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  • The Persians are so unfortunate that their enemies have written their history. :/ (Most Persian books were destroyed by Arabs)

  • For decades Greece had supported Pirates and raided Persian merchant ships. For decades had they made attacks on Persian soil. But Persia tried to be honest and paid them money.

    "'But in 498 B.C The Athenians supported the Ionian revolt and killed thousand of persians in Sardis. (That was just like 9/11 for the Persians.)

    Persia got angry and wanted to punish Athens" Absolotuly unhistorical. Somebody like to write his own history. Nobody Historian says this.

  • pure anti persian

  • the greeks was very good militaries

  • You know why Darius I invaded Greece?

    For decades Greece had supported Pirates and raided Persian merchant ships. For decades had they made attacks on Persian soil. But Persia tried to be honest and paid them money.

    But in 498 B.C The Athenians supported the Ionian revolt and killed thousand of persians in Sardis. (That was just like 9/11 for the Persians.)

    Persia got angry and wanted to punish Athen.

    (Persia did NOT supported slavery and granted rights to woman. Greece did that not)

  • @VictumRoManius ok thats completely false but whatever

  • @SnakesWithGuns Yeye, so all other historians are talking shit and their evidence are wrong while that prick Herodotus is right? Claiming that Persia lost 8000 soldiers while greece only lost 160?

    I cant believe that historicans still believe at that guy, while other more serious historicans like Xenophon are ignored...

  • You should choose  "Parthia" as Persians! they are "Pontus"!

  • in reality the greeks didnt march into battle in a phalanx. They ran about a miles length into the persians army. persians didnt run into them..good video thought i liked it

  • COOL

  • thats probably why persia isnt a region anymore lol

  • what game is that :D =D

  • Is this Rome total war or Rome total war Alexander?

  •  Okay, what version or mod of Rome Total War did these Persians come from? It looked like they were actually winning here then they suddenly turned and ran. Something must have gotten lost in translation. Once again, the Persian army looks good fashionwise, even if their outfits seem to - strangely - resemble pajamas. Nice vid, dovlex.

  • what idiot would charge straight up at a phalanx or pikemen uphill?

  • pa tré historik mé assé bien fé

  • you just mod the game you stupid fanboi.....this fight wasn't fair

  • and first of all trust me greeks got bigger shields liek spartans

  • my 6th grade social studies teahcer toguth me this im into social studies alot and i started studying alot and greece hoplites and spartans from sparta i cant believe athens build a wall between them from sparta and athens

  • to my friend leksoskidavid: macedons where greeks also.just an other city-state,like athens,thebes,corinth and sparta were.its like saying for example that manchester people conquered london people!!this doesnt meen they are not both english!!

    city-states in greece were constandly in war with each other back then.

  • Only the victors write the history.

    We never know what's true and what's false.

  • If you don`t give a fuck, why you give attention to my comment???

    I care about the ratio of the 2 armies.

    if you don`t care, make comments to other videos...

  • actually the number of soldiers was....who the fuck knows?! no one was there 2000+ years ago. give it a rest and argue about something worthwhile

  • @dholl17 hahaha i agree.

  • There were 11.000 Greeks against an unknown vast number of Persians estimated close to100.000 troops. From this can be explained the fear of Greek troops when they were attacking. 11.000 attacked to 100.000 and won due to their advance tactics! Respect!

  • tactics and no fear for the dead :D

    greeks are consideret somme of the bravest soldiers in history

  • Yes but mostly because of thier formation,they spread thier line thinner than usual so the persian couldnt flank and use thier numbers

  • Actually if you must know. Taking graduate Courses in history.......... it was 6500 Greeks vs 14,000 Persians. 7000 persians died. 192 Greeks died. this is known as a fact because the 192 men are carved into the top brims of the Parthenon portraying there deaths as glorious.

  • @pacmanzz to have actual facts you need a time machine

  • what game

    //???/

  • Rome Total War

  • It was more like 11,000 vs. 20,000. The Persians also did not have chariots at this battle. The dead were 92 Athenians and 6,000 Persians. The rest escaped.

  • And it took place on the shore.

  • daaang, what did u use to make this video? if its a game, im soo getting it :D

  • Rome total war- thats the name of the game mate, its on PC umm probs about 10 quid now if that :)

  • oh, ok

    thx

  • 'Rome total war'

  • if persians had strategy greece werent exist!!!

  • it was also the persians armour.

  • yeah, neither would you exist be grateful

  • boah thats cool

  • You should probably have turned off the faction flags if you wanted this to be more cinematic.

  • the greeks have showed many times their courage, their bravery and their intelligence. greece is the core of europe, the mother of culture. when democracy was being created in athens, in england, germany and so on, the people lived in trees or caves. Just to know what are the greeks!!!

  • if u arent from greece (i am ) im very proud of u that u know from where im commiing

  • @tasosxaritou No doubt your right,but what has happened to greece now in this great future? corruption is everywhere your schools resemble jails the economy is the worst in the european union,the government has even asked china for money,and the average wage is only 500 euros a month and if greece did not have tourists the country would be as bad as bulgaria,great in ancient times yes but not anymore.

  • @tasosxaritou

    Trees or caves? LOL sounds like the stereotypical barbarian image the Romans bestowed onto the greeks. Did you live back then? NO!, but I did, and I can tell you right now those Trees and caves were so comfortable. =D

  • yes I agree, but the macedonians were those who conquered the greeks and the greeks became their slaves...macedonia is something that is evegreen. but the greeks...nowadays the are just a small nation of thieves and liars who have only small land who is theirs...greece-without aegean macedonia...and stfu...or feel the wrath of the allies macedonians and turks...offcourse this is just opinion of mine......soon we will know the reallity...and it's not very different from this believe me!

  • @tasosxaritou look at the Greeks now a bunch of lazy cowards afraid of work that sit on German money.

  • @tasosxaritou Every nation has their time of dominance. When the British Empire was ruling the waves, the Greeks were under Ottoman rule. Rome was once the powerhouse, but it the 1930s, the Italians were defeated by Ethiopians. Modern Greece is not the same culturally or politically as Ancient Greece. "The past is another country" (LP Hartley).

  • wrong numbers

    onlu 187 greeks died and more than 50000 persians where butchered due to the nicely worked out strategy plan just awesome

  • wrong numbers... u used greek sources... the greeks were notorious for exxagerating the numbers

  • Actually, the numbers in the video are closer to what modern historians agree on. Some of the ancient sources list the Persians at many hundreds of thousands.

  • my comment was targeted against Regretfornothing who claims there were 50,000 dead persians..

    it is impossible that the persians could have numbered more then 20,000 seeing the land forcould not hold that many men.

  • and who are the "modern" historians?

    anti iranian greeks and western scholars? no we cant use such information.. i rely on third party sources

  • Persians should be ashamed because they have lost the battle with big man advantige on field...and perhaps they should not be ashamed beouse they fight against perhaps best solider in that time.

  • oh my daiz, dd u make dis vid cuz it is tooooo sik. wel done mate n dis is cumin from a very big ancient greek war thingy fan.

  • who won the battle please reply

  • The Greeks won. They Lost 1,000 men while the Persians lost 50,000 in three days.

  • You can't tell by the end of the video?

  • whats the name of the song?

  • Genious! Wonderful with that music on the beginning! You're talented!

  • wow awesome vid

  • great video!

  • I thought that the Athenians were blocking a pass (not thinking of Thermopylae) and that the only other way past is through a swamp and that since it was raining before the battle the persians couldn't use chariots and it wasn't on an open grassland...

  • you are whrigt the persian main force was the cavelery and the greece neutralizait that advantege by fighting b etwen mountins in a pass where the cavelery was usles ps sorry for the bad english

  • marathon was a rush battle. persians divided their force and was trying to attack Athens undefended by ship. so the Athenians attacked the persians by surprise killed all of them and rushed home just in time to save their city from the persian ships.

  • This video is so historical inaccurate. RTW has a valley map, should have done it in there.

  • ur historicly inaccurate! this video rocks! was 300 deadon accurate? no! but it still kicked ass!! XD

  • wow

  • Umm, i though Marathon was fought on an open plain?

    Or i culd be thinking of another battle

  • gaugAMELA

  • This is Marathon, not Thermopylae, Marathon battle was is coast.

  • when you played this did you level up the eastern spearmen?  That would be a quick battle if you didnt.

  • game is rome total war

  • marathon lmao

  • why is it when I record in fraps it only lasts 29 secs?

  • same with me, its because ur fraps isn't register

  • k tnx

  • If you knew anything about balkan history, you would know that  Lord Alexander Gjergj Kastrioti gave to Albanians the name Shqiperia in honour of an Illyrian tribe and in honour of thier homeland...Land of Eagle(Shqiperia)

    I suggest you learn some real balkan history before you try to call yourself as a Macedonian or a Greek..

  • It s not strange for greace to win atleast they hawe army .And persians coul win they should send those chariots.

  • But instead you want to deny scientific proof (by thousands non-Greek scholars) and negate facts, History... You obiously feel lesser than Greeks-you shouldn't! Don't let that intimidation turn you into a poor man...

  • Intimidated?

    Hahaha

    Take a hike...

    You have no idea how twisted are the things you consider as facts, but seeing as you're an old grandpa, and a 'Greek' grandpa to boast- you're too far down to be enlightened...

    And I of course feel like I am MORE than

    someone like you who is part of the whole problem.

    Racist?

    No, I am the product of your kind's racism, opression and lies...

  • igorbog88

    your the same as the greeks...

    maybe this is the reason why you want to become greek so bad?

  • AlbanianShqiptaria

    Like I said before shqiptar, you're the same as the 'Greeks', the Serbs and the Bulgarians.

    Maybe that's why you try so hard to be an Illyrian or a Dardanian?

    Tell your 'from behind the Carpathians' stories to someone else.

    But the reality is that YOU should seek your roots in Caucaus, in a place called ALBANIA.

  • Only Albanians are the indigenous people of the balkans. Albanians have inheritade ancient customs and traditions from the ancient Macedonians. Slavs of fyrom have nothing to do with ancient balkan history.

  • You can say what you want to about Albanians, bu tthe reality is that Albanian don't have to lie about thier origins.

    Only slavs from fyrom(serbians) and greeks lie about balkan history. You keep calling other people as facist and racist but Albanians launched an insurgency against your slavic fyrom for mass human rights violations. i think its safe to say that indeed you are most like the greeks and you even want to be a greek!!! LOL

  • the persians army did there kill ther own man on at 7:00 will taking off from the greeks army

  • Really the greeks shortened their line to intimidate the persians and to prevent themselves from being flanked due to the fact they were in a narrow valley. good job!

  • lol music arabian :D

  • There were probably 2000 Persians on the field of battle that day knowing the kind of lies greeks spin.

  • Don't be disrespectful or ignorant. The Western world exist as we know it today because of those 10.000+1.000 men...

    What do you think we commemorate with Marathon run?

  • What ?

    LOL LOL

    The western world?

    Spin your lies to someone who is less resistant to them...

  • don't take my word for it. Just read any decent book on History (College level) or ask any given History professor at any University in the World... they will tell you.... or read: Arnold J. Toynbee, Munslow, Victor Hugo and many many more.

    I don't know who you are, how old are you, your education background. Don't let hatred form your opinion-seek the Truth! Peace.

  • Like I said, you're probably an old,fat fart with nothing better to do than comment on how great his 'nonexistant' past is.

    I only let REAL facts form my opinion and I always try to seek out the truth, therefore I do not believe in the 'greek' lies.

  • you gain nothing by tying to insult me... as a matter of fact you can't! you only embarass yourself showing how angry, racist and ignorant you are. I am suggesting that you might open your mind but unfortunately you obviously feel threatened by Greek History. Why? You probably come from a nation with glories and failures like any nation-be proud about that...

  • your a gentleman, and as the famous quote goes, "no gentleman will insult me, and no man who is not a gentleman can insult me". fair play.

  • 20.000 - 60.000 is a great difference

  • Lmao! Check out 7:02 - the men are flying cause of their own chariots!

  • ME!!!!! i sooo cant wait. i already pre-purchased it. wish it came out Feb 4th instead of march 3rd:( o well. Total war games are the best TBS and RTS games out there. no competition.

  • I beg to differ! Dawn of War rts games come close lol.

  • Who else is waiting for Empire Total War?

  • me :D

  • The persians should have circled around the Greek line with their cavalry and chariots, then have attacked them from the rear. That would have broken the lines, and then the Persians could go after the Greeks with their infantry. You never attack a massive phalanx head on.

  • Yes charge the phalanax!!!!!!!!!!

  • q p  U

  • wuahahahaha i like how the soldier fly when the horses where retreating. lol

  • He recoedet it with Fraps. u can see that in tho top of the screen.

  • How did u rec. IT ?

  • lol 6:59 - 7:03

  • Lmfao, great spot.

  • Using Rome: Total War. Its a PC game...

  • soundtrack plz!

  • Greeks had 11 000 soldiers, 10 000 Athenians and 1000 Plateans/

    Persians 10 000 horsemen and 10 000 light infantry.

  • second song is from Troy

  • 20.000-60.000 xD, ancian cronist had no care about exactly numbers LOL

  • dude this is a freakin sweet tribute to the battle of Marathon...

    FOR GREECE!!!

    CITIZEN SOLDIERS TO BATTLE!!!

  • dude this is a freakin sweet tribute to the battle of Marathon...

    FOR GREECE!!!

    CITIZEN SOLDIERS TO BATTLE!!!

  • this is the vid that got me hooked on rome total war

  • That seems kind of strange that Greece had no cavalry, and no archers, although, I know nothing about this battle, that just seems odd. Anyways, love the camera angles.

  • thats what surprised the Persians as well. the Greeks ran an entire mile twards the larger Persian force and caught them totally off guard and surrounding them on both sides by pretending to retreat in the center and incricling the entire persian force on either side. then the center turned around and kept fighting which crushed the Persians

  • at the end that chariot ran over that soldier

  • were the persians in blue ??

  • yes the persians are in blue

  • Incredibly slow animation, this is really bad for this film in total...

  • Lol when they retreated, at the end, a persian got pwned by a carrage, lol

  • i have it its awesome

  • how did you increase the unit limit in the game?

  • go to your note pad men and change it you can iven put in a hundredtousan men

  • what game is this

  • rome total war

  • one of the best games on pc and one of the best war games ever

  • wow the persians just cared about mass in numbers , they never have any armour on exept fucking wicker shields

  • infantry was meant to get owned while their horsemen went around to flank

  • is this a Rome total war song if not what is it called in the beginning

  • it was actually around 35,000 persians

  • Indeed. The Greek center first routed, and then rallied, and responded by charging the Persians. They later withdrew from the battle, but the remaining Persians were slaughtered against their boats.

  • All of you people are wrong wrong

    After a few days in standoff,the persian commander gathered most of his army and sailed around the peninsula to Athens.Leaving 12 thousand persians to fight the 11 thousand greeks.The center was thin,but it extended their line so they couldn't be flanked,the wings were then thickened because the persians put their weakest troops on their flanks.So the wings came in and crushed them.Perians lost 6.5k,greeks 192.

  • 1greekVS20persians

  • During the battle of marathon, the athenian center almost collapsed but the wing held strong and the persian army was driven into confusion.

  • they had their backs to a small ravine were they had their centers back to the gap so they could lead the persians army back and then allow the flanks to come in and surround and basically demolish the persian army and they let i believe 1000 or so warriors live to go back and report the losses to darius I

  • Lol the difficulties in rome and Med2 is only giving you morale bonuses :P Easy = +2 (Player)

    Mormal = Normal Hard = +2 (AI) Veryhard = +4 (AI)

  • Gotta love the Phalanx Formation!

  • it was so funny to watch that guy on the chariot run over his own men.lol

  • great vid!

  • what units were used in this battle and how many of each one from rome total war was used?

  • what program you used to record it? Was it fraps demo version?

  • fraps...full ver

  • I think if you use te demo it is hard to save file every 30 sec. And make good movie

  • yes fraps full ver

  • If it was full version it wouldn't have FRAPS Advertised on the top.

  • Actually your reenactment is incorrect, the Athenians charged not persians.That's what scared the persians the most into running,never have they seen any greece for consisting of hoplites just charge open field at them and wearing armor like the hoplites did;I could imagine it being pretty darn scary.

  • Also the Persians split their army, half staying merely to hold the Greeks while the other half went to claim the unprotected city of Athens

  • They still had a larger force then the Greeks. and the other half of the armor was forced to retreat due to their supply lines being cut.

  • i wonder if this is what was used in time commander

  • it is, it's called rome total war.

  • is this a game?

  • yeah

  • Athenians in this battle. =)

  • yes they did

  • actually its athenian that charged persian .

    the Athenian had force to charge persians,or they will be shot down by persian's arrows.The persian army mainly train hard on their bow,secondary is spear.their specialty is archery,not close combat.

  • The song at the begining is Arabic, what is the relationship to the video?!

  • how do u get the display

  • I can see your system lag.

  • how do u get so many guys?

  • options, then it's either under game settings or audio i forget but it's one of those and you can set it to either small,normal,large,huge huge is like 240 people but when you use it keep this is mind mroe people you have the less people you have in your cities when you recruit

  • They didn't have chariots at Marathon. And the Greeks charged right away to minimise exposure to archery, they didn't just stand there.

  • i have ROME TOTAL WAR

  • i am iranian , let to be reasonable , in present tense who is stronger , iran or greec ? if u r wise would say obvoiusly iran . now iran can capture greec and rome(italy) less than 1 day . we have most progressed weapons in middle east , more over nuclear weapons .but we are peacefull and respect other nations . peace to all abroad

  • hahahahahhaha