Rome's Bloodiest Battle | The Day Rome Nearly Fell! | Cannae | 216 BC | History Documentary
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- Dive deep into one of the darkest days of Roman history: the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC. This riveting account uncovers how Hannibal Barca, Carthage's brilliant strategist, orchestrated a battle plan that would go down as one of the most ingenious in ancient warfare. Rome, the unstoppable behemoth of the Mediterranean, experienced its bloodiest conflict, forever etching the date into historical annals.
Join us as we meticulously break down the events leading up to that fateful day, the unmatched tactics of the Carthaginian army, and the desperate maneuvers of the Roman legions fighting for their survival. We'll explore the emotions, the chaos, and the sheer brutality of a battle that would determine the fate of an empire. Discover the true magnitude of Rome's loss, the heroes who stood out, and the ripple effects that changed Rome's military doctrine forever.
Whether you're a history aficionado or just curious about Rome's epic clashes, this video provides a comprehensive overview of the day Rome nearly met its doom. Engage with us in the comments, share your thoughts, and don't forget to subscribe for more historical deep dives. #Rome #BattleOfCannae #Hannibal #Aditulaudis
This video was made possible using Rome 2 Total War with the Divide et Impera mod.
This is a historical battle from the Second Punic War.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
04:10 Cannae battlefield deployment
05:25 Hannibal's army
06:33 Skirmish starts
07:57 The Roman army advance
09:26 Cavalry engagements
11:36 Center battlefield engagement
14:13 Romans push back Hannibal's center
16:58 Hannibal reveals his trap
18:04 The roman army encircled
18:59 Roman defeat and conclusion
Music:
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The "small group of (balearic) slingers" in Hannibal's army consisted approximately of 1500 men. Anyone unlucky enough to be on the receiving end, would have to endure a barrage of roughly 15.000 deadly projectiles raining on them every minute. The mother of all hailstorms indeed...
Slingers were a very effective skirmishers unit, those from the Balearic islands were exceptional.
What where their projectiles made of ?
@@noodlesgalore9286 lead , so basically bullets ?
@@noodlesgalore9286 typically, the projectiles would be made from lead (moulded into a pointy egg-shaped form) or from baked clay. Similar sized round pebbles could also be used.
@@morikanti Like small footballs or rugby balls.weighing between 3-5 oz. very deadly, but mostly they could seriously maim.
Ганнибал, как ни крути, был гениальным полководцем. С 40-тысячной армией не просто разбить, а фактически уничтожить 70-тысячную римскую армию, еще и на территории противника - это один из лучших стратегических планов на сражение и блестящее его исполнение!
Они изобразили армию Карфагена голодранцами и дикарями, одетыми чуть ли не шкуры с волчьими головами вместо доспехов.
It was more around 50.000 troops for Hannibal but still impressive
Love your work man!! Contratulations❤
Thanks a ton!
Amazing work! I love it! Keep it up!
Thank you! Will do!
Another awesome video as always! As for future videos, I have a few suggestions; Battle of Kadesh (1274 B.C.E.) and Tausret vs Irsu (non-historical) for Pharaoh, Battle of Watling Street (61 C.E.) and Ardiaei vs. Pergamon (non-historical) for Rome II, and Sack of Aquileia (452 C.E.) and Vandals vs. Picts (non-historical) for Attila. As usual, keep up the good work churning out amazing videos such as these👍!
Great suggestion!
@@AdituLaudisMMXXI Also the spanish Reconquista made by the catholic kings vs muslim Caliphats during MCCCC's and 1500's.
Excellent video! Good job! And Happy New Year!
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Loved the video, thank you. One minor point, the cavalry commander at Cannae (Hasdrubal) was not Hannibal's brother. Hasdrubal Barca was back in Spain in 216BC and defeated the Romans later that year.
Magon, Hannibal's youngest brother, was present at Cannae yet.
Nevertheless, he had mixed fortunes with the Romans, being defeated a number of times and finally met his end at the Metauras. Another reason I submit why Hannibal failed to attack Rome was because he had brought no siege equipment.
This was awesome! Thanks a lot! Read, that Netflix will bring a movie (series?) about Hannibal with Denzel Washington in the role of the famous military genius. That would be brutal! Always wanted to see a big Hollywood production about Cannae.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great one, soon to be a classic !
Thanks!
Love the video!!!
Thank you!!
Hey man nice vid. If I was to offer one criticism , it would be that you just kinda gave up narration of the battle nearly halfway through.
Hannibal's deliberate collapsing of the centre of his fighting line, you didn't even mention, even though it's a crucial (if the THE most crucial) turn of events in the fight.
The visuals should aid narration, but not be the focal point.
Feedback was well received. Will improve my videos as I go. Thanks for that
You're welcome, and you've earned my sub. I look forward to more content!
By the way, my original comment should have said '(if *not THE most crucial)' but I can't edit it for some reason.
Love your videos!
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This is one of the battles we studied in the Army ROTC program.
haha, thanks for using my greece mod, I think it's incredible that you were able to get the last version that I uploaded, right now I'm working on a new version with better models, I hope you can play it when it comes out
thank you for your awesome work. The game wouldn't be the same without modders like yourself. Thank you again!
Love this cinematic video🔥
Thank you 🙌
EXCELLANT VIDEO!!!
Thank you very much!
Come si suol dire: ha vinto una battaglia, ne ha vinto un'altra.... ma alla fine ha perso la guerra.!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hannibal had no siege equipment and little training in siege warfare, his chances of taking Rome were pretty thin.
Very nice video.
Thank you very much!
The fact scipio got out of there seems like fate for both sides.
Good video!
Thanks!
Amazing how the Roman’s even after that huge defeat never surrendered just kept coming back again and again
They were always coming back
Они были очень настойчивы)
The Romans were extremely, and notoriously stubborn. During the first Punic War there was an incident at Cape Passaro, near Camarina, Sicily, where 384 Warships and 300 transports of the Roman navy were hit by a sudden and violent flash storm, around 70 percent of the 684 ships were sunk and over 100 thousand men were said to have been lost. Such a flash devastating blow in the midst of a decades long, and already deadly conflict, would have quite assuringly made most nations to seriously consider or outright sue for peace. The Roman response? build more ships, recruit more men, go again.
To stop Rome you had to destroy it root and stem, otherwise it would just keep coming. It is truly no wonder that their civilisation spread and lasted over 2 Millenia, and still today, despite its last remnants being gone for 5 centuries, still deeply impacts many of us. A lasting testament to the Romans that this entire thread and comment section of various different people's from all over the world is being written and majority communicated in the anglicised Latin alphabet. Even when gone, they stubbornly remain.
Mostly because hanno at carthago had kind of the biggest political power of the senat but never understood how to make a war with rome.
Lose the apostrophe.
Aníbal era un genio y lo demostró mas de una vez.Cannas fue su obra maestra.
Enjoyed .
Glad you enjoyed it
Epic.!
Thanks Rick!
What application you are using for make this map and animated video...
Please reply.......❤❤
check video description
The only mistake made by the Romans during the Cannes was that they did not bother to stretch their troops.
Carrhae was 150 years later, in the east. This here is Cannae in south Italy.
@@schattensand The translator got in the way, there's nothing I can do(
they couldnt stretch the troops more. you have the aufidus river to the left and the mountains to the right which limited the width of the battlefield
@@nazeem8680 So Hannibal was able to stretch the troops, and the Romans were limited? Or even if so, what prevented you from stretching when approaching? Hannibal didn't seem to want to go on the offensive.
@@josephstalin816 look at the map again. Both armies are evenly stretched out. Hannibal was able to sorround the Romans because he let the Roman center push forward from there flanks
What mod do you use, so you can take so huge armies?
If it was possible to send a drone back in time to record, this is the battle I would like to see for my self the most.
I have a theory that the flying Tick Tack UFO’s recorded by the US Navy, are such drones from the future.
only the demons aka the watchers may have recorded that battle. I noticed all the weird footnotes mentioned by apulia about bright objects flying about before the disasters of trebia and trasimene. Most likely that these entities recorded the battle of Cannae.
@@mcbrians.8508 yea maybe flying TicTac’s
Any culture capable of traveling through time would surely have such advanced technology they could make drones undetectable. But you may be right in that they are observing us, just hidden.
@@jasip1000 facts.
About Hannibal, his companions said: "He knew how to win battles, but he did not know how to use the fruits of victories." That's all you need to know about him.
He was the one that also made Rome pee in their pants
My great, great, great........cousins uncle broke a finger at the battle. Poor horses.
Many of us exist because of the deaths that day, this battle changed human history.
One of the biggest misteries in human history... what made Hannibal turn away from Rome after he destroyed the roman army and was holding the entire Italy in hand...???
He believed he didn't have enough men, to conquer and hold the city, nor the necessary siege equipment to breech the city walls.
@@earldriskill3505 traveling through the entire north africa, south of europa, breaking through the alps, destroying 3 major roman army in a row within a couple of years then not even trying to capture the destination sounds a little bit weird...ancient sources told us the women in rome all dressed black and the entire city was preparing for the occupation. Rome did not have huge walls no sources ever mentioned it might have been the reason but even if a siege had been risky the capital could have been easily cut off from food and water supplies... it would have been still better to die trying to than camping in italy for more then a decade for nothing then returning th carthage just to see their home fall.... wtf???
@@maximusinvictus8802 not really. Let me point you out this:
1) Rome actually HAD city walls, and formidable too (the Servian Walls). Hannibal's army took months to defeat Saguntum, whose walls were much weaker. Rome was very well defended and with large supplies of food and water. A siege was utterly impossible.
2) Hannibale had only a small part of Southern Italy at his disposal, since he was cut off from his Celtic allies by the Appenines Mountains and by the Roman Army controlling the mountain passes.
3) The Roman navy controlled the sea and the main harbours were all in Romans' hands. So, a Roman army from Sardinia or Sicily could have landed at Hannibal's back at any moment.
4) Hannibal's goal has never been to destroy Rome (he knew that it was impossible) but to demolish the confederacy of Rome's italian allies, wich was the source of its power. To accomplish that, he had first to beat the Roman army, and then to remain in Italy to prevent an italian coalition. He almost succeeded in that.
@@maximusinvictus8802 You make some good points, but that's what I learned from reading about the reasons Hannibal didn't invade Rome. After Hannibal crossed the Alps though, all of his war elephants died, and he lost alot of men during the actual crossing. Whether he would've been successful in invading Rome itself, we will never know. Hannibal did bring up the problems with logistics when it came to conquering Rome. His calvary commander, Marabaral, thought otherwise, and that they needed to strike at Rome immediately. The Cathage city leaders also didn't give Hannibal the support he needed, in his invasion of Rome, not realizing that by letting Hannibal down, not being fully behind him, it would eventually lead to the destruction of Cathage. There's one thing about the Romans doing the Punic War with Hannibal, they were very resourceful, and never gave up, which in hindsight, was some of reasons they became a world power. After their defeat at Cannae, they wouldn't engage Hannibal and his army after this tremendous loss. The Romans had an almost unlimited supply of men, and equipment, so to defeat Rome, the city itself needed to be invaded and conquered, and the populace needed to ally with Hannibal, which some did after Cannae, so I'll agree on that point. The Romans bided their time, and waited, until they had the opportunity to strike back against Hannibal was more favorable, which they did in Spain. The only general that I thought could've defeated Rome was Alexander the Great.
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I think it was a mistake to not attack Rome directly, as Hannibal gained support and had most of the Roman army defeated, striking at Rome would have been the end of Rome, but he listened to orders of the senate of Carthage probably and was forced to bring a giantic army into Sicily then Carthage, not knowing Romans had an ally Massinisa who had kept a grudge against Carthage and Syphax their Numidian ally for some reasons this is because he went defending Carthage that he lost after a tremendous campaign around all western mediterranean and had to quickly go back Carthage which exhausted more his troops, probably didn't allowed him to take alot of his army too such as elephants.
I think it was also a mistake to not attack the heart city of Rome directly because Romans did the same strategy Hannibal didn't which is striking directly at Carthage the heart city of the Carthaginian Empire with an ally which allowed them to gain the victory.
you could be right.
It became a logistics war in the end, as rome controlled all the ports...hence him winning the battles then losing the war...none the less he was a great commander and general...a big part of history.....
@@seansweeney2875 Carthage was a far superior naval power and Hannibal had the support of much of Southern Italy. His downfall was far more political than logistic in my opinion. He rose too high and became too popular, so the leaders of Carthage saw him as a threat and refused to support him in his continued campaign and push on Rome, rather recalling him.
As a field general he may also have been hesitant to engage in a prolonged seige.
Lastly I don't think Carthage ever wanted to outright destroy Rome. It seems they sought a diplomatic victory, more than complete conquest of the Italian Peninsula. A mistake clearly.
Rome had large and strong wall. Hannibal didn't have tools to attack these walls.
The reason why Hannibal never dared to attack Rome was that he was fully aware that Rome possessed the most formidable city walls in Europe. Hannibal took months to conquer Saguntum, whose defences were far weaker than Rome's, and he knew that Italian allies would have mustered a fresh enemy army in the following spring. He would have never let himself to be taken between the hammer and the anvil.
Hey man, could you consider making ottoman battles?
Of course
Good video despite a great many mispronunciations
I tried
Wow! Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's brutally interested in Traditional Roman religion, history and warfare I hotly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series. What that guys is pulling off is unheard of
There is a certain logic to that. If so, then they knew enough to not only go back in time but to make sure they travelled the requisite distance so as not to be literally millions of miles away when going back in time.
Aditu Laudis Bro can you make a battle of the Spanish Conquistadors and between the ASIAN IGOROT TRIBES OF THE PHILIPPINES?!
I’m not sure if it really works to make a short video of it. Because I also want to see my ancestors in the past History when the SPANIARDS HAVE SAIL AND CONQUERED THE ASIAN CONTINENT MOST ESPECIALLY IN MY COUNTRY! Aditu Laudis I hope that you can make a short video or try to create a video between the IGOROT ASIAN TRIBE WARRIORS AND THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORS! Thank you so much bro!😁🙂🙏🏽👍
Aditu Laudis try to read and search the Medieval Ancient year history between the SPANISH AND THE IGOROT WARRIORS PLEASE! Thank you so much! 😁🙂🙏🏽👍
Jj. Je k tomu natočený velmi velmi pěkný film....s názvem-Hanibal nepřítel Říma-...na YT je k dohledání...
evidently, the Numidian cavalry as it attacked the Roman rear did not bother to initially kill their enemy but rather sliced the Achilles tendon of Roman soldiers thus being able to disable thousands of soldiers quickly.
BTW - Numidians did not ride w/saddles
勉強になりました、ありがとう ARIGATOU
X stands for infinity. Dash stands for cavalry.
Not enough audio details commentary
*Cathargo Delenda Est!!!*
Thank you for your video.
Please make a video about the last battle between Romans and Parthians when the Romans lost so bad that their entire army was destroyed. Partthians could conquer Roman empire if they wanted to but they had to deal with internal riots.
Which one? battle of Carrhae ?
@AdituLaudisMMXXI Ardavan 5th, the last emperor of Parthians
The ground cover in dead body’s banquet for the wild animals .
The secret of the Roman final victory is a huge amount of resources they had including human resource. For example we know that in middle of the 6 century BC they had 80 thousand men who can use weapon. Look at their territory at that time. It was just a little piece of Italy. So at the time of Gannibal came Rome had a really enormous amount of available men both on their old territory and on allied lands.
Sapevo di questa sconfitta canne della battaglia così viene chiamata e si trova proprio a Barletta x chi non lo sapesse dov'è poi ci fu la disfida di Barletta
“Many Italians stopped supporting Rome and started supporting CARTH-ah-gee”. Never heard of them
😮😮😮😮😮 anibal barca para mi es el mejor general de la historia militar ideo la maniobra de doble emvolvimiento o tenaza y fue una genialidad solo dos generales en la historia militar la han podido hacer dos veces
FOR CARTHAGE!!
For Bal Hamon
El centro cartagines compuesto de infantería celta e hispana pesadas fue retrocediendo como parte del plan anibalico para que la infantería pesada Libia africana en columna formada en ambos flacos de Cartago hiciera una conversión de frente y golpeara el flanco de las legiones.
The irony is, Hannibal could defeat Rome's armies, but he could have never defeated Rome. Why? Cause he lacked the ability to lay siege to Rome as a city.If you can't take the city of Rome then you can't defeat Rome. So even though he was a superior general, he made a major blunder in not bringing siege abilities with him.
That is pretty inncorect. If he layed siege to Rome, Italian allies would have free reign across the whole Apenine peninsula. And they were more then enough loyal by that time. Even the Samnites.
Him maurading around and stopping any army from even forming against him while waiting for strong reinforcement from Africa or Iberia would enable him to form two armies with which he could do both things at the same time and defeat the Rome. It did not happen, Rome prevailed.
No it's not incorrect that if you want to destroy Rome, you must lay siege to Rome. And no it's not incorrect that Hannibal brought no abilities with him to lay siege. You are correct that the cities on Italy were faithful enough to make it a 2 front war that Hannibal could not fight. But as for the support from Carthage, that was a pipe dream. They did not support him when he lived there, they did not support him when he raised his troops, they did not support him when he left to make war, they did not support him when he was tromping around Italy kicking ass. So why would he ever think that he was suddenly going to get support he's never had before? He won't. At best that was his own propaganda for his troops to keep them loyal. Hannibal is a man who brought to ruin to himself and his people by his own obsessions and miscalculations.
@@totallytomanimation Well sure, though reinforcement did come, but it was defeated before it joined with Hanibal (Hanibal didn't knew it was coming). He basically had few options he was counting on.
One was reinforcement from Carthaginian territories. Which came (from Iberia i think) but was defeated before reaching him. Maybe a second one could be mustered and sent from Sicily. You kind of always have to hope for some change.
Second one was that at some point more Italian cities would join him if he defeats some more Roman armies. Siege of Rome does not provide for it. Letting Rome the free reign to acquire it's armies while not being pinned down to one place(i.e. City of Rome) would acquire just that. Romans didn't bite. That is another thing. Every other state probably would.
Also when saying that he by maurading around stops armies from forming it means that he is stopping allies from coming to Rome, but not stopping Romans from going out from the city to meet him. Which is exactly what he wanted. Stop allies to form huge armies and allow Romans to come out and form weak armies which he can defeat and swing Italian cities to his side.
Third was the Phillip the V's involvement in the war. If not with massive armies and major invasion then by sending reinforcement or at least stirring magna Garecia into revolt. Or both prefferably.
Either of these was hard to predict.
For him being foolish for venturing is not a good way to think about the matter as Carthage was never going to get any closer to victory then with him. Think about it.
They were losing the war, Rome was better at everything and this was actually last moment to do something about the situation. Everthing else but an invasion of the Italian peninsula and the destruction of the city of Rome was a half measure. Hanibal knew it, bit unfortunately for him other Carthaginians in power did not.
He did what was at times not the best, but the only thing that could stop Carthage's fall and destruction.
Maybe. Just maybe Carthage would not have been destroyed as it has been if he didn't invade (but let's be honest the romans would not and could not resist the looting of such amagnificent and rich city to just slip through their fingers) and leave them as some kind of dependent teritory until they turn it into a province and do away with Carthage.
What Hanibal did was either make a Carthage ruler of the Mediteranean or hasten it's inevitable fall. He was the man of the hour. The last chance they'd ever get at winning this total war against Rome, but other people in power were not and thus we have what we have.
Nevertheless St. Augustine clearly still doesn't quite identifies with Romans and still holds his Semitic identity above the Roman one, despite Carthage not being indenpendent for centuries.
If Carthage was peacefully incorporated into the Republic they might have lost their identity completely like any other peoples. Since there was such a tragic end, Phoenicians held on to the fight for their survival much much longer and did not dissapear until the Arabs came. Well it could have as well lasted till today...
@@mputilin - good grasp on the history of it - I'm a fan of Hannibal as a Tactician but realistic in understanding his flaws. The most obvious being, he had "hope" as too much a part of his plan - he hoped the cities of Italy would join him, they did not - Hope that Carthage would support him, of which, what support was attempted was too little, too late, and too weak to fight an army on their own. - Hoped that The Alps wouldn't take as many of his men n animals as it did - Hope that the battles would exhaust the citizens of Rome and they would sue for a peace, but instead he birthed the phrase "Carthaginian peace" (ouch) - In a world where the rule of nature is adapt or die, Hannibal would never choose to adapt, and so death was inevitable for him and Carthage. To paraphrase "The Art of War", He who chooses violence first has already lost the war. Nice chatting with ya, fun discourse - Senatus Populusque Romanus
@@totallytomanimation "He had hoped too much" so did Jukius Caesar, so did Alexander of Macedon, so were countless others before him. This is how it is done in life if the safe options were unnacessible. Every each of these hopes were real and if any happened in more significant shape, he would have a real chance of success in destroying the Rome. Carthage was soon to come in the state of do or die, which he understood and an action was needed. Badly.
If risk was not undertaken they would have lost their possesions in Iberia first and then probably Lybia or even directly Tunisia. Romans were at the doors after the First Punic war. He had to take the risk and come what may. Whole of his civilization was in danger of slaughter.
Also. Even though none of his strategic hopes were made real Rome was still in a dire state and seriously rattled. So almost. For the sake of his homeland he did well. Also in the battle of Zama i believe that if the cavalary was there when he needed it, the whole history might have gone the other way around too. Too many things not going his way. God wanted Rome. That was that.
Hello , what is the secret of being able to play with such large armies? There does not appear to be any low fps. How can we configure our own computers?
please share this secret with us :) I'm just playing games 😄, Also your videos are truly amazing.👏👏
Lots of videos out there on this battle, This is the worst. Also lots of pictures of the Battle site. And many show the elevation and size of the field very well from a hill that over looks it. Even up to now, farmers will get small fragments of the Battle after a rain, and after plowing. Having actually been there, myself, it is hard to imagine that many people in such a small space giving battle.
You would take a look at Hannibal's lot, , and say "Oh, f^ck".
Los portaestandarte de las águilas no las usaban como armas.pars defenderse llevaban sus gladio
.lo que hacían era mantener bien alto las águilas para que los legionarios tuvieran su punto de referencia de donde estaban sus cohortes en la confusión del choque.
La caballería volvi y cerro el círculo y empezó la matanza.aqui Aníbal demostró su capacidad de mantener un control absoluto sobre sus tropas.hacervvolver a una tropa victoriosa al combate no es fácil.recordemos los problemas nada menos que de welintong en waterloonpsra controlar su caballería.
Tłumaczenie angielskiej wersji powiedzenia Hannibala jest niepełne. Jest tylko do połowy tekstu. Algorytm niedoskonały.
The translation of the English version of Hannibal's saying is incomplete. It's only halfway through the text. An imperfect algorithm.
Let me verify and rectify. Thank you
@@AdituLaudisMMXXI Thank you.
Roma nunca estuvo en peligro.
Hannibal at the Gate
major continuity problems.
What video game is this
Check video description
Le hubiera hecho falta más victorias como Cannas. Pero el Estado Romano no se lo proporcionó. Fabio Máximo. Usaba la estrategia de desgaste con los Cartagineses.
Im not sure Rome was endangered even with Hannibal there. They knew they only needed to attack Carthage and Hannibal would leave Italy.
But he didn’t leave Italy for 17 years bro in his time he killed over 1 million Roman
NUMBERS OF SOLDIERS: ANTIC ANCIENT AUTHORS rarely gave exact numbers. Historians like Livi in AB URBE CONDITA just tried usually to rekindle the mood of a battle he he known from hearsay. The archeological excavations also are just a limited help here.
In a way those ANTIC descriptions are closer to a modern Hollywood movie as to the true facts.
Wasn't it Arausio? 🤔 During the Barbarian War.
As compared to the battles in China during the same period, 86000 troops is puny.....In China, it was up to a million from each side...
To be honest, the veracity of Chinese military history is questionable, and Chinese historians have long been known to exaggerate the numbers of soldiers. A combined force of one million for both sides is a gross exaggeration, especially considering the population of China at the time.😅
@@user-si5ci4bh9y China is the most populated country in the world today with 1.4 billion people. Where does this number come from if not a big population based? This is in spite of incessant wars between different kingdoms of the region before China was finally re-united by the first Emperor.
History of China is well documented. You may not know this but it was the Chinese who invented paper. The Arabs in the Middle East stole this technology from Chinese prisoners of war and the European stole it from the Arabs. And this was one of the main catalyst that started the Industrial Revolution in Europe.
Furthermore, some of the books of famous Chinese historian that are more than 2000 years old are still preserved and stored in Chinese museum, the most notable being the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian( 145 to 90BC)
No it wasn't. The history of China is full of lies and exaggerations of numbers. If those accounts had even been close to accurate massive parts of China would have been depopulated. Since it wasnt...it was propaganda.
That is true and true , half of the war is about logistics alone , to supply enough grain and water for a million people is impossible back in those days
I never make so mistake like the Romans in this battle when I play with TW Rome :) The flanks are the most important. But this is just a game :)
in the middle of this battle, why both sides rome infantry go backward? Was rome infantry weak compared to hannival‘s army?
Para quien cuestione lad cifras de bajas romanas hay que recordar que este era un ejerito condular doble o des cada condul mandsba 4 legiones romanad y de aliados
he could win battles but not the war.
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Carthagenians?
What is the name of this game? Or is it animation?
Rome 2 total war
Rome was in no danger of falling, the walls were to well defended & Carthage didn't have a large enough army to breech it's walls
Aníbal. Aunque hubiera conquistado casi todas las ciudades de Italia. No disponía de suficientes tropas para dejar guarnición en todas ellas.
Wrong ending. Hannibal was betrayed by the noble Hanno, backing the pro Roman faction of Carthage. For three years Hannibal was denied the requested supplies, horses, and most of all, troops to finish off the Romans once and for all. Resources were diverted to Iberia, which was insignificant to the war effort.
Sounds right...many of the comments here are absurd...a man with such great success would know what he needed to win...it's like a football manager at Man Utd...you ask for certain players...and Ed Woodward gets you something completely different. Hannibal was clearly not backed by his own side...jealousy? Who would rule Cathage then...was it a govt state, kingship...or priests? Sounds to me very William Wallace like...
Sagunto tardo 8 meses en carr.
I always feel sorry for the animals in these cases...
I come here for Oversimplified
Tivesse Aníbal ousado e obtivesse êxito, Roma não teria existido! Talvez, o mundo que conhecemos hoje, fosse outro totalmente diferente! Se para melhor ou para pior, não sei! Mas, que seria diferente, isso seria!
Siempre hay lideres. Que la Historia. No les hace honor. Como Agatocles. Un general Griego. De Siracusa. Creo recordar. Quien humillo a los Cartagineses. Y estuvo a punto de conquistar Cartago.
mal expresado senior relatador, en esa epoca no habia italianos, eran distintas tribus, por favor expreses correctamente.
Las tropas libias eran falangitas con sarisas al estilo macedónico.
Game name?
Total War Rome 2
@grahamxiii thank you man, very cool edit and battle😊
@@ddxdlolboy2938 I'm not the creator, wrong person lol... The creator of this video is @AdituLaudisMMXXI
At Cannae, 50.000 Roman soldiers died in a single afternoon. Yet, Hannibal did not dare attack Rome. Was he ill-informed about the number of legions in Italy? "Hannibal knew how to win battles, but not how to win a war."
Hannibal's decision not to march on Rome is still debated. Some say it was due to logistical challenges and the strength of Roman defenses.
There are still 10 legions up of which 2 will be destroyed in Silva litana by the gauls. You know hannibal is not that good in siege. Hannibal got blocked several times in Nola and capua.
Se puede hablar de españa porque esa palabra deriva de la latina ispania que es como los romanos llamaban a españa.significa tierra de conejos.
MAybe Anibal wasn't that super general and just have the prestigue because the other form the defeated generals would be worse seen if Anibal is not an strategic magistral general
Después de la Batalla. Aníbal mando una embajada a Roma. El Senado Romano. Le contesto lo mismo que le dijeron a Pirro. Mientras halla un ejercito extranjero en suelo Italiano. No habrá Paz.
It's a pity that the A.I. in Rome 2 is too dumb to simulate such battles...
Not Spanish but Iberian tribes fought in Hannibal s side, talk about Spain makes no sense in that period.
yep
@@AdituLaudisMMXXI great job anyway
Why can’t you pronounce Carthage correctly?
We never see this in movies, and please don't mention Alexander
What do you mean
@@AdituLaudisMMXXI we usually see a gaggle of swords men running at each other in an uncoordinated way without strategy or tactics and hundreds of thousand dead or dying on the battle field. But it was usually who ever has the upper hand will see the opponents fleeing for their lives and the Victor pursuing their enemy, that's when you see the blood bath. There were very few battles until the 20th century where we see the kind of apocalyptic numbers we see on the battlefeild.
Arausio was worse
No because the republic could reinforce the front afterwards as they where far larger than in Hannibal’s time and after canae they had to recruit convicts and homeless people
Non è stata la battaglia più sanguinosa: ad Orange i romani perero 80.000 uomini
The Battle of Arausio near Orange was indeed a devastating loss for the Romans, with very high casualties reported. It's one of the worst defeats in Roman history.