The Third Samnite War is an underrated conflict of Roman history. Rome fought on three separate fronts, against almost every other major polity in Italy, and was able to outmaneuver and outfight the entire peninsula. If there was any doubt of Rome's destiny before the start of that war, none of that doubt remained by 290bce. For the next 150 years they fought across the Mediterranean and by the end had established themselves as the first and only hegemons of Mare Nostrum, a premier status which held for over 500 years. And something super important that many seem to forget: the Romans conquered Italy, but the Italians as a whole conquered the rest of the empire. Rome's ability to successfully incorporate the Italians into their military infrastructure gave them the foundation they needed to eventually transition to the frontier recruited legions.
....when your choice is to be incorporated or... After a few examples, incorporation was the obvious choice. Much preferential to slavery, genocide, forced relocation, [ which still sometimes happened], so yeah, incorporated.
The Samnite's fate after the Social War though is very bleak. After the Social War in 91-87 BC they fought in the Civil War between Sulla's forces and Marius' and Carbo's forces in 83-82 BC, where they sided with Marius and Carbo, but Sulla won. Sulla ordered them crushed as a people. They were practically wiped out. I quote Strabo: ""Some of their cities have now dwindled into villages, some indeed being entirely deserted." Sulla ordered 40.000 Roman troops to march through Samnite territories and butcher and enslave them and sack their cities and towns. Many were simply slain regardless of age, and many of the enslaved used for the harsher slave labors. Those Samnites that remained after this were simply assimilated by Roman culture and Samnite culture more or less disappears from Roman sources after 82-81 BC; so complete was their destruction that it only took a year for them to disappear as a people.
@@torbk The Social War to me is the real death of the Senate. They let all that slaughter happen just to give the Italians what they wanted. All it did was give popular generals more recruits for future wars.
I thought this video was made by a guy with over 200k subs because this level of detail and effort you put into these videos is truly worthy of that number
@@vincenzopiras9765your teacher would be German if not for Americans, so we get to define your language. That was the deal, we lend you our American muscles, lease you our American weapons, and in exchange we are now owners of English. Stop putting random U’s in words. Color. This agreement was signed by FDR the Queen and Churchill. You actually dishonor your queen when you correct an American’s English.
baffled by you only having almost 2k subs, was expecting you to be a channel with a few hundred thousand or even a million subs when I went to subscribe based on the quality of the video after I finished it
Never had too much of an interest in roman history but this has been keepin me engaged the whole way through somehow I hope you make more of this stuff!
Incredible work! This is history told right, with a lovely script and informative, entertaining illustrations. This instantly became one of my favourite history channels thanks to this masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your work, please keep making more videos like this one. It's a privilege to have found your channel so early in its growth, I'm sure you'll have hundreds of thousands of subscribers in no time, especially if you make some UA-cam Shorts clips of the key points in the story, showing off the attractive animation and excellent narration. Best wishes and good luck. ❤
commenting for algorithmus maximus this is some brilliant work and your unserious format was not something i knew i needed in history videos. i can tell you put a lot of love and sweat into this - looking forward to your future videos!
My man, keep doing what you're doing. I was actually wondering about this topic recently but was struggling to find good videos about it and then this got recommended to me. Actually amazing content, from the visuals to the storytelling.
The Devotio is one of the most inspiring acts I've ever read of in history. The Romans really were built different. It's a rare civilization that lives in stone houses, has a written language, but still values honorable death in battle.
The grass crown was called a "laurel", and may have been made of laurel leaves. Probably related to the word "laud", as in the word "applaud". I suspect it meant "approval or honor". So applaud could be seen as meaning "applying or giving honor". A sentence using it would be, " I give you laud and praise for your feat of bravery".
'Laud' is still used in the phrase 'cum laude', used in higher education to acknowledge those who passed their exams with a high average mark. Perhaps the most accurate translation, aside from the ones mentioned, would be 'praise'. It is also used in religious chants to evoke divine adoration, e.g. Laude Deum, 'Praise God'.
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic content. Must admit I was a bit put off by the art style at first but I've slowly gotten used to it. It certainly makes your content stand out. I hope you will continue to focus on the early republic as there is so little content on this topic available on UA-cam. I myself usually focus my studies on the mid to late republic (First Punic War to the end of the Republic), yet your videos have ignited an interest for me in the earlier wars and development of Rome. It's certainly fascinating to see how many of the later aspects of Rome (their approach to war, how they saw themselves) developed from earlier events. Also, I just did a reread of Robert Ogilvie's introduction of Livy books 1-5. It's a fantastic piece to read and really helps with understanding early Roman history. Yes, a lot of events, particularly those before the Gaulish sack of 387, are highly mythologized and borrow a lot from Greek history and later Roman history, but Ogilvie makes a convincing argument that we can accept the bare bones of early Roman history to be true. Might be interesting to do a video on Roman historiography and how people should approach understanding these events.
How the hell do you have just 4k subs i mean look at the animation and the passion in the video amazing and entertaining watched the entire 56 minutes.
33:34 Dear Sir I know you may not read this but that brought a smile to my face listening to that. I love your Church Latin pronunciation instead of the Hard K sound like classical. It reminded me of the story of my Irish Catholic grandmother Francis. She came from a family of 11 and she was the youngest or the mistake. Well growing up her siblings went to Catechism and the Priest told them some of you have Latin names, a lot have various meanings. Like Cornelius means horn but at the same time the Romans could be funny or cruel with nicknames. He went down the list and her four siblings were Curtis=Shorty, Claudia=Lame, Calvin=Baldy, and Cecilia=Blind. Naturally all the kids were shocked these names were so blunt. When they got home, they of course asked their parents if this was just a coincidence and truly they didn't know the meanings of these names!? Well my great grandparents just shrugged them off and said 'We know what those names meant, we speak Latin(Church Latin) just like you learning it now, those names weren't an accident. Be blessed knowing we love you enough to give you proud Catholic Latin names!' I'll never forget that story and to this day again I'm happy I too was blessed with a Latin name.
Thank you for sharing that, not only is it beautiful how you remember your grandmother's childhood stories into detail, it's also amazing how even "blunt" words in latin sound so magnificent.
@MagistraVitae Yeah it's pleasant knowing her even recalling this. It was one of those stories they told her because by the time she was borne her oldest sibling was already 24/ married with children. Ironically she asked a story about their childhood and they told her this. To me it makes me cry sometimes because of the fact before Vatican 2, all of us Catholics spoke Church Latin. I recall.how my grandfather her future husband went to both Asia and Hungary. He didn't speak any of the native language but could attend the Latin Mass with them. I pray the Latin language never dies.
Your style of presentation is very good verbally, and while I think the references and memes might be a bit densely packed, I do like them and think that they are fine if they are just a bit toned down. Do note that a lot of our information on this period is based on sources whose original sources are lost. Stories like of Publicus Corvus are likely to be either blown out of proportion or even entirely mythical, because Livy's goal wasn't in the first place to document Roman history with total accuracy, but to show why Rome was destined to become an empire. This becomes crucial for when you deal with sources like Caesar's *Gallic Wars*, where despite the useful information one should realize that Caesar wrote this book as an advertisement of his fame, and therefore makes him look even more of a genius than he already was. And one minor pet peeve of mine is your mention of 'genocide' in the context of the ruthless wipeouts of enemies of Rome. While these actions certainly are of a gruesome nature, it doesnt quite fit the definition of genocide, because a genocide requires an actual intent to wipe out a culture or people. Genocidal acts are done not because the perpetrator got attacked or wishes to conquer their lands, but out of a direct wish to rid yourself of the entire culture and/or people. Rome never seemed interested in this, however, even integrating parts of hostile or conquered cultures into their own, particularly when it came to religion, and also making alliances with friendly states regardless of culture, which eventually would become incorporated into the Roman Empire by simply drifting into it. If the Romans truly were genocidal, these alliances and cultural blending would have been much less interesting to the Romans, because why bother making alliances when you're their sworn enemies and will kill then anyway? But keep things up! This looked very nice! Signed, a Bachelor graduate on Ancient History
This is a really well done video, this is a tiny thing but I would also just mention that instead of saying "perspired" which in english is generally in reference to condensation forming on a cool object or when a person is sweating the technical term is "perspiration" obviously I understand English is your second language and you are extremely capable but you should use the word "transpired" it has a much better flow. Thanks for the video dude, a great topic that alot of people seem to just forget happened.
@@MagistraVitae I re-read my comment and I was quite tired when I wrote this, I'm really sorry for sounding almost sarcastic even though its hard to convey feeling over text, sorry for trying to correct you I just figured "Transpire" is likely easier to say as well. Have a great day bro, sorry again
When claiming the romans could maybe field forces consisting out of 500 000 men does the source refers to the amount of military age men under roman rule?
Basically yes. They didn’t field that many men at the same time, but it is believed that (if we count Rome and all its allies) they could call upon around 500 000 men of fighting age.
@@MagistraVitae wouldn’t rallying that many men have caused a collapse on the home front, without any men to man fields and forges to feed or equip them?
@@tadhgconroy8631That's why they only levied a portion of their forces and left the rest as reserves or garrisons, able to tend to the land. That is part of the reason, for example, why Pyrrhus failed at decisively beating the Romans despite having 3 victories in battle over them. Rome would be hurt when they lost 3 full legions, for sure, but their manpower reserves were too big to be beaten, as Hannibal too found out. And also, in general ancient wars followed a season. Soldiers were called up once they had sowed their lands and would campaign for the entire summer, and when harvest came around the soldiers often went home even if the war wasn't undecided. Because all nations needed to harvest their lands, nobody dared taking advantage of that until factions could make sure their lands would continue to be worked by slave labour, their soldiers were paid mercenaries rather than their own farmers, or there was another way to ensure food for the winter, like import. Even after that moment, the hostile climate of winter often encouraged soldiers to stay in camp anyway. So with winter being an unfavourable time to campaign, soldiers could go home and prepare their land for the next season of crops. In that way, the burden of the military on society was lessened.
Just going to put a clarification here: In the Roman Republic, a "dictator" didn't quite mean the same thing it does now, it was a legitimate office that men were occasionally appointed to for a short period (usually around six months) to deal with some sort of crisis and only the last (Caeser) refused to ever give it up (although Sulla did hold the office for three years). It was fairly common during the early centuries but got rarer during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC
Yes, thats right. These videos are a part of a larger series and we do explain the office of dictator in the 3rd episode, when we talk about the first dictator of Rome :)
Very cool video. I hope your next videos follow the same format, specially video lenght. I'm not a fan of watching a dozen short videos when I can watch one long
That Marcus Valerius story sounds very similar to David and Goliath. I wonder if they have any shared roots or if it just generally sharing of Mediterranean martial and philosphical values producing a similar undersog story.
Is it not possible that the war occurred the way it was recorded and all later events were done in honor of the stories of this war they would have grown up romanticizing them? I mean, if we land at D-Day does that mean the landing in Libia in the early 1800's didn't happen?
In a way, yes, but they were not much more crazy or narrow-minded than contemporary cultures. In fact, Romans were often pragmatic too, and they were great engineers who often perfected the new concepts and inventions of the Greeks. And their policy on cultural differences was downright liberal, often allowing religious freedom and cultural distinction as long as it didn't challenge Roman rule. No doubt Roman culture was bellicose and ruthless, but they were definitely not more psychopathic than their neighbours.
Between the First and Second Samnite War the roman changed from a Greek style phalanx to a maniple system used by the Samnites. They used Greek style swords that were longer than gladius and they switched later during the Punic Wars. It would be more accurate to show them with pikes in the first part of the video, but we were somewhat limited with the animations.
I love the information and the detail! (Not finished yet, but have bookmarked this to finish later) - one comment - I REALLY think the cutesy graphics with the 8-bit bobble heads is ...well, horrible. I could go into greater detail (like it dishonors the history, makes it seem un-serious, and almost makes it like this is designed for kids) - but I'll leave it at that. :) I hope you continue, and I hope you get better graphics!
I hate this bullshit, what will be the next? Renaming cities to remove their religious background? San Francisco to Francisco, Los Angeles to California HQ? Is so dumb. And is not even common, common with who? With the chinese? with the muslims? no, with the christian countries.
@@MagistraVitae I've watched the whole video and enjoyed it a lot, so I wanted to ask a question since you've done some research. I was just asking if there is any way to contact you to ask a historical question regarding this topic and I gave my Discord name and it was removing that comment. I'm making a mod for a game set in this period.
I can see the makings of a phenomenal roman history channel here! Especially on a topic of roman history i feel isnt covered that often. Keep it going bro! You have a new sub with me :)
The Third Samnite War is an underrated conflict of Roman history. Rome fought on three separate fronts, against almost every other major polity in Italy, and was able to outmaneuver and outfight the entire peninsula. If there was any doubt of Rome's destiny before the start of that war, none of that doubt remained by 290bce. For the next 150 years they fought across the Mediterranean and by the end had established themselves as the first and only hegemons of Mare Nostrum, a premier status which held for over 500 years. And something super important that many seem to forget: the Romans conquered Italy, but the Italians as a whole conquered the rest of the empire. Rome's ability to successfully incorporate the Italians into their military infrastructure gave them the foundation they needed to eventually transition to the frontier recruited legions.
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....when your choice is to be incorporated or...
After a few examples, incorporation was the obvious choice. Much preferential to slavery, genocide, forced relocation, [ which still sometimes happened], so yeah, incorporated.
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The Samnite's fate after the Social War though is very bleak. After the Social War in 91-87 BC they fought in the Civil War between Sulla's forces and Marius' and Carbo's forces in 83-82 BC, where they sided with Marius and Carbo, but Sulla won. Sulla ordered them crushed as a people. They were practically wiped out. I quote Strabo: ""Some of their cities have now dwindled into villages, some indeed being entirely deserted." Sulla ordered 40.000 Roman troops to march through Samnite territories and butcher and enslave them and sack their cities and towns. Many were simply slain regardless of age, and many of the enslaved used for the harsher slave labors. Those Samnites that remained after this were simply assimilated by Roman culture and Samnite culture more or less disappears from Roman sources after 82-81 BC; so complete was their destruction that it only took a year for them to disappear as a people.
@@torbk The Social War to me is the real death of the Senate. They let all that slaughter happen just to give the Italians what they wanted. All it did was give popular generals more recruits for future wars.
I thought this video was made by a guy with over 200k subs because this level of detail and effort you put into these videos is truly worthy of that number
The fact you use the symbol of the football squad of Lazio to rapresent the Latin League it's fantastic😂😂😂
I was waiting for this comment 😂
Soccer
@@splitman1129 depends. My teacher (that is english) says football. Americans say soccer.
@@vincenzopiras9765your teacher would be German if not for Americans, so we get to define your language. That was the deal, we lend you our American muscles, lease you our American weapons, and in exchange we are now owners of English. Stop putting random U’s in words. Color. This agreement was signed by FDR the Queen and Churchill. You actually dishonor your queen when you correct an American’s English.
@@boogitywoogity248 Hopefully this is just a joke because otherwise americans truly are some of the most brainwashed and uneducated people on earth.
baffled by you only having almost 2k subs, was expecting you to be a channel with a few hundred thousand or even a million subs when I went to subscribe based on the quality of the video after I finished it
Much appreciated 🥹
Wow. The beautiful backgrounds, the lovely designs of the characters, the careful editing + scripting..
Actual masterwork. Fantastic.
An hour long??? keep going bro gonna love it
13:43
*"Naugthius Maximus! He was a roman senator, formed the first triumvirate alongside Biggus Dickus and Pilum Gargantum"*
Most underrated history channel ever on you
One of the greatest videos on early rime.
Lavish equipment.
Lavish equipment taken from the Linen Legion was truly a sight to behold.
Rare to see videos with this level of detail and quality, such an underrated channel
Never had too much of an interest in roman history but this has been keepin me engaged the whole way through somehow
I hope you make more of this stuff!
Incredible work! This is history told right, with a lovely script and informative, entertaining illustrations. This instantly became one of my favourite history channels thanks to this masterpiece. Thank you for sharing your work, please keep making more videos like this one.
It's a privilege to have found your channel so early in its growth, I'm sure you'll have hundreds of thousands of subscribers in no time, especially if you make some UA-cam Shorts clips of the key points in the story, showing off the attractive animation and excellent narration.
Best wishes and good luck. ❤
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this is some brilliant work and your unserious format was not something i knew i needed in history videos. i can tell you put a lot of love and sweat into this - looking forward to your future videos!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Impressive video, very entertaining and informative. Keep it up, this channel will surely grow!
Love this series! Amazing explanation of Roman history, Livy would be jealous!
It happens. A lot of people I’ve argued with have slipped and hit their head on a hard rock.
I hate it when that happens
Very very impressive, I presume you made this all by yourself. The quality is incredible.
My man, keep doing what you're doing. I was actually wondering about this topic recently but was struggling to find good videos about it and then this got recommended to me. Actually amazing content, from
the visuals to the storytelling.
This is AMAZING! An hour of ultra-dense Roman history, with cute animations!? I'm sold. I...I want more! MOOORE!!!.
Oh my god, this is excellent video quality! Also unique
The Devotio is one of the most inspiring acts I've ever read of in history. The Romans really were built different. It's a rare civilization that lives in stone houses, has a written language, but still values honorable death in battle.
The amount of effort put into this video made me an immediate subscriber. Thank you for your work.
Underrated video, love the Star Wars memes and lil chibi figures
Masterpiece. Utter masterpiece.
10/10 video underrated channel hope more people watch him
I did not expect such a great video!
Seeing the views on this video skyrocket makes me so happy for y'all! Please keep doing this combining of your videos for longer form videos!
I'm afraid to ask how long this took to make...
Very nice video. Great job!
The grass crown was called a "laurel", and may have been made of laurel leaves. Probably related to the word "laud", as in the word "applaud". I suspect it meant "approval or honor". So applaud could be seen as meaning "applying or giving honor". A sentence using it would be, " I give you laud and praise for your feat of bravery".
'Laud' is still used in the phrase 'cum laude', used in higher education to acknowledge those who passed their exams with a high average mark. Perhaps the most accurate translation, aside from the ones mentioned, would be 'praise'. It is also used in religious chants to evoke divine adoration, e.g. Laude Deum, 'Praise God'.
Magnificent Video
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic content. Must admit I was a bit put off by the art style at first but I've slowly gotten used to it. It certainly makes your content stand out. I hope you will continue to focus on the early republic as there is so little content on this topic available on UA-cam. I myself usually focus my studies on the mid to late republic (First Punic War to the end of the Republic), yet your videos have ignited an interest for me in the earlier wars and development of Rome. It's certainly fascinating to see how many of the later aspects of Rome (their approach to war, how they saw themselves) developed from earlier events. Also, I just did a reread of Robert Ogilvie's introduction of Livy books 1-5. It's a fantastic piece to read and really helps with understanding early Roman history. Yes, a lot of events, particularly those before the Gaulish sack of 387, are highly mythologized and borrow a lot from Greek history and later Roman history, but Ogilvie makes a convincing argument that we can accept the bare bones of early Roman history to be true. Might be interesting to do a video on Roman historiography and how people should approach understanding these events.
Beautiful work you got a new subscriber
a hidden gem omg
Nice this is awesome work, keep it up bro.
Great videos bro
Putting a commemt here as a sacrifice for the algorithm
Yeah same
Very interesting! Thanks for uploading! I like the art style!
Great work
YO I was just looking for a video like this. Good shit brudder keep it up
How the hell do you have just 4k subs i mean look at the animation and the passion in the video amazing and entertaining watched the entire 56 minutes.
11:30 the lazio football club symbol ahaha
33:34 Dear Sir I know you may not read this but that brought a smile to my face listening to that. I love your Church Latin pronunciation instead of the Hard K sound like classical.
It reminded me of the story of my Irish Catholic grandmother Francis. She came from a family of 11 and she was the youngest or the mistake.
Well growing up her siblings went to Catechism and the Priest told them some of you have Latin names, a lot have various meanings. Like Cornelius means horn but at the same time the Romans could be funny or cruel with nicknames.
He went down the list and her four siblings were Curtis=Shorty, Claudia=Lame, Calvin=Baldy, and Cecilia=Blind. Naturally all the kids were shocked these names were so blunt. When they got home, they of course asked their parents if this was just a coincidence and truly they didn't know the meanings of these names!?
Well my great grandparents just shrugged them off and said 'We know what those names meant, we speak Latin(Church Latin) just like you learning it now, those names weren't an accident. Be blessed knowing we love you enough to give you proud Catholic Latin names!'
I'll never forget that story and to this day again I'm happy I too was blessed with a Latin name.
Thank you for sharing that, not only is it beautiful how you remember your grandmother's childhood stories into detail, it's also amazing how even "blunt" words in latin sound so magnificent.
@MagistraVitae Yeah it's pleasant knowing her even recalling this. It was one of those stories they told her because by the time she was borne her oldest sibling was already 24/ married with children.
Ironically she asked a story about their childhood and they told her this. To me it makes me cry sometimes because of the fact before Vatican 2, all of us Catholics spoke Church Latin. I recall.how my grandfather her future husband went to both Asia and Hungary. He didn't speak any of the native language but could attend the Latin Mass with them.
I pray the Latin language never dies.
Your style of presentation is very good verbally, and while I think the references and memes might be a bit densely packed, I do like them and think that they are fine if they are just a bit toned down.
Do note that a lot of our information on this period is based on sources whose original sources are lost. Stories like of Publicus Corvus are likely to be either blown out of proportion or even entirely mythical, because Livy's goal wasn't in the first place to document Roman history with total accuracy, but to show why Rome was destined to become an empire. This becomes crucial for when you deal with sources like Caesar's *Gallic Wars*, where despite the useful information one should realize that Caesar wrote this book as an advertisement of his fame, and therefore makes him look even more of a genius than he already was.
And one minor pet peeve of mine is your mention of 'genocide' in the context of the ruthless wipeouts of enemies of Rome. While these actions certainly are of a gruesome nature, it doesnt quite fit the definition of genocide, because a genocide requires an actual intent to wipe out a culture or people. Genocidal acts are done not because the perpetrator got attacked or wishes to conquer their lands, but out of a direct wish to rid yourself of the entire culture and/or people. Rome never seemed interested in this, however, even integrating parts of hostile or conquered cultures into their own, particularly when it came to religion, and also making alliances with friendly states regardless of culture, which eventually would become incorporated into the Roman Empire by simply drifting into it.
If the Romans truly were genocidal, these alliances and cultural blending would have been much less interesting to the Romans, because why bother making alliances when you're their sworn enemies and will kill then anyway?
But keep things up! This looked very nice!
Signed, a Bachelor graduate on Ancient History
24:05 all your base are belong to us
Why is this video so good?
There must be a Majorian episode there must be!
One day for sure 😅
Time for a recap episode
This is a really well done video, this is a tiny thing but I would also just mention that instead of saying "perspired" which in english is generally in reference to condensation forming on a cool object or when a person is sweating the technical term is "perspiration" obviously I understand English is your second language and you are extremely capable but you should use the word "transpired" it has a much better flow. Thanks for the video dude, a great topic that alot of people seem to just forget happened.
Thank you for the tip, I won't mix those two up again :)
@@MagistraVitae I re-read my comment and I was quite tired when I wrote this, I'm really sorry for sounding almost sarcastic even though its hard to convey feeling over text, sorry for trying to correct you I just figured "Transpire" is likely easier to say as well. Have a great day bro, sorry again
I recognize this voice from another great channel, I wish you the best of success on this new channel.
I have to dissapoint you, this is our first and only channel
@@MagistraVitae I thought you were sand roman history! but I also wish you a lot of success, I have already subscribed
This was pretty great. Thanks so much
When claiming the romans could maybe field forces consisting out of 500 000 men does the source refers to the amount of military age men under roman rule?
Basically yes. They didn’t field that many men at the same time, but it is believed that (if we count Rome and all its allies) they could call upon around 500 000 men of fighting age.
@@MagistraVitae wouldn’t rallying that many men have caused a collapse on the home front, without any men to man fields and forges to feed or equip them?
@@tadhgconroy8631That's why they only levied a portion of their forces and left the rest as reserves or garrisons, able to tend to the land. That is part of the reason, for example, why Pyrrhus failed at decisively beating the Romans despite having 3 victories in battle over them. Rome would be hurt when they lost 3 full legions, for sure, but their manpower reserves were too big to be beaten, as Hannibal too found out.
And also, in general ancient wars followed a season. Soldiers were called up once they had sowed their lands and would campaign for the entire summer, and when harvest came around the soldiers often went home even if the war wasn't undecided. Because all nations needed to harvest their lands, nobody dared taking advantage of that until factions could make sure their lands would continue to be worked by slave labour, their soldiers were paid mercenaries rather than their own farmers, or there was another way to ensure food for the winter, like import. Even after that moment, the hostile climate of winter often encouraged soldiers to stay in camp anyway. So with winter being an unfavourable time to campaign, soldiers could go home and prepare their land for the next season of crops. In that way, the burden of the military on society was lessened.
Very nice animations! Used to romans being red squares.
I am just thinking an eu4 style game with those graphics whould be fire
Magistra Vitae Eu4 mod coming soon?!
@IllyrianTiger99 Personally, I would much rather prefer a CK3 mod 🤔
@@MagistraVitae I agree Ck3 would be nicer
Bro this period and the 1400-1500 hundreds is my favorite period of time
Just going to put a clarification here: In the Roman Republic, a "dictator" didn't quite mean the same thing it does now, it was a legitimate office that men were occasionally appointed to for a short period (usually around six months) to deal with some sort of crisis and only the last (Caeser) refused to ever give it up (although Sulla did hold the office for three years). It was fairly common during the early centuries but got rarer during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC
Yes, thats right. These videos are a part of a larger series and we do explain the office of dictator in the 3rd episode, when we talk about the first dictator of Rome :)
@@MagistraVitae ah, I just found this one and didn't know that, I'll be sure to check out the rest of the series later
Chad ancient historian: just makes shit up
Very cool video. I hope your next videos follow the same format, specially video lenght. I'm not a fan of watching a dozen short videos when I can watch one long
Here before this video blows up
In life things do repeat themselves. and sometimes people get ideas from the past and repeat them.
This is really good I just subscribed 37:06
Interesting animation
Also I think you’re a fine narrator
Beautiful
what is the ost here? the piano is soo soothing
That Marcus Valerius story sounds very similar to David and Goliath. I wonder if they have any shared roots or if it just generally sharing of Mediterranean martial and philosphical values producing a similar undersog story.
I decided to have a shot of vodka for every Star Wars reference and now I have cirrhosis
Very watchable!
26:13 Fire Emblem reference!
Great video
Lovely vid
Is it not possible that the war occurred the way it was recorded and all later events were done in honor of the stories of this war they would have grown up romanticizing them?
I mean, if we land at D-Day does that mean the landing in Libia in the early 1800's didn't happen?
How you have 8k subs?
A sacrifice for the algorithm
Bc great video
It's like the historians made these entire wars up
SPQR🦅
Neat
romans are latin themself which made it confusing when the other latins started rebel
What if Italy wasn't a foot but a thigh. More land for farming.
I love African History
10:18 the scroll says aves non sunt vera, which means birds are not real 😂
This video 📹 is anti Samnitic, lol.
12:25
Very funny
Rome was such a psychopathic society.
In a way, yes, but they were not much more crazy or narrow-minded than contemporary cultures. In fact, Romans were often pragmatic too, and they were great engineers who often perfected the new concepts and inventions of the Greeks. And their policy on cultural differences was downright liberal, often allowing religious freedom and cultural distinction as long as it didn't challenge Roman rule.
No doubt Roman culture was bellicose and ruthless, but they were definitely not more psychopathic than their neighbours.
Jeez. Kind of sad to be honest. Impressive but sad.
18:46 Oh wait, maby Russia is actually the true successor to rome
Oh my God how cute
Why use swords rather than pikes for the Romans? I thought they used the phalanx until they were involved in Hispania and got the gladius?
Between the First and Second Samnite War the roman changed from a Greek style phalanx to a maniple system used by the Samnites.
They used Greek style swords that were longer than gladius and they switched later during the Punic Wars.
It would be more accurate to show them with pikes in the first part of the video, but we were somewhat limited with the animations.
I love the information and the detail! (Not finished yet, but have bookmarked this to finish later) - one comment - I REALLY think the cutesy graphics with the 8-bit bobble heads is ...well, horrible. I could go into greater detail (like it dishonors the history, makes it seem un-serious, and almost makes it like this is designed for kids) - but I'll leave it at that. :) I hope you continue, and I hope you get better graphics!
A lot of this sounds like ancient Roman fan fiction and propaganda rather than history.
The Romans truly were the scum of the earth. So were most of their opponents.
The whole "Cassus Belli" thing, let's not kid ourselves.
Found an angry barbarian.
@@Euro.Patriot Unte mwerre?
@@aniinnrchoque1861 Are you African?
@@Euro.Patriot close enough, it's Arrente
Just as it is important to recognise historical embellishments, it's important to recognise historical revisionism, like using "BCE".
I will use BCE when the actually change the calendar until that day it’s BC AD
Man, i didn't noticed. I thought it meant Before Christ Era.
It's not revisionism. It's a way of dating the past that was invented long after these events took place
I hate this bullshit, what will be the next? Renaming cities to remove their religious background? San Francisco to Francisco, Los Angeles to California HQ? Is so dumb.
And is not even common, common with who? With the chinese? with the muslims? no, with the christian countries.
"BCE" is not a thing
I don't understand, is it automatically removing my comment or is it you?
UA-cam sometimes holds comments for review automatically, happens all the time
@@MagistraVitae I've watched the whole video and enjoyed it a lot, so I wanted to ask a question since you've done some research. I was just asking if there is any way to contact you to ask a historical question regarding this topic and I gave my Discord name and it was removing that comment. I'm making a mod for a game set in this period.
You can send a message on X/Twitter. The link is on the home page
Genocide..... that's garbage. you lost a fan. Hail caesar.
Me: How DID Rome conquer Italy? ... "Do want the short version or the long version?" Me: YES!
Can we interest you in the long looong version 🤫
Oh Gigguk 😂
@@MagistraVitae just one long version. last one i swear! i just need one long version to get me through the week..
I wanna see 1,000,000 views on this video by next week.
I can see the makings of a phenomenal roman history channel here! Especially on a topic of roman history i feel isnt covered that often. Keep it going bro! You have a new sub with me :)