Hannibal: *kills all of Rome's legions* "Surrender" Rome: I didn't hear no bell!

@X3nStar

3 жыл бұрын

To the carthaginian commander: NUTS! ~ The roman commander

@Striker2054

3 жыл бұрын

Hannibal: Stay down, dammit. Rome: Da mihi asinum Hannibale

@Vespuchian

3 жыл бұрын

I've heard Rome's rise summarized as being down to two points: the unshakable belief in the sanctity of the city of Rome itself, and the pathological inability to quit until the _other_ guys give up.

@ObligedUniform

3 жыл бұрын

Rome: I can do this all century.

@GAndreC

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vespuchian you forget the endless manpower pool the city of Rome itself had

"It doesn't take a lot of elephants to have scary amount of elephant on the battlefield." This is the amazing nonsense that convinced me to change majors

@jeremygilbert7989

3 жыл бұрын

And let's not forget the spot on description of "a four legged giant with two spears and a snake coming out of it's face!" History's fun sometimes.

@hyperchetnikmapping3401

3 жыл бұрын

They were _scary_ like really scary. Trust me My descendants faces them

@RedShocktrooperRST

3 жыл бұрын

Something like this wouldn't be seen until tanks came along. It seems to me unlikely that the era of this kind of shock is over.

@Guilherme-J

3 жыл бұрын

@@RedShocktrooperRST Elephants: organic tanks. Just install "the turret".

@RedShocktrooperRST

3 жыл бұрын

@@Guilherme-J most people know what an elephant is, and what a tank is, or at least an automobile. You would need a hell of a monster on your side to really terrify enemy troops these days

Hannibal: * wins the battle of Cannae * Rome: Oh! Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance! * Rome pulls out Scipio * Rome: *But not for me!*

@user-mm7zs1kf8s

2 жыл бұрын

Battle of zata

@typacsk

2 жыл бұрын

Hannibal: "I am Hannibal, the master general." Fabius and Scipio: *bother bother bother bother bother bother bother*

The full quote is apparently: "Rome wasn't built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour" and is attributed to English playwright John Heywood.

@goldholz

2 жыл бұрын

"I found forth a city of bricks and left it a city of marbel " - Gaius Augustus

@arianewinter4266

2 жыл бұрын

there are lots of quotes where the meaning changes quite a lot, if you add the cut part. There is one along the lines : "What should I care about the nonsense I sprouted yesterday . . . . . . . if I learned to know better now"

@Speed001

2 жыл бұрын

But it fell in one (day)?

@riyak.7393

Жыл бұрын

He also said "Rome was not built in a day, but it burnt in one"

@chair6703

Жыл бұрын

@@arianewinter4266 or a jack of all trades is a master of none but still better than a master of one

All of Italy: teams up against Rome Rome: *i like those odds*

@Striker2054

3 жыл бұрын

Rome: Step up if you want to try, irrumator praetor.

@avalon1393

3 жыл бұрын

Based Dovahhatty enjoyer

@amadoumbye9163

3 жыл бұрын

Rome: bring an ambulance, but not for me

Blue is doing everything he can to avoid the "fall of byzantium" episode

@LukeSky2207

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, why wouldn't he?

@terrencehawk8201

3 жыл бұрын

Don't blame him...still makes me cry to this day.

@Pitbull00000

3 жыл бұрын

@@terrencehawk8201 your name is west european, your forefathers sacked constantinople

@rarusvitae835

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pitbull00000 its not italian so....

@DavidbarZeus1

3 жыл бұрын

Of course he is, he has to blame his favorite city for it!

I feel like Caesar is like a videogame main character, he's involved with EVERYTHING and he has seemingly limitless charisma and deception, and he exploits the game mechanics to name himself dictator for life before the devs patched him out of the game

@erickluviano981

2 жыл бұрын

Patch 500.0.0 bc- Caesar -REMOVED “We think it’s about time to let others rise to power as Caesar is the most meta-dominant character, we hope this increases other characters play-rates”

@soffren

2 жыл бұрын

@@erickluviano981 *player base bugs Cesar back into the game (he is now invulnerable)*

@justanotheranimeprofilepic

2 жыл бұрын

Patch notes: nerfed ceaser

@Vanq22114

2 жыл бұрын

Ceaser is secretly Josh from Let's Game It Out

@shacklock01

2 жыл бұрын

@@erickluviano981 To be fair he was just copying earlier greats like Sulla and Pompei and taking it to its logical meta conclusion, gotta go all in on your sweaty strats.

The funny thing about Cato is that he would end literally EVERY SPEECH with "... and I strongly advise that Carthage be destroyed.", even if the topic of his speech had nothing to do with Carthage or military action in general. "That is why I believe that we should task the sculptors to build a statue, and I strongly advise that Carthage be destroyed."

@Oturan20

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if he ended every _sentence_ with "... and I strongly advise that Carthage be destroyed."

@j.bat.8235

11 ай бұрын

Can't help but respect his dedication

@derlesende

10 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Oturan20 „I’d like to order as a starter the sow's udders stuffed with salted sea urchins, as main the boiled ostrich with sweet sauce, as dessert the hot African sweet-wine cakes with honey and I strongly advise that Carthage be destroyed.“

@nuh_uh210

8 ай бұрын

Uhh, can I get a number nine large, a number three with extra dip, two number sevens, and I STRONGLY recommend that Carthage be destroyed?

@cheezemonkeyeater

5 ай бұрын

@@nuh_uh210 Sorry, sir, we just ran out of dip.

"There was a dream that was Rome... it shall be re-summarized."

@dracodeanglicus3857

3 жыл бұрын

_Kono Gaius Julius, yume ga aru!!!_

@olympic-gradelurker

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds prophetic.

@angelbearii2894

3 жыл бұрын

The Prophecy has been fulfilled! *insert guitar riff*

@hyperchetnikmapping3401

3 жыл бұрын

“There once was a dream, a dream to PURGE this world of the barbarians that infested it, a dream called Rome”

@dracodeanglicus3857

3 жыл бұрын

_’I KNOW LIFE SOMETIMES CAN GET TOUGH; AND I KNOW LIFE SOMETIMES CAN BE A DRAG, BUT PEOPLE, WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A GIFT; WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A ROAD, AND THAT ROAD’S NAME IS’_ *_”ROME AND ROOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL”_*

Blue: *posts something about Rome again* Literally everyone: _RETURN OF THE KING_

@ZephyrTM101

3 жыл бұрын

Mmmm.... I don't think the Republic would like that.....

@antoninuslarpus7107

3 жыл бұрын

*Da du,m tss*

@jasonblalock4429

3 жыл бұрын

A new age has come to the land!

@danielchequer5842

3 жыл бұрын

Did you said KING?? Be careful buddy, you might wanna have someone watching your back

@danielchequer5842

3 жыл бұрын

@@antoninuslarpus7107 Hey Antoninus, how you doing? Have you decided to do something before Marcus takes over after your 23 passive years on the throne?

“It doesn’t take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephants!” Truest words I’ve ever heard. Anything that can kill you by innocently sitting on you is a challenging foe indeed

@keigoftw

10 ай бұрын

It just dawned on me that elephants have a relationship with death, as well as social structures that are remarkably similar to humans. So forcing elephants into combat would likely result in similar trauma & after watching so many (including humans) freeze to death? Major trauma, probably PTSD, and assuming they didn't fully resent their human comrades, they'd likely have taken any & all loses *very poorly*! Also, their tanks 🐘

The brilliance of Julius Caesar's story with the pirates is that the 50 talents of silver wasn't his own money, but rather his retinue basically had a Go Fund Me drive to cities across Rome to raise the money. He demanded the ransom increased because he knew his retinue could get it. So, when Caesar killed the pirates, he took that silver as lawful plunder and never had to pay it back. *Julius Caesar was casually playing 5D chess centuries before 2D chess was invented.*

@mokongthe3856

2 жыл бұрын

What a frickin Genius! xD

@vasylpavlyuk640

2 жыл бұрын

@@mokongthe3856 y

@AlexHernandez-ar9ht

2 жыл бұрын

Certified *Bruh* moment

@akrinornoname2769

2 жыл бұрын

That's one hell of an embezzlement and money laundering scheme

@sarahlorber9607

Жыл бұрын

FYI chess had long been invented by that point. (Not that anyone in Rome would know that.)

"Rome was really special. There's honestly nothing like it" I _really_ thought you were going to say "There's honestly.... no place like Rome"

@hyperchetnikmapping3401

3 жыл бұрын

Rome sweet Rome

@borderlinebear5509

3 жыл бұрын

Country roads, take me (to) Rome To the place I belong Mediterranea, water mama Take me (to) Rome, country roads

@ediskey

3 жыл бұрын

@@borderlinebear5509 someone make the song dear god that brings a tear to my eye

@tompatterson1548

3 жыл бұрын

What aobut byzantium?

@borderlinebear5509

3 жыл бұрын

@@tompatterson1548 Mehmet II : "What about Byzantium?"

Blue: "Rome doesn't screw around!" Rome between 135 and 30 BC: *proceeds to screw around*

@sheenadees4895

3 жыл бұрын

Dead 😂😂😂😂

@famoladejo3655

3 жыл бұрын

so true lol

@henrypaleveda7760

2 жыл бұрын

I have a joke about this topic: "The Greeks invented sex, but the Romans discovered sex with women." Yes it's terrible

@RainCloudVideos

2 жыл бұрын

@@henrypaleveda7760 it made me snort so there’s something

@henrypaleveda7760

2 жыл бұрын

@@RainCloudVideos thanks, my brother liked it too, but I wasn't sure if that was a large enough test group.

Imagine growing up during the second punic war having a boogeyman running around the countryside.

@henyo5409

3 жыл бұрын

i was thinking the same thing!

@goldholz

2 жыл бұрын

"Better eat your olives or Hannibal will come and get you augustinus" -some roman mother

@ishouldofdestroyedrome2399

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn’t the boogeyman man, Every single Romans were.

@St.Raptor

Жыл бұрын

@@goldholz XD adding olives to the joke made it 2200x better.

@a_l7515

Жыл бұрын

@@ishouldofdestroyedrome2399 Hi Hannibal how are you?

It's so funny that blue refuses to call Alexander the protagonist by his school book name

@WreckinPoints11

2 жыл бұрын

That's because Alexander the Okay I Guess's official epithet is fucking *_LAAAAAAAAAAME_*

Remus: ...and we'll call this city Reme Romulus: You know what bro, (*pulls out knife*) I have better idea.

@mickey4125

3 жыл бұрын

Mate I actually laughed out loud at that, thank you hahaha

@twocrowns9515

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂

@josephperez2004

2 жыл бұрын

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!

@dkinla3408

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was a shovel. 😉

@Ludwig_Perpenhente

Жыл бұрын

So you're saying Romulus Reme'd his ass?

most history books: "we call it rome bc romulus killed his brother, remus." Blue, unable to hide how hard he simps for Antiquity: "Romulus killed Remus in what became the most etymologically significant fratricide in world history"

@Lemuel928

3 жыл бұрын

Fate Grand Order should read that.

@dkinla3408

2 жыл бұрын

Riiiiight after Cane & Able. But whether that's a historical or fictional story is still up for debate.

I love the implication that Pyrrhus getting the phrase for a costly victory named after him was in itself a Pyrrhic victory

Rome's reply to Hannibal's peace terms wasn't just merely 'See you next year'. The mad lads also demanded that Hannibal start paying rent for the Roman land he was occupying. Rome's early wars could be described as such , Rome getting punched in the face over and over until their Enemy grew tired and gave up.'

“And it’s because Caesar himself wrote extensive commentary” I’m sure there was absolutely 0 bias there, and a completely truthful account was given.

@pl8827

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you have to look at it though that lense; but Caesar was remarkably candid about the shit he pulled. From a modern perspective his writings on the Gallic campaign make him seem like quite the Tyrant, of course to his fellow Romans burning down villages and selling the inhabitants into slavery for minor slights wasn't anything to bat and eye at. Interestingly enough he also doesn't push the narrative that the galls are mindless barbarians, he paints them as tribesman fighting for their freedom; but in his mind, and to for the people he was writing for it was simply Rome's duty to conquer the land and bring Roman civilization to it. Still though, even in his own time, he could have tried pushing different narratives to paint himself as a saint and the gallic tribes as mindless heathens, but he doesn't do that, it almost seems like he was writing for historians in the future as well as writing propaganda for Rome; he keeps his accounts remarkably realistic sounding, and often more morally grey then you would expect.

@arx3516

3 жыл бұрын

Military officials write reports to recount what happened during their missions, and they are considered trustworthy, aren't they?

@jordanleighton6893

3 жыл бұрын

@@arx3516 military officials now and political officials trying to use military accomplishments to regain office are not the same thing, methinks

@cas5518

3 жыл бұрын

A primary source bias?! That’s not possible! But for real, it is not possible for a historical account to be 100% unbiased, whether primary or otherwise

@jordanleighton6893

3 жыл бұрын

@@cas5518 Ik, but that would interfere with the meme so I didn’t point it out

When I was in school, my freshman world history teacher claimed that "Rome wasn't built in a day" was just the first half of the saying. The second part was "but it burned in one."

@TheNaturalnuke

3 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s just untrue! It burned in 6. *runs away in Nero*

@famoladejo3655

3 жыл бұрын

lol u had a wise history teacher

@silvussol8966

3 жыл бұрын

It’s always much easier to destroy than create.

@histguy101

3 жыл бұрын

Rome burned all the time, usually for more than a day, though

@ravioli-sr6ob

3 жыл бұрын

@Vinnie P I would disagree. The old adage of "Rome wasn't built in a day, but destroyed in one" is a reminder of how years of hard work can all come tumbling down if you're not careful.

It is always extremely infuriating how when people talk about the assassination of Julius Caesar, and always talk about Brutus and Cassius, they rarely talk about Decimus, who was the third main conspirator, who was pretty much as important alongside the other two. And honestly Decimus' betreyal of Caesar was much, much more of a betrayal than Brutus' was.

@Great_Olaf5

2 жыл бұрын

Historia Civilis certainly mentioned him.

@faintsmile363

Жыл бұрын

why

@starlight0313

8 ай бұрын

​@@faintsmile363he was Caesar's childhood friend

@faintsmile363

8 ай бұрын

@@starlight0313 bruh

@marcobelli6856

2 ай бұрын

@@faintsmile363and he was actually in Caesar will. The other more famous Brutus was not. I think Shakespeare got confused between the two and made the wrong Brutus famous.

I want to take a moment to expand on the Caesar and the pirates story. Because it’s hilarious. It’s important to note, at the time Caesar was in debt up to his eyeballs. He had survived the purges of Sulla, but most of his estate was taken away from him. But for appearances sake he kept living like a wealthy patrician and bribing people for political gain, as you were expected to do in Ancient Rome. He is on the verge of being imprisoned for not paying his debts when he was captured by pirates. That was when he told them to double is ransom. That was when his political allies paid to release him. And when he then conquered the pirates all that money was now his by right of conquest. He used it to pay back his loans and some of his estates. That was the mind of Julius freaking Caesar. Taking a kidnapping and turning it not only to your advantage, but to completely change your fortune in life and pave the way to your political advancement.

@MarfSantangelo

3 жыл бұрын

STONCI

@sahildahal5523

3 жыл бұрын

Caesar: PROFIT

@Aragon1500

3 жыл бұрын

Ceasar gets kidnapped Ceasar gets ransomed Ceasar crucifies pirates Ceasar profit

@gavinsmith9871

3 жыл бұрын

that's like 5d chess right there.

@parthasarathipanda4571

3 жыл бұрын

getting a lot of trump vibes from caesar now :P

Kid: Mom I don't want vegetables. Mom: You want me to call Hannibal, huh? With those pretty big monsters with spears and a snake coming out of its heads?

@martins.4240

3 жыл бұрын

*Eats entire bowl in one gulp*

@gabivermes2501

3 жыл бұрын

@@martins.4240 Shlurp

12:18 I heard an anecdote (unsure of of how accurate it is) that not only did they refuse Hannibal's offer of surrender, they responded by sending him the bill for the land his army was "renting" during his occupation of Italy. I seriously hope it's a true story, because that's the got to be the biggest middle finger in world history.

@carynfisher9463

Жыл бұрын

Shit like this is why I love ancient Rome. Lots of ancient societies were pretty cool in their own unique ways, but nobody gave zero fucks like Rome.

"A frightening amount of elephant". I don't care how, I'm working this phrase into conversation at least once a week.

"pre-emptively conquered the entire world defensively" or as I'd like to call it, "moonwalking backward".

@weldonwin

3 жыл бұрын

Or as America would call it "Liberating Nations and Ensuring World Stability"

@Joe-po9xn

3 жыл бұрын

Later to be known as Freedoming™

@jcplays3842

3 жыл бұрын

@Jonny B Or how I like to call it “walking”

@breaksnakereel402

2 жыл бұрын

@@weldonwin or as Humanitarians would call it "Neo-colonialism"

*THIS* is why I love Hannibal. The man was a force to be reckoned with. It takes a *lot* to be Rome's arch enemy, and Hannibal was the closest anyone ever got until the empire became corrupt.

@drose6437

3 жыл бұрын

And doing that with no support whatsoever is just incredible

@nicmagtaan1132

3 жыл бұрын

i mean we all also remember one boi called spartacus, i mean he also proved to be such a threat

@misterbk4933

3 жыл бұрын

Nubia smoked rome

@alexdiaz155

3 жыл бұрын

It is hypocryphal, but apparently when in the court of some king in Asia Minor, Hannibal was asked how he would have been remembered had he won at Zama. “The greatest general in history,” he said.

@davidegaruti2582

3 жыл бұрын

@@misterbk4933 i consider that more a vietnam kind of affair , all the respect to them for being some of the greatest warriors in history , But hannibal was inside rome and an existential treat to the republic back when they where expanding and where close to tip top shape

"All your Gaul is belong to me!" -Caesar

@BatCostumeGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Caeser ball?

Yes! More of this stuff, please. You put it very well: Caesar killed the republic, and saved Rome. He truly is one of the most fascinating characters in history.

How many times Blue can say phrase "Ceasar ruled all of the Gaul", without mentioning certain village of indomitable Gauls?

@lexingtonbrython1897

3 жыл бұрын

That is one very key asterix to leave out

@jeanremynoble1798

3 жыл бұрын

@@lexingtonbrython1897 I see what you did there

@dracodeanglicus3857

3 жыл бұрын

That reference is heavy... like maybe an Obelisk?

@PhantomObserver

3 жыл бұрын

Probably not an Asterix fan. However, if Patreons can persuade Red to read some of the Asterix series and set Blue up for 01 Apr 2021 ...

@saturo96

3 жыл бұрын

My headcanon is that everybody else i Gaul also hated them for ghosting the Gaelic Alliance in Alesia, hence why they get so defensive about it.

Anyone: _Talks about Rome_ Everyone here: *Romeabooism intensifies*

@megasonichunterramirez3231

3 жыл бұрын

He's back

@helix2331

3 жыл бұрын

hey justin y. AGAIN

@GAMBANJUJJJ

3 жыл бұрын

the fack it was literally made a min ago

@ryankim9142

3 жыл бұрын

Its him

@hyperchetnikmapping3401

3 жыл бұрын

Weaboos are overrated anyways

It always warms the heart to see someone give Caesar his due respect, instead of endlessly bashing him without acknowledging the good he brought.

@Great_Olaf5

2 жыл бұрын

And to see someone talking about all the problems rather than just praising him. Blue gave a pretty nuanced image of Caesar, which, much as I like his content, he doesn't always pull off. You can really tell this is his focus.

@lightblue254

6 ай бұрын

Caesar tricked people

When Caesar saw Brutus among his attackers, Plutarch writes, ‘he covered his head with his toga and let himself fall.’ Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek: ‘Kai su, teknon’ (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin ‘Et tu, Brute?’). It literally means ‘You too, child,’ but what Caesar may have intended by the words isn’t clear. Tempest cites ‘an important article’ by James Russell (1980) ‘that has often been overlooked’. Russell points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggests that Caesar’s putative last words were not ‘the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son’ but more along the lines of ‘See you in hell, punk.’

Blue: “We’re not even two minutes in and we’re already establishing nearly 3000 years of stereotypes” Me: “Forget the Gladius grab the cannoli.”

@iapetusmccool

3 жыл бұрын

Does "people eating the food of their culture" really count as a stereotype?

@AreTea7

3 жыл бұрын

How did they eat pizza with no tomatoes?

@jamescawl6904

3 жыл бұрын

@@AreTea7 they used pineapple back then.

@shosty575

3 жыл бұрын

This Godfather reference killed me

@Ajehy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescawl6904 - it was basically a white pizza: cheese on flatbread, possibly with toppings.

Rome after losing at cannae: "tis but a scratch, have at thee!" carthage; "you are missing an arm" *"T I S B U T A S C R A T C H !!"*

@joevenespineli6389

3 жыл бұрын

In Rome's case they regrew limbs.

@dylanchouinard6141

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Nelly Is...is Rome Piccolo?

@joevenespineli6389

3 жыл бұрын

@@dylanchouinard6141 Yes.

@dylanchouinard6141

3 жыл бұрын

Joeven Espineli Parthia: That means he doesn’t have a penis, right Carthage?

@SM-qv2om

3 жыл бұрын

You made me laugh :)

2:02 My favorite subtle detail in Magi is that based on the name, we can assume that Romulus was killed by Remus in that universe, because it’s the Rem Empire that’s in play, not the Roman Empire.

Hey Blue! Just wanted to let you know I introduced my Classical Culture lecturer to this channel and she's been adding your videos on all things Rome to our homework (for enrichment) during lockdown and it's been so fun for everyone. So basically thank you!😆

Is it just me or does blue have a voice that you could just listen to for hours, he just sounds so pleasant and friendly

@cas5518

3 жыл бұрын

I literally fall asleep listening to the osp history playlist most nights, it’s so calming

@gingythebrawler3898

3 жыл бұрын

@@cas5518 It’s in my bed time rotation for sure

@OCTBOI

3 жыл бұрын

fax

@WhatIWantToListenTo

3 жыл бұрын

He makes me fall asleep before work sometimes lol

@ChesireWaltz

3 жыл бұрын

He just sounds like someone you want to be friends with, Red too. I'm lucky enough to actually know someone that reminds me of Red (rather Red reminded me of her) and I sometimes wonder what it would be like if they met. They'd probably write a book together in the first hour or something lol

Glad you're talking about the Republic when most people usually focus on the Empire 😊👍🏼

@jinjunliu2401

3 жыл бұрын

Most of my Latin class over the years was a heavy focus on the Republic and quite a bit about Augustus, but we don't really go that much further into depth after Augustus. Although this was kinda dependent on the topic our (cancelled) exam would be about (Aeneid)

@manicmania695

3 жыл бұрын

YEAH THATS WHY THEY DID IT WHY YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT HUH YOU GOOD BRO HUH YOU GOOD YOU STILL WONDERING WHY THEY DID IT BRO YOU STILL PONDERING THAT HUH YOU GOT IT FIGURED OUT IS THAT IT CATS OUTTA THE BAG HUH IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK HUH STILL WONDERING ARE YOU

@jasonutty52

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I took a Roman Culture class in college and we stopped after Augustus. The professor even said about not covering the empire: "Culturally speaking, it's all downhill from here."

@WillKrause21

3 жыл бұрын

I think the main reason for this is because our sources for most of the republic are "livy" and... um... that's it. +Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, and Livy all wrote during the Empire. There is great reason to do both.

@Sepulgurath

3 жыл бұрын

And then there's the Roman Kingdom no one talks about

"It doesn't take a lot of elephants to have a scary amount of elephants on the battlefield." Legendary.

After watching this video for the fifth time, I'm gonna read my whole Asterix collection and understand WAY MORE historical references than when I was a kid.

fun fact: the doctor who examined Caesar body and remarked about how Caesar died of blood loss. Only like 2 of the stab wounds posed any threat to his life.

@TheMonkeystick

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, almost everyone who is stabbed to death dies of blood loss, unless they're stabbed through the head or lung, in which case it's death by brain loss or suffocation. Knives, however, aren't great at getting through skulls and ribs

@jacktomas1596

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMonkeystick yes but if someone gets their jugular cut we domt say blood loss. We say they died of getting their jugular cut.

@matt_9112

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacktomas1596 "us" laymen might, but the dude was a medical professional after all.

@RequiemPoete

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacktomas1596 Except they didn't die from a cut jugular. They died from the blood loss through the hole in it. If you're stabbed in the brain or heart, death tends to be instant or close to it, directly due to damage to the organ themselves. You can actually survive a slit throat provided you get care right away. ( Granted that means a doctor is actually on scene when it happens.)

@RequiemPoete

3 жыл бұрын

Also, even if he survived the stabbings, then there's the high chance of infection.

Blue, my allegiance is to the republic, _TO DEMOCRACY!!!_

@DavidbarZeus1

3 жыл бұрын

Eh, the Republic was in trouble long before it actually became the Empire ... both Republics that is

@whatthefridge1o1

3 жыл бұрын

OBIWAN WATCHES OSP

@pRahvi0

3 жыл бұрын

So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

@RequiemPoete

3 жыл бұрын

It's already fallen and you're too blind to see it. There is no law, no order, except for the one that will replace it.

@caspianhorlick4529

3 жыл бұрын

*Octavian*: "The remaining Senators will be hunted down and defeated, and the Provinces will be re-organised into the Roman Empire!"

I love tha fact that Italy didn't invent pizza, pizza invented Italy.

@jakecadick7580

Жыл бұрын

it didn’t. they wouldn’t have had tomatoes til 1500’s. best they could have had was flat bread and cheese

@thomastakesatollforthedark2231

Жыл бұрын

​@@jakecadick7580practically pizza. Tomatoes are hardly essential

@RLSmith-jt8qj

7 ай бұрын

​@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231new jersey has left the chat

The ending of the Julius Caesar pirate story actually has him slitting the pirates’ throats before putting their bodies up on the crucifixes. It was supposed to exemplify his mercy I guess lol

@lissaquon607

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair - crucifixition is a horrible slow way to die. So yea - slitting someones throat beforehand would be a bit of a favor.

@clayxros576

3 жыл бұрын

"I'm going to kill and crucify you, but I'll ensure you at least dont feel it." "And how is that better?!" "Die faster rather than slow."

@sECUREij

3 ай бұрын

Such a merciful leader

A 35 MINUTE LONG OSP VIDEO ON MY BIRTHDAY?? THE ULTIMATE GIFT TO A HISTORY MAJOR

@ArchArturo

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday 🎁

@lucasjardimsena

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday

@prinzeszelda3650

3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday

@VandanaSingh-zr9ji

3 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday 🍰🎉

@VandanaSingh-zr9ji

3 жыл бұрын

@Bored Again happy birthday 🎉🍰

Everyone else: Rome you attacked me!! Rome: Yes but you planned to attack me. Everyone else: I was just thinking about it not actually doing it. Rome: You thought about it so have to be destroyed.

@jeanremynoble1798

3 жыл бұрын

Like my big brother used to say "Stop hitting yourself."

@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347

3 жыл бұрын

That is quite the accurate depiction of Rome’s Foreign Policy. XDXDXDXD

@dracodeanglicus3857

3 жыл бұрын

RomRom: _Yaro... CARTHAGO!!!_

@Lemuel928

3 жыл бұрын

So said Nero for causing so much destruction..Not actually Lady Umu.(But you already knew that.)

@jlokison

3 жыл бұрын

The Roman goddess Bellona was one of their first for a reason.

You could have spent more time on how Roman domestic politics changed in such a way that political violence and civil war suddenly became a thing. The increasing socioeconomic tension and the concentration of wealth, the resulting optimates vs populares conflict, and the sheer logistical problem caused by a constitution that was originally created for a city-state, such as having to personally travel to Rome in order to vote, even when the Roman state covers most of the Mediterranean.

@nikharagrawal5808

9 ай бұрын

Hey, that's interesting, could you suggest some reading or resource to know more about this?

@anderskorsback4104

9 ай бұрын

@@nikharagrawal5808 sorry, don't have any specific in mind, I tend to go wide rather than deep on sources. The basic outline of what happened though is this: Roman wars during the Middle Republic caused the propertied, landowning middle class to dwindle, since they were the ones legally required to serve in the military. The Punic Wars saw massive casualties among them, whereby the rich would sweep in and buy their lands. Later, what middle class remained ended up campaigning for years on end, causing their family farms to be neglected and end up sold. This, since the Roman military system was based on the assumption that it was the citizen-militia of a city-state and that campaigns would be local and short. Thus Roman citizens ended more often than not working as labourers for the very upper classes that had bought up their lands. Only later on, Roman conquests brought in lots of slaves (mostly owned by the rich and working their lands and businesses) that drove down the wage level. Thus Rome had a large underclass that had been screwed over by the system, who'd rally around any politician who'd champion them (the Populares faction). The Marian reforms, when the citizen-militia was replaced by a professional volunteer army, are often attributed as the cause of the fall of the Republic, since it led to a situation where the soldiers would be more loyal to their generals than to the government. Which is an oversimplification, since the reason why that could happen is because the soldiers were overwhelmingly recruited from this underclass, that had no reason to stand up for a system that had screwed them over. Also, they had little in the way of economic security beyond their military service, thus their generals (who often were prominent politicians in the own right) could gain their loyalty by championing them and working to secure them things like retirement benefits and land grants from conquered territory.

“From a rather salty chapter in Roman history” I see what you did there XD

History "Re-Summarized?" OK, did not expect that.

@ooi97

3 жыл бұрын

Some of his words make me think it's an older video just recorded again with the same script

@marinerproductions1315

3 жыл бұрын

@@ooi97, it is. It's an updated version of three previous videos all rolled into one with some extra notes.

@Stevrovich

3 жыл бұрын

First time there's been something like that to begin with. Someone having enough collective video's about the same topic to be able to summarize them in a cohesive manner in one video. That's interesting enough in its own right.

@j2dragon109

3 жыл бұрын

@@ooi97 He says that at the end of the video mate.

@marinerproductions1315

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stevrovich, it certainly is. He should do more of this.

Roman Republic: Remastered, Reignited, Definitive Edition Featuring Dante from the Divine Comedy (TM)

@lerafty5116

3 жыл бұрын

featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry™ Series

@aureliodeprimus8018

3 жыл бұрын

Roman Republic: Founders Edition.

@howeyyadoing9070

3 жыл бұрын

& Knuckles

@danielchequer5842

3 жыл бұрын

Roman Repulic: HD Collection

“...And proceeds to reverse engineer an entire fleet. You know, casually. Like you do.”

24:43 "Anyone with enough money and connections could effectively cripple the political system for their own personal gain." Osh, doesn't that sound familiar?

@wazco

3 жыл бұрын

Now where’s our Caesar? I’m honestly open to it at this point.

@devforfun5618

3 жыл бұрын

it is called republic, hehe

@catzagoon3516

3 жыл бұрын

Modern republics are much more inherently stable than Rome. They have checks and balances, and rely more on the normal people voting than a few prominent families (Aristocrats votes were worth way more than plebian votes). We also don't have senators commanding armies LMAO

I'm sorry but this is completely wrong, Caesar was actually a little red square

@carbonmonteroy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but this is completely wrong. Caesar was actually Joseph's partner in crime

@carbonmonteroy

3 жыл бұрын

I beat all you nerds to the JoJo reference. Now suffer.

@carbonmonteroy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Winston.S.Churchill yes okay cool, I know, I was continuing the chain of characters also named Caesar

@DeSaxofoonVanPeter

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but this is completely wrong, Caesar was actually a delicious salad

@aureavita8653

3 жыл бұрын

@@carbonmonteroy We shall nevah surrendah -Winston Churchill

"That's why it's Rome, not Reem" *confused Russian noises*

@dranelemakol

2 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, as a Russian I just realised...

@Speed001

2 жыл бұрын

@@dranelemakol ?

@triplettobi4424

Жыл бұрын

xD

@Helios8170

Жыл бұрын

Hey, wait a min-

@AmirSatt

Жыл бұрын

In Russian it is Reme indeed... lol

Just want to comment on the Caesar double wall siege, vercingetorix was inside the fort with quite a large Gaulic army. He had just suffered a pretty bad defeat to Caesar. But once in the fort he let all his calvary go home (before the first wall that would trap them in was complete) with orders to let all the tribes know what had happened and to send a relief force. The relief army did come, but not in time (both walls were now up.) They attacked twice and were thrown back each time. vercingetorix was trying to time his attack with that of the relief force so Caesar’s men would have to defend both sides at once. He wasn’t able to do this the first two times, as well as the third and final time when the army outside attacked at night. Caesar wrote a book on this entire years long campaign, he writes that in the final attack him and his army were nearly overwhelmed, but rescued by men he sent out to try to get around and attack the Gauls from behind. Idk where you got the “The Gaul army sees small cavalry force and runs away,” thing from.

@nikharagrawal5808

9 ай бұрын

Oh, that's really interesting to know!

"anyone with enough connections and resources can effectively cripple the normal flow of government" Its a good thing we learned from history huh Simply great

"that phrase is winking at you so hard, its practically wearing an eyepatch" PIRATE ROME

@donbionicle

3 жыл бұрын

Alternate history-Caesar is so impressed by his pirate captors' attitudes that he turns the Roman republic into a continent spanning pirate kingdom.

@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw

3 жыл бұрын

Pirate Rome? There were two of those, England and Spain.

@misspugtheamphithere3279

3 жыл бұрын

it IS Talk Like A Pirate Day!

"This is an on fire Troy! ...Could be a Republic..."

@lordoftheducks332

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god yes

@hyperchetnikmapping3401

3 жыл бұрын

Is that a fire in your Troy? Fuck all logic and make a republic 2000 km away

@greyjay9492

3 жыл бұрын

“Ahaha like we said we don’t know if we’re gonna have a republic” “no no I know you don’t know if you’re gonna have it, but y’know you never know, sometimes you don’t know what’s gonna happen and then... something happens”

@BradyPostma

3 жыл бұрын

John Malaney makes all history better

There is nothing better than learning history from a good teacher with Age of Mythology music playing in the backgroung.

I'm reading Mary Beard's SPQR at this time. Your vids are helping encapsulate what I'm reading and untangle the timeline.

Nobody: Literally nobody: Rome: Oh, so you're approaching me?

@TheNaturalnuke

3 жыл бұрын

Hannibal: I can’t beat the shit out of you without getting closer.

@joaofarias9986

3 жыл бұрын

I feel sad they literally nobody I now would understand this joke

@landsknecht9941

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNaturalnuke Scipio demands your location

@tingtimson1281

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNaturalnuke oh then come as close as you like

@sheenadees4895

3 жыл бұрын

Why yes tink tink

"[He] killed the Republic long before he was named Dictator. He proved how breakable the system was." Ouch that hits close to home

@bificommander

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Trump and Caesar have a lot in common in the "Hey, look at what you can get away with if you take every power my office gives you with zero fucks given about restricting conventions that all the previous office holders kept." department.

@AgentxSmithx

3 жыл бұрын

Also, I’d argue that Marius was the one who proved how breakable the system is, then Sulla confirmed it. Caesar, or someone like him, was destined after their power grabs.

@alexlohrke488

3 жыл бұрын

@@bificommander Yeah except Caesar actually used his power to do helpful things

@Espadasilenciosa

3 жыл бұрын

He could be talking of my country Spain. In 1936 the General Franco declared war against our just born 2nd republic. He won and became the supreme dictator for 36 years. It's 2021, and there's still people (right wing people) that think Franco did nothing wrong, or that he was as bad as our understandable unstable just-born democracy... their points sicken me.

@Tyrantk2007

3 жыл бұрын

@Jasta 2 people wouldn't hate the elites that much if they did anything to help those same lower classes with a large resentment towards them. why have democracy if people will constantly elect politicians that don't give a shit about anyone

Please do more of these definitive additions. It’s really nice to have one video to put on to get a complete history review as opposed to filling between multiple!!

Really liked the video. It takes the story Arcs of a fascinating topic and gives them the perspective of being framed in a greater narrative. Such as how Caesar's accomplishments are far more impactful when put in the immediate context of the history of rome and how it was functioning before his rise.

Blue talks about Roman Republic. Background music : The City of Rome from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. 👍👍👍👍👍 Edit: also Echoes of Roman Ruins 👌👌👌👌👌

@jasonblalock4429

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Blue finds excuses to reference Assassin's Creed about as often as he dunks on Alexander the Overrated.

35 minutes long I think I've gone to heaven

@jameswood3936

3 жыл бұрын

Armen

Thank you for a wonderful birthday gift. I've watched all the component videos before, but I still love hearing it all again. I can't tell you how many times I've rewatched yall's videos. Can't wait to hear the podcast!

You should keep doing these remasters. Nice to see watch the entire story in one go.

Time to bust out the popcorn, because this is gonna be good.

@noahjohnson935

3 жыл бұрын

Now i'm literally fixing popcorn

When I did my study of the Remus and Romulus story, I found a very similar conclusion in the mythology to the one you found in history: Rome was able, more than anything, to adapt. The fact that a city of thieves founded by a fratricidal murderer and populated by mass kidnapping/r@pe could become the center of civilization in Europe for 1,000 years (or more, if you ask the Byzantines) shows how important their institutions were. Well done!

@ahmedamine24

3 жыл бұрын

I read that as"city or Thebes" for half a second.

I love the way blue talks about Caesar and the manifest joy while talking about Rome an its history. So thanks for sharing that!

You mentioned not wanting it to be over an hour, but honestly, I'd love to see longer and longer content from you (though I understand it would take increasing amounts of time to make, too)! Your style makes history really, really interesting

"that's why it's called ROME not REME" That's gonna get an "Uhhhhhhhhhmmmm" from all the Russian speakers out there. I would actually love to know why Russian uses Reme instead Rome, it might just be a phonetics thing for all I know. Bonus Funfact: the Russian word for lightning (Молния=Molniya) sounds an awful lot like Mjölnir (especially when pronounced correctly), and from what I've found it may go all the way back to some shared Proto-Indo-European language shared around the region. I wonder how it ties back to the theory that Norse Myth comes from Slavic Myth, and not the other way around, though I'm sure there was mutual exchange and development.

@erikpaulsanchez4876

3 жыл бұрын

proto-indo- Eruope influences and history definitely need a video to cover them

@Mayeko

3 жыл бұрын

@@erikpaulsanchez4876 yesyesyesyes I would DIE. The research was still a bit foggy last I checked but I find it truly fascinating how so many modern cultures that we consider extremely disparate share these little kernels of common language and history from their distant ancestors....

@janbelcher1896

3 жыл бұрын

i suppose the Kievan Rus, who were scandinavians did go on to become modern Russia (as far as i know, please correct me if i'm wrong) so the term Mjolnir being the Ásatrú term for Thor/Thunor is likely to have carried down into modern russian, even after the cyrillic doctrinations.

@stick-itproductions.3307

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe their ancestors liked Remus better and are trying to stick it it his murderer.

@tompatterson1548

3 жыл бұрын

both norse and slavic myth come from the same source.

It feels... wrong for all these historical figures to have faces instead of being colored squares.

@izidorzupan9665

3 жыл бұрын

Or different versions of ms paint virgin and chad

@-AirKat-

3 жыл бұрын

Where’s the spinning quadrilaterals?

@rambard5599

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, a fellow Historia Civilis fan, I see.

@shanedoesyoutube8001

3 жыл бұрын

@@rambard5599 i second that

@stordoy

3 жыл бұрын

@@izidorzupan9665 could never get into that channel

I’d definitely love seeing more of these kinds of videos. Really great to just set on play and chill out to!

I have to admit, it took me a few days to get through this simply because I'm not used to videos longer than 10 mins these days, but I really enjoyed this and would love to see more!

"salty chapter" about the Punic wars. That made me laugh

First Triumvirate: *The Roman republic is a perfectly balanced system with no exploits whatsoever!*

I for one, would genuinely LOVE more content like this. Please make more!

This was dope! Thanks for putting them into one solid chunk. Helps when each video is watched months apart from one another.

At the end you should yell «ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?» Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

@thexalon

3 жыл бұрын

No, that comes in part 2, on the Empire.

@revmedia8108

3 жыл бұрын

thexalon ahahahah Fingers crossed!!

Italian Republic: You can't be more unstable than us. Roman Republic: Hold my lares please

This kind of video combining a lot of other ones and separating them into chapters(including on the actual video where depending where you are when you look at the time it will tell you what chapter you're on) is really helpful and it would be great if you did these for your other multi-part series

I’d like more of these! I like long form content and getting the whole story in one place is great!

"Enough with the politicy stuff back to the stabby stuff" Blue I have been lead to believe by nearly everything I've seen or read on the subject that in Italian history there is no difference there.

@dkinla3408

2 жыл бұрын

The Medici's would certainly agree.

Ahem...Hannibal destroyed TWO Roman armies. Gotta give the man the respect he's due.

@BatCostumeGuy

2 жыл бұрын

2 and a half actually. Blue has Roman bias so it's understandable.

You guys-Blue & Red-are great. (Red, your illustrations are a treat!!) This compilation idea is marvellous. Thanks Blue!

This video is great! Don't think I've seen the older ones that you say this is a, more or less, combination of, but really linking the idea! Perfect length, and by that I mean: any longer and I may have not watched all the way through or waited until I had more time to watch.

27:04 - 27:48 i would like to respectfully rename to "caesar rolls too many nat 20s and ruins the campaign for everyone"

@cpob2013

3 жыл бұрын

Nat 20s have never ruined a campaign

@carbonmonteroy

3 жыл бұрын

@@cpob2013 I'd argue this: Nat 20's have never ruined a _good DM's_ campaign.

no one: blue: hey guys have you heard of this little place called, um, R O M E

Excellent video. That little snippet about "that kid Alexander" and expansion gave me a hearty chuckle, too lol

This was great! I like the longer videos because it allows me to work and listen without stopping as often

The level of salt directed at Alexander "I'm going to make myself relevant even if I have to kill you all to do it" is kinda hilarious.

I'm so glad to see some new versions of the older OSP history stuff. Love that old stuff, but as I've watched you get better with the videos I've seen the old stuff and thought "Oh, he could do that so much better now!" It's like watching a kid grow up or something

These are all excellent and the remastered ones are excellent too and particularly useful. Thanks for all of it.

I really like this consolidation of videos into a long-form, coherent whole.

@steviebudden3397

2 жыл бұрын

I like it too. It helps me get a rough overall picture of what went on so, you can see the more specific events in context.

I think a 35 minute goes beyond summarizing. This is amazing

@lark23

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda had to summarize such a long piece of history without it being a longer video but yeah this is amazing

@ATemplarIGuess

3 жыл бұрын

According to my teachers a summary of rome would be a few hundred years long so

@j2dragon109

3 жыл бұрын

It's a remake of 3 of his older videos (hence the re in the tile).

@lark23

3 жыл бұрын

J2Dragon of which I’ve watched them all

@macped6751

3 жыл бұрын

Except it makes a giant mistake At least as early as 1863,[7] various texts claimed that the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus plowed over and sowed the city of Carthage with salt after defeating it in the Third Punic War (146 BC), sacking it, and enslaving the survivors. The salting was probably modeled on the story of Shechem. Though ancient sources do mention symbolically drawing a plow over various cities and salting them, none mention Carthage in particular.[3] The salting story entered the academic literature in Bertrand Hallward's article in the first edition of the Cambridge Ancient History, and was taken up by others. It was discredited by scholars in the 1980s.[1][8][9]