I love early Roman history and feel like there aren't enough videos here on RUclips exploring how Rome even came to control Italy. Hope you enjoy! Time Stamps: 0:50 - Geography of Italy 1:48 - People of Italy 2:48 - The Founding of Rome 3:52 - Rome's First Wars 6:22 - Conquest of the Latin League 8:27 - Conquest of Veii 9:22 - The Sack of Rome 10:58 - Conquest of Italy 11:57 - Recap of the Methods of Conquest
There's no need for a silly Italian accent when speaking Latin. A Czech researcher actually wrote a paper on why the Romans didn't roll the R back then, it's not hard to find and I suggest you check it out.
I'm from Roma and i love the history of the Roman Empire, but if you like history too i suggest you also have a look at the organization of the Ottoman Empire, very interesting too
History of Rome, England, France, Russia, German states&Austria, Japan and China, those idiots at Hollywood should use their billions to create epic series about all of that instead of making a cinematic universe of comic books, i have always thought that if they used all that money and manpower to actually educate and tell us about History it would be like a new renaissance, something like Lord of the Rings + Gladiator but real and well written.
@@Real_SkyRipper A lot of new documentaries are made with a cinematic feel. A worrying development in my opinion. History should be entertaining, ofcourse and it can be fun and 'modern'. I love how the internet enables us to all learn, simply by clicking on a short video made by a fellow lover of history. Fun graphics, a narrator who knows what they are talking about. I love it. s But sometimes there are these big budget netflix/hbo documentaries who are trying to look like 'Gladiator'. They look amazing, glossy and 'real'. However,the facts are mixed with made up dialogues between characters played by d-list actors in awfully stilted clipped accents speaking like Victorians in London. To make it 'more' attractive and sexy and realistic? Why? I don't mind a bit of cinematography and a high production value but these days...there's this docu series on Rome on Netflix and I could'nt get past the first episode. It was like watching a movie or game of thrones(which I like-it doesn't pretend to be something that it's not) If i want to see a movie about ancient Rome, i can choose from hundreds of really good movies that don't pretend to be documentaries. Like "Gladiator", not historically accurate but a damn good movie. But a good documentary? Very hard to find, these days. The best ones are the ones that keep it simple without being boring and dusty. Mary Beard is my absolute favourite. Just some british lady, walking through modern day Rome, showing some ruins and some artifacts. But she does it with such enthusiasm, really paints a picture by just using facts and extremely well educated guesses. She truly transports my mind's eyes to 'see into the past' by walking through the city and explaining how little has changed and how much of it(the arts, architecture, science)was rediscovered and reclaimed during the Renaissance. Ancient Rome is still around us, she says. Rome becomes 'real' through her 'show and tell'. Those big productions do the work for me and I get to see the glossy vision of a film maker. Not that I mind but, i prefer the 'old school'. Hollywood is to entertain. If you learn something along the way; great. But if you want more money being spent on quality education, available to all... hollywood is not the one to ask😅
As an Italian, I can say that many of the cultural differences of those peoples back there still endure today. Even if, as the the republic/empire grew, Italian peninsula was completely centralized under Rome. Almost everyone in Italy today can feel the roman origin within, but also can feel the underlying traits of other cultures.
I'm so happy to see you started off with the geography of the land. I love Roman history, watched countless documentaries, taken many college courses, and read so much about it, but rarely do they start with the layout with the land like you did. It explains a lot, like why the Romans had to ditch the Greek phalanx and adopt their own military formations bc the phalanx was not suited to the mountainous terrain . Very under appreciated approach! Thank you.
I just love the poetic flow of your video’s, like “the terrain that unfolds like a rich tapestry, rolling from its peaks to its shores” You can tell that the script was written very well! Great video, keep it up!
It's not that it's swept over, it's that we just don't have a lot of good sources for it. The Romans mythologized a lot of their early history after they became an empire, and it's easy to write about destiny and being the most chosen city when you know the outcome.
Exactly, I thought aside from the Roman conquest of the Etruscans, all this was lost to history. It's so cool we can extrapolate it somewhat more, with the Latin League. -- The Romans got their language from the Latins, alot of culture and agriculture from the Etruscans, and adopted the gods wholesale from the Greek colonies of the south and Siciliy. Quite amazing this video for zooming in on these regions.
The Romans were more advanced than we give them credit for nowadays. They collected the knowledge of the cultures that they conquered and gathered it in libraries across the empire. Unfortunately not everything has survived the ages
@Jay Arre Because they basically started western civilzation as we know it today, as well as using languages based off their own. There is a reason why the U.S. senate is called a senate after all.
@@musing1977 Speaking of the wiring, there was brief mention of how they sent their own priests out into the conquered cities. The religious aspect is never to be under-estimated. Very strong organizing/rallying principle.
For anyone interested in a detailed and very long chronology of Rome from birth until death, look up Mike Duncans 'History of Rome.' It takes a long time to get through, but after you will become a master of Roman history
there are serious books and writers around roman history and greek history but many smartasses know nothing and the only job they have is to write a smart comment when they see a video. they dont know how to understand the details and the stages. they do not know anything around literature. they do not know anything about social and literal matters. anyway. its a very good video for the unification of the italic tribes and cities. one special thing that people should know and understand about the past is that in more cases, the political unification happens when a stronger city or a stronger ruler makes wars and unifies the others under the sword. your comment is much essential. well done
@@charadradam9985I love THoR. It’s not a definitive history of Rome & doesn’t pretend to be so. It’s a basic analysis of Roman history from foundation to the fall of the WRE.
This explains to me how the Romans on a few occasions, as I recall, were able to lose like 5 legions, but then be able to raise 8 more legions and repeat this cycle like nothing happened
@@Hugh_Morris That's just the beginning. During the battle of Philippi between the Liberators, Cassius and Brutus, Caesar's assassins, and the Second Triumvirate, Octavian and Mark Antony, the Liberators supplied 17 legions and the Triumvirate had 19 legions, for a total of 36 legions, plus tens of thousands of the hired mercenaries that the Liberators got from the King of the Parthians, for a battle with two hundred thousand men fighting.
This was so interesting. It's common to hear of Rome at it's height or during it's fall but it seems like the story of how it rise to power is underrated and not told enough.
Rome basically started the Western Civilization, along with Greece, which you guys conquered too eventually. Understanding where we were to understand why we're here. Pretty much the most important historical period untill the renaissance, which itself only happened thanks to Rome (and Greece).
Some historicans called Romans "armed lawyers" (rather "warriors with legal codexes"). And they have got the point! The roots of succeses of Romans were the combination of military and legal powers. They at first conquered and then - organise the conquered territories according to strictly defined rules. So, they were predictable for people they conquered.
So he made Sulla dictator while he was 18? Seriously, Sulla was an awful, awful person and was perfectly capable of seizing power without the help of a teeenager, not to mention Caesar was actually politically aligned with Marius’ successors and was actually Marius’ nephew through marriage. It is also important to realise that the conflict between the Populares was not merely a conflict between an oppressed people and brutal, hypocritical elites or a few populist strongmen against the defenders of the republic. It was both. The Optimates were defending a corrupt oligarchy which was perfectly willing to massacre Roman citizens to maintain power, was systematically undermining rule in the provinces with governors using their position to despoil loyal provinces and perhaps most importantly, was not even especially representative. Puttting aside the millions who were subjects of the empire but lacked citizenship and the vote, the system was stacked in favour of the wealthy. The Senate had a wealth requirement for entry which confined entry to less than one percent of the citizens. The Centuriate assembly, which elected the Consuls, first allowed the wealthy to vote in atiered system wheremiddle class Romans only voted if the elite failed to reach a consensus amongst themselves and the poor were of no importance unless there was a truly massive divide, in which case their votes were still underrepresented by the nature of the Centuries which made up the Assembly. The Tribal Assembly was geographic in nature but only allowed voting at Rome, meaning that only a few could afford to make the trip to Rome to vote, further shutting out the people. The Tribal Assembly was so poorly attended that a quorum was established of less than a dozen for each of the 35 tribes, thus ensuring that the lesser magistrates were also elected by plutocrats. Finally the Plebian the only real voice of the people of Rome. The Populares were also thugs but unlike the Optimates, realised the need for reform. They generally sought to do this however, by seizing power for themselves. In summary both sides sought supreme power for themselves and were perfectly willing to destroy Rome if they could rule the ashes
Roman law is still the basis of modern continental European law codes (the UK has a different system based on the common law, I'm not sure about Ireland) and by extension the same holds for many non-British former European colonies.
@Comstar: Space AT&T Julius Caesar died on March 15th, 44bc. Cicero died on December 7th, 43bc, about 18 months later, during the purges/"proscriptions" of the 2nd Triumvirate (Mark Anthony, Octavian, & Lepidus). It was Mark Anthony who targeted Cicero as Cicero had just written a denouncement of the former to be read in the senate. Of the many sources that cover this, Plutarch is a prominent one.
Excellent job! The building of Rome's system of colonies and alliances in Italy usually gets ignored a lot in academia unless it is put into the context of the Punic Wars or to a lesser extent the Pyrrhic War against Pyrrhus of Epirus that preceded the conflicts with Carthage. Klaus Bringmann ("History of the Roman Republic" 2002, translated into English in 2007) offers a superb analysis of how Rome achieved this, to add to your listed sources by Everitt, McNab, Kiley, and Palmer.
Here in Italy, this is like common history studies we do at least twice...middle school and high school. I am surprised is overlooked in the academic community!!
Well, I’ve been a student of Roman history for over fifty years & I thought this short documentary of Rome BC was just brilliant, so much information & so very well presented. Excellent stuff🇬🇧
I could see a whole game based around this sort of loop; defeat someone, choose how to integrate them, consolidate your power, fight someone bigger and more distant, repeat. I wonder if that's how Creative Assembly is going to do the DLC...
Got some good news for you friend, There is a game being made by Paradox interactive which lets you do just that; Its called Imperator:Rome. Starts basically just after Rome takes the four nearby towns as seen in the video, from there you can do all kinds of stuff; There isn't just Rome either, the map spans from Spain to India and everyone, and yes I mean every group considered a nation within that massive span is playable. Comes out next year probably in March if you are interested.
At first they can seem excessively convoluted, but watch a few videos of people explaining the game and perhaps give a few hours to try it yourself, then you will start to form a decent idea of what to do. As someone who came from Civilisation, it took me months of watching their games before even considering buying them, but now I know the inside and out of their games. Given enough time, I'm sure a Total War player could get the hang of it.
tell me about it. opened CK2 for the first time, played tutorial, somehow got 3 kingdoms and when i died and passed to the next generation all 3 kingdoms were independent again...i was like "wtf happened?" ofc, had gavelkind succession and everything i had split, but still...needed someone to explain THAT cuz the game doesnt really do it. along with MANY little things that are pretty important. and dont even start me on HOI4
I think it's because of their determination as a culture that they ended up being an empire. They were constantly at war, and faced near elimination many times. But still, they returned. Stronger. With every battle they fought, with every war they waged, they got a little stronger. Until their strength was unparalleled. And in a cruel irony, that very same determination caused them to expand too much, to grow too big, until that indomitable spirit and the sense of Roman identity disappeared. Civil wars, which would have been unthinkable to the ancient Romans, continued for 3 successive generations. And thus the Republic collapsed, and eventually so did the empire.
Zamolxes77 .. I mean, yeah, one of the problems is that the state couldn't support the welfare programs necessary to take care of the poor. But the inability of the state to do that is the result of the same thing that caused poor people to need welfare in the first place: massive amounts of productive land being concentrated into the hands of an untouchable group of economic, political, etc., elites, which meant that large amounts of Roman wealth did not go to the Roman state or the Roman people, but individuals who were, more often than not, already exceedingly wealthy and influential. As a result, things like paying soldiers were left up to generals, who, as a result, either needed to be wealthy or have wealthy patrons. This meant that the armies of Rome ended up being loyal not to Rome itself, but to their generals or their patrons, whose ambitions often threatened Roman stability. The problem then, as it is today, is not welfare. The problem was and is rich parasites. Many attempts to fix the issue were attempted, and often were crushed by the established elite, as the rich and powerful have always put their own interests above those of the people.
Abel Abebe have you seen Constantinople/Byzantium, the so called Golden Horn? that was the garden of Eden, 3 sides defended by the sea. Rome as a city was weak, vulnerable and approachable by a conquering army from all sides, and with a huge river crossing it right in the middle, Rome was very hard to defend. The romans understood this very fast, for them offense was not the best but the only defence. From being a random political entity in the 4th century BC to becoming the uncontested, settled superpower of the Western world in about 200 years is something nobody has ever done in history, anywhere in the world
Be it to selfish to ask for a full history series of early Rome and their unification of Italy? I'm not sure how well documented this time era is but it's extremely interesting, and I'd love to see more. Thank you.
This is the reason why I love this channel ! It is the only one who really dive in the first punic war unlike many other chanels that only talk about the seconde one , and Rome "obscurt" history. JUST DON'T STOP MAKING VIDEOS !!!!! LOVE YOU INVICTA !!
Very, very informative and fascinating video. We rarely ever hear about Rome in the very early days. I really hope to learn more about this period. Great job on producing something so unique and genuinely good.
until i watched this video, i had never realized that the bulk of my knowledge regarding rome was centered around their imperial era. there's such a density of information in the roman empire that it seems like it never occurred to me to learn about the humble beginnings. thank you very much for this video, i learned a good deal and am definitely gonna read up more about the early days of rome, it's fascinating!
Loved it! Rarely seen such a well-built video on this topic. If you could make the whole thing a series, it'd be awesome and I would definitely watch them. Was getting so into it when I looked at the time and I was like 'Man, there's not gonna be enough time to cover the rest'. Was a shame!
i often watch rome documentaries on youtube. even with all the hours ive put in, yours are some of my favorite. i always learn so much that i dont hear elsewhere. thanks a lot.
Fantastic video! So glad that you chose to cover the early Republican period, it really isn't paid as much attention as the late republican/early empire periods, but is so important! Great to see the likes of yourself and CA showing baby Rome some love. How about something on the Villanovan/Estruscan period up to around 800/700BC? Or something on the other Italic tribes? I know it's a stretch as there's not much out there on them but lots of people don't realise how many aspects of its culture Rome took straight from surrounding neighbours. That would be really cool to see! Anyways, keep up the great work, loving the content!
I look forward to playing the Etruscans in the Rise of Rome DLC, I have always been intrigued by the mysteries associated with Eturia and it's people. Especially the cultural links between early Rome and the Etruscans such as language and the role of Tribal organisation within central politics.
in terms of Religion not much, Etruscan religion was not really linked to Ancient Greece to the same scale Rome was, but the Latin alphabet can be linked to the Etruscan and some of the political elements found in Etruscan towns can be linked to Rome as well, such as the Tribal system and a big value on the family unit.
Average Loser well it's interesting as there are many theories behind the origins of the Romans, I personally lean to the more Latin tribe origins personally as they had more in common in terms of religion which is a trait usually passed down to civilisation continuations, such as Egypt and Nubia, Assyria and Babylon, Indus Valley and the new found kingdoms post collapse etc etc :)
Ancient turkey didn't exist back then mate stop the mental gymnastics, after the fall of Troy some Trojans migrated in Rome there and had nothing to do with Turk Mongols, Turksmen arrived in the Asia Minor alot of years after the fall of Rome. HOW THE F YOU PUT ETRUSCAN AND TURKEY TOGETHER IN YOUR MIND? please send us a link of your research.
DUDE you should do a full lenght documentary of rome, because your videos are awesome. And ,although i'm a historian myself, i love rome history, the way your videos are done, it's just brillant.
I really enjoyed this video and wish it were longer. As you note, less than a quarter is devoted to the later years but that period is also interesting and momentous,. Your narration is excellent (tone & pace) and so are the pictures tho you could have done more to make them pop by using some simple effects. So many of these presentations are inadequate in production and informational and yours is a happy exception. Thank you.
That's the power of evolution. Hundreds, thousands of communities constantly changing their ways of governance, economy and philosophy for thousands of years over hundreds of generations before we got to this point with science, representative democracies and Neo-Keynesian capitalism. To be sincere, seeing how far we have come due to this natural selection is the only reason I hold significant hope humanity might reach for yet higher forms of organization.
I’m not going to step into this evolution vs religion bs. I just appreciate the how far we’ve made it. And if there is some kind of limiter to our growth, be it divine or otherwise. I just hope I’m not around for that. Extinction level events aren’t fun, you know.
Why this awesome channel only has 350k subs? It should be around 3m! Nice video and the topic you bought to the table. There's soooo much of history that we record but we just don't care about. Thank you for bringing on how Rome conquer Italy! Oh and you just gained a sub - me :))
This video did an amazing job at providing a sense of continuity between the earliest stages of settlement to what could be recognized as the Roman Republic. Just a bunch of guys going out year after year, generation after generation to fight their neighbors in what almost feels like a sport. Over time some "teams" prove consistently good and consolidate with their conquered neighbors, driving them further and further afield to find new "teams" to "play against." Except this fateful, bloody game had global consequences for centuries, millennia, and even for all time. It's kind of beautiful thinking about those early Romans and their little victories over local towns. They must have had no idea what they were building, what they were a part of, what grandeur would follow their achievements and use their name. What wonders the remote future held for them. What wonders it may hold for us.
Can I nitpick about something? It's hard to get a feel for Italian/Roman geography when you just show a generic topographic map and talk over it, without highlighting things as you go. Like when you say "whose territory stretched all the way from the Po Valley to Campania" when its not really obvious where those two places are.
If I may suggest, pick up a political map of Italy. When talking about the territories of those times, they usually correspond to modern Italian regions. For example Campania would be the area that stretched from Salernum to Naples, Capua and the Samnite territories in the Appennines (although when talking specifically abou Campania Felix, it is usually to refer to the valley in the northern part of Campania, around Capua). The Po valley... It's literally the valley where the river Po (the only long-ish river in Italy) streams, it's located in the North between the Alps and the Appennines.
A very interesting video, thanks for sharing light on such a rarely-spoken period of Roman history. If you are able, could you also make a video on the unification of China under the Qin? With The coming Total War Three Kingdoms title, I believe it would be an interesting matter to work on as well.
How do you figure out what was actually true in history and what was just made up? Since a lot of historians argue about what actually happen in a lot of events.
Ludwin V in fact that as a well known, but wrong translation. Don't worry it was Cicero himself, who brought up this translation. Correctly it would be: "I know, what I don't know". This means, that Socrates saw his superiorty over others not in his sheer amount of knowledge, but much more the knowledge, where the borders of his wisdom lied.
I'm not sure how he does it, but I usually cross-reference different primary and secondary sources. With primary sources, I often try to see on which details these sources can often agree with, and go with that. If there's multiple conflicting details, and the sources just can't agree, I'll just keep all possibilities in mind. When it comes to secondary sources, I try to see which of the writers have a much more credible career, or test the credibility of their sources. I also try to see what most secondary sources can agree on, and do the same thing if they somehow can't agree on a certain detail. And just in case you aren't aware, Primary Sources are often what you call sources from the time period you're studying, this includes journals or diaries, newspapers, official documents, etc. Anything that was written down during that time could be considered a primary source. Though, these primary sources could sometimes be biased, or exaggerate/romanticize certain events or battles, and that was commonly the case with historians during Antiquity. Secondary Sources are materials from other historians, whom interpret primary sources to infer information. Just in general, these include history books written by historians, though there may be other materials I forgot to mention. Though, secondary sources can also be sometimes unreliable or biased, or be unable to agree with one another. Being critical is a good trait to have when studying history, so it's a good thing you're asking this, really. :)
It is worth mentioning that science and logic play a role in verifying historical events and facts. You know how some folks claim the enemy was impossibly large? They usually do that by sneaking noncombatants in with the count. There is a useful shortcut to get a better estimate. Any society with a high infant mortality rate will be about 50% children and 50% women. That means only 1/4 of the population is expected to bear arms (half of the people are kids and the remaining half are women). So if Caesat says he fought 200,000 he really means 50,000.
To build on what cdtlnc and Eli Vertrees have said, we also have the archaeological record to help us confirm various accounts in ancient Greek and Roman historiography, or for that matter historical records of other civilizations like the ancient Chinese (the latter invaluable for our understanding of things such as the fate of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in Central Asia, absent in Greek historiography).
Excellent video as always! I love all of your content and am happy about anything you put out. But damn am I dying to know how the siege of Jerusalem ended
Thank you, very informative! Rome's strategy of incorporating former enemies into its alliance does seem like Empire Building 101 - I mean wouldn't all of Rome's rivals be practicing the same obvious strategy? What made Rome different? Manpower seems to have been key - did Rome have more fertile lands than its neighbors, capable of supporting a larger population?
I really enjoyed your observation about how Geography shapes the development of Peoples. It is so obvious once realized, and yet it seems to have taken us a while to see it.
You should do more videos about Rome's rise. Starting with going into the same detail shown in the first half of this video on what you glossed over in this video. Then continuing from there.
Interesting to see how different cultures and peoples inhabited different landscapes e.g Greeks preferring coastline, and Celts preferring river valleys etc.
The picture given was of Joe Calzaghe. In my opinion Calzaghe fit the metaphor tremendously well. A guy who was often knock downed early in fights, such as Hopkins and Roy Jones but ended up winning a 12 round UD. Also ending his career undefeated.
@@Xeroxrite Calzaghe was a great champion in his own right, personally, I still prefer the Marciano analogy. He represents relentlessness and power in a way that matches up very well with the Roman Empire in my eyes.
Even in the local area portrayed @3:50 did not "speak the same language. Latin dominated from Rome south to Praeneste and Lavinium, where Etruscan was spoken in the North, starting at Veii. Spread throughout was also Oscan, an Italian language spoken throughout the central and southern Italian littoral, and as similar to Latin as Danish is to Swedish.
with the ancient empires modification you can actually manage the settlements like rome did, as allied states, colonies, cities with rights etc. It is a really great mod, I recommend you check it out.
I love the video but certain details, particularly the map at 14:20 could use more work. For instance: in that map the faction colors are swapped and if you don't know the history already or are a lees attentive viewer it might be confusing. I think there is still a color-swap/negative effects that can be used in common photo editing software.
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I love early Roman history and feel like there aren't enough videos here on RUclips exploring how Rome even came to control Italy. Hope you enjoy!
Time Stamps:
0:50 - Geography of Italy
1:48 - People of Italy
2:48 - The Founding of Rome
3:52 - Rome's First Wars
6:22 - Conquest of the Latin League
8:27 - Conquest of Veii
9:22 - The Sack of Rome
10:58 - Conquest of Italy
11:57 - Recap of the Methods of Conquest
But in Total War Rome II you simply paint the world map red.
There's no need for a silly Italian accent when speaking Latin.
A Czech researcher actually wrote a paper on why the Romans didn't roll the R back then, it's not hard to find and I suggest you check it out.
I'm from Rome. Hit me up if you ever think of coming here, I'll buy you a drink while I show you around ;)
Any good books on early Roman history? Preferable the regal period. All I’ll found is Livy and we all know how reliable he is.
Invicta does this mean you'll continue your evolution of the Roman army
Damn, I always thought Rome was built in a day!
Rome wasn't built in a day
‘a day is as a thousand years’ - bible.
Wtf
The stages of ROman Empire should be a series. A detailed look of how that empire came to be.
Boi Sandwich I agreeeeeee
Go on historyofrome.com everything is there from the rise of Rome to the Punic wars, to the Empire, and its collapse.
I'm from Roma and i love the history of the Roman Empire, but if you like history too i suggest you also have a look at the organization of the Ottoman Empire, very interesting too
History of Rome, England, France, Russia, German states&Austria, Japan and China, those idiots at Hollywood should use their billions to create epic series about all of that instead of making a cinematic universe of comic books, i have always thought that if they used all that money and manpower to actually educate and tell us about History it would be like a new renaissance, something like Lord of the Rings + Gladiator but real and well written.
@@Real_SkyRipper A lot of new documentaries are made with a cinematic feel. A worrying development in my opinion. History should be entertaining, ofcourse and it can be fun and 'modern'. I love how the internet enables us to all learn, simply by clicking on a short video made by a fellow lover of history. Fun graphics, a narrator who knows what they are talking about. I love it. s But sometimes there are these big budget netflix/hbo documentaries who are trying to look like 'Gladiator'. They look amazing, glossy and 'real'. However,the facts are mixed with made up dialogues between characters played by d-list actors in awfully stilted clipped accents speaking like Victorians in London. To make it 'more' attractive and sexy and realistic? Why? I don't mind a bit of cinematography and a high production value but these days...there's this docu series on Rome on Netflix and I could'nt get past the first episode. It was like watching a movie or game of thrones(which I like-it doesn't pretend to be something that it's not) If i want to see a movie about ancient Rome, i can choose from hundreds of really good movies that don't pretend to be documentaries. Like "Gladiator", not historically accurate but a damn good movie. But a good documentary? Very hard to find, these days. The best ones are the ones that keep it simple without being boring and dusty. Mary Beard is my absolute favourite. Just some british lady, walking through modern day Rome, showing some ruins and some artifacts. But she does it with such enthusiasm, really paints a picture by just using facts and extremely well educated guesses. She truly transports my mind's eyes to 'see into the past' by walking through the city and explaining how little has changed and how much of it(the arts, architecture, science)was
rediscovered and reclaimed during the Renaissance. Ancient Rome is still around us, she says. Rome becomes 'real' through her 'show and tell'.
Those big productions do the work for me and I get to see the glossy vision of a film maker. Not that I mind but, i prefer the 'old school'. Hollywood is to entertain. If you learn something along the way; great. But if you want more money being spent on quality education, available to all... hollywood is not the one to ask😅
As an Italian, I can say that many of the cultural differences of those peoples back there still endure today. Even if, as the the republic/empire grew, Italian peninsula was completely centralized under Rome. Almost everyone in Italy today can feel the roman origin within, but also can feel the underlying traits of other cultures.
Such an enjoyable watch. Fantastic!
HistoryMarche And I love your channel you have very good animations and your story telling is also very good :)
@HistoryMarche I am Waiting for the hannibal sequence!
Both of your content is A+ work
When is HistoryMarche, Invicta and Kings and Generals going to admin that they are the same people?
I'm so happy to see you started off with the geography of the land. I love Roman history, watched countless documentaries, taken many college courses, and read so much about it, but rarely do they start with the layout with the land like you did.
It explains a lot, like why the Romans had to ditch the Greek phalanx and adopt their own military formations bc the phalanx was not suited to the mountainous terrain . Very under appreciated approach! Thank you.
I just love the poetic flow of your video’s, like
“the terrain that unfolds like a rich tapestry, rolling from its peaks to its shores”
You can tell that the script was written very well! Great video, keep it up!
Guess someone`s been reading a lot of Tolkien
"the terrain that unfolds like a rich tapestry, rolling from its peaks to its shores.." Mommsen style :-)
I love this - it's so "zoomed-in", in terms of scale and time for a period that's generally swept over.
It's not that it's swept over, it's that we just don't have a lot of good sources for it. The Romans mythologized a lot of their early history after they became an empire, and it's easy to write about destiny and being the most chosen city when you know the outcome.
Exactly, I thought aside from the Roman conquest of the Etruscans, all this was lost to history. It's so cool we can extrapolate it somewhat more, with the Latin League.
-- The Romans got their language from the Latins, alot of culture and agriculture from the Etruscans, and adopted the gods wholesale from the Greek colonies of the south and Siciliy.
Quite amazing this video for zooming in on these regions.
The Romans were more advanced than we give them credit for nowadays. They collected the knowledge of the cultures that they conquered and gathered it in libraries across the empire. Unfortunately not everything has survived the ages
Billy Grahammer when the Romans conquered Etruria they already held all of southern Italy and were the most powerful entity on the peninsula.
*cries in burning of the great library of Alexandria*
@Jay Arre Because they basically started western civilzation as we know it today, as well as using languages based off their own. There is a reason why the U.S. senate is called a senate after all.
They were the Borg.
@@musing1977 Speaking of the wiring, there was brief mention of how they sent their own priests out into the conquered cities. The religious aspect is never to be under-estimated. Very strong organizing/rallying principle.
For anyone interested in a detailed and very long chronology of Rome from birth until death, look up Mike Duncans 'History of Rome.' It takes a long time to get through, but after you will become a master of Roman history
there are serious books and writers around roman history and greek history but many smartasses know nothing and the only job they have is to write a smart comment when they see a video. they dont know how to understand the details and the stages. they do not know anything around literature. they do not know anything about social and literal matters. anyway. its a very good video for the unification of the italic tribes and cities.
one special thing that people should know and understand about the past is that in more cases, the political unification happens when a stronger city or a stronger ruler makes wars and unifies the others under the sword.
your comment is much essential. well done
Another really good book about ancient Rome is SPQR by Mary Beard, though that one only covers Rome from its founding to 220 CE
While good, it is missing the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.
@@bluerock12 that’s why the history of Byzantium exists
@@charadradam9985I love THoR. It’s not a definitive history of Rome & doesn’t pretend to be so. It’s a basic analysis of Roman history from foundation to the fall of the WRE.
Once again, some of the best content on youtube right now.
This explains to me how the Romans on a few occasions, as I recall, were able to lose like 5 legions, but then be able to raise 8 more legions and repeat this cycle like nothing happened
16 legions, if you are thinking of Cannae.
Teutoburg forest and carrhae are examples of this
@@robertjarman3703 that is INSANE
@@Hugh_Morris That's just the beginning. During the battle of Philippi between the Liberators, Cassius and Brutus, Caesar's assassins, and the Second Triumvirate, Octavian and Mark Antony, the Liberators supplied 17 legions and the Triumvirate had 19 legions, for a total of 36 legions, plus tens of thousands of the hired mercenaries that the Liberators got from the King of the Parthians, for a battle with two hundred thousand men fighting.
@@pedrofreitas1661 foreat was not such a big loss percent wise.
Cannae was much much worse
This was so interesting. It's common to hear of Rome at it's height or during it's fall but it seems like the story of how it rise to power is underrated and not told enough.
As Italian, I love the way who all the world studies the history of my Country
Rome basically started the Western Civilization, along with Greece, which you guys conquered too eventually.
Understanding where we were to understand why we're here. Pretty much the most important historical period untill the renaissance, which itself only happened thanks to Rome (and Greece).
You pleb romans were trojan not Italian
@@andyrewpantah94 You idiot the trojans were assimilated into the latin culture of Latium.
@@catalyst772 doesn’t make em Italian by blood now does it?
@@andyrewpantah94 no but the intermarriage between the two cultures does
Some historicans called Romans "armed lawyers" (rather "warriors with legal codexes"). And they have got the point! The roots of succeses of Romans were the combination of military and legal powers. They at first conquered and then - organise the conquered territories according to strictly defined rules. So, they were predictable for people they conquered.
Caffeinated Wizard edgy... but they did work for a good part of a millennia.
And aren’t most if not all rules easily bent?
So he made Sulla dictator while he was 18? Seriously, Sulla was an awful, awful person and was perfectly capable of seizing power without the help of a teeenager, not to mention Caesar was actually politically aligned with Marius’ successors and was actually Marius’ nephew through marriage. It is also important to realise that the conflict between the Populares was not merely a conflict between an oppressed people and brutal, hypocritical elites or a few populist strongmen against the defenders of the republic. It was both. The Optimates were defending a corrupt oligarchy which was perfectly willing to massacre Roman citizens to maintain power, was systematically undermining rule in the provinces with governors using their position to despoil loyal provinces and perhaps most importantly, was not even especially representative. Puttting aside the millions who were subjects of the empire but lacked citizenship and the vote, the system was stacked in favour of the wealthy. The Senate had a wealth requirement for entry which confined entry to less than one percent of the citizens. The Centuriate assembly, which elected the Consuls, first allowed the wealthy to vote in atiered system wheremiddle class Romans only voted if the elite failed to reach a consensus amongst themselves and the poor were of no importance unless there was a truly massive divide, in which case their votes were still underrepresented by the nature of the Centuries which made up the Assembly. The Tribal Assembly was geographic in nature but only allowed voting at Rome, meaning that only a few could afford to make the trip to Rome to vote, further shutting out the people. The Tribal Assembly was so poorly attended that a quorum was established of less than a dozen for each of the 35 tribes, thus ensuring that the lesser magistrates were also elected by plutocrats. Finally the Plebian the only real voice of the people of Rome. The Populares were also thugs but unlike the Optimates, realised the need for reform. They generally sought to do this however, by seizing power for themselves. In summary both sides sought supreme power for themselves and were perfectly willing to destroy Rome if they could rule the ashes
Roman law is still the basis of modern continental European law codes (the UK has a different system based on the common law, I'm not sure about Ireland) and by extension the same holds for many non-British former European colonies.
@Comstar: Space AT&T Cicero outlived Caesar. He wasn't killed by him.
Cicero was killed by Octavian and Mark Anthony.
@Comstar: Space AT&T Julius Caesar died on March 15th, 44bc.
Cicero died on December 7th, 43bc, about 18 months later, during the purges/"proscriptions" of the 2nd Triumvirate (Mark Anthony, Octavian, & Lepidus). It was Mark Anthony who targeted Cicero as Cicero had just written a denouncement of the former to be read in the senate.
Of the many sources that cover this, Plutarch is a prominent one.
"Rome would have Lorica Segmentata when they were born"
~BBC Historian
lol haha
I know it wasn't used for most of Roman history, but it looks so cool I just want to forget
Oh this is a meme now. Wonder where this one came from.
Where did a historian say that?
BBC is a joke
Excellent job! The building of Rome's system of colonies and alliances in Italy usually gets ignored a lot in academia unless it is put into the context of the Punic Wars or to a lesser extent the Pyrrhic War against Pyrrhus of Epirus that preceded the conflicts with Carthage. Klaus Bringmann ("History of the Roman Republic" 2002, translated into English in 2007) offers a superb analysis of how Rome achieved this, to add to your listed sources by Everitt, McNab, Kiley, and Palmer.
Here in Italy, this is like common history studies we do at least twice...middle school and high school. I am surprised is overlooked in the academic community!!
Good video. Proves the famous saying - Rome was not built in a day. You fall but you need to pick yourself up and move forward.
Well, I’ve been a student of Roman history for over fifty years & I thought this short documentary of Rome BC was just brilliant, so much information & so very well presented. Excellent stuff🇬🇧
I could see a whole game based around this sort of loop; defeat someone, choose how to integrate them, consolidate your power, fight someone bigger and more distant, repeat. I wonder if that's how Creative Assembly is going to do the DLC...
Its pretty much how total war works
Got some good news for you friend, There is a game being made by Paradox interactive which lets you do just that; Its called Imperator:Rome. Starts basically just after Rome takes the four nearby towns as seen in the video, from there you can do all kinds of stuff; There isn't just Rome either, the map spans from Spain to India and everyone, and yes I mean every group considered a nation within that massive span is playable. Comes out next year probably in March if you are interested.
paradox games are too complicated for total war casuals though :>
At first they can seem excessively convoluted, but watch a few videos of people explaining the game and perhaps give a few hours to try it yourself, then you will start to form a decent idea of what to do. As someone who came from Civilisation, it took me months of watching their games before even considering buying them, but now I know the inside and out of their games. Given enough time, I'm sure a Total War player could get the hang of it.
tell me about it. opened CK2 for the first time, played tutorial, somehow got 3 kingdoms and when i died and passed to the next generation all 3 kingdoms were independent again...i was like "wtf happened?" ofc, had gavelkind succession and everything i had split, but still...needed someone to explain THAT cuz the game doesnt really do it. along with MANY little things that are pretty important.
and dont even start me on HOI4
I think it's because of their determination as a culture that they ended up being an empire. They were constantly at war, and faced near elimination many times. But still, they returned. Stronger. With every battle they fought, with every war they waged, they got a little stronger. Until their strength was unparalleled. And in a cruel irony, that very same determination caused them to expand too much, to grow too big, until that indomitable spirit and the sense of Roman identity disappeared. Civil wars, which would have been unthinkable to the ancient Romans, continued for 3 successive generations. And thus the Republic collapsed, and eventually so did the empire.
That and the pure luck...look at where they started...basically the garden of eden with defense advantage
WRONG. They collapsed because of WELFARE. State couldn't support anymore the 500,000 leeches that were expecting egyptian grain every month.
Zamolxes77 .. I mean, yeah, one of the problems is that the state couldn't support the welfare programs necessary to take care of the poor. But the inability of the state to do that is the result of the same thing that caused poor people to need welfare in the first place: massive amounts of productive land being concentrated into the hands of an untouchable group of economic, political, etc., elites, which meant that large amounts of Roman wealth did not go to the Roman state or the Roman people, but individuals who were, more often than not, already exceedingly wealthy and influential.
As a result, things like paying soldiers were left up to generals, who, as a result, either needed to be wealthy or have wealthy patrons. This meant that the armies of Rome ended up being loyal not to Rome itself, but to their generals or their patrons, whose ambitions often threatened Roman stability.
The problem then, as it is today, is not welfare. The problem was and is rich parasites. Many attempts to fix the issue were attempted, and often were crushed by the established elite, as the rich and powerful have always put their own interests above those of the people.
Abel Abebe have you seen Constantinople/Byzantium, the so called Golden Horn? that was the garden of Eden, 3 sides defended by the sea. Rome as a city was weak, vulnerable and approachable by a conquering army from all sides, and with a huge river crossing it right in the middle, Rome was very hard to defend. The romans understood this very fast, for them offense was not the best but the only defence. From being a random political entity in the 4th century BC to becoming the uncontested, settled superpower of the Western world in about 200 years is something nobody has ever done in history, anywhere in the world
@@Zamolxes77 The grain dole actually facilitated a modern commercial economy.
Be it to selfish to ask for a full history series of early Rome and their unification of Italy?
I'm not sure how well documented this time era is but it's extremely interesting, and I'd love to see more.
Thank you.
Already exist in a 100 plus part pod cast. Look it up on RUclips. The History of Rome. Amazing info.
This is the reason why I love this channel ! It is the only one who really dive in the first punic war unlike many other chanels that only talk about the seconde one , and Rome "obscurt" history.
JUST DON'T STOP MAKING VIDEOS !!!!!
LOVE YOU INVICTA !!
They made a NATO against Rome! God, I love the little details of overlooked ancient politics!
Very, very informative and fascinating video. We rarely ever hear about Rome in the very early days. I really hope to learn more about this period. Great job on producing something so unique and genuinely good.
You’re videos are always incredibly high quality and your passion for Roman history really shines through in your narration man, keep it up bro
incredble these videos is just getting better and better, keep up the good work!. when i start watching one i cant stop myself from watching more
A 10 minute history video and an invicta video all in the space of 2 hours. Is it Christmas in August?
Fletcher Peillet-Long
Praise Augustus, he has brought glory upon us!
yes
until i watched this video, i had never realized that the bulk of my knowledge regarding rome was centered around their imperial era. there's such a density of information in the roman empire that it seems like it never occurred to me to learn about the humble beginnings. thank you very much for this video, i learned a good deal and am definitely gonna read up more about the early days of rome, it's fascinating!
Glad you appreciated it. There really is such a great density of rich history its mind boggling.
The Republic era it's as important as the Imperial
Still waiting on the evolution of the Roman legion
You mean the siege of Jerusalem
Thomas Maiolino why not both
Hey guys I have an idea: how about we support Invicta on patreon so he can quit his job and do videos for us all day?
Moptopgames the Roman siege of Jerusalem
Check out the channel Historia Civilis
Loved it! Rarely seen such a well-built video on this topic. If you could make the whole thing a series, it'd be awesome and I would definitely watch them. Was getting so into it when I looked at the time and I was like 'Man, there's not gonna be enough time to cover the rest'. Was a shame!
One of your finest works, Thanks
Thanks : )
i often watch rome documentaries on youtube. even with all the hours ive put in, yours are some of my favorite. i always learn so much that i dont hear elsewhere.
thanks a lot.
thanks, I like diving in to the niche but interesting areas of history that are otherwise overlooked
Fantastic video! So glad that you chose to cover the early Republican period, it really isn't paid as much attention as the late republican/early empire periods, but is so important! Great to see the likes of yourself and CA showing baby Rome some love.
How about something on the Villanovan/Estruscan period up to around 800/700BC? Or something on the other Italic tribes? I know it's a stretch as there's not much out there on them but lots of people don't realise how many aspects of its culture Rome took straight from surrounding neighbours. That would be really cool to see!
Anyways, keep up the great work, loving the content!
It’s a good day when Invicta puts a video up
I look forward to playing the Etruscans in the Rise of Rome DLC, I have always been intrigued by the mysteries associated with Eturia and it's people. Especially the cultural links between early Rome and the Etruscans such as language and the role of Tribal organisation within central politics.
in terms of Religion not much, Etruscan religion was not really linked to Ancient Greece to the same scale Rome was, but the Latin alphabet can be linked to the Etruscan and some of the political elements found in Etruscan towns can be linked to Rome as well, such as the Tribal system and a big value on the family unit.
Rome was direct continuation of Etruscans in terms of civilization.
Average Loser well it's interesting as there are many theories behind the origins of the Romans, I personally lean to the more Latin tribe origins personally as they had more in common in terms of religion which is a trait usually passed down to civilisation continuations, such as Egypt and Nubia, Assyria and Babylon, Indus Valley and the new found kingdoms post collapse etc etc :)
Rodney King I never said they were Greeks, why the rant?
Ancient turkey didn't exist back then mate stop the mental gymnastics, after the fall of Troy some Trojans migrated in Rome there and had nothing to do with Turk Mongols, Turksmen arrived in the Asia Minor alot of years after the fall of Rome. HOW THE F YOU PUT ETRUSCAN AND TURKEY TOGETHER IN YOUR MIND? please send us a link of your research.
Would you like doing a series about Pyrrhus?
Emperor Demetrius Just not the end of his life...it's still too painful.
Fox D Underrated comment
Friendship is magic: Roman edition.
I have to say these past few videos have been the best ones yet. Digestible, but informative.
DUDE you should do a full lenght documentary of rome, because your videos are awesome. And ,although i'm a historian myself, i love rome history, the way your videos are done, it's just brillant.
I really enjoyed this video and wish it were longer. As you note, less than a quarter is devoted to the later years but that period is also interesting and momentous,. Your narration is excellent (tone & pace) and so are the pictures tho you could have done more to make them pop by using some simple effects. So many of these presentations are inadequate in production and informational and yours is a happy exception. Thank you.
Pictures of hills and farmlands makes me feel all happy inside. Rome was truly in a perfect location
Wow! Another great video from your channel. Congratulations, and please keep up the good work.
Almost seems mythical, hard to believe humanity has made it this far
That's the power of evolution. Hundreds, thousands of communities constantly changing their ways of governance, economy and philosophy for thousands of years over hundreds of generations before we got to this point with science, representative democracies and Neo-Keynesian capitalism. To be sincere, seeing how far we have come due to this natural selection is the only reason I hold significant hope humanity might reach for yet higher forms of organization.
Jay Arre evolution has not been disproved and very little of Rome was because of religion
I’m not going to step into this evolution vs religion bs. I just appreciate the how far we’ve made it. And if there is some kind of limiter to our growth, be it divine or otherwise. I just hope I’m not around for that.
Extinction level events aren’t fun, you know.
Virtual Kingdom wow, that’s a very great way to think about it, you made me think for a second. Great comment!
Fantastic content! I love your focus on the contextual details of the Roman rise - it's not something I've seen before!
Why this awesome channel only has 350k subs? It should be around 3m!
Nice video and the topic you bought to the table. There's soooo much of history that we record but we just don't care about. Thank you for bringing on how Rome conquer Italy!
Oh and you just gained a sub - me :))
Great vid, the info I was looking for.
This video did an amazing job at providing a sense of continuity between the earliest stages of settlement to what could be recognized as the Roman Republic. Just a bunch of guys going out year after year, generation after generation to fight their neighbors in what almost feels like a sport. Over time some "teams" prove consistently good and consolidate with their conquered neighbors, driving them further and further afield to find new "teams" to "play against." Except this fateful, bloody game had global consequences for centuries, millennia, and even for all time. It's kind of beautiful thinking about those early Romans and their little victories over local towns. They must have had no idea what they were building, what they were a part of, what grandeur would follow their achievements and use their name.
What wonders the remote future held for them. What wonders it may hold for us.
11:37 Samnite limbo. Great video!
In conclusion, Italy is a land of contrasts, thank you.
that was an amazing watch, please do more videos like this!
Best vid ever on Rome-Italy origins!
Greg Pincus Romans got deafeated alot too
Beautifully made mate! Well done.
This level of detail is amazing and I am completely fascinated! What a video! Subbed
Perfect Hype Video for Rise of the Republic!
This was pretty good, Invicta... One of my Favs but then again, I love Roman History! Keep up the good work and I'll see you on the next one.
Yay! New Invicta vid! Love it
Can I nitpick about something? It's hard to get a feel for Italian/Roman geography when you just show a generic topographic map and talk over it, without highlighting things as you go. Like when you say "whose territory stretched all the way from the Po Valley to Campania" when its not really obvious where those two places are.
Isn't it? Obvious? Campania is in the south east and Po was stated on multiple maps in the vid.
If I may suggest, pick up a political map of Italy. When talking about the territories of those times, they usually correspond to modern Italian regions. For example Campania would be the area that stretched from Salernum to Naples, Capua and the Samnite territories in the Appennines (although when talking specifically abou Campania Felix, it is usually to refer to the valley in the northern part of Campania, around Capua). The Po valley... It's literally the valley where the river Po (the only long-ish river in Italy) streams, it's located in the North between the Alps and the Appennines.
Campania of today also includes the ancient Samnium, where the Samnites lived.
I thought the same. I'm Italian and I know what he is talking about, but I would feel the same watching a video about ancient China.
7:25 really activates my map painting neuron.
At 9:53 (left painting) - The sweet reward.
A very interesting video, thanks for sharing light on such a rarely-spoken period of Roman history. If you are able, could you also make a video on the unification of China under the Qin? With The coming Total War Three Kingdoms title, I believe it would be an interesting matter to work on as well.
Superb presentation; very enlightening and engaging with excellent graphical illustrations. More please! Subbed.
I adore seeing your speaking skills improve as time goes on
"Snows always melt."
How do you figure out what was actually true in history and what was just made up? Since a lot of historians argue about what actually happen in a lot of events.
Digio Santing read the many texts of different others of the time and then you can get a good idea of the History
Ludwin V in fact that as a well known, but wrong translation. Don't worry it was Cicero himself, who brought up this translation. Correctly it would be: "I know, what I don't know". This means, that Socrates saw his superiorty over others not in his sheer amount of knowledge, but much more the knowledge, where the borders of his wisdom lied.
I'm not sure how he does it, but I usually cross-reference different primary and secondary sources.
With primary sources, I often try to see on which details these sources can often agree with, and go with that. If there's multiple conflicting details, and the sources just can't agree, I'll just keep all possibilities in mind.
When it comes to secondary sources, I try to see which of the writers have a much more credible career, or test the credibility of their sources. I also try to see what most secondary sources can agree on, and do the same thing if they somehow can't agree on a certain detail.
And just in case you aren't aware,
Primary Sources are often what you call sources from the time period you're studying, this includes journals or diaries, newspapers, official documents, etc. Anything that was written down during that time could be considered a primary source. Though, these primary sources could sometimes be biased, or exaggerate/romanticize certain events or battles, and that was commonly the case with historians during Antiquity.
Secondary Sources are materials from other historians, whom interpret primary sources to infer information. Just in general, these include history books written by historians, though there may be other materials I forgot to mention. Though, secondary sources can also be sometimes unreliable or biased, or be unable to agree with one another.
Being critical is a good trait to have when studying history, so it's a good thing you're asking this, really. :)
It is worth mentioning that science and logic play a role in verifying historical events and facts. You know how some folks claim the enemy was impossibly large? They usually do that by sneaking noncombatants in with the count. There is a useful shortcut to get a better estimate. Any society with a high infant mortality rate will be about 50% children and 50% women. That means only 1/4 of the population is expected to bear arms (half of the people are kids and the remaining half are women). So if Caesat says he fought 200,000 he really means 50,000.
To build on what cdtlnc and Eli Vertrees have said, we also have the archaeological record to help us confirm various accounts in ancient Greek and Roman historiography, or for that matter historical records of other civilizations like the ancient Chinese (the latter invaluable for our understanding of things such as the fate of the Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian Kingdom in Central Asia, absent in Greek historiography).
Great vid. I was wanting a vid just like this to clarify the RoR dlc time period
6:58 and that's why you should disable defensive pacts in the rule menu
Fucking hate that😂
fantastic video more like this please!
Luv this. :)
Great job with the video.
Amazing how Total War has improved so many historical documentary visuals.
That was a great video! I hope you put more together!
I really love your channel. Glad to see how far it has come.
Wow I had three classes dealing with Rome as a History major at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa wish you taught Roman History. Great lecture Sir.
Excellent video as always! I love all of your content and am happy about anything you put out. But damn am I dying to know how the siege of Jerusalem ended
Thank you, very informative!
Rome's strategy of incorporating former enemies into its alliance does seem like Empire Building 101 - I mean wouldn't all of Rome's rivals be practicing the same obvious strategy? What made Rome different?
Manpower seems to have been key - did Rome have more fertile lands than its neighbors, capable of supporting a larger population?
I really enjoyed your observation about how Geography shapes the development of Peoples. It is so obvious once realized, and yet it seems to have taken us a while to see it.
You should do more videos about Rome's rise. Starting with going into the same detail shown in the first half of this video on what you glossed over in this video. Then continuing from there.
I'll definitely be trying that in the future with highlights of the Samnite wars and more
Invicta I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out!
A Invicta video about Rome on my birthday Thank you!
Interesting and wonderful, well illustrated and explained...Enjoyed, a lot! Vidi, audivi, et ego probaverunt!
I'm gonna watch this later.Your videos about Rome is really well done.
Good stuff! Love the detail and graphics in your videos on Rome!
Very detailed,never seen this before as far as the first real expansion of rome as an individual city as such,well done.
Interesting to see how different cultures and peoples inhabited different landscapes e.g Greeks preferring coastline, and Celts preferring river valleys etc.
they had deveoped the naval trade roots those times and celts were an agricultural society that is why.
I love it. Good enough video for old school History Channel. Looking forward to learning more. :)
I love your stuff dude, you should be proud! keep it up!
"If this was boxing..." Rome could be personified by Rocky Marciano 😁
The picture given was of Joe Calzaghe. In my opinion Calzaghe fit the metaphor tremendously well. A guy who was often knock downed early in fights, such as Hopkins and Roy Jones but ended up winning a 12 round UD. Also ending his career undefeated.
@@Xeroxrite Calzaghe was a great champion in his own right, personally, I still prefer the Marciano analogy. He represents relentlessness and power in a way that matches up very well with the Roman Empire in my eyes.
This was wonderfully done, excellent job!
Even in the local area portrayed @3:50 did not "speak the same language. Latin dominated from Rome south to Praeneste and Lavinium, where Etruscan was spoken in the North, starting at Veii. Spread throughout was also Oscan, an Italian language spoken throughout the central and southern Italian littoral, and as similar to Latin as Danish is to Swedish.
Continue this video please. Continue the timeline please. More details like this video is amazing. I love it.
These videos makes me want to play the old Caesar game (3).
Awesome vid!!
quality content as always. Love it
great job on the maps. thank you for sharing with us.
thats an amazing period and you presented it verry nice!
4:36 the process of what? Sounds like sinoichism but i cant find the word?
Ahh these videos are so short, I'm nerding for morrreeeee
with the ancient empires modification you can actually manage the settlements like rome did, as allied states, colonies, cities with rights etc. It is a really great mod, I recommend you check it out.
Epic video. Top notch history!
Great video, always enjoy your content
I love the video but certain details, particularly the map at 14:20 could use more work. For instance: in that map the faction colors are swapped and if you don't know the history already or are a lees attentive viewer it might be confusing. I think there is still a color-swap/negative effects that can be used in common photo editing software.