Roman Sardinia: Island of Silver Veins
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Today we take a brief look at the geography, peoples and history of this underappreciated Roman colony. This is a remake of a video I did on my previous channel with new maps and voiceover.
I must say, excellent work and research, I really enjoyed this content.
On addition, it's right that the Romans only founded two colonies, Turris Libisonis and Usellis (not Forum Traianii), both under Ceasar, while the near Island of Corsica was instead severely colonized in multiple waves (by Ceasar, Silla and Marius veterans).
Interesting note about the Vandal period, the latter only took control of the coasts and again failed to submit the interior, the local vandalic chief on the island, a certain Goda, even tried to secede from the main vandalic empire to create his own sardinian-vandalic kingdom. However, such rebellion would be crushed by the Vandals from Africa and short after it would open the road to byzantines, which again had some prolongued troubles with the interior of Sardinia. The last King of the Ilienses, Hospiton, is known to have converted to Christianity and to have put an end to the war, around 600 AC.
Thank you for the correction and extra detail, pinning this so everyone sees.
Hi acult
I love how you focus on the the fringes of Antiquity. Your work reminds me of Epimetheus and Ancient Americas. Hope you will get as big as them some day
I’m glad you liked it, I was definitely inspired by AA’s style.
I live in Italy now but i'm originary from Romania, and i would love an episode about Dacia! Such great stories to be told. I love the lesser know facts about Burebista a lot! I remember learning them in school as a kid and i was so marveled about how big the reagion controlled by Buresbista got! Here in Italy thou, nobody really knows about it. Not even about Decebal and the wars against Trajan for the most part, thou they are more famous
Next episode will touch on Dacia, particularly repeated raids by the Carpi during the Crisis of the 3rd Century and its eventual abandonment by Aurelian. I have to say, it is one of the more interesting provinces so I might make a standalone episode on it one day. Thank you for the comment btw.
Che ci facevi qui Mr. Fartade?
Sardinia has some of the earliest evidence of significant civilization. So cool. Speaks to Rome's influence 10x over being able to conquer and hold the land for as long as they did. The people here would have seen the birth of civilization and would've fended off invading power after invading power for thousands of years, but broke under the foot of Roman power. Incredible
The algorithm recommends another gem! Thank you!
I can't think of any other channel that does produce such detailed videos about specific regions. I love it. I'm looking forward to more.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, working on the next episode now.
Great job. Students enjoy the professional and collected manor with which you present.
I love obscure historical facts about places people tend to forget about. Thank you for this content.
I was upset to find only 2 videos so far. Just found you today. Can’t wait for the future of this channel!
Great videos (saw the Garamantes one too). I hope you do one on the Caledonians/Picts, Ghassanids, and various states/cultures along the Black Sea in antiquity.
Liked and subscribed!
Amazing work. I love how this channel covers niche historical topics. Looking forward to future videos!
Thank you, I'm glad you liked this more obscure provincial video. I've got my next one scheduled for 12/17, busy season is in fully swing at work but I'll try to hold to that date.
This channel is awesome. I'm witnessing birth of a legendary channel.
Great vid! How about a video on the bosporan kingdom/crimea? That would be a very interesting topic.
I'm glad you like it. So I actually had a video on the Euxine Sea area in my mental backlog, I'll need to do some more research though. I'm thinking the next one will be about the Third Century crisis since I already have the basemap made.
@@AncientWorldMaps Im excited, Sounds good!
@Ancient World Maps you should clear the air on the maps of that area. No one has gone through and done comprehensive map/analysis on Colchis, Crimea, and the Ukrainian coast as a whole. Raoul McLaughlin has some really good videos on the topic
I’ll have to do some extra research because I’m not too familiar with the area but might try that sometime next month. Work is going to be killer until January so if I get another episode out this month it’ll have to be something I’m already familiar with. It’s definitely in my to-do list now.
Nice summary about Cristus, but I miss the cultivated pre-Bronze Age of Sardinia from 3000 BC, The step pyramid as an example. There, all archaeological excavations have not yet been fully mapped and Rome was still grassland in those periods.
Banger again
And again thanks for always being my first commenter.
Cheering you on brother. Shared you to a bunch of my buddies. Awesome awesome channel.
Thanks man, I really appreciate you sharing. Hoping I won't let ya'll down!
The Barbari, Balari, whatever you want to call them are still known as thieves and fugitives today, as portrayed in the 1961 movie "Bandits of Orgosolo".
This part of Sardinia (the region around Nuoro) is indeed very different from the rest of Sardinia, and its inhabitants don't take kindly to strangers.
But the most remarkable fact about the Nuoro region is their dialect, Logudorese, which is closer to Latin than any other dialect.
The region was hardly influenced by foreigners after the Romans left. This preserved the language.
Did I just stumble across another hidden gem history channel?
This channel is a hidden gem! What are your plans for the future?
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm planning one episode out every month, at least at first and slowly moving out of my Roman comfort zone. I'm more of a GIS guy than a history buff (hence the channel name) but I've had an interest in the Mediterranean world for the past few years. Next episode is going to be on the geographic dimensions of the Third Century Crisis, showing the breakaway empires, barbarian invasions and giving a little historical commentary.
@@AncientWorldMaps Very cool. I'm very interested on centrifugal forces operating in Gaul, specially after reading Wickham on how northern Gaul, Aquitaine and Britain formed an economic system separate from the Mediterranean.
@@SolarpunkEnjoyer I didn't know it until I read your comment but yeah me too!
I was just reading about Sardinia and Corsica, & their several Italic (non-Romance) languages still spoken today!
very thorough and good pace of delivery. I found the part about other fugitives feom Iberia and Lybia and ex slaves taking to the mtns very interesting. Mtn people worldwide cannot be tamed!!!
For once, I can thank UA-cam for recommending a new yet interesting channel.
Appreciated your work as it was deteailed but at the same time not too heavy history-wise (something history channels really struggle to deal with).
Excellent, straight narration, no waste of time. As I find most Americans a bit sluggish in their enunciation, I put it to 1.25 playback speed.
Great video! Please keep making videos.
This is unrelated to the video production, which is great and I encourage you to make more, but you have a perfect narrating voice for these types of videos. Very easy on the ears with no unnecessary fake enthusiasm.
I’m glad you liked the voice-over, sounding annoying was one of my concerns when I started recording these.
As a history guy who is just getting into GIS, it’s a joy to find a GIS guy making videos about history!! Subbed and hoping this channel grows - I’ve really been trying to find resources about historical geography, and this video fits the bill perfectly! Great video man
I’ll say this, it’s much easier to do the GIS (especially once you have your basic shapefiles) than the history. So if you learn your way around Arc/QGIS you could be a powerhouse.
These are fantastic
This content is prime. I'm surprised to see only two videos, I must have gotten really lucky to find this channel.
Great video! 👍
Love the map style & your commentary. Subscribed and excited to see more of your work
your work is excellent
Great video, keep up the good work!
Loving your videos!! Highly informative, snappy, and great visuals!!
Very Interesting and Thank You.
The rebellious character is still alive today and was never lost. Some of the locals still live by archaic rules and honor murders and killings of other people pets is not rare. The Sardinians see themselves as a separate people to the modern Italians having been treated with racism for over 2000 years. There is a cult film 🎥 called Padre Padrone from 1977 which is a window into how that the, at times mistreated, modern Sard fared. 'dem hills are still there and are rough. It is not an old myth. Unconquered to this day.
Around 1980 bandits used to kidnap the weatlhy from the Costa Smeralda and hide them in those mountains until the suitcases full of cash arrived.
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what's fake ?@@isidoriansimon6047
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You only have two videos, but I really hope you make more. Map nerds are best nerds. I subbed.
Good stuff, I really like the content focused on lesser known peoples. I'd add some more images though
this channel is just what I was looking for, subbed, can't wait for more content!
are you also going to cover Scandinavia btw?
There will be a lot of tribes featured in the next video, nothing in depth in them yet though.
Really enjoyed this - good to see someone filing in the gaps of the ancient world. Liked and Subscribed - hope your channel blows up mate. 👍
Thank you so much for having covered Sardinia! Fit unu video bonu! ( it was a excellent video )
I’m just pleased that locals seem to like it.
@@AncientWorldMaps it's always good for us when some senpai notices us xD
Such an underrated channel! Please keep uploading!
Holidays and the busy season are making it a struggle but I’m working on the next one. Thank you for the well-wishes.
Incredibly happy to see such an amazing new channel; if you want any help getting the channel set up, stuff like website, merch, etc. I have some experience with that side of things. I'd love to help for free, love your stuff, keep up the great work you'll hit 100k sooner than you think.
Thank you, I plan on keeping things simple for now, at least until I can get videos out consistently. Very glad that people seem to enjoy it and I’ll try not to let you down.
I will add to the chorus and say that these two videos have been excellent and I hope for more from this creator.
Just found you. Love it already. Keep up the good work ☺️
I really love this video. I’ll be sure to check the others out. Great job!!
Very good content, I appreciate the focus on more obscure yet still important and interesting subjects, I will follow your career with great Interest, I hope to see you among the best history channels!
Good lookin maps and excellent narration, good job man
I think this channel is going to be massive!
Good video, and congrats on reaching 1k subs.
Great videos, they seem very well researched. I love learning about the smaller populations in antiquity. Amazing to imagine what their lives must’ve been like.
please cover more backwaters of the ancient world in more videos i didn't even know i wanted to know about ancient sardinia! a suggestion at 2:38 i have is to show actual pictures of the geography of the land so as to make it easier to understand just how rugged that coastline is
My initial idea was to keep it immersive by almost entirely using maps with the same color themes but I might add a couple more pictures in next video that covers a lot of geographical features.
Good video
This and the Garamantes video have been really good! You've already got a good subscriber base now of 3.3k, and you make nice content already, but I think one thing that would help with boosting your channel is formatting your channel's home page in the Creator Studio. It's the first thing that people see when they click on your channel, and currently all it says is "This channel doesn't have any content", even though it does if you click the videos tab. Just a little suggestion. Keep up the good work, though!
Oh…I didn’t even know that. Thank you for the tip. Working on the next episode now after work, when I get some time I’ll mess around with that.
Informative video to pass the time with.
You got yourself a new subscriber :)
Looks like you got a nice channel developing here!
Love the map theme.
Nothing more infuriating that ancient history videos where they don't properly show or explore the maps or geography of whatever they're talking about, which happens far too often. Geography often gives insights that are just not possible by reading the history of some place. Especially love going into the details - where the valleys were, the highlands, the important cities, mines and so on.
I have a masters in geology, and this video, with its focus on mines and metals and topography, along with your other video about groundwater tables, aquifers, and irrigation have really been a million times more interesting to me than the usual types of history videos that seem to be afraid of the details. You know usually they'll mention some saharan kingdom, and all i can think of is "how did they get water? How deep is the groundwater table? How were the trenches dug? Where EXACTLY did they live? And so on. I'll completely zone out of the video and open google maps myself to try and figure it out because of how vague and stingy it is with the details.
Just small things like when you mentioned that the saharan kingdom traded precious metals or gems with the romans, you showed the mountains from which they got them. So so so many people just throw that fact out there, bringing up a million questions about where and how they got those resources, and maybe it's just because it's my area of somewhat expertise, but it drives me fucking insane.
Once you've explored how a civilization lived, why they lived where they did, and their place in the natural world, and all those things, the history becomes so much more easy to put in context. Especially in places constrained by their geography to this extent, like the saharan kingdom, or Sardinia with its impassable highlands. It's like a little slice of Guns Germs and Steel in video form about a particular area. with a map focus, it's super good. I promise you this channel is going to blow up very fast, i am 100% certain about that.
So keep up the good work dude!
I’m glad you liked all the smaller details, digitizing those physical features definitely takes extra time but I enjoy doing them. Next video will be more related to politics and warfare but I will have every move mapped out.
Great video, thanks!
Looking forward to other places you'll focus on!
Interesting concept you would never run out of material.
For example carthage could be broken down into phonecian, roman, byzantine, and Arab conquest of. That's 4 episodes maybe 5 if you want to do panic wars.
Yeah, there are so many possibilities. I kind of just go with whatever strikes me and has decent source material.
Good job!
Great work! What program do you use to create these maps?
Thank you! I use all open source software, 95% of it just done in QGIS. I do use Inkscape sometimes to make the little arrows that show movement.
@@AncientWorldMaps Thank you! been looking for something exactly like this, really appreciate the help!
Great videos mate! New sub 🤙🏼
Great vid!
Knowledge gained thanks homie
4:28 Did I hear that right Titus Manliness
Almost: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Manlius_Torquatus_(consul_235_BC). He came from a line of real hardasses.
Wonderful shit right here. Keep it up.
love it !
I'm sardinian
I've got to ask: what software do you use to make these gorgeous maps?
Thank you! I actually use completely open source software. 99% of the work is done in a program called QGIS. Sometimes I touch up a little in GIMP or Inkskape.
@@AncientWorldMaps thanks man
about "Balari" corsi word for fugitevse. Does sound very simular to Balearic Island name?! p.s great chanel,subscribed!
Good catch, I didn’t even notice that.
Could I contact you on how these videos are made? I would love to learn how these videos are made so I can improve my own video producing skills. Also I really would suggest making a video on Roman Armenia or Roman Crimea, both are interesting areas of empire that are often neglected
Best,
GH
My method is pretty simple. With some exceptions I use QGIS to construct the maps, export as .png to 4k resolution in the order that they appear. I do the voiceover in audacity, export to .wav, import that into an open source video editing software (Shotcut), make a video track on top of the audio and then place the .png maps into onto the video track, changing as I move along the script. I think I remembered that right. Armenia will briefly feature in the next show when we talk about Shapur’s assaults on the Roman east. That is an area of interest for future videos though.
Don't mess with the Sherden...
Pro Tip: If you already provide sources, you might as well tell us where exactly you get the passage from.
and also, what happened to the natives in Barbaria in the late antiquity/after the fall of the western roman empire?
Good question, I pinned a comment that delved into this.
Where do you get such high quality maps?
Good question. I arrange these maps in QGIS (free mapping software) using shapefiles/rasters from places like the Ancient World Mapping Center or the Pleiades project, they have datasets for ancient cities, coastline, roads, bridges, etc. Most of the political shading (i.e. Roman/Carthaginian/Vandal control) I digitize myself.
@@AncientWorldMaps That's super cool! Can't wait to see what other topics you cover in the future!
more pls
Ask and you shall receive, next video is scheduled for January though.
You never said anything about the Greek cities on the island with the Greek names and the trade posts on the harbours Neapolis and Tharros are greek names
Metalla clearly comes from metallia (metal land), and Augustae clearly comes from Augustus.
I didn't know anyone but Egypt before youtube,or know it was African.
Do Carthage,I only know 3/4 African people.
There will be more Carthaginian content in time.
I'm sarde, thank you for the video. I born in metalla, IGLESIAS.
I’m glad to have a local’s blessing.
Nice videos
insalubrious? dude i had to look that up, use more common language, complex words alienate. just a thought, this isn't academia, no offence meant. Great video though, loved it. subbed.
Point taken, the goal should be to provide clarity. I do fall into the trap of purple prose sometimes. Thanks for the constructive criticism.