Rule #1: ALWAYS pay your mercenaries

@ac1455

5 ай бұрын

Rule #1, don’t lose

@4partharmony208

5 ай бұрын

@@ac1455 I would call that rule #2. Rule #2a: If you do lose, make sure as many of your mercenaries are taken out as possible so you don't have to pay them

@delano4526

5 ай бұрын

I don't think they had the money for it

@Bobal27

5 ай бұрын

Rule #3: You DO NOT talk about fight club. Rule #4: Leave your shoes by the door, and don’t mention fight club, ok? Like seriously, 5 of these rules are about not mentioning fight club, but we have to keep adding more of those because people still mention it, even Stewart Gilligan Griffin in a G-string. Rule #5: Discussing fight club is still forbidden.

@fangum4ik671

5 ай бұрын

I would, man... But how?

Rome was a republic at the time. so the public opinion was actually pretty important.

@Draugo

5 ай бұрын

To be fair the public opinion was pretty important during the principate too although it was slowly replaced by opinion of the military.

"Who'd want to live in the Alps?" Hey, lots of my countrymen quite enjoy it here! Greetings from Switzerland

@JamesCornwall95

5 ай бұрын

Oh man apologies 😂😂

The punic wars were the equivalent of the world wars of the ancient world

I want to see him do Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the great and Julius Caesar. Also that Scipio isn't Scipio Africanus but his father. I find it funny that Hamilcar lost to Rome. Had a son, Hannibal, that challenged Rome. The first battle Hannibal had against the Romans in Italy was against Scipio. Then Scipio son, Africanus, ends up stopping Hannibal lol. A fully complete circle.

"Celts? I thought they were Italian." Although Celts are primarily associated with Scotland and Ireland (and to lesser extent Wales); much of the Ancient world was Celtic. France, northern Spain, northern Italy, all of Britain, southern Germany, Belgium, southern Netherlands, and parts of Hungary (and even parts of Macedonia) were Celtic. Over the centuries the Celts were assimilated into various civilizations or even genocided (Caesar performed one in Beligum and northern France). Like the Anglo-Saxons assimilated a large part the Celtic peoples and genocided quite a few as well when they invaded England. The Celts of southern Germany and Austria were asismilated into German culture. Attila the Hun exterminated the Celts of Hungary to make way for Hunnic settlement.

@garbageday587

4 ай бұрын

9:31 it says Spain . Actually at the time it was called Iberia. The name Spain would come many centuries later.

@wastelandlegocheem

2 ай бұрын

Celt is native european essencially

You never heard of Saguntum because they were all killed.

@wastelandlegocheem

2 ай бұрын

All of em? Brutal

36:17 He said AUTUMN (33:23), not august. It was late autumn and almost winter, that's why the conditions were so bad, but Hannibal decided not to wait for spring and cross the Alps anyway, probably because he didn't want to give the Romans time to prepare themselves, not to mention he was afraid of a Roman army coming from behind him and fight him even before reaching Roman territory.

Back in those days, soldiers didn’t really receive a regular salary. A lot of their money came from looting conquered lands. And mercenaries are hoping to get paid so if they don’t get paid, they aren’t loyal to you but your wallet, they’re gonna revolt

@randomlyentertaining8287

5 ай бұрын

Well until Caesar's time. It was around then that they got a regular salary. Though most of their wealth did still come from loot.

@zach415

5 ай бұрын

@@randomlyentertaining8287 Caesar won’t be for another 200 or so years

I love when people get surprised by the age of some of the leaders like what's the surprise they've been raised to be leaders and to act like ones

3:40 I think it’s also pertinent to know that Carthage was rich. Like, abundantly so. The maritime trade made their empire very rich, and so Carthage built up a habit of using their loads of money to hire mercenaries from outside rather than risking larger amounts of their own manpower. In some cases, their armies were more mercenary than native soldier. So compared to Rome, their standing armies would be significantly smaller. Well, prior to the First Punic War, that is lol

3:27 Ummm, those aren’t soldiers, they’re mercenaries. Maybe you don’t understand the term “mercenary?” Here’s the literal definition, and what it means: A person who is willing to gain material rewards at the cost of their ethics, or a soldier hired to fight in a foreign war. That means that they aren’t fighting for their country, they’re fighting to get paid for fighting another person’s war. Literally, they were killers for hire. No money? Big problem.

@cock781

5 ай бұрын

redditor ass response. go back to r/plotholes pleb

I want more teachers to show these when teaching to make the students interested and engaged in what they are going to learn about. First class when they start about a topic they can watch the video about it and then now the students know the major things that happened and now they can much much more easily follow along with the details of the events than just having to go straight into the details. I know myself that i have watched oversimplified videos before and then gone and researched myself about the details of some of the topics he has covered. It's a great way to get people interested in history

Public opinion very much did matter. One, because Rome was a Republic and while the poor didn't have too loud of a voice officially, their opinions were taken into account by many of the richer people that did have a louder voice. Two, because you've got to convince your people that sending them off to die in a foreign land is for a worthy goal. Troops at that time were raised from the local populace. When a war broke out, you wouldn't really have known until government recruiters came around asking for men to go fight. It's not like today where we have standing armies that merely sit around waiting until they're needed.

Also back then they had currency and those men were all mercenaries so you can see why Carthage was in trouble

I am so glad they are back and they are still together (I don't follow their social media) ... this will be a nice reaction to watch, I love this lad's laugh haha.

Saguntum still lays in ruins just like Carthage

Also watch "Hannibal Rome's worst nightmare"

25:36 Saguntum was actually the site of a famous battle during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1811. Great reaction btw.😁👍

@lupus5338

5 ай бұрын

I see a lot of similarities between Hannibal and Napoleon haha

Large standing armies werent really a thing until the 1600/1700s i believe most nations fought with mercenaries thats why people like Napoleon and Alexander the great were so successful in there campaigns. Mercenaries still exist in modern day times Wagnar group in Russia being the most famous for doing a little revolt against russia. Suguntum today is called Valencia in Spain youve likely heard of it if you know your european cities.

@PolarisMidnightSoldierLux

4 ай бұрын

Friendly correction: Sagunto today is a little north of Valencia and was founded around 80 years prior. I was able to visit both cities last fall and they were incredible 😄

9:31 it says Spain but at the time it was called Iberia. It would be called Spain many centuries later.

The fish on the Titanic are still alive.😂 How do you come up with these jokes?😂

@JamesCornwall95

5 ай бұрын

They come at the cost of the relationship she hates them 😂

Just remember, even though soliders were paid when they were professionals or mercenaries, there were MANY MORE who were slaves that were sold to the military or seized in battles. Lord based conscription in the western world could make a slave of any man in the service of the military effort by visiting a village or hamlet and requiring them to offer recruits for the army. It happened nearly every time a war happened

Mercenaries have no loyalty. If you have mercenaries, you better not lose the war.

@kryzzan7039

5 ай бұрын

Not always the case, the Varangians were notoriously loyal mercenary bodyguards who defended the Byzantine Emperor.

@natsoph1924

5 ай бұрын

Mercenaries are not the army, they are paid soldiers from elsewhere.

30:37 Snoopy reference🤣

@SilverFang2789

5 ай бұрын

It's good to see OS can still make new jokes and references in every new video. Guess that's why OS is so popular among history enjoyers.

You should react to part 2

Step 1: watch part 1 Step 2: watch part 2 Step 3: Watch another 20 times or so. Step 4: watch all the reactions

Great video, oversimplified rules and you guys need a microphone

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Yaayyyy

4400 talent of silver is 251 tons of silver 😱🥺😭

Did she say “metal gay duck” like the turkey from aqua teen hunger force? Or am I ignorant to believe foreigners haven’t seen aqua teen hunger force im drinking white claws for the first time feel as though gravity doesn’t apply interested in history im no better than a Greek or Roman feel me for I am hard as stone for ya mother would beg for mercy ol English flows from my mouth and

you can say that Saguntum was basically Ukraine of that time

16:11 i knew when he said, "BECAUSE I," i knew Nord was coming but i was hoping it wouldn't lol

lol i am doing well

Bag a 😮😢😮🎉😮😅😂

What? The Vikings are back? *just a joke*

@JamesCornwall95

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@SilverFang2789

5 ай бұрын

If you didn't know, Celt was a term to describe a lot of the tribes that lived north of the Roman Empire. Germanics, Gaels, Vandals and more of them were all classified under the name Celt.

Also, read the silmarilian and watch Nerd of the Rings first, second and third ages of the world of Middle-Earth and beyond

Sargon of Akkad was the original imperialist, at least, the first one we know about.