Forgotten Wars - The Roman Invasion of Arabia (26 BC) DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2021
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In this history documentary we explore one of the lesser known chapters of Roman history during the reign of Emperor Augustus. The event in question was the forgotten war of the Roman invasion of Arabia. This was brought about after Augustus had consolidated his rule and was looking for new ways to win gold and glory for the people. The campaigns into Germania had become tiresome slogs with little material benefit. As such he turned to the newly minted province of Egypt and its lucrative eastern trade routes. Emperor Augustus ordered the prefect, Aelius Gallus to venture forth into the lands of ancient Arabia. The documentary follows the Roman Army as it prepares for the military campaign and eventually invades.
Stay tuned for more episodes on Rome's Forgotten Wars like our previous episode on the Great Illyrian Revolt. What other unknown wars should we cover next?
Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
"The Geography of Strabo - Book XVI, Chapter 4" by Strabo
"Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam" by Robert G. Hoyland
Credits:
Research - Chris Das Neves
Writing - Chris Das Neves
Narration - Invicta
Artwork - Gabriel Cassata
Editing - Invicta
#Rome
#Military
#History
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What other forgotten wars do you think we should cover?
WW2
ghazis
ww1
I think the Diadochi Wars are generally forgotten, especially relative to how important they were in shaping the world following Alexander’s death
Expeditions to find the source of river Nile would be super cool. Oh master Invicta
If the guide really did wear the invaders down by directing them on poor routes, then he single-handedly beat an invading army. That's clever as hell
Well, until he lost his head, obviously. That's always a bummer.
@@Asgard2208 Sacrificing one single life to repel an entire army is the most profitable sacrifice ever!!
If the story is true then by all means this man is a legendary hero who used his brain as his only weapon to trick a Roman army!!
@@deeipomar2366 Umm, it was a joke.... Lighten up.
@@Asgard2208 Lighten up? The guy's ecstatic
He... didn’t beat them though?
So Gallus decided to take a sea route when an easy land route was available to friendly Leucerome - and then decided to march his army through Arabia Deserta rather than land in Arabia Felix and start from there? Surely this guy's strategic genius is unparalleled.
Yup. He clearly did it backwards.
Should have marched by land to Leucorome (ideally, taking the city and setting it up as a staging ground) and then slowly gathered a large fleet there (buying up local merchant vessels to act as transport and logistics ships, mainly) to sail straight to Arabia Felix...
Hindsight is 2020.
The land was unknown to romans and landing in a port as an invading army with resistance isn't easy either, granted they would have even found a port before their entire fleet wrecked in the unknown waters. They didn't have the maps we're looking at today.
Plus dealing with all the logistical issues at the start while having augustus breath down his neck, Gallus was propably just glad he found a guy who supposedly knew the region somewhat and just went with it.
@@Killerbee_McTitties The entire idea of a campaign there with such little preparation was ridiculous. It would have required years of building up bases along the western coast of the red sea, and extensive scouting operations for them to have a chance. Their fleet barely even set out of port, and they already had to deal with scurvy. Their logistics were a mess. And marching through an unmapped desert with the help of a local guide? A really ingenious idea.
@@MegaBlueShit you make do with what you have. the romans were neither explorers nor seafarers, they were conquerors and they approached this like a campaign.
they had never seen such a desert before and weren't expecting what they found, arabia is vastly different from gaul, spain or syria after all.
you're looking at this 2000 years later with a wealth of knowledge availbable to you at the push of a button unparalelled in history. get off your high horse.
@@Killerbee_McTitties More like Augustus was utterly clueless when it came to warfare, never cared about it and had a foolish idea. Something he had a lot of in his younger years. The guy leading this campaign was thus put in an impossible position and was forced to act with haste. Normally, gathering more information about the area one intends to invade would be the obvious thing to do for anyone semi-competent.
Forgotten Videos: Your Part 3 to Julius Caesar lives
Yeeeeeeesss
Yes I miss it
I've got our Roman researcher helping chip away at that
@@InvictaHistory Minerva blesses you
@@InvictaHistory What about "that" series? You know...Evolution of the Roman Legion. 5 years and counting for a part 2, longer than the wait for the entire Siege of Jerusalem series from start to the final super video of all four parts.
That Nabataean guide deserved a medal. He single-handedly slowed the romans to1/3 speed, cripled them and killed the auxiliaries lol
sounds more like a scapegoat for an incompetend governor
They should’ve sewed him in a bag with a monkey, dog, snake, and chicken and thrown him into the sea!
They probably quartered him after cutting out his tongue. Not being brutal just truthful. After they probably decimated his home village as well as done the same to his family.
@@recentrogue What if his family had less than 10 members? Would they kill part of a person in decimation?
@@hebl47 your attempt at criticizing my words and grammar on a youtube comment has as much validity as a blind person judging a wet tshirt contest.
The world: ahh this land is just filled with sand and this sticky black, useless liquid
2000 years later
The world: mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
Careful, if you have too much oil the us might invade...
@@freed.man.1 I fear putting extra in my pasta due to the us believe me 😁
They didnt even know that place had oil centuries ago
@@yonathanrakau1783 you don't say
@@freed.man.1 Oh, come on. America never does anything immoral ;) shhhh
This campaign is hard to find information about. I’m impressed.
It is not hard.There are only few sources for it.
@@paprskomet that's why it's hard
@@comradekenobi6908 Why is that hard if you can easily find those same informations they used in this video?
@@paprskomet because most (most people, not the more passionate ones) people don't really know how to get good sources
To access those they have to do a lengthy research scouring the web or going to historical archives
Both of the things above I don't have faith in most people have the time for, either aren't familiar with scouring archives it or just plain lazy
But more passionate ones will enthusiastically do both things above, and most historical channels are the more passionate people
@@comradekenobi6908 You are correct Master Kenobi.But they could simply follow names of authors mentioned in this video.These days most ancient works exist in several english translations for free and online so they dont even need to buy some book.
The desert protected the land of the Arabs, just like snow protected the Russians from the invaders
Or just like how the snow protected the Finnish from Soviet invasion
Arab sources say that the Roman campaign led by Aelius Gallus to Arabia in 26 BC was disastrous, as most of the soldiers of the campaign (11,500 men including 500 jews ) perished by drowing, severe heat, diseases and malnutrition, and also thanks to the intelligence of Saleh (Syllaeus in Roman), an Arab minister sent by the Nabataean king Obodas III, who served as a guide to The Roman army ..Saleh misguided the Romans & was able to exhaust them by taking long and difficult roads, and the campaign took 180 days to reach Yemen which supposed to take 60 days
The Romans reached yemen very exhausted and was unable to fight & capture ma'reb the capitale city which forced them to retreat after a fierce resisting from the local population
By the way I’m Arabic and that video is totally wrong by 70% there are wars happened and plans that never mentioned and how the romans got defeated by the Arabs, They didn’t like to say we got defeated so they made that story but the real story was very different to that, As an Arabian I would like to clarify this.
@@ranro7371 i would not take arab sources as authentic 😅
Snow didn't protect Russia
It was invaded by :
1. Vikings ( 9th century)
2. mongols ( 1241)
3. Polish ( 1618)
4. Swedes (1708)
5. Ottoman tatars ( 1571, 1593)
6. France (1812)
7. Germany( 1915, 1941)
600 years later...
Arabia: hello Roman empire do you remember me?
Arabia:Remember how you tried to take advantage of my disunity well I am gonna do that now.
Roman empire: ...
Hahahah
Arab sack of Rome
This day is mine
Tomorrow is yours
That wasn't the Romans the Arabs fought but the Greeks, nice try on self aggrandizement though.
@@gerardjagroo
Greece Rome are same people I don’t care what you say
@@gerardjagroo you all are Frinja and Khwaja to the Arabs.
In the north, the desert is part of the An-Nufud desert, which also branches off to the eastern side of the Nejd. Also, there is the Al-Dahna Desert, which contains some quicksand and is very dangerous for those who are ignorant of its features. Each desert has a distinctive vegetation cover and flora (wild plants), and the Empty Quarter is found in The southern and southeastern part, and there are some Bedouins who live there to this day, and the difficulty of living there lies in the fact that the distinctive features change. The sand dunes change almost every month, but the winds and the area have very clean air, throwing three air currents. This wind makes a distinctive and terrifying sound for those who The area is not well known, as the wind and sand make this sound, and there are some oases as well. Also, some herds of the Arabian Oryx live. They are not completely empty as some think. There are mountains in the western part and plateaus in the middle, the plains in the east , There is a distinct geographical diversity in the Arabian Peninsula.
A good explanation, as if you are one of the people of this desert 👍🏻
One correction: the empty quarter is not the area encompassed by all of “Arabia deserta,” but the name Arabs give to the south-eastern portion of that desert (West of Oman) for its lack of oases. The rest of Arabia deserta is traversable and has multiple settlements.
Actually the Arabs never called it the empty quarter. It was called Al Ramlah الرملة، or Ramlat Jibreen رملة جبرين or Alahkaf الأحقاف
Actually these area is the land of ishmaelites and there they raised and lived its called Najd and Hejaz
Arab sources say that the Roman campaign led by Aelius Gallus to Arabia in 26 BC was disastrous, as most of the soldiers of the campaign (11,500 men including 500 jews ) perished by drowing, severe heat, diseases and malnutrition, and also thanks to the intelligence of Saleh (Syllaeus in Roman), an Arab minister sent by the Nabataean king Obodas III, who served as a guide to The Roman army ..Saleh misguided the Romans & was able to exhaust them by taking long and difficult roads, and the campaign took 180 days to reach Yemen which supposed to take 60 days
The Romans reached yemen very exhausted and was unable to fight & capture ma'reb the capitale city which forced them to retreat after a fierce resisting from the local population
@@nashmi-8609 that’s the other side the tribal arabs didn’t live in the empty quarter no one did that’s why Oman never experienced a land invasion for nearly all of history except the wahabbi raids
@jin gu
Real arabs are known whom they are. And arabized people are known. You know very well that Ishmaelites exsist and they spread around middle east and north africa?
Another useful reminder of how terrain, climate and logistics have won/lost just as many wars as blade and gunpowder. A very well made video!
The land itself can be more deathly then any enemy army. Many generals forgot this over the centuries.
@@molybdaen11
It's also hard to beat Arabians in their land
3:09
The "Empty Quarter", iirc, was used to refer to the area to the north of the Hadramawt region (at the junction of modern Saudi, Yemeni and Omani borders) because not a single drop of water nor a single tribe settled in the region. I don't think the label applied to the rest of Arabia
Edit: The region is called Rub Al Khali in Arabic
Yeah, it has also apparently grown over recent millenia so it was likely even smaller than it was when the invasion occurred. (Not an expert by any stretch.)
@Albert Fels Yep! Called Rub' Al Khali in Arabic.
Hadramaut was in southern yemen the empty quarter is more north of hadramaut
@@enrico7474
Correct, it was called Rub Al Khali, as pointed out by another commenter
@@RexGalilae you should look at the greenery of the Yemeni city called ib. You would never have believed that it was in Arabia
Guess it's time for Alternate History Hub to entertain what the world would be like if Rome held the peninsula
They did set up a colony in Arabia Felix
It is impossible
@@napolien1310 its not. Other nations did set up autonomous colonies far away. Greeks and phoenicians
@@TheSuperhoden it is impossible to control the whole peninsula by a foreign power.
The greeks and the phoenicians colonised parts and built city states and these states governed themselves and weren't under a single rule and small compared to the Arabian peninsula, foreign powers can held some parts like the south region of Yemen because of the sea routes and the prosperity of the lands, or like the Persian hold some parts of the eastern coast, or the Ottomans holding the western coast but not the whole peninsula as it is useless and impossible.
It will be hard for mediterranean power like romans or macedon to assert power at arabia, only ottomans the mediterranean power that rule over arabia, especially on western coast of arabia peninsula like Jordan, Hejaz and Yemen, but ottomans had religious reasons for that, two holy cities of Mecca and Medina located there, and ottomans claim on the caliphate title make it a lot easier to rule there.
To believe the Romans only lost 2 soldiers while the Arabs lost 10,000 is very comical, I dont know if hes just reading biased sources but it sounded like the UA-camr was saying it as a matter of fact.
A "forgotten" war or really wars I'd enjoy to see would be the Selucid wars I never hear those mentioned hardly ever and if so it's always in foot notes
UA-cam search "kings and generals" they did an animated series about it l
Even less early Pheonician wars and colonies
They were fighting the Jews
@@Kyriosin
Wasn’t that around the time of the Maccabees?
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Hey can you do the forgotten campaign of Rome final conquest of northern spain? My family is from the city of Leon which use to be Roman army camp during the time of Augustus. Would love to know about this forgotten war so closely tied to my heritage!
This is a great idea
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@@user-ou5dw7lf9s wat
gran idea bro
Not many people know that north part of peninsula was pacified up until Augustus. Good topic
History always made me feel calm and happy
Who would win?
A big ass army of 10,000 romans
or
1 tour guide boi
My money goes for that tour guide booooi
@@omegasupreme7353 😂😂
@@omegasupreme7353 😂🙂
I begin to question whether he had ever properly graduated the tourism management or ended up falsifying his diploma instead?
😭😭🔥
Next video: Roman conquest of Nabatea during Trajan!
That was pretty borring action that actually went without any significant fighting(none is even reported).Romans simply sized control of that territory by marching their army there(and there already were Roman garrisons on that territory as Nabateans were already vassals of Rome a long time before).If there was any ressistance at all it was apparently not seen worthy to even being mentioned.
@SystemRelevant All personally free inhabitants of the Empire became citizens at early 3rd century which would certainly included also Arabs but only minority of them since most continued to live outside of Roman Empire.Some Arabs could recieved roman citizenship even much sooner but as individual cases or at best small communities.
@SystemRelevant Christianity did not formed in province of Arabia(that is Arabia Petraea) nor was Arabia Petraea ever among the most important provincies.
Philip the Arab was the only Roman Emperor born in province of Arabia Petraea and he was most likely not really 1st Christian Emperor.Claim that he was is only a later christian legend known from less reliable sources and possibly based on his relative tolerance of Christianity which some christians interpreted as he was one of them secretly.Some members of Severan dynasty had partially arabic descent from Julia Domna and Julia Soaemias.Arabia was of course not without any strategic importance against Persia but even in this field there were more important provincies.
@SystemRelevant No historical revisionism is included in my words only scholarly consensus.It is in fact you who attempts for history revisionism clearly motivated by your nationalism.No realiable sources exist on legend of Philip as first Christian Emperor and it does not matter how often later Christian tradition repeated that story.Even for christians themselves 1st Christian emperor is and was considered Constantine the Great so do not hide behind "all christian sourses" as it is not truth that "all" christian sources says so.Do not use word "all" as some magical word or irresistible argument if it is not even truth.Roman curency was in fact coined in several centres across the Empire and existed in two branches as smaller local mints and imperial central mints.Mint of Damascus was just one out of many.Arabia Petraea was also never a food basket of the Empire-such titles were and still are applied mainly for Egypt,rest of north Africa and Sicily.
Video number 7 until subtitles are added.
Your videos are amazing, though it helps to have subtitles for these videos especially since UA-cam removed the Community Captions feature. People who are deaf or hearing-impaired may struggle to hear (in general) and UA-cam's automated captions just does not do. I could even make subtitles during my free time for these videos if you'd like - just please find a way to implement these and make your already wonderful videos better.
@invicta here’s your guy
I agree as I have a deaf ear
Blame UA-cam. With their recent update to censor swearwords in the autogenerated subtitles they clearly don't give a shit about the hearing impaired. That's a change that literally ONLY hurts the hard of hearing.
THANKS UA-cam
ONLY MADE EVERYTHING WORSE
@@dankwarmouse6248
_"b-b-but it'll make creators ""engage"" more with their audience by having to tediously import, align and calibrate captioning themselves! It'll be a win-win, right..? Surely it wont just marginalize those that dont wanna let us use their video viewing data for text-to-speech analysis?"_
The older I get, the more I'm astonished at the monuments of Egypt and Rome
Loving the videos about these less known parts of history :) Keep them coming!! :D
My father always said you learn something new every day with Invicta it's true. Thank you for your time for researching this information and sharing it with us. We are grateful for your painstaking work and research into finding lost history all of us here thank you for your videos.
My Dad (1961- ongoing) always listened to Invicta's videos on his way home from school. Good thing he had NordVPN. Back then you had little to no ads on UA-cam.
This is truly interesting to learn, a roman war that was forgotten by most
Gold. Pure gold. This is the content I've been missing from this channel
Man I've been waiting for this one, thanks Invicta!
Great video! I didn't know about this war. I definitely hope you continue to do more forgotten wars stuff!
Wow! The Roman Empire is so interesting to learn about! Thx!
@Scott Johnson yea it is so cool I think
@Scott Johnson yea, this is why I love learning about history
yeah, I love history :D
I think this video should be titled "HOW ONE MAN DEFENDED THE OF ARIBIA AGAINST ROME". That guide must have died of laughter and then they beheaded him to keep face.
*ARABIA
A series about the Diadochi Wars would be great, since no one really talks about them
Check the kings and generals podcast on Spotify!
Check Kings and Generals channel on UA-cam, they covered all the Diadochi Wars in great fashion 👍🏼.
i can also recommend the hellenistic age podcast. the wars are coveres in great detail..might be worth a shot if you are interested
King and Generals has it covered them all to great detail. Check it out😃
Invicta would outshine Kings and generals... i dont know what it is but i cant listen to that guys voice for long... it becomes stale and boring and he often talks to fast.
Always love a new video from you. Love learning new thjngs
I just couldn't imagine Roman legions marching through the desert sands in full armour. Its crazy. Even without facing enemy forces, the heat and exhaustion alone could defeat their army.
and that is what happened
So how did the Roman legions conquer North Africa, including Egypt
By the way, this campaign was against the Sabaean Kingdom in Yemen, and not all of Arabia, as the narrator tried to show
@@aalaaelsaobb3717 they conquered the empires that were already there on the fertile shores tf??? Arabia was mostly arabian tribes and the small kingdoms there were also established on the fertile shores, the Islamic Caliphate as far as I know were the only Empire to conquer the whole Arabian Peninsula
Because that parts about the guide, the miscalculation of the Military campaign are just sensationalized for a soft landing for the Great Roman empire, in reality Yemen has and always was a difficult task for any invader, even if the teleport and fall out the sky🤣😭
Love videos on lesser know Roman wars/events. Thank you
I’m so glad i found this channel! Great content
I always wonder how far Alexander would have gone in Arabia if he'd lived longer; it was his next destination.
The Arab indifference to the rumored invasion gives us a hint of how it might've panned out. I doubt Alexander would venture too deep not only due to geographic and logistical reasons but because Arabia held no significant strategic value at the time (except Aden)
@@RexGalilae Agree, other the coastal regions, important to the maritime trade routes with India, most of the region was of little interest. The bulk of alexandrian troops would have probably been persians.
The horn of Africa has always been a trading hub since Ancient Egypt referenced Punt...
He didn't want to go south he wanted to go west to the 'Pillars of Hercules' aka Gibraltar and Mount Hacho.
All the way. That's why he was killed. Had he built his Empire, the whole world would speak Greek/Macedonian.
I am actually grateful to the guide
I needed my dose of invicta!
This is a really interesting topic thank you for sharing it!
Thank you I will look out for it
Amazing idea for future videos!
Brilliant! Great to see this fascinating subject explained and visualised! I wonder what a Roman conquered Arabia would have meant for the imperial economy and later Roman wars against Parthia.
The Arabs are smart. The Romans came to the Arabian Peninsula, then fought them and defeated them
This campaign was against the Sabaean Kingdom, not all of the Arabian Peninsula, But the narrator speaks bullshit
Informative and well done!.
Thank you, this was great.
The roman nubian war is also forgotten.
Not for long, my next video is about it. Hope it comes out well.
My ancestors defeated their ass ... Can't mess with the bow people of the Nile.
@@ahmadmuhammad6200 ⲁⲙⲃⲉ︦ⲥⲁ ⲉⲣ ⲥⲁⲓⲣⲣⲉ̅ ?
That was a sick war, the kingdom of kush and their female Candace warrior king defeated the romans, wiped out their armies, then lost a few battles and made a geopolitical peace which made both of them be close commercial allies, these same cushite kingdoms later on also defeated the mighty Islamic arab abbasid armies that conquered Egypt Libya Morocco Tunisia Algeria Spain, Portugal, Syria Jerusalem Palestine etc, the nubian cushite kingdoms like meroe alodia nobatia makuria defeated the arabs and signed the longest peace treaty in documented human history, called as the Baqt, which lasted for 700 years
@@ahmadmuhammad6200 the correct term is land of the (qaanso iyo leeb sumaysan) bow and sharp long arrows dipped in Waabayn (Ouibain chemical poison) poison
“Obodas” is the name “Ubayd” or “Ubaidah” in Arabic, while “Aretas” is “Harith” or “Harithah”
Its mentioned in the text there was a village or settlement call “Egra” which situated near the Nabataean kingdom ruled by Obodas. I think this is possibly the same settlement called “Mada'in Salih” which was also called by another name: “Al-Hijr” (or spelled “Hegra” by the Roman and the Byzantine).
All of these maybe the one identified with the name “Thamud” by the Quran as all of them also have a rockcarved architecture as mentioned in the Quran.
Also there is a discussion in the text on another tribe or group of Arabian people called “Erembian” (Erembi) or “Arambian”. These people are later called “Troglodyte” meaning “cave dweller”.
Furthermore, while the author mentioned that the word resembles other possibly related name such as “Arabian” or “Aramaean” and was being confused between these, I personally suspect that the name “Erembian” may come from the word “Haram” meaning “sanctuary”. If so then I think these Arabian people mentioned are the ancient Meccan people whose city have one of the most important “Haram” before the advent of Islam.
Relatively to the roman itinerary, they could have passed by Medina and Mecca by the Kaaba
The Arab tribes were scattered before Islam, but when the Prophet Muhammad came, he united these tribes, and they were fighting and fierce tribes. After Islam, these tribes headed towards the Romans, the Persians, and North Africa and were able to reach India until they ruled nearly half of the land for several centuries. These are the Arab tribes
@@akbeh Mecca did not exist by that time . Even in the time of Mahomed , there was no Mecca . Mecca was first mentioned unambigously in 741 AD . Before that, was just a fabrication of those who " invented " Islam, Quran and Muslim God as a copy of Jew/Christian God . The fabrication meant that all that "religion" was put together later , when Mecca was a fact , and had not much to do with the stories invented about Mahomed . But the Arabs where good at copying the Christian story which relies on same kind of un-prooven facts .
However Medina did exist and was ruled quite a time by the Jews , hence the inspiration for the new religion called Islam .
@@seaman5705 u saying crap. Mecca always existed and was even first house built for the humanity.
Today, I don't give anymore importance to dumb comments like yours.
@@seaman5705 okay sorin whatever leave the arabs alone
Great video. More obscure historical events please
Great video thanks. I didn't know these things. Great work!
I'd like to see you cover Sulla's Civil Wars.
The history of the Middle Arabia was mentioned alot in the Arabic literature
Had literally never heard of this until now. Appreciate the video
I had forgotten about It! Thanks Invicta!
They did have an outpost on an island in the southern red sea during the middle of the 2nd century. It was well below Egypt's territory.
A Stone plaque written in latin that dedicated a monument to the emperor by a legion known to be sent to Egypt around that time was found by a tourist a couple decades ago.
The monument was gone but the stone plaque remained. It was Rome's furthest known outpost. controlling the trade &, taxing of ships going to and from Arabia & India.
What is odd in this campaign is, unlike what Cesar did in Gaul, the (seemingly) lack of exploration expeditions and diplomatic emissaries before the main force to gather intelligence, explore alliances, secure supplies and suitable anchorings/harbours, etc.
Well when Caesar tried to invade Britain, he didn't have much information on it and mainly did it for glory, as it was completely unheard of for a Roman to even land on that island. He had to retreat and managed to avoid complete disaster, by luck according to his own admission iirc. Once they had a better idea of what they faced, Claudius invaded the Island and took Britain with the help of skilled generals such as Agricola.
Legendary video!!!!
I'm from Arabia Petraea, and have a fascination with Roman history. So, thank you for enlightening me about a campaign that went through the soil I grew up on!
3:07 Arabia deserta is not the empty quarter.. The empty quarter is the borders of KSA, UAE, Oman, Yemen.. Also middle and east of arabia is semi fertile due to abundance of water wells with agricultural communities
Most arab tribes lived in Arabia deserta actually
He was not accurate at all
@@nashmi-8609 yeah ,because yemenis weren't tribal
@@nashmi-8609 because he's using entirely Roman sources and didn't offer any context or critique or them
Imagine taking an account seriously that says that 100,000 warriors were defeated with 2 losses
@@DragonwolfoftheSands That said, I'm sincerely interested in non-Romans sources about this. Can you provide them to me? Thanks in advance.
@@pierrefranckx6363 I don't know of any, I'm talking about source critique. There are famous examples from Bronze Age Mesopotamia where Assyrian (as an example) Kings claim to completely destroy a people group in their writing only for their successors to claim the destruction of the same groups.
If the Romans claim they did something unlikely you take it at face value and look for other evidence, if they claim to do something impossible you should question the validity of the source.
I would love to see Invicta cover some of the history of the Greco-Bacterians and Indo-Greeks as well as the Hephthalites & Kidarites, Scythians, & Sarmatians
"Bone-headed" move. Love it.
Fascinating!
Loved it, i wonder how an ordinary roman would have reacted when he first saw petra and hegra
Every forgotten military campaign made by Rome is interesting because it showcases unknown cultures that existed in Antiquity!
@@2celii he's talking about more particular cultures of the time, not language aspects that survived through a number of generations long after early antiquity.
@@2celii I’m sorry if you feel like people are being offensive here but I think you’re misinterpreting what they’re saying. Yes, due to regions of the planet orally passing information through generations of descendants has caused a lot of that information about long lost cultures to disappear, this is by nature why it would be titled “unknown”.
And yes, I also agree that much of the western world today has been adopted from early middle eastern philosophy and science/mathematics and that’s an amazing thing. Something I feel people don’t talk about often enough, if at all.
However, to say western cultures today are unoriginal and have mostly appropriated their identity from middle eastern culture is quite an offensive thing to say on your part. I’d kindly suggest you look up some information on the ancient history of Europe and Scandinavia to find it just as rich as that in the Middle East.
Awesome! The first time I know about the Roman campaign in Arabia.
Another great production
This would make for an epic movie
I always imagine how military conquests and it’s logistics will be during those times
Nice vid man!
Thx for the video,i've never heard about this
Hi there
Invicta are you into Roman economic structure or the mechanics they were based on ,for example why some regions/provinces had surplus value ,filling the imperial coffers, and why some of them were bringing deficit, why emperors didnt redistribute administrations budget according to province economic value ,or why didnt try invest in poor provinces infustructure to fix this problem, overall I think the Economic aspect of Rome is an interesting topic ,and uncontroversial it wasn't Capitalist or communist or even a feudal one.
The death of Emperor Julian the Apostate, the last Pagan, would be a fascinating subject for a new Forgotten Wars video. Either way, any subject chosen will surely be great.
Another very interesting Video
Loved the video 🤩
Correction: Rub al-Khali, The Empty Quarter, refers to only the southern fraction of Arabia Deserta, where the dunes extend.
What a difference it would have made should Arabia Felix been incorporated, despite it being something of a quiet backwater at the time. Incredible, thanks for posting
It wasn't a backwater, its name was Felix Arabia literally means Flourishing Arabia. A lot of ancient civiliazations made it their home. It has a moderat climate with lots of water and sea acess and trade routes to india.
@@yassertabikh5362 it's mostly a backwater desert,there are only a few good spots which aren't worth the logistical problems
Arabia Felix was a rich land due to trade, but it's unlikely that the Romans could keep it for long due to its distance. They abandoned Mesopotamia, that was much nearer, so how could they hold Arabia?
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What’s fascinating is how most of the Roman elite viewed brittania, Gaul, and Germania as backwaters. While Arabia provided the Roman an alternative route to Asia, Germania and its tribes would only bring the Roman world into a long prosperous dark age.
Germania, Gaul, and brittania were the true backwaters of that time. Arabia was an alternative route to Asian trade, something that Germania didn’t have. In fact the only reason Rome would enter Germania was to push back against the Germanic tribes who somehow kept encroaching into their Roman provinces.
There's one forgotten war that is truly fascinating! Now if I can only remember what it was.
Wow! I learned something new!
Soooooooooooo when's part two of " Evolution of the Roman army coming out"?
I love that series!
Romans in Northwestern Africa would be interesting! I've never heard anything about their involvement in today's Morocco.
saint marcellus of tangier
@@bard001 Thank you, I'll have to check that out!
Never seen "Patton"?
The vandals
Im from morocco we are happy with islam in North Africa
Thanks always, when I get the means I’ll support your channel better
Love the Forgotten Wars series.
The last time I was this early Julius was on his way to the Theatre of Pompey on March 15th, 44 BC.
"Caesar, don't go to the Theatre of Pompey on March 15th!"
"Qvid?"
Few years letter..
Roman empire: who's that man..?
Khalid bin walid army: its khalid the sword of allah
Centuries
Interesting. Thank you.
Very Good Info Shared.. Same happened with Alexander the Great when he returned from Sindh, India.. Was forced to take inland route to reach Babylon.. Lost almost all his Army to Heat, disease and Poor Guides.. This stresses the need for prior understanding of local topography and people.. As the British used in their campaigns in Sudan, South Africa and Frontier provinces of India..
Next forgotten war : Invicta's subs still fighting madness after 5 years waiting for the next video of Evolution of the Roman Legion.
I had just surpressed tge memory man.
That Nabatean guide beaten the
entire Roman army single handed !
I love your channel!!!!
Exquisite video
Please cover Trajans expedition to ctesphon
Ok so I have a request: an alternate history on Philip II of Macedon surviving and Conquering Persia. He was a really good ruler who controlled Greece minus Sparta and he made military reforms and a few others I think and he set up the campaign of the Persian Empire. He gave possibly the best education of that time to Alexander and Philip is very very underrated while Alexander is very overrated just because he was the one who conquered Persia.
So what would Philip II and gods conquest look like to Alexander’s and how much longer would it have lasted because Philip would’ve made Alexander a good successor?
Yess, i wanted this one for a time
Enjoyed 👍
I always thought that us Yemenis were one of the few people to know of this expedition
It was not important. They only sieged Marib for a while then went back.
Could you make video from the how they tied it series about Slavs?
This would make a great compelling Show with competent writers
Please do consider talking about the Cantabrian Wars that were happening more or less at the same time this one, even if Hispania had been in the dominion of Rome for more than 150 years by that moment it was only after this wars that it finally was fully incorporated, it took a long time and a lot of manpower to finally subjugate those hardy mountain people which I do consider part of one of the most underrated fighting forces of Antiquity given that the Carthaginians, Hannibal included, never fully conquered them, it took Rome a long time to do it, they were integral part of Hannibal's powerful army and they managed to repel the Cimbrian and Teutones that had just given Rome its greatest thrashing since Cannae.
Hannibal dind't tried to conquer them. And I'm not sure of any carthaginian army going so north of the peninsula. By the way Hannibal didn't had a powerful army, actually apart from his numidic cavalry and a few carthaginian heavy infrantry and some others small units like the balearic slingers, his army was quite shitty.
@@alvaro701 I was referring to the Celtiberians in general there, of which the Astures and Cantabrian were part of, as far I know the Carthaginians under Hamilcar, Hasdrubal and then Hannibal never completely controlled the tribes even those closer to their sphere of influence near the coast, with Hamilcar and Hasdrubal dying in battle or assassination at their hands. I should had been more specific though since you are right regarding the fact that the Carthaginian never tried to conquer those so far in the northwest as modern day Asturias and Galicia; regarding Hannibal's army those units of tribal wiarrios from Hispania were regarded as very tough infantry some also served as cavalry but probably were not very numerousthe, flimsiest part of his army were the gallic and italian allies of dubious commitment and / or loyalty but that probably became a bigger part of his army as the years went by during his stay in the italian peninsula.
City Nagria, may represent city of Najran, south of Saudia Arabia.
Fascinating. Invading Arabia by land seems to be as much fun as invading Russia except with the snow replaced by sand. Perhaps its two great generals were July and August.
Now I know where the word "dessert" came from.
Fascinating! I did not know the Romans reached this far!
Amazing