engineering an empire -carthage pt 3

[jayarscintilla]

it's amazing how some pics of hannibal make him look like a greek or roman; he was from north africa and more than likely looked like a middle easterner, like Jesus did. Silliness....

[Sanghoma]

OK, I was liking it till we got to ths part and the history all got a little vague and selective. How can they skip through the feats of hannibal and not even mention Tresime then make the strategy at Cannae sound like a simple Cavalry "reach around". what a load of bollocks. I lost intere .. pff

[scipioninja]

Hell yeah! Scipio!

[BaHaEzZz]

also 3:07 xD



[BaHaEzZz]

looool 3:02 this is the rome total war game xD

[tonsyidibe]

a lot of men died

[ulongkoror]

"and we have to go to world war 1 to find a scale as big"

huh,did they include Chinese history?cause armies as big as 650,000 or even up to a million,were destroyed and massacred in several battles WAY before 20th century

[ExquisiteDoom]

@ulongkoror In Italy. Not the world.

[SonnyDelight55]

Hannibal was exiled to the court of Antiochus. After Antiochus was defeated, Hannibal fled to Bithynia where he killed himself by drinking poison in 183 B.C.

[PompeusMagnus]

The Roman equipment and arms arent acurate... And the carthaginians look more like romans auxilliares when they used Iberians, numidians, samenites, luccanians and gauls...

[bonibonyrrk]

WTF they used rome total war LMAO LOLOLOL

[Knightszg123]

Wow the Battle of Cannae using Rome Total War.But why they dint show Trebia and Lake Trasimene?

[HistoryLover1550]

Hannibal shouldn't have sent his Elephants in the front lines first at Zama. he should've led the Numidian cavalry off the battlefield and into a trap. Had his experienced troops in the front lines and Elephants last to finish of the Romans.

[HistoryLover1550]

Besides his brothers Hasdrubal and Mago, Hannibal had 7 sisters! Their names are not known or recorded, they must've been beautiful and powerful princesses surely.

[HistoryLover1550]

Imagine if Hannibal and Julius Caesar had met, that would've been one of history's most famous confrontations.

[muf321]

@HistoryLover1550 though caesars army was much more dangerous than the early republican armies that hannibal faced so it would be a battle. I think that hannibal is a better general but caesar has the better army

[HistoryLover1550]

@muf321 Agreed!

[muf321]

@HistoryLover1550 not that i think caesar was a bad general he also was very good

[HistoryLover1550]

@muf321 One of the best and I've a similar character like his which I found interesting and surprising.

[maklomite]

So what was the big deal... he defeated one roman army out numbered around 1.8 to 1... wooooow oh wait he took some elephants across the alps... which sorry seems silly to me. So I just don't get how impressed the historians in this clip are...

[MPLNtodopormexico]

@maklomite I wouldnt say defeted he annihilate the Roman army 70to 90 thousand romans in a matter of hours. That was his biggest battle in Rome he had defeted the Romans many time before. His tactics are teach all over the world in military colleges and universities.

[cjleeways]

3:15 ....Rome total war haha

[camo999999999]

lol Lorica Sagmentata in THAT age?? I don't think so!

[wildhias]

70.000 Romans killed in one battle?? are these numbers trustworthy, conducting an internet research some sources really say about 70.000 others "just" more than 45.000 which is still an awful lot. - but in the whole story ismuch to condensed in this report

[immortal117]

@wildhias

It is widely known that numbers are not reliable. Errors occur from exaggerations, limited ability to make accurate counts, and errors in replicating documents. Roman numerals can especially be mistakenly written when copied.

[immortal117]

@wildhias

From what I remember, Polybius is especially confused as his casualty figures are greater then his numbers given for the entire Roman Army. lol. Usually Roman army figures comes from multiplying number of legions by like 5000. But often times individual cohorts and legions are undermanned and go into battle with many less people. This common error will lead to greater numbers than personnel actually present.

[dpsantos1994]

@wildhias nah 70000 was the number of romans dead in the entire war... i think. Not that many romans died at cannae. American docs tend to overreact and exaggerate a bit in my opinion...

[stonem001]

ahahaha the Gauls are such fools

[TheAlexagius]

On rome total war carthage owns rome. On very hard they fall for the same mistakes as the real ones

[Valifarinian]

3:14 did the history channel just use rome total war gameplay footage O.o

[mongoose100989]

um.

[Luskan1]

Carthage is a legend

[summerofmysmile]

Gotta love Mr. Weller's in your face (fun) style. Would love to be in one of his ancient history classes when he's teaching, what a riot!

[GILR8]

To @summerofmysmile : I know that Peter Weller went to Syracuse University, but I did'nt know he taught ancient history

classes....or are you just presuming he does? Do you know this for sure ? How do you know this?

[GILR8]

To blackPowerStick : Nigga Pleaze...

[summerofmysmile]

@GILR8

It is my understanding that he occasionally teaches; I read this information in his bio.

[Indigos8rboi]

lol Hannibal ad Portas was used 2 scare children 2 bed i can see that in a roman home

[blackPowerStick]

this is BULLSHIT BECAUSE THE roman EMPIRE FELL 2 CARTHAGE and HANNIBAL Was killed VIA poisen he neva killed himself

and im gona make sure i do some more research because these white historians always have selective memory they neva want you 2 research the shit fully

so PEEPS DONT BE FOOLED

[speaker827]

To: blackPowerStick

The Roman Empire didn't fall to Carthage.. Carthage (Hannibal) attacked Rome and won every battle, but never defeat the Roman Empire. In the end he was forced to fall back home.

This was BEFORE Julius Ceasar, so Rome could not have fallen to Carthage. Because when Ceasar was alive, the Roman Empire had expanded so much, and it was STILL expanding. Hannibal was LONG DEAD when this happend.

So blackPowerStick, i agree with you. You should research a bit more.

[kev3d]

Hannibal didn't win at Zama.

[Knightszg123]

@speaker827 Hannibal is more better than Caesar because he got great tactics to defeat the enemy.Caesar only expand the roman empire by adding Gaul.

[doomshot555]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!HAAAAA HAHAHA

Next time- Do research first so you dont sound like a RETARD

[goodrowj]

@blackPowerStick

You realize that Carthaginians were white, don't you? The closest modern Punic relatives are the Jews.

[odinthegodofwar]

@goodrowj The founders might have been white/tanned, but people came from all over, after all, it was the land of opportunity

[whowantsabighug]

alexander eat ur heart out, nine days to get to the other side, and its took alexander about a year to get to Tyre

[HoundofOdin]

Hannibal must have had the biggest balls in history.

[DeathTorturer]

Hannibal ad portas! "omg im going to bed" =)

GO HANNIBAL!

[penitent2401]

what was he doing in the alp with so much vinegar?

[whowantsabighug]

he either came prepared, the wine turned bad or he just used basic normal wine

[SvitjodsKrigare]

ROme total war????? lol!

[whowantsabighug]

if u hav somthing that size u need to use a computer program of some sort