Cato the Younger served as an urban quaestor, if I recall correctly, where he famously prosecuted many of Sulla's old henchmen despite their importance and close relationships with Pompey. I also seem to remember reading that he was mocked for taking his responsibility so seriously, and for pouring over boring tax records during senate meetings.
holy crap. I learned of this channel from my digging for history and finding OSP. You have been doing this since 2014!? After the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted, I am so paying you something!
I have always seen the quaestorship as a form of induction, not only into the Senate, but into a man's political life under the Republic; accordingly, during his tenure, he had to pay his dues. This explains the inglorious bureaucratic roles he might end up playing, as it fits in with the hierarchical mentality of the Romans, where everyone needed to be kept in place. However, aside from the Uban Quaestors, it also gave the provincial governors access to these young men, and allowed the governors to tap into whatever talents the quaestors might possess. This should be seen as a training ground for tomorrow's potential rulers of Rome (Praetors and Consuls).
I agree. I imagine it like an internship? Even connected to the Treasury you'd have an opportunity to pour of tax laws and the taxes of others, that might give an ambitious politician firepower for later. Being a consular quaestor, would give you close up experience of how the job worked, and and what might be invovled. You might not gain glory, but you'd gain a lot of knowledge?
@Raggaliamous I thinkwhen he says they probably would looked down there noses at it hes probably right the romans saw great politicians and great generals as the same thing so to get put in a position where its completely and utterly unrelated to war or the consuls who would have been seen as the best for war they probably weren't respected and the lack of any of them being notable is probably the best support for this argument
This list should exclusively be compliments. Each of these videos is like an academic haiku - brief and beautifully executed, while at the same time exquisitely informative. Thank you for making them.
Cato the Younger served as Urban Quaestor. In the early to mid Republic there were no pre reqs within the "Cursus Honorum" you could become a Praetor from noble Patrician families without serving as Quaestor, as seen with Africanus who became Consul at 26 (30years was also the age Req to join the Senate after serving full 10years in the military within the Equesatrian order, Africanus only got accepted at age 26 instead of 30 within the Senate because he was the only who who went to Hispania freely and was promoted from Eques to Senator at the age 26 due to this Brothers and Fathers influence, wich had never happend before.) I believe it was Sullas reforms? that lowered the age req to 26 for Quaestor but also made it so you had to serve as >Quastor>Praetor>Consul, by the time of Caesar the age req for Quastor had been lowered to 26 and the military service required as an Eques was lowered to 7.5years rather then the original 10years of service, to go from Equestrian > Senator. This age req req was changed to due to all the provinces as also seen with both Sullas and Caesars dictatorships they both increased the nubmer of offices for Quaestor and Praetors by 50% Originally their were only 6-8 Quaestors, 4 Praetors and 2 Aeidile, one Patrician and one Plebian.
Well, theoretically, but natural causes also tended to shrink it at a similarish rate. I think the average number of senators was between 300-500 by the late republic, but dont qoute me on that.
@@narrowstone5363 Many were richer men. So yeah. Quite likely. Maybe they just wanted the prestige of being a senator and after just chill on their money.
senators don't live forever. If 20 men get elected at around 30 years old, and get to live for another 30 years on average that makes about 600 senators at any given time. The number would go up and down depending on how long they actually lived.
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How can 20 quaestors come to the Senate every year, if theres no seats to be taken? I dont think 20 quaestors die every year to give the seats to the new 20 people.
20 different quaestors are elected every year. I think they would be a lot of times comprised of ex-quaestors already in the Senate. Senators lead armies a lot of times so dying in that way wouldn't be rare. I think it would still allow for some new people to get in there every once and a while. I know nothing on the topic but from these videos but this is my understanding from the information presented.
because there was no maximum amount of seats in the roman senate. if in one year 4 senators died then the number os senators was simply expanded with 16 new positions.
The Colosseum is estimated to have been able to hold 50.000 to 80.000 people. Let's be conservative and say it could only hold 40.000. That means it would take 2.000 years to fill at a rate of 20 quaestors per year, assuming none died. All jokes aside, while it might seem strange to have a fluctuating number of senators, assuming the amount of quaestors elected per year is constant, that the average age at which quaestors were elected was constant, and that life expectancy didn't change significantly, the size of the senate would remain largely constant, with any significant changes in size (a bunch of really old quaestors being replaced by a bunch of very young quaestors) lasting, at the most, a lifetime, probably less. Also, I think I heard somewhere that work in the senate was unpaid, with the honour and influence thought to be enough reward. Not counting bribes and skimming profits, of course.
They'd need some kind of method to get info to everyone present though. I don't think even Cicero could speak out to 80,000 people and be heard directly
Nice video but initially weren't only 2 Quaestor offices available for taking? And after some time it was doubled, to 4. I don't know much about it but because the number of provinces may have increased the number of Quaestors would increase too, although I don't think 20 may have been a constant number.
I get the sense Quaestors assigned to consuls were akin to like chiefs if staff/press secretaries. Your job was probably representing the consul to people with less out right political authority like minor aristocrats or wealthy merchants. People looking for influence but not power with the consul.
The pronunciatios of some of these Latin words sounds like they have the letter Æsc (ash) in them like in Quæstors and Ædiles. Is this a thing or am I just wrong?
I find his ambiguity indicative of how the Romans probably felt. It was a dead end job, but nobody would say so because Saturn was a Boss, and you don't say such disrespectful things out loud, but would I want to be an Urban Quaestor? Hell no!!!
It does allow access to great wealth running the treasury of any country. It could've been used to buy more prestigious positions at the end of the year.
A patrician could not become a Tribune of the plebs. That's why it was a scandal when Claudius Pulcher organized to be adopted by a plebeian and changed his name to Clodius Pulcher, in order to become a Tribune.
@@niccolorichter1488 thank u for answering =) Military Tribune was not an obligatory office but it was good for a later career. People that had not served at all in the army would have a hard time progressing through the Cursus Honorum. The sons of the aristocracy (both patrician and pleibeian) would easily get a place as military Tribunes, because of their connections.
If the romans didn't have an accurate account of treasury funds or an archive of laws passed, rome would have been even more dysfunctional that it was.
You are correct that it is pronounced "eye" in Classical Latin. In Medieval/Ecclesiastical Latin, however, it's pronounced "eh" and that's the version that all Romance languages today are based on. It might also be the version spoken by commonfolk during Fraser's time, so it's not entirely inaccurate.
@@jeffbenton6183 So? This video is not about a "medieval/ecclesiastical" topic. It's about "classical" Rome, thus I point out the proper "classical" (ie: appropriate to the period) pronunciation, not the "vulgar". Cheers.
I'm not arguing with you, just saying there's an alternate pronunciation. Also, as I said at the end of my comment, there may have been people at the time who pronounced it that way.
What is that supposed to mean, Sean? HC's errors at pronouncing latin aren't discredited somehow because OP doesn't make videos of his own. If anything does, it's OP's lack of specific examples and proper pronunciation that'd discredit him.
Spain = “Barbarian infested borderlands” - doesn’t get more pro-Roman than that, sounds like a Roman official. Don’t get me wrong, these videos are invaluable and the best I’ve seen on Roman history, but the Roman bias is just too strong!
Pretty sure he was just implicitly stating exactly how Caesar and the Romans viewed the situation (both before and after). But he's actually very clear that Caesar brutalised the natives into submission, using force to get them to profit the Roman system, not commenting on if that's a good thing. You kind of rolled right over the low-grade sarcasm there.
Caesar, Cicero, Pompey, Cato, Marcus Antonius, Marcus Lepidus, Cleopatra, Augustus, Brutus, Agrippa, Crassus, Tiberius, Caligula, Virgil . . . these were great men . . what a great time to be alive. . .
HISPANIA, not HYSPANIA, it was not a Greek word beginning in an upsilon with rough breathing but rather a Phoenician toponym: "Land of hyraxes", Also, the profitable mining region of Hispania lay north in the lands of the Astures and Cantabri, these not only lay outside of the province of Further Spain (Hispania Ulterior) but were only incorporated into the Roman state after Caesar's death, under Augustus
@@august8696 the romans were forced to settle and farm. The thracians and the germanic tribes had plenty of game in the wild. Temples and slavery isn't culture
You should try and avoid being so historically biased. Uncivilized ? Civilization being to bend to Roman Law? All peoples have their cultures , costums and history and as a history lover you should value them all. I love your vids , keep doing them if you can. Glad to have you back after 7 months.
All cultures are not created equal. Now, I'm not all too knowledgeable on the early history of iberia, but I'm pretty sure that Romans were a bit more civilized than the iberian tribes.
Living in shacks is not civilization ? Only living in roman houses is civlization ? The civilizing principle of roman conquest is a myth much like the civilizing concept of colonization. Its just an excuse to conquer and subdue people. Look Im not saying Rome wasnt a million times more advanced , becasue it was , the point is Civilization is not Roman Law. Roman Law / Society is A Civilization just as the celtiberian tribes had their civilization. Saying Rome WAS civilization itself IS historical bias.
Sarge Rho A bit more civilized ? Or more tecnologically advanced ? If you mean their culture had characteristics you value more thats your opinion using your own measures (which I totally agree) , now you must understand that tecnological superiority doesn't mean you are Civilization itself. It was just the Roman civilization.
Renato Pereira Civilized = A Culture with advanced technology for it's time. In the Ancient World this would be: Greece (and successor states) Greek City States (like Syracuse) Carthage Indian States Rome
So much bias against Ceasar. You act like he's a childish idiot running from responsibility. It's bull shit. Every action he did was successful. Not luck.
Mark Antony? as People’s Tribune?! I thought that was a position of great dignity and seriousness.
Perhaps you're right. We shall send Strabo along
Such an amazing show
Wow, that was low...
So it 'tis.
It is an honorable post, as these men have proven
"And what do you do for a living?"
"I'm an urban quaestor."
"NEEEEERRRRRRRRRD!"
no such thing as nerx or charisx or talex or not, cepitx, say any nmw and any be perfx
So well put.
Cato the Younger served as an urban quaestor, if I recall correctly, where he famously prosecuted many of Sulla's old henchmen despite their importance and close relationships with Pompey. I also seem to remember reading that he was mocked for taking his responsibility so seriously, and for pouring over boring tax records during senate meetings.
but did he make it to consul?
Alex Wex no but he could have been if he had tried.
I'm surprised he missed that fact, being that it was in as prominent a primary source as Plutarch's "Lives"
@@fensti7917 Cato was well-known mostly for being a humble, honest politician. Naturally, he never reached the highest ranks.
@@jeffbenton6183 thats why he couldn't be elected console he refused to bribe people.
When Cicero was in Sicily, it was Cicily
And that's how Cicero discovered Alaska.
Cec
And when Kanada was visited by Cicero, it was Canada
Noice
Good thing he never spent much time in Cic-Alpine Gaul...
Quaestors in a nutshell:
Quaestors: I'm a senator
The rest of the senate: NOBODY CARES!!!
Ah Cicero. Such a fine man. I wished we knew more.
holy crap. I learned of this channel from my digging for history and finding OSP. You have been doing this since 2014!? After the Covid-19 lockdown is lifted, I am so paying you something!
Stop it
@@kapitan19969838 ?
I have always seen the quaestorship as a form of induction, not only into the Senate, but into a man's political life under the Republic; accordingly, during his tenure, he had to pay his dues. This explains the inglorious bureaucratic roles he might end up playing, as it fits in with the hierarchical mentality of the Romans, where everyone needed to be kept in place. However, aside from the Uban Quaestors, it also gave the provincial governors access to these young men, and allowed the governors to tap into whatever talents the quaestors might possess. This should be seen as a training ground for tomorrow's potential rulers of Rome (Praetors and Consuls).
I agree. I imagine it like an internship? Even connected to the Treasury you'd have an opportunity to pour of tax laws and the taxes of others, that might give an ambitious politician firepower for later. Being a consular quaestor, would give you close up experience of how the job worked, and and what might be invovled. You might not gain glory, but you'd gain a lot of knowledge?
@Raggaliamous I thinkwhen he says they probably would looked down there noses at it hes probably right the romans saw great politicians and great generals as the same thing so to get put in a position where its completely and utterly unrelated to war or the consuls who would have been seen as the best for war they probably weren't respected and the lack of any of them being notable is probably the best support for this argument
New sitcom idea: The four urban quaestors and their wacky adventures
This list should exclusively be compliments. Each of these videos is like an academic haiku - brief and beautifully executed, while at the same time exquisitely informative. Thank you for making them.
your videos are awefully interesting
Mastercrumble Fischer yes it gives me a terrible curiosity in the subject
Disgustingly cool comments guys
I got a bad case of interest !
If they showed this at school kids would like history more.
People in Spain:* just being *
Romans: *conquer *
Spanish: "no, stop that"
Romans: "ungovernable barbarians"
If by being You mean being barbaric then yeah
Iberian people. Spain didn't exist at the time, and Iberia includes Portugal and Spain.
@Amber Hoke penisula. *juvenile snickering*
6:34 ...yet Historia Civilis says he was ambitious, and Historia Civilis is an honourable man.
Cato the Younger served as Urban Quaestor.
In the early to mid Republic there were no pre reqs within the "Cursus Honorum" you could become a Praetor from noble Patrician families without serving as Quaestor, as seen with Africanus who became Consul at 26 (30years was also the age Req to join the Senate after serving full 10years in the military within the Equesatrian order, Africanus only got accepted at age 26 instead of 30 within the Senate because he was the only who who went to Hispania freely and was promoted from Eques to Senator at the age 26 due to this Brothers and Fathers influence, wich had never happend before.) I believe it was Sullas reforms? that lowered the age req to 26 for Quaestor but also made it so you had to serve as >Quastor>Praetor>Consul, by the time of Caesar the age req for Quastor had been lowered to 26 and the military service required as an Eques was lowered to 7.5years rather then the original 10years of service, to go from Equestrian > Senator.
This age req req was changed to due to all the provinces as also seen with both Sullas and Caesars dictatorships they both increased the nubmer of offices for Quaestor and Praetors by 50%
Originally their were only 6-8 Quaestors, 4 Praetors and 2 Aeidile, one Patrician and one Plebian.
Absolutely amazing videos all, but I especially loved the specific examples you gave!
Cato the Younger started as an urban quaestor
did he make it to consul
@@fensti7917 no.
Alex Wex no but he could have
@@captainrev4959 Sure he could
This is some savage dialog.
If 20 new queastors was elected every year, It means that every year the senate got 20 seats bigger?
Well, theoretically, but natural causes also tended to shrink it at a similarish rate. I think the average number of senators was between 300-500 by the late republic, but dont qoute me on that.
Only a certain amount of senators would actually show up to meetings
@@friedkeenan I always wondered what they did. If they aren't being a politician then are they just relaxing?
@@narrowstone5363 Many were richer men. So yeah. Quite likely. Maybe they just wanted the prestige of being a senator and after just chill on their money.
senators don't live forever. If 20 men get elected at around 30 years old, and get to live for another 30 years on average that makes about 600 senators at any given time. The number would go up and down depending on how long they actually lived.
Informative videos about Roman civil adminstration set to relaxing royalty free country music. Love it.
I love these videos going watch them all! Thank you sir for making these.
They're really great.
I'm the Urban Quaestor baby, I got gold
I've got everything we hold
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I bet it felt good to Caesar to deliver such a comeuppance.
Man, even the music was different back then.
WOW! I just clicked the 4000th like for this video haha, Your channel has come a long way, but it can only keep growing! Keep it up!
I hope the ambassador to Luxemburg never sees this video
damn dude these are great
It's clearly "public serpents"
nice music selection
Urban Quaestors is where they put the Nerds.
Faustus Cornelius Sulla, son of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, spent time as an Urban Quaestor apparently printing coins for his father.
His father was dead for more than 25 years, by the time Faustus got elected Quaestor... ;-)
Remind me which Sulla became a tyrannical dictator, please
@@jeffbenton6183 Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
@@niccolorichter1488 Thanks.
I love your videos so much!!!!!!
Ahhh, good old Roman Country music.
favorite channel
4:07 - So THAT'S how Sicily got its name! That will come in handy for my Geography final next week. Thanks!
Please start making videos again, they're awesome :C
I'm a quester myself. 💪
VAST DIFFERENCE IN VOLUME IN PLAYLIST THANKS FOR WAKING ME UP
How can 20 quaestors come to the Senate every year, if theres no seats to be taken? I dont think 20 quaestors die every year to give the seats to the new 20 people.
20 different quaestors are elected every year. I think they would be a lot of times comprised of ex-quaestors already in the Senate. Senators lead armies a lot of times so dying in that way wouldn't be rare. I think it would still allow for some new people to get in there every once and a while. I know nothing on the topic but from these videos but this is my understanding from the information presented.
because there was no maximum amount of seats in the roman senate.
if in one year 4 senators died then the number os senators was simply expanded with 16 new positions.
That would end being terribly expensive to keep, as I can guess a salary was also included!
The Colosseum is estimated to have been able to hold 50.000 to 80.000 people. Let's be conservative and say it could only hold 40.000.
That means it would take 2.000 years to fill at a rate of 20 quaestors per year, assuming none died.
All jokes aside, while it might seem strange to have a fluctuating number of senators, assuming the amount of quaestors elected per year is constant, that the average age at which quaestors were elected was constant, and that life expectancy didn't change significantly, the size of the senate would remain largely constant, with any significant changes in size (a bunch of really old quaestors being replaced by a bunch of very young quaestors) lasting, at the most, a lifetime, probably less.
Also, I think I heard somewhere that work in the senate was unpaid, with the honour and influence thought to be enough reward. Not counting bribes and skimming profits, of course.
They'd need some kind of method to get info to everyone present though.
I don't think even Cicero could speak out to 80,000 people and be heard directly
Nice video but initially weren't only 2 Quaestor offices available for taking? And after some time it was doubled, to 4. I don't know much about it but because the number of provinces may have increased the number of Quaestors would increase too, although I don't think 20 may have been a constant number.
Stable video 👍
Do some stuff on Byzantium =D
Amen!
It would be kinda awkward, as his channel name is in Latin, but they spoke Greek.
He's done stuff on Agincourt and NATO.
Lukas Breen Huh, if hes done that then surely he can do stuff on Belesarius.
Solid Snakespeare Latin was the official language until AD 600-something. And they were still Roman even if they used Greek.
So does completion of this role give you the Quaest Cape?
I get the sense Quaestors assigned to consuls were akin to like chiefs if staff/press secretaries. Your job was probably representing the consul to people with less out right political authority like minor aristocrats or wealthy merchants. People looking for influence but not power with the consul.
If ever year so many more people became senators, would the number of senators not just grow?
The pronunciatios of some of these Latin words sounds like they have the letter Æsc (ash) in them like in Quæstors and Ædiles. Is this a thing or am I just wrong?
I'm pretty sure that's correct (I studied Latin in college, but I'm not too familiar with how IPA works)
Were they split into two types “main” and “side” by any chance?
No it was a full time job
Apparently the way you pronounce quæstor is ecclesiastical Latin but NGL i dont get how they got from the 2 vowels u and æ to weh rather than wee
Civil servents at 1:18 bugs the shit out of meeeeee (reeeeeeee
if translated -.-')
I think being a manager of treasury is not a bad job.
I find his ambiguity indicative of how the Romans probably felt. It was a dead end job, but nobody would say so because Saturn was a Boss, and you don't say such disrespectful things out loud, but would I want to be an Urban Quaestor? Hell no!!!
It does allow access to great wealth running the treasury of any country. It could've been used to buy more prestigious positions at the end of the year.
Did you have to be a Tribune before you became a Quaestor?
That was common amongst the patricians
A patrician could not become a Tribune of the plebs. That's why it was a scandal when Claudius Pulcher organized to be adopted by a plebeian and changed his name to Clodius Pulcher, in order to become a Tribune.
@@velvtania militery tribune he think
@@niccolorichter1488 thank u for answering =) Military Tribune was not an obligatory office but it was good for a later career. People that had not served at all in the army would have a hard time progressing through the Cursus Honorum. The sons of the aristocracy (both patrician and pleibeian) would easily get a place as military Tribunes, because of their connections.
2:04 ...that was also his right. [QUAESTOR GOES TO THE SENATOR'S RIGHT]
If the romans didn't have an accurate account of treasury funds or an archive of laws passed, rome would have been even more dysfunctional that it was.
Hello there adventurer, i have a job for you!
Become a Quaestor today!
Great vid although the back ground music seemed out of place :)
Nice country music, dude
Who is the writer?
Talk about Augustus he is my favorite Roman
“public servents”
But weren't Cicero just a Quaestor? How can he do those reforms if he was still only an assistant to the Governor?
Umar he became Consul later on, it’s said that he had no influence as Quaestor but only after he became Consul was he known as a great orator
Because his Governor let him
"Ae" in classical Latin is pronounced "eye".
Its pronounced "eh" you sick fuck. So "Cannae" would be "Kann-eh".
You are correct that it is pronounced "eye" in Classical Latin. In Medieval/Ecclesiastical Latin, however, it's pronounced "eh" and that's the version that all Romance languages today are based on. It might also be the version spoken by commonfolk during Fraser's time, so it's not entirely inaccurate.
@@jeffbenton6183 So? This video is not about a "medieval/ecclesiastical" topic. It's about "classical" Rome, thus I point out the proper "classical" (ie: appropriate to the period) pronunciation, not the "vulgar". Cheers.
I'm not arguing with you, just saying there's an alternate pronunciation. Also, as I said at the end of my comment, there may have been people at the time who pronounced it that way.
@@shitking1818 The letter "e" alone is pronounced "eh", "you sick fuck". So "Cannae" is actually "Kan-eye". But thanks anyway. Cheers. ;)
Its a shame you didnt study Latin. All/most of the pronunciation is off. Contentwise, pretty good.
Tell me about the videos you make that are this interesting and have all the pronunciations correct.
Yeah but 9/10 latin students mispronounce almost everything as well. That's what happens when you study a dead language.
What is that supposed to mean, Sean? HC's errors at pronouncing latin aren't discredited somehow because OP doesn't make videos of his own. If anything does, it's OP's lack of specific examples and proper pronunciation that'd discredit him.
The 32 dislikes are from people from Luxembourg
Impossible. I think Luxembourg only has 31 citizens.
Informative as always. If anyone ever has any questions about Rome I can't answer I'll refer them to these videos lol
Fuck it, i'll accept being Quaestor in Ancient Roman Republic, prefer Urban Quaestor.
Spain = “Barbarian infested borderlands” - doesn’t get more pro-Roman than that, sounds like a Roman official. Don’t get me wrong, these videos are invaluable and the best I’ve seen on Roman history, but the Roman bias is just too strong!
If you're going to pick a side, may as well pick the winners.
Pretty sure he was just implicitly stating exactly how Caesar and the Romans viewed the situation (both before and after). But he's actually very clear that Caesar brutalised the natives into submission, using force to get them to profit the Roman system, not commenting on if that's a good thing. You kind of rolled right over the low-grade sarcasm there.
Caesar, Cicero, Pompey, Cato, Marcus Antonius, Marcus Lepidus, Cleopatra, Augustus, Brutus, Agrippa, Crassus, Tiberius, Caligula, Virgil . . . these were great men . . what a great time to be alive. . .
Ibn Sina Augustus est gloria
Bro if you were alive then they'd be way higher of a chance of dying a brutal terrible death
How would the Assembly elect that many quaestors at once?
AHH!!! ITS THE URBAN POOR!!!
So... that is where words like quest and question come from?
HISPANIA, not HYSPANIA, it was not a Greek word beginning in an upsilon with rough breathing but rather a Phoenician toponym: "Land of hyraxes",
Also, the profitable mining region of Hispania lay north in the lands of the Astures and Cantabri, these not only lay outside of the province of Further Spain (Hispania Ulterior) but were only incorporated into the Roman state after Caesar's death, under Augustus
You can not call what the romans did "civilising barbaric mountain people".
that’s pretty much everything they did
@@august8696 the romans were forced to settle and farm. The thracians and the germanic tribes had plenty of game in the wild. Temples and slavery isn't culture
So minor compared to an Emperor like me
I love my beard
Hideous background music.
E
I love these videos, but the background music is just SOOOOOOOOOOOO annoying
The United States of America needs to have quaestors.
I'm an Quaestor in an rome thing in roblox.
You should try and avoid being so historically biased. Uncivilized ? Civilization being to bend to Roman Law? All peoples have their cultures , costums and history and as a history lover you should value them all.
I love your vids , keep doing them if you can. Glad to have you back after 7 months.
All cultures are not created equal. Now, I'm not all too knowledgeable on the early history of iberia, but I'm pretty sure that Romans were a bit more civilized than the iberian tribes.
This has to be a fucking joke
Living in shacks is not civilization ? Only living in roman houses is civlization ? The civilizing principle of roman conquest is a myth much like the civilizing concept of colonization. Its just an excuse to conquer and subdue people. Look Im not saying Rome wasnt a million times more advanced , becasue it was , the point is Civilization is not Roman Law. Roman Law / Society is A Civilization just as the celtiberian tribes had their civilization. Saying Rome WAS civilization itself IS historical bias.
Sarge Rho A bit more civilized ? Or more tecnologically advanced ? If you mean their culture had characteristics you value more thats your opinion using your own measures (which I totally agree) , now you must understand that tecnological superiority doesn't mean you are Civilization itself. It was just the Roman civilization.
Renato Pereira Civilized = A Culture with advanced technology for it's time.
In the Ancient World this would be:
Greece (and successor states)
Greek City States (like Syracuse)
Carthage
Indian States
Rome
Good video, unfitting music.
So much bias against Ceasar. You act like he's a childish idiot running from responsibility. It's bull shit. Every action he did was successful. Not luck.
Caesar was a sociopathic aspiring autocrat. But sure, keep fanboying over his, you're definitely not exposing yourself or nothing lol.