Persian Civilization - Engineering of An Empire - Part 1/5

Well this video is a documentary episode of the "Engineering an Empire" series from the History channel. The video is presented by Peter Weller and it is regarding the engineering aspects of the Persian empire during the Achaemenid era.

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• iran
• iranian
• persia
• persian
• talent
• engineer
• empire
• achaemenid
• cyrus
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• great
• darius
• persepolis
• construction
• society

[ellin40]

Long live the ancient Persian culture! Greeks and Persians are genetic and linguistic brothers. Greetings from Athens!

[SonOfCyrusTheGreat]

ellin40: Indeed!!

Long live Greek and Persian cultures!

[ctv3]

i wish i was an Achaemenid Persian. even though i'm Mexican. i always envy the Persians. but if i wanted to visit Iran. Persia is one thing i would go there. places like Persepolis, Pasargadae, Susa, and Haŋgmatana/Ecbatana.

[yoursmileliduptheday]

@ellin40 Greeks and Persians were enemies in the past.

[cnilotpal]

@americanliberal09 Sorry,then. Thanks for the reply.

[americanliberal09]

@cnilotpal i'm talking about American Indians not India geez

[cnilotpal]

@americanliberal09 Hey what do you know about India? In this documentary they are talking about BC.Leave BC. Just go back 600 years and try to find out your American history. Please upload it if you get anything.

[sperch3d]

And then came Islam and turned the sons of this magnificient culture into a bunch of fanatic apes who care only about terror and jihad...

Sad.

[eddienamini]

What is so sad is not the fact that Achaemenid Dynasty ended and fell to the Greeks for the fact that Persian Empire revived afterwards n ruled over Middle-east/Asia Minor during both Parthian & Sassanide era while have had confronted the Roman conquest for centuries. What is so sad however is when Zoroastrian Persians had to undergo Arabian depravity which eventually resulted in a divergence of opinions within the roots of Islam. In other words, Persians were forced to accept the new faith.

[eddienamini]

@ellin40 Awesome, but unfortunately, this is something which the world will never understand!!! I strongly believe that Alexander the great, too, had shared the same idea after having paid homage to Cyrus' Tomb in Pasargad by making animal sacrifices, on four different occasions.

[eddienamini]

@ctv3 what is considered as a great cultural influence lies deep within... viva la via de Mehico, mi amigo/amiga!

[americanliberal09]

@dimstiv look at the Indians now they never change over centuries. still poor and mystical if they assimilate in our culture then they will own their own land but no they turn the deal down. but not saying all indians didn't change some of them did serve in our society but others don't the Indian culture never had any influenced on our American culture. the american government will never apologized to the indians no matter how many times they make sad movies of indians losses not going to happen