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Rome's Journey to Superpower Status: The Samnite Wars
The Samnite Wars mark a massive turning point in Rome's history. At the onset of war between the Romans and the Samnites, Rome was at best a regional power. They had secured their hold over central Italy but were still boxed in with the Etruscans to their north and the Samnites to their south.
Yet these wars would completely change the political landscape of Italy for the rest of history. Rome would truly begin to dominate the peninsula and eventually the whole of the Mediterranean. So how did they do that? How did Rome manage to overcome the Samnites? And why is this war the turning point of Rome's early history? Let's talk about it.
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Sources (if you want recommendations feel free to ask!):
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
TJ Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome - Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
Ross Cowan, Roman Conquests: Italy
Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Nicholas Horsfall, The Caudine Forks: Topography and Illusion
E.T. Salmon, The Resumption of Hostilities after the Caudine Forks
Michael P.. Fronda: Livy 9.20 and Early Roman Imperialism in Apulia
Nic Fields and Sean O'Brogain: Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's humiliation in the Second Samnite War
Charles River: The Etruscans: The History and Culture of the Ancient Italian Civilization that Preceded the Romans
Tenney Frank, "Roman Census Statistics from 508 to 225 B.C.," American Journal of Philology 51
0:00 - Intro and 1st Samnite War
31:07 - 2nd Samnite War
1:49:39 - 3rd Samnite War
2:21:47 - Outro
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @LaPtaVerdad
    @LaPtaVerdad Годину тому

    Imagine rome conquered the sahara and managed to conquer a big chunk of africa We would had like 5 different places calling themselves the true roman empire not just the byzantine and the germanics xD The kongo empire being like nooo we the true roman empire!!!

  • @user-wc4bx7fy7i
    @user-wc4bx7fy7i 4 години тому

    Supercut good, keep the short videos though it's better for the algorithm if you post more

  • @pinkpanther4291
    @pinkpanther4291 5 годин тому

    This video is a banger

  • @stephenolson532
    @stephenolson532 7 годин тому

    Up too and including riding 🐫 🐫 🐫?

  • @wolfiemum461
    @wolfiemum461 7 годин тому

    No no thanks all this BCE crap it’s BC

  • @jesushidalgo6710
    @jesushidalgo6710 13 годин тому

    I am from Cádiz from where Balbus was from 🙏🙏💙💛

  • @holdencaulfield8429
    @holdencaulfield8429 18 годин тому

    Still using the term Iceberg in 2024, bit embarrassing.

  • @cm2973
    @cm2973 20 годин тому

    Yeah you lost me when you suggested a Muslim conquorer continued Rome. He can think that. But he wasn't a Roman in any sense. It ended in 1461.

  • @hykuzo
    @hykuzo День тому

    BCE… already know it’s gonna be very superficial. Also LaTIum and not LaZium 😂😂

  • @bioemilianosky
    @bioemilianosky День тому

    Quality shit

  • @alexdelvento1273
    @alexdelvento1273 День тому

    Blacks in 2024 Wypipo ain’t got no culcha 🤡

  • @trapdoorfloyd
    @trapdoorfloyd День тому

    Pretty far 😎

  • @Thomas-oc2ln
    @Thomas-oc2ln День тому

    You'll use Fahrenheit but not BC/AD? LMAO

  • @charlie__kelly3690
    @charlie__kelly3690 День тому

    Uses BCE... nah

  • @poisonedidiot4716
    @poisonedidiot4716 День тому

    A lot of minor mistakes were made throughout the video. Still interesting nonetheless.

  • @rymic72
    @rymic72 День тому

    A lack of sickle cells creating an immunity to malaria would have prevented/complicated Roman exploration of sub Saharan Africa just as it did other European explorers 1400 years later before the advent of quinine.

  • @alexdelvento1273
    @alexdelvento1273 2 дні тому

    It’s a shame how the mainstream media just wildly distorts reality. Not just with Roman history but with present day life they lie and manipulate everything. Viva Roma. Forever proud of my Ancestors. 💪🏻🇮🇹

  • @andytucker9573
    @andytucker9573 2 дні тому

    Thank you, love the depth and research.. youre really easy to listen to

  • @freemason4979
    @freemason4979 2 дні тому

    Im hooked ! also check out david irving the churchill myth. thnx

  • @SkoomaIceCoffee
    @SkoomaIceCoffee 2 дні тому

    2:09:19 ua-cam.com/video/Xv5GJ6bo_HQ/v-deo.html Mithras also mean friend in sanskrit.

  • @damonallen3322
    @damonallen3322 2 дні тому

    Pecker ist umgangssprachlich für Schwanz oder Schniedelwutz.

  • @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154

    Dear Chaos can you please make me a professional swimmer ?

  • @xaagripha7326
    @xaagripha7326 2 дні тому

    to say rome ended would say the concept of western civilization disappeared, it didnt it evolved just like alexander started it maybe further back but it became rome the rome became Europe and Europe western civilization rome exists today

  • @szalard
    @szalard 2 дні тому

    As I know, the city of Beneventum was named in the beginning Maleventum, and only after Rome's victory against Pyrrhus II or Epirus, they changed its name to Beneventum.

  • @sebastianrodriguez8892
    @sebastianrodriguez8892 3 дні тому

    Came here for the Rome iceberg but at this point I just became used to ur voice lol

  • @That_Emily
    @That_Emily 3 дні тому

    Whenever you say "I cant get into it.." I immediately think its cause its confidential and not cause of time

  • @fransvphc1098
    @fransvphc1098 3 дні тому

    Didnt even listen, subscribed the moment I saw the name of the channel. i was not dissapointed.

  • @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154

    Dear Chaos can you please make me rich and famous ?

  • @thehillbillygamer2183
    @thehillbillygamer2183 4 дні тому

    Absolutely not those fucking Muslims will not Roman emperors they conquered Constantinople they had no right to the Imperial title

  • @npickle54
    @npickle54 4 дні тому

    Very good video

  • @jacksonhobbs2303
    @jacksonhobbs2303 4 дні тому

    At ~6:10 you say 509bce but the video displays 590bce

  • @sweetreamer5101
    @sweetreamer5101 5 днів тому

    I leave this comment to please the great god Algo. May his blessings be upon your channel.

  • @nicholasfevelo3041
    @nicholasfevelo3041 5 днів тому

    Using B.C.E. is for losers

  • @carterghill
    @carterghill 5 днів тому

    If the Eastern Roman Empire can still be Roman even though it's culturally Greek, then the HRE can still be Roman even though it's Germanic.

  • @johnclamp1535
    @johnclamp1535 5 днів тому

    Yo. Excellent.

  • @bro94ee
    @bro94ee 6 днів тому

    Campania genetically related to rome

  • @anarquia201
    @anarquia201 6 днів тому

    Oh great a long detaill video of history my favorite

  • @matthewcarmody5119
    @matthewcarmody5119 6 днів тому

    Trash brings modern politics into history video 154 min in.

  • @ElmerFuddBAR
    @ElmerFuddBAR 6 днів тому

    Been watching all your videos on Rome. Great stuff, one of the best channels. Can't believe you don't have more subs.

  • @NewNationale
    @NewNationale 6 днів тому

    What the hell is BCE? The calendar is based off the gregorian, dated after the birth of christ 😂 you try so hard

  • @granolabranborg
    @granolabranborg 7 днів тому

    This man clearly has never come face to face with an angry Italian. :p jk

  • @sweetreamer5101
    @sweetreamer5101 7 днів тому

    When you hear over and over again how the Senate suppressed and slandered any individual who flashed even a hint of talent and greatness, you have to wonder how anyone could think Caesar was the bad guy during the run up to the fall of the Republic. Politicians these days are exactly the same. They embrace fools and mediocrity because they fear genius. See: The US Secret Service.

  • @conrad9557
    @conrad9557 7 днів тому

    I watched this till the end

  • @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154
    @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154 7 днів тому

    Chaos is eloquent

  • @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154
    @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154 7 днів тому

    Chaos is cute

  • @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154
    @ileilanambingaamtheleader1154 7 днів тому

    Chaos is smart

  • @EarwaxYouDeserve
    @EarwaxYouDeserve 7 днів тому

    1:37:52 bookmark

  • @drakewolford7949
    @drakewolford7949 7 днів тому

    1:54:00 And you've lost me. It is objective fact. Epsteins flight logs are publicly available, and features countless celebrities. Former president Bill Clinton flew to his pedo island forty-something times. Prince Andrew was literally photographed with one of Epsteins concubines... It isn't a "conspiracy". It is objective, verifiable fact that there are very powerful people in the governments of our world that participate in these horrible atrocities every day. It literally just is. And it is a damn shame. And damn you for deciding to make your ignorant views known two hours into an four hour video. Just... damn you, man... I thought it was pretty good up until this point. But now I have to reconsider. If you are incapable of seeing a contemporary truth right in front of your face, so to speak, how am I supposed to believe you can find truth in the ancient past? But I don't actually think you're a bad guy. I'm sure you have you're reasons for believing the things you do, as I have mine. That's fine, whatever. I just wish you hadn't wasted two precious hours of my life. Anyways, what's that Augustus quote, after the battle Teutoburg forest? "Idiot Talks History, give me back my two hours!"

  • @Manic-Main
    @Manic-Main 8 днів тому

    Can’t wait to look back 5 years from now when this “idiot” is gonna be the top Roman History UA-camr.

  • @Ealdorman_of_Mercia
    @Ealdorman_of_Mercia 8 днів тому

    Samnites are basically romans.