The Sassanid Immortals were a cavalry force, unlike the Achaemenid ones who were an infantry force.

@erfan3857

Жыл бұрын

sasanian Immortals were Super heavy cavelry .... i also wanna mention only in west people would call sasanian top cavelry immortal probably because they have a background of Achaemenids but the real name of sasanian cavelry was Pushtig-banan. it means Supporters in middle persian not Immortals

Fun fact: The Romans also created their own unit of elite troops named after the Immortals (called the Athanatoi). They were cataphracts and formed part of the tagmata, the central army of the Romans. The tagmata would be largely defeated at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071 and the Athanatoi, along with most other elite units that formed both the tagmata and the imperial guard within it, would be disbanded or destroyed in battle between in the subsequent decades. Brilliant video! I look forward to checking out more of what you've got on this channel.

Immortals are my favorite Ancient unit. I love them because of the Achaemenid army.

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

They are one of the more interesting!

You nickname your unit "The Immortals" and eventually you're just tempting fate.

@-MoonBreathing

4 ай бұрын

No it was the other way around. The greeks called them that because that's the impression they got from them. They were called the immortals because the name suited them.

Good video! I was surprised to see you had so little subscribers when your content is this superb.

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

great video, this is a unit i had actually heard of

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

@micahistory

2 жыл бұрын

@@AncientHistoryGuy you're welcome

Nice video

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou!

Do a video on the further iteration of the immortals (and the same concepts as this vid) in Sassanian service, please. :)

This is entirely inaccurate, everyone knows the immortals were actually black clad ninja demon zombies dual wielding katanas.

Pijamabower infantry :)

Aaaah yesss The sweet little 10 000 monsters who likes to eat the saviours of mankind from slavery, Spartans👀🙏🔥

@redcrown5154

2 жыл бұрын

what

@SpeedDemon_Editzzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@redcrown5154 huh?😱

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

300 reference. Nice 👍

@SpeedDemon_Editzzz

2 жыл бұрын

@@AncientHistoryGuy at last someone got it😅🙏🔥

Next I wanna see roman auxiliary

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Got a few Roman bits n bobs coming soon!

Punjabi troops?

@AncientHistoryGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Scripts are written. Just finding the time at the mo to record em

It's true, Herodotus says the immortals were quite easily beaten back by the Greek alliance at Thermopylae, suffering many casualties like the Medes

@mamad567

3 ай бұрын

As if Herodotus never lied

I claim 2nd comment rights!

@SpeedDemon_Editzzz

2 жыл бұрын

Then you shall have the toilet my champion🙏🏆🔥