Most people have no idea that the Roman empire lasted until Constantinople (Istanbul) fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, just 39 years before the discovery of the Americas.
It's still utterly insane to comprehend that the Roman state persisted from the time of the Assyrian empire to the Italian Renaissance. Quite literally from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period.
4 дня назад+2
Not really, the fall of Rome, AS ROME IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD, was 476 AD. It sort of (not really) continued on with other "resurgences" such as the "holy roman empire" as history continued on.
The holy roman empire was mostly in Germany, Austria, Prague and parts of Italy but never included Rome, nothing to do with the Romans. It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. "The Holy Roman Empire was Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire" - Voltaire The Roman empire ended in 1453. Constantine moved the capital, and all the leaders who followed in succession were Romans. The Byzantine Empire is considered a continuation of the Roman Empire. In 555 AD it encompassed Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.
As is 'commonly understood' is not how it was though. The Roman state continued on in the east, and was recognised as the superior power by the western Germanic kingdoms until around 800. The Papacy's crowning of Charlemagne was a political trick meant to theoretically give them more ecclesiastical power. They didn't want to be under Constantinople's thumb anymore, and so fuelled a propaganda campaign that denied that the East Romans were Romans in order to promote Charlemagne. This idea that 'oh well the East Romans weren't REALLY Romans' is quite literally a legacy of medieval Catholic propaganda and later the Enlightenment trying to present the ERE in orientalising terms. It's a false impression.
3 дня назад
@@onemoreminute0543 google the "fall of rome" and see what year comes up buddy, take the loss
15:50 Caesar was not "greedy for power" Caesar was a smart politician and was involved in the political life of the country from an early age (as a teenager he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Senate because he was on the side of the common people). He understood that the country needed major reforms of the power structure, and if this is not done, Rome will perish, a devastating economic crisis was already on the horizon. While the Senate adhered to archaic principles and wanted to maintain an unbreakable division between the rich nobility and the common people. The Senate began to fear Caesar for two reasons - the campaign in Gaul made him fabulously rich, which meant that his troops were completely loyal to him (so not only noble but also a common people were on his side), and secondly, he wanted to change the structure of the Senate(deprive rich old nobles of power). They accused Caesar of wanting to become a king (a dictator in the modern meaning) and called his campaign in Gaul illegal, ordered him to lay down his arms, renounce the title of Caesar (military leader) and the title of Consul, appear in court and end up being stripped of all money and banished as punishment. Of course Caesar refused and went "to war" with the Senate. After his victory over Pompey and the Senate - he did not arrange a "bloody massacre" that the Senate scared everyone with, moreover, he even forgave many who fought against him. Instead, he introduced many new laws, reduced slave labor so that peasants could earn money, taxed the rich, gave seats in the Senate to non-nobles and much more. Most likely, he really intended to resign from his powers as dictator (the supreme ruler in the meaning of that era) after all the changes - but the Senate conspirators killed him earlier. Octavian (Augustus) completely followed the ideas of his murdered uncle Caesar. He finished off the remnants of the rebellious Senate and introduced all the laws that his uncle had planned - therefore, starting from his reign, so called "pax romana", a long prosperous period began.
it's worth noting that the meanings of titles have changed a lot over centuries,for example "dictator" and "imperator" are not to be intended as our modern "dictator" and "emperor". Caesar was loved by the common people and his assassination took place because the senators were afraid of losing more and more power,in his will Caesar donated a good portion of his wealth to the plebians of Rome
Caesar also lead from the front. traveled on foot, shared the load of the efforts, truly loved his people and was loved back. king and generals have a great series on him.
I really like your reactions to the ancient battles, history and how powerful civilizations grew and then fell. Ancient Greece and how they came to power prior as well and Rome just borrowing everything from every culture to create the Roman empire.
I've recently become more interested in Roman history after discovering that the quarter of Stuttgart (West) Germany called Bad Cannstatt , where I was born during the cold war, was the location of the original Roman Fort and horse farm founded in 97AD. Thanks for the video.
I really enjoy the historical videos you choose to watch on your channel. I'm not selfish, so I won't request that you do them more frequently. Just offering some positive feedback so that you know some of your subscribers (hopefully many) do appreciate that you include historical content as a regular part of your reaction "rotation".
Don't forget about China. Blue of Overly Sarcastic Productions [Don't let the RUclips channel's somewhat snarky name turn you off. Blue knows his stuff and presents it in an informative and interesting manner.] has an excellent little video: The Complete History of Rome, Summarized. And only 2 hours and 56 minutes long. He had previously made several shorter videos covering shorter historical intervals and later smoothly wove them into his magnum opus with a few corrections as more recent discoveries had come to light. Obviously, this is too long for your reaction format, but it is most highly recommended for your illumination and education. Gute schtuff, keedz!
Caesar in Gaul and Civil wars are epic videos by Kings and Generals. Also unbiased history of Rome by Dovahhaty are smaller videos and they are very funny if you know a bit of history, you ll be laughing your bottoms off. They cover everything since start to the end, at first it is really fast and hard to digest, but after a few parts you can see a great increase in quality of videos. Thanks for covering my favourite topic guys. Greetings from Czech Republic.
14:40 Julius Caesar didn't gain power to match his ambition until later in life; there's a famous story that when in Hispania (Spain) he wept to see a statue of Alexander the Great and said "When he was my age, he had conquered the world; what have I done?" or words to that effect.
2 дня назад+1
true but he was captured by pirates and talked his way out of it. alex never did that.
The end of Rome in 476 wasn't the end of Rome. Eastern Rome - Byzantium - existed for another 1000 years. And the Holy Roman Empire on german ground claimed from the beginning to be the successor of the old Roman Empire. It existed then until 1806.
25:24 Can't believe they just skipped over Aurelian like that. He was the one who reunified the empire and was given the title Restorer of the World, Restitutor Orbis
Augsburg Bavaria Germany {not far from Munich} where I was born way back in the mid '60s was named after Augustus in 15BC, one of the oldest towns in Germany ✌💖☮
Caesar was pretty active in fighting to, maybe not as the leader of the cavalry like alexander but he would get his hands dirty. He was loved by his men because of it
Almost all great conquerors have sort to emulate their forebears. Alexander sought to emulate great mythic heroes like Dionysus, Herakles and Jason with their ventures in the East. Caesar before his conquests lamented of his lack of action in his 40s unlike Alexander at 26 had already conquered the known world. Caesar before his assassination was planning an Eastern Campaign through Persia and the Caucasus. The Roman culture in itself was not entirely an culture on its own; it encompassed practices adopted from its conquered subjects or from cultures they themselves deemed civilized like the Greeks and Persians. Almost everything we know of the Romans today once existed in other cultures before them. I recommend Kings and Generals for all things antiquity and also History Marche for the Punic Wars and the Julio-Claudian Dynasty of Augustus..
As always, they who rule destroy their rivals. As did the Greeks with their Hoplites; the Macedonians with their Phalanx. The Roman's had their Legionnaires. Always discipline, but the Roman's front line weaponry was unstoppable, and very different from the Greek/Macedonian weaponry, although an evolution of the always effective Peltasts. A study of their main tactics, shows how it took centuries for someone to come up with a counter. When effectively lead, nobody could withstand their advance on the battlefield.
They didn’t explain that after Romulus killed his brother that the city of Rome was full of men so they went to nearby settlements raid pillage them and took and enslaved the woman and children and kill the men an took them back to Rome to breed and increase the population same happened in Greece on the island of lobos but it was full of women so they’d go out and take the men XD
Lisbon, the original seven hills city is older than Rome. According to legend, Lisbon was founded by Ulysses and was a major trade port with the Phoenicians even before Rome became a city itself.
The US is left out of countries whose language is derived from Latin but Canada is included? 22% of Canada's population speaks French while 87.1% of Canada's population spoke English as their first language. The U.S. is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico. 13% of the US speaks Spanish.
The US has no official language, while Canada has two official languages. One happens to be French, which is a Latin language. While English is widely spoken and Spanish second in the US, there is no official language in the US. Which is why the US was left out, I would assume.
Most of our history is one big lie! Nobody today was there to witness these events and it is well known that only the victors write history!! Take little notice of these kinds of history documentaries, they fit a narrative that suits today's 'rulers!'
morality is basically just a survival manual. Don't kill, steal, lie, stare at your neighbors wife,.....no religion needed for any of the "golden rules". That is basic humanity. Religion brought laws like no working on the weekend, how hard you can beat your slaves, and laws against tattoos and eating shellfish. The golden rule has been around for over 100,000 years,.
Yeah they didn’t include the English speaking world, which I suppose isn’t too unfair since it’s still founded on Germanic, with significant Scandinavian and lowland Germanic origins, particularly Anglo-Saxon. Add on the Celtic and all the more recently added words primarily from the British imperial days and the prior scholars love of Ancient Greece, and it’s definitely much less Latin descended than the others. In fact it’s most accurate to say that it’s truly a Germanic language with heavy Latin influence from the centuries of norman (French) occupation. So you can have an English language without Latin but not without Germanic.
@atriox7221 Right but the video said these countries derive something from Latin no matter how much Latin or little it is. It doesn't make sense how they have Canada on there but not America. As I've said 29% of the English language comes directly from Latin. It just doesn't make sense to me how they didn't include it.
Most people have no idea that the Roman empire lasted until Constantinople (Istanbul) fell to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, just 39 years before the discovery of the Americas.
It's still utterly insane to comprehend that the Roman state persisted from the time of the Assyrian empire to the Italian Renaissance.
Quite literally from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period.
Not really, the fall of Rome, AS ROME IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD, was 476 AD. It sort of (not really) continued on with other "resurgences" such as the "holy roman empire" as history continued on.
The holy roman empire was mostly in Germany, Austria, Prague and parts of Italy but never included Rome, nothing to do with the Romans. It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost a thousand years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. "The Holy Roman Empire was Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire" - Voltaire
The Roman empire ended in 1453. Constantine moved the capital, and all the leaders who followed in succession were Romans. The Byzantine Empire is considered a continuation of the Roman Empire. In 555 AD it encompassed Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.
As is 'commonly understood' is not how it was though. The Roman state continued on in the east, and was recognised as the superior power by the western Germanic kingdoms until around 800.
The Papacy's crowning of Charlemagne was a political trick meant to theoretically give them more ecclesiastical power. They didn't want to be under Constantinople's thumb anymore, and so fuelled a propaganda campaign that denied that the East Romans were Romans in order to promote Charlemagne.
This idea that 'oh well the East Romans weren't REALLY Romans' is quite literally a legacy of medieval Catholic propaganda and later the Enlightenment trying to present the ERE in orientalising terms. It's a false impression.
@@onemoreminute0543 google the "fall of rome" and see what year comes up buddy, take the loss
15:50 Caesar was not "greedy for power"
Caesar was a smart politician and was involved in the political life of the country from an early age (as a teenager he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Senate because he was on the side of the common people). He understood that the country needed major reforms of the power structure, and if this is not done, Rome will perish, a devastating economic crisis was already on the horizon.
While the Senate adhered to archaic principles and wanted to maintain an unbreakable division between the rich nobility and the common people. The Senate began to fear Caesar for two reasons - the campaign in Gaul made him fabulously rich, which meant that his troops were completely loyal to him (so not only noble but also a common people were on his side), and secondly, he wanted to change the structure of the Senate(deprive rich old nobles of power). They accused Caesar of wanting to become a king (a dictator in the modern meaning) and called his campaign in Gaul illegal, ordered him to lay down his arms, renounce the title of Caesar (military leader) and the title of Consul, appear in court and end up being stripped of all money and banished as punishment.
Of course Caesar refused and went "to war" with the Senate. After his victory over Pompey and the Senate - he did not arrange a "bloody massacre" that the Senate scared everyone with, moreover, he even forgave many who fought against him. Instead, he introduced many new laws, reduced slave labor so that peasants could earn money, taxed the rich, gave seats in the Senate to non-nobles and much more. Most likely, he really intended to resign from his powers as dictator (the supreme ruler in the meaning of that era) after all the changes - but the Senate conspirators killed him earlier.
Octavian (Augustus) completely followed the ideas of his murdered uncle Caesar. He finished off the remnants of the rebellious Senate and introduced all the laws that his uncle had planned - therefore, starting from his reign, so called "pax romana", a long prosperous period began.
it's worth noting that the meanings of titles have changed a lot over centuries,for example "dictator" and "imperator" are not to be intended as our modern "dictator" and "emperor". Caesar was loved by the common people and his assassination took place because the senators were afraid of losing more and more power,in his will Caesar donated a good portion of his wealth to the plebians of Rome
Caesar also lead from the front. traveled on foot, shared the load of the efforts, truly loved his people and was loved back. king and generals have a great series on him.
I really like your reactions to the ancient battles, history and how powerful civilizations grew and then fell.
Ancient Greece and how they came to power prior as well and Rome just borrowing everything from every culture to create the Roman empire.
I've recently become more interested in Roman history after discovering that the quarter of Stuttgart (West) Germany called Bad Cannstatt , where I was born during the cold war, was the location of the original Roman Fort and horse farm founded in 97AD. Thanks for the video.
I really enjoy the historical videos you choose to watch on your channel. I'm not selfish, so I won't request that you do them more frequently.
Just offering some positive feedback so that you know some of your subscribers (hopefully many) do appreciate that you include historical content as a regular part of your reaction "rotation".
Gaius Iulius Caesar has been a hero to me since I was little. It would be cool if you watch his story. 🦅🌿
for a really good series on Julius Ceasar I'd recommend Kings & Generals Gallic Wars & Ceasars Civil war series
And followed by Rise of Augustus, also by Kings and Generals, detailing the post-Caesar's civil wars!
I would love to see you guys react to the HBO: Rome miniseries. Only 2 seasons so great for a react and no one else does it. Excellent show.
probably too saucy for youtube
Don't forget about China.
Blue of Overly Sarcastic Productions [Don't let the RUclips channel's somewhat snarky name turn you off. Blue knows his stuff and presents it in an informative and interesting manner.] has an excellent little video: The Complete History of Rome, Summarized. And only 2 hours and 56 minutes long. He had previously made several shorter videos covering shorter historical intervals and later smoothly wove them into his magnum opus with a few corrections as more recent discoveries had come to light. Obviously, this is too long for your reaction format, but it is most highly recommended for your illumination and education. Gute schtuff, keedz!
Loved this clip very informative.
Caesar in Gaul and Civil wars are epic videos by Kings and Generals. Also unbiased history of Rome by Dovahhaty are smaller videos and they are very funny if you know a bit of history, you ll be laughing your bottoms off. They cover everything since start to the end, at first it is really fast and hard to digest, but after a few parts you can see a great increase in quality of videos. Thanks for covering my favourite topic guys. Greetings from Czech Republic.
14:40 Julius Caesar didn't gain power to match his ambition until later in life; there's a famous story that when in Hispania (Spain) he wept to see a statue of Alexander the Great and said "When he was my age, he had conquered the world; what have I done?" or words to that effect.
true but he was captured by pirates and talked his way out of it. alex never did that.
Definitely check out that video on the Punic Wars.
The end of Rome in 476 wasn't the end of Rome. Eastern Rome - Byzantium - existed for another 1000 years. And the Holy Roman Empire on german ground claimed from the beginning to be the successor of the old Roman Empire. It existed then until 1806.
25:24 Can't believe they just skipped over Aurelian like that. He was the one who reunified the empire and was given the title Restorer of the World, Restitutor Orbis
Augsburg Bavaria Germany {not far from Munich} where I was born way back in the mid '60s was named after Augustus in 15BC, one of the oldest towns in Germany ✌💖☮
" The Ides of March,are up on you!"
Caesar was pretty active in fighting to, maybe not as the leader of the cavalry like alexander but he would get his hands dirty. He was loved by his men because of it
CEASAR DID FIGHT IN THE FRONT LINES AND HAD IMENSE LOYALTY OF HIS LEGIONS. HE DID NOT DECLARE HIMSELF EMPEROR HOWEVER
Almost all great conquerors have sort to emulate their forebears. Alexander sought to emulate great mythic heroes like Dionysus, Herakles and Jason with their ventures in the East. Caesar before his conquests lamented of his lack of action in his 40s unlike Alexander at 26 had already conquered the known world. Caesar before his assassination was planning an Eastern Campaign through Persia and the Caucasus.
The Roman culture in itself was not entirely an culture on its own; it encompassed practices adopted from its conquered subjects or from cultures they themselves deemed civilized like the Greeks and Persians. Almost everything we know of the Romans today once existed in other cultures before them.
I recommend Kings and Generals for all things antiquity and also History Marche for the Punic Wars and the Julio-Claudian Dynasty of Augustus..
loved it thanks.
Gaius octavius is probably one of the most badass sounding names ever. lol
Historia Civilis has an incredible series on Rome and it goes through Julius Caesar
Nice reaction. I can recommend you the videos from Historia Civilis. He's got tons of good videos about Rome
Adrian Goldsworthy has written a book about Ceasar, which will help fill in gaps of info.
As always, they who rule destroy their rivals. As did the Greeks with their Hoplites; the Macedonians with their Phalanx. The Roman's had their Legionnaires. Always discipline, but the Roman's front line weaponry was unstoppable, and very different from the Greek/Macedonian weaponry, although an evolution of the always effective Peltasts. A study of their main tactics, shows how it took centuries for someone to come up with a counter. When effectively lead, nobody could withstand their advance on the battlefield.
Here's an interesting fact. The title Augustus gave himself: Princeps(meaning first citizen). This is where we get the word ''Prince''.
They didn’t explain that after Romulus killed his brother that the city of Rome was full of men so they went to nearby settlements raid pillage them and took and enslaved the woman and children and kill the men an took them back to Rome to breed and increase the population same happened in Greece on the island of lobos but it was full of women so they’d go out and take the men XD
I've always liked this video, it's concise and helped a lot by the narrator Brian Cox (not that one).
Lisbon, the original seven hills city is older than Rome. According to legend, Lisbon was founded by Ulysses and was a major trade port with the Phoenicians even before Rome became a city itself.
...and? Which relation to the video?
Historic fact. Do you even know what that means?
@@paulocarvalho6480 again...the relation to the video? About the narration or the reaction? Sounds like a huge bias your first comment sorry.
"According to legend" is NOT a fact.
Why should Rome be known as the seven hills city when there's a city near one thousand years older with seven hills?
Arzamas has a video about Ancient Greece in 18 minutes as Well
can you guys react to the rise of the abbasids epic history?
Ancient Greece in 20 minutes next!?
The US is left out of countries whose language is derived from Latin but Canada is included? 22% of Canada's population speaks French while 87.1% of Canada's population spoke English as their first language.
The U.S. is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, after Mexico. 13% of the US speaks Spanish.
The US has no official language, while Canada has two official languages. One happens to be French, which is a Latin language. While English is widely spoken and Spanish second in the US, there is no official language in the US. Which is why the US was left out, I would assume.
Most of our history is one big lie! Nobody today was there to witness these events and it is well known that only the victors write history!! Take little notice of these kinds of history documentaries, they fit a narrative that suits today's 'rulers!'
hey!
kinda brushed over marius and didn't mentiion sulla at all....
Maybe listen to belly of the beast by anthrax it's very accurate to what is happening right now
Watch Kings and Generals for the history of Antiquity.
You must watch first and second punic war by oversimplified....they so funny
morality is basically just a survival manual. Don't kill, steal, lie, stare at your neighbors wife,.....no religion needed for any of the "golden rules". That is basic humanity. Religion brought laws like no working on the weekend, how hard you can beat your slaves, and laws against tattoos and eating shellfish. The golden rule has been around for over 100,000 years,.
Nero nephew of Caligula...
if you have a commute to work
than listen to "the history of rome" podcast by mike duncan
Hmm
I don't know why America isn't on the map of the Latin language. Like 29% of our language comes directly from Latin.
Yeah they didn’t include the English speaking world, which I suppose isn’t too unfair since it’s still founded on Germanic, with significant Scandinavian and lowland Germanic origins, particularly Anglo-Saxon. Add on the Celtic and all the more recently added words primarily from the British imperial days and the prior scholars love of Ancient Greece, and it’s definitely much less Latin descended than the others. In fact it’s most accurate to say that it’s truly a Germanic language with heavy Latin influence from the centuries of norman (French) occupation. So you can have an English language without Latin but not without Germanic.
@atriox7221 Right but the video said these countries derive something from Latin no matter how much Latin or little it is. It doesn't make sense how they have Canada on there but not America. As I've said 29% of the English language comes directly from Latin. It just doesn't make sense to me how they didn't include it.
Didn't the Roman Empire just become the Catholic Church?
The British empire is bigger and more influencial are you speaking latin.
No. Your speaking English. Thanks. To the British empire