What Was Normal Life Like For A Roman Centurion? | Warriors Way | Odyssey
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2023
- The life of a centurion was a tough one. Being part of the most effective and efficient military machine the world had ever seen brought with it long tough days of marching, building and training and that's before you've even set foot on the battlefield. Discover what the real lives of these legendary soldiers were like.
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Finally a representation of Romans (my ancestors) that is historicaly accurate! 😊 bravo
There was this YT channel Invicta presenting what it takes for a legion on the move...very impressive and worth watching.
Where is that centurion which live you said you were showing?
Well.. it was interesting.. and I did see a few centurions walk by... the title is not really saying what this is about..
Great show. You keep history alive. Bravo
thank you
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I've heard varying opinions on the pilum. Some say they were meant to bend on impact, however, I've also heard that it is a common misconception.
I would guess that whether it bent or didn't bend, a shield with a heavy pilum stuck in it would not be useful.
I've heard that too. Most of the "experts" say it's a myth. But then I wonder about the stories I've heard about one of the iron nails (or rivets) in the head of the shaft being replaced with a wooden peg so the pilum would break or bend. So, I'm confused.
Outfitting the Roman army alone never ceases to amaze me.
@13:59 he throw pilum like a grandma
I have a Roman Centurions uniform and went trick or treating with my 2 year old grandson . It was great ! One person called me a gladiator ! I had to explain I spent 10 years ( Army ) in Centurion school and am not a slave . My Son's named Julius Caesar and my grandson Roman . I spent two years in Germany with an ADA Battery near Trier Germany and it was great . In 1984 , Trier was 2000 years old and they had the Legio XX march at the Port De Negro gates , I have a post card from it ! Make Rome Great Again ! I also have a recording production company , " 10th Legion Productions " . Research Giaus Crastinus , Primus Pilus of the 10th . I wrote a song " Primus Pilus " about him ! " Victus Romanus " !
Victus Romanus!
The picture is incorrect. Roman Centurions were black. BBC and Netflix told me.
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Marxists have taken over
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So is Zeus apparently
Rent free in your head
Simply not true that Germania limited their military abilities, the area wasn’t considered worth the expense and trouble there weren’t enough benefits for permanent conquests, even though Probus marched to the Elbe and considered annexing and reducing it to a Provence before his assassination.
Age of Empires II style music/sound effects, and I love it! 🏹 ⚔ 🛡 🗡 🏰
Ur in the crew.
Being left handed would make being a legionary tough for me.
The Gaul commander had fought with the Roman Legions . The Roman Legions like to day trained on team work. Some of the best example are the Korean lower rank officers. They were better trained than the ones I had in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Army was the worst for the most part you bought your rank.
I traded for an old SKS with mounted scope (made-in-china) gun? Wink wink, it's acually not bad now after going through it, cleaning & adjusting, then adding the shoulder strap & pig-sticker on the end. I respect your involvement and praise the effort served for our country Sir
Reville: Yell at legionaries
Dawn: Yell at legionaries
Mid-morning: Yell at legionaries
Noon: Yell at legionaries
Afternoon: Yell at legionaries
Evening: Yell at legionaries
Dinnertime: Yell at legionaries
Nighttime: Yell at legionaries
Sleeptime: Yell at legionaries in dream
After retirement: Yell at kids and neighours (but not the wife)
Substitute Soldiers for Legionaries and you described my career as an NCO. 😂
@@jameswells554 It's universal.
@@silverchairsg kinda sad, actually. Think there'd be an easier way to things by now.
@@jameswells554 Well I am Singaporean and we have universal male conscription for 2 years at 18. So like every military there's obviously the shouting and such, but it has been toned down a ton from my father's generation. Back in his day the sergeants did all the sadistic stuff like hitting and kicking recruits, making them leopard crawl on the brick parade square in the blazing hot tropical noon sun, change parades etc, but now they've been outlawed. I also heard positive encouragement is now encouraged (lol) in basic training, though that was after my time.
Also because I finished my 2 years and now only go back for reservist like for two weeks every year, the higher-ups don't shout at us any more and have to cajole us sometimes since we're reservists and don't give a F. Anyway the NCOs and officers are our fellow conscripts so everyone just tries do things chill and safely.
31:37 Is that type of sophisticated recruitment letter real?
Varus was a lawyer - not a military commander. He was petty and cruel. The legions were sworn to follow him. This was the principle cause of Teutonburg massacre.
The secret to Roman dominance, and later their failures is mainly attributed to three factors. First, training, the legions were not comprised of conscripts, but professional soldiers who were well trained, and disciplined. Their punishments were beyond imagination for us today. The term decimation comes from the decimation punishment which was the execution of ever tenth soldier hence deci-mation. Secondly their equipment, it was perfectly suited to the tactics they used, thirdly would be their small unit formations. The way the legions were organized meant that they were easier to command, and could form different formations easier, and quicker, than a larger traditional army of the era. When you take those three factors into account, you have an extreme departure from the norm of the time. Other empires might have been able to field a larger army, but it wasn't as well trained, or organized which means not nearly as effective. Couple that with the mostly solid leadership they primarily had and it was deadly effective. Barbarians aren't going to send out a call for levies and be able to stop a legion. The formation tactics they employed were also cutting edge for the time. In later years, the organization broke down, the cohesion, the standardized equipment, and the over reliance on auxiliary troops means training declined as well. They tried to rely on the tactics that had served them so well, but were not becoming outdated. History has taught that a military that fights to win the last war loses the next one, it was true of Rome, of France (multiple times), and quite a few other empires.
Otto von Bismarck did not like war but recognized you had to get into one if you want to prevent worse conflict in the future. And if you think he had a hand in WW1 think again it was the French who resented losing for 40 years that started the Triple Entente, basically a plot against Germany.
I dont know if they were the first but the Spartans had a standing army way before Rome!
Augustus: “Varus, give back the legions!”
Correction. "Varrus give back my legion". Did you ever see BBC I Claudius
War was definitely considered, more of just a way of life in pre-industrial times.
The soldiers took oaths, but I don't recall the documentary mentioning generals having to take oaths. If anyone knows more?
Ah! Chromed stirrups! lol 7:37
"What Was Normal Life Like For A ?" I guess we'll never know...
Roman Centurions were from the Congo, my grandmother told me so.
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Haha.
Maybe a few
The secret to Roman military success is engineering. The Romans showed up in mass, built forts and garrisons that were well protected and maintained. It was next to impossible to dislodge them. It was this engineering that won wars. Never forget when Cesar came to the Rhine he built a bridge across it (300 yards over 30 foot deep cold moving water) crossed it, chased the local armies for few weeks then turned and crossed the river and tore the bridge down. All to let them know he could do was he wished.
If they were on Hadrian's Wall it would be tough cold, wet, and freezing and they had to keep the Picts (in today's Scotland) from jumping over the Wall to attack Britain's (today's English) after the Romans left in the early 5th century the Picts attacked all the way down to the south coast of today's England, that's why the Britain's asked the Anglo Saxons to come and help them.
Its was much warmer there in those days - grapes were grown along Hadrians wall.
What did I just watch? The video doesn't show Julius (or Iulius) very much. Yet, he is supposed to be the viewer's POV character. The only action he does in the entire documentary is RUNNING AWAY?!
Also, the narrative clumsily jumps around: the story starts at the time of Augustus, but after that the story veers wildly back and forth from showing the pre-Marian legions before 100 BC (look at the armor) to the sack of Rome in the 5th century AD?!
Not always a lot of good Roman commanders would not throw in the new recruits are auxiliary troops they wanted to train them because they were knew they were loyal .
I saw what a Roman looked like... the b picture on Roman meal bread 2
The soldiers would have been much fitter looking than the stand-ins pictured!
46:56 "Belarius". Who is that? Does he mean Belisarius?
Flattering
What ever happened to good ol AD & BC…….. history lost right there
Panonia is not in the Balkans 🙄 From how good this documentary looks you would think you’d get your facts right.
No it is not it is in slovenia
wtf. This video didn’t talk almost ALL about Centurions. It was about the life of Auxiliaries. Good video, but shit TITLE. 😑
Pre Empire was very different for the average Roman soldier.
Sure, pre reforms like Marius. As a result we have a much different army Years later
If anyone's very much into Roman warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
I'm wondering how "real" the weapons and armor are in this documentary. Are the extras wearing real chainmail, scale armor, and banded armor? It LOOKS real, certainly. More so than other docuentaries and tv shows, where they'd have "knitted mail" for example, or outright printed patterns or molded foam. The helmets look like they're metal instead of foam or plastic. Interesting attention to detail! Perhaps the "costume designer" should be commended in this case.
Think a soldier won’t lie? Ask him how much his pack weighs and how far he marched that day. 😂
We need a modern revival.
13:59 One of these recruits, is not like the others, one of these recruits, doesn't belong...
Oops. They would train the auxiliaries I'm trying to say train them to fight in the right sequence and order of the Roman tactics where they learn discipline and how to fight together that was their biggest success on the battlefield fighting together as a unit.
Got to hand it to them the Germans they have been a worthy battle and fighting opponent since the beginning
Yes, and they learned many things from the Romans in subsequent centuries of trade and contact.
Very good, thank you for this, well done it be.
But, however, can we please keep it at "B.C.", "A.D." and NOT change it into anything else..
Try not to "change" history shall we...
History is way more clear with a Hellenic classical education, and someone who speaks like a native Greek and not as an outsider/foreigner who learned Greek. Dionysius Pyrrhus requests the exclusive use of Hellene in his Cheiragogy: "Never desire to call yourselves Romans, but Hellenes, for the Romans from ancient Rome enslaved and destroyed Hellas." And George Gemistus Plethon pointed out to Constantine Palaeologus that the people he leads are "Hellenes, as their race and language and education testifies". Ducas Vatatzes, wrote in a letter to Pope Gregory IX about the wisdom that "rains upon the Hellenic nation". He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors. His son, Theodore II Lascaris, was eager to project the name of the Greeks with true nationalistic zeal. He made it a point that "the Hellenic race looms over all other languages" and that "every kind of philosophy and form of knowledge is a discovery of Hellenes […]. What do you, O Rome, have to display?"
The ancient Greeks used the name "Italia" In addition to the "Greek Italy" and it was Ulfilas, a Greek Who Created the Early German Alphabet. The Greeks created it, the Germans copy it, and the English exploit it. 😅
No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit.
In the beginning... God created the Earth, and in the light blue waters, put a small ship to travel forever, in order not only to give birth but also to transfer great ideas all over the world ...
He called that ship...HELLAS! 🐬🐬🐬🐬
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Herodotus.
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I feel like the title did not match
Ave true to Caesar
Bad title. WTF?
EXACTLY! 😂
Several inaccuracies. One for all, it was far, very far from the greatest, or even one of the greatest romans defeats through history... Battle of lake Trasimene, Caudine Forks, Cannea, Carrhae, Arausio. Tragedy for the Romans, but surely the outcome was in Rome not that dramatic, since it was, to exaggerate a bit, a mere "border" skirmish. However those other battles threatened the Rome´s very existence.
What?
No transecual Centurions?
No DEI in Roman times?
Bismarck did not incite the Prussian wars. Also that term is not established. Get your facts right.
If you start mentioning all the errors it will take a whole day.
Prussian people are almost extinct. The first contemporary extinction of a human race. Which few people know
The guy who got executed for forgetting his sword was told by his commander to go get it and put it on. The soldier went to his tent and came back totally naked except for his sword on his hip, trying to be funny. That’s why he was executed. Apparently his commander didn’t see the humor.
So what about the Centurions ?
Ignorance appears to be contagious
11:30 Why the hell will allow the roman military someone to leave with their full gear?
How does the one scholar say teutoburg was probably worst defeat of Roman's? Cannae was much worse and Carrhae was close in casualties as well.
I agree, but the long-term consequences were huge. By accepting the loss and not persevering about subduing the Germans, basically conceding that they were unconquerable, they left a mortal enemy proud and intact ....and Rome fell to the descendants of Arminius' Germans 400+ years later. It did not fall to Carthage or Persia.
@johndenugent4185 i mean 400 years later it was depolutated and ravaged by plague so kind of unavoidable. Those germans didnt do shit to the east and were moatly fleeing their own conquest by the huns.
Lost me at “Common Era”… Do better.
Also known as the Christian Era, as Anno Domini/CE started after the death of Jesus Christ.
Roman never fell they became the church ⛪️
I was mad excited, then you said 'common era' .....dislike
Go cry to your non-existent god 🤣
Lol cope
100% 👍"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. "
Aristotle
Lol it’s not like that bruh I own a challenger mate
Ugh! I hate when people say chainmail! Its just mail lol.
Annoying as hell that you use CE instead of AD.
Yes, well, the producer may be anti-Christian. John 8:44
"pailum" javilins
its Pilum
What were the Prussian wars of Independence? Not to be nit picky but that's error.
I’d love to be able to travel back in time and start building nations and taking over lands. I often think about how I would do it lol
It's not lost forever. We can still LARP it.
Change the title from Centurion to Legionare.
Why does this Roman soldier of Germanic origin look southern Italian? Especially back two thousand years ago, many Germans were blond. Tacitus said they seemed to be of a pure race (which is not true now):
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Nothing against the guy with the thick accent, but a narrator for a video for American viewers he is not. It was very distracting. What were you thinking???
Well I'm pretty sure life was short for the centurion. It must have sucked but it was still better than being a peasant. 😊
You have to survive first to get Centurion.
Hey roman what was life like for you normal??? I mean we don't have to fear barbarians anymore.
22:25 Son, it is called Before Christ, and nothing else.
Or is the "common Era" the islamic tide-count, or the buddhistic?
Or is it year 50 after earths assembly in the solar system?
No one will take offense if you use the "Common Era" count in the West, wich is B.C or A.D. that is to specify things. Why do you think we use that common count in Christendom? Because of namely the One Who is called Christ.
I dont know how this Erik Walters got his PhD.?
A lot of BS.
Overall not a very good video.
Roman Republic treated citizen soldiers much better.
What do you mean by that? Not really sure that is true.
wasnt there like 15,000 men in a legion?.....
"Common Era?" No thanks.
Why do Italians speak with an A at the end of the final word of their sentences when they speak English?
Soldiers-a
Roman-a
Punishment-a
Germans-a
I'm of Italian descent and have no idea why they talk like that when they speak English...
(Honest question I would really like to know)
Because english isnt our mother language and we have to translate in our mind
That -a is your "and-eeeh"
@@digge2210 thanks for replying I was genuinely curious :)
I speak English as a second language and I live in a very cosmopolitan area but the only ones that do this (to my knowledge and experience) are Italians and Japanese and I never knew why…
DO you mean Italians speaking English-a :D
It is really strange, i agree.
@@pavelivanov2999 Japanese put the letter O when it ends with a consonant (McDonald-o for instance) but Italians put the letter A in the end of every sentence which is very odd to me hence the question :)
The language does not like consonant clusters and, for euphony, wants to separate them by a vowel, even adding one. German and Russian are the opposite -- many consonant clusters.
5 minutes for the introduction and i turned off
What the hell is c.e.
The term Common Era makes me instantly stop watching any documentary...
There are people in Hollywood who hate Jesus and in fact got him crucified.
Why?
Yeah, why?
I love Rome lol
All these centurions are strong independent women...
using common era is a bit on the big nose aint it
The battle of teutoburg forest happened in 9AD not 15CE.. another inaccurate documentary.
Tired of hearing "common era." It is "B.C.", before Christ.
I'm an atheist and I agree lol.
Totally misleading name!!
Almost most of the time after a big battle was won the commanders would have big parties hands hands out all kinds of gifts little sacks of silver and gold a portion of the money of sale of the slaves the generals were always good the most of the time to their troops the ones that ate the same food and slept in the same tents who are the most successful
Not BCE, it's BC end of story!
The same sort of people felt all offended and banned prayer in schools.
Where did all the wealth of the roman empire go...did it morfed into the roman catholic church?
SPQR!
It’s BC not BCE..so dumb cus the pc version still marks before and after Jesus ..just stop and get help
This video is very dated and always talks about worst case scenarios for legionaries.
Als die Römer frech geworden, zogen sie nach Deutschland’s Norden. ……
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Click Bait.
It’s interesting how the USA mirrors many tactics the Romans used. Romans didn’t care what background you came from, color of skin, ethnicity, etc. They just needed soldiers/ mercenaries to continue their expansion, which would lead to power all over the known world. The USA is currently one of the most diverse groups in all the world. Being so diverse is something that lead them over so many wins in WW1, WW2. Diversity equals power. Pretty simple. When humans group up for a purpose, whatever that purpose may be, they become unstoppable. If only now in days we could channel that power for the good of humanity. Unfortunately there is a lot of disinformation that destroys potential greatness.
Hmm.. diversity was not common in either WW1 or WW2 in the USA
"Diversity equals power" is such an empty slogan. What does it even mean in this context?
I am going to echo what the other guys said. This comment is overall BS.
The US copied from Rome!?!? What about many other nations that have different enthnisities? What about Persia for example, why didnt they copy from them.
Diversity equals power?!?!? At the end one of the reasons for the downfall of Rome was this exact diversity. This statement is just shallow.
The US won WW1 and 2?!?!? WW2 was mostly won by the soviets, dahh! And the US was late for both parties.
Diversity also leads to sectionalism and grouping. Your example is valid when and only when the diverse group are seen as a single entity and not as different groups. Today's military no longer creates a single cohesive fighting unit, identity is now sexual preference, gender, race, etc. Not "soldier", "sailor", or "airman". This diversity makes us weaker, not stronger.
@@stephenfitzgerald7516 Ignorant statement.