Areanyusernamesleft or inverted, you had hostillius tullus, which is strikingly close to hoster tully, father of catelyn, mother of Robb, the young wolf and king in the north!
John Lemon the war he started against Alba Longa was over Alban sheep grazing on Roman fields. The war nearly annihilated both civilizations and came down to a combat trial between two trios of men - one Roman band of triplets, and one Alban band of triplets - and the last standing of the Roman brothers won only after both his brothers had been slain.
Interestingly, the details about his warlike life are probably inferred from his name to begin with. The Romans thought his name sounded warlike too, so when they had nothing to work with, they decided that he waged a lot of wars and neglected the gods. There is really nothing we can genuinely say this fellow actually did.
Nice one! No wonder the Romans were so aggressive on the world stage - they were constantly struggling with everyone around them. Throwing out the last king was just the beginning. The conquest of the Latin League, the sacking of Rome by the Gauls, the fight against the Samnites and then Magna Grecia, Pyrrhus, the Carthaginians, Hannibal, and then the path to Sulla, Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony, Augustus - civil wars - whew out of breath.
As Pyrrhus left Sicily for the last time, he turned back and said, “ what’s field we have left for the Romans and the Cathaginians!” - as a tear came to his eye.
You forgot the abandonment of Rome by the Plebians, forcing the creation the Tribune of the Plebs position. Also, you forgot the venerable Marius, and Scipio Africanus. As brilliant as Julius was, I think Africanus and Marius were better generals.
Thank you Malay Archer! :D yeah I really love the ignored bits of history(or different perspectives on the prominent points too)-and I enjoy sharing parts I find interesting Glad you found my channel!
Great so see these history based channels grow, I've only just found this one today but I like it! I feel like the more collaboration between such channels can only help... Famine mentality doesn't help... There's so many interested viewers, it's just a matter of reaching the target audiences
I tried a different style of drawing in this video, hope you guys like it :) If you like this video a lot a book I would recommend is the Chronicle of the Roman Republic (Philip Matyszak) I used that as the main source for this video.
I think this style is greater than the previous one for two reasons, it's more detailed and also, it can be made as a signature of your channel instead of a generic style, and genuity is always convincing.
When people talk about Ancient Rome they almost always talk about the either the Republic where it was ruled by Consuls, or the Empire where it was ruled by Emperors, but aside from Romulus and Tarquin the Proud, they almost never talk about the Kingdom where it was ruled by Kings and you'd think with 7 kings over the course of 244 Years it would be fascinating to talk about, and thankfully your video does just that in 7 minutes. Great job.
KTChamberlain The problem is that there are no accounts of this period. Each king is reputed to have ruled a ridiculously long period, and all we know comes from the king hating republic. So basically an historical void.
This was a good video but it's important to keep in mind we have almost no reliable evidence about the Regal period. When the Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC, almost all historical records were lost. What we think we know about Roman Kings is almost 100% legend. There are also many anachronisms in the stories; reading Livy's account gives you the impression that the Republic emerged almost fully formed following the exile of Tarquin the Proud. In reality it probably took many decades for traditional Republican institutions to develop. There were probably more than seven kings, as all their reigns are implausibly long. The stories about the Tarquins are probably a repressed memory of Etruscan domination of Rome, as there seems to have been a definite period where Etruscan influence is undeniable, just from the archeological record.
Interesting how all these kings, even Tarquinius Superbus, made massive improvements to Rome that would set their traditions and livelihoods for centuries and even millennia.
It's folklore/ oral tradition. Literally all of it might be made up. However, there is probably truth in some of it. It was their way of explaining what was before.
@@jramseier There was some archeological evidence of the later kings such as the depiction of Servius Tullius in Vulci. What's really bizarre about the whole affair is how long they thought the kings ruled. For example, 150yrs passed between the birth snd death of the two Tarquins.
Alternative history: If Remus survived he would have established the city of Reme. Reme would first be allies with Rome and then 700 years later Rome would conquer the whole Europe, not giving anything to Reme, and then Reme would train their army and attack and destroy Rome, which would prevent Romans from killing Jesus, and Jesus would die as an 80 year old. Reme would also prevent Rome from burning the Great Library of Alexandria(the destruction of that library was a massive loss of knowledge,and it set back the progress of humanity for one thousand years), which is where all the knowledge was collected for milleniums, and now we would have that knowledge and we would be 1000 years ahead of our time.
@@mariojuric2871 How many people will misread this. The burning of the library of Alexandria destroyed 1000 years worth of knowledge, it didn't set us back 1000 years. Although I do agree that important discoveries contained in that library would've improved our tech a lot faster, but it would've only been about 50 years prior something.
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic6379 yes but what do you think why were people more advanced in ancient times then in middle ages? Beacause they regressed and the reason for that is the MASSIVE loss of knowledge
Rome and it's founding in particular is of great interest of mine and am well read on the subject and must say this is the best description of the subject I've ever seen! Well done!
@@temporaryaccount5698 same concept different title the same happen in the republican era some councilors were beaten to death for simple disagreement like the gracci brothers
Watching this has deepened my understanding of ancient history and made me appreciate the complexities of early human societies. Fantastic work by the creators
Most likely a myth...but Romulus at least is probably loosely based on a real historical leader... archeology supports the timing for the 8th century BC for Rome's establishment and rapid growth....at that time essentially all Italian cities had King's so it would make sense that a king founded this city in the 8th century, probably from Alba Longa too...after all their histories were destroyed, some of the oral traditions were probably embellished and made more epic with Gods intervening etc... So probably there was a real chap maybe even named Romulus from Alba Longa who founded the city...but maybe the brother, she-wolf and the vestal virgin etc...were made up Thanks, I was thinking the Romans loved mosaics so I tried to go for a mosaic look for the video :)
imho it is a myth but even more recent events get misreported to the nth degree such that the lie becomes the fact. Given that the Cloaca Maxima was the first structure in the foundation of Rome, and that it was built by Etruscans using Etruscan money; Rome was an Etruscan endeavor. The well founded Etruscans saw an opportunity on their southern border, drained a marsh that kept tribes living on the surrounding hills separate; and gave them farmland and a safe inland connection to the sea. Eventually the Etruscans over meddled to their doom.
0:00 This year (753 BC) was one way The Roman Republic would count years. It was called AVC for Anno Urbis Condita 2:22 38-80 AVC, for 42 years 2:33 80-112 AVC (32y) 2:45 112-137 AVC (25y) 3:55 137-174 AVC (37y) 4:44 174-217 AVC (44y) 5:30 219-244 AVC (25y) As said this age of Kings lasted 244 years, and Caesar's death in 44 BC happened 709 years after the founding of Rome, meaning the Republic was 465 years old when he was killed.
The other popular story of the founding of Rome (written by Virgil) is that the prince Aeneas of Troy escaping the sack of the city with a group of followers on boats landed in the Roman area and created a city there. Some stories also merge the romolus story with the Aeneas story.
The two Bruti of Roman history are actually related too. The Brutus who betrayed Caesar was a direct descendant of the Brutus who founded the Republic and threw out the Tarquins.
Dunno if you're just living up to your username, but he was most definitely a tyrant. Not all tyrants meet peaceful ends, and Caesar was most removed from a virtuous figure. Not a man to be glorified.
Funny. In Spanish, Tarquin is not "Proud" but "Prideful" or "Arrogant". It has a much more direct negative connotation. The word in Spanish is "Soberbio", which comes directly from the Latin "Superbia".
Great video. I have one suggestion and one correction. Suggestion: mention as they come up which people are legendary, semi-legendar, or historical. For example, Romulus' life is almost entirely legendary, while some of the later kings are semi-legendary, with the last few being historical. Correction: The Roman Census was not the first census in the world. I know that there was at least one during the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, which predates the Kingdom of Rome by quite a few centuries.
“Gods I hate Gauls. My grandfather hated them too, even before they put out his eyes. Did you think I'd be out here on the frontier without good reason? Yes, Rome needs a strong frontier. No, Rome doesn't need unwashed barbarians at her gates! So, that's why I'm here, the leader of the Julii: to bring Roman order to stinking Gauls. Revenge? That'd be good too.”
that late war vs Porsena and the etruscans deserves a short video. Some great mythic/historic tales like Lucius Scaevola and Horatius Cocles. this was great. big fan of your work
Funny how the 2 most successful empires started out as bandits theves and other troublemakers (the other being the British/English with the Saxons who were barbarian pirates and mercenaries)
Got my last ever uni exam on Early Roman History in 1hr and 50 minutes. So just watching this whilst I eat my lunch haha, good luck to me I'm gonna need it
King David of Israel conducted a census at least four centuries before Servius Tullius. (Right, I know...I get it...I...okay, fine...but even if one doesn't believe in any supernatural aspect of the Bible, archaeology supports the existence of its kings and many non-supernatural events recorded therein).
considering the Levant had regressed to an illiterate state following the Bronze Age Collapse, with writing not appearing again till a few centuries after the time David would have lived, I don't see how they could have recorded any count they made. So this argues against the census story being true
@@keithharper32 Just because literature isn't present in the archaeological record doesn't mean that there weren't literate people. Writing as a tool did not disappear. Keep reading, you've got a LONG way to go before you can start making authoritative statements like that
I can answer that (Muslim here). The majority and I really mean MAJORITY of Actual Western European tribes/people (ancient and today) are descendants of Esau, older brother to the younger Jacob. The first son to Isaac, who is the 2nd son of Abraham (Ishmael is older by 14yrs born in 1999BC/3999); in a bigger picture, their lineage falls under "Shem" or Sam (In Arabic) second son of Noah/Nuh, but I'm sure you know that since your name states that and so does your question...Western European tribes started in Greece, that civilisation on the Crete island 3,900 years ago, give or take. Of course, this civilisation is "small and young" compared to the likes of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egyptian; but, it is nevertheless a civilisation. and that's where you get your Mycenaeans. Fast forward even further, after the collapse of the "1M" period, Greece was inhabited by the 'Dorians' and 'Sea People'. The Mycenaeans moved northwest where overtime after they moved to their new location, you'll hear people such as "Etruscans", "Sabines" and more appearing. What soon followed is the Romans, who are intermixture and descendants of those tribes I mentioned. The Romans eventually would give birth to more tribes of Western European, conquering the likes of Gauls (who is not the default ancestors of French people today, maybe some but not the majority) and others. Basically, the tribes that aren't Western are those that came down to mainland Europe via Scandinavia or through the Vistula. In simple terms, it must have nothing to do with any form of the Kurgan culture. Today, modern European anthropologists and genealogists cannot decipher where these tribes come from...the possibility of these tribes coming from the Pontic-Steppe has been debunked by the footprint of these tribes from various researchers, except those researchers that are Eastern European, they're still fighting today insisting that all Europeans are from that Steppe theory. You can see the bias-ness that they're playing here. Please, Please bear in mind, that I AM IN NO WAY SAYING THAT WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ARABS. Before any of you that might comment on this post tells me I'm trying to push an Islamic "Agenda". I am not. Why? 1.Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael and that's that. 2.Islam wasn't even ordained to be revealed yet.
great, succinct video. would love more content about the relationship of the young rome with the latins and etruscans and other italian neighbor states.
That was good. But I am curious about the rulers of Rome after Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD and beyond. I know that " Romulus Augustus, was forced to abdicate and the Germanic general Odoacer took control of the city. Italy eventually became a Germanic Ostrogoth kingdom." "In 476, Odoacer became the first barbarian King of Italy," But who ruled Rome between Odoacer and the Moors in 846 AD??
The goths, then the lombards invaded and conquered Italy, and after then the eastern roman empire sent Belisarius and he reconquered Italy for the empire again.
@@xiuhcoatl4830 ...Wow, thanks. I always see movies about Rome when it was in its full glory, but I never see anything about Rome from 476 AD to 1000 AD.
@@xiuhcoatl4830 ... it may not have been great, but at least it put an end to the CRAZY Emporers and all of their deviant shenanigans. For example, I saw the mini-series, I Claudius. And I was shocked at what those Emperors and their assassin wives did.
i love your history videos and like the new aesthetic styles you are using for them. since you are making antiquity videos, could you make some about the religious movements of the.ancient world like neoplatonists? one interesting history would be the early macedonian conquests under philip and before alexander, and how a small kingdom became the biggest conqueror of the world. also how greek culture was spread by them to as far away as india.
This seems to be a bit rushed. The real story is: Rome was a city they grew quite big and then were conquered/vassalized by the Etruscans. Who ruled for a few hundre years. Eventually the romans removed the etruscan kings from power and despised Depotism(kings) and never wanted them again. Leading to the start of the republic(after many attempts by the etruscans to reseat a king in Rome). Eventually the etruscans wound up in battles against greeks and were invaded by gauls, so they were weakended and rome took them on taking some of their territory and becoming a major player in the Italian Peninsula. The gauls then ended up sacking rome too.
While the kings themselves are most likely myth, they do provide us with a good narrative of the development of early Rome. From its origin as a small town of misfits who were tamed by religion, to the people's overthrowing of their Etruscan overlords.
The city-state of Rome was definitely not the first republic in history. I think you're forgetting the nearby Greeks, as there were dozens of Greek republics by this point, i.e. 509 BC. Hell, even Punic Carthage would become a republic and throw out its own monarch by 480 BC. There were Greek cities in Magna Graecia, i.e. southern Italy, that were Republics by then, such as Taras (modern Taranto, Italy), to say nothing of the island of Sicily, Massalia in France and Emporion in Spain.
@@EpimetheusHistory Direct and representative democracies are merely different types of republics, with an oligarchy or even a tyranny or dictatorship still technically being republics, if a republic can be defined as any form of government without a monarchy, hereditary or otherwise. For instance, the US is a representative democracy, Switzerland is a direct democracy, and both can be called republics.
...and for that matter, are you assuming Athens, the chief example of a democracy, was a full direct democracy by 509 BC? Just look at the evolution of its constitution from Draco to Solon, and you will see that the city had a mixed system much like the Romans, with an aristocracy that had various oligarchic powers that only began to wane with Solon & finally disappeared during the Age of Pericles in the Classical period.
Glad that the presenter, though late in the video, mentioned that the "history" of the kings is legendary, corrupted and/or fabricated. Few (or actually "no") historians take the Kings of Rome as canon, as presented by Livy and told here. The length of their reigns are way longer than any historically recorded dynasties; each kings is stereotyped (the founder king; the religion king; the builder king; the war king, etc.); and there's certainly more to the real story than the fairytale feel of Livy's account. It's impossible to tell if each one was real or legendary.
The account of Lucretia's death is exactly the same one told by Christine de Pizan in the XV century! When I read her text, I imagined she had made some parts up to support a point, but it is really similar to what you just explained. Where did you get it from, if I may ask?
you should also make a video on the history of shia islam and how it differed and fought with sunni islam throughout history, and the different imams have very interesting stories of their own too. since the shia-sunni conflict is relevant today as well because of saudi and iran, a video on the historical context would also be politically relevant.
Romulus:What shall we call this b rand new city?
remus: How about Reme?
Romulus: I have a better idea.
Yknow, had they agreed, the city wpuld probably be named after Mars, or something. Dual monarch style.
Abderrezak Ghozlane This comment is precious.
@@ntpgmr And then we would have Martian Empire. Do you really want this?
@@mixererunio1757 Nah, but if English would develop the same way then it would be like that.
That’s dark man
"He was followed by Tullus *Hostilius,* whose reign was marked by near constant warfare with Rome's neighbors."
What's in a name indeed? ;)
Areanyusernamesleft or inverted, you had hostillius tullus, which is strikingly close to hoster tully, father of catelyn, mother of Robb, the young wolf and king in the north!
KING IN DA NORF!
Well, Hostilius is probably just a label that they stuck onto his name afterwards to describe his nature.
@@daisybrain9423 What about Sextus. That rings a bell.
@Fatih Said Duran: Sorry, it doesn't. Care to elaborate?
All the kings look so angry.
bcause the uploader is a troller
If the Kings were alive today, they would be angry on how the world became too feminine
@@lovepeoplehu9883 I hope this is making fun of Camille Paglia.
@@lovepeoplehu9883 And you would bow down to them cause they're "alpha". Pathetic.
Mean n moody that's how they were.
Hostilius... sounds like a nice guy...
John Lemon the war he started against Alba Longa was over Alban sheep grazing on Roman fields. The war nearly annihilated both civilizations and came down to a combat trial between two trios of men - one Roman band of triplets, and one Alban band of triplets - and the last standing of the Roman brothers won only after both his brothers had been slain.
DISTurbedwaffle918
Lol... I guess he wasn't such a Nice Guy after all..
DISTurbedwaffle918 and do not forget that, soon after the trial, the Roman winner slained his sister too, for good measure.
Interestingly, the details about his warlike life are probably inferred from his name to begin with. The Romans thought his name sounded warlike too, so when they had nothing to work with, they decided that he waged a lot of wars and neglected the gods. There is really nothing we can genuinely say this fellow actually did.
At least he wasn't Crass like Crassus. And thank the Roman Deities he was humble, unlike Pompous Pompey "The great".
Nice one! No wonder the Romans were so aggressive on the world stage - they were constantly struggling with everyone around them. Throwing out the last king was just the beginning. The conquest of the Latin League, the sacking of Rome by the Gauls, the fight against the Samnites and then Magna Grecia, Pyrrhus, the Carthaginians, Hannibal, and then the path to Sulla, Julius Caesar, Mark Anthony, Augustus - civil wars - whew out of breath.
:D Well said!
Pyrrhus and Sulla are two of my favorites...Such epic lives
As Pyrrhus left Sicily for the last time, he turned back and said, “ what’s field we have left for the Romans and the Cathaginians!” - as a tear came to his eye.
You forgot the abandonment of Rome by the Plebians, forcing the creation the Tribune of the Plebs position. Also, you forgot the venerable Marius, and Scipio Africanus. As brilliant as Julius was, I think Africanus and Marius were better generals.
About to do a video on Ilipa - think you’re right - Scipio was a genius
Epimetheus Marius is one of my favorites
This channel is so underrated with so many potential. I love how you cover the forgotten and untold histories
Thank you Malay Archer!
:D yeah I really love the ignored bits of history(or different perspectives on the prominent points too)-and I enjoy sharing parts I find interesting
Glad you found my channel!
Great so see these history based channels grow, I've only just found this one today but I like it!
I feel like the more collaboration between such channels can only help...
Famine mentality doesn't help... There's so many interested viewers, it's just a matter of reaching the target audiences
Underrated? He has over 3 hundred thousand subs lol
I tried a different style of drawing in this video, hope you guys like it :)
If you like this video a lot a book I would recommend is the Chronicle of the Roman Republic (Philip Matyszak) I used that as the main source for this video.
I love it! Awesome video!
I think this style is greater than the previous one for two reasons, it's more detailed and also, it can be made as a signature of your channel instead of a generic style, and genuity is always convincing.
The people look to similar and very angry or weird. You can do better. The ladies while obviously too similar looked better.
mosaic style
I could not focus on the map. Like the traditional style rather than marbled
When people talk about Ancient Rome they almost always talk about the either the Republic where it was ruled by Consuls, or the Empire where it was ruled by Emperors, but aside from Romulus and Tarquin the Proud, they almost never talk about the Kingdom where it was ruled by Kings and you'd think with 7 kings over the course of 244 Years it would be fascinating to talk about, and thankfully your video does just that in 7 minutes. Great job.
KTChamberlain The problem is that there are no accounts of this period. Each king is reputed to have ruled a ridiculously long period, and all we know comes from the king hating republic. So basically an historical void.
It is because of probable revealing of Slavic origin of Romans.
This was a good video but it's important to keep in mind we have almost no reliable evidence about the Regal period. When the Gauls sacked Rome in 390 BC, almost all historical records were lost. What we think we know about Roman Kings is almost 100% legend. There are also many anachronisms in the stories; reading Livy's account gives you the impression that the Republic emerged almost fully formed following the exile of Tarquin the Proud. In reality it probably took many decades for traditional Republican institutions to develop.
There were probably more than seven kings, as all their reigns are implausibly long. The stories about the Tarquins are probably a repressed memory of Etruscan domination of Rome, as there seems to have been a definite period where Etruscan influence is undeniable, just from the archeological record.
@@desmondd1984 I guess we'll never know
Interesting how all these kings, even Tarquinius Superbus, made massive improvements to Rome that would set their traditions and livelihoods for centuries and even millennia.
Well said
It's folklore/ oral tradition. Literally all of it might be made up. However, there is probably truth in some of it. It was their way of explaining what was before.
@@jramseier There was some archeological evidence of the later kings such as the depiction of Servius Tullius in Vulci. What's really bizarre about the whole affair is how long they thought the kings ruled. For example, 150yrs passed between the birth snd death of the two Tarquins.
I Wish Remus survived, he would have created the Reman civilization.
Yuwan it's ok, Reman Cyrodiil created an empire.
So many what ifs
Alternative history: If Remus survived he would have established the city of Reme. Reme would first be allies with Rome and then 700 years later Rome would conquer the whole Europe, not giving anything to Reme, and then Reme would train their army and attack and destroy Rome, which would prevent Romans from killing Jesus, and Jesus would die as an 80 year old. Reme would also prevent Rome from burning the Great Library of Alexandria(the destruction of that library was a massive loss of knowledge,and it set back the progress of humanity for one thousand years), which is where all the knowledge was collected for milleniums, and now we would have that knowledge and we would be 1000 years ahead of our time.
@@mariojuric2871 How many people will misread this. The burning of the library of Alexandria destroyed 1000 years worth of knowledge, it didn't set us back 1000 years. Although I do agree that important discoveries contained in that library would've improved our tech a lot faster, but it would've only been about 50 years prior something.
@@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic6379 yes but what do you think why were people more advanced in ancient times then in middle ages? Beacause they regressed and the reason for that is the MASSIVE loss of knowledge
Dang... your videos and art style are top notch!
Aweomse man! Glad you liked it
I watch all your videos, especially liked your France video :)
So cool you ran into my channel-Thanks!
Rome and it's founding in particular is of great interest of mine and am well read on the subject and must say this is the best description of the subject I've ever seen! Well done!
Larsanator
Thanks! I appreciate that :)
All the single ladies all the single ladies
Lol
Seems they had a thing for bad boys, lol.
If you like it then should have put Remus on it
@@grinreaper. lmao
so it was in romans dna to murder almost every emperor they had regardless if it was done by justice or pure jealousy.
These were kings tho
@@temporaryaccount5698 same concept different title the same happen in the republican era some councilors were beaten to death for simple disagreement like the gracci brothers
@@temporaryaccount5698 If you think there's a palpable difference between a king and an emperor you're absolutely naive
@@boozecruiser different name
@@temporaryaccount5698 Emperors were one step ahead of kings. Another word for emperor was "King of Kings".
Watching this has deepened my understanding of ancient history and made me appreciate the complexities of early human societies. Fantastic work by the creators
Wait arent Romulus and Remus a myth?
P.S great art style
Most likely a myth...but Romulus at least is probably loosely based on a real historical leader... archeology supports the timing for the 8th century BC for Rome's establishment and rapid growth....at that time essentially all Italian cities had King's so it would make sense that a king founded this city in the 8th century, probably from Alba Longa too...after all their histories were destroyed, some of the oral traditions were probably embellished and made more epic with Gods intervening etc...
So probably there was a real chap maybe even named Romulus from Alba Longa who founded the city...but maybe the brother, she-wolf and the vestal virgin etc...were made up
Thanks, I was thinking the Romans loved mosaics so I tried to go for a mosaic look for the video :)
imho it is a myth but even more recent events get misreported to the nth degree such that the lie becomes the fact. Given that the Cloaca Maxima was the first structure in the foundation of Rome, and that it was built by Etruscans using Etruscan money; Rome was an Etruscan endeavor. The well founded Etruscans saw an opportunity on their southern border, drained a marsh that kept tribes living on the surrounding hills separate; and gave them farmland and a safe inland connection to the sea. Eventually the Etruscans over meddled to their doom.
Qwetery probably
The first 3 King were certainly fictional and perhaps the 4th. Rome didn't become urbanized until the middle of the 7th century BC.
founding figures have been mythical ,moses jesus muhammad
0:00 This year (753 BC) was one way The Roman Republic would count years. It was called AVC for Anno Urbis Condita
2:22 38-80 AVC, for 42 years
2:33 80-112 AVC (32y)
2:45 112-137 AVC (25y)
3:55 137-174 AVC (37y)
4:44 174-217 AVC (44y)
5:30 219-244 AVC (25y)
As said this age of Kings lasted 244 years, and Caesar's death in 44 BC happened 709 years after the founding of Rome, meaning the Republic was 465 years old when he was killed.
The other popular story of the founding of Rome (written by Virgil) is that the prince Aeneas of Troy escaping the sack of the city with a group of followers on boats landed in the Roman area and created a city there. Some stories also merge the romolus story with the Aeneas story.
If your name is Brutus, there is a 100% chance of you ending a tyrant's rule
Or the Praetorian Guard
The Brutii suffered from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Then again, so did most Roman politicians.
The two Bruti of Roman history are actually related too. The Brutus who betrayed Caesar was a direct descendant of the Brutus who founded the Republic and threw out the Tarquins.
Caesar was no tyrant...if he had been he would have died old in his bed like Sulla and Emperor Augustus.
Dunno if you're just living up to your username, but he was most definitely a tyrant. Not all tyrants meet peaceful ends, and Caesar was most removed from a virtuous figure. Not a man to be glorified.
I learned more in this 7 minutes about the kings then the 3 months I lived in Italy!! Good video!
Emma Avelar it's just a myth, not really history.
Did you learn how to use your hands to speak? 🤌
Funny. In Spanish, Tarquin is not "Proud" but "Prideful" or "Arrogant". It has a much more direct negative connotation. The word in Spanish is "Soberbio", which comes directly from the Latin "Superbia".
That is a more accurate translation in English too! 'Proud' is too quaint a translation nowadays.
Same here. In polish we call him with adjactive "pyszny" What means man who is both proud and arrogant maybe also the bold
i like the psychological-thriller plot twist background music through the video
This channel is addictive, you better keep making videos now cause I'm hooked!
1. Build a time machine.
2. Stop the first sack of Rome.
3. Be the first to unearth the relevant artifacts.
Great video. I have one suggestion and one correction.
Suggestion: mention as they come up which people are legendary, semi-legendar, or historical. For example, Romulus' life is almost entirely legendary, while some of the later kings are semi-legendary, with the last few being historical.
Correction: The Roman Census was not the first census in the world. I know that there was at least one during the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, which predates the Kingdom of Rome by quite a few centuries.
Nice graphical devices for the talk, again, thanks.
Those damn Gauls
French are descendants of Gaul's
“Gods I hate Gauls. My grandfather hated them too, even before they put out his eyes.
Did you think I'd be out here on the frontier without good reason? Yes, Rome needs a strong frontier. No, Rome doesn't need unwashed barbarians at her gates! So, that's why I'm here, the leader of the Julii: to bring Roman order to stinking Gauls. Revenge? That'd be good too.”
@@imgonewiththewindfab uhh no, but sure go with whatever you like. No, I'm not a Frenchmen.
love this video. I kind of return to see it every year. Im addictive to it
“He’s dead!”- assassin
“No he isn’t ‘‘tis just a flesh wound!” -Tarquins wife.
How am I only finding this channel now??
This is AWESOME. 7 minutes of Heaven.
that late war vs Porsena and the etruscans deserves a short video. Some great mythic/historic tales like Lucius Scaevola and Horatius Cocles. this was great. big fan of your work
That was interesting! I always wanted to know how rome came to be, in the back of my mind, and this vid just scratched that itch.
Keep up the great work, glad I discovered your channel!
Funny how the 2 most successful empires started out as bandits theves and other troublemakers (the other being the British/English with the Saxons who were barbarian pirates and mercenaries)
Darth Revan don't forget the mongols.
Got my last ever uni exam on Early Roman History in 1hr and 50 minutes. So just watching this whilst I eat my lunch haha, good luck to me I'm gonna need it
Good luck!
What are you going to do after uni ?
EGO-IMPERIUM hopefully get a job hahaha
Hahaha I meant, what kind of job ? I learn history too, but I don't really know about my future
Good job. Thank you for covering this.
This is such an amazing video. Beautiful artwork and clear narration. You seriously deserve more subs!!
5 minutes in... This is awesome !
And well done on the pictures!
great vids m8, inspiring stuff
King David of Israel conducted a census at least four centuries before Servius Tullius.
(Right, I know...I get it...I...okay, fine...but even if one doesn't believe in any supernatural aspect of the Bible, archaeology supports the existence of its kings and many non-supernatural events recorded therein).
considering the Levant had regressed to an illiterate state following the Bronze Age Collapse, with writing not appearing again till a few centuries after the time David would have lived, I don't see how they could have recorded any count they made. So this argues against the census story being true
@@keithharper32 Just because literature isn't present in the archaeological record doesn't mean that there weren't literate people. Writing as a tool did not disappear. Keep reading, you've got a LONG way to go before you can start making authoritative statements like that
BRILLIANT VIDEO
The story of why being king was made illegal in Rome is a good one. Do you ever read anything by Will Durant?
1:28 "If you like it you shoulda put a ring on it!"
Cool video man
Can you do a video on Esau and all his Descendants and where did they migrate to and how many of them are Grecians and Romans
I can answer that (Muslim here). The majority and I really mean MAJORITY of Actual Western European tribes/people (ancient and today) are descendants of Esau, older brother to the younger Jacob. The first son to Isaac, who is the 2nd son of Abraham (Ishmael is older by 14yrs born in 1999BC/3999); in a bigger picture, their lineage falls under "Shem" or Sam (In Arabic) second son of Noah/Nuh, but I'm sure you know that since your name states that and so does your question...Western European tribes started in Greece, that civilisation on the Crete island 3,900 years ago, give or take. Of course, this civilisation is "small and young" compared to the likes of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egyptian; but, it is nevertheless a civilisation. and that's where you get your Mycenaeans. Fast forward even further, after the collapse of the "1M" period, Greece was inhabited by the 'Dorians' and 'Sea People'. The Mycenaeans moved northwest where overtime after they moved to their new location, you'll hear people such as "Etruscans", "Sabines" and more appearing. What soon followed is the Romans, who are intermixture and descendants of those tribes I mentioned. The Romans eventually would give birth to more tribes of Western European, conquering the likes of Gauls (who is not the default ancestors of French people today, maybe some but not the majority) and others. Basically, the tribes that aren't Western are those that came down to mainland Europe via Scandinavia or through the Vistula. In simple terms, it must have nothing to do with any form of the Kurgan culture.
Today, modern European anthropologists and genealogists cannot decipher where these tribes come from...the possibility of these tribes coming from the Pontic-Steppe has been debunked by the footprint of these tribes from various researchers, except those researchers that are Eastern European, they're still fighting today insisting that all Europeans are from that Steppe theory. You can see the bias-ness that they're playing here.
Please, Please bear in mind, that I AM IN NO WAY SAYING THAT WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLE ARE DESCENDANTS OF ARABS. Before any of you that might comment on this post tells me I'm trying to push an Islamic "Agenda". I am not. Why?
1.Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael and that's that.
2.Islam wasn't even ordained to be revealed yet.
@@aizac91 good break down
These vids are amazing
great, succinct video. would love more content about the relationship of the young rome with the latins and etruscans and other italian neighbor states.
Great new knowledge
Great vid!
When he mentioned the sacking of Rome: "Gods...I hate Gauls..."
You always sound like you have a cold, great vids tho, subbed
Thanks!...I think I did have one then
Nice work.
All the Roman great philosophers, great orators, great artists, great Scientists, great engineers were born and prospered during that time.
I REALLY LOVE YHIS ART STYLE!
Amazing video, really helped with my ancient history mock. Also, respect for leaving out the dodgy stuff told by livy *cough* divine fallace *cough*
I love History
“Tullus hostilius”
And he was hostile
That was good. But I am curious about the rulers of Rome after Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD and beyond.
I know that " Romulus Augustus, was forced to abdicate and the Germanic general Odoacer took control of the city. Italy eventually became a Germanic Ostrogoth kingdom."
"In 476, Odoacer became the first barbarian King of Italy,"
But who ruled Rome between Odoacer and the Moors in 846 AD??
The goths, then the lombards invaded and conquered Italy, and after then the eastern roman empire sent Belisarius and he reconquered Italy for the empire again.
@@xiuhcoatl4830 ...Wow, thanks.
I always see movies about Rome when it was in its full glory, but I never see anything about Rome from 476 AD to 1000 AD.
@@marcusrex77 because Its not a great period, and by that time Rome is no longer relevant.
@@xiuhcoatl4830 ... it may not have been great, but at least it put an end to the CRAZY Emporers and all of their deviant shenanigans. For example, I saw the mini-series, I Claudius. And I was shocked at what those Emperors and their assassin wives did.
You have a great voice.
I love how one of the kings gave out crypto lol.
This could have been perfect monty python material.
I love your videos..
Can you make video history about Indonesian Empire, pls?
i love your history videos and like the new aesthetic styles you are using for them. since you are making antiquity videos, could you make some about the religious movements of the.ancient world like neoplatonists?
one interesting history would be the early macedonian conquests under philip and before alexander, and how a small kingdom became the biggest conqueror of the world. also how greek culture was spread by them to as far away as india.
Numa pompilius was the best ruler of rome and dont you dare disagree
Why do all the kings look like Antoni Macierewicz?
"All the women going crazy for the early Roman Kings"
Guy named Brutus: Yo I suddenly feel like I want to end a dictatorship right now.
Whats this music name?
Even Livy mentioned that the early 'history' of Rome was most likely legend.
Instructive though.
Very nice
Actually, Tarquincthe Proud famously killed Services by his own hand, pushing him down the stairs and having Tullia run the body over.
Just subbed
What's the soundtrack bro?
damn not a single one of them had arms, the more you know
great video
God bless the fathers who have passed today 🙏🏽
Song name ?
Do a video on Assholius the Tyrant
Great job can you please do a video about Persia before the achemedian empire please
Daniel halo again
You're the guy whose always getting top comments from that ethnic channel. Nice seeing you here lol
C. Morgan Free nice to see you too
I like your video, new viewer but I’m having trouble hearing your voice ? Is it just me ?
Am I the only one that saw ""Steven Kings Rome"" when first glance at the video avatar? haha
Name of the music?
3:42 Hang on, up to this point every king had been elected (except Romulus). Why was there any expectation that the Marcius' sons would succeed him?
This seems to be a bit rushed. The real story is: Rome was a city they grew quite big and then were conquered/vassalized by the Etruscans. Who ruled for a few hundre years. Eventually the romans removed the etruscan kings from power and despised Depotism(kings) and never wanted them again. Leading to the start of the republic(after many attempts by the etruscans to reseat a king in Rome). Eventually the etruscans wound up in battles against greeks and were invaded by gauls, so they were weakended and rome took them on taking some of their territory and becoming a major player in the Italian Peninsula. The gauls then ended up sacking rome too.
Just a quibble, but the Gauls sacked Rome in 387 BC, not 390.
There is the irony that the Roman Republic began and ended with a Brutus.
While the kings themselves are most likely myth, they do provide us with a good narrative of the development of early Rome. From its origin as a small town of misfits who were tamed by religion, to the people's overthrowing of their Etruscan overlords.
I like your channel. Are you doing this alone?
Thank you. Yes, I am doing all the drawing, editing, writing, researching and voice recording :)
The city-state of Rome was definitely not the first republic in history. I think you're forgetting the nearby Greeks, as there were dozens of Greek republics by this point, i.e. 509 BC. Hell, even Punic Carthage would become a republic and throw out its own monarch by 480 BC. There were Greek cities in Magna Graecia, i.e. southern Italy, that were Republics by then, such as Taras (modern Taranto, Italy), to say nothing of the island of Sicily, Massalia in France and Emporion in Spain.
Do you think you might be confusing republic(elected representatives) with a democracy Eric?
@@EpimetheusHistory Direct and representative democracies are merely different types of republics, with an oligarchy or even a tyranny or dictatorship still technically being republics, if a republic can be defined as any form of government without a monarchy, hereditary or otherwise. For instance, the US is a representative democracy, Switzerland is a direct democracy, and both can be called republics.
...and for that matter, are you assuming Athens, the chief example of a democracy, was a full direct democracy by 509 BC? Just look at the evolution of its constitution from Draco to Solon, and you will see that the city had a mixed system much like the Romans, with an aristocracy that had various oligarchic powers that only began to wane with Solon & finally disappeared during the Age of Pericles in the Classical period.
Glad that the presenter, though late in the video, mentioned that the "history" of the kings is legendary, corrupted and/or fabricated. Few (or actually "no") historians take the Kings of Rome as canon, as presented by Livy and told here. The length of their reigns are way longer than any historically recorded dynasties; each kings is stereotyped (the founder king; the religion king; the builder king; the war king, etc.); and there's certainly more to the real story than the fairytale feel of Livy's account. It's impossible to tell if each one was real or legendary.
All the single ladies
1:30 All the single ladies
All the single ladies put your hands up
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The account of Lucretia's death is exactly the same one told by Christine de Pizan in the XV century! When I read her text, I imagined she had made some parts up to support a point, but it is really similar to what you just explained. Where did you get it from, if I may ask?
I believe Chronicle of the Roman Republic 2003 I think that was my primary source for most of the info in this video
Only halfway through I thought those faces somewhat familiar.
What's the song in the background?
you should also make a video on the history of shia islam and how it differed and fought with sunni islam throughout history, and the different imams have very interesting stories of their own too. since the shia-sunni conflict is relevant today as well because of saudi and iran, a video on the historical context would also be politically relevant.
I can't believe Rome had a Greek king for some time... WOW.
I can picture it now... Reme
I like that you think they only took the single ladies from Sabine lol
One brother killing the other? Huh, where have I heard that one already?