@jimweights8908
I read the book but never got the battle as clearly as you showed - thank for this!
@brandonmcclellan963
Dude you do such a phenomenal job with these. Thank you
@ProbusVerus
Such a great video! Thank you for sharing!
@TrevorsMailbox
As an ancient coin collector I appreciate the use the coins...that you've now forced me to purchase! Amazing video as always.
@ambatubelo
This was well produced. thanks
@harri7416
Amazing drawings.
@79klkw
No history channel does it quite like you! Thank you for the interesting content 😊
@huwhitecavebeast1972
The Anabasis of Cyrus is an amazing read.
@chrisball3778
There's no real reason to dispute his account of the battle of Cunaxa, as related here, but Xenophon is an extremely suspect source. Anabasis isn't actually written as Xenophon's memoir. It's basically a long piece of Xenophon Fanfic, ostensibly written by some dude called 'Themistogenes of Syracuse' who probably never existed. Xenophon himself appears constantly in the book, but is always mentioned in the third person. The ruse never fooled anybody, and the book's been attributed to Xenophon ever since ancient times. Xenophon fans have often said that Xenophon pretended to be some rando when writing it because of his innate modesty or something, but that's nonsense- he clearly wrote it like that to make himself look good and thought it would seem more credible coming from a supposedly neutral party. Every time the Greeks do something good like win a battle, Xenophon's right in the middle of it and deserves all the credit. Every time they do something bad, like sack a friendly city, it's not Xenophon's fault because they'd temporarily voted him out of command just before doing it. He goes to great lengths to stress that the rumours that Xenophon wanted to use the Greek army to make himself king of a chunk of Asia Minor are completely false, then grudgingly admits that well, maybe he thought about doing it, but he didn't do it in the end, so it doesn't matter anyway. It's all really, really sus. There is even one passage in it which is possibly the earliest version of the 'and everybody clapped' meme- literally. He tells a story about how some guy whines about the fact Xenophon gets to ride a horse, while he has to walk with a heavy shield. Xenophon jumps off the horse, grabs the guy's shield and runs ahead twice as fast. All the other guys there laugh at the first guy and throw rocks at him because he's such a loser and Xenophon is so fantastic. It's all just so, very, very sus.
@EbonKim
The Abridged Version: We go to battle now. Wait, are those elephants? [Last Entry]
@Willfdk
this one of my favorite stories
@petersack5074
Correction ! Cyrus the Great (born 590–580 BCE, Media, or Persis ( now Iran ) —died c. 529, Asia. Conqueror that founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia and comprising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. He is also remembered in the Cyrus legend—first recorded by Xenophon, Greek soldier and author, in his Cyropaedia—as a tolerant and ideal monarch who was called the father of his people by the ancient Persians. In the Bible he is the liberator of the Jews who were captive in Babylonia.
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WHO ROUSED FROM THE EAST HIM THAT VICTORY HAILS AT EVERY STEP? WHO PRESENTS HIM WITH NATIONS, SUBDUES KINGS TO HIM? HIS SWORD MAKES DUST OF THEM AND HIS BOW SCATTERS THEM LIKE STRAW. HE PURSUES THEM AND ADVANCES UNHINDERED, HIS FEET SCARCELY TOUCHING THE ROAD. WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THIS DEED IF NOT HE WHO CALLS THE GENERATIONS FROM THE BEGINNING? I, THE LORD, WHO AM THE FIRST AND SHALL BE WITH THE LAST.
— ISAIAH 41:2–4 THEN THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN CYRUS AND GOD IS MADE EXPLICIT: THUS SAYS THE LORD TO HIS ANOINTED, TO CYRUS, WHOM HE HAS TAKEN BY HIS RIGHT HAND TO SUBDUE NATIONS BEFORE HIM AND STRIP THE LOINS OF KINGS, TO FORCE GATEWAYS BEFORE HIM THAT THEIR GATES BE CLOSED NO MORE: I WILL GO BEFORE YOU LEVELLING THE HEIGHTS. I WILL SHATTER THE BRONZE GATEWAYS, SMASH THE IRON BARS. I WILL GIVE YOU THE HIDDEN TREASURES, THE SECRET HOARDS, THAT YOU MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD.
— ISAIAH 45:1–3 AMONG THE CLASSICAL JEWISH SOURCES, BESIDES THE BIBLE, JOSEPHUS (1ST CENTURY AD) MENTIONS THAT CYRUS FREED THE JEWS FROM CAPTIVITY AND HELPED REBUILD THE TEMPLE. HE ALSO WROTE TO THE RULERS AND GOVERNORS THAT THEY SHOULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND ASSISTED THEM IN REBUILDING THE TEMPLE. A LETTER FROM CYRUS TO THE JEWS IS DESCRIBED BY JOSEPHUS:
@phincampbell1886
The army came, with a disturbance on the horizon, like a great cloud of dust!" What was it!? "A great cloud of dust, caused by the army..."
@lexingtonconcord8751
Why did you end it there? It was just getting good!
@user-kq2tc5hy5g
Which Cyrus he is talking about? Cyrus vs Artaxerxes? What fantasy is this?
@DH-.
I Wana know about the battles Individual pioneers and homesteaders faced like natives (not all were hostile) some were though but then there's nature and syphilis and more new world challenges haha.. Spanish, Germans , French all kinds of people doing stuff
@1Keihan
4000 men who didn't return were those who wanted to stay alive 😂
@dirrenbb
Xerc has the goofiest coin imaginable.😅 Can someone explain?
@lukaduka1001
No detail about actual hand to hand fighting or specific casualties. Just sweeping observations and general info. Strange
@VoicesofthePast