How the Roman Government Worked
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- The Roman Empire was one of the most influential and long-lasting civilizations in world history, and their government has strongly influences modern governments around the world. So how did the Roman government work, and how did it govern its vast territories without modern technology?
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"How the Roman Government worked"
*gets compared to a discord server within 25 seconds*
A discord server where it isn't just a mess
30 seconds
Don't forget that the US government, therefore, is also comparable to the discord server.
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Finally, someone at least tries
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Im still waiting for new video
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I like it when people pronounce Classical Latin correctly. Good job :)
@@AlejandroRodriguez-wl9ou he did better than most
@@AlejandroRodriguez-wl9ou Yes Alex he did better than most don't be such a buzzkill
Made me subscribe
Hmmm... But how would you even know?
@@DiogenesDworkinson there are texts written as to how to pronounce it, they compared letters to actual sounds be it from nature or other languages or moving your mouth in such a way to create a sounds. I don’t think we could get it perfectly, but we have a very good idea of what Latin sounded like
KhAnubis just wants to flex his Latin lol
4:49 What a genius transition. I genuinely did not see that coming
Also this was a really good refresher for me on how Rome operated cuz I haven't actually looked into it in so long
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Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!
This channel is so underrated you should get more subscribers
That cameo of the discord server is pretty hilarious, almost makes me wish I were still consul. Either way very glad to see it!
The Patrician and Plebeian classes were virtually irrelevant by 200 BCE. The ranks on the Comitia Centuriata eventually became the basis for societal structure, as your rank in that determined your ability to influence policy. The Equestrian Class eventually replaced the Patricians in terms of dominance, with the vast majority of the already small Patrician families fading into obscurity(the Iulii, for example, could barely afford their own insula).
Interesting concept. One can argue that things started to change once Emperor Vespasian came into power, being the first emperor from the equestrian class ( and man who saved Rome from the bankruptcy and madness of the Julio -Claudian emperors ;) . But if i remember correctly, didn't the patricians still manage to own 90% of land and wealth before the official end of the Western Empire ?
Its 2022 lets lose the ancient roman thinking in politics.bc as you see its not working.have ya seen the news lately.
"Its current year guys!" *cringe*.
What would your solution be? @@bkh5746
The real title should be how the roman government worked, didn't work, changed, worked, didn't work, changed, Etc.
That may be true but name me a civilization that lasted for 1000 years? Like all human endeavores, two steps forward, three steps back etc. Yet they endured. With all the conquering, slavery and gladiatorial brutality, (and I make those remarks based on modern standards), they endured and created essentially what is westetn civilization. They are the world's longest lived and arguably greatest civilization. 1000 years!!!!!!! BTW, you can only judge a society or civilization based on what we're the standards or accepted norms at the timeline they lived in, not by modern standards.
@@ChuckHackney
The Holy Roman Empire, Byzantium (which I would say is the continuation of Rome, which means that Rome lasted for 2000 years). If we start including non empires then Venice lasted 1100 years
@batjargaltemujin7179 that makes it even more impressive...
Descendants of hellenism whether they even built any of these insane structures in italy... that bright white building with double towers we weren't allowed to even see
Phenomenal video. This helped me a lot with school. thank you!
Congratulations on 100k subscribers!
Really like the video. Thanks for explaining the Roman Empire
If you can I'd love to see on Aztec government explain. The new world cultures often get so ignored.
Or Maya, if you ever visit Quintana Roo there’s old administrative ruins in the middle of the forest near Tulum.
or Inca
2:16 Sulla actually expanded number of senators from about 300 before civil war to as many as 600. (Not 900)
"How the Roman government worked."
Seriously though, it's amazing it did XD
Should be How the Roman government "worked"
Explaining Rome is the perfect way to celebrate reaching 100K. Congrats
Congrats on 100k Khanubis! 🎉🎉🎉
Great video, detailed and comprehensive.
Absolutely amazing !!
I am surprized that the ending wasnt a segway to Curiosity Stream
Great job on 100k!
thanks for making this video, I always wanted to know this ..... please make a video on how the Mauryan empire's government worked
Me too. I wanted to know all three.
The Three great empires :- Roma, Maurya and Hana ( Rome,Maurya & Han I change it up so it sounded cool)
@@ThePro-qn6wr ah a man of culture I see
I've never heard of maurya until now
ThePro 69420 we have scant to no written record of how government worked in Mauryan India. Arthashashtra by kautilya and religious scriptures are the only sources from that era. From those sources we can only say that it was a refined kingship and nothing more. It was not as innovative, influential or intricate as government of Roman republic.
@@user-mi9cy6ed8c Not true. There are hundreds of academic writings on the Mauryan Empire and its government. The Mauryan emerged more than 300 years before the Roman Empire yet its still known for its sophisticated centralized administration. The Mauryan style of administration, which itself draws much inspiration and influence from the previous Nanda and Persian Empires, was very influential in ancient India up until the Gupta Empire in the 3rd century CE. The Shungas, the Satvahanas, the Mahameghavanshis and the Kushans heavily drew from the Mauryan administration style. Rome was great but it's highly overrated, sophisticated and intricate governments existed in India, Persia and China long before Rome became an Empire.
hey khabis this is good it helping me in school
The Roman Empire at its maximum height was larger than is shown in the map, it covered a bigger area of the Middle East and had a few more territories in Northern Europe
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It really bothers me that the borders aren't drawn properly. There are so many small enclaves on the map which didn't exist in reality. That's a bit nitpicky but whatever that's what I live for.
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@@KhAnubisain’t you mean Khan and Anubis tf
very good video im so thankfull !
Very informative
0:26
That cameo of the elders of the server lol
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Thank you for this
Congrats to a 100k ur channel is great and very educational
Patrician and plebeian status stopped mattering around the Late Republic and Imperial era though, don't forget that. Only thing that mattered at that point was wealth.
The Roman empire was limited by how far it's legions could march.The Mongolian Empire was limited by how far it's cavalry could ride.
0:48 ....he seems to lapse into "Millenial-ese"... It's not his Latin that I'm criticizing, it's his English (or, as the younger crowd says; "itná'izz lâ'indadaimkrüddisaizen, i'tsizZínglish"
Yoo - congrats on subs*100K!
1:32 There were wealthier plebs than the patricians. Division between them was not derived from their wealth. But yes most of the patricians were wealthier than the most of the plebs.
I’d love to see you explain how Juche works
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Thanks for the video, greetings from Oregon (Congrats on 100,000 Your one of my favorite UA-camrs)!
we just watched this in social studies 😭 i had to look up the video lol
3:46 Well being in a position that's absolute and "hereditary" (It wasn't for the most part) doesn't automatically make you a king. The same way elective monarchies aren't republics.
Can you talk about the Imperial Indian Styles of Governance like those of the Mauryan, Gupta, Chola, Vijayanagara, Mughal empires? They were very different to how things worked in places like Rome, Europe, China or Persia. They were less centralised than the Chinese and Persian styles but more efficient, centralised and powerful than the Medieval European style, a good balance between centralisation and localization with a single emperor with his provincial governors but multiple principalities too.
This would be interesting.
India has more than half of the world wealth !!!
That's why they were searching for India (Through sea) and also found USA which has majority of world wealth today
Also gg on 100K
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GREAT video
I thought we only had thousands of senators in Star wars
3:58 "You dropped this, Rex."
Italy was neither a Senatorial or Imperial Province. It was the metropole.
It was a mess of alliances between italic speaking states to improve the quality of the elite of the cities formed because of fear of invasion from Carthage
So call it whatever you like
NO one wants to govern Italy oddly if ur an proconsul
@@nicmagtaan1132 Because Italy was under the direct rule of the Senate.
@6:51 Why didn't the Roman Empire have the Internet?
Their power generators didn't have the output to power both the internet and television, and Romans were notoriously fond of watching Jeopardy.
Hey bud! Congratss for 100k subs!
First time watching you and I already subscribed.
I really like the idea of going into different forms of governments and seeing how they work too
Sounds like reverse Star wars :D
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Speaking of which, will you restore the Senate, dear leader?
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I do not approve of this type of government
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1:10 more like: "...many 'modern western' historian call it Byzantine Empire...."
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By the late Republic and the Empire the plebian/patrician distinction was not as important anymore, and wealthy/famous plebs could become senators (Cato and his family were plebian, for example)
I'm perfectly aware there are many schools of Latin pronunciation, but literally nowhere in Europe would one be taught that every C is read as K. This "Greek" approach is simply misguided. The pronunciation of C always depends on the vowels following it. If C was always a K, all the Romance languages would sound entirely different today.
Depending on what letters?
That is because this is classical Latin. Romance languages evolved from Vulgar latin. The Latin thought in schools is Ecclesiastical latin.
The pronunciation of C in modern Romance languages is because of later sound changes, how a modern language sounds it not necessarily indicative of how ancient people would have pronounced it. Nowadays most linguists and classicists think C was always a K in Classical Latin. Anecdotally, referring to your second point, I was taught classical pronunciation (always k) in high school in Sweden
Roma writers actually specifically state that C and K were pronounced the same way because they wondered what the point was of having both letters if they sound identical.
Wow how does this not have more likes
Good video, but it does contain a significant factual error concerning Patricians and Plebeians. You state that the Patricians were the rich in Roman society and the Plebeians were everyone else. That was simply not true. The Patricians were the aristocrats of Roman society, but that did not mean Plebeians could not achieve glory or wealth. In fact, many of the wealthiest and most prominent Romans in the late Republic were Plebeian. These included: (1) Marius, who was elected Counsel a record 7 times; (2) Magnus Pompey, member of the 1st Triumvirate and one of Rome's greatest Generals; (3) Crassus, another member of the 1st Triumvirate and Richest man in Rome; (4) Cato, the leader of the Conservative faction; and (5) Cicero, famous statesman. As for the Patricians, by the time of the late Republic many of them shared the fate that a lot of British aristocrats found themselves in during the Victorian era. They had a noble name, but were in debt and trying to arrange marriages with wealthy commoners.
how do people know things? I'm just an insignificant turd pile of a 6th grader
@@kellanf5001 Because I read. : )
i dont get. are the consuls elected by the citizenry or the centuriate assembly? he said both
@@crimcrammoo It is both. While they may seem mutually exclusive, one must remember that (at least before Marius) ALL Roman citizens were military. And while centuriate assembly started out as a real military assembly (because originally citizens were assigned to military units based on wealth, as they paid for their own equipment), later the connection was lost and only the wealth requirements (mostly) remained. Furthermore, not only was every citizen a member of the centuriate assembly, but also of tribal assembly (but this time divided not by weatlh, but by residence (sort of)) and either plebeian assembly (plebs) or curiate assembly (patricians). For more info I highly recommend Historia Civilis' early videos on Roman government.
The tribune of the plebs have insane amount of power idk to do with that info but yeah
Can you do more of these history videos?
I've already got my Bachelor degree in history, and ths gonna help me alot for my Master degree,thanks
One minor correction. There were poor Patricians and rich Plebeians.
I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that the video had 476 likes...
Epic Consul momento
Impressive, very nice
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And just before the internal election of our senate. How fitting
Who's here after watchig Gladiator 2, then saying that was mid, and then rewatching Gladiator 1 to remember the dream that was Rome?
the patricians and the senatorial class are not exactly the same thing. senator was required to make a minimum income from land ( business didn't count, as it was frowned upon, but a lot of 'em did it anyway) the patricians descended from the oldest families in rome and you just couldn't buy your way in, except by finding a patrician impoverished enough to marry a part if his family to yours, and then the offspring may be patrician, but snickered at by their peers for generations. there were certain offices only plebs could hold, like tribune
*Squints at the tiny asterix in the corner* oh okay so he does know there were wealthy independent women in Rome just not many of them so he decided to put it into writing in the corner of his video so as not to disrupt his narrative flow because adding in another hint of truth is too hard for him. Or it would make the video 8 seconds longer?
1:37 There were actually 4 classes of Romans
Patricians were the top super rich ones
Equites were rich and were descendants of famous ancient cavalry men but still lower then Patricians
Plebians, everyone else
And... slaves
Not quite. Patricians were the most "noble", tracing their lineage back to Roman Kingdom, but not necessarily the richest. In fact, later on, many patricians became destitute and often willingy let themselves be adopted or married to wealthy plebeian families. These were the equites who were in fact plebeians (but also were considered aristocracy, nobiles, together with all patricians). Many of the most influential men in Roman history belonged here. In fact, the senatorial class (which included quite soon both patricians and plebeians) can be considered the most prestigious and wealthy, but in case of plebein senators, they were (usually) also equites.
Lastly slaves were NOT considered Romans, and, understandably, could not vote. The poorest of the plebeians that constituted the lowest class of actual citizens were called the proletarii.
@@michalpieter3926 Oh ok thanks,
I never knew that
I am working about the roman empire in school and i learned morr of this video
me watching this 10 minutes before the test
So basically the Roman government had five assemblies and 600 people, two people were in charge but if war happened then there will another one. The in charge had power who can be emperor it's backwards in English. Sponcer . The Roman empire wasn't one it's 2 sides and a dozen more afterwards and military broke it down
Dictators weren't summoned anywhere near as much as he suggests in the video...
I have always thought that the best governmental system ever achieved was the Roman Republic
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It was full of corruption
@@TheChosen2030 just like every system that isn't a full democracy that is being funded by modern capitalism. Corruption isn't just a pesky crime but a way of governing with buying and selling royalties and only way to get rid of it is to make an easier way to gain loyalty than simply buying it
@@TheChosen2030 gdp grey's video "Rules for Rulers" explains it pretty good
@@fallendown8828 Full democracies funded by capitalism are also rife with corruption
I love learning about ancient civilizations and their administration, from the Maya to the Qin, and everyone else
Are we watching a Star Wars documentary 😂
are those star trek fonts?
The Mongolian empire was 90 % empty so a bunch of empty land is kind of easy to rule whereas Rome was full of cities and vassal states all packed into the Mediterranean region and beyond even. Rome was indeed vast when you look at it from that point of view
*Likes before watching the video*
This doesn't really go into any detail on the government at all, just a rough overview of the Roman Empire and some various titles. Could get any of this information from skimming the summary section and first few paragraphs of the Roman Empire wikipedia article.
That’s yt
Barely scratches the surface
Hell yeah now we got business
Hey, if you're going to count millions of square miles of uninhabited steppe, mare nostrum should count.
This dosent explain anything, i will
Monarchy:
Concilio centuriati -> is the assemly of all patrician, it hold interregnum power after romolus death, they confer the power to a new rex which is absolute autority both political amd religious. This is typical of the tribal society.
When the rex die the power of (inter)-regnum return to the assembly for a new declaration. The only power of the assembly is elect and select a new rex
Republic:
It's now the senate that elect consuls which are basically 2 rex, a lot of executive functions tought get split onto inferior magistrate. Such censor etc (not praetor which are direct helpers of consul, also at beginning the two consul were called praetor).
Again the consul ARE NOT forced to follow the senate direction tought the senate gave a political direction it was due political equilibrium that senate and consul worked yet consul could litteraly do wtf they want.
In 286 b.c the lex hortensia made mandatori for any senatuscinsultum ( the lew of senate) to not be veto by plebs in their assembly ''concilio della plebe''. It also merge a popular assemly into the abive exept the centuriata which remained also dueing principate and dominatus phase.
This is how the repubblic worked which the exeption of silla period.
Dictator could only be nominate by consuls and appointed be the senate.
Most legislative production during late republic was onto praetors which ARE NOT judges, they were magistrate which have the power to create legislation before the private judge make a decision if there a flaw or now law to cover the questions.
Principate:
As above with the difference that the princeps was above consuls. And its power was perpetual. Also the territory is split into inperator provence and senatorial provence. After 2 century it became apparent that it is require a concentration of power to make stuff run due all the crap happening around.
Dominatus:
It should probable start with adrians the imperator is absolute and the praetors and other lawman became palace burocrats. Senatus is now officialy only consultive.
Did Roman consuls have any power during the Empire/Dominate?
Obviously, many Caesars were consul along with their friends and family members, but what power did the consuls have regardless?
Who WAS the final authority on the passing of new laws?
It depends on who is in charge,
In earlier times it's mostly the people,
On the latter times the Senate itself
Or you know just the consul/dictator
@@nicmagtaan1132 Technically the Senate didn't pass laws, it advised magistrates who passed the laws. In practices the magistrates mostly did what the Senate said, but technically it was up to them.
would you do a video on the Osci proto-italic oscan language
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The Latino raised in Germany.
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Good job on 100k subs
The roman govt has influenced today govt of Europe usa
I actually thing this system has merit. Clearly, the rich and the working class have different interests. It's ridiculous to represent us under one unified system. Having senators and tribunes representing different classes sounds pretty good.
finally an american that can pronouce the name 'Caesar' Kizer correctly
thx
Through immaculate grammar.
The Roman kingdom hated kings, it's very similar to France during the French revolution.