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@@Minor1623 didnt see any comment nor delete any in this video besides some of those obvious porn ad accounts. Not sure what happened to yours. Might be because I re-ded this pinned comment with an edit.
This has to be one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. I put this on to fall asleep to, but I’m so impressed by the quality of information I can’t sleep. Great job! Thank you
Statistically, English accents are the best for UA-cam VO because they are considered neutral and authoritative. When I found out this, I realised I was also biased against videos of US kids yelling at me.
It's so interesting that many veterans choose to group together after fighting together, even now when there's no free land and funding to do so. I think war forges bonds between people that only other people who have seen it, suffered it and struggled through it can really understand.
They are your people. They are your tribe. They are your home. Best way to describe it. I fought in three wars and I can say I don’t feel comfortable around anyone else. Other people come off as self interested, comfort-seeking, and therefor untrustworthy. American civilians especially come off as clueless. Sort of like district one people in the hunger games. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that honestly, it’s just not my culture and I’m too old to even want to change. I wish you luck in whatever struggles you face in the future.
@Mantelar same here. After deployment and my time in the military, I don't like being around civilians. Yea, every squad had their 1 knuckleheads, but with civilians, they are everywhere. It's the bond and brotherhood we have created, trusting the man next to you with your life and trusting he knows what he is doing regardless if you met him last night, last month, or last year. Once you're out and integrated back into the civilian world, you don't see it. You only see the self righteous, self centered, and have a different perception of the world.
You know I was in the military back in the nineties and I found an amazing how they were able to support all of their troops all over the world. I can't imagine doing that back in those days with all those people all the same place.
The letter you read at 14:45 is incredible and gave me chills. I wrote similar letters to my dad when I was in bootcamp back in 2014 (minus the storm almost killing me en route part… I only had to deal with American Airlines)
I cannot help but think that the "Pax Romana" was brought about by the stabilizing influence of these many 'retirement colonies' through which Roman culture was spread, and which attracted people and fostered local commerce and prosperity.
Thanks for this video! I am currently in the process of writing a historical fiction book about a young soldier joining the legions snd fighting under caesar in Gaul and ultimately becoming an aquilifer. I've been trying to find as much information as I could about a new recruit and the process and this just made it so much easier, thanks! Love your content!
Very good for you man. Smash it out! Takes so much work writing a good book. Good luck with the whole process. My cousin has been world building his fictional project for a 5 book series for around 10 years or more now. I've seen his spreadsheets with all the information of the world on and it blows my mind how much work he's done.... after 10 years he's about ready to start writing it now 😂😂
Rome had a lot of flaws but also had some fantastic principles. The way the used and treated the army has to be one of their greatest strengths and something we could learn from. 25 years of service granting you tax exemptions, citizenship, and land? We could learn from this. Offer approved immigrant families citizenship in exchange for 25 years of service. No income tax for veterans of 25 years. Offer to give veterans free homes and land in struggling communities to bring in a strong positive influence. Finally the infrastructure. Outside of combat; put the military to work. Certain deployments are public service based; build new roads, schools, ports, etc. That gives the nation better infrastructure and trains thousands of soldiers in various skilled trades that they can then use in retirement. Roman’s absolutely knew how to use the military to not just win wars, but to create a national identity, a strong culture, and build community’s.
@@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas the Creator's already responded to me and explain to me that he did not delete my comment and I believe him I understand that UA-cam likes to screw with people
Crazy how military training is still so similar to how it was conducted centuries ago. Edit: I saw a similarity in training compared to my own military training: First phase: administration and health check, being introduced to NCOs. Then conditioning and physical fitness. Second phase: drill, weapons training and longer, more difficult marches etc. Third phase: getting ready for campaign and/or additional training.
Yea as the video kept going along I could see more and more comparisons to my experience in the army and the overall general experience of the military and the laws. Amazing how Rome set the groundwork for centuries to come
Then suddenly we needed to build temporary camp in my country for our ally contingent for 6 months. we did not had experience how to make planning of big camp. I proposed responsible officer that we build it manner of roman legion camp. It was great sucess. That "temporary" camp lasted 5 years and only newly built infrastructure replaced him with time.
Upon reading 'Nero's Killing Machine' many Roman soldiers bore scars of beatings by their centurions that carried grapevine stalk 'discipline sticks' designed to inflict maximum pain without debilitating the soldier. On the flipside many centurions knew well the dangers of being overly sadistic as they'd be the first ones targeted and most likely revenge killed during a mutiny-and the Roman Army had many of them. Even back then the command structure knew complaining soldiers was a good sign-when they became silent was when one worried.
I am continually amazed by the Roman Empire, like by how incredibly advanced they were compared to their contemporaries. So many of their practices are still used today, one that stuck out to me is how you mentioned they were compensated for travel. At least in the US government, compensation for travel costs is still known as ‘Per Diem’ to this day
@@jirikurto3859 Cognoscisne Anglicam et fundamentaliter omnes linguas Europaeas ex Latino venire? Deprehendi debes pro Latine loqui si hoc punctum tuum est. Lol. Probabiliter iocaris, sed quicquid.
always love the ancient rome content. it may feel oversaturated but the more sources that provide information and/or documentaries on it, the more holistically I and others can understand and admire the period. keep going, I say!
Having gone through basic training (at 34 but that's a story for another comment) I can say MEPS hasn't changed much since the Roman days........... You want me to walk like a what? A duck? Should I quack as well? What do you mean get ready to do a lot of pushups with my sense of humor? I in fact did end up doing A LOT of pushups with my sense of humor...............
@@The_SmorgMan I got ahold of an HR complaint document and used to keep it folded up in my shoulder pocket whenever a bad joke made it through my "don't ever say this to other people no matter how funny your think it is filter". I'd pull it out right after I made a smart ass remark that REALLY crashed and burned with people saying "WTF did you just say" and would unfold it while saying " I have all my info prefilled up here. Just make your comments here , sign there and take it to SFC (pick a name) and he will take care of it err you ahh I mean me...... Saved my ass 3 times for REAL until I fixed that social filter for good.......
Hey just curious about your experience what branch recruitment motivation and how you faired so far? We are the same age and I’ve always regretted not going into the service at 18 or 19. I’m a felon but I’ve heard there can be exceptions I’m in good shape but I’m honestly a bit adrift in life at the moment and really interested in doing something to be of service to somebody before I’m too old. I’m used to high pressure and fast paced chaotic work environments
This is such great content as always! I love they you found some talented actors to shed light on the topic and armor. Whatever was paid for this production quality, was well worth it. Amazing stuff! Keep it up!
Excellent video! This answered many of the questions I had, most notably the average length of service to be classified as a veteran in respects to one’s level of experience
I hope youtube gets it's stuff together and starts promoting educational and entertaining channels like this again. We need more documentaries and less "farmed content"
I so agree . So many history docs w/ AI voiceover and/ or boring AI scripts . I won’t watch them because they make me angry . I also request that YT not recommend anything more from that source .
Oppose multiculturalism and the civic religions of small hatted men and voting women. You can't plant the seeds and then lament that they grow into the expected plants. Remove them by the roots, and a better world can belong to men who deserve it!
Another great video! I love your analysis of this character. I think you’re absolutely right about her character. The remarkable thing is that Tolkien chose to write a female character with such complexity and depth, in a time when most writers of ‘heroic’ stories tended to paint women in a very two-dimensional and stereotyped way. You made me think about some aspects of Eowyn’s character arc that I hadn’t thought of before, such as her own internal development moving from a concept of herself as a heroic warrior to that of a healer and lover. I still find it frustrating that Eowyn was only redeemed when she abandoned the ‘masculine’ role she had set herself and allowed herself to embrace her ‘feminine’ nature of nurturing and caring for others. In this way, Tolkien restored his concept of gendered roles and expectations. Nowadays we understand that no reason why a woman cannot be both powerful and nurturing, or a queen in her own right, and still be caring mother or wife. Or of course choose not to be either. At the end of the day, it seems that Eowyn was only able to be happy when she’d accepted her restricted role in society. Throughout history there were actual shieldmaidens and warriors. Some earned great respect: there are accounts of women in pre-Roman Briton winning great renown as a valorous warrior. And there are many examples of women fighting with their families to fend of raiders and the like. Tolkien wasn’t a feminist, it’s true. But I think he found himself in a moment of real cognitive dissonance, at once admiring the qualities of women like Eowyn or Galadriel. But also believing that women should be protected from the trauma of battle and violence.
A Royal Marine officer said, in another video," We are here to teach you how to fight with discipline and extreme violence". I thought, a Roman Centurion would say exactly the same thing, two thousand years before. The fighting spirit of a modern, Western army is still based on what the Legions did, which is fascinating.
To see through the eyes of a man of the 10th or 13th legions under Julius Caesar, or as a man whom was in the elite cavalry/units of Alexander is something that fascinates my imagination. I think about stuff like that when I go on runs and lift weights rather than listen to music. Like that one time a standard bearer under Julius Caesar announced that he was going to serve Roma bravely when everyone else was scared to step off the ships onto Brittania, and then everyone else followed his lead to go meet the tribal army standing in front of them. Moments like that spike my testosterone like nothing else.
I LOVE this channel. I think that it gives some amazing information and it doesn’t hold anything back. If it’s taking something that needs to be taken with a grain of salt it literally tells you it needs to be taken with a grain of salt lol. Plus, the narrator voice is just so goddamn amazing. I really really really hope it’s not an AI voice lol. Even if it was, I couldn’t tell.
I somehow doubt that in Ancient Rome they had them pee into a cup as another dude stood and looked at your Johnson to make sure you were actually pissing. But they definitely did that at MEPS and the two times I got picked for a random drug test in the Air Force. I’m confident that the Roman Legionary alternative reality me never had his junk stared at by another Legionary.
@@tristanholland6445 Well there were infamous cases of officers trying to seduce and bottom their men, and informal sexual punishments seeing as how sexuality was quite fluid back then. I'm not sure if you're just perfecting your whining skills for your next chair force promotion here...
So many similarities to modern military. It’s so interesting to see the commonalities that are taken for granted today. The fact that they were creating or combining these ideas is even more fascinating.
Excellent video. I very much enjoyed watching it. I would just like to propose one minor correction. In the chapter of pay and promotion in the grafic of the ranks in the Roman army you show the two different ranks of tribunes in the upper officers ranks. One is the tribunus laticlavius, the other one should be the tribunus angusticlavius ( not "augusticlavius"). Just one letter different but quite significant. It has nothing to do with Augustus, but with "angustus" - small, narrow. This refers to the purple stripe on the persons tunic. The tribunus angusticlavius wears a narrow stripe as he comes from the social class of the equites whereas the tribunus laticlavius (latus meaning broad/wide) wears a broad purple stripe indicating that he is has a senatorial rank.
I live 50km from the amazing Spanish city of Merida. Established as Augusta Emerita as a place for retired Legionnaires to live out their retirement. Homes were given on condition the retirees could be called upon as a reserve to fight within Hispania, should the need arise. At the time, 60,000 residents lived there. Two millenia later, the modern city of Merida has a population of only 59,000 which gives a sense of how important it was during Roman times. An incredible part of inland Spain for any lover of history.
I think you skipped over a major part of these awards and their role to the *average soldier.* People didn't walk around wearing crowns. A person might wear one for a day, or on campaign, or to show off in the city (if it made it that far), but it was considered bad form to keep and wear any crown. What they were literally being given was an item that they could either keep forever or to melt down and use to buy things. The metal awards - especially the golden ones - were their own type of bonus checks.
He did mention that wearing the crowns daily was seen as a disrespect to others, since Rome hated kings during the republican era, and also the fact that a Roman soldier almost always have top wear helmets
Not necessarily the first, Michael; 500BCE saw the first Chinese emperor form an equivalent to the Roman Army to serve his newly formed Empire. The similarities between these coexisting empires is usually overlooked by Western observers. Hello from New Zealand, a small, weak nation defended by the smallest and weakest army in Western Civilization (except Luxembourg).🇳🇿💂♂️🌴🌊
@@davidstevenson9517Fear not Iceland doesn't even have an army. Then again they keep being voted the most peaceful country in the world, 17 times in a row apparently. Greetings from the Netherlands, crappy army, but good weed though🤣👍🇳🇱
Fabrizio said: "My Romans [as I have said], as long as they were wise and good, never permitted that their citizens should take up this practice as their profession, notwithstanding that they were able to raise them at all times, for they made war at all times: but in order to avoid the harm which this continuous practice of theirs could do to them, since the times did not change, they changed the men, and kept turning men over in their legions so that every fifteen years they always completely re-manned them:" -Machiavelli, Niccolo "The Art of War" Book I
The esprit de corps that endured in the legions is a true achievement in history, & has never been equalled. Nothing endures & nothing lacks a downside, that loyalty turned against itself wherein legions started to elect their emperors, that could work but when it didn't there were proto German watchers with their nascent efficiency traits just waiting to pounce. The legions became a state within a state effectively, they could be so close knit. That often turns toxic but nonetheless they could be ready to die as a unified body, as one did in formation according to the account of the major battle between Trajan & the Dacians, all dead but keeping the correct positions, & from a purely military viewpoint that is all that can be asked. .
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Are you guys going to make a another fantasy video? I love ❤️ when you guys make those and
Don’t get me wrong I love ❤️ the history videos to
When you say that the soldiers would surely find a way to mark them in a way of hazing it looks like he drew a dick on his arm
@@Minor1623 didnt see any comment nor delete any in this video besides some of those obvious porn ad accounts. Not sure what happened to yours. Might be because I re-ded this pinned comment with an edit.
@@InvictaHistory hell there's no telling then either way it's a good video looking forward to your next one
can you do another warhammer one?
This has to be one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. I put this on to fall asleep to, but I’m so impressed by the quality of information I can’t sleep.
Great job! Thank you
If you drink a 24-pack of PBR you should have no problem passing out. If you like peeing you will have a good time too.
@@jirikurto3859 😅😅
Yea its honestly amazing quality documentary
Agreed this is remarkable. Rarely do I watch a video and think it’s a crime that it doesn’t have more views and fanfare. This is top notch shit
Same
After been with this channel for over 5 years. I came to realize it's the voice. It's soo good!
history marche has a terrific voice too 👌
Statistically, English accents are the best for UA-cam VO because they are considered neutral and authoritative. When I found out this, I realised I was also biased against videos of US kids yelling at me.
8:30 very true. My father would beguile me with stories and when my boys and I enlisted, our mothers cried.
I found myself contemplating the Roman empire again... I love this channel
Software Engineer was my second career choice first was to join roman army and become a legionary 😂
Which did you end up going with?
@@nuclearmedicineman6270 unfortunately a software engineer
Im a roman legionary and became a roofer lol probly clisest profession lol s😂
@@maxivisionvermont1333 maybe some day i will open a wood crafting shop and wooden furniture and try to be a roman craftsman
@@maxivisionvermont1333 Don't worry, Hastati, you'll probably be great at building walls, that Caesar fellow loves his walls :)
It's so interesting that many veterans choose to group together after fighting together, even now when there's no free land and funding to do so.
I think war forges bonds between people that only other people who have seen it, suffered it and struggled through it can really understand.
They are your people. They are your tribe. They are your home. Best way to describe it.
I fought in three wars and I can say I don’t feel comfortable around anyone else. Other people come off as self interested, comfort-seeking, and therefor untrustworthy. American civilians especially come off as clueless. Sort of like district one people in the hunger games.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with that honestly, it’s just not my culture and I’m too old to even want to change.
I wish you luck in whatever struggles you face in the future.
@Mantelar same here. After deployment and my time in the military, I don't like being around civilians. Yea, every squad had their 1 knuckleheads, but with civilians, they are everywhere.
It's the bond and brotherhood we have created, trusting the man next to you with your life and trusting he knows what he is doing regardless if you met him last night, last month, or last year. Once you're out and integrated back into the civilian world, you don't see it. You only see the self righteous, self centered, and have a different perception of the world.
@@remymcnamaraif you dont like it then leave
@@Mantelar hm
You know I was in the military back in the nineties and I found an amazing how they were able to support all of their troops all over the world. I can't imagine doing that back in those days with all those people all the same place.
The letter you read at 14:45 is incredible and gave me chills. I wrote similar letters to my dad when I was in bootcamp back in 2014 (minus the storm almost killing me en route part… I only had to deal with American Airlines)
Love this series, the effort that goes into them is simply incredible
I cannot help but think that the "Pax Romana" was brought about by the stabilizing influence of these many 'retirement colonies' through which Roman culture was spread, and which attracted people and fostered local commerce and prosperity.
Thanks for this video! I am currently in the process of writing a historical fiction book about a young soldier joining the legions snd fighting under caesar in Gaul and ultimately becoming an aquilifer. I've been trying to find as much information as I could about a new recruit and the process and this just made it so much easier, thanks! Love your content!
Good for you.👍Nothing better then a good book. Keep up the good work.
Very good for you man. Smash it out! Takes so much work writing a good book. Good luck with the whole process.
My cousin has been world building his fictional project for a 5 book series for around 10 years or more now. I've seen his spreadsheets with all the information of the world on and it blows my mind how much work he's done.... after 10 years he's about ready to start writing it now 😂😂
Leap fellow soldiers
Good luck!
U will probably know. Of it But eagle of the empire is such a good book series
“What was the name of our Roman source again?”
“Forgetius.”
“Yeah, me too!”
Ah, nevermind, we'll just call the soldier Titus Manlius and call it a day.
@@Echiewel 🤣
Incontentia Buttocks
@@johnwatters6922 You all enjoy watching 40's/50's Gladiator movies ?
@@johnwatters6922 Biggus Dickus?
Rome had a lot of flaws but also had some fantastic principles. The way the used and treated the army has to be one of their greatest strengths and something we could learn from.
25 years of service granting you tax exemptions, citizenship, and land? We could learn from this. Offer approved immigrant families citizenship in exchange for 25 years of service. No income tax for veterans of 25 years. Offer to give veterans free homes and land in struggling communities to bring in a strong positive influence.
Finally the infrastructure. Outside of combat; put the military to work. Certain deployments are public service based; build new roads, schools, ports, etc. That gives the nation better infrastructure and trains thousands of soldiers in various skilled trades that they can then use in retirement.
Roman’s absolutely knew how to use the military to not just win wars, but to create a national identity, a strong culture, and build community’s.
@@colebevans8939 my father built bridges and assisted with road work while on tour in Jamaica. Maybe the 80s?
Yes, but it only worked well while they were conquering and expanding and had land to give. Then they started rebelling and fighting each other.
14:10 nothing like a phallus tattoo to keep track of who is who 😂
I said the same thing earlier I guess he didn't like the word I used because my comment was deleted but yeah that's one hell of a way to Haze someone
@@Minor1623 youtube often deletes comments, so it is unlikely the creator. Sorry if this sounds....well annoying.
@@S.P.Q.Rrespublicas the Creator's already responded to me and explain to me that he did not delete my comment and I believe him I understand that UA-cam likes to screw with people
Drawing dicks on a new Boot, is probably the meldest form of hazing in military history...@@Minor1623
Getting popular again...
Crazy how military training is still so similar to how it was conducted centuries ago.
Edit: I saw a similarity in training compared to my own military training:
First phase: administration and health check, being introduced to NCOs. Then conditioning and physical fitness. Second phase: drill, weapons training and longer, more difficult marches etc.
Third phase: getting ready for campaign and/or additional training.
Not really considering the fundamentals of combat have never changed.
The Roman army was particularly organized for the time. They were the old world's masters of logistics..
Almost like it was tried and tested
Yea as the video kept going along I could see more and more comparisons to my experience in the army and the overall general experience of the military and the laws. Amazing how Rome set the groundwork for centuries to come
@@SirFigsAlot "what have the romans ever done for us. " quote Monty python.
Then suddenly we needed to build temporary camp in my country for our ally contingent for 6 months. we did not had experience how to make planning of big camp. I proposed responsible officer that we build it manner of roman legion camp. It was great sucess. That "temporary" camp lasted 5 years and only newly built infrastructure replaced him with time.
@@tadasdovii8262 I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Why were you suddenly in need of a camp? How exactly was it a Roman style camp?
your content is wonderful, please make an Video about Assyrian professional military
Outdone yourself again. Thank you for this effort.
Upon reading 'Nero's Killing Machine' many Roman soldiers bore scars of beatings by their centurions that carried grapevine stalk 'discipline sticks' designed to inflict maximum pain without debilitating the soldier. On the flipside many centurions knew well the dangers of being overly sadistic as they'd be the first ones targeted and most likely revenge killed during a mutiny-and the Roman Army had many of them. Even back then the command structure knew complaining soldiers was a good sign-when they became silent was when one worried.
Neros killing machine?
I shall be looking that up
U.S. military use to frag officers that were POS in vietnam
I am continually amazed by the Roman Empire, like by how incredibly advanced they were compared to their contemporaries. So many of their practices are still used today, one that stuck out to me is how you mentioned they were compensated for travel. At least in the US government, compensation for travel costs is still known as ‘Per Diem’ to this day
That's so wrong. People should be arrested for speaking Latin. It's just so terribly wrong. Where is everyone's humanity?
@@jirikurto3859Lol. Per diem is Medieval latin I'm guessing?
@@jirikurto3859 what do you mean?
@@jirikurto3859 Os claude barbara
@@jirikurto3859 Cognoscisne Anglicam et fundamentaliter omnes linguas Europaeas ex Latino venire? Deprehendi debes pro Latine loqui si hoc punctum tuum est. Lol. Probabiliter iocaris, sed quicquid.
This was really well done.
Thanks for putting it together!
always love the ancient rome content. it may feel oversaturated but the more sources that provide information and/or documentaries on it, the more holistically I and others can understand and admire the period. keep going, I say!
I cant believe this is for free
@@slpc885 IT HAS ACCURATE ACTING FOR WHATS BEING DESCRIBED.
probably the best ancient Rome documentary I've ever seen on you tube keep up the great work
Having gone through basic training (at 34 but that's a story for another comment) I can say MEPS hasn't changed much since the Roman days...........
You want me to walk like a what? A duck? Should I quack as well?
What do you mean get ready to do a lot of pushups with my sense of humor?
I in fact did end up doing A LOT of pushups with my sense of humor...............
You know your joke is good when HR wants to hear it in person.
@@The_SmorgMan I got ahold of an HR complaint document and used to keep it folded up in my shoulder pocket whenever a bad joke made it through my "don't ever say this to other people no matter how funny your think it is filter".
I'd pull it out right after I made a smart ass remark that REALLY crashed and burned with people saying "WTF did you just say" and would unfold it while saying " I have all my info prefilled up here. Just make your comments here , sign there and take it to SFC (pick a name) and he will take care of it err you ahh I mean me......
Saved my ass 3 times for REAL until I fixed that social filter for good.......
@@lknanmlthat’s legendary! I’ll keep that story in mind
If it's not broken why change it
Hey just curious about your experience what branch recruitment motivation and how you faired so far? We are the same age and I’ve always regretted not going into the service at 18 or 19. I’m a felon but I’ve heard there can be exceptions I’m in good shape but I’m honestly a bit adrift in life at the moment and really interested in doing something to be of service to somebody before I’m too old. I’m used to high pressure and fast paced chaotic work environments
The Veteran Colonies sound pretty cool
One of the most thorough, well put together documentaries on the Tube.
This is such great content as always! I love they you found some talented actors to shed light on the topic and armor. Whatever was paid for this production quality, was well worth it. Amazing stuff! Keep it up!
Thank you for a really good video it explains a lot for people that do not know about it. I actually learned a couple new things myself.
This was great. I’d ask a question in my head and the next section of the video would answer it. Thanks man🤙🏼
Wow guys thanks for such a great documentary 👌👌👌
This genuinely made me smile to see in my recommended
Excellent video! This answered many of the questions I had, most notably the average length of service to be classified as a veteran in respects to one’s level of experience
I hope youtube gets it's stuff together and starts promoting educational and entertaining channels like this again. We need more documentaries and less "farmed content"
Googles professed values are a joke. No chance they’d do anything that reduces their revenue stream and actually makes the world a better place.
I so agree . So many history docs w/ AI voiceover and/ or boring AI scripts . I won’t watch them because they make me angry . I also request that YT not recommend anything more from that source .
Oppose multiculturalism and the civic religions of small hatted men and voting women. You can't plant the seeds and then lament that they grow into the expected plants. Remove them by the roots, and a better world can belong to men who deserve it!
‼️‼️ That was an incredible ‼️‼️
experience
🙏❤️ Love from Scotland ❤️🙏
from caledonia!
Excellent way to spend an hour and a half.. i really enjoyed this
Easy to appreciate professional work.
Thanks, educational and enjoyable.
Subscribed.
Another great video! I love your analysis of this character. I think you’re absolutely right about her character. The remarkable thing is that Tolkien chose to write a female character with such complexity and depth, in a time when most writers of ‘heroic’ stories tended to paint women in a very two-dimensional and stereotyped way. You made me think about some aspects of Eowyn’s character arc that I hadn’t thought of before, such as her own internal development moving from a concept of herself as a heroic warrior to that of a healer and lover.
I still find it frustrating that Eowyn was only redeemed when she abandoned the ‘masculine’ role she had set herself and allowed herself to embrace her ‘feminine’ nature of nurturing and caring for others. In this way, Tolkien restored his concept of gendered roles and expectations. Nowadays we understand that no reason why a woman cannot be both powerful and nurturing, or a queen in her own right, and still be caring mother or wife. Or of course choose not to be either.
At the end of the day, it seems that Eowyn was only able to be happy when she’d accepted her restricted role in society.
Throughout history there were actual shieldmaidens and warriors. Some earned great respect: there are accounts of women in pre-Roman Briton winning great renown as a valorous warrior. And there are many examples of women fighting with their families to fend of raiders and the like.
Tolkien wasn’t a feminist, it’s true. But I think he found himself in a moment of real cognitive dissonance, at once admiring the qualities of women like Eowyn or Galadriel. But also believing that women should be protected from the trauma of battle and violence.
A Royal Marine officer said, in another video," We are here to teach you how to fight with discipline and extreme violence".
I thought, a Roman Centurion would say exactly the same thing, two thousand years before.
The fighting spirit of a modern, Western army is still based on what the Legions did, which is fascinating.
To see through the eyes of a man of the 10th or 13th legions under Julius Caesar, or as a man whom was in the elite cavalry/units of Alexander is something that fascinates my imagination. I think about stuff like that when I go on runs and lift weights rather than listen to music.
Like that one time a standard bearer under Julius Caesar announced that he was going to serve Roma bravely when everyone else was scared to step off the ships onto Brittania, and then everyone else followed his lead to go meet the tribal army standing in front of them. Moments like that spike my testosterone like nothing else.
Excellent video thank you for pointing it.
When phabeus rescued the faltering legion and the subsequent speech was given, it was epic and went hard. If only words like those were spoken today.
Very very good documentary. really well done!
I LOVE that soldiers, even in ancient times, scribbled crude messages to their enemies onto their ammunition 😂
I love you man i really appreciate the work you do
Thank you. This was a great documentary, very informative.
I LOVE this channel. I think that it gives some amazing information and it doesn’t hold anything back. If it’s taking something that needs to be taken with a grain of salt it literally tells you it needs to be taken with a grain of salt lol. Plus, the narrator voice is just so goddamn amazing. I really really really hope it’s not an AI voice lol. Even if it was, I couldn’t tell.
Very well done, I really enjoyed this compilation ❤
The signing bonus part reminded me of basic training in Fort Knox. Initial pay was quickly used to for necessary supplies and gear.
Good to see MEPS hasnt changed in over 2000 years
I somehow doubt that in Ancient Rome they had them pee into a cup as another dude stood and looked at your Johnson to make sure you were actually pissing.
But they definitely did that at MEPS and the two times I got picked for a random drug test in the Air Force. I’m confident that the Roman Legionary alternative reality me never had his junk stared at by another Legionary.
@@tristanholland6445 Well there were infamous cases of officers trying to seduce and bottom their men, and informal sexual punishments seeing as how sexuality was quite fluid back then. I'm not sure if you're just perfecting your whining skills for your next chair force promotion here...
I want more of this!!! Muuuuch more :D
Roman History is the best btw so caesar's career like this
Excellent information. Loved the use of quotes.
No one can deny that the roman armor and shields are so cool
Amazing work again!
Probably one of your best
Fantastic job creating this documentary!
Surviving 25 years is insane
Imagine doing that the entire time as a private. 25 yrs is senior NCO time as Sargeant Majors in modern armies.
Depends what kind of service they got I guess. 25 years as a regular infantryman fighting campaigns with no promotion has got to have been shit.
That's the point 😂
@Ideo7Z 25 year grunt lol
Why?
So many similarities to modern military. It’s so interesting to see the commonalities that are taken for granted today. The fact that they were creating or combining these ideas is even more fascinating.
Excellent video. I very much enjoyed watching it. I would just like to propose one minor correction. In the chapter of pay and promotion in the grafic of the ranks in the Roman army you show the two different ranks of tribunes in the upper officers ranks. One is the tribunus laticlavius, the other one should be the tribunus angusticlavius ( not "augusticlavius"). Just one letter different but quite significant. It has nothing to do with Augustus, but with "angustus" - small, narrow. This refers to the purple stripe on the persons tunic. The tribunus angusticlavius wears a narrow stripe as he comes from the social class of the equites whereas the tribunus laticlavius (latus meaning broad/wide) wears a broad purple stripe indicating that he is has a senatorial rank.
Love to see the life of a Roman soldier I read many books about the Roman legion 😊😊😊😊
Damn, the woman reenacting as a grieving family members SOLD that shit.
I live 50km from the amazing Spanish city of Merida. Established as Augusta Emerita as a place for retired Legionnaires to live out their retirement. Homes were given on condition the retirees could be called upon as a reserve to fight within Hispania, should the need arise. At the time, 60,000 residents lived there. Two millenia later, the modern city of Merida has a population of only 59,000 which gives a sense of how important it was during Roman times. An incredible part of inland Spain for any lover of history.
15 minutes in and so far this all seems very similar to modern basic combat training its amazing how far back military traditions go back
Everything Western (European) nations do has its roots in either the ancient Romans or Greeks.
Have no idea why would I want to know that but this channel is always reliably good
This is do very well done, thank you!
Brilliant! Thank you for this amazing work, I'll forever be grateful 🙏❤️😇
Excellent and comprehensive presentation.
Great documentary
Very good Roman Army post.
This was fantastic
This channel is what i wish history class was like
Romans on my mind, every day... anyone else?
This is a very enlightening documentary. Thank you!
Love this channel!!
Well done info.
Thanks for quality.
These should be 3 hours long, very interesting
Brilliant. Thank you for the effort.
Great documentary! Good Job!!
Im so glad i found your channel❤
awesome, finally!
That was a good watch
Great stuff!
The total war Rome music was a nice touch
Very informative ❤❤
This is better than a us army recruit video
True Warriors, Thank You💯
50% chance of reaching retirement with the perks in that era!😮
Sign me up!!!
First thing i thought when watching the enlistment part was how much it was like a Ancient meps
I think you skipped over a major part of these awards and their role to the *average soldier.*
People didn't walk around wearing crowns. A person might wear one for a day, or on campaign, or to show off in the city (if it made it that far), but it was considered bad form to keep and wear any crown.
What they were literally being given was an item that they could either keep forever or to melt down and use to buy things. The metal awards - especially the golden ones - were their own type of bonus checks.
He did mention that wearing the crowns daily was seen as a disrespect to others, since Rome hated kings during the republican era, and also the fact that a Roman soldier almost always have top wear helmets
@@Ajaylix yeah but the metals it was made of were part of the reward to most.
The Roman Army was the first modern army. All Armies post middle ages are copies of the Roman Army with variations.
Not necessarily the first, Michael; 500BCE saw the first Chinese emperor form an equivalent to the Roman Army to serve his newly formed Empire. The similarities between these coexisting empires is usually overlooked by Western observers.
Hello from New Zealand, a small, weak nation defended by the smallest and weakest army in Western Civilization (except Luxembourg).🇳🇿💂♂️🌴🌊
@@davidstevenson9517Fear not Iceland doesn't even have an army. Then again they keep being voted the most peaceful country in the world, 17 times in a row apparently.
Greetings from the Netherlands, crappy army, but good weed though🤣👍🇳🇱
@@evertjan9479 Greetings to you from Switzerland, a nation with an army so magnificent, we never use it.
@@Michael-vp9gs you for get the armies of the cinei(China)
@DerekPuckett-gj9rq Our Armies are not based upon how the Chinese organized their Armies.
Makes me love being a Marine more. As the ages pass, basic training remains the same for warriors.
Fabrizio said:
"My Romans [as I
have said], as long as they were wise and good, never permitted that their citizens should take up this practice as their profession, notwithstanding that they were able to raise them at all times, for they made war at all times: but in order to avoid the harm
which this continuous practice of theirs could do to them, since the times did not
change, they changed the men, and kept turning men over in their legions so that
every fifteen years they always completely re-manned them:"
-Machiavelli, Niccolo "The Art of War" Book I
The first part reminded me a lot of my recruitment phase in the French foreign legion
Soldier of Rome The Legionary talks about the training alot in the first part of the book.
Are you guys able to do an episode like this for a medieval man-at-arms? The household troops/retainers of medieval nobility that aren’t knights?
I only can imagine the dark jokes the soldiers told and laughed to
They must have many stories to tell at the local roman pub after service.
The esprit de corps that endured in the legions is a true achievement in history, & has never been equalled.
Nothing endures & nothing lacks a downside, that loyalty turned against itself wherein legions started to elect their emperors, that could work but when it didn't there were proto German watchers with their nascent efficiency traits just waiting to pounce. The legions became a state within a state effectively, they could be so close knit.
That often turns toxic but nonetheless they could be ready to die as a unified body, as one did in formation according to the account of the major battle between Trajan & the Dacians, all dead but keeping the correct positions, & from a purely military viewpoint that is all that can be asked. .
Amazing and really appreciate it. Ty