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Well done gentlemen great recap of the siege! Its a huge one to cover and you really did it justice. I should know since I still haven't finished my last episode in a series on this siege.
Kings and Generals can you please do Italian And Greek Genetics I'm from Rome, Italy my DNA test results were 37.9%Italian 16.1% Iberian 7.5% Greek 5.1%Ashkenazi Jew 15.2%Mizrahi Jew [ Iranian/Iraqi Jew] 11.8% Middle Eastern 6.4% North African Berber
@@emmabarone1530 Wow, you're my cousin lol...I have all those mix too but I'm more Iberian than Italian, but I don't know how reliable these dna services are
I forget where I heard this but some channel explained that very thing. "The Eagle was an enduring symbol of Romes might and the general who lost it was a shame for losing it and not worth avenging because he did not have the might to defend it." Something like that
"General! We have a problem. The Jews build a lot of defensive walls into the city!" "That's much unfortunate. We can't let them have more walls than us. Build a wall around the city then!"
@Fady Al Qaisy Ashkenazis were forced north after the temple fell. Palestinia was a label given to all ethnic groups of the region, because the Banu Rum got Jizya based on region, not religion. The Mizrahi tried to defend but most of their forces were in Persia dealing with internal struggles. The Sefardim is another name you may have heard. These were the captured Jews sold to safety/enslavement to Sefard or as the Banu Rum called Iberia, now known as Spain and Portugal. The Banu Falasha were also there and had to flee south to Nubia and later Ethiopia. There were also those that fled into Sinai later establishing the Himyar Empire and starting the Battle of the Elephant to take Mecca. Salam brother.
I'm not sure what's more impressive, the ability of the Romans to do what they did, or how long the Jews were able to hold out under such dire circumstances.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Especially Jerusalem built on top a hill surrounded by ravines with 3 wall systems effectively and 2 fortresses (Antonia and Temple) inside the city
A statement I read somewhere sums it up pretty well: The true strenth of the roman legionaires was that they were willing to work like slaves rather than giving up.
Adam Price non jewish hebrews? Do you mean not judaism practicing jews or judaism practicing not ethnic jews? Nevertheless that population was insignificant.
People don't realize how much they are capable of doing when working together fiercely, Let alone a couple thousands of men working like madman not like today's lazy ass bois.
can you imagine the amount of organization and mechanization it would have taken to tear down those walls? IT'S DAMN IMPRESSIVE WHAT THE ROMANS WERE CAPABLE OF
In one of his novels about Traianus, the spanis author Santiago Posteguillo talks about the father of the emperor who was a legatus under the command of Vespasianus and gives a description of the siege.
8 km walls with fortifications in 3 days? someone fire our lazy municipal head and his team of govt employees. they can't build a 4km road in 3 days with modern equipment. with modern equipment roman soldiers could have build that wall in like 15 hours .lol .
Have to admire the efficiency of the Roman legionaries. building a wall with 13 fortresses surrounding a walled city, and only in 3 DAYS ? no wonder the only thing that could destroyed Rome was itself only.
@@christianjocson5509 They all came to pick and feast on what's left of the empire, that's what I'm saying. After "Pax Romana", Rome went through a series of domestic turmoils: from having 5 leaders claiming themselves as Emperors, to having a mad man as emperor who burned down Rome. None of those tribes were ever capable of taking down Rome at its peak. Rome's strength was not in their army's invincibility, but rather its ability to form armies after armies to crush the enemy with numbers and discipline no matter how many losses Rome suffer. The continuous civil wars ultimately drained Rome off of its treasury and man power, meaning Rome has lost its advantage over other tribal groups. The Roman Legions at that point no longer able to stop the Goths, the Vandals, the Huns and other tribes from conquering them.
Finally, after waiting years for Invicta to finnish his series, I know how the siege ends. Still want to see the Invicta to start finnishing his projects though hahah
@Fady Al Qaisy ancient Palestinians come from Greece, not Arabia. Ramses documents provided information they come from the Mediterranean as they were Sea people's.
@Fady Al Qaisy Palestinians have never conquered anybody in history. Stop with the Arabinization of culture, just cause you want it to appear that way does not make facts true. Ancient Palestinian are from the Mediterranean and that's a fact, they settled there. By the way Israel has never been Arab either, it's a Israelite / Jewish ancestral homeland for God's people, again not the Arab people who believe in Muhammad or the Quran.
Is something not described as Arab by virtue of its definition being Arabic or in other words part of the Arabian people who stem from the Arabic peninsula? Hence if as you say, the mediterranean settlements were already there, then, they cannot be Arabic since by and large the Arabic expansion began in the 7th century AD, hence the indigenous people being Mesopotamian, Balkan, Anatolian, North African, Iberian, Gaulic, etc? Were not the people of the Levant also related to migratory tribes from Egypt and Mesopotamia in particular spawning for instance the Phoenicians?
Fady Al Qaisy that region stretching from Egypt to Gaza region was egypt, then Palestine from Jerusalem to around Damascus and then Syria up to Antioch from there to Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul it was Asia Minor. Refer to the works of Manius of Tyre, Pompius Mela etc who were cartographers.
I have one bad thing to say. the Judean rebels didnt use arabian/eastern style gear like shown here, they used a mix of hellenistic and captured roman gear.
The Bar Kochba revolt -considerably later when Hadrian was emperor was even bigger and initially successful -an independent Israel survived for one year -that's when the Romans got really serious and deported all Jews and renamed the area Palestine and Jerusalem renamed Aelia Capitolina.
@@rogermetzger7335 Philistia or Palestine was originally only the coastal area of the area -the Philistines or ancient Palestinians were part of the Sea peoples who tried to invade Egypt circa 1300 BC but were repulsed -some then settled on the Israel coast and became perennial enemies of the Jews as the biblical accounts of David,Goliath,Samson and Saul testify.Palestine was never the inland area only a thin strip of the coast -cities like Gaza belonged to the Philistines -the Romans,in order to rub salt into the wound after the eventual suppression of the bar Kochba revolt renamed the inland areas as Palestina after the Jews ancient enemies.
@sneksnekitsasnek You are probably thinking of the Rothschild family which was later into the Nineteenth century -they had a branch in Naples and even the Catholic church was forced to borrow money from them or go bankrupt!
@Yildirim eh were they tho... Influence when ... as the Hebrews remained existing for a much longer time than the Philistines Edit Especially since they were destroyed by the Assyrians , decimated by the Babylonians and lost their ethnic culture by the time the Persians came along. They failed to have the .. weird gumption of the Jews and failed to really have any influence post early Iron Age
@Hoàng Nguyên sounds more like France to me. Or Germany. Or China. Or Russia. Or Britain. Or Spain. Or Japan. Or, y'know, hundreds of other countries. But sure! Let's single out the U.S.
An intresting note - Titus's second in command during the siege - formerly a procurator of Judea and later governor of Egypt and commander of the Praetorian Guard under the Flavians - was one mentioned in this video, Tiberius Julius Alexander, born to a Jewish family in Alexandria.
When I had watched "The Life of Brian" for the first time I didn't understand the joke with the conflict between various organizations like "The People's Front of Judea" and "The People's Judean Front". Now, seeing how Jews bickering with each other all the time, even at the face of direct Roman threat, it seems to be kind of obvious. Also, Legio XII Fulminata survived the Battle of Beth Horon, despite loosing their aquila.
You left out the disastrous assault on Ascalon where the Rebels lost half of their entire army (20 000 men) and many of their best commanders to a single Ala of cavalry
that and the burning of Jerusalem's food stores is what doomed doomed them. Josephus of course describes the initial sieges in the Galilee and the Jews were dumping boiling olive oil on the Romans from the ramparts, geez! I sure stuff like that and their persistent defensive sapping really pissed off the Romans!
@@elysium1384 yeah but considering multiple legions were in the area and they had better armor and supply, its fair to say the romans still had a massive advantage.
Some extra background: The Siccari and Zealots were not the "rabbis"...i.e. "Perushim" (=Pharisees). The rabbis did not want the rebellion and wanted the status quo of Roman rule knowing they would never defeat Vespasian as well as the fact they were allowed to maintain Temple worship. The leading rabbi at the time Yohanon Ben Zakai, after failing to dissuade the rebels, managed to escape the city and meet with Vespasian, offering to withdraw those loyal to his faction, for which Vespasian promised to not destroy the Pharisee center of learning in Jamnia and not exterminate the line of Rabban Gamliel who was reportedly a descendant of the ancient Israelite dynasties. While the Romano-Jewish historian Josephus may be bias (being actually patronized in an official sense by the Flavius family presumably for his services in the war), he claims that Titus did not want the Temple destroyed but between the fire and blood lust it was too late.
@Fady Al Qaisy Ashkenazim, Sefardim, and modern Mizrachim did not yet exist! Ashkenazim and Sefardim are the Jews of Rome that split into the 2 group after the Jewish diaspora following Hadrian. There were only Judean Jews, Babylonian - Persian Jews and merchant Jews among former Carthaginian posts and Rome. And the differences between Jews and Arabs were widely known and distinguished in contemporaneous historical accounts...Herod was half Idumean half Arab, which was a source of contention among some Jews. You are repeating historical revisionism in the name of religious supremacy doctrine...you aren't going to wash over thousands of years of history because it bothers your ethno-supremacist sensibilities
@@ibnyahud you are incorrect the ashkenazim are not descendants of Israelite settlers Rome, they are descendants of Turkic Khazars, slavs and the sephardim who migrated into north and eastern europe which was known as Aškenaz, The Sephardim are suoposadly the descendants of Isrealites from the babylonian exile as well as other colonies from around the meditarrenean and kasari converts the history of these people is so convoluted and mythologised its difficult to believe they are the legitamate descendants of the Ancient Hebrews
@@TheCritic9196 that has been thoroughly dis-proven as ironically communist Zionist propaganda. Primarily from continuous historical accounts of the settlement and movement of Jews in the empire until this day...i.e. Jews didn't just disappear all of a sudden. Also from the tremendous corpus of Jewish writings continuously since antiquity. Also genetically from thousands of peer reviewed studies. And also from linguisitics...Yiddish...the day to day lingua franca of Ashkenazim contains ZERO words of Turkic origin.. How did an entire people group FORGET their Turkic language and learn a Germanic language as well as Hebrew and Aramaic. Why do Ashkenazim keep the same customs as other Jews. Also Sefarad refers to the Iberian peninsula and nothing other....Jews from Babylon are known as Mizrachim "Easterners".
@@mogts Most Ashkenazim definitely have European admixture, because all evidence points that many Jewish males took converted Roman and Hellenic wives upon arrival in the Diaspora after the destruction of Jerusalem and Judea in the first Jewish war and more so after the Bar Kokhba revolt decades later. Also from continuous pogroms in eastern Europe through the centuries adding some European admixture due to rape. One thing a lot of people don't know about Jews is before the industrial era they were HIGHLY endogamous, meaning they would only marry other Jews or the handful of converts that managed to escape the illegality of converting to Judaism in Christian Europe. Those that did "interfaith" marry were essentially excommunicated and would assimilate into non-Jewish society. The result of this 1,500 years of endogamy is a distinct genetic profile and it is the reason why Ashkenazim have several more prevalent genetic disorders than native Europeans. But the thing is, it doesn't matter that they have admixture, pretty much everyone except East Asians aren't "pure". If you think Arabs today are without genetic admixture from the populations they conquered, you would be quite wrong. Jews never ceased being a people; only that since they were exiled from their homeland they adapted and also enacted new religious measure to preserve their Jewish traditions, such as recording the Mishnah which was previously an oral tradition and the antecedent non-legally-binding debates known as the Gemara, together which form the Talmud, which all together are not final Jewish code either (that would be the Shulchan Aruch which was enacted in the 16th century). Prior to this, each Jewish community would follow the ruling of their local authority.
Just found your channel, what an awesome video, detail, maps, graphics. Only 40 years or so after Jesus, the tumultion before and after. I was pretty impressed by the Jewish resistance against such a formidable Roman power. Incredible period of history. Having visited Jerusalem, the long history is absolutely overwhelming. The fight and suffering at times for this city is truly unique. Thank you very much, very insightful
The Jews believed they were doing God's will, and that the promised Messiah would come down for them any moment and lead them to crush the Roman army. Unfortunately, the Messiah had already come, but they rejected him. The Siege of Jerusalem was really the Jews' blood feud with God.
Jerusalem was one of the most difficult city fortresses to take during that time. It also happened to be a big city, which meant more manpower and resources.
Of course they did, the jews knew very well what happens when you lose, their entire people were enslaved and invaded countless times. They also clashed with the hellenic nations and romans specifically a few times before this siege so they knew the europeans were especially brutal occupiers at that time.
2:07 Aside from the irrigation, sanitation, education, the roads, the wine, civil order and the public health, WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?!?
פתח ר' יהודה ואמר כמה נאים מעשיהן של אומה זו תקנו שווקים תקנו גשרים תקנו מרחצאות, ר' יוסי שתק. נענה רשב"י ואמר כל מה שתיקנו לא תיקנו אלא לצורך עצמם - תיקנו שווקים להושיב בהן זונות, מרחצאות לעדן בהן עצמן, גשרים ליטול מהן מכס. Rabbi Yehuda said how good are the creations of this nation ,they created market bridges and bathouses,rabbi yossi stayed silent. Rasbi answered him"all they built was for built only for themselves they created market to house prostitutes,bathhouses to soften themselves[skin],and bridges to take from them toll Talmud Babli,masechet shabat,page 33B.
It's embarrassing you think those things were introduced to Judea in the 1st century AD. We're not talking about some forest in Germany, but a region with a long history of Babylonian, Persian and Hellenistic civilization.
"Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down." (Jerusalem, 30 AD)
@@user-sr5gg6lq4v that should tell you it's flawed. If today we have trouble communicating, considering all our technology, how much more could there be when we relie on oral history? When we had to fill in the blanks, it's no longer history. it's legend and folklore, just like every religion in this world. Nothing prophetic here.
@Lúzia A Morta u are kind of late to the party. I don't have a tendency of refreshing to see if anyone replied. Go on, and have a good day, cause I have more important things to do than continue this combo!😂😂😂
I was in Jerusalem and Masada a while back and saw the remnants of the camps and ramp that the Romans left nearly two thousand years ago. Incredible to imagine that a determined local resistance was able to bring so much grief to a powerful organized empire.
@@brazilianman92 Have you hear about battle Arausio in the roman cimbrian war, teutoburg forest,the disaster of carrhae, battle of gergovia?, all these battles(and roman defeats) ocurred in the republican and imperial period during the rise of Rome. During the cimbrian war Rome had been near of destruction, and the teutoburg battle halted the roman advance in germania. The jews failed miserably, in the rebellion 66-73CE and in the next Kitos War and Bar-Kokhba revolt, in which they murdered cowardly roman,greeks,macedonians,egyptians,libians civilians, while the romans legions and troops were fighting the parthian empire. More than brave they were fanatic.
As a veteran of recent wars I can't imagine what it must have been like for these soldiers, rebels & professionals alike. It's one thing to siege a city like Fallujah, Baqubah or Ramadi w/ modern weapons but it's another animal completely when you have to fight hand to hand & truly be dependent on the person on the left & right of you whereas today's you can be a bit more independent.
The very same factors are still causing trouble in the Middle East to this very day. And in place of Rome, we've got the US as the dominant superpower who's fanning the flames.
Omg I thought that this is Invicta’s last video for his Siege of Jerusalem series. I was wrong haha. But still, thanks K&G. I appreciate and love your videos!
Luke 21: 5-6 & 20-24 Then, as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said, “These things which you see-the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.” “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Jesus speaking circa AD30
Comic Sans gospels were written after the temple fell, so no it didn’t come true. It was written that he predicted it after the fact. Like most prophecies, they only seem to be fulfilled due to creative writing.
@@richardkranium2944 uh no, the earliest known, still existing manuscripts date back as early as 1st century AD and before they were written and collected into codecies, they were passed on the way everything was passed on in those days and the millenniums before it, orally.
How to safely and efficiently take an enemy fortress Step 1:built a wall around it so the enemies can't get and enemy reinforcements and supplies can't get in Step 2:built a wall around the wall so enemy reinforcements can't attack your troops Step 3:win
@@torva360 I think the main problem is the lack of documentation about that period. One of the things that makes Rome (and Greece) a well covered chapter in history is their passion for writing
The way they surrounded Jerusalem with a wall is so simple and brilliant. Anyone who has ever visited the city knows how difficult that must have been considering the very hilly terrain especially along the south and east sides
Yeah, that was one of the romans favorite tactics. Julius Caesar loved using that tactic alot, sometimes building another wall behind them to make it harder for the enemy to be reinforced as well as to protect their rear.
@@Last555555555 Jerusalem is overhyped, archeologically speaking there are places far older than Jerusalem. Cities of Mesopotamia/Egypt/Indus valley are older and far more sophisticated.
Thank you for fascinating content like this. I've learned so much in recent years thanks to channels like this one. Merry Christmas out there everybody 🎄✝️!!
You guys continue to impress me with your epic videos. You know Invicta also made a couple of videos pertaining to the Great Jewish Revolt. He too made a series of videos about the Siege of Jerusalem although his ones are divided into four parts. Although his production is pretty good with a lot of effort and detail put in, unfortunately despite it being two years now he still hasn't completed his little documentary yet. I'm still waiting on part four which would showcase the conclusion of the siege. I don't suppose you guys will be making a video for the Siege of Masada as well as a followup to this one?
This is my new favorite K&G video by far, great great job on this! I never knew about this battle, and I'm so glad that I got to find out about it here!
Roman wartime machine never fails to amaze me. By far the greatest civilisation human beings have ever produced. The accomplished professionalism of this channel comes as a befitting representation of the Roman achievements.
In addition to learning about the revolt, I just learned that there was another "Bosporos" - the Cimmerian Bosporus. On a lesser channel, I would have just considered it an error from sloppy map making, but you guys run a tight ship, so I had to research this. As always, keep up the good work.
The Jews probably thought they could repeat the successful rebellion they had mounted against the Selucids in the mid 2nd century. However the Seleucid empire was in rapid decline at that stage, whereas Rome was still expanding in the 1st century AD.
@sultan mirja 80 million people died in WW2 including 6 millions Germans. Israel is a thriving nation today but the Third Reich does not exist anymore.
@Katarina Love Concerning the Jews that are in this video, no they were not black. There is ancient documentation verrifing this. Are there black African Jews? Yes, plenty of them live in Ethiopia and the Bible supports that Moses was married to a black Cushite (Ethiopian) woman.
A 22 min video from K&G in Monday perfect😃 Edit: i know know why the video was till Monday the animation is so good, it must be hard and time consuming, keep up the good work :)
grate job describing the battel, but this story has SOOO much more in it, the involvement of the Jewish royal family in Roman politics leading to Vespasian coronation is of massive importance, and the love story of the Jewish Princess Berenice and Titus..
Great content once again, I can only imagine the time and energy that went behind such a massive standalone ! While watching I was wondering how the romans were able to construct all those ramps, destroy walls, build fortifications, ram walls, etc... without being systematically and solidely harassed and shot at ?
That's not new. So called historian leave out a lot of important details. This is why we have to remember history is by definition " His story". Josephus said it was Arab soldier's who were employed by Roman that sacked the Temple. In the book of Daniel, Daniel said in the last days the princes to come will out of these people, and once more invade Jerusalem.
The Jewish people always had a grand history of disagreement and deviant action against any ruler. Even amongst ourselves we are a very turbulent group. This is a great showcase of that.
That's true, but back then pretty much every nation was like that, the Germanic and Celtic tribes were also fighting among themselves, till the Romans showed up!
@@KingExituS yes but the Jews were more of a proper nation state. I mean more in the ideological sense, not plain civil war. Jewish scholars have disagreed with one another since we started writing interpretations of the Bible. You can argue the German tribes never got along and that the Celts all stayed away from one another for that is true. But the Jewish people have always had strong disagreements of both the mind and the blade. (I'm not trying to tout any Jewish Exceptionalism, just giving my opinion.)
Reading Josephus, I got the impression that the Jews basically went insane and miscalculated that a messiah they appointed was going to solve their problems. They had no chance against the Romans otherwise. It’s a horribly tragic story.
Fun and sad fact- Titus actually used the money and treasures stolen from the second temple to build the Colosseum, actually most of the Colosseum builders and first Gladiators were Jews captured during the Great Jewish Revolt.
Finally. I hoped you would someday make a video about the Jewish revolt and (briefly) the bid for power by Vespasian since I'm a big fan of Robert Fabbri's novel series Vespasian where this event is describes in the last book.
I find this documentary of great use in studying for my upcoming exam on "The Wars of the Jews - The Siege of Jerusalem." We have an entire unit of a trimester in a certain class on this, in case you cared.
"It is not a foreign land we have taken, nor have we set our rule over the property of strangers. This is the inheritance of our forefathers, which at one time was illicitly conquered, and we, when the opportunity arose, recovered the inheritance of our fathers." - Shimon the Hasmonean.
It seems shimon doesn't know what native land is. The jews conquered the land just like many other people after them, they have no special claim to the land. By that logic anyone else can claim it. The italians can say their roman forefathers owned it, the greeks can claim multiple hellenic kingdoms and byzantium owned it, the arabs can claim the various caliphates owned it, and so on.
Their forefathers were there before Abraham. Canaan acquired the land (there is a pun in the name) by usurping Noah. Shem was still in the land at the time of Abraham. He was called. Melkhizedek
Man, you gotta salute the Jewish rebels! They put up an amazing fight (especially near the end) against the tidal wave that was early Imperial Rome. They may be long dead, but their valor will never be forgotten.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 Many died in battles during ancient and medieval times. But only the leaders are remember. In modern times, soldiers play hide and seek and when they are killed in action they are termed "martyrs" .
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man do a video about the three kings battle at morocco
Please make Battle of Prevezea
Hooray for longer videos!
The first Holocaust? Or second?
Basic Roman strategy: when in trouble build a wall around it
Trump would have loved these guys.
Still not as impressive as the Seige of Alesia.
and make the Mexicans pay for it
@Vae Victis (Everyone knows this no offense that's why you have no thumbs up)
@Vae Victis OK sorry 🙏
Well done gentlemen great recap of the siege! Its a huge one to cover and you really did it justice. I should know since I still haven't finished my last episode in a series on this siege.
Thank you very much!
Invicta
I personally wish we Italians had left Jews alone.
if we did though then my Ashkenazi Jew cousins would not exist. nor would I exist.
Kings and Generals
can you please do Italian And Greek Genetics
I'm from Rome, Italy
my DNA test results were
37.9%Italian
16.1% Iberian
7.5% Greek
5.1%Ashkenazi Jew
15.2%Mizrahi Jew [ Iranian/Iraqi Jew]
11.8% Middle Eastern
6.4% North African Berber
@@emmabarone1530 Wow, you're my cousin lol...I have all those mix too but I'm more Iberian than Italian, but I don't know how reliable these dna services are
Alfred Morris
they are good and accurate.
23andme and MyheritageDNA are the best ones
Legionaries: get slaughtered in battle
Roman general: meh..
*Eagle standard is lost*
General: "KILL THEM ALL"
I forget where I heard this but some channel explained that very thing. "The Eagle was an enduring symbol of Romes might and the general who lost it was a shame for losing it and not worth avenging because he did not have the might to defend it." Something like that
"General! We have a problem. The Jews build a lot of defensive walls into the city!"
"That's much unfortunate. We can't let them have more walls than us. Build a wall around the city then!"
Whoever has more walls wins!
Sometimes I think that somewhere during Military School Caesar got into the wrong class and ended up studying Architecture. The rest is history.
@@federicom Most likely he picked it to avoid some other class.
@Fady Al Qaisy Ashkenazis were forced north after the temple fell. Palestinia was a label given to all ethnic groups of the region, because the Banu Rum got Jizya based on region, not religion. The Mizrahi tried to defend but most of their forces were in Persia dealing with internal struggles. The Sefardim is another name you may have heard. These were the captured Jews sold to safety/enslavement to Sefard or as the Banu Rum called Iberia, now known as Spain and Portugal. The Banu Falasha were also there and had to flee south to Nubia and later Ethiopia. There were also those that fled into Sinai later establishing the Himyar Empire and starting the Battle of the Elephant to take Mecca. Salam brother.
Agent Synthetic Someone actually knows history of second Jewish diaspora. Bravo.
I'm not sure what's more impressive, the ability of the Romans to do what they did, or how long the Jews were able to hold out under such dire circumstances.
Sieges always favour the defender, especially when their numbers were as large as here (20,000 soldiers).
Most powerful Empire vs bunch of farmers and merchants. Who would win? After surprisingly long fighting romans.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Especially Jerusalem built on top a hill surrounded by ravines with 3 wall systems effectively and 2 fortresses (Antonia and Temple) inside the city
We could have beaten them if the damn idiots hadn't burned the fucking food supplies.
A statement I read somewhere sums it up pretty well:
The true strenth of the roman legionaires was that they were willing to work like slaves rather than giving up.
Romans: built a massive wall in three days
Trump: is it possible to learn this power?
Wfng great remark🤣🤣😆😆🤣🤣
Not from a Jedi
Not from a jewdi
Citrine,
All those democratic celebrities certainly understand wall building, and in shorter time.
I wonder why they did so? Hmmm.
not with a shitty, anti divine legislative, republic
I had heard that the Romans were merciless in the war, but I didn’t know just how absolutely brutal the battle itself was. Wow.
Wait until you read about catapult stones giving Jewish women involuntary Caesarians.
Adam Price non jewish hebrews? Do you mean not judaism practicing jews or judaism practicing not ethnic jews? Nevertheless that population was insignificant.
that's what you get for slaughtering garrisons & their wives and children along with all non jews
Hadrian was too merciful
@Adam Price You speak the truth.
@@mawlinzebra fr
"This massive undertaking, typically, finished in only 3 days by the romans" 4 emperors a years but damn good builders
IIRC there was a competition between legions initiated by the commander, who'd build the most in a day.
People don't realize how much they are capable of doing when working together fiercely, Let alone a couple thousands of men working like madman not like today's lazy ass bois.
Maybe rome was built in a day!
Love the Life of Brian reference at 2:10
"Romanus eunt domus"
"The romans to go the house?"
"It says 'Romans go home"
"No, it doesn't"
“People called ‘Romanes’ they go the ‘ouse?”
"Romani, ite domum" is the correct translation
can you imagine the amount of organization and mechanization it would have taken to tear down those walls?
IT'S DAMN IMPRESSIVE WHAT THE ROMANS WERE CAPABLE OF
Agreed, their siege warfare wasn't eclipsed until the gunpowder artillery became a thing.
Except for those local troops, amirght? Those Syrian legions were an embarrassment, the way they let the Jews cut them down and take their aquila.
In one of his novels about Traianus, the spanis author Santiago Posteguillo talks about the father of the emperor who was a legatus under the command of Vespasianus and gives a description of the siege.
nevermind their EIGHT KILOMETER miracle wall they built in like 3 days... without any kind of power tools...
@@KingsandGenerals oh my gosh thx reading my comment
8 km walls with fortifications in 3 days? someone fire our lazy municipal head and his team of govt employees. they can't build a 4km road in 3 days with modern equipment. with modern equipment roman soldiers could have build that wall in like 15 hours .lol .
Romans were masters in construction and in siege warfare.
@@messianic_scam I’m guessing you have something against Christians & Jews...
@@absolutelyyousless7605 just against jevvs
Have to admire the efficiency of the Roman legionaries. building a wall with 13 fortresses surrounding a walled city, and only in 3 DAYS ? no wonder the only thing that could destroyed Rome was itself only.
maybe it was some sort of wooden enclave i doubt the built a decent wall in 3 days
*Laughs in Huns and Germanic tribes*
Don't forget that they used captured men to do some of this work
@@flame7047
*Laughs in Marcomannic Wars and Battle of The Catalaunian Plains*
@@christianjocson5509 They all came to pick and feast on what's left of the empire, that's what I'm saying. After "Pax Romana", Rome went through a series of domestic turmoils: from having 5 leaders claiming themselves as Emperors, to having a mad man as emperor who burned down Rome. None of those tribes were ever capable of taking down Rome at its peak.
Rome's strength was not in their army's invincibility, but rather its ability to form armies after armies to crush the enemy with numbers and discipline no matter how many losses Rome suffer. The continuous civil wars ultimately drained Rome off of its treasury and man power, meaning Rome has lost its advantage over other tribal groups. The Roman Legions at that point no longer able to stop the Goths, the Vandals, the Huns and other tribes from conquering them.
Finally, after waiting years for Invicta to finnish his series, I know how the siege ends. Still want to see the Invicta to start finnishing his projects though hahah
Very true Peter, we're ALL waiting for Invicta to get Part 4 made.
Im also waiting...
Really? I don't like his delivery. Not a good narrator
YAH21 i just turned that age lol
Yes! Been waiting for so long for Invicta's Jerusalem series to end! Please Lord!🙏
I'm always amazed by roman's troops building abilities.
ikr they were like the army corps of engineers, only they were the same guys who laid the actual siege
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A very well crafted, researched and well narrated documentary on the 70AD Siege of Jerusalem.
Thank you, my friend!
@Fady Al Qaisy ancient Palestinians come from Greece, not Arabia. Ramses documents provided information they come from the Mediterranean as they were Sea people's.
@Fady Al Qaisy Palestinians have never conquered anybody in history. Stop with the Arabinization of culture, just cause you want it to appear that way does not make facts true. Ancient Palestinian are from the Mediterranean and that's a fact, they settled there. By the way Israel has never been Arab either, it's a Israelite / Jewish ancestral homeland for God's people, again not the Arab people who believe in Muhammad or the Quran.
Is something not described as Arab by virtue of its definition being Arabic or in other words part of the Arabian people who stem from the Arabic peninsula? Hence if as you say, the mediterranean settlements were already there, then, they cannot be Arabic since by and large the Arabic expansion began in the 7th century AD, hence the indigenous people being Mesopotamian, Balkan, Anatolian, North African, Iberian, Gaulic, etc? Were not the people of the Levant also related to migratory tribes from Egypt and Mesopotamia in particular spawning for instance the Phoenicians?
Fady Al Qaisy that region stretching from Egypt to Gaza region was egypt, then Palestine from Jerusalem to around Damascus and then Syria up to Antioch from there to Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul it was Asia Minor. Refer to the works of Manius of Tyre, Pompius Mela etc who were cartographers.
I have one bad thing to say. the Judean rebels didnt use arabian/eastern style gear like shown here, they used a mix of hellenistic and captured roman gear.
@SkiperPlays Noted and my mistake! Thank you for your feedback.
I think they chose to show Judean rebels that way to clearly different from Roman soldier for the viewer.
What do you mean by Eastern/Arabian?! They are two different things.
@@LionKing-ew9rm They did used Eastern or Arabian style gear? Why so mad
Hes probably thinking eastern as far east oriental
The Bar Kochba revolt -considerably later when Hadrian was emperor was even bigger and initially successful -an independent Israel survived for one year -that's when the Romans got really serious and deported all Jews and renamed the area Palestine and Jerusalem renamed Aelia Capitolina.
I don't have any college degrees but I think if you research the use of the name "Palestine" you will find that it wasn't the Romans who named it.
@@rogermetzger7335 Philistia or Palestine was originally only the coastal area of the area -the Philistines or ancient Palestinians were part of the Sea peoples who tried to invade Egypt circa 1300 BC but were repulsed -some then settled on the Israel coast and became perennial enemies of the Jews as the biblical accounts of David,Goliath,Samson and Saul testify.Palestine was never the inland area only a thin strip of the coast -cities like Gaza belonged to the Philistines -the Romans,in order to rub salt into the wound after the eventual suppression of the bar Kochba revolt renamed the inland areas as Palestina after the Jews ancient enemies.
@@kaloarepo288 Thanks.
@sneksnekitsasnek You are probably thinking of the Rothschild family which was later into the Nineteenth century -they had a branch in Naples and even the Catholic church was forced to borrow money from them or go bankrupt!
@Yildirim eh were they tho...
Influence when ... as the Hebrews remained existing for a much longer time than the Philistines
Edit
Especially since they were destroyed by the Assyrians , decimated by the Babylonians and lost their ethnic culture by the time the Persians came along. They failed to have the .. weird gumption of the Jews and failed to really have any influence post early Iron Age
*Roman Empire is entering another period of strife and civil war* ... Let’s continue to still conquer territory, for Rome!
Rome > Attempts to end itself
Also Rome > eradicate another country instead!
@Hoàng Nguyên sounds more like France to me. Or Germany. Or China. Or Russia. Or Britain. Or Spain. Or Japan. Or, y'know, hundreds of other countries.
But sure! Let's single out the U.S.
The American Empire am I right? Sun never sets on the American empire.
@@arthurfisher1857 lol butthurt American
Calm your tits, it's just a joke .
@jevon magnus ay. Extra history crusades episode references
Exactly what I needed this morning, a new Kings and Generals video!!!
Thank you!
An intresting note - Titus's second in command during the siege - formerly a procurator of Judea and later governor of Egypt and commander of the Praetorian Guard under the Flavians - was one mentioned in this video, Tiberius Julius Alexander, born to a Jewish family in Alexandria.
When I had watched "The Life of Brian" for the first time I didn't understand the joke with the conflict between various organizations like "The People's Front of Judea" and "The People's Judean Front". Now, seeing how Jews bickering with each other all the time, even at the face of direct Roman threat, it seems to be kind of obvious.
Also, Legio XII Fulminata survived the Battle of Beth Horon, despite loosing their aquila.
'titus, bring popcorn' ...vespasian
You forgot the Judean People's Front.
It’s a joke about Trotskyists within the British far left.
At 2:07 it says "Romanes eunt domus". You'll get it if you've watched the movie.
16:02 "An abandoned house? No! A Saracen ambush!" - Barbarossa's March, Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
5 MINUTES UNTIL SARACEN ATTACK!
IVDEA DELENDA EST - Publius Aelius cHadrianus Augustus
Lmfao
JEEEEEEEEEEWS
That was some 60 yrs later, the Bar Kokhva revolt.
Not gonna lie this would make a good movie
ARV4 IV I agree I wouldn't mind it being from either side's perspective.
@@Manny444a why not both? I fucking hate one-sided historical movies.
It would be quite fascinating.
@@Manny444a Jewish perspective would be more interesting imo
@Lucius Sulla how dare they fight against the empire that controlled them!
Sir "They have another wall"
Titus "Destroy it"
Only Titus can build walls in Jerusalem
Yes
@@tituspullo8558 Hey you are another Titus, you are more like a destroyer Titus
@@messianic_scam Lol, chill dude it was a joke.
@@messianic_scam Ok but what on earth has that something to do with a joke about walls
You left out the disastrous assault on Ascalon where the Rebels lost half of their entire army (20 000 men) and many of their best commanders to a single Ala of cavalry
that and the burning of Jerusalem's food stores is what doomed doomed them.
Josephus of course describes the initial sieges in the Galilee and the Jews were dumping boiling olive oil on the Romans from the ramparts, geez! I sure stuff like that and their persistent defensive sapping really pissed off the Romans!
@@ibnyahud fucking ouch
Tbf the whole Syrian legion(6,000) was decimated by the rebels at the battle of Beth Horon.
@@elysium1384 yeah but considering multiple legions were in the area and they had better armor and supply, its fair to say the romans still had a massive advantage.
Some extra background:
The Siccari and Zealots were not the "rabbis"...i.e. "Perushim" (=Pharisees).
The rabbis did not want the rebellion and wanted the status quo of Roman rule knowing they would never defeat Vespasian as well as the fact they were allowed to maintain Temple worship.
The leading rabbi at the time Yohanon Ben Zakai, after failing to dissuade the rebels, managed to escape the city and meet with Vespasian, offering to withdraw those loyal to his faction, for which Vespasian promised to not destroy the Pharisee center of learning in Jamnia and not exterminate the line of Rabban Gamliel who was reportedly a descendant of the ancient Israelite dynasties.
While the Romano-Jewish historian Josephus may be bias (being actually patronized in an official sense by the Flavius family presumably for his services in the war), he claims that Titus did not want the Temple destroyed but between the fire and blood lust it was too late.
@Fady Al Qaisy
Ashkenazim, Sefardim, and modern Mizrachim did not yet exist! Ashkenazim and Sefardim are the Jews of Rome that split into the 2 group after the Jewish diaspora following Hadrian.
There were only Judean Jews, Babylonian - Persian Jews and merchant Jews among former Carthaginian posts and Rome.
And the differences between Jews and Arabs were widely known and distinguished in contemporaneous historical accounts...Herod was half Idumean half Arab, which was a source of contention among some Jews. You are repeating historical revisionism in the name of religious supremacy doctrine...you aren't going to wash over thousands of years of history because it bothers your ethno-supremacist sensibilities
@@ibnyahud you are incorrect the ashkenazim are not descendants of Israelite settlers Rome, they are descendants of Turkic Khazars, slavs and the sephardim who migrated into north and eastern europe which was known as Aškenaz, The Sephardim are suoposadly the descendants of Isrealites from the babylonian exile as well as other colonies from around the meditarrenean and kasari converts the history of these people is so convoluted and mythologised its difficult to believe they are the legitamate descendants of the Ancient Hebrews
@@TheCritic9196 that has been thoroughly dis-proven as ironically communist Zionist propaganda.
Primarily from continuous historical accounts of the settlement and movement of Jews in the empire until this day...i.e. Jews didn't just disappear all of a sudden. Also from the tremendous corpus of Jewish writings continuously since antiquity. Also genetically from thousands of peer reviewed studies. And also from linguisitics...Yiddish...the day to day lingua franca of Ashkenazim contains ZERO words of Turkic origin.. How did an entire people group FORGET their Turkic language and learn a Germanic language as well as Hebrew and Aramaic. Why do Ashkenazim keep the same customs as other Jews.
Also Sefarad refers to the Iberian peninsula and nothing other....Jews from Babylon are known as Mizrachim "Easterners".
@@ibnyahud
but would you agree that the western jews, ashkenazis, are not semitic? they look white.
@@mogts
Most Ashkenazim definitely have European admixture, because all evidence points that many Jewish males took converted Roman and Hellenic wives upon arrival in the Diaspora after the destruction of Jerusalem and Judea in the first Jewish war and more so after the Bar Kokhba revolt decades later. Also from continuous pogroms in eastern Europe through the centuries adding some European admixture due to rape.
One thing a lot of people don't know about Jews is before the industrial era they were HIGHLY endogamous, meaning they would only marry other Jews or the handful of converts that managed to escape the illegality of converting to Judaism in Christian Europe. Those that did "interfaith" marry were essentially excommunicated and would assimilate into non-Jewish society. The result of this 1,500 years of endogamy is a distinct genetic profile and it is the reason why Ashkenazim have several more prevalent genetic disorders than native Europeans.
But the thing is, it doesn't matter that they have admixture, pretty much everyone except East Asians aren't "pure". If you think Arabs today are without genetic admixture from the populations they conquered, you would be quite wrong.
Jews never ceased being a people; only that since they were exiled from their homeland they adapted and also enacted new religious measure to preserve their Jewish traditions, such as recording the Mishnah which was previously an oral tradition and the antecedent non-legally-binding debates known as the Gemara, together which form the Talmud, which all together are not final Jewish code either (that would be the Shulchan Aruch which was enacted in the 16th century). Prior to this, each Jewish community would follow the ruling of their local authority.
Maybe a certain hit tv show can have a certain character sap the walls like Titus......
If only
Yes!!
Is there any series like that??
Lord of the rings?
Rome series was the best
Just found your channel, what an awesome video, detail, maps, graphics. Only 40 years or so after Jesus, the tumultion before and after. I was pretty impressed by the Jewish resistance against such a formidable Roman power. Incredible period of history. Having visited Jerusalem, the long history is absolutely overwhelming. The fight and suffering at times for this city is truly unique. Thank you very much, very insightful
Welcome aboard! New videos every Thursday and Sunday
😊yes this is what he prophesied john the apostle was still around
Geeze, in all the sieges I've ever seen on these battle play-by-play channels, that had to be one of the hardest I've ever seen the defenders fight.
The Jews believed they were doing God's will, and that the promised Messiah would come down for them any moment and lead them to crush the Roman army.
Unfortunately, the Messiah had already come, but they rejected him. The Siege of Jerusalem was really the Jews' blood feud with God.
Jerusalem was one of the most difficult city fortresses to take during that time. It also happened to be a big city, which meant more manpower and resources.
@@googlesucks478 Based
Of course they did, the jews knew very well what happens when you lose, their entire people were enslaved and invaded countless times.
They also clashed with the hellenic nations and romans specifically a few times before this siege so they knew the europeans were especially brutal occupiers at that time.
@@googlesucks478 No-one asked
2:07 Aside from the irrigation, sanitation, education, the roads, the wine, civil order and the public health, WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS EVER DONE FOR US?!?
The aqueduct
Read that in Sean Bean's voice
romans took their precious little god
פתח ר' יהודה ואמר כמה נאים מעשיהן של אומה זו תקנו שווקים תקנו גשרים תקנו מרחצאות, ר' יוסי שתק. נענה רשב"י ואמר כל מה שתיקנו לא תיקנו אלא לצורך עצמם - תיקנו שווקים להושיב בהן זונות, מרחצאות לעדן בהן עצמן, גשרים ליטול מהן מכס.
Rabbi Yehuda said how good are the creations of this nation ,they created market bridges and bathouses,rabbi yossi stayed silent. Rasbi answered him"all they built was for built only for themselves they created market to house prostitutes,bathhouses to soften themselves[skin],and bridges to take from them toll
Talmud Babli,masechet shabat,page 33B.
It's embarrassing you think those things were introduced to Judea in the 1st century AD. We're not talking about some forest in Germany, but a region with a long history of Babylonian, Persian and Hellenistic civilization.
"Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down." (Jerusalem, 30 AD)
BASED and THE BLOOD OF CHRIST pilled!
Thank you, Captain Obvious. Any person in that time knew that. Can we stop using religion to explain human history!?!?
@@user-sr5gg6lq4v that should tell you it's flawed. If today we have trouble communicating, considering all our technology, how much more could there be when we relie on oral history? When we had to fill in the blanks, it's no longer history. it's legend and folklore, just like every religion in this world. Nothing prophetic here.
@@user-sr5gg6lq4vlet's do it!👌👌👌
@Lúzia A Morta u are kind of late to the party. I don't have a tendency of refreshing to see if anyone replied. Go on, and have a good day, cause I have more important things to do than continue this combo!😂😂😂
I was in Jerusalem and Masada a while back and saw the remnants of the camps and ramp that the Romans left nearly two thousand years ago. Incredible to imagine that a determined local resistance was able to bring so much grief to a powerful organized empire.
The Jews were the only group to successfully resist against the Roman Empire in its prime.
@@Gameflyer001 NOT TRUE lool at the Germans and the Teuteberg forest, so where some of the Sarmatian tribes on the Black Sea.
@@Gameflyer001 Bullshit, the most of germanic tribes, the parthian empire and celtic tribes of today Scotland were successful and even more effective
@Hoàng Nguyên Its not strange. Alot of Asians from your region tend to worship white people. Its expected.
@@brazilianman92 Have you hear about battle Arausio in the roman cimbrian war, teutoburg forest,the disaster of carrhae, battle of gergovia?, all these battles(and roman defeats) ocurred in the republican and imperial period during the rise of Rome. During the cimbrian war Rome had been near of destruction, and the teutoburg battle halted the roman advance in germania. The jews failed miserably, in the rebellion 66-73CE and in the next Kitos War and Bar-Kokhba revolt, in which they murdered cowardly roman,greeks,macedonians,egyptians,libians civilians, while the romans legions and troops were fighting the parthian empire. More than brave they were fanatic.
Invicta, your move! Finish the damn series! Also, good job Kings and Generals. Nice voice btw!
I was looking for this kind of comment :). Much agreed. I've watched that series several times, it's amazing.
@@Korkzor Same here, the aliens will abduct us all and im afraid that series wont be finish :).
Thought this was me and got confused.
As a veteran of recent wars I can't imagine what it must have been like for these soldiers, rebels & professionals alike. It's one thing to siege a city like Fallujah, Baqubah or Ramadi w/ modern weapons but it's another animal completely when you have to fight hand to hand & truly be dependent on the person on the left & right of you whereas today's you can be a bit more independent.
My examinations start day after tomorrow. This nice PHAT video is what I needed. Thanks guys.
Good luck
Physics?
u go brother
AP bro??
@@averagenewbie2968 funnily enough, no. History. Lol.
This is your best video yet. Excellent animations and storytelling. Keep up the phenomenal work guys. You are officially my favourite channel.
Thank you!
A minor correction: That sign should say "romani ite domum"
Please write it out a hundred times
loved that reference
Wait until biggus dickus hears about this!
@@mklopfer He has a wife you know. Want to know what she's called?
Incompetent/ineffectual ruling class, Ethnic Tensions and Religion... Such a lovely combination.
The very same factors are still causing trouble in the Middle East to this very day. And in place of Rome, we've got the US as the dominant superpower who's fanning the flames.
Arkadeep Kundu U.S is just a scapegoat now. This would have been true 15 years ago in Iraq, but now they have no one to blame but themselves
*cough* balkans *cough*
Basically that region in a nutshell today still
Romans have always solved their problems with iron fist. It works until it doesn't.
Omg I thought that this is Invicta’s last video for his Siege of Jerusalem series. I was wrong haha. But still, thanks K&G. I appreciate and love your videos!
Nvmt t yeah it may take years. Invicta already uploaded a video about the Battle of Winterfell but still no ending for the siege of Jerusalem.
Luke 21: 5-6 & 20-24
Then, as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said, “These things which you see-the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”
“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart, and let not those who are in the country enter her. For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Jesus speaking circa AD30
Jesus tried to warn the Jews, but they crucified him for preaching the truth to them.
Written long after the fact. Words put on Jesus lips sounding prophetic.
@Richard Kranium The prediction still came true.
Comic Sans gospels were written after the temple fell, so no it didn’t come true. It was written that he predicted it after the fact. Like most prophecies, they only seem to be fulfilled due to creative writing.
@@richardkranium2944 uh no, the earliest known, still existing manuscripts date back as early as 1st century AD and before they were written and collected into codecies, they were passed on the way everything was passed on in those days and the millenniums before it, orally.
18:42
Roman Legion: Looks like.. *equips ocularia solaria* these rebels dug their own grave.
How to safely and efficiently take an enemy fortress
Step 1:built a wall around it so the enemies can't get and enemy reinforcements and supplies can't get in
Step 2:built a wall around the wall so enemy reinforcements can't attack your troops
Step 3:win
Seems to me that the only problem is if your enemy faction has the capability to besiege you inside your outer wall and starve you out.
¡Gracias!
I would like to see the fall of Nineveh 612 B.C.
Will consider!
@@KingsandGenerals Please do! We all love Rome, but no one really talks about things that far back in detail.
@@torva360 I think the main problem is the lack of documentation about that period. One of the things that makes Rome (and Greece) a well covered chapter in history is their passion for writing
@@marcogrigolo2228
Very true.
The way they surrounded Jerusalem with a wall is so simple and brilliant. Anyone who has ever visited the city knows how difficult that must have been considering the very hilly terrain especially along the south and east sides
Yeah, that was one of the romans favorite tactics. Julius Caesar loved using that tactic alot, sometimes building another wall behind them to make it harder for the enemy to be reinforced as well as to protect their rear.
I should be studying for my exams but this is much more interesting.
Same
Same
Same here
What if you had an exam about THAT?
@@maorus2 if i had exams about interesting things like this I would be a good student
Been looking forward to this battle ever since this channel started!!!!
Thanks!
Adding this to my Top 10 favorite Kings and Generals documentaries
I'm kinda surprised Jerusalem is still standing after such a fight.
The Jerusalem of today is nothing like it was... Its been razed and built over many times over.
@@jestfuldemigod no shit, but the fact that anything survived is surprising
@@Last555555555 Jerusalem is overhyped, archeologically speaking there are places far older than Jerusalem.
Cities of Mesopotamia/Egypt/Indus valley are older and far more sophisticated.
@@Autechltd fuck u too
The Jewish people are connect many ways. They were removed from their country more then once and they end up back home over and over.
Thank you for fascinating content like this. I've learned so much in recent years thanks to channels like this one.
Merry Christmas out there everybody 🎄✝️!!
Human beings acting violent like wild animals. Greed. !
You guys continue to impress me with your epic videos. You know Invicta also made a couple of videos pertaining to the Great Jewish Revolt. He too made a series of videos about the Siege of Jerusalem although his ones are divided into four parts. Although his production is pretty good with a lot of effort and detail put in, unfortunately despite it being two years now he still hasn't completed his little documentary yet. I'm still waiting on part four which would showcase the conclusion of the siege. I don't suppose you guys will be making a video for the Siege of Masada as well as a followup to this one?
Thanks! We'll see, not sure.
This is my new favorite K&G video by far, great great job on this! I never knew about this battle, and I'm so glad that I got to find out about it here!
Roman wartime machine never fails to amaze me. By far the greatest civilisation human beings have ever produced. The accomplished professionalism of this channel comes as a befitting representation of the Roman achievements.
@@Amun_Ka_Tut_Tehuti lol whole world who? only egypt maybe, civilization as big as one roman town
@@Amun_Ka_Tut_Tehuti AWWW SHIEET WEZ WAZ KANGZ AN SHIEET!!
I can hardly see any more but I can sure hear. I enjoyed your commentary very much. Thank-you very much.
Thanks for your interest!
i was cheeking for your upload daily , Thank you very much
Thank you for watching!
Rule 1 of Rome is you do not defy Rome
Rule 2 of Rome is YOU DO NOT DEFY ROME!
Rule 3 , if you defy rome, make sure your horsemen learn the parthian shot .......
@@SousouCell rule 4, Prepare to be crucified!
Huns: “Hold my fermented mares milk.”
@@daron6616 Rule #4: If you go Hunnic.... you have to die
@@thekillers1stfan
Rule #5 Not until Romans them pay the ransom money to leave. Lol
In addition to learning about the revolt, I just learned that there was another "Bosporos" - the Cimmerian Bosporus. On a lesser channel, I would have just considered it an error from sloppy map making, but you guys run a tight ship, so I had to research this. As always, keep up the good work.
Thank you!
Roman solution to taking a city or fortress: "Lets just build a wall around them."
Concentration camp.
''Romanes eunt domus?''
After six years of studying Latin you gotta pull this on me, guys?
Great job, as always. Congratulations to the whole team.
Did anyone else as soon as they saw the title of the video thought this was the long awaited final part to this siege by Invicta.
The Jews probably thought they could repeat the successful rebellion they had mounted against the Selucids in the mid 2nd century. However the Seleucid empire was in rapid decline at that stage, whereas Rome was still expanding in the 1st century AD.
Where is the Bar Kokhba Revolt video? It's been 5 years bro.
"Roman General Pompey had been finishing up the Mithridatic war."
More like taking credit for it, Lucullus did most of the work during the war.
Samnitium yeah, pompey was a real Cadger
Something he's who became very talented to do so.
1897 years later: Boys are Back in Town plays in the background...
daaaaaayyummm
umm...btw im copying that comment😗
Damn good comment I must say.
@sultan mirja 80 million people died in WW2 including 6 millions Germans. Israel is a thriving nation today but the Third Reich does not exist anymore.
@sultan mirja ; because of Nazis like you shit for brains!!!!!!!
This is an excellent summery of the siege in 70 A.D. I liked it so much I showed it to my Wednesday Bible study class. Well done Sir!
nah, there's a better video
@Katarina Love Concerning the Jews that are in this video, no they were not black. There is ancient documentation verrifing this. Are there black African Jews? Yes, plenty of them live in Ethiopia and the Bible supports that Moses was married to a black Cushite (Ethiopian) woman.
A 22 min video from K&G in Monday perfect😃
Edit: i know know why the video was till Monday the animation is so good, it must be hard and time consuming, keep up the good work :)
We will, thank you!
Keep an eye on that centurion Naughtius Maximus, we dont want him leaving any illegitimate sons that can star in classic comedy films in the same city
Comedy ? I belive you mean a live action documentary .
@@pp-wo1sd Of our one true messiah and his sandal
@@Mrkabrat
Indeed
@@Mrkabrat You mean his gourd!
@@AthCom His sandal, you heretic!
So glad to have this channel .
Thanks!
2:57 thought that was a dragon for a moment 😥
As a “Greek mob” member myself, stellar presentation - well done!
grate job describing the battel, but this story has SOOO much more in it, the involvement of the Jewish royal family in Roman politics leading to Vespasian coronation is of massive importance, and the love story of the Jewish Princess Berenice and Titus..
Great job, I really love your channel, sadly i do not have enough money to support you on patreon.
Thanks for watching!
Give him $10 at least
Great video!! Do the Bar Kochba revolt
Where can I read the play by play of the Bar Kochba revolt?
Wow man. Never has a youtube video left me so speechless. What a great video. Especially the ending
Keep it up my dudes.
We will, thank you!
Great content once again, I can only imagine the time and energy that went behind such a massive standalone ! While watching I was wondering how the romans were able to construct all those ramps, destroy walls, build fortifications, ram walls, etc... without being systematically and solidely harassed and shot at ?
Thank you! They were constantly harassed, but the Roman ballistae were just better.
@@KingsandGenerals ah alright, glad for them 'cause I can only imagine the hell it must have been. Thank you for your answer !
No mention of Josephus? I would have thunk an eyewitness-commander-historian of the event would have deserved a mention.
@Robert Bonneau or just finish the job
I mean he’s obviously the source for all of this
That's not new. So called historian leave out a lot of important details. This is why we have to remember history is by definition " His story". Josephus said it was Arab soldier's who were employed by Roman that sacked the Temple. In the book of Daniel, Daniel said in the last days the princes to come will out of these people, and once more invade Jerusalem.
The Jewish people always had a grand history of disagreement and deviant action against any ruler. Even amongst ourselves we are a very turbulent group. This is a great showcase of that.
That's true, but back then pretty much every nation was like that, the Germanic and Celtic tribes were also fighting among themselves, till the Romans showed up!
@@KingExituS yes but the Jews were more of a proper nation state. I mean more in the ideological sense, not plain civil war. Jewish scholars have disagreed with one another since we started writing interpretations of the Bible. You can argue the German tribes never got along and that the Celts all stayed away from one another for that is true. But the Jewish people have always had strong disagreements of both the mind and the blade. (I'm not trying to tout any Jewish Exceptionalism, just giving my opinion.)
I don't remember you revolting against Muslims or Achamaenids when they conquered you though
@@totalwartimelapses6359 Both more localized empires to be fair.
@@maxkaufmann833
What does that mean and how is that relevant to you revolting or not revolting against them?
This would make such a good total war siege scenario
Wow I didn't think about it but hell yes, Actually in any strategy game it would be awesome.
Reading Josephus, I got the impression that the Jews basically went insane and miscalculated that a messiah they appointed was going to solve their problems. They had no chance against the Romans otherwise.
It’s a horribly tragic story.
This is fantastic thank you very much :).
Will you be doing anything on the English civil war or thirty years war in the future?
Thanks! Yep, those are planned!
Can you make Trajan vs Dacians? that would be amazing!
Fun and sad fact- Titus actually used the money and treasures stolen from the second temple to build the Colosseum, actually most of the Colosseum builders and first Gladiators were Jews captured during the Great Jewish Revolt.
אבשלום כהן
I'm Mizrahi and Sephardic mixed with Southern European
@@sadsackkvisling9694 i bet that triggers you
The 1st gladiators were jewish? No wonder they sucked lol
A concert tour? Really?
I mean, it was Nero, I could see it, but still...
We were just softening them up for Hadrian
Another excellent video with the best Narrator, by far and away, in the genre.
Finally. I hoped you would someday make a video about the Jewish revolt and (briefly) the bid for power by Vespasian since I'm a big fan of Robert Fabbri's novel series Vespasian where this event is describes in the last book.
This is a very high quality short documentary
Thanks!
My new favorite channel
I find this documentary of great use in studying for my upcoming exam on "The Wars of the Jews - The Siege of Jerusalem." We have an entire unit of a trimester in a certain class on this, in case you cared.
Just yesterday I was googling about this ... nice timing :D
Wonderful history lesson. Some of this was mentioned in the book "The Twelve Ceasars" by Roman writer Suetonius.
"It is not a foreign land we have taken, nor have we set our rule over the property of strangers. This is the inheritance of our forefathers, which at one time was illicitly conquered, and we, when the opportunity arose, recovered the inheritance of our fathers." - Shimon the Hasmonean.
It seems shimon doesn't know what native land is. The jews conquered the land just like many other people after them, they have no special claim to the land.
By that logic anyone else can claim it.
The italians can say their roman forefathers owned it, the greeks can claim multiple hellenic kingdoms and byzantium owned it, the arabs can claim the various caliphates owned it, and so on.
Their forefathers were there before Abraham. Canaan acquired the land (there is a pun in the name) by usurping Noah. Shem was still in the land at the time of Abraham. He was called. Melkhizedek
Lie. . you are european people
Man, you gotta salute the Jewish rebels! They put up an amazing fight (especially near the end) against the tidal wave that was early Imperial Rome. They may be long dead, but their valor will never be forgotten.
DevilTrigger Is the American Patriots has failed, people would have probably said the same thing about them.
It’s never foolish to fight for freedom.
Fuck no.
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 ah the ever perfect jew, but of course
@@Aengrod Im not a Jew, and I can admire it. What says you have to be part of a certain ethnic group in order to?
fuck those pussies
Its amazing how battles were fought like this unlike modern warfare.
Yeah, the tactics were very different
@@alexanderchristopher6237 Many died in battles during ancient and medieval times. But only the leaders are remember. In modern times, soldiers play hide and seek and when they are killed in action they are termed "martyrs" .
A worth of 22 minute documentary
Thank you!
Long awaited prequel to the 1967 war video.
As proud Israelis would boast "Masada will not fall again"
Don't you mean 1948?
Kings and generals did a video on the 6 day war, don't recall one about the war of 1948.
@@benjaminklass5118 Oh, my bad. I took that comment more as a figure of speech about Israeli's waiting for another victory. LOL.
@Ron Lewenberg Fair enough.