms. I'll freely admit that this counter-speculation is every bit as invalid and pointless waffle as yours. After all, how would we know?
@norfolkenchants1238
@norfolkenchants1238 3 жыл бұрын
@@Hurmeri I completely agree with the kill or be killed theory, death is needed inorder for another to survive seems to be a common law throughout the universe. What I was implying though, was the way he's phrasing it sounds like he's unaccustomed to human warfare is all, the only reason I believe it sounds like somthing you would read from an extraterrestrial anthropologists log is the fact that if we were being visited by beings extensively enough for them to be able to catalogue our behaviour, their probably well past the days of voluntarily slaughtering their own species at the least.
@santi2683
@santi2683 3 жыл бұрын
Oh boy, Shah Naser gave some interesting ideas that will not annoy anyone whatsoever at the end
@ai.simplified..
@ai.simplified.. 2 жыл бұрын
Must watch
@robertDK3
@robertDK3 3 жыл бұрын
was expecting a 3 month break after last vid
@Mitthradata
@Mitthradata 3 жыл бұрын
14:42 "we laughed and he didnt reply" persians 150 years later: duuuude i was joking, get the frick outta here
@matthewboyle2641
@matthewboyle2641 3 жыл бұрын
Known as the Prince of Wales, why a man would choose to be known as a prince of large sea mammals, I have no idea. (what I wish he said)
@ofthecaribbean
@ofthecaribbean 3 жыл бұрын
Very similar to the French Prince who calls himself a dolphin
@matthewboyle2641
@matthewboyle2641 3 жыл бұрын
@@ofthecaribbean True, I forgot about that. European royalty and their obsession with sea mammals
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 3 жыл бұрын
Wales =/= whales. They named penguins though.
@Xerxes2005
@Xerxes2005 3 жыл бұрын
@@matthewboyle2641 Wales, not whales. As for the "Dauphin" the heir to the throne of France was called thus because of the province of Dauphiné.
@matthewboyle2641
@matthewboyle2641 3 жыл бұрын
@@Xerxes2005 This was intentionally humorous. I understand Wales and Dauphine are places. I just remember thinking prince of Wales was funny when I first heard it as a kid, and wished the Shah also got confused by the homophone
@manooxi327
@manooxi327 3 жыл бұрын
tnx
@ReynaSingh
@ReynaSingh 3 жыл бұрын
These videos are so good!
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery 3 жыл бұрын
I AGREE, incredibly well done and exceptionally narrated and edited! Praise Jesus Christ🙏🔥💚
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
You didn't even watch it, how would you know?
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery
@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery 3 жыл бұрын
@@GrigRP Dont b negative brother 🙏🙏👊💚🔥💚 praise Jesus Christ for all those people who seek his glory
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
@@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery It's not negative, she's clearly commenting on videos without even watching them to advertise here channel.
@unknownsilence7834
@unknownsilence7834 2 жыл бұрын
@Ariel Sergio Ramos I'm Iranian, if you have any questions, feel free to ask
@ministerofpropagandaindoct4966
@ministerofpropagandaindoct4966 3 жыл бұрын
"And he made no reply"
@jzaajzaasho2879
@jzaajzaasho2879 3 жыл бұрын
3:30 ASMR DIDN'T EXPECTED THAT BUT I LOVE IT
@rrocketman
@rrocketman 3 жыл бұрын
Good one, new sub here👍
@IudiciumInfernalum
@IudiciumInfernalum 3 жыл бұрын
A wild Rothschild appears!
@krcmaine
@krcmaine 3 жыл бұрын
Very fascinating! I ❤ the description of Ballet; that it rained while in London; and he went to the Wax Museum. How tourist 😁 Very interesting how he described the French and their politics. He was very knowledgeble about the politics of all the countries he went to too. The end about the Jewish people buying land to have a home of their own was really intetesting. 1870s and while they laughed like it was a joke...it made me feel saddness for their future plight and ponder the notion. I would listen to more of his journal.
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 3 жыл бұрын
It makes me saddness for the atrocities they will commit in the future to creat and keep that nation
@krcmaine
@krcmaine 3 жыл бұрын
@@Yanzdorloph I Agree, though, I am not fully informed enough to talk confidently about the situation.
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 2 жыл бұрын
@Sanctus Paulus Are we just gonna pretend the last 70years didn't happen ?
@R1project0
@R1project0 3 жыл бұрын
14:18 that ended exactly as I thought it would have hahaha
@Obssy
@Obssy 3 жыл бұрын
He was a wise and clever man.
@davidstenow5055
@davidstenow5055 3 жыл бұрын
Oh Voices of the Past, you really treated us with this. As many others have already commented, the Rothschild meeting at the end is really something. He comes to the Shah to talk about the treatment of the Persian jewry, and gets a joking suggestion that amounts to early zionism. Just amazing
@Yanzdorloph
@Yanzdorloph 3 жыл бұрын
Never in his wildest nightmares would the shah thought that they would choose Jerusalem of all places to make their nation, I'm pretty sure if they had chosen another place the muslim nations would've been besties with them, after all at that time there were many muslim nations friendly to the jews, Morocco, the ottomans, Persia the main 3 muslim nations of that time.
@mizrahiwithattitude2733
@mizrahiwithattitude2733 9 ай бұрын
@@Yanzdorloph Jerusalem of all places is where jews tend to have their states look at history theres no other place for jews
@schizoaristocrat
@schizoaristocrat 2 жыл бұрын
God I can’t get over the fact that fashion was light years better then today.
@Rynewulf
@Rynewulf 2 жыл бұрын
Ok these old travelogues are just adorable, people centuries ago just being confused at each other and vibing
@days_hadd
@days_hadd 3 жыл бұрын
well made video... me likey
@che71che
@che71che 3 жыл бұрын
That ending could almost be A "What If" the Shar & Rothschild had never met moment? Maybe?
@Mitthradata
@Mitthradata 3 жыл бұрын
shah* i dont know why people cant say shah, its like this: sh as in she a as in all h as in hot
@che71che
@che71che 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mitthradata It's strange how my dyslexia has this habit of bringing out the same belittling attitude in people? I suffered the same attitude from my English teacher at school, after a year of it they got a Slap! A Slap I bet they still remember to this day! We both learnt something that day, He Learnt To Shut His Mouth And I Learnt That Might Made Me Right! It Sounds to me like you could do with the same life lesson he learnt, Years after I'd been expelled for the incident we happened to be in the same Pub, He was very polite to me and bought me drinks all evening, I like to think it's was down to the lesson he received from me.
@laptv2144
@laptv2144 Жыл бұрын
Unbelievable how much cooler England and Great Britain was as a society back then. I’m not even English but their Victorian era was something to be jealous of, a time when they and their culture were at the pinnacle of civilization and this will likely never be the case again.
@rockbarcellos
@rockbarcellos 2 жыл бұрын
Epic cliffhanger
@jbos5107
@jbos5107 2 жыл бұрын
A man who loves cats is priceless. You young man are a keeper I think. I can tell that Coco thinks so as well.
@Stateira-Persia-Iran
@Stateira-Persia-Iran 2 жыл бұрын
Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar loved his cat.
@jonbaker1697
@jonbaker1697 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting description about the poverty in Liverpool at the time. I wonder if the royal entourage was kept well away from the hellscape/ hell that was Manchester, (Manchester and surrounding areas, was the Industrial Silicone Valley of the Victorian age)
@araghav3921
@araghav3921 3 жыл бұрын
Please cover the account of an Indian soldier in China, who were sent there to quell the Boxer Rebellion. It is one of the earliest travelogue in modern Hindi. It was recently translated as Thirteen Months in China.
@BluJean6692
@BluJean6692 3 жыл бұрын
I'm a simple man: I never tire of Occidentalist fascination and insight...
@mirzaghalib8659
@mirzaghalib8659 3 жыл бұрын
Umm....that was fantastic!
@mirzaimadbaig8692
@mirzaimadbaig8692 3 жыл бұрын
yes
@mirzaghalib8659
@mirzaghalib8659 3 жыл бұрын
@@mirzaimadbaig8692 he6 Mirza, you should check out my poetry....lol
@mirzaimadbaig8692
@mirzaimadbaig8692 3 жыл бұрын
@@mirzaghalib8659 yes brother 😂
@ggtheog7610
@ggtheog7610 3 жыл бұрын
still eating mangoes in heaven i hope
@nedyah151
@nedyah151 3 жыл бұрын
today I learned Iran may have influenced the creation of a new Jewish state, wow
@Mitthradata
@Mitthradata 3 жыл бұрын
"may have influenced"? they saved judaism (and arguably creation of christianism and islam) by letting the jews have their own religion and temple and letting them go back to judea 530 bc
@imac786
@imac786 2 жыл бұрын
Well they are trying to undo it now
@sami3566
@sami3566 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mitthradata lol Islam and Christianity are from abrahamism that originated long before 2000b.c at least and no one saved Judaism actually jew lived a lavishly live in Babylonia and controlled the most fertile land and why Cyrus treated them well because they helped them to conquer Babylonia and even many of them refused to leave Babylonia
@Mitthradata
@Mitthradata 2 жыл бұрын
@@sami3566 you obviously have no idea about history in general, what happened to jews in babylon was comparable to ww2, they were slaves treated poorly, most of their men died and those who didn't had their fingers cut off so that they can't fight anymore. Cyrus treated jews like humans and also he let them have a temple because they opened the gates of babylon for cyrus, Christianity is literally a 2.0 version of Judaism, jesus himself was a jew, and islam wouldn't last because if pagans were ruling ERE they together with the sassanids would combine efforts and purge muslims anytime that they could (meaning mecca would ally with the superpowers of the time, they couldn't possibly lose to islam in such scenario)
@sami3566
@sami3566 2 жыл бұрын
@@Mitthradata you're a joke nope jew lived a lavishly live in Babylonia even more than Babylonian Iranian are evil barbarian who destroy civilization
@aidanfarnan4683
@aidanfarnan4683 2 жыл бұрын
To be honest, it sounds like this chap had a pretty normal tourist experience in London: Got rained on, went to Tussauds, did the tour at buck house and went to the Royal Albert. The only difference between then and now seems to be that he didn't catch "Cats" in the west end.
@kayvan671
@kayvan671 3 жыл бұрын
What a nice man.
@kobe51
@kobe51 2 жыл бұрын
Better than any history class i took in college 👍
@RexGalilae
@RexGalilae 3 жыл бұрын
14:25 This idea has such a heavy dose of irony. My face was left gaping for 10 full seconds as he articulated those words
@ja_aq.ov_
@ja_aq.ov_ 3 жыл бұрын
Not sure where the irony came in. The Shahs generally had good relationships with Israel. Nor was the idea new: Jews had been buying land in the Levant for many years by that time (including by Montefiore, himself a banker who finance these moves)
@RexGalilae
@RexGalilae 3 жыл бұрын
@@ja_aq.ov_ His successors today are the greatest enemies of Israel?
@Bialy_1
@Bialy_1 3 жыл бұрын
​@@RexGalilae When i was reading english wikipedia article about Iran i was also very surprised that they have second biggest population in the middle east of that "greatest enemy"... heh I wonder who is controling western media that they are so far from the truth. ;)
@RexGalilae
@RexGalilae 3 жыл бұрын
@@Bialy_1 Zionism and Israel aren't the same thing as Judaism. There are Orthodox Jews that openly oppose Israel and Zionism. It's like conflating Islam with ISIS
@223sushi
@223sushi 3 жыл бұрын
There wouldn't have such an outrage if the previous inhabitants of the lands the Israels took were treated better, and there may have even been a single nation with both Palestinians and Israelis united, especially if the racist Zionist ideas of only Jews for the promised land didn't exist and some conciliatory efforts with substance was made with the Palestinians. Now the Palestinians only see their rights abused, extreme right Israelis treating them like animals and subhumans, with almost no consequences, not too different to how their ancestors were treated. Will this TRAGIC cycle ever end? Who knows, when politics is involved. Irony indeed my friend
@FromHellDesigns
@FromHellDesigns 3 жыл бұрын
Everyone who visits France says pretty much the same thing 😂
@hmmm9658
@hmmm9658 3 жыл бұрын
they always say how they like it but the people are stuck up and act superior to the rest of europe lol
@lgosuberalles4336
@lgosuberalles4336 3 жыл бұрын
They are quite an effeminate bunch that's for sure
@GrigRP
@GrigRP 3 жыл бұрын
The French tend to be feminine, yet arrogant.
@cebonvieuxjack
@cebonvieuxjack 3 жыл бұрын
@@hmmm9658 I mean that's not what he said in the letter here, he just described how the entire nation was pretty much in a state of constant depression, which it was and still is btw. France is still the biggest buyer of anti-depression pills in the world (per person that is). I find that funny that they were already done with all of it even back then lol.
@perperson199
@perperson199 3 жыл бұрын
It's still like that
@FDCLDN
@FDCLDN 2 жыл бұрын
He laughed while rubbing his hands together.
@jdlc903
@jdlc903 3 жыл бұрын
Good day madam tussauds
@chynabad9804
@chynabad9804 3 жыл бұрын
Unpleasant contrast with the present, advancing decline of all these nations, the British first among them
@mookins45
@mookins45 3 жыл бұрын
human aspiration never changes
@LuisAldamiz
@LuisAldamiz 3 жыл бұрын
Well, if some rise others must fall.
@vorynrosethorn903
@vorynrosethorn903 3 жыл бұрын
But equally no fall is inevitable just as no rise is. It's men who make such things. The reasons for collapse are most certainly tangible.
@andeve3
@andeve3 3 жыл бұрын
British society is no longer a society because "there is no such thing as society."
@vorynrosethorn903
@vorynrosethorn903 3 жыл бұрын
@@andeve3 Thats a very postmodern excuse. Shifting the language doesn't change reality, it just warps perception of it.
Super gymnastics 😍🫣
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