Long before there was a country called Iran, there was an empire that ruled over half the population of the Earth — and you've been told the wrong story about it your entire life.
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How did ordinary Spartans reconcile taking Persian gold with their cultural identity, especially considering the heavy propaganda surrounding the Greco-Persian Wars? Did the Spartan leadership face any serious domestic backlash for essentially putting the Achaemenids on the payroll?
The "Pro - Greek" version did came later with the "advent of Christianity". In reality, from Achaeans, Dorians, and ALL the groups and tribes of the Mediterranean Peloponnese were BARBARIANS illiterate, "USING the SCAM of Gods, Goddess and alike" to control people's lives. In the other hand, the Persians were as very highly civilized culture with thousands of years of Medes science and history.
Thank you for the UNBIASED research. The more we read Herodotus, and those before or after him, we could easily see the "true face of Greek Democracy".
Демократия, это и сейчас власть 10-15%, которые принимают нужные им решения и голосуют друг за друга, в своём узком кругу. Меняются говорящие головы, но у власти всё те же, кланы и семьи, плюющие на народ. А все эти лозунги про "свободу и демократию" не более чем лицемерие, морковка для тупой толпы. А вот там, где действительно люди что-то решают, где говорящие головы не сменяют друг друга каждые пару лет ради показухи, объявляются диктатурами, со всеми вытекающими.
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King Cyrus the Great did not conquer Babylon through destruction, but through politics and tolerance. His policies of respecting religion and allowing peoples to maintain their identity enabled the Achaemenid Persian Empire to rule tens of millions of subjects, becoming one of the most stable and influential empires in ancient history.
Alexander came to destroy the barbarians. He ended up wearing their clothes, marrying their princess, and bowing in their fashion. If Persia was so barbaric — why did every conqueror become Persian the moment they won?
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Has no clue about history.
Puts Arabic Bedouin clothing and turbans on Persians.
Gets half of everything wrong.
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