Thanks friend plenty more to come including the battle of yarmuk

There is no more Rome. But the Persians occupied an empire four times. Now they have a very big country called Iran.

😅​@@WarAndHistory.

Well said. Before the battle of Cunaxa, mercenary phalagists nearly drove off their allies, at a demo, their employer Cyrus being one of the very few to keep their cool! Many levy and several household troops run off the parade ground!! But as military performance and experience goes in antiquity, Romans are always the benchmark. Well, one of their seasoned generals, Aemillius Paulus, scored a huge victory against the Greeks at Pydna, centuries later. Albeight knowing its weaknesses, and knowing what had to be done, he later recalled that he never saw a sight in his life as amazing and as dreadfull, as the advance of the phalanx towards him! Imagine the clueless fighter of the first rank(s) who had to deal with the thing.......

The phalanx was virtually unstoppable in frontal combat. But by that point the Roman military discarded the phalanx formation in the last Samnite war, as the terrain made it unsuitable. What they came up with was the remarkably flexible manipular legion. The maniples were an organizational innovation that changed the course of history imo. This flexibility allowed legions to easily be formed into smaller or larger units as necessary to changing battlefield conditions. This made their battles with the Greeks and Macedonians something they were uniquely suited to win, as once they were able to outmaneuver it, a phalanx became useless.

@@kalbarnes2494 Indeed, the manipular system the Romans introduced, took maneuverabillity to a whole new level. Company level teams acting independently during a large battle, was something war history never saw again till about WW1! But the phalanx didn't become useless immediately. Hanibal, Pyrus and others, beat the Romans several times using it; the Romans themselves used it in rare occations (the Triarii spearmen were probably in phalanx formation, the testudo was a form of phalanx not suitable to attack, and they tried to remember how it was meant to work at the battle of Cannae and some others after the republic); and we see it reemerging as cavalry becomes more efficient, later Roman armies abandoning manipular formations alltogether. Boar formations, schiltrons, and shieldwalls were medieval equivelents of the phalanx, as where the later pike formations (tercios e.a.) that dominated the European battlefields, untill gunpowder weapons made them obsolete by the 18th century. And we can still find later yet revivals, in the Austrian "battalion mass", the French "column of attack", and the "compact square" formations several armies used to repell cavalry.

Intimidated or not as a soldier you had to stand your ground if you panicked & tried to run you'd be killed for cowardice so? you was effectively going to die either in battle by the enemy or? by your own men for trying to run away

@@martinthrone7012 Only in "professional" armies an IF you were meant to stand your ground. I guess that, yeah, if you retreated before making contact, you would be in serious trouble. But I also guess THAT thought wouldn't be particulary reassuring at the moment. Yet, nobody would blame a skirmisher or a horseman, or a rookie for backing away. That's why usually firstrankers were seasoned soldiers, the equivalent of modern NCO's, each in command of a whole file (anything between 4 to 16 fighters). Still, armies backed away or even broke away all the time. In Greek military terminology, the word "trophy" meant the monument erected at the exact spot where the enemy line broke. While the word for coward was "drop-shield", implying that you intented to run faster than an armed enemy. But if the formation was broken, it would be pointless to try fixing it, or to fight-on individually. Usually the disrupted side would run away, more or less in good order. Cohesion meant the world in these short of "formation" battles. Nothing like we see in movies: if ever a side broke ranks to fight man to man, the game was over!

Spartans Rule 👌💪💪

Xerses II 💪

@@shahriarp9928he was defeated😂

@@FathomMane I'm speaking about history not this game videos , second time he sent persian armies he conquered all Greece

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during ottoman wars there was an albnain tribe called shpata in cameria (epirus) The Shpata family (Albanian: Shpata, Greek: Σπάτα, Σπάτας) was an Albanian noble family active in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, initially as Venetian vassals and later as Ottoman vassals. The family's progenitors were the brothers Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata. Shpata means "sword" in Albanian. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bua_(tribe)

At this time you didn’t screw around with the Spartans in a land war. You’d be a dead bloody idiot!

@@user-ic1dw7tg2t Also, it is PROVEN that albanians built the pyramids, went first to the moon and OFC found america, it is known...

Served them pretty well I guess 😂

@@BigTex65 : In an era when heavily armoured shock cavalry and light horse archers were very rare in the Mediterranean. Lightly armoured shock cavalry and light javelin cavalry, usually in relatively small numbers, couldn't get the job done.

@@timonsolus I’ve honestly learned more from watching total war videos and playing the game myself that, like you said, they didn’t have much of a choice but to use hoplites. Pretty fascinating imo.

@@timonsolusThe huns literally fucked them multiple times with horses lol

Not today

I automatically thought "buzzard."

Definitely a nice touch. Very reminiscent of the Gaugamela scene from Alexander!

The eagle was the bird of Zeus

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For some reason this victory was downplayed by the Greeks. Maybe they thought it was no big deal. To bad they couldn't unite against the Macedonians and Romans.

Yeah, phalangites were excellent infantry! And that wasn't a one time deal. Centuries later, Swiss pikemen were also much sought-after mercenaries!

during ottoman wars there was an albnain tribe called shpata in cameria (epirus) The Shpata family (Albanian: Shpata, Greek: Σπάτα, Σπάτας) was an Albanian noble family active in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, initially as Venetian vassals and later as Ottoman vassals. The family's progenitors were the brothers Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata. Shpata means "sword" in Albanian. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bua_(tribe)

Were the Greeks defeated by the Persians before the Persian army had Greek soldiers?

​@@austinyang3573yes. battle of thymbra persians defeated greeks when they were out numbered two to one . and they didnt had greek soldires.

​@@user-ic1dw7tg2t go steal and sell drugs

That's because them a.i. hoplites have been programmed to actual spartan battle tactics....the most obvious way to kill the enemy cavalry would be to kill his horse 1st & then the rider once he's obviously on foot....if you're really lucky the horse might fall on him & crush him....otherwise he's likely to get thrown over the top right into a bunch of hoplites just waiting for him

Ah so that explains why it's called the Lambda!

@@TheREPPIX not exactly.. Lamda is Lamda. The region Lakedemona starts with Lamda.

@@mariosathens1 my point exactly!

Or (maybe) from arrow peak! 😜😜😜

It's a game called Total war Rome 2... it has mods added to increase the historical accuracy

Join the US Army. We need battle lords such as you!

during ottoman wars there was an albnain tribe called shpata in cameria (epirus) The Shpata family (Albanian: Shpata, Greek: Σπάτα, Σπάτας) was an Albanian noble family active in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, initially as Venetian vassals and later as Ottoman vassals. The family's progenitors were the brothers Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata. Shpata means "sword" in Albanian. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bua_(tribe)

@@user-ic1dw7tg2tI am a descendant of this family and it’s Shpeta. We are also tied in with the Skenderbegs in Debar my family has grave stones in my village from 600 year’s continuous.

Our pleasure!

Ah of course a petty LITTLE turk would say that

One word from mongol 😂😂, you are obsessed with our history i see you comments everywhere

Unless ur Epaminondas😂

wrong video 😂

@@WarAndHistory. I was wondering what happened to my comment! I thought I accidentally deleted it. It must have posted here because I was typing it while watching it and aitoplay was on and it must have posted it here doh. I'll post it in the right place, thanks lol

thanks for watching 👌

during ottoman wars there was an albnain tribe called shpata in cameria (epirus) The Shpata family (Albanian: Shpata, Greek: Σπάτα, Σπάτας) was an Albanian noble family active in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, initially as Venetian vassals and later as Ottoman vassals. The family's progenitors were the brothers Gjin Bua Shpata and Skurra Bua Shpata. Shpata means "sword" in Albanian. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bua_(tribe) what greece mate spartan were albani illyrian

​@@user-ic1dw7tg2t go steal and sell drugs

That’s why Alexander the Great had no tolerance to any Greek mercenary who was fighting for Persia. Betraying your own homeland is probably one of the worse crimes one can commit

Time took revenge. The modern Thebes is considered a non existing city by us fellow Greeks. Less than an hour away from Athens but with nothing to see or do. it hosts only a miserable training camp for the newly drafted soldiers of the artillery corp. A non existing city of misery :-))))) And Thessaly was enbodied to modern Greece not by war but with a treaty back in 1881. Probably not even the Ottomans could stand them and gave them away :-)))) They are considered hillbillies by the rest of the Greeks, loaded though due to the fact that Thessaly is the biggest farming plain in Greece.

Glad you enjoyed it

just came across it

The Romans used oval shields until the late republic. The switch to the Gladius occurred earlier; around the time of the 2nd Punic War.

But then the gladius was superseded by the spatha.

romans used spears before using the swords in close combat , almost the same way

Thanks. I'll go check that out.

I prefer saying "Medized..." Like the Medized Thessalians or the Medized Ionians... Medizing just sounds too present tense or something. I just sounds funny.

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That's why they were non-independent for almost 2000 years?

@@CyrusPersia-wv7zo really?

@@user-vo5mf3ly9s Yes

@@user-vo5mf3ly9s The years of non-independence of four old countries in the most dangerous geopolitical region in terms of invasion by foreign powers (from longest to shortest years) ----------------- 1). Mesopotamia: 2290 years Here is the approximate duration of the domination of the different empires over Mesopotamia: •Achaemenid Empire (Persian Dynasty): Approximately 208 years (539 BC to 331 BC) • Seleucid Empire: Approximately 245 years (312 BC to 64 BC) •Parthian Empire: Approximately 474 years (247 BC to 224 AD) •Sassanid Empire: Approximately 415 years (224 AD to 651 AD) • Umayyad Empire: About 83 years (661 AD to 750 AD) •Abbasid Empire: Approximately 447 years (750 AD to 1258 AD) •Ottoman Empire: Approximately 418 years (1534 AD to 1922 AD) ----------------- 2).Egypt: 2269 years Here is the approximate duration of the domination of the different empires over Egypt: •Achaemenid Empire (Persian Dynasty): About 205 years (525 BC to 332 BC) • Seleucid Empire: About 30 years (305 BC to 275 BC) •Roman Empire: Approximately 639 years (30 BC to 639 AD, including the period of the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine) •Byzantine Empire: About 716 years (639 AD to 1517 AD) • Umayyad Empire: About 83 years (641 AD to 724 AD) •Abbasid Empire: Approximately 208 years (750 AD to 969 AD) •Ottoman Empire: Approximately 388 years (1517 AD to 1882 AD) ----------------- 3).Greece: 2031 years Here is the approximate duration of the domination of the different empires over Greece: •Roman Empire: Approximately 521 years (146 BC to 330 AD) •Byzantine Empire: Approximately 1,129 years (330 AD to 1453 AD) •Ottoman Empire: Approximately 381 years (1453 AD to 1830 AD) ----------------- 4). Iran: 1019 years Here is the approximate duration of the domination of the various empires over Iran: • Seleucid Empire: About 30 years (312 BC to 281 BC) • Umayyad Empire: About 58 years (651 AD to 709 AD) •Abbasid Empire: Approximately 524 years (750 AD to 1258 AD) •Seljuk Empire: Approximately 168 years (1037 AD to 1205 AD) •Ilkhanid Empire: Approximately 126 years (1256 AD to 1382 AD) •Timurid Empire: Approximately 113 years (1370 AD to 1483 AD)

@@user-vo5mf3ly9s During all these years of non-independence of Greece, Persia had powerful dynasties that repeatedly managed to stop the invasion of foreign powers. Iranian Dynasties & Empires: 1).Parthian Empire 2).Sassanid Empire 3).Safari dynasty 4).Taherian dynasty 5).Samanian dynasty 6).Ghaznavid dynasty 7).Khwarazmshah dynasty 8).Safavid Empire 9).Afsharian Empire 10).Zandian Dynasty 11).Qajar dynasty 👉🏻 It was during this Iranian dynasty that Greece was able to find its independence after many years.

Don’t have the time buddy

You could stream classic Kurosawa epics..

you do realize that those "Persians" were also Thebans and Thessalians as stated in the video right?

I am aware...and like most city states, the middle class hoplites were expected to supply their own armor.@@WarAndHistory. Some of the weapons, etc would have looked the same as typical Greek but not uniformed as the Spartans.

Ok cool 👍🏻

Read the poll again

@@WarAndHistory. No