What the Romans did for us Invasion PART 1

[jamiepapalardi]

What the roman did was, they steal everything you've got, including your underwear. Thats what they're good at.

[proud2becanadian1996]

it's ironic southern europe saw northern europe as uncivilised and controlled it now we the nordic people in 2011 see southern europe as unable 2 rule itself and therefore are controlling it. The romans wanted money and now we want are money back!!!!!

[scr4pp7]

Why can't I find part 2?

Was it taken down?

[shaunblake101]

"i came, i saw, i conquered" -Julius Ceaser

[pcortes1987]

i find it amazing that bullshit nations like macedonia and greece and others less worthy pop up around 18 and 19 century due to nationalism but roman state didnt even rise up to this nations.

[stephanosmixail]

@pcortes1987 firstly macedonia is greece...........secondary bloodlines do not change once a barbarian forever a barbarian!!

[cirosuperiore]

they invaded because spain was running out of silver.

[ClassicalPCGaming]

I love history, It's so Interesting. I'm taking it in school :D

[strategus999]

Thanks for uploading Titus. 

[victor86tabacaru]

this series is brilliant; ave mister labienus!

[TheWarlord900]

Wow, the Romans had power!

[tacotony24]

It's good the Romans conquered these savages and cannibals.

[Robsfund]

@tacotony24 XD you really are quite dense aren't you?

I'm guessing you lack any sort of historical knowledge...

[PICLex]

@tacotony24

Lol, Romans were the barbarians.

[mrcharles007]

@tacotony24 the romans were every bit as savage as the so called barbarians.

[stygn]

@ShowYourWorking Thanks for the reply. I'm not a Roman history "geek", I'm more into WW2 really.. And this makes it strange that I've even heard about that modification of the javelins. Perhaps I saw it on some TV program about that battle and just remembered that design. Well, I'd say it was a clever design : )

[Valholm]

this dude is so soft and out of shape it hurts me

[Landofwoads]

i can picture why the britons seemed scary but to bad they had no BLOODY ORDER

[Robsfund]

@Landofwoads Just because the ancient Britons were considered a Barbaric race doesn't mean they were mindless mad-men (the term Barbarian traditionaly just means someone who isn't greek, but the roman's adapted to mean anyone outside of the empire.) In fact British Iron Age culture was much older than the Roman's and they had a very sophisticated societal system. This fact is overlooked as they didn't recieve the 'greek enlightenment' like the romans did.

[stygn]

About the javelin.. Didn't they also use 2 "bolts" to hold the iron tip, one of hard wood, and one of very brittle wood so that when the javelin hit the brittle "bolt" would break upon impact. The tip would then hang and sway from the 1 hard "bolt" and be useless. But after the battle the Romans would pick up the javelins and replace the brittle "bolt". But this might have been an earlier or later design.

[pacbizkit]

iv bin wantin 2 watch this agen 4 ages. thanx 4 uploadin

[ProtestantIRA]

romans stole the helmet design from the Celts in Gaul

[TheAlexagius]

I think it was in what the anchients did for us (another great seris) were he says the hitties had a proffesional army.

[SlickNicaG69]

Valmarith, do you ever ask yourself what vile things your own people did to themselves? Look up the druids, and think on the subject again.

[ValmarithElden]

You do not think to ask why I spit on Rome, the accursed tribe of Caesar. Rome did horrible things to my people, to my ancestors. And I do not play World of Warcraft.

Do you bully and block anyone who does not venerate Rome?

[CDspartan21]

haha my ancestors ruled your ass

[ValmarithElden]

@CDspartan21 And the Persians kicked their asses, and then so did the Goths.

[MalteseFalcon786]

I thought the helmet was known as a Galea

[Bjjownsu10]

The Welsh maintain a romano-british culture is that true???

[Isthisthelongestname]

what are you on about?? Who told you that?

[alexc543]

so the romans where blue and red then cool i think blue looks better on them

[whowantsabighug]

it probably differed from legion to legion, and its doubtful they actually wore the legions colours on thier tunics since dye was expensive

[FuckingBoozer]

Roman's..........western civilisation owe's it everything , with out it everything would be different .

[jokerisnomak]

If I had a choice do lead any army in History of mankind (4000 BC-1600 AD)...ROMANS WOULD BE IT!

[Spartiatai300]

I'd go with the Spartans.

[CorpusChristi83]

@jokerisnomak I think you mean 5500BC-1600AD, if yu mean Written history.

[jokerisnomak]

@CorpusChristi83 ah details, you are right, that time frame is more precise, but at the same time you missed the whole point of my comment but who gives a crap.

[CorpusChristi83]

@jokerisnomak lol. I'm just busting ur balls bro, I agree, theyd be the most powerful armies to lead, followed by the ancient Greeks.

[stephanosmixail]

@jokerisnomak romans did not exist in 4000bc.....they were a small village until the 4th century bc!!

[jokerisnomak]

@stephanosmixail read my comment CAREFULLY (especially the part with "any army), and then reflect upon your response

[magicstorm1]

alexander made macedon a great empire, but he didnt made or train a strong leader like himself. So it crumbled just as fast he conquered minor asia

[TitusLabienus]

That's is what I'm saying.

[Killare2]

macedonians also had a proffesional army

[TitusLabienus]

Well, many ancient nations had proffesional armies, but that doesn't mean that they will become an Empire such as Rome.

[FEERME1225]

@TitusLabienus Rome had state of art weapons, armies, and ideas of that time. But their culture and cities were based off of basic greek architechture. Their leaders were few with skill, and those few became ones like Augustus and Julius, aside from that, they were corrupt and had no loyalty. Every country that's ever existed has had a few great men, those few die young and leave a mark on the world. Macedon had a great man, he died young and his 'best' leaders killed eachother for his land.

[Miauriceful]

@FEERME1225

Rome absorbed many things from Greece, but not architechture. Architecture was the real roman art.

[FcK2420]

@Miauriceful Are you kidding me???

Look at the pantheon and tell me it isnt inspired by greek architecture!

[Miauriceful]

@FcK2420

Read Ancient_Roman_architecture on wikipedia

[FcK2420]

@Miauriceful "Ancient Roman architecture ADOPTED certain aspects of Ancient Greek architecture, creating a new architectural style" From your own god damn source???

[KenCaesarXL]

@TitusLabienus Macedonia, like Carthage, relied heavily on Mercenary soldiers hired during time of war. Athens and other Greek city-states had armies, but they weren't standing armies all the time, they weren't trained year-round like Rome and Sparta. Sparta is well-known to have had a standing army and always trained. Rome was renowned for training its legions constantly like armies do today. This is backed up by the writings of ancient authors who saw the Roman army, not just an opinion.

[KenCaesarXL]

@TitusLabienus I would think that other than superior tactics, the constant training allowed Rome to defeat Greek armies (see list of set-piece battles), Macedonian armies, Carthaginian armies (eventually), and most other armies they ran across. Parthia/Sassanids are a notable exception to that rule. Again, not just an opinion, the ancient writings back it up, as well as the obvious results (Rome became an empire). Great documentary btw : )

[stephanosmixail]

@KenCaesarXL history says that the constant battles of greeks between them made them really weak with very few seasoned troopes.Pyrhos the mollosian defeated the romans twice but had to abandone the campaign to protect the greek cities of southern italy due to fighting in mainland greece.Also hellenic people of the hellenistic years had been heavilly influenced by the persians which made them less tough and laconic

[KenCaesarXL]

@stephanosmixail I totally agree with that : ) Most cities in greece didn't have a year round army though either, it was based on recruitment when needed. Sparta being the exception to that rule.

I totally agree with the infighting, Greece was split and weak, and studies of battles in Spartan history show the decline of their male population over the years, less and less men able to fight in battle until they became virtually non-existant. I think Sparta though allied with Rome

[LordAzanko]

@TitusLabienus thats the funny thing many civilizations made empires that that were far larger in size and strength yet few had the staying power of rome

[14GloryofRome14]

@Killare2 I'm pretty sure the Assyrians did too.

[burken123]

first wiew first rate and first comment