To all the people with inferioriy complex against romans for being from the north, I'd like to say that talking about your supremacy of nowadays in terms of insults to us southerns just show how many barbarians still live among the civilized north europe.
PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG NATIONS, WE ALL BELONG TO HUMAN RACE, PEACE HARMONY AND RESPECT ARE THE TRUE SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION
@Senyorpiroteknik Right. All the European cultures ( and especially the barbaric ones ), tried to mantain and to make their own at all costs the Roman civilization, laws, technology, symbols and so on... something that started even before the fell of the Roman Empire and has actually never stopped. From a person belonging to western culture opposing the Roman Empire is not only a clear sign of ignorance but but also an insult to his own culture.
History make his duty through ages. As everybody knows, first greek influences in Italy were not about "copying " or "borrowing", it was greek ppl coming to italy to begin new settlements. Mediterraneum was full of cultures that cross each others continously and influencing themselves.In Rome,the best of mediterranean culture found the best conditions to develope a specific one.Rome became an idea,the essence of what classic age could achieve as worldwide society, the realization of a dream.
The Romans had a great ethnical impact on France, as Galliae were the most romanized Roman provinces. People from southern France ( Provence, from the Roman Provincia ), have today exactely the same phenotypic "colours" of northern Italians. Southern France had also Greek and Arab influences, though not consistent ones. The Alans were Iranic tribes and they didn't affect France ethnically, or at least not more than what the Huns did for example. Many Romans were Celtic descendants too.
Little difference between an empire and the Roman Empire: "The Roman Empire lasted from: 16 January 27 BC when it was imposed on the title of emperor Augustus, until 476 AD
Year when Odoacer deposed the last emperor Romulus Augustus.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 you are a fool the romans are the reason why democracy and society flourished they created secularism philosophy albeit stolen form the greeks but still every free western country owes their whole system of governing from the roman (retard)
@TimurTheConqueror No, there were much better lifestyles than Roman in Europe. Saxons and Celts had much better lifestyle until Romans killed their people, stole their lands and imposed Roman infected "Democracy", and real Democracy was invented by Greeks not Romans. They exterminated Carthaginians which is a biggest genocide. They were useless, just like Mongols and Turks, Romans along with them only brought terror with them...
@GuitarDestroyer77777 bullshit the gauls used to kill each other and collect heads from civilians and their own tribesmen no sence of governmental or a republic why dont you live in a tribal content of africa or in the northern most reaches of russia hasnt change much and see how oyu like, their is a reason why he gauls got crushed long live the republica
@TimurTheConqueror No, that's what Romans lied about them in order to justify the destruction. I see you are ignorant of history and fond of arrogance, please, I have no time for this...
@GuitarDestroyer77777 bullshit look a history without provocation the gallic empire sacked rome its cause of the gauls rome became an expansive empire read about the first sacking of rome then come back to me uncouth barbarian
@belblus What about all their literature and philiosophy as well as their language. Most Romans spoke Greek fleuntly. How do you think Jesus conversed with the centurion who asked him to heal a servant and when He spoke to Pontius Pilate?
@irishxxkelt Latin is not a Greek derived language. People who spoke Greek in the Roman Empire were born in Greek-speaking countries or they had learned it, as Greek was the Mediterranean koinè. Let's not confuse Latin culture with the one of the late Empire. About Jesus that might be possible though there's no evidence of Jesus speaking Greek, nor of Pilatus, who was born in Sannium ( central Italy ), a place where people didn't speak Greek. Probably they only both knew a little Greek.
@brymoPRODz Rome borrowing culture from greece is very childish as explanation. Roman culture was born from a cross of cultures, mainly etrurian and greek. So its not like there were romans deciding what cultural element copy next :)
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Oh please........The Saxons, Celts and others lived in mud huts with a fire inside kippering everyone and everything. The Romans gave stone houses with different rooms for different purposes. They gave baths which they received from the Greeks. They gave literacy. They gave law. They practised medicine again from Greeks. They built roads which were the best roads until Mc Adam came along. Many of these roads are still in use in Italy.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 What? What about all the temples, the colleges of priests, the augurs, the hauspexes, the vestal virgins, the household gods etc. I finished my degree with the Open Univeristy by a 4th level essay on a Roman family topic. I wrote my essay on the Religious Concerns of Pagan and Jewish Roman Women. The Greeks didn't have colleges of priests or a pontifex maximus, or vestal virgins..........
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Look I teach Latin as an extra-curricular subject. I have an Honours 2.2 degree mainly in Classics. I have been to Italy a number of times, Greece three times, Syria 3 times, Jordan twice, Libya twice. I know what the Greeks achieved and what Roman achieved.
@irishxxkelt By the way, Romans could have never built something like Stonehenge, Stonehenge is not a mud hut. Your history knowledge is not knowledge but ignorance.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 LOL This is really one of the most stupid things I've ever read. The Romans built the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the Colosseum, the Fori Imperiali, the Circus Maximus, the Pantheon and you've just said that they could have never built Stonehenge...? LOL the only person who has no knowledge of history ( and in this case of basic culture/intelligence ) is you. The worst ignorant people I've met in my life would neither remotely think something like this...lol xD
@Risinguptotheair Not only Stonehenge, many other Stonehenge - like structures were built by celts and other tribal peoples of Europe. Romans were incapable of such thing, Colloseum, Temple of Jupiter etc. is built out of thousand bricks or small stone blocks. Stonehenge was built out of gigantic stone blocks that todays ingeneering would find a difficulty lifting it. Thus, Stonehenge is a more spectacular monument that any other you've mentioned. Good luck with your study of history.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 The Romans brought to Rome from Egypt the Lateran obelisk which had a weight of 230 tons: the "gigantic" stones of Stonehenge had a maximum weight of 50 tons. Furthermore the Romans were not so unintelligent to move tens of tons of rock for building something. The Colosseum ( spelled with only one l ), is an engineering and architectural masterpiece and it's much more spectacular than any Stonehenge you'll ever see in your life. Good luck with your embarrassing ignorance.
@Risinguptotheair Stonehenge 50 tons, hahahahhahahaha stonehenge is over 1200 tons on stones. And that obelisk was brought (stolen) from egyptians, and it was egyptian tech that helped rommies bring it there by obelisk ships which were egyptian :)
@GuitarDestroyer77777 In the Colosseum only the travertine weighed 28.000 tons: Stonehenge weighed only 1.200 tons divided in parts ( maximum 50 tons for each, it seems you neither understand the bases of logic ), parts that were much lighter compared to the ones that the Romans used to carry. Yes, The Romans achieved to make people working for them, are you jealous ;)? It's useless that you change the point senseless, people understand the same that you are too ignorant to sustain a discussion.
@Risinguptotheair Haha that blood and crime arena was built by thousands of bricks. Anyway, any architecture of rommies was actually greek. No I'm not jealous, how can I be jealous of a genocide maniac? And why did you suddently forgot that obelisk?
The thing is, Roman people only once had a decent leader, his name is Augustus Octavius who commited no conquering crimes.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 The amphitheater does not belong to Greek architecture, ignorant. I haven't forgotten anything, what I wrote is visible, it's you who's trying to confuse your answers because you don't know how to reply if not with laughs and personal opinions that are neither remotely historic. You have obvious inferiority complexes towards the Romans, I am sorry. Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (the real name), committed a lot of massacres too, but you're too ignorant to know it.
@Risinguptotheair Roman descend from Greece, and ancient European tribes. I do not hate Roman people, I hate their leaders. And Octavius, was the most peaceful leader, from what I've read, he was a quite good leader and wars and killing was not present at his time because he did all the best to stop it. History is tricky, I hope it wont show that he too, was a devil. Romans exterminated Carthafinians, massaccred European tribes, and conquered many people. I do not know why you support that...
@GuitarDestroyer77777 I haven't supported anyone (?) I tell history as it is, while you invent it because you don't know it. Romans don't descend from Greeks, they were one of the many Italic tribes. Octavianus was ruthless as any great leader, he killed Caesar's child and made two campaigns of expansion in Illyria and Northern Africa against natives. Romans were not "genocide maniacs", but only practical: if there was an opposition they blew it away as all the other peoples did at the time.
@Risinguptotheair I've told you that Octavian was the most peaceful leader of Rome comparing to other leaders. But if peaceful leader in Rome is killing children and enslaving a bit less than others than it really shows who Romans are. I dod not waste my time with Roman history, because it's nothing. Romans descended from Indo-European tribes who first got to Greece and Northern Europe. So yes, they descend from Greeks. killing a people is practical? Everyone done it? Nah, Romans did.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Every people in ancient times slaughtered and enslaved, included your beloved Greeks, and there are infinite examples of it, you're simply ridiculous. In the Indo-European family, the Italic group is indipendent and separated from all the others linguistically, ethnically and geographically and btw arrived in Italy in a period in which any element of Greek culture had yet to be formed. You lack even the most basic historical notions, you ignorance is total.
@Risinguptotheair So whte people are different from wite people? How funny. And Greece existed at 3rd millennia B.C, when Rome was not on map. And which civilization exterminated another? Only Romans exterminated Carthaginians, Carthage was Phoenician, so there were still some Phoenicians left, thank God. But Carthage was ravaged, men, women and children and babies too where all slayed and all stones were ripped away. Can you give me one example of some other country doing the same?
@GuitarDestroyer77777 whte wite what? XD. Greek culture didn't exist by that time, and Greece existed as Italy, do you think to reply with jokes, stupid ignorant? Acheans destroyed and slaughtered, Spartans left wicked children dying, Alexander slaugthered a city only because he was angry for the death of his lover, Olintus was totally destroyed by the Macedons, the Germans and Celts did human sacrifices and slaughtered and enslaved their neighbours...Romans rarely extermined all the population.
@Risinguptotheair without talking about what we have from Assyrian chronicles ( lol ), the extermination of the Celts from the Germans in Central Europe, the extermination of the pre-Celtic tribes by the Belgians in Britain, the Celtic genocide operated by the Saxons. The slaughter committed by the Romans against civilians were greatly condammned by Roman public opinion and I say it again, they have been extremely rare.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 As you see you are a poor complexed ignorant who neither knows the history of the people who's trying to defend...you're really embarassing, it's a pleasure replying you because there isn't any difficult in doing it, though it's boring. Do you still to show another bit of ignorance or do you think that all your shameful answers were enough?
@GuitarDestroyer77777 oh and Alexander totally destroyed Phoenicians in Tyrus, and the Spartans periodically slaughtered unarmed ilots...don't you understand that you are a poor ignorant? Have you ever gone to school?
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Oh and now I understand what you wrote, the differences among the Indo-European peoples? Well of course there are lol scientifically there are bilogical differences among German, Italian, Greek, Celtic ethnic groups. If you confuse phenotypes with races it means that you are also extremely ignorant in biology. Is there something that you know for real, so we don't waist time?
@Risinguptotheair All white people have one origin, they've originated from Indo - European tribes who originated from Mesopotamians and ancient Egyptians. So white people are actually pretty much the same. Now, my question. Name me a civilization which exterminated a society like Rome did. You've said there are lots of them. Oh yeah, and don't forget that obelisk brought from Egypt. Why did you forget it? Those Obelisk Ships were of ancient Egyptian origin, that helped Romans get it to Rome.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 IndoEuropeans didn't originate from Mesopotamians and Egyptians for definition, and they are divided in different ethnic groups as showed by the scientific classification: your "they are pretty much the same" makes laughing any school kid. Romans destroyed some societies as political organizations and exterminated only peoples that massively stood against them ( a few ). All the peoples they conquered remained and were integrated in the empire. It follows
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Cartaginians didn't disappear as men and women: what you've said is basically wrong, also if the Romans actually slaughtered many of them. The greatest slaughter was during the conquest of Gaul, and yes, that was insane. If you had read you'd see that I have already mentioned you the Germanic peoples, the Saxons and I could say many of them. If you talk about quantities it's obvious that since the Roman E. was larger they killed many people, but other peoples did the same.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 About the obelisk I have already replied: Egyptians had already ships to transport obelisks, and the Romans exploited them. Romans had btw a much stronger navy than the Egyptians, thanks to their own genius. You wanted to demonstrate that the Romans couldn't transport heavy blocks of rock, but the obelisk of 230 tons was transported inland and hoisted by the men of the Roman navy, so as you see you were wrong.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 In the end, I don't mind about who you are, what you think: I simply don't like people that invent history to justify weird ideas such as "the Romans were killers and all the other people were cool" and so on: I don't want to waist time to reply you. We have different ideas, till now you tried to support them ( -.- ), and ok, this is it. Would we stop all this or do you want to be corrected each time that you write something? Actually you've said almost nothing true
@Risinguptotheair Hehe, this conversation is wasting both of our times. But please, I did not invent that Romans exterminated Carthage, they did. Not everybody else is cool, and Roman people are not all devils, there were good and bad people among Romans just like good and bad people among others, it's just that Roman leaders were devils. Now, I really do not want to continue this nonsense (just like you). If you do want to continue, PM me, and answer my two questions I asked you. With honesty.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Carthage of course they did (!), but not all the Carthaginians in Northern Africa. An advise consider always the times of the events: the Romans did horrible things but other people did the same at those times: the Romans simply extended those methods in quality the bossy neighbour who wanted always to expand. I have answered to those questions anyway, havent you read below?
@Risinguptotheair Obelisk thing, Egyptian technology not Roman. And Carthaginians 99% of them were in Carthage, they were killed, gencide... And my other question, which other civilizations exterminated other people? Answer me and do not run away.
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Totally uncorrect. I'm not going to reply again. I've written 4 answers below about peoples who extermined others, I don't run away, because with you I don't need it. My answers have been enoguh. Good bye
@Risinguptotheair You have nothing to say exactly because you are wrong. I asked, which civilization exterminated other civilization. You said nothing honest about that, and yet you forget Obelish Ships that were EGYTIAN technology not Roman. Roman rulers are devils, but there were many good people among Romans no doubt. I say, that Rome, was evil not it's people. And I say we should get good things from Romans and not forget those things...
@squeehunter They actually didn't conquer a good amount of Eastern Europe, not to mention the whole of Britannia, Africa, Greenland, Iceland, Asia, the Balkans, etc, they didn't conquer a lot of things, although what they had conquered had been a lot and perhaps the most land ever conquered in Europe, Napoleon being the second to almost conquer all of Europe, although Great Britain, the Mongols, and perhaps a few more have conquered much more land than Rome could ever imagine.
@TheMasterofWisdom their is a difference between conquering and holding on on what is conquered all those empires you have stated dissolved after their leader was killed he roman empire lasted well into the 1450s until longest reigning empire till this day
ok ur talking about lowering a CELTS moral war is a passtime to them ther hearts are harder than ur sheilds the only reason the Romans won was because they had a more organized army nothing against the romans but this is putting down a celts heart alittle and even though the romans won the were limping home at best some even coward at the bravery and fierceness of my celtic ancestors its true history is written by the victor but this victory is a hair from loss so pog mo hoin
@kaas94 While you "russian/polish vikings" we're shitting their pants and building houses made of it these guys we're eating icecream and taking hot baths.
@kaas94 romans had something few armies did during that "russian/polish vikings?" did at that time. The vikings were basically medieval celts, which the romans destroyed... Strength is not the key to winning a battle my friend.
@TheG4M3RR4MBO but it wasnt all strength ther was bravery they never caught a celt alive and ill be dead for i let u walk all over ther name celts would still be around where it not for blessed saint patrick
@SandmanOfTexas romans were very brave also, at least during her golden ages. and yes they caught plenty of celts alive. Have you ever heard what Julius Caeser did to all the gauls that he captured? He enslaved them! And
lol idiots -.-' they say that it was first invaded by romans after christ. but i think a mean called Gaius Iulius Caesar invaded them and he lived BEFORE christ.
Why are reenactments always have 60% fat guys, I`m joining WW2 reenactment and I`m in shape! Hell they told me to get in shape in the first place! Yet there is always a weakest link in the squad
quite a educational vid....but they got most of it, but what niggles me is that its not a Javelin its a Pilum, javelins being designed for longer range. Pilums were meant to penetrate the enemies shields if the long barb didn't kill the opponent then it rendered the shield to heavy to use with a Pilum sticking out of it!
Its kind of amazing to see. But sadly for Rome, they never bothered to update their fighting methods. In the end, they were undone by their own inability to adapt. (also possibly lead poisoning. Pb the atomic sign for Lead comes from the word Plumbumb, or pluming. ) Still the Roman Empire is responsible for changing the world, probably for the better, despite the nasty reputation.
@madmedic92 ah yes, the lead pipe theory of history. I knew if I were patient I would find someone foolish enough to state this WRONG headed argument. The Roman civilization collapsed due to many factors including outside invaders, economic disruptions, internal strife, cultural and moral decay as well as excessive taxation and inflation. Lead may have been a health problem but certainly did NOT cause the collapse of the Roman world.
@SocratesTheGadfly well no not on its own but you can see increasingly erratic behavior of Roman leaders, and low birth rates are classic signs of lead poisoning. But yes if you look at the amount of gold in Roman coins, it steadily decreased after the fall of Carthage. Add to that a Service (slave based) economy, that never needed to invent anything, and thus didn't, the fall or Rome was inevitable. In their final fall they used tactics 200 years out of date.
@SocratesTheGadfly well 400 years from the time Ceaser took command and really the last 100-150 years it is debatable how much Rome really controlled. In the end it was more a bow to reality than an actual "fall" one could argue the dark age that followed actually began DURING the Roman Empire.
@madmedic92 technically one could argue that the roman civilization NEVER really died out. it lives one in much of the western world and parts of the rest of the world even though it has been transplanted and changed forms into various other incarnations. the byzantines regarded themselves as "roman", the russians often referred to themselves as the "third rome" and even The United States of America is sometimes referred to as the New Rome.
@SocratesTheGadfly Also the General lethargy of the roman citizens could well explain why they couldn't raise any armies at the end. This again could be attributed to Lead poisoning. I didn't say it was the sole reason, but it certainly was a factor, and like most medical ailments the effects are cumulative.
@madmedic92 Yes, lead poisoning is cumulative over time but considering the average life expectancy of the peasant classes from which the roman legionaires were drawn from it is not really a historical factor. The essential problem was the alienation the outlying provinces felt toward rome in general and the general lack of a patriotic spirit to defend rome. In short, the roman army was made up more of mercenaries and recruits who were NOT roman but germanic or from other tribes like the goths
@DickWhittington1000 Thanks! It’s great to hear someone out there is still watching, and enjoying my videos. And thanks for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment.
The western world, for better or worse, is what it is today in large measure because of Rome. Christianity, very likely, owes its' current popularity, if not its' very existence, to the Roman Empire. By the way, Julius Caesar landed twice in what was to become southeast England. On neither occasion was he "Roman Dictator".
This is really good. Be very grateful that your country hosts regular events like these - here in Australia we don't get any of this. Although admittedly the Romans were on the other side of the world...
....lastly Rome was a major influence in America by supplying the idea of a 'Republic'
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and REPUBLIC to which it stands" remember all those branches of the government of the US that you learned in 3rd grade? yea ALL of those were borrowed from Rome, they just have different names. Look it up if you don't believe me, or better yet ask your history teacher.
@ConsurgoTitanus I am suprised that you Yanks even know where Rome is.I dont gave a fack if ur taking my side.you are still and ignorant American who thinks hes country is the centre of the universe.
@johnpaul252003 Btw yea i love america, if u hate it that's your problem but you know what? i am enjoying mc donald's fries, with an ice cold sprite and a big fat fucking hamburger.
If i get a little to over weight i'll just pop some pills or go get lipo, lol are you jealous?
@ConsurgoTitanus True but Rome was the heir of Greece, Rome may have conquered Greece politically and geographically, but it can be said that Greece conquered Rome intellectually and culturally. As we saw the synthesis of Greece and Rome.
All philosophers that are worth anything came from Greece. Rich Roman families took it as a point of pride to be related or have some connection to a Greek poet, philo, or a rhetorician.
Roman government was based on Greek one.
Roman religion is stolen, god by god, from Greece.
Even the fucking famous Gladius sword came from Spain.
@ConsurgoTitanus Well actually one can argue that Rome could have never gotten to where it was without the Ancient Greek civilization. Rome had more or less just greatly expanded Greek culture, for example it was Athens that first used Democracy to govern its people. (and Rome expanded that by creating a Republic) So really Rome had borrowed from the Greeks, they are the true founders of Western Civilization.
While the Idea of a Republic is Roman in origin, Rome has a lot less influence on the US then you state. We are far more influenced by the French Philosophies of Separation of Power and Rule by Mandate than the Roman Republics form of Government.
While our framework is after Roman origin our foundation is not built upon the ideals of Rome at all.
@lobbotekka2019 The only way the Greeks influenced the Romans was when the Romans conquered them and assimilated them into their empire. They then took the Greek ideas and ideals that appealed to them. What ConsurgoTitanus was saying was the modern day Greeks are descended and influenced from and by the Romans as they settled in Greece and the Greeks became the Romans, just like every other conquered nation.
I think the Romans took a lot from the Greeks during the early period of Roman history. Most of the Italian city states back then were heavily influenced by the Greeks (Etruscans, Latins etc.). The South of Italy was technically Magna Graecia and influenced the central parts of Italy to some degree.
Modern Greeks did descend from Greece within the Roman Empire but they had a sort of Greek and Roman co-existence whereby both cultures influenced each other.
@lobbotekka2019 The Romans are a mixed hybrid race encompassing all the ethnic tribes in Italy. They include ; Native Italian(Sabbine), Latin, Etruscan, Greek. Naturally the co-mingingly of these races would allow the sharing of ideas, technology, culture etc producing a race of people that comprised all of these together : The Romans. You shouldn't say they took because they didn't "take". England took from Greece and Italy during it's imperial days. Take, as in by force or w/o consent.
I didnt give the best description. Rather than took I should use adopted. But you are right, they are a mongrel race (to some extent). The mixing took place over hundreds of years. In the early part of the Roman Republic only the City of Rome had Roman Citizenship. the rest of Italy where technically non-citizens until the Social wars.
@lobbotekka2019 Please don't call my ancestors mongrels. Thats why I used to term "mixed hybrid" Im not harping on your choice of words but I am very close to my roots and the go back to the Campanians(Capua)
It wasn't meant to be offensive. IF it was taken as an offence then I apologise. iremember a certain Prime Minisster highlighting that the English were a mongrel group too. This is just expressing theunerstanding that there has been a lot of interaction and mixing with so many different cultures over time.
@sanctainquisitio We did not exterminate the Greeks or Etruscans, that would imply we destroyed ever last one of them. We assimilated them into our culture. Every people that we conquered became part of our culture as well as their contributions. We then built on what they already gave, improving them. There is only one people we literally exterminated & they were the Carthaginians. The Barca clan was hell bent on wiping out every last Roman. The house of Scipio saved Rome.
To all the people with inferioriy complex against romans for being from the north, I'd like to say that talking about your supremacy of nowadays in terms of insults to us southerns just show how many barbarians still live among the civilized north europe.
PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD AMONG NATIONS, WE ALL BELONG TO HUMAN RACE, PEACE HARMONY AND RESPECT ARE THE TRUE SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION
Senyorpiroteknik 1 week ago
@Senyorpiroteknik Right. All the European cultures ( and especially the barbaric ones ), tried to mantain and to make their own at all costs the Roman civilization, laws, technology, symbols and so on... something that started even before the fell of the Roman Empire and has actually never stopped. From a person belonging to western culture opposing the Roman Empire is not only a clear sign of ignorance but but also an insult to his own culture.
Risinguptotheair 1 week ago 14
History make his duty through ages. As everybody knows, first greek influences in Italy were not about "copying " or "borrowing", it was greek ppl coming to italy to begin new settlements. Mediterraneum was full of cultures that cross each others continously and influencing themselves.In Rome,the best of mediterranean culture found the best conditions to develope a specific one.Rome became an idea,the essence of what classic age could achieve as worldwide society, the realization of a dream.
Senyorpiroteknik 1 week ago
The Romans had a great ethnical impact on France, as Galliae were the most romanized Roman provinces. People from southern France ( Provence, from the Roman Provincia ), have today exactely the same phenotypic "colours" of northern Italians. Southern France had also Greek and Arab influences, though not consistent ones. The Alans were Iranic tribes and they didn't affect France ethnically, or at least not more than what the Huns did for example. Many Romans were Celtic descendants too.
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Fuck italians,spaniards,portuguese and middle-easterns!Long live northern european(french,brits,germans,scandinavians),THE TRUE EUROPEANS!!
olbodala 2 weeks ago
I like the sound of the Roman car alarm in the back ground. Got to keep those barbarians away from their I-Pods.
unity9 4 weeks ago
Little difference between an empire and the Roman Empire: "The Roman Empire lasted from: 16 January 27 BC when it was imposed on the title of emperor Augustus, until 476 AD
Year when Odoacer deposed the last emperor Romulus Augustus.
Then, exactly 503 years. "Ciao..
cianciopilli 1 month ago
Why do you Westerners suck up to Romans so much? They were genocidal arrogant idiots...
GuitarDestroyer77777 1 month ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 you are a fool the romans are the reason why democracy and society flourished they created secularism philosophy albeit stolen form the greeks but still every free western country owes their whole system of governing from the roman (retard)
TimurTheConqueror 1 month ago
@TimurTheConqueror No, there were much better lifestyles than Roman in Europe. Saxons and Celts had much better lifestyle until Romans killed their people, stole their lands and imposed Roman infected "Democracy", and real Democracy was invented by Greeks not Romans. They exterminated Carthaginians which is a biggest genocide. They were useless, just like Mongols and Turks, Romans along with them only brought terror with them...
GuitarDestroyer77777 1 month ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 bullshit the gauls used to kill each other and collect heads from civilians and their own tribesmen no sence of governmental or a republic why dont you live in a tribal content of africa or in the northern most reaches of russia hasnt change much and see how oyu like, their is a reason why he gauls got crushed long live the republica
TimurTheConqueror 1 month ago
@TimurTheConqueror No, that's what Romans lied about them in order to justify the destruction. I see you are ignorant of history and fond of arrogance, please, I have no time for this...
GuitarDestroyer77777 1 month ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 bullshit look a history without provocation the gallic empire sacked rome its cause of the gauls rome became an expansive empire read about the first sacking of rome then come back to me uncouth barbarian
TimurTheConqueror 1 month ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777
"Asterix and Obelix" isn't real history! lol
belblus 3 weeks ago
@belblus Hehe, good movie. Anyway, I speak of Roman history which is stained with blood...
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olbodala 2 weeks ago
@olbodala
Are you French?
The French descend from the Romans. An answer like yours, said by a Frenchman, is really stupid. lol
Also your language derives from Latin, such as Italian, Spanish, Portuguese...and France isn't in Northern Europe.
Modern Western culture (including the Nordic) descends from the Roman culture.
I have no inferiority complex towards the northern Europe, rather I like it.
In my opinion, you aren't European, you're just a troll or an ignorant who knows where.
Bye.
belblus 2 weeks ago
@belblus Yes,i'm French,and we descend from gauls,franks,normans and alans,not from romans,asshole!
olbodala 2 weeks ago
@olbodala
asd no, you descend also from romans...I'm sorry for you, but is the sad truth. lol
belblus 2 weeks ago
@belblus But Rome didn't have culture. They borrowed most from the Greeks.
brymoPRODz 2 weeks ago
@brymoPRODz
This isn't true. The Romans took from Greeks only sculpture, pagan religion and a little bit of architecture.
belblus 2 weeks ago
@belblus What about all their literature and philiosophy as well as their language. Most Romans spoke Greek fleuntly. How do you think Jesus conversed with the centurion who asked him to heal a servant and when He spoke to Pontius Pilate?
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@irishxxkelt Latin is not a Greek derived language. People who spoke Greek in the Roman Empire were born in Greek-speaking countries or they had learned it, as Greek was the Mediterranean koinè. Let's not confuse Latin culture with the one of the late Empire. About Jesus that might be possible though there's no evidence of Jesus speaking Greek, nor of Pilatus, who was born in Sannium ( central Italy ), a place where people didn't speak Greek. Probably they only both knew a little Greek.
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irishxxkelt 6 days ago
@belblus Only sculpture? There were galley loads of Greek artifacts that was looted, or bought brought to Rome.
irishxxkelt 6 days ago
@brymoPRODz Rome borrowing culture from greece is very childish as explanation. Roman culture was born from a cross of cultures, mainly etrurian and greek. So its not like there were romans deciding what cultural element copy next :)
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olbodala 2 weeks ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Oh please........The Saxons, Celts and others lived in mud huts with a fire inside kippering everyone and everything. The Romans gave stone houses with different rooms for different purposes. They gave baths which they received from the Greeks. They gave literacy. They gave law. They practised medicine again from Greeks. They built roads which were the best roads until Mc Adam came along. Many of these roads are still in use in Italy.
irishxxkelt 5 days ago
@irishxxkelt Romans had no spiritual wealth, which tribal peoples did, and as you've said, romans took everything from greeks ;)
GuitarDestroyer77777 5 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 What? What about all the temples, the colleges of priests, the augurs, the hauspexes, the vestal virgins, the household gods etc. I finished my degree with the Open Univeristy by a 4th level essay on a Roman family topic. I wrote my essay on the Religious Concerns of Pagan and Jewish Roman Women. The Greeks didn't have colleges of priests or a pontifex maximus, or vestal virgins..........
irishxxkelt 5 days ago
@irishxxkelt Mhm, Greeks had more :)
Greeks had powerful priesthood, I do not know why you thik there was no priesthood.
As I've said, Romans only copy and stain.
GuitarDestroyer77777 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Look I teach Latin as an extra-curricular subject. I have an Honours 2.2 degree mainly in Classics. I have been to Italy a number of times, Greece three times, Syria 3 times, Jordan twice, Libya twice. I know what the Greeks achieved and what Roman achieved.
irishxxkelt 4 days ago
@irishxxkelt By the way, Romans could have never built something like Stonehenge, Stonehenge is not a mud hut. Your history knowledge is not knowledge but ignorance.
GuitarDestroyer77777 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 No human could have built it or the Great Pyaramid at Giza. They were built by the Nephilim or their giant children.
irishxxkelt 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 LOL This is really one of the most stupid things I've ever read. The Romans built the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the Colosseum, the Fori Imperiali, the Circus Maximus, the Pantheon and you've just said that they could have never built Stonehenge...? LOL the only person who has no knowledge of history ( and in this case of basic culture/intelligence ) is you. The worst ignorant people I've met in my life would neither remotely think something like this...lol xD
Risinguptotheair 4 days ago 2
@Risinguptotheair Not only Stonehenge, many other Stonehenge - like structures were built by celts and other tribal peoples of Europe. Romans were incapable of such thing, Colloseum, Temple of Jupiter etc. is built out of thousand bricks or small stone blocks. Stonehenge was built out of gigantic stone blocks that todays ingeneering would find a difficulty lifting it. Thus, Stonehenge is a more spectacular monument that any other you've mentioned. Good luck with your study of history.
GuitarDestroyer77777 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 The Romans brought to Rome from Egypt the Lateran obelisk which had a weight of 230 tons: the "gigantic" stones of Stonehenge had a maximum weight of 50 tons. Furthermore the Romans were not so unintelligent to move tens of tons of rock for building something. The Colosseum ( spelled with only one l ), is an engineering and architectural masterpiece and it's much more spectacular than any Stonehenge you'll ever see in your life. Good luck with your embarrassing ignorance.
Risinguptotheair 4 days ago 6
@Risinguptotheair Stonehenge 50 tons, hahahahhahahaha stonehenge is over 1200 tons on stones. And that obelisk was brought (stolen) from egyptians, and it was egyptian tech that helped rommies bring it there by obelisk ships which were egyptian :)
GuitarDestroyer77777 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 In the Colosseum only the travertine weighed 28.000 tons: Stonehenge weighed only 1.200 tons divided in parts ( maximum 50 tons for each, it seems you neither understand the bases of logic ), parts that were much lighter compared to the ones that the Romans used to carry. Yes, The Romans achieved to make people working for them, are you jealous ;)? It's useless that you change the point senseless, people understand the same that you are too ignorant to sustain a discussion.
Risinguptotheair 4 days ago 2
@Risinguptotheair Haha that blood and crime arena was built by thousands of bricks. Anyway, any architecture of rommies was actually greek. No I'm not jealous, how can I be jealous of a genocide maniac? And why did you suddently forgot that obelisk?
The thing is, Roman people only once had a decent leader, his name is Augustus Octavius who commited no conquering crimes.
Peace to all...
GuitarDestroyer77777 4 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 The amphitheater does not belong to Greek architecture, ignorant. I haven't forgotten anything, what I wrote is visible, it's you who's trying to confuse your answers because you don't know how to reply if not with laughs and personal opinions that are neither remotely historic. You have obvious inferiority complexes towards the Romans, I am sorry. Gaius Iulius Caesar Octavianus Augustus (the real name), committed a lot of massacres too, but you're too ignorant to know it.
Risinguptotheair 4 days ago 9
@Risinguptotheair Roman descend from Greece, and ancient European tribes. I do not hate Roman people, I hate their leaders. And Octavius, was the most peaceful leader, from what I've read, he was a quite good leader and wars and killing was not present at his time because he did all the best to stop it. History is tricky, I hope it wont show that he too, was a devil. Romans exterminated Carthafinians, massaccred European tribes, and conquered many people. I do not know why you support that...
GuitarDestroyer77777 3 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 I haven't supported anyone (?) I tell history as it is, while you invent it because you don't know it. Romans don't descend from Greeks, they were one of the many Italic tribes. Octavianus was ruthless as any great leader, he killed Caesar's child and made two campaigns of expansion in Illyria and Northern Africa against natives. Romans were not "genocide maniacs", but only practical: if there was an opposition they blew it away as all the other peoples did at the time.
Risinguptotheair 3 days ago 6
@Risinguptotheair I've told you that Octavian was the most peaceful leader of Rome comparing to other leaders. But if peaceful leader in Rome is killing children and enslaving a bit less than others than it really shows who Romans are. I dod not waste my time with Roman history, because it's nothing. Romans descended from Indo-European tribes who first got to Greece and Northern Europe. So yes, they descend from Greeks. killing a people is practical? Everyone done it? Nah, Romans did.
GuitarDestroyer77777 2 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Every people in ancient times slaughtered and enslaved, included your beloved Greeks, and there are infinite examples of it, you're simply ridiculous. In the Indo-European family, the Italic group is indipendent and separated from all the others linguistically, ethnically and geographically and btw arrived in Italy in a period in which any element of Greek culture had yet to be formed. You lack even the most basic historical notions, you ignorance is total.
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 4
@Risinguptotheair So whte people are different from wite people? How funny. And Greece existed at 3rd millennia B.C, when Rome was not on map. And which civilization exterminated another? Only Romans exterminated Carthaginians, Carthage was Phoenician, so there were still some Phoenicians left, thank God. But Carthage was ravaged, men, women and children and babies too where all slayed and all stones were ripped away. Can you give me one example of some other country doing the same?
GuitarDestroyer77777 2 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 whte wite what? XD. Greek culture didn't exist by that time, and Greece existed as Italy, do you think to reply with jokes, stupid ignorant? Acheans destroyed and slaughtered, Spartans left wicked children dying, Alexander slaugthered a city only because he was angry for the death of his lover, Olintus was totally destroyed by the Macedons, the Germans and Celts did human sacrifices and slaughtered and enslaved their neighbours...Romans rarely extermined all the population.
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 4
@Risinguptotheair without talking about what we have from Assyrian chronicles ( lol ), the extermination of the Celts from the Germans in Central Europe, the extermination of the pre-Celtic tribes by the Belgians in Britain, the Celtic genocide operated by the Saxons. The slaughter committed by the Romans against civilians were greatly condammned by Roman public opinion and I say it again, they have been extremely rare.
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 2
@GuitarDestroyer77777 As you see you are a poor complexed ignorant who neither knows the history of the people who's trying to defend...you're really embarassing, it's a pleasure replying you because there isn't any difficult in doing it, though it's boring. Do you still to show another bit of ignorance or do you think that all your shameful answers were enough?
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 3
@GuitarDestroyer77777 oh and Alexander totally destroyed Phoenicians in Tyrus, and the Spartans periodically slaughtered unarmed ilots...don't you understand that you are a poor ignorant? Have you ever gone to school?
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 2
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Oh and now I understand what you wrote, the differences among the Indo-European peoples? Well of course there are lol scientifically there are bilogical differences among German, Italian, Greek, Celtic ethnic groups. If you confuse phenotypes with races it means that you are also extremely ignorant in biology. Is there something that you know for real, so we don't waist time?
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 5
@Risinguptotheair All white people have one origin, they've originated from Indo - European tribes who originated from Mesopotamians and ancient Egyptians. So white people are actually pretty much the same. Now, my question. Name me a civilization which exterminated a society like Rome did. You've said there are lots of them. Oh yeah, and don't forget that obelisk brought from Egypt. Why did you forget it? Those Obelisk Ships were of ancient Egyptian origin, that helped Romans get it to Rome.
GuitarDestroyer77777 2 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 IndoEuropeans didn't originate from Mesopotamians and Egyptians for definition, and they are divided in different ethnic groups as showed by the scientific classification: your "they are pretty much the same" makes laughing any school kid. Romans destroyed some societies as political organizations and exterminated only peoples that massively stood against them ( a few ). All the peoples they conquered remained and were integrated in the empire. It follows
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 6
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Cartaginians didn't disappear as men and women: what you've said is basically wrong, also if the Romans actually slaughtered many of them. The greatest slaughter was during the conquest of Gaul, and yes, that was insane. If you had read you'd see that I have already mentioned you the Germanic peoples, the Saxons and I could say many of them. If you talk about quantities it's obvious that since the Roman E. was larger they killed many people, but other peoples did the same.
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 6
@GuitarDestroyer77777 About the obelisk I have already replied: Egyptians had already ships to transport obelisks, and the Romans exploited them. Romans had btw a much stronger navy than the Egyptians, thanks to their own genius. You wanted to demonstrate that the Romans couldn't transport heavy blocks of rock, but the obelisk of 230 tons was transported inland and hoisted by the men of the Roman navy, so as you see you were wrong.
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 5
@GuitarDestroyer77777 In the end, I don't mind about who you are, what you think: I simply don't like people that invent history to justify weird ideas such as "the Romans were killers and all the other people were cool" and so on: I don't want to waist time to reply you. We have different ideas, till now you tried to support them ( -.- ), and ok, this is it. Would we stop all this or do you want to be corrected each time that you write something? Actually you've said almost nothing true
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 5
@Risinguptotheair Hehe, this conversation is wasting both of our times. But please, I did not invent that Romans exterminated Carthage, they did. Not everybody else is cool, and Roman people are not all devils, there were good and bad people among Romans just like good and bad people among others, it's just that Roman leaders were devils. Now, I really do not want to continue this nonsense (just like you). If you do want to continue, PM me, and answer my two questions I asked you. With honesty.
GuitarDestroyer77777 2 days ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Carthage of course they did (!), but not all the Carthaginians in Northern Africa. An advise consider always the times of the events: the Romans did horrible things but other people did the same at those times: the Romans simply extended those methods in quality the bossy neighbour who wanted always to expand. I have answered to those questions anyway, havent you read below?
Risinguptotheair 2 days ago 5
@Risinguptotheair Obelisk thing, Egyptian technology not Roman. And Carthaginians 99% of them were in Carthage, they were killed, gencide... And my other question, which other civilizations exterminated other people? Answer me and do not run away.
GuitarDestroyer77777 1 day ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 Totally uncorrect. I'm not going to reply again. I've written 4 answers below about peoples who extermined others, I don't run away, because with you I don't need it. My answers have been enoguh. Good bye
Risinguptotheair 1 day ago 5
@Risinguptotheair You have nothing to say exactly because you are wrong. I asked, which civilization exterminated other civilization. You said nothing honest about that, and yet you forget Obelish Ships that were EGYTIAN technology not Roman. Roman rulers are devils, but there were many good people among Romans no doubt. I say, that Rome, was evil not it's people. And I say we should get good things from Romans and not forget those things...
GuitarDestroyer77777 1 day ago
@GuitarDestroyer77777 The along with the Greeks gave Europe its civilization.
irishxxkelt 5 days ago
You know who Rome never conquered? America.
squeehunter 1 month ago
@squeehunter Maybe because america was at the other side of the globe smartass??
MrVerstingen 1 month ago
@MrVerstingen Rome being on the other side of the globe is actually the last reason why.
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@squeehunter Maybe because america was at the other side of the globe smartass??
MrVerstingen 1 month ago
@squeehunter They actually didn't conquer a good amount of Eastern Europe, not to mention the whole of Britannia, Africa, Greenland, Iceland, Asia, the Balkans, etc, they didn't conquer a lot of things, although what they had conquered had been a lot and perhaps the most land ever conquered in Europe, Napoleon being the second to almost conquer all of Europe, although Great Britain, the Mongols, and perhaps a few more have conquered much more land than Rome could ever imagine.
TheMasterofWisdom 1 month ago
@TheMasterofWisdom their is a difference between conquering and holding on on what is conquered all those empires you have stated dissolved after their leader was killed he roman empire lasted well into the 1450s until longest reigning empire till this day
TimurTheConqueror 1 month ago
@TheMasterofWisdom I was obviously kidding about all of this.
squeehunter 1 month ago
@squeehunter I know, I just like making life that much harder for people, and besides, Youtube debates will make you stronger (Not really :P)
TheMasterofWisdom 1 month ago
i `ve read the book of graham summoner; he is a member of the ermine street guard, right?
TheGreenOpossum 1 month ago
I wish my history class was like this. :(
JellyChilliMustard 1 month ago
o.O simply awesome
pepo922 2 months ago
are they in italy
Odysseus1ful 2 months ago
ok ur talking about lowering a CELTS moral war is a passtime to them ther hearts are harder than ur sheilds the only reason the Romans won was because they had a more organized army nothing against the romans but this is putting down a celts heart alittle and even though the romans won the were limping home at best some even coward at the bravery and fierceness of my celtic ancestors its true history is written by the victor but this victory is a hair from loss so pog mo hoin
SandmanOfTexas 2 months ago
ROMAN the empire
mrbigbang133 2 months ago
Italy and Romania are the best Latin countries
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silviompge 3 months ago
now attack them with some russian/polish vikings. they wont last long
kaas94 3 months ago
@kaas94 LOL
Comstedt 2 months ago
@kaas94 While you "russian/polish vikings" we're shitting their pants and building houses made of it these guys we're eating icecream and taking hot baths.
Comstedt 2 months ago
@kaas94 romans had something few armies did during that "russian/polish vikings?" did at that time. The vikings were basically medieval celts, which the romans destroyed... Strength is not the key to winning a battle my friend.
TheG4M3RR4MBO 2 months ago
@TheG4M3RR4MBO but it wasnt all strength ther was bravery they never caught a celt alive and ill be dead for i let u walk all over ther name celts would still be around where it not for blessed saint patrick
SandmanOfTexas 2 months ago
@SandmanOfTexas romans were very brave also, at least during her golden ages. and yes they caught plenty of celts alive. Have you ever heard what Julius Caeser did to all the gauls that he captured? He enslaved them! And
TheG4M3RR4MBO 2 months ago
I rather choose germania then rome
kaas94 3 months ago
lol idiots -.-' they say that it was first invaded by romans after christ. but i think a mean called Gaius Iulius Caesar invaded them and he lived BEFORE christ.
EazyFtTupac 3 months ago
@EazyFtTupac Julius Caesar conquered Gaul (modern day France). Emperor Claudius began the conquering of Britannia in 43 AD.
sasquatch268 3 months ago
@sasquatch268 yes but Iulius Gaius Caesar infaded them already he just failed
EazyFtTupac 1 month ago
Trebisonda was the last Eastern Roman Empire's City (AD 1461), not Constantinople(AD 1453)
Astartas 4 months ago
If you want something done well, let the roman army do it... And for those ten who disliked this video I have only one thing to say :"Ad bestias!!!"
belisarius30 4 months ago 2
Civilised barbarians
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1:18 That guy is like "Check out my threads bitches."
HighlanderWallace 4 months ago
I truly enjoyed your videos. The Roman Empire fascinates me - especially the battle formations.
VoodooRhythmSound 4 months ago
Why are reenactments always have 60% fat guys, I`m joining WW2 reenactment and I`m in shape! Hell they told me to get in shape in the first place! Yet there is always a weakest link in the squad
RazorCell7 5 months ago
i didn't know there was so many fat centurions
KevyBProductions 5 months ago
their are many ex british soldiers in theses reenactment groups !
wexfordboyful 5 months ago
best reenactment video i have seen !
wexfordboyful 5 months ago
HAIL THE LEGIONS BRAVEST SOLDIERS OF ALL TIME !
wexfordboyful 5 months ago
diu vivere legionis 20
cestrianvlogger 5 months ago
the siren in the background really makes me feel like im in roman times
jwka2001 5 months ago
@taupinb Fantastic video. Do you know of any specific events websites that will list when and where these re-enactments take place? Many thanks.
stoikes 5 months ago
hearing the police siren in the background kind of ruins the whole roman atmosphere feeling.. i'm now crying
MagicSnowfly 5 months ago
ancient version of the flight demo lol
m1ch4elj 5 months ago
Nemo impune Romam tangere potebat, spiritus illorom tempororum volat super Britannia
EFODERFIX 5 months ago
funny to see those housefathers/managers/whatever men see dressed up as Romans in the weekends :-)
eyederrick 6 months ago
very cool
hoosierhiver 7 months ago
coolest. job. ever.
BeAsTm0aD 7 months ago
quite a educational vid....but they got most of it, but what niggles me is that its not a Javelin its a Pilum, javelins being designed for longer range. Pilums were meant to penetrate the enemies shields if the long barb didn't kill the opponent then it rendered the shield to heavy to use with a Pilum sticking out of it!
hotterwax 7 months ago
Its kind of amazing to see. But sadly for Rome, they never bothered to update their fighting methods. In the end, they were undone by their own inability to adapt. (also possibly lead poisoning. Pb the atomic sign for Lead comes from the word Plumbumb, or pluming. ) Still the Roman Empire is responsible for changing the world, probably for the better, despite the nasty reputation.
madmedic92 7 months ago
@madmedic92 ah yes, the lead pipe theory of history. I knew if I were patient I would find someone foolish enough to state this WRONG headed argument. The Roman civilization collapsed due to many factors including outside invaders, economic disruptions, internal strife, cultural and moral decay as well as excessive taxation and inflation. Lead may have been a health problem but certainly did NOT cause the collapse of the Roman world.
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly well no not on its own but you can see increasingly erratic behavior of Roman leaders, and low birth rates are classic signs of lead poisoning. But yes if you look at the amount of gold in Roman coins, it steadily decreased after the fall of Carthage. Add to that a Service (slave based) economy, that never needed to invent anything, and thus didn't, the fall or Rome was inevitable. In their final fall they used tactics 200 years out of date.
madmedic92 6 months ago
@madmedic92 and for Rome to fall as you say it took a THOUSAND YEARS. quite impressive dont you think?
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly well 400 years from the time Ceaser took command and really the last 100-150 years it is debatable how much Rome really controlled. In the end it was more a bow to reality than an actual "fall" one could argue the dark age that followed actually began DURING the Roman Empire.
madmedic92 6 months ago
@madmedic92 technically one could argue that the roman civilization NEVER really died out. it lives one in much of the western world and parts of the rest of the world even though it has been transplanted and changed forms into various other incarnations. the byzantines regarded themselves as "roman", the russians often referred to themselves as the "third rome" and even The United States of America is sometimes referred to as the New Rome.
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
@SocratesTheGadfly Also the General lethargy of the roman citizens could well explain why they couldn't raise any armies at the end. This again could be attributed to Lead poisoning. I didn't say it was the sole reason, but it certainly was a factor, and like most medical ailments the effects are cumulative.
madmedic92 6 months ago
@madmedic92 Yes, lead poisoning is cumulative over time but considering the average life expectancy of the peasant classes from which the roman legionaires were drawn from it is not really a historical factor. The essential problem was the alienation the outlying provinces felt toward rome in general and the general lack of a patriotic spirit to defend rome. In short, the roman army was made up more of mercenaries and recruits who were NOT roman but germanic or from other tribes like the goths
SocratesTheGadfly 6 months ago
I just found my essay muahahaha thank you
MrAugoAugo 7 months ago
just awesome :)
KaasKoe1994 8 months ago 10
@KaasKoe1994 Thanks!
taupinb 7 months ago
One thing is for sure, they knew what the hell they were doing,
Iambloodcrazy123 8 months ago
They need to make field trips like this :)
Lildeathdude25 8 months ago
I've watched around a dozen of your videos and enjoyed them all, many educational, but all very pleasurable. Thanks!
DickWhittington1000 8 months ago 5
@DickWhittington1000 Thanks! It’s great to hear someone out there is still watching, and enjoying my videos. And thanks for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment.
taupinb 7 months ago 3
Thumbs up just for the title alone :)
ltdave1981 8 months ago
Very nice display. Onager fo
r the win! Have to build one myself.
Zaisorian 8 months ago
The western world, for better or worse, is what it is today in large measure because of Rome. Christianity, very likely, owes its' current popularity, if not its' very existence, to the Roman Empire. By the way, Julius Caesar landed twice in what was to become southeast England. On neither occasion was he "Roman Dictator".
jhardy133 8 months ago
Britain was first invaded by the Armies of Rome in 56 B.C. under Roman Dictator Julius Caesar. Roman annexation within the island occured in 43 A.D.
Paelignus 8 months ago
This is really good. Be very grateful that your country hosts regular events like these - here in Australia we don't get any of this. Although admittedly the Romans were on the other side of the world...
euromellows 8 months ago
btw i''m Italian :)
ConsurgoTitanus 8 months ago
....lastly Rome was a major influence in America by supplying the idea of a 'Republic'
"I pledge allegiance to the flag, and REPUBLIC to which it stands" remember all those branches of the government of the US that you learned in 3rd grade? yea ALL of those were borrowed from Rome, they just have different names. Look it up if you don't believe me, or better yet ask your history teacher.
Rome influenced ALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
You are it's heir, American, Italian, Greek.
Do not deny it.
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johnpaul252003 8 months ago
@johnpaul252003 you fucking idiot i agreed that Rome is the best... and that America got everything from Rome. _ _'
Another dumb stupid foreigner.
ConsurgoTitanus 8 months ago
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johnpaul252003 8 months ago
@johnpaul252003 are you that fucking stupid? I AM TAKING YOUR SIDE YOU FUCKING IDIOT!
HOW THE FUCK IS THE US GOING TO GET SACKED?!
TELL ME HOW BARBARIANS WITH SWORDS CAN DEFEAT GUNS, TANKS AND NUKES?!
your fucking stupid I TOOK YOUR SIDE.
All i said was that America has qualities that it has borrowed from the romans and other peoples.
You are one fucking retarded idiot. Learn how to read and write in full sentences mutherfucker.
ConsurgoTitanus 8 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus I am suprised that you Yanks even know where Rome is.I dont gave a fack if ur taking my side.you are still and ignorant American who thinks hes country is the centre of the universe.
Your country is one day gonna get whats coming.
hows that for literacy
johnpaul252003 8 months ago
@johnpaul252003 Btw yea i love america, if u hate it that's your problem but you know what? i am enjoying mc donald's fries, with an ice cold sprite and a big fat fucking hamburger.
If i get a little to over weight i'll just pop some pills or go get lipo, lol are you jealous?
Because i am just laughing now.
ConsurgoTitanus 8 months ago
@johnpaul252003 yea he's my great grand papi and my idol, so is hitler :)
ConsurgoTitanus 8 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus True, but do not forget the roman took most of their culture and philosophy from the ancient greek! :)
Dake21 8 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus True but Rome was the heir of Greece, Rome may have conquered Greece politically and geographically, but it can be said that Greece conquered Rome intellectually and culturally. As we saw the synthesis of Greece and Rome.
ozvulcan 8 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus Rome is the heir of Greece, and of course Italy was the heir of Rome, that was a dumb statement.
And America is a democracy. But republic and democracy are both pretty much the same thing.
Wizardlizard87 7 months ago
@Wizardlizard87 no its not it's actually a constitutional republic... They have similar traits but are different!
hotterwax 7 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus
Romans did not have a single original thought.
All philosophers that are worth anything came from Greece. Rich Roman families took it as a point of pride to be related or have some connection to a Greek poet, philo, or a rhetorician.
Roman government was based on Greek one.
Roman religion is stolen, god by god, from Greece.
Even the fucking famous Gladius sword came from Spain.
etc. ect.
napornik 7 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus Rome was originally a kingdom. The Greek city-states were republics long before rome. You are still right, though.
jimthehappymonkey1 7 months ago
@jimthehappymonkey1 No only Athens had democracy, the rest had Kings.
RomanLegioXx 6 months ago
@RomanLegioXx besides the point. Still before the Romans.
jimthehappymonkey1 6 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus
I believe there is no such thing as "American."
Also, I believe the Romans know the difference between "its" and "it's"
ArmyGuy543 7 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus why did you say Italian and Greek?
WESSLYJ 7 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus Well actually one can argue that Rome could have never gotten to where it was without the Ancient Greek civilization. Rome had more or less just greatly expanded Greek culture, for example it was Athens that first used Democracy to govern its people. (and Rome expanded that by creating a Republic) So really Rome had borrowed from the Greeks, they are the true founders of Western Civilization.
5StarGeneralXenoCO 6 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus
While the Idea of a Republic is Roman in origin, Rome has a lot less influence on the US then you state. We are far more influenced by the French Philosophies of Separation of Power and Rule by Mandate than the Roman Republics form of Government.
While our framework is after Roman origin our foundation is not built upon the ideals of Rome at all.
ViCe1986 4 months ago
@ConsurgoTitanus
Greek?? I think you have it the wrong way. The Greeks influenced the Romans.
lobbotekka2019 3 months ago
@lobbotekka2019 The only way the Greeks influenced the Romans was when the Romans conquered them and assimilated them into their empire. They then took the Greek ideas and ideals that appealed to them. What ConsurgoTitanus was saying was the modern day Greeks are descended and influenced from and by the Romans as they settled in Greece and the Greeks became the Romans, just like every other conquered nation.
Kiwis4life 3 months ago
@Kiwis4life
I think the Romans took a lot from the Greeks during the early period of Roman history. Most of the Italian city states back then were heavily influenced by the Greeks (Etruscans, Latins etc.). The South of Italy was technically Magna Graecia and influenced the central parts of Italy to some degree.
Modern Greeks did descend from Greece within the Roman Empire but they had a sort of Greek and Roman co-existence whereby both cultures influenced each other.
lobbotekka2019 3 months ago
@lobbotekka2019 Fair enough
Kiwis4life 3 months ago
@lobbotekka2019 The Romans are a mixed hybrid race encompassing all the ethnic tribes in Italy. They include ; Native Italian(Sabbine), Latin, Etruscan, Greek. Naturally the co-mingingly of these races would allow the sharing of ideas, technology, culture etc producing a race of people that comprised all of these together : The Romans. You shouldn't say they took because they didn't "take". England took from Greece and Italy during it's imperial days. Take, as in by force or w/o consent.
Praetorian107 2 months ago
@Praetorian107
I didnt give the best description. Rather than took I should use adopted. But you are right, they are a mongrel race (to some extent). The mixing took place over hundreds of years. In the early part of the Roman Republic only the City of Rome had Roman Citizenship. the rest of Italy where technically non-citizens until the Social wars.
lobbotekka2019 2 months ago
@lobbotekka2019 Please don't call my ancestors mongrels. Thats why I used to term "mixed hybrid" Im not harping on your choice of words but I am very close to my roots and the go back to the Campanians(Capua)
Praetorian107 2 months ago
@Praetorian107
It wasn't meant to be offensive. IF it was taken as an offence then I apologise. iremember a certain Prime Minisster highlighting that the English were a mongrel group too. This is just expressing theunerstanding that there has been a lot of interaction and mixing with so many different cultures over time.
lobbotekka2019 2 months ago
@Praetorian107 The first Romans were latins mixed with sabins. Rough people, that wiped out etruscans and greeks (though absorbing their culture).
sanctainquisitio 2 months ago
@sanctainquisitio We did not exterminate the Greeks or Etruscans, that would imply we destroyed ever last one of them. We assimilated them into our culture. Every people that we conquered became part of our culture as well as their contributions. We then built on what they already gave, improving them. There is only one people we literally exterminated & they were the Carthaginians. The Barca clan was hell bent on wiping out every last Roman. The house of Scipio saved Rome.
Praetorian107 2 months ago
@Praetorian107 wiped out means that we conquered and enslaved them; don't forget that, at the begining, Romans were a tribe, and the othe