What if the Roman Empire Industrialized?

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  • @Historicalsidequests
    @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +16

    Hello everyone, I had to reupload this video due to some copyright issues!

    • @frolt000
      @frolt000 Рік тому +5

      No problema, your videos are still very entertaining

    • @IfPushComesToShove
      @IfPushComesToShove 6 днів тому

      they were industrialized and industrialization has nothing to do with steam engine or technologies
      it's a way of manufacturing products in an manner where it's not considered artisanal.
      you know what chain production is??? they had that thousands of years ago when they were producing the mud bricks to construct the first city ever UR.

  • @insanemakaioshin
    @insanemakaioshin Рік тому +64

    Roman weapons:
    1. Steam cannons
    2. Automatic crossbows

  • @jackdannies
    @jackdannies 7 місяців тому +31

    I think it's the other way around. If an industrial revolution had occurred in the Roman Empire, it would have increased the propaganda of the emperor and the Romans as a nation. Taking into account the success of classical Romanization and new propaganda, she made it so that everyone in the empire began to be called Romans. In addition, propaganda could create patriotic soldiers who care more about Rome than money

    • @KVUAA
      @KVUAA Місяць тому +2

      Well irl nationalism rise when industrialization happened indeed

  • @OKKirby
    @OKKirby Рік тому +15

    most underrated alt history yt

  • @horsepowermultimedia
    @horsepowermultimedia Рік тому +15

    If the empire were to fracture due to the upheaval of the roman way of life from industrialization, then it could be possible for it to reform into some kind of Roman federation as a new representative government is formed to replace the imperial government and the railways are used to reunite parts of the empire, thus leading to Roman history following a cycle similar to the one in Chinese history.

  • @thomasciarlariello
    @thomasciarlariello 5 місяців тому +4

    They had to have been industrialized to construct megaliths so Locomotives were often mislabeled as "Battering Rams" or as "Phallic Sculptures".

  • @Hambil
    @Hambil Рік тому +5

    Great video, and you've got a great voice. I'm not an expert, I'm still a student of audio, but I do know with a few easy touches this audio would sound truly incredible, cinematic even with your voice. I look forward to more content. Thanks :)

  • @insanemakaioshin
    @insanemakaioshin Рік тому +13

    What if Theodore Roosevelt ran for a 3rd term instead of nominating Taft?

  • @James-rm7sr
    @James-rm7sr Рік тому +10

    Only thing is Rome was trading with China. The big thing here is they could go by sea possibly saving a huge chunk of time. However, China likely still discovers gun powder which likely gets into the hands of the Romans. I don't think it would split apart so easily. I think there is a strong likely hood of a Constitutional Monarch or just making it a republic as all the resources of each area matter to the elites. It just would be reverting back to a republic rather then just split up. Also, if that is the case Italy remains being called Rome. Which Rome never really falls in this timeline. I don't see the migration happening as much given the new defenses of the Romans and ability to adapt to changing conditions as it has solved the food issues and their plagues likely might be better taken care of. The Romans wouldn't have gone for the New World as it would have no real reason to until later if at all. If they can go through Egypt which is part of the Empire and get to Asia. There is no reason to go around Africa. They would be perfectly happy in their area unless they found something else they needed as far as materials.

    • @horsepowermultimedia
      @horsepowermultimedia Рік тому +3

      However, if the huns were to still cause a refugee crisis, then it may be necessary for Rome to establish immigration policies that may pave the way for the germanic tribes to gain citizenship and assimilate into the Roman culture.

  • @bobwolfley2449
    @bobwolfley2449 9 місяців тому +3

    Be something along the lines of steam punk maybe steam.powered arrow machine weapons

  • @zaidatimash713
    @zaidatimash713 Рік тому +7

    Amazing video! Can you do what if the caliphate conquered Constantinople and won battle of Tours

  • @GabrielBof
    @GabrielBof 5 місяців тому +3

    video extremamente bom :D nao me canso de ver e quero saber como um canal com uma ediçao tao boa nao tem tanto reconhecimento
    esse video e cinema praticamente haha
    eu acho que o imperio se manteria,possivelmente a crise economica seria consertada e como os romanos nao so teriam uma populaçao maior mais uma tecnologia que os colocaria a alguns milhares de anos no futuro eles destroçariam qualquer ameaça como os hunos haha
    possivelmente de imigraçoes seriam mais refugiados que tentariam entrar justamente como cidadoes romanos :D

  • @gugundy3013
    @gugundy3013 Рік тому +7

    For the algorithm again!

  • @frozenbard
    @frozenbard 2 місяці тому +1

    nice thumbnail

  • @Christian_Sannino
    @Christian_Sannino 11 місяців тому +1

    As an Italian, i'm so pround for my ancienstors

  • @memesd4675
    @memesd4675 Рік тому +4

    I think Persia would be destroyed after 100 years to link with China and to defeat their new rival

  • @ZhongLi-y1j
    @ZhongLi-y1j 6 місяців тому +6

    A perfect world doesn't exist

  • @Kiddo5010
    @Kiddo5010 7 місяців тому +2

    My god its just so damn beautiful

  • @foxydefnaf3206
    @foxydefnaf3206 Рік тому +7

    i think your end with china is a Little bit exagerated because the han empire china never wanted to conquer the world

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  Рік тому +8

      It was more for the dramatic effect.
      Edit: Though I am surprised someone notice that it was Han China in the video :)

  • @GustavoMadrid-f2w
    @GustavoMadrid-f2w 7 місяців тому +4

    Rome wound colonize kleper by 1800

  • @jasonskeans3327
    @jasonskeans3327 Рік тому +2

    amazing

  • @GeorgeRamsey22
    @GeorgeRamsey22 Рік тому +4

    What if the Mongol Empire lasted longer?

    • @ilmaio
      @ilmaio Рік тому +4

      More destruction, same end.

    • @GeorgeRamsey22
      @GeorgeRamsey22 Рік тому

      @@ilmaio But Genhis Khan was a good person, he improved the areas he took over.

    • @jcdenton1868
      @jcdenton1868 Рік тому

      @@GeorgeRamsey22 Hitler did also improve the science and technology but did it make him good?

  • @ilmaio
    @ilmaio Рік тому +6

    You got roman state all wrong. The emperor was NOT a monarch. A tyrant maybe, but not a hereditary monarch. The romans abhorred the very idea of a king.

  • @Engkare
    @Engkare 11 місяців тому

    What about the Chinese Civilization.

  • @IfPushComesToShove
    @IfPushComesToShove 6 днів тому

    Not gonna watch the description and the comments already prove to me you don't know what INDUSTRY means so industrialization is not what you people think
    ROMANS WERE INDUSTRIALIZED THEY HAD INDUSTRIES THAT PRODUCED GOODS AND THEY PROFITED FROM THOSE INDUSTRIES.
    WAR was an industry for the Romans
    they produced weapons in a chain production manner with every worker performing a different part of the weapons.
    they produced pottery in private industries again with chain production type ways of manufacturing their products.
    some of you mistake steam engine with industrialization and that is just funny

    • @Historicalsidequests
      @Historicalsidequests  5 днів тому

      Just because the roman empire had industries doesn't really mean what you are insinuating. Search up the process of industrialization & the industrial revolution before commenting. :)

  • @MBP1918
    @MBP1918 Рік тому +5

    Based

  • @Aureus_
    @Aureus_ Місяць тому

    How would the romans master boilers though?

  • @Satsuma-tm8ep
    @Satsuma-tm8ep 11 місяців тому

    But it not last long because of internal conflict, Barbarian Invasion, threat in the east, economical problem, and other things that can destabilize the empire.

    • @NetarAlt
      @NetarAlt 4 місяці тому +3

      in this timeline, they have a stable and strong roman goverment which had an ability to industrilize

  • @BlueSkyCountry
    @BlueSkyCountry 8 місяців тому

    The Roman Empire did industrialize, at the twilight years of it's rule. The Ottoman Empire was the continuation of the Roman state and Sultan Abdul Hamid instituted the Tanzimat reforms in the late 1800s to turn the empire into an economic rival of Britain and the USA.