2:55 Cyan: "W-what the hell?!" Blue: "Honey, I can explain!" *frantically tries to hide the map of Roman roads he was sleeping with under the bed*

@andythompson1998

5 жыл бұрын

*Frantically hides his roman empire body pillow*

@KheptlaxaXonu

5 жыл бұрын

@@andythompson1998 I'm going to get that.

@bambi3845

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know, I feel like Blue appreciate's Rome's beauty but it isn't true love. He would never have an affair with Rome over his one true love, Venice.

@demigodgamer8517

5 жыл бұрын

@@bambi3845 Rome's the mistress.

@Great_Olaf5

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, his love for Rome is probably storge or philia (though I won't discount mania), what he has for Cyan is almost certainly eros. (possibly agape, though I don't want to push that... that might be a bit far without actually knowing either of them IRL)

*Everyone:* Emu War is the most pointless battle in human history. *Caligula:* Hold my beer

@jimbermelon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but remember that war over soccer?

@InquisitorThomas

5 жыл бұрын

Somnus or the war over a bucket, or the war over a pig, or the war over a dog.

@andreasnielsen1418

5 жыл бұрын

And in 1788 Austria’s army fought a battle against Themself over some booze and around 1200 people dead ( sorry for The bad english )

@eyuin5716

5 жыл бұрын

*Hold my Wine

@griffin__sutek4958

5 жыл бұрын

I like how your profile picture is Malcolm McDowell who played Caligula

Good Video but you forgot to include the part where Marcus Lepidus secretly orchestrated the entirety of Roman history after his pawn Augustus unified the Roman Empire.

@OverlySarcasticProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Reading this comment made me physically uncomfortable, well done -B

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

I only have a surface level knowledge of Roman history and even I know how silly that sounds. *Just as Lepidus wants it to be*

@Alaryk111

5 жыл бұрын

All shall bow before Pontifex Maximus!!!

@frankrappa6026

5 жыл бұрын

So Marcus Lepidus is basically Emperor Palpatine. So who’s Jar Jar’s equivalent?

@johnosburn6814

5 жыл бұрын

Inquisitor Thomas Lepidus and Crassus, the third wheels of history

I used to be a Republic citizen the same as your father. Before the dark times. Before the Roman Empire.

@jdb9318

4 жыл бұрын

Hello there

@petro9227

4 жыл бұрын

@@jdb9318 General Kenobi

@StiggusRattus

4 жыл бұрын

My alliance is to the republic to DEMOCRACY

@moesnnargul1717

4 жыл бұрын

@@StiggusRattus to an overrated cause that believe in pleb had a say against a God like me

@headcanon6408

3 жыл бұрын

I would say that Palpatine copied Octavian, but because the Galactic Empire existed a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away), it's more likely that Octavian copied Palpatine

Blue's gf walks in on him with his pants around his ankles, heavily breathing and drooling as he stares fixed to the screen. She screams. "What the hell are you looking at?" Her eyes translate the pixels before Blue can stammer out an explanation. "Is... Is that a map of Roman Roads?"

@Stormkrow280

4 жыл бұрын

El Psy i imagine red laughing her ass off while watching this go down

@twoscarabsintheswarm9055

3 жыл бұрын

@@Stormkrow280 same. I Also Imagine red Laughing While Reading Books.

@glasscardproductions4736

2 жыл бұрын

@@Stormkrow280, and then maybe Red's brother Magenta walking in on her laughter and then joining in when he comprehends what he's seeing.

Only Blue can regard an exploding volcano with a sigh and "The shit I put up with for Rome..."

Osp: Roman Empire is a thing Me: *starts hyperventilating*

@your_kneecaps_are_mine_now9930

5 жыл бұрын

So true bro

@lenahadley5878

4 жыл бұрын

Rome is whole. And then it broke.

@dontreadmyprofilepic2124

Жыл бұрын

@@lenahadley5878 ...And then whole again

"What if Rome ...but more?" is now my favorite quote of all time.

9:15 interesting factoid: Hadrian's wall had a moat on the southern side, facing _away_ from the unoccupied territory. "Why?" do you ask? Because the wall was designed to thwart raids rather than halt invaders, and the Celts were crazy-in-love with cattle rustling, _(Seriously, several Irish legends have epic heroes fight wars over a single damn cow)_ Yet while some cows could getting over the wall in some places, it would NOT be happening while chest-deep in water. Interesting factoid #2: the Romans didn't occupy further north of the wall because the main food source up there was livestock due to the hilly terrain (hence the cattle fixation) and the Romans needed copious amounts of grain to keep their troops provisioned. It was a similar problem in germany, where the biggest hangup toward conquest wasn't the Germans (even though they were a damn big problem), it was the lack of any real infrastructure east of the Rhine. The Romans loved to co-opt pre-existing institutions rather than build their own from scratch, but the Germans didn't really have any they could tap into. It's a stunning testament to Roman military prowess that it was logistics rather than foreign power that determined most of the borders of their empire.

@cristhianramirez6939

3 жыл бұрын

Even then,before Teutoburg, Rome pushed the germanic frontier as far as the elbe river. Founding numerous cities like Cologne, Mainz,etc

@camramaster

2 жыл бұрын

Huh. So they might have conquored more if surrounded by more advanced enemies.

@Antidragon-nl7by

2 жыл бұрын

@@camramaster It's true that if the Germans, Norse, or Nomadic tribes east of germania had more developed infrastructure, the empire could have gone a great deal further. Yet there was only so much territory Rome could rule before sheer distance put a halt to their expansion. For example, they never occupied the extremely developed and lucrative cities of Parthia (even though they could ransack the Parthian Capitol at will at the hight of their power) because it took months for the emperor to organize a campaign out east, months to travel there, months to actually fight, and months to return, assuming that nothing went wrong (it's a testament to Roman efficiency and roadways that they were able to do so _that quickly)._ And during all that time, important matters were being neglected in the Emperor's absence, or simply decided without him. And to be fair to the "primitive" northern barbarians, they didn't have much to work with; the nomads were nomadic for a reason (few resources on the plains) while germania and Scandinavia were chocked with dense Forests that heavily deterred agriculture. Pretty much any culture that _could_ develop advanced infrastructure at that time _had_ developed it already. Sorry for the rant: I love using any excuse to talk about history.

Blue: "Talk dirty to me, baby" Cyan: "Rome had some amazing feats of engineering, including heated floors" Blue: (moans in pleasure) Honestly Blue, you're very lucky to have Cyan. Lol ; )

@twoscarabsintheswarm9055

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone's Making These Jokes And It's Very Fun

Caligula never made a horse a senator. He just made a joke (horse=equs - equestrian), no contemporary source says he went through with the "threat". He probably wasn't mad but had a certain sense of humour, hated the senate and Roman elites, was really impulsive and prone to fits of rage and considered himself untouchable.

@kanvaros4451

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think he was mad but didn't he suffer 2 dramatic events in his life which could explain the fundamental changes in his character? His sister that he adored, some would say maybe a bit too much, dying and his stroke or illness mark a distinct change in his behavior or at least a lessening of his inhibitions. I do also agree that he could have been playing some 4D chess trying to depower the senate through these demonstrations

@AbbeyRoadkill1

5 жыл бұрын

It's fair to say that later writers/historians exaggerated how bad some of the Roman emperors were... but that's not to say Caligula and Nero were good emperors.

@historymysteries4134

5 жыл бұрын

Suetonius says he threatened to make his favourite horse a senator.

@SonofSethoitae

5 жыл бұрын

He probably wasn't crazy, he was just a dipshit

@1Richard2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@historymysteries4134 Suetonius lived and therefore wrote that decades later he was at best just repeating wild stories at worst just making it up.

1:38 "Roman emperors murdered by the praetorian guard" Aurelian: * Cries in restitutor Orbis *

"Imperium Junkies" - R. Oh red still getting through the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

It is a very long book.

@Arenuphis

5 жыл бұрын

Vid when

Theres actually multiple legions with the name number , There's at least 3 legion III. The romans didn't want to abandon their legions history as it was a sign of pride to belong to a legion that had fought in certain battles , accomplished certain feats. Says alot about collective identity.

I feel bad for Nero, his mixtape was too 🔥 for Rome

@lewisirwin5363

5 жыл бұрын

I'd be a lyre if I said I enjoyed it.

@h0m3st4r

5 жыл бұрын

Boy, did his legacy end on a sour note or what?

@AncientAccounts

5 жыл бұрын

@@h0m3st4r i know right? hunted down like a deer, then having the senate declare some old emporer while your still alive?

@somedude2278

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 best comments ever

@-2-79

3 жыл бұрын

Oh come on.. Nero caused the fire... really it wasn't the Christians the people known for burning anything they don't like

Ya boi Claudius needs more than ‘weak but fine’ he conquered Britain and healed the empire after Caligula!

@nyeetzsche6078

5 жыл бұрын

Yah considering he was considered an actual disabled person for most of his life, it's astonishing that he was as effective an emperor as he was.

@walsh9080

4 жыл бұрын

Plus, I, claudius is a must watch series for any fan of the Roman empire.

@cristhianramirez6939

3 жыл бұрын

And he built a lot too,eg: Aqua Claudia

8:09 Blue, are you sure you’re weren’t someone who died in Pompeii in a previous life?

@AuroraLalune

5 жыл бұрын

Most people don't consciously remember past lives unless they go through a lot of shit to learn meditations to be able to apply the same concepts used for repressed memories combined with some dreams etc. So maybe and maybe not? It could be more symbolic to him because he feels so connected to it same as I am to pre christianized scottish history, which you almost never hear even a whisper about unless your from a family that passed down something of it etc. As far as I know there is no mainstream for it. There is british and irish but everything seems to go dead silent when scottish history comes up.

@dylanchouinard6141

5 жыл бұрын

AuroraLalune I was more making a joke, but thanks for the info!

@AuroraLalune

5 жыл бұрын

I actually got into the past lives stuff because I've had a dream since I was little that repeats from time to time and carries me to specific places. I started and ended in places I had never been and asked questions about things Id never heard about and nobody could explain. Some of it I've only found out what it was as an adult. But then its also said that surviving twins and survivors of near death experiences are particularly close to that stuff and I'm both and basically started my life with that recipe before having the first 3 years of my life riddled with such serious febrile seizures with a lack of immune system to match for a perfect storm and I was declared ad almost declared dead a lot. There were a lot of times they didn't think Id come back, several I came back after they gave up, one notable instance my mom punched a nurse in the face getting to me after they gave up and then tried to stop her before standing directly between my mother and my body, a couple out of body experiences and having dreamt of my sister from the beginning before asking my mom about her and finding out she died in utero and hardly anyone knew she had existed(and she hadn't planned on telling me but then I asked which she didn't plan for)... So a whole lot of weird went into that and honestly? The older I get the less often I have the dream. I think its every couple years or so at this point? Its more terrifying than interesting as there is a portion that has people coming up onto the shores of the us and then mushroom clouds etc... So my mom used to think(in life: and in conversations I wasn't supposed to be listening in on because my mom also followed the philosophy of not teaching this stuff to children) it might be a combination of past and future meshed into one disjointed dream. As an adult I learned there are people who believe that time exists all at once and that is why some people dream in both past and future. Personally I think when you connect to this level within yourself where you connect with yourself or whatever else you wanna call the depths of whathaveyou that its more simpler and more complicated than that. I think cell memory, a proven concept, is more plausible and people get it from ancestors. I think its possible large events that cause emotional trauma, particularly to many people at once, can also resonate to those open to it. Ironically children find there way to that easiest, fostering the idea children are closer to past lives than adults. Yet adults who have had near death experiences also often find this more easily. With kids you don't teach them because then they start to take there dreams and themselves too seriously. Have to let them be kids and wait for the developmental stages where such abstract or "magical thinking" as psychiatrists call it today(which is a crack at pagans more than fantasy but it basically means there still at the stage where they think santa is real if you tell them so and can hold this belief even when they see direct evidence against it: also part of the reason religion is bad to teach children. They never learn to separate morality from religion and that can be used against them later(usually by religious leaders in there same religion but can be used outside that in some cases as well: basically it makes people more gullible and that's bad- religion is for adults and teens who are interested in exploring to find what fits them etc, but not kids because that is dangerous and makes them more vulnerable to manipulation using religion or growing to hate it and deciding all religion is bad: especially when that religion teaches that other religions are inherently bad with nothing worth understanding in the first place but instead as some undefined evil hiding in the shadows like generally isnt true). Anyway. I'm tired and rambling. Point being. Past lives stuff is actually more interesting when you look at it from different points of view. Like spiritual and science and then see if and where they fit etc. Sometimes you learn science has found it is different but easy to see why people thought a certain way. Sometimes it's spot on and sometimes people were wrong entirely though not on the past lives thing, interestingly enough. It is, indeed, a fascinating subject. I doubt blue has gotten into it. He would probably be geeking out about being present in spirit during those events in a past life and wondering if he could use it to unearth lost knowledge or some shit. Lol At least if what we see is his genuine personality anyway.

@dylanchouinard6141

5 жыл бұрын

AuroraLalune once again, just a joke but also really interesting

@lifeontheledgerlines8394

5 жыл бұрын

@@AuroraLalune Holy Roman Empire (that's actually Germany, but whatever), I clicked *show more* and then saw that entire essay there - that caught me off guard lol

Praise be!!!! THE LAWD HAS BLESSED US WITH A GRACIOUS GIFT (The lawd of course being the little blue creature with the stubby feet)

"my girlfriend Cyan" - I actually went through the thought process 'Cyan? That's a funny name...' before I got the joke. 😳... 🤔... 😄

@franciscomm7675

5 жыл бұрын

I dont get the joke

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

@@franciscomm7675 His psuedonym is Blue thus his girlfriend is Cyan, in keeping with the theme.

@pifilixxiv3192

5 жыл бұрын

Like reds niece being magenta ?

@Bagolboy

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve always wondered about what they’re real names are though I respect what seems to be a sort of form of privacy

@gorgonzolastan

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bagolboy I doubt it's a secret, especially since they have shown their faces

The fact that the Colosseum was abused in the Renaissance still hurts my feelings even though I have known about that for years.

Wow, can't believe Blue flexed on me. Not everybody has a girlfriend, unsubscribed.

@roelofsonneveld1049

5 жыл бұрын

When? Nevermind 2:57

@jinjunliu2401

5 жыл бұрын

Well I'm happy to see that he found his soulmate Cyan, Turquoise would've definitely ruined it

@Debicus

5 жыл бұрын

@@jinjunliu2401 ikr

@unflexian

5 жыл бұрын

DERE HE IS

@Debicus

5 жыл бұрын

@@unflexian that kid kicked sand in cool cat's face

"God dammit, not this bullshit again" - Blue 2019 LMAO that killed me XD

@anthonyeaton9049

5 жыл бұрын

It is a true talent to face a life- and city-ending volcanic eruption and react to it with only moderate ennui.

I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I THOUGHT IT SAID BROMAN EMPIRE AND I DIED LAUGHING.

@isaacdenley1922

5 жыл бұрын

This is sporta bruh

@isaacdenley1922

5 жыл бұрын

*kicks into ball pit*

A friend of mine once told me: "If it wasn't written down by Tacitus, it didn't happen."

@j2dragon109

5 жыл бұрын

Corvus Albus But your birth wasn’t written down by Tacitus... Does that mean you weren’t born!? Do you even exist? Did your friend actually tell you that?

I visited Italy with my high school Latin class. we climbed My Vesuvius and were chased halfway up by a lightning storm (the clouds were below us). As good Latin scholars we immediately began to figure out who to sacrifice before deciding on the youngest.

I loved all but one. I think you undervalued Claudius.

I can just imagine Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero all getting together and suddenly it turns into a Roman Three Stooges act.

Why get killed when you can D.I.Y.?

Great video. But I take issue with your description of Nero. When the fire happened, it’s recorded that he was away from Rome but when he heard news of the fire he sent forces to immediately try and save the city. Popular history likes to portray characters as either black or white which is never the case

3:35 That's odd, since what I've read on the subject - and granted, it's far from exhaustive or definitive - says that Nero's location during the Great Fire was known. According to Tacitus, he was in Antium when the fire started and when word of the fire reached him, he immediately travelled to Rome in order to direct firefighting and relief efforts. And yes, he did take advantage of the situation to rebuild Rome the way he wanted to (especially with a brand new palace that would have covered a third of the city), but there's no real evidence that he started the fire. Don't forget, that contemporary accounts of early Rome mostly come from the senatorial/equestrian class, who were more than willing to slip in a little slander for Emperors they hated (looking at you, Suetonius), and their accounts should be taken with a grain of salt unless corroborated from other sources. Caligula also was a victim of this; not that either Nero or Caligula were particular _good_ Emperors, but they _probably_ weren't _quite_ as bad a contemporary writers make them out to be. 5:20 Really? Going with that line? I'll start off by saying that while, yes, Christians _were_ executed by being thrown to wild animals, it was not something that applied to them and them alone. It was called _damnatio ad bestias_ and was the punishment for a number of crimes. There is no reliable evidence to suggest that there were any executions of Christians at the Flavian Amphitheatre and there is precisely _one_ contemporary account which claims that Christians were thrown to lions, and that was from a _Christian_ writer. On the other hand, there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that early Christians were quite willing to exaggerate the amount of persecution they were supposedly being subjected to, not to mention that reliable evidence only exists for persecution by imperial decree - as opposed to mob violence or persecutions instituted by provincial governors - a grand total of twice under Valerian and Diocletian. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_Roman_Empire)

I'm a simple man. I see Nero, I write... *UMU*

@braggerjester4971

5 жыл бұрын

UMU

@unflexian

5 жыл бұрын

UMU

@KeeperOfTheSevenKeys.

5 жыл бұрын

UMU

@robbielewis4740

5 жыл бұрын

What about Nero I wrote?

@alyxquinncases

5 жыл бұрын

umu

I just want a whole video of blue doing the top five best Roman emperors and top five awful and or evil Roman emperors because of them were absolutely insane!

3:00 I thought you had a stable relationship with Venice.

"Imperium junkies" *Warhammer intensifies in distance*

@lucasbeck1391

4 жыл бұрын

40k*

@jeffmusyoka1876

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts 😂😂

anyone: talks about rome AP Latin Students: hold my beer

Thanks for giving my boy Antoninus a shout-out, Blue. Good to see some credit being given to leaders to rule over the quieter periods of an empire's history :)

“and my girlfriend cyan is really pretty” you can hear the love- that’s adorable

"having conversations with the moon..." Whoa, first I heard of this. Who was he chums with, Kaguyahime?

I love listening to someone being excited about something and maybe that's why I love Blue's and Red's videos so much, they really enjoy to explain their favorite subjects.

1:40 Had to laugh at "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it."

Damn, Blue, great video. Love your videos on Rome & thank G-d you talked about the Second Diaspora, but what about the Jews who were part of the Empire, like my ancestors who were Centurians & Legatus Legionus?

1:40 "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." Cue the memes.

Your narration is some of the best on the tube. Love it

Again, I thank you for these. You hand Red have been very helpful with helping me with writing.

The period from the beginning of Nerva's reign, to the end of Marcus Aurelius one is called by historians as "Pax Romana", it was the apex of roman civilization, stability, prosperity and freedom (slavery in that time had a different meaning than today) were equaly distributed.

@SeanTheDon17

4 жыл бұрын

Gustavo S.Lamarque Some say the Pax Romana began with Augustus in 27bc. His reign provided Rome with much more stability than it had seen the past century.

@rebeccaclark9131

4 жыл бұрын

Did slavery have a different meaning back then? I mean at the end of the day the bottom line is both in roman times and today if your the property of someone else you were a slave. Roman slaves went through periods where they did have more legal freedoms than say the infamous african-american slaves and being a slave in roman wasn't considered something biological but I think its a stretch to say slavey meant something different in rome than it does to us.

1:41 "This list is incomplete, you can help by expanding it"

0:14 - Part of the reason why I love this channel - it's attitude!

Red's video of The Aeneid and Blue's videos on Rome helped a ton back when I took World History in College, I can credit my high grades to these two. Thanks so much!

Mary Beard's SPQR is so so good. Glad you are recommending it because it is one of my favorite books on the subject!

*sees the map when zoomed into north-western Europe* Huh, I didn't know Flevoland already existed back then

@dennisdomnig3601

5 жыл бұрын

It was reclaimed, after all

At 0.35. Awesome presentation there, kudos!

Domitian is severely underrated, as the people and army loved him and he was literally the only roman emperor to try fixing the rapid inflation and succeed for a time along with a more or less successful reign. He was tyrannical and liked to ignore the senate's existence in decision making though, which really angered the senators and cue assassination.

If you redo Byzantium you better give Basil II his own episode

A) You can't say Cyan is prettier without proving it. B) "Next video"?!?! GIVE IT TO ME NOW!!!!

@Ergogre

5 жыл бұрын

a) Anyone can have a subjective opinion without proving it, you don't have to share it. Since I belive Blue is to classy to post ascii-pics in the youtube comments, the best you can hope for is probably a ratio. b) Rome wasn't built in a day, then partly torn down again, and used to build a different part of Rome, or atleast Rome adjacent.

You guys do a really great job on all these videos.

These are so dense and well done. Thank you.

Are you going to a history Summarized on Hinduism and Buddhism

The Roman games would have been the show of a lifetime, too bad we can't sea that today.

You HAVE been very good lately.... I support your Roman undertaking :D

“G**d*** it, not this bulls*** again.” That IS classic Blue. I’m laughing here.

"and my girlfriend cyan is really pretty" y u flexin on us blue

Will you do a video about the Byzantine Empire?

Excellent. I just wish you and red had more time to push out more content. As always a pleasure to view.

I wish you uploaded 3 videos a day man, gotta love your content.

Bring us as much Rome as you want! Greetings from Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ^^ wich is btw the only colonia named after a woman.

@AuroraLalune

5 жыл бұрын

Ah... But how many are probably secretly named after some guys nickname for his penis? Lol Or some male lover? There have been cases of the later dug up and often ignored by mainstream because icky but the former just makes me chuckle to wonder.

Hey @overlysarcasticproduction Appreciate the high quality content. Can u guys like give eastern history and mythology a go. India, Persia and Arab cultures arent usually reviewed so it can probably bring a lot of viewers from those provinces too. Try ferdowsis shahnameh the largest mythological historical poetical book in the world. Thanks😘

Blue, I have to admit, I adore when you do Rome!!! Thank you for the food!!!!

Love the pre-history animation :) Thank you :)

>Shows Mike Duncan's History of Rome *dies in fanboy*

Nero, Caligula and Commodus, contending the title for worst roman emperor ever.

@mastrheartsxiii

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like someone read the trials of Apollo

@MatthewSchooley94

5 жыл бұрын

And working together to become gods according to Rick Riordan.

@TomskyB

5 жыл бұрын

I too have read Trials of Apollo

@AbbeyRoadkill1

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Caracalla and Elagabalus.

@TheFiresloth

5 жыл бұрын

Honorius has them all beaten bloody.

I love how the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood soundtrack plays quietly in the background, nice touch.

Glad you keep the AC Brotherhood music in there. Blends in really nicely.

Man, that was a hard day; now that I'm in bed let's watch some po... *Blu uploads* IMPERIUM COMES BEFORE ALL ELSE

Rome : Took centuries to build, was toppled by a couple of idiots in mere decades

@minatodroger7890

5 жыл бұрын

Typical for an empire

@Jmoney18123

5 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Lucina for the amount of problems that it faced, Rome actually took a long time to fall. Think about all the trouble in the 3rd century and Rome still survived a whole century after that. Well the western part atleast.

@puncturedbicycle7264

5 жыл бұрын

Jmoney18123 Tru, but if you are an uncultured normie, Byzantine doesn't really ring a bell when it comes to Rome in broad terms

@AbbeyRoadkill1

5 жыл бұрын

It was longer than decades. Almost 3 centuries elapsed between Commodus (the beginning of the fall) and Romulus Augustulus (the end of the fall). And the Eastern Roman Empire lived on for another millennium after that.

@Jmoney18123

5 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Lucina I mean... the Byzantines were the eastern Roman Empire. If you were to go back in time and go to Constantinople, the people would say you’re in the Roman Empire. We only call it Byzantine because of historical hindsight

BLUE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ADDITIONAL READINGS LIST, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH, AHHHHHHH!!!!!!

And I just rewatched this entire series yesterday. Isn't that serendipitous.

Nero Burning Rom. Man those devs love their historical puns.

You guys should at least talk about how the Roman Empire didn't actually fall in 476. It continued on in the East for another 1000 years. That's worth at least a mention.

@beargrills3508

5 жыл бұрын

Well i mean. Justinian era yeah that's rome, but 1300 ad constantinople doesn't really feel like rome to me. I might be wrong though.

@katherinealexr.h.chandler337

5 жыл бұрын

@@beargrills3508 The same way Constantine's Rome was in no way similar to the time of Julius Caesar or Sulla. Nations or Empires evolve, they have to in order to prevent collapse. People, societies, cultures evolve over long spans of time

@beargrills3508

5 жыл бұрын

@@katherinealexr.h.chandler337 fair enough. Still feels weird to call them romans rather than byzantines as they are based around bysantium rather than rome but ok i see what you mean.

Love watching your vids man. 👍👌

Yaaassss I love your Roman videos keep it up

Finna get kicked out of class for this, but it's worth it

@isaacdenley1922

5 жыл бұрын

This IS class

Yay the Ramen empire! I’m doing Rome in Social study’s in my school 😊

@SashyyKane

5 жыл бұрын

now you made me hungry for ramen ;(

Great vid and can't wait to for the next vid of journey to the west

Oh boy, here we go! Go wild, Blue! We've been waiting for this.

*Insert Fate reference here*

Roma SHALL RISE FROM THE GRAVE AND RETAKE IT’S LANDS AND MORE!

@patrickripleyiii134

5 жыл бұрын

TheManBoiKing Lol LEEEEEEEETTTTTSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOO

@Eatmydbzballs

5 жыл бұрын

"The year is 3000. Outside is the New Roman Empire." *Yawn*

@aquila4460

5 жыл бұрын

I mean, as a German, having to do raids across the Roman Border every time i want to visit my family leaves me a bit unsure. On the one hand, Fuck yeah, on the other....ehhhh, baberical tribes don't work that well against drones xD

@neutonicknight8960

5 жыл бұрын

Aquila, ex quo Britanniam venit Germanorum timueritis Scandianis socius eiusdem gentes Persis societatem quibusdam praebuit quasi puppa venistis ad robur nostrum.

@aquila4460

5 жыл бұрын

@@neutonicknight8960 Well, it's time to go raiding again. Maybe we can bring our Muslim friends, so that you actually have a muslim invasion to worry about instead of being triggered because there is a chance you might have to interact with someone that isn't 100% of your believe system.

I just love these.

@overlysarcasticproductions , thank you for all this. just watched like 4 videos on rome ,by you, thank to you forever

Ummh. Britain was conquered during the reign of Claudius, not Vespasian.

@historymysteries4134

5 жыл бұрын

But was conquered by the future emperor Vespasian.

Quick note on the Jewish War: most of the Jews were already living outside of Judea at the time as a result of the Hellenistic period. Some of the defenders of Jerusalem were sent as slaves to Rome (and the Jews of Rome today can still trace their specific ancestry to them!), but most of the general population stayed. In fact, after the Kitos War, Hadrian had many of the Jews of the Diaspora repatriated to Judea, only to betray us again by building a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount. This led to the Bar Kochba revolt, the bloodiest of all the Roman-Jewish wars in which hundreds of thousands died. At this, the Romans forbade the Jews from entering Jerusalem and spitefully renamed the province Syria Palaestina after the ancient Philistines. That was it for a while, but the Sanhedrin kept operating out of Yavne and later Tiberias. In the last big revolt, the Jews with Persian assistance began building a Third Temple but were stopped short when the Byzantines retook Judea. By this point, the Jews of Judea were only a small minority of the Jewish population worldwide, but Judea remained majority-Jewish or nearly so until being almost wiped out in the First Crusade. A small but visible community called the Old Yishuv remained present until the Napoleonic Wars, when diaspora Jews began returning in larger numbers, leading to the Zionist movement in the late 19th century.

9:40 Thank you! I am a history teacher and have often mentioned Antoninus Pius as my favourite Roman ruler, precisely for this reason. Ordinary people want peace and moderate prosperity. Pius’ reign was a high point of that in the Roman world, the guy was chill.

Love the assassins creed music in the background

Is everyone in Red and Blue’s world just a color?

@Slayer7100

5 жыл бұрын

>Your name is Red >You do KZread videos >Life’s good! >Someone kicks down your door... it’s Blue...? >”Mwahahahaha! Now that I have Blue’s Body, I can take Super Orange Balls and just literally live in the Roman Empire!” >That’s not Blue That’s- >Super Historian Albastru Blue-Black

Blue’s girlfriend is Cyan. Fun

@FishBoneD14

5 жыл бұрын

colby mccabe I found that amusing

I honestly think Caligula is one of my favorite emperors like his life is one giant tragedy. He’s so layered and interesting I love it

“Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.” -Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus

MY ANCESTORS ARE SMILING UPON ME, CAN YOU SAY THE SAME IMPERIAL!?

Plzz blue can you do something like this on history of indus valley civilization

@lasschesteven

5 жыл бұрын

He might do that once historians know more than "cities existed there and they traded with Mesopotamia"

@prithviraj3244

5 жыл бұрын

@@lasschesteven there is more to it they had well built and laid out cities before rome and many other structures. And each house had a cinstanst water supply before even rome was a thing

@lasschesteven

5 жыл бұрын

@@prithviraj3244 Yeah, but we have no idea of their politics and military, and very little idea of their trade, which is most of what Blue covers in these videos

@prithviraj3244

5 жыл бұрын

@@lasschesteven oh we know the basic idea from the archeolgist research about all of them. they had a port and bronze metal tools and had trade in rice ,wheat and pluses s spices as taken from there granary a place where all these were found during excavations and sold out as for kings there didnt had much big homes and had small crowns and as no weapons were found during the excavations it indicates ppl were self - governed and i learned all this in the 6 th grade history book i am hell sure a person like blue knows how to get his data on a topic so vast

That AC theme at the end, was the cherry on top!

Good show, again.