Alexander the Great: The Balkan Campaign (336 to 335 B.C.E.)
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Sources:
“Anabasis of Alexander,” by Arrian: amzn.to/2q9LbwC
“Library of History,” by Diodorus Siculus: amzn.to/2q9HJSM
“Parallel Lives: The Life of Alexander,” by Plutarch: amzn.to/2q9I9Zm
“Alexander the Great,” by Robin Lane Fox: amzn.to/2zZtSE7
“Alexander of Macedon,” by Peter Green: amzn.to/2qHsNxT
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“John Stockton Slow Drag,” by Chris Zabriskie
“Wonder Cycle,” by Chris Zabriskie
“Requiem,” by Gyorgy Ligeti
“Drums of the Deep,” by Kevin MacLeod
“Infados,” by Kevin MacLeod
“Hallon,” by Christian Bjoerklund
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Caesar: Did someone say siege within a siege?
+Pellazget 123 You are possibly the most annoying person I've ever seen on UA-cam. What's wrong with you? Go and gain your own achievements instead of trying to leach off the past. Seriously, nobody cares.
Caesar has this thing for forts and besieging his besiegers it's like a fetish
+Pellazget 123 1. At what point did I put forth an argument?
2. You've made a load of claims in this comment section without a shred of evidence. The burden of proof is on you.
3. Nobody gives a shit about Albania.
+Bob Clover
He's just a bad troll. Don't feed him.
Scipio albanian, lol.
>Religious man
>Beats priestess and drags her onto her sacred chair to tell him a prophecy
A curious character indeed.
Wow weird hearing from Ghengis Khan who rape so mang women.
Keep in mind they don't know that for sure. I've heard versions where he was just very pushy rather than violent.
If he was unreligious man he wouldn't have cared what the prophesy was
Javier Tham Jun Lin+ Hey Genghis Khan was respectful to other religions, gave Muslim and Christian priests tax breaks and shit.
"Fine, whatever"
-Alexander the Great
I now see why this man was such a great conqueror.
"GIVE. ME. MY. PROPHECY!"
-Alexander the Great
A reserved man well spoken and polite.
"OH. MY. GOD" - Alexander The Great witnessing lazy people
He didn’t really say that though
Illyrian troops: " D A N G ! "
"Fine, whatever"
"Baby come over." "Can't, Historia Civilis just dropped a new video." "But I'm home alone." "Well that's not my problem."
@@alexandrine1558 sorry baby; it's just not the same :-(
🤣
😂😂
When she's alone is the perfect time to surround her camp with companion cavalry.
@John Galt l
17:40 Those rotating rectangles made me laugh way harder than they should. Amazing how much character you can show just with basic shapes and speech bubbles.
Illirians had glitched out according to historians
P K Lol you can almost hear them singing stupidly like "La lalala we won bad 'xander go bye bye" with little kid voices xD
Maybe the AI at launch of Rome 2 TW wasnt so unrealistic
Federico Eiriz The best comment I've read today.
This is exceptional. Glad you're back.
BazBattles time to rewatch every Alexander video you guys put
I love both your channels
The one that you decided not to do, eh? :-)
BazBattles And are you planning to release a new video?
3 of my favorite channels in one !
Illyrians: oh my gods, look at those moves! How can we hope to beat such swagger? Retreat!
this video is not accurate
@@mikeny5020 elaborate?
Don't believe everything you see on the internet
@@thebalkanguy5256 Elaborate?
@@demilung I find it difficult that all of this, to this level of detail, were documented through stone carvings(the only form of documentation back then) and it is most likely his personal speculation. His description of that battle was completely nonsensical.
"This winter he gave his army a crash course in mountain warfare"
"MOUNTAINS ARE BAD"
lol
Honestly thats all you need to know
Hannibal wasn't paying attention during class
" if You pizzaro when you should french fry, your gonna have a bad time"
Ya see what Hannibal did he pizza when he should have French-fried
It is good that you released the video right now. I have something to watch and can stop researching this topic - was meaning to get in Alexander business. :-)
all of you keep up the great work, we all appreciate it
Thanks!
We all want Napoleon!
Glad you are not doing another Alexander videos.
Kings and Generals..well, now you can start with a Caesar series LOL
Please never change the outro song! It fits so well!
Agreed! Never change it!!
And all of the other background music (the "dududududn dun dun dun" low hum drums) during narration - same vibes with Caesar's series!
Just found out he cited all the songs in the descriptions, this is the outro - ua-cam.com/video/DFLnx9m4cgU/v-deo.html
My personal favorite was "He'd be back-next spring." *outro*
Totally awesome !!! Dope outtro gets me ready/ pumped for the next video !
@@asve2369 .
Almost all material on Alexander the Great focuses on the Persian campaign so its really awesome to get more on other battles he fought. Especially since so many of Alexander's battle strategies are so audacious
He literally believed he could not lose. Crazy plans tend to work when executed with 100% confidence and zero doubt.
@@dylanb4494 That is called the placebo effect.
@@thomasmillward3671 ...no.
@@Xanthopathy 🗿
@@thomasmillward3671 closer to the pygmalion effect
"we dun goofed, y'all" - Alexander the Great 335 BCE
"git 'er done" - Alexander the Great, regarding the Delphic prophet.
Who knew Alexander was a good ole boy?
Zuck 101
Consequences will never be the same
You spelled BC wrong. There is no common era and never has been.
Boxes shall be shattered!
Rectangles shall be splintered!
A Civil day!
A historic day!
As historia civilis uploads!
I read that in Lotr voice.
John Cedrick Reyes I played the Rohan soundtrack in my head
You forgot skulls rising from the dead.
Theodin, King
martyn kalendar please refrain from singing
Thank you
This is what I was told about that episode at Delphi. The word in Greek(which I don't remember, sorry) the oracle called Alexander meant something like "arrogant" or "brash", but could also be interpreted as "great". Now guess which way Alex took it.
ἀνίκητος εἶ ὦ παῖ.
She said he was invincible. "You cannot be defeated, my son"
@@Polydopamine she had a point, he never lost a battle
@@yuhyuh5674 he did lose by an ambush in persia by Darius's satrap
@@user-sl7rx4jp3t He didn't lose a battle, parts of it to adapt and completenwith afjust d approach, many times.
Similar to aniva and the Romans in a battle before Chanae.
Imagine being part of that army:
"Yo we are just gonna run drills"
"all right"
"Use our siege weapons as artillery"
"if you say so, this shit all seems to work out every time"
Yep most great generals is stuff that shouldn't work but it totally worked. It has to be wild to serve under a dude like that
Can you imagine having Aristotle as a tutor? What a privilege.
Alexander might have been the most privileged child of all time and he used everything that he was given to dominate pretty much everything in his path for about 12 years. He made Greece the most unified it'd ever been since the Myceneans and then made the seemingly vast and powerful Persia submit. The only thing that stopped him was that he just kept winning. A good loss helps you consolidate inventory and he spread his lines way too thing just to get to India. If he survived the return home I have no doubt that both Carthage and the Roman Republic would have fallen. If he made it to like 60 his empire would have been like, most of Europe, all of North Africa, the entire Middle East, and parts of Central/North Asia. Would have loved to see how he counters the Steppe tribes and their superior cavalry. Legendary life, him, Napoleon, Caesar and Ghengis Khan were all crazy as fuck but beautifully tuned to warfare.
@@geordiejones5618 Eh.
Macedon didn't have the population to do much of that.
Yeah Macedonia didn't have the population but thats why Alexander got conquered people to join in his army..
Ryan Sansaricq he wasn’t privileged, he had great teachers.
@@geordiejones5618 The things i would give for that knowledge.
Hey, if the sky fell on my head, i'd probably forget about those scary Macedonians for a second too
Well the sky is literally gasses and when compressed they turn into liquid so when it rains the sky is literally falling on our heads.
I'll take my chances and grovel at the Macedon boy' feet.
Floods can be scary too?
@Primarch Alpharius they probably didn't know that those lights in the sky were huge though, if I was convinced that was possible I'd be scared af
you don't say
The sky by definition "the region of the atmosphere and outer space seen from the earth." is indeed predominantly filled with gasses.
I'd like to think that Alexander was so unnerved by the never before thought about prospect of the sky falling down that afterwards he was like "Can you believe those Gauls disrespecting me like that I mean I think they just made that stuff up!"(glances nervously up at the sky)
Lmao
@@triangulum8869 can you imagine an entire culture just perpetually glancing up at the sky and thinking “is this gonna be the day?”
Yet another wonderful video. So so good.
"lets spin around" "good idea general"
Try spinning it's a good trick
do a barrel roll
Nothing to say apart from you're the highlight of my week
Well that's kinda depressing.
These will always be my favorite videos to see in my subbox
better than bazbattles?
I want to say good job sir. I had a 9 Hour Drive today and binge watching your channel (listening) Made it seem very short. Excellent presentation and superb topics selection
I’ve done this as well and it works great
Be careful on the road bro! Love u
Take a shot everytime he says: "Alexander led the Companion Cavalry."
You're doing great work, great delivery, noting when something that happened is uncertain, neat animations and I particularly love that you're keeping everything "dry" and not trying to make everything overly dramatised. Keep up the good work!
You said it chief
Seriously, I’m really not a fan of overly dramatic retellings. I can’t watch most documentaries for that reason. This style of video making is so much better
I hate hearing that music at the end. Not because its a bad song on the contrary but, alas because its the end of the video and i have to wait another 3 centuries for you to release the next one!
Is UA-cam doing something weird, or have you been watching that Adam Neely video too?
hehehe not me
God I know. I've started to develop a hatred for that tune
You should cover Alexander's Bactrian & Sogdian campaign. A perfect example of one of the toughest and most difficult anti-guerilla campaigns in history.
0:25 "Had cognitive disabilities and did not participate in politics." Nowadays cognitive disabilities are a requirement for politics.
RuleofVicus yep
It's both parties
"Sigh, women am I right"
Lib: "OMFG SEXIST REEEE"
"Happy holidays"
Con: "OMFG ITS MERRY CHRISTMAS REEEE"
@John Toas it's so sad that generation Z is the most libertarian, and conservative generation in American history. As much independent, conservative, liberal, and libertarian studies have concluded. And how the republicans, have even more control, over the Senate, and the "blue wave" has failed miserably. and the house doesn't have as much importance, as much as you think, or feel it does. Or how the unemployment rate is at a 49 year low, and thousands of jobs have been created. or as 11 steel and metal factories have been opened, and 28 are on the way, in the next year alone. And 68% of Hispanics, say they have it better now, then 2 years ago in 2016. Boohoo, you Americans have it so bad down there, there's no way you can live now. Unlike let's say Europe, Australia, and canada, where "hate speech" has been censored.
Yup libtards.
Oooooh burn
Superb! As someone who has read extensively on Alexander, 'The Siege of Pellium' has often been the most problematic to visualise. This video is an absolute credit to the ancient historians who preserved Alexanders history and must have been painstaking.
Only one small piece of constructive criticism though: the delegation of Celts is said to have arrived after Alexanders victory on the Danube and before the Illyrian campaign.
There were no fucking Gauls in modern day Albania at the time.. it was Illyrian territory..
He should have referred to them as Celts.. not Gauls... and he most likely encountered them near the danube.. where the were actual Celts.
Din Sel I assumed he just misspoke since he probably knows the Gauls lived in Gaul
the logistics of his conquest alone are absolutely staggering.. But his army's discipline, adaptability, mixed with his cunning and his ability to see the changes on the battlefield is amazing. This is why we still talk about the man today.
"Yo dawg, I heard you like sieges so I put a siege inside a siege" - Some Illiryan
Caranus died under suspicious circumstances
Every CK2 player loves this method of securing the succession 😂
What my only rival for power was bitten by a snake I am shocked- some inbred genius
@@caesarion4975 It's peak CK2 if you have an inbred genius of a ruler mate.
Ck2 `? Lik EU? Grand Strategy game
*sees that an entire army has been replaced by spinning pink rectangles*
"Oh my god"
DM: You find yourself surrounded by Illyrian rebels. Do you flee through the pass or cross the river?
Alexander: I roll to intimidate.
DM: Okay, but you'll have to roll at least-
Alexander: Natural 20.
I'm curious if you are at the point where it would be prudent to pay someone to animate your videos so you could release them faster? (Not offering, just love your content and wish there was more of it.)
In the Illryian ambush Alexander's Dad reached out of the grave to saved his kid, by creating that ultra trained army which could act with such timed precision. It took some creative thinking, which served Alexander throughout his life, and he definitely learned from that encounter. I think it's hard to argue though, that if the Illyrian's and Alexander's places been reversed the Illyrians would not have gotten the same effect from using that crazy ass strategy.
Keep these videos up, man, you're slowly making up for my shitty, forgotten school education.
Every time you upload I get so happy and excited. Your uploads are so much fun and so informative
Fascinating! Can't wait for more content focusing in Alexander The Great's journey, thank you for your hard work.
What an amazing video. You are truly great. Last week I was so depressed and you really lifted me up in my worse moments. This is something more than just a history channel. Thank you
The moment when you see a "historia civilis" video in your subscriptions is just great.
Thanks for the amazing content.
All hail Alexander the Great, Third of His Name, King of Macedon and Hegemon of the Hellenic League!
mugur de fluier agree alexander was hungaryans bulgaryans
@Sommersby Nobodyev lol
@mugur de fluier Alexander III of Macedon (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Γʹ ὁ Μακεδών; 20/21 July 356 BC - 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Μέγας, romanized: Aléxandros ho Mégas), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon[a]
@mugur de fluier there wasn't Hungary back then noob
ⰔⰂⰑⰁⰑⰄⰅⰐ agree alexamder was bulgaryans or romanians
been watching your videos religiously for months now. Always super excited to see you upload. Great stuff man
I always try to watch your shows as soon as they come out, you and Military History Visualized are my two most favorite historical visualizations channels! Great work!
I loved Greek history because of Alexander the Great
Damn this Alexander sounds pretty impressive, I wonder if we are going to see more of him, but I doubt He acomplished much more in his live.
Religion of peace turning you into pieces
I dont know he seems like the sort of man who would ruin his empire on his deathbed just to spite everyone.
Pellazget 123 Alexander was not Illyrian nor was he Albanian. There was no such thing as Albanians back and then. And nor are they Illyrians. He was Greek. Please stop spreading your propaganda. It is getting really annoying
he probably turned his empire into pieces like your name
Pellazget 123 Hes mother was Epirotan Greek and hes was Greek Macedonian not Albanian not Illurian. And Epirus is Greek not Albanian. Greece was formed in 1821 that's true, but that doesn't mean that they weren't Greek people living before that. Greeks are by far the oldest race in Europe.
Pellazget 123 seriously, you people are so uneducated that its not even funny any more.
This is fantastic, you do a comprehensive job of covering everything and presenting it in an intelligible order. Thank you
These are by far my favorite videos. Always excited to see them on my feed. Keep up the great work!
i always found history to be my favorite subject and i probably waste more hours than i should reading random bits of history even though im not an expert on any certain historical time frame i find ALL of it absolutely irresistibly amazing.
having little crash course history lessons like these that spoon feed me the specific information (rather than me painstakingly sifting online or my local library) makes me giddy and i click on it no matter what im doing at the time.
hell i just ate breakfast while watching this and it was fucking *sweet*
if you could please post more videos when im eating that would be great btw
Usually being told that you're invincible, sarcastically or not back then and believing it; you'd act more reckless, which he sort of did but I got this feeling that Alexander also at some point thought "Well if *_I'm_* invincible, that doesn't mean my troops are so I gotta plan carefully lest I stand alone an immortal victor on an empty battlefield." or something like that.
Could be why he wins.
Thank you for these videos, you make learning about these eras of history easy and fun...without these, I don't think I would ever know about them.
These videos are so interesting to watch. Not one moment when I thought I would want to skip a part. Please, keep up with the quality, these are awesome
You know, some people blame the fall of Persia not to Alexander but just to the instability of the empire... this entire campaign proves them wrong. Alexander was a genius.
Trygve Plaustrum
Typical indians and iranians who also insisted that he lost to porus on hydaspes.
Trygve Plaustrum
Persia was weakend after the greco-persian wars
They lost darius and xerxes because of it
(And lets be honest darius the III wasn.t the most competent persian ruler they had)
But still it was one of the biggest super powers of ancient antiquity
Alongside rome, seleucids, parthia, sassanids
16:55
While Persia had suffered defeats to the Greeks earlier, it was still unquestionably the biggest superpower in the Mediterranean world in Alexander's time. Their huge advantage in resources compared to the Macedonians is clearly illustrated by the course of Alexander's campaign. The Persians were initially able to assemble an army roughly as large as Alexander's just from Asia Minor for the Battle of the Granicus. Then Darius was able to assemble a force twice as large as Alexander's for Issus, then another army at least as large for Gaugamela, and could well have raised a third if his satraps had stayed loyal, all despite suffering massive losses at each battle. Alexander, by contrast, would never have had the resources to rebuild his entire army if he had suffered a similar defeat.
Alexander did have a very effective, well-trained force to face the larger Persian armies, but it still required a commander of his genius to overcome his disadvantages and win each of those battles, let alone maintain a multi-year campaign that involved fighting all three major battles in succession without suffering crippling losses at any of them.
A good portion of Persian troops were levied farmboys not worth shit... Training men to become warriors is much more expensive and time-consuming than forcibly conscripting civilians in your army with little to no pay. Alexander's achievements are great but many people seem to overestimate Persia here, the Achaemenid Empire was declining and morale was low after consecutive defeats, plus an incompetent idiot was at the head. As HC said, Alexander was lucky. If he was born during the same era as say, Darius I, who was at the very least capable of keeping his empire in 1 piece, things wouldn't have gone so smoothly.
17:21
The illyrian army: you spin my head right round right round and
That one macadonian guy: 0_0
Excellent! You really broke this campaign down for me. Can't believe I haven't come across your channel before. Definitely subscribed
Excellent! I never miss one of your videos! Thank you! I'm impatient for the next!
If the wagon trick by the Thracians was so unconventional then how did Alexander know to prepare his army for it?
I think Aleander was drilling his army to survive rockfalls, and the wagon attack was similar enough to use same tactics. It's all just speculation, though.
what about tactics for dealing with scythed chariots?
@@maybemaeb Do the sources mention how many wagons? The width of the front? At this time he just had 1000 men right? So it doesn't take too much space. It seems like they also could've side stepped them or the wagons fell off before reaching them by bouncing on random rocks.
Spies?
Well it doesn’t take long for one to simply go duck and search for cover when something is falling towards you, and whatever the problem is someone who’s much of a genius as Alexander would’ve probably done it better.
Historia Civilis, BazBattles or Kings and Generals uploads make my day
Honestly I love your videos and they give me passion to continue my pursuit of history. Absolutely great work you do
NEVER STOP! Your content and presentation are superb!!!
This is what my life has been leading up to.
Do a video about marius and sulla
This channel has taught me more about history than any other channel. Thank you man
I've just been binge-watching all of your videos. They are great. Wish there were more.
I didn't get the notification
and pls make more great videos
"swisss
SWISSSH
*SWOOSH*
*_S W W O O O S S H H_* "
- Those sarissas, probably.
Lmao
Love the content! Thank you for continuing to post videos :).
You are by far my favorite history channel on youtube. I've missed you.
13:00 Siegeception
Braderz1506 yo,man, we heard you like sieges,
So we are sieging your siege so you can siege while you siege
Alesia??
They did siegeception before it was cool
"We need to go deeper..."
Braderz1506 *BWWWOOOONNNGG*
great video! :)
This is really incredible. I never knew the details of these campaigns. Thank u!
I missed your content man! Thanks as always a good job.
I just love how Kings and Generals and BazBattles show their love on fellow history channels. My favorite trio.
"The oracle's wifi connection to the gods suffers from interference during winter"
I'm back for a third round of watching this particular video. I think this might be my favourite channel on YT
Awesome video, as always very detailed, precise and interesting to watch. I loved it.
Some have complained that these videos take slightly longer to produce, but keep in mind he is making them around 20 minutes, so he is not shortening us on our doses of education drugs
again a history channel focussing on alexander, and still it's unique and top quality content, this is great
also 'they swished their sarissas'', what did it sound like, can you describe it more?
Just imagine the sound that comes from swinging a 4.5 meter spear around in the air.
swisss
SWISSSH
*SWOOSH*
*_S W W O O O S S H H_*
almost feels like I'm there
lol. I'm more impressed that the drilling, which was basically just a massive interpretive dance, actually scared the Illyrians away. It's like, "wow these guys have really sick dance moves. Imma' leave out of respect."
maybe they just left because it took so long, they where tired or hungry, or maybe just horny and there was a village with protitues nearby, we'll never know
Post more videos if you can please! Your content is so good! I can't get enough haha.
Another fantastic video.
Keep it coming man! I hope you get big enough to make this your job.
so when is that "caesar marched on rome" sentence deconstruction video happening? (love macedonian history too btw)
This plz
LOL
Connor O'Brien waiting for that for so long
Eagerly waiting for that too
Yeah it kinda sucks he's moved on to Alexander which has already been done by a handful of youtubers. Hopefully he goes back to Roman videos soon. :/
19:06 asterix and obelix
I love the special effects of your troop movements and the well coordinated battlescenes you give us. It so much better done than any other Hollywood movie.
Your channel is awesome, its a great way for an amateur like me to get a simple but informative snapshot on history.
17:20 - "I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!"
I hate to wait a month for one of those videos. :'(
No pain, no gain! ;)
2 months actually
I don't want these video to come up every 3 days or anything, but at this rate we'll only get 12 videos a year, a slightly faster upload rate would be more fruitful in my opinion.
I just watched all your videos in a week. I needed this.
Glad you're back, thans for the great content !
In 422BC, at Macedonian town Amphipolis, Macedonians and Spartans were allies against Athens.
Spartan General Vrasidas with
Macedonian king Perdikkas
fought against
Athenian genera Kleon
Macedonians+Spartans won
It's nice that you made the balkan campaign of Alexander, but there are already 2 chanells who covers Alexander campaigns. I think Caesar deserve a complete series. You finished the gallic wars... please start the civil war
BazzBattles and Epic History TV
+The Equalizer There was a battle during the balkans campaign against the thracians in which Alexander was fighting up a slope and the phalanx had dozens of carts rolled down at them and Alexander ordered his soldiers to lay on the ground and hold their shields up so that the carts just harmlessly passed over.
Tony, i know. The battle was presented here. If Historia Civilis will do videos on Alexander, i hope he doens't make the usual Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela and Hydaspes but the unknown campaigns and battles of Alexander.
+The Equalizer
Yeah when people think of alexander they only remember gaugamela or the hydaspes battles. Jaxartes, Arigaeum, Halicarnassus,Tyre, Aornos, Gaza, Cophen campaign, etc don't nearly get as much coverage unfortunately.
lol yeah i only just started watching it, just mentioned it as it's cool how he dealt with them.
Your videos are always absolutely fantastic. Please keep them up my friend.
Historia Civilis the Great. Always love to watch your videos.
17:21 loving the "doing nothing" spins they were doing XD
Interestingly enaught, Alexander's campaign on the Danube is considered one of the first mentioned battles that took place on the teritory of Romania
Your videos are a gift from the gods.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Waited so long for this!! thank you!! Love your videos.
Can you do a video about Trajan and his campaigns in Dacia ?
Just an idea...
You should do "The Anabasis," Zenophon's account of the campaign of the 10,000
He's name is not Zenophon ffs. All those mispronunciations by English speakers are so annoying. It's pronounced: Ksenophon
pls continue this alexander serie. i like your style and i loved your ceacar serie. you have a clear voice, simple style and very informative. keep up good work m8. (ill patreon as soon as i haz money)
Great video! I'm always excited when I see you've released a new video!