Roman Castra - How Legionaries Built and Lived in their Fortresses

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Our animated historical documentary series on the evolution of Roman armies and tactics continues with a video on the Roman Legionary Fortresses during the Imperial period. How were they built and what was the life like in the Roman Fortress - Castrum
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals4 жыл бұрын

    PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Sources do not confirm that, but running around the fortress without your uniform might have been punishable. Don't let the centurions catch you without your uniform: bit.ly/2kRVWX8

  • @syedhammadahmed508

    @syedhammadahmed508

    4 жыл бұрын

    Plz make videos on 3rd Battle of Panipat and First Kashmir War 1948

  • @mogyesz9

    @mogyesz9

    4 жыл бұрын

    I do not know who the fuck is drawing the maps for the video, but I have never seen someone butcher the rivers and the natural borders of the roman empire so far.

  • @pathutchison9866

    @pathutchison9866

    4 жыл бұрын

    Syed Hammad Ahmed and I totally agree. The 3rd Battle of Panipat and/or First Kashmir War (especially the details of the fascinating Kashmir War) would Meade great videos.

  • @TyrannosaurusRex5027

    @TyrannosaurusRex5027

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kings and Generals if I wave an SPQR flag would that also work?

  • @Zoey--

    @Zoey--

    4 жыл бұрын

    Slick advertisement.

  • @Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos
    @Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos4 жыл бұрын

    "To Hunt, to bath, to gamble, to laugh, this is living" Lucky him.

  • @ThoriberoCaroli

    @ThoriberoCaroli

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Balnae, vina, venus corrumpunt corpora nostra, sed vitam faciunt balnea, vina, venus." "The baths, wine and love/sex destroys our bodies, but the baths, vine and love/sex is what makes up life." -Roman tombstone

  • @pete2389

    @pete2389

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pannobhasa And here we see the ideological contrasts between Roman and Mongol

  • @catavar9921

    @catavar9921

    4 жыл бұрын

    You get the impression that, even across those millennia, these people weren't so different from us. A wonderful thought, if you ask me.

  • @corndogrequiem1728

    @corndogrequiem1728

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@catavar9921 Well, as long as you can afford it. The social aspect makes me cast doubts on lower castes being able to use public baths.

  • @swaminathanbalakrishnan5182

    @swaminathanbalakrishnan5182

    4 жыл бұрын

    British fortresses were mostly 'safe' (till the collapse)

  • @bjorn301
    @bjorn3014 жыл бұрын

    Apart from the roads, aqueducts, order, public health, sanitation, trade, education, irrigation, medicine and wine what have the Romans ever done for us?

  • @bjorn301

    @bjorn301

    4 жыл бұрын

    @CipiRipi00 Never seen Life of Brian?

  • @VentiVonOsterreich

    @VentiVonOsterreich

    4 жыл бұрын

    They brought peace

  • @VentiVonOsterreich

    @VentiVonOsterreich

    4 жыл бұрын

    @CipiRipi00 r/woooosh

  • @l0Vindw0rld

    @l0Vindw0rld

    4 жыл бұрын

    @CipiRipi00he's being sarcastic man...

  • @Bolognabeef

    @Bolognabeef

    4 жыл бұрын

    *_L A W_*

  • @HowlingWolf518
    @HowlingWolf5184 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: "castrum" morphed into "caster" and later "chester" in Old English. So Chester, Winchester, Gloucester, Lancaster, Manchester and all the other towns? Their names are basically variations on "there is a fort here."

  • @compota334

    @compota334

    4 жыл бұрын

    And "castle" comes from castelum (the diminutive of castrum). In modern spanish "castillo", modern portuguese "castelo" the diminutive of the rarely used modern word castro (fortress), like the surname of that cuban dude.

  • @nativecenturion5411

    @nativecenturion5411

    4 жыл бұрын

    ☝ you get to be honorary Lupus of the Legio 👌

  • @BritishJamaican777

    @BritishJamaican777

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Paul Johnson From Manchester UK, to Manchester Jamaica. That's four tits!

  • @maxmuller8633

    @maxmuller8633

    4 жыл бұрын

    So every Englosh city was a fort?

  • @baneburns

    @baneburns

    4 жыл бұрын

    Imagine having the clout to name a town what you want, and your sense of humour is to have it officially called Titty Hills

  • @andres6868
    @andres68684 жыл бұрын

    the hardest fortresses to live in were those four surrounding Asterix's village

  • @bobs_toys

    @bobs_toys

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but at least two of them had decent recreation Laudanum (An opiate) and Totorum

  • @aditya.malladi

    @aditya.malladi

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @cezmikaloie

    @cezmikaloie

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shut up Meg!

  • @erenrager6679

    @erenrager6679

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably why they only sent scrawny recruits there, they'd not want to have their finest being visited by those barbarians.

  • @jefferynelson

    @jefferynelson

    3 жыл бұрын

    I confess to not getting the joke

  • @ScipioWasHere
    @ScipioWasHere4 жыл бұрын

    “The mightiest weapon in a legionaries arsenal was not the sword nor the shield, but the Roman shovel.” - Simon Scarrow

  • @gery8218

    @gery8218

    3 жыл бұрын

    Love his books!

  • @Yora21

    @Yora21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Every marine is a rifleman. Every legionary is an engineer.

  • @kevinmccarthy8746

    @kevinmccarthy8746

    9 ай бұрын

    Very interesting, Scipio was before Marius mules. or Scipio ran his very professional/ rich equarian class army I believe. Scipio was super hard core old ethics of the Roman people super conservative, self reliant. I sure you know this stuff always amazing there is this woman that wrote some very interesting and strange information on many Roman practices and customs.

  • @barbiquearea
    @barbiquearea4 жыл бұрын

    If anyone wants to see what a Roman fort actually looked like, go to South Shields in Northern England where they created a historical reconstruction of the fort of Arbeia, now known as the Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum. It was built in the 2nd century CE, the fort became a major supply depot for the troops manning Hadrian's Wall. It was one of the smaller Roman forts as it housed about 600 men compared to larger fortresses that could house 5,000 people. Nonetheless it had a similar layout with barracks for cavalry and infantry, workshops, granaries, a HQ and commanding officer's houses. Its a pretty impressive reconstruction even though its only partially completed. I really recommend checking it out if you ever get a chance to visit the UK.

  • @llamaland1737

    @llamaland1737

    4 жыл бұрын

    They only rebuilt the main gate of the fortress. I expect them to rebuild the whole camp, but that might cost tons of money

  • @ryannguyen7466
    @ryannguyen74664 жыл бұрын

    Roman: Join us and enjoy true living standards with gym, pools, sauna, spa etc. Surrounding celts, germanic tribals: How can we get Roman Citizenship? Roman: It's pretty simple 25 years of honorable military service. I don't think anyone can get back to their tribal lifestyle after experiencing such Roman living standard except Arminius

  • @Dark-kd7md

    @Dark-kd7md

    2 жыл бұрын

    and Arminius' auxiliary cavs. But Arminius became a chieftan so he probably had the best the Germanic tribes can offer at the time. I know i am replying to a 1 year old comment

  • @rav9066

    @rav9066

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Dark-kd7md hi

  • @Yora21

    @Yora21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Armenius was later killed by other Germanic chiefs. Partly because he wanted to make himself a king, but also because he made them lose access to Roman infrastructure. The whole thing was a terrible idea in hindsight.

  • @hedgehog3180
    @hedgehog31804 жыл бұрын

    Cities would also often grow up around these fortresses as the people who traded with the legions and the families of legionaries would settle outside the fort. Plus being right next to a fortress offered protection.

  • @carlosdelsol76

    @carlosdelsol76

    4 жыл бұрын

    In Spain we have a city called León which translates to lion which is an abbreviation of legion. They called the city legion

  • @watarimono17

    @watarimono17

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@carlosdelsol76 They probably called it something else. Like Castra Legionis Nonae Hispanae (for example). But since everyone around knew it just as the Legion (the rest of the name was obvious for the locals) and since people in general prefer keep things short, the name for the city gradually shifted to one of most memorable words - the Legion.

  • @RexGalilae
    @RexGalilae4 жыл бұрын

    The Roman Empire was basically history thinking "What if all the Engineers of the world came together and created a country?". Being an Engineer myself, I'm just awed at how even they took so many factors into consideration while building their fortresses. Good design practices were also followed, showing a strong and heavily underrated engineering tradition. Just like Engineers, they were good at borrowing science from others like the Greeks and adapting them for practical use :')

  • @Kurblick

    @Kurblick

    4 жыл бұрын

    Romans were practical almost to a fault. The Greek Xenephon wrote an epic adventure called the "March of the 10,000" about the march of the mercenaries out of Asia. When the Roman Cato the Younger marched 500 miles through the desert with the same number of men he merely recorded the precise number of steps taken, so to satisfy his logistics calculations.

  • @theflame5919

    @theflame5919

    4 жыл бұрын

    There is still a civilization like that on Earth. Russia... Basically a civilization maintained by it's military class, and with massive emphasis on engineering, in every field. Pretty anyone who finishes a Russian college or University, will also have engineering education, as base.

  • @RexGalilae

    @RexGalilae

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Kurblick Ikr? *Greeks on Bravery:* Wrote countless romanticised poems and epics celebrating the bravery of men both real and mythical. *Romans on Bravery:* _"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind"_ -Virgil You can't help but love them xD

  • @carlosdelsol76

    @carlosdelsol76

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its all try and error

  • @ShadowSumac

    @ShadowSumac

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@theflame5919 Russia is not nearly as good at it as Romans, due to rampant corruption and lazyness of high ranked staff.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte71984 жыл бұрын

    Barbarians: “Bloody Roman campers...”

  • @karandullet380

    @karandullet380

    4 жыл бұрын

    Napoleon I Bonaparte 🤣🤣🤣

  • @achmadtitofauzan3809

    @achmadtitofauzan3809

    4 жыл бұрын

    Full with 360 jumping archers

  • @kingxkai1179

    @kingxkai1179

    4 жыл бұрын

    tito fauzan they are the best at no scoping 😂

  • @Pyxis10

    @Pyxis10

    4 жыл бұрын

    And we pray to you on the eve of battle that you will ban our enemies for camping...

  • @rayz6659

    @rayz6659

    4 жыл бұрын

    Is this some sort of "you mama gay" in ancient chat?

  • @22vx
    @22vx4 жыл бұрын

    K&G do a wonderful job with these brief documentaries. This one sent me off on two hours of binge-googling. I love to learn!

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice, happy to hear that!

  • @helicongremory8480

    @helicongremory8480

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KingsandGenerals Same for me. Except I would never use bing of couse O_o. Amazing work tho.

  • @jinjunliu2401

    @jinjunliu2401

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@helicongremory8480 *to binge* = doing a certain thing for a long time in one set (to binge netflixshows)

  • @helicongremory8480

    @helicongremory8480

    4 жыл бұрын

    it was a joke ;(

  • @3John-Bishop

    @3John-Bishop

    4 жыл бұрын

    History is fun and interesting.

  • @gene51231356
    @gene512313564 жыл бұрын

    Hospitals with baths, gardens, separate rooms, heated floors... That feeling when people 2000 years ago got better healthcare than you do.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tbh, soldiers still get better healthcare than an average citizen.

  • @thedoruk6324

    @thedoruk6324

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KingsandGenerals even 2000 years ago; soldiers *>>>* civilians

  • @MrLoobu

    @MrLoobu

    4 жыл бұрын

    They certainly were more intelligent people than we are today. No one need think for themselves anymore.

  • @syedhammadahmed508

    @syedhammadahmed508

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KingsandGenerals Plz make videos on 3rd Battle of Panipat and First Kashmir War 1948

  • @tancreddehauteville9983

    @tancreddehauteville9983

    4 жыл бұрын

    Syed Hammad Ahmed Pakistanis murdered Kashmiris, India came in to help them and don’t know what ‘leaving’ means!

  • @maxkennedy8075
    @maxkennedy80754 жыл бұрын

    Visited a Roman Villa a few years back when we were holidaying up North. Beautifully preserved. It was the home of some local official but it had the underfloor passages for central heating, a mosaic floor and a small stone barracks for about a dozen soldiers The cool thing is the soldiers building didn’t have central heating, it being separate to the villa, but cleverly the bunkhouse was also a stable so all the men and horses crammed together would keep each other warm with body heat in what would be (especially to romans used to the med climate) freezing weather. Romans were bloody clever, no wonder they did so well considering most of Europe thought mud huts were the fancy new thing

  • @k3kboi665

    @k3kboi665

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@thinkwithurdipstick but the thing is "Roman" is a citizenship not an ethinicity.

  • @HelloWorld-gl9bd
    @HelloWorld-gl9bd4 жыл бұрын

    Another outstanding video. Jeez you’re making other history channels look like rip offs compared to yours. Keep up the great work.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the kind words!

  • @carlosreid51

    @carlosreid51

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KingsandGenerals get that 1 million subs but good learning videos I hope they add these more in schools for

  • @HelloWorld-gl9bd

    @HelloWorld-gl9bd

    4 жыл бұрын

    😉

  • @serundupa5979

    @serundupa5979

    4 жыл бұрын

    WHAT other history channels ? : ]

  • @RedVelvetBlackleather

    @RedVelvetBlackleather

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello World History is nothing but ancient aliens and other boring stuff.

  • @sanele2948
    @sanele29484 жыл бұрын

    There is a reason why many European nations and other countries admired the Roman Empire long after there gone. Another great video by KnG.

  • @avengermkii7872
    @avengermkii78724 жыл бұрын

    So essentially, these Roman fortresses are pretty much small military towns that allowed soldiers to not only do their normal duties but also work civilian jobs and keep those skills after their tour of duty. Who would have thought that our modern way of teaching technical skills had some basis in the past?

  • @janpolak7013
    @janpolak70134 жыл бұрын

    "Join the Legion! We have spa!"

  • @marloyorkrodriguez9975

    @marloyorkrodriguez9975

    4 жыл бұрын

    Just don’t drop the bath oils!

  • @mrmoth26

    @mrmoth26

    3 жыл бұрын

    Romans, your country needs you (and our baths need you too)

  • @CHRF-55457

    @CHRF-55457

    3 жыл бұрын

    rta!!

  • @granvillefriel2263

    @granvillefriel2263

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was a no Brainer back then

  • @wisp6826
    @wisp68264 жыл бұрын

    I love that, even in a fortress there is no going around therms. Everyone is in perfect agreement it's a necessity.

  • @wisp6826

    @wisp6826

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@robbyz512 never contact me or my family again.

  • @watchface6836

    @watchface6836

    4 жыл бұрын

    ...... You don't get out much do you?

  • @user-fl7zn2tn9q

    @user-fl7zn2tn9q

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wisp6826 LMAO nice reply hilarious

  • @overlordover114
    @overlordover1144 жыл бұрын

    "...will continue all the way to 1453." Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well

  • @Mrkabrat
    @Mrkabrat4 жыл бұрын

    "A good offense is a good defense" Unknown praetorian

  • @Taistelukalkkuna

    @Taistelukalkkuna

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also Rogal Dorn "aka Lord Adorable", Primarch of Imperial Fists.

  • @davidec.4021

    @davidec.4021

    4 жыл бұрын

    Which is also the old traditional Italian Style (“the method” or “il metodo”) in football, if you don’t let them score you can’t lose

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment

    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Taistelukalkkuna I am fortifying this position.

  • @Taistelukalkkuna

    @Taistelukalkkuna

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Big_E_Soul_Fragment My Glorious Overlord. *Oiled abs quivering*

  • @karandullet380

    @karandullet380

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or a whiterun guard

  • @tadeuszsa8314
    @tadeuszsa83144 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from León (Legio), in the old Hispania. A city created from the camp of Legio VI Victrix and Legio VII Gemina

  • @danielconde13

    @danielconde13

    4 жыл бұрын

    Castra Legionis, a crucial strategic point that has looked upon my own ancestors lives too; saludos de Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, not far from Aquae Flaviae (Chaves) and Brigantia (Bragança).

  • @turcoslav9942

    @turcoslav9942

    4 жыл бұрын

    Greetings back from Turky.

  • @adrian.farcas

    @adrian.farcas

    4 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from near Potaissa, old Dacia - now in Transylvania - home of the longest living legion in Roman history - Legio V Macedonica.

  • @Tom19142

    @Tom19142

    4 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from the Urbs

  • @UlpianHeritor

    @UlpianHeritor

    4 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Alba Iulia (Apulum) in old Dacia, a city created from the camp of Legio XIII Gemina. Thirteen! Thirteen!

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRex4 жыл бұрын

    Nooo, you missed how the soldiers quarters were :( but nice video. It needs a little addition, and also the duties of soldiers watching the walls, how the walls and traps were built.

  • @cyrusshakeri1103
    @cyrusshakeri11034 жыл бұрын

    This is absolutely brilliant! The extravagance of it ...the feeling of luxury and comfort even in a force of complete military discipline is absolutely astounding. The Romans had taste 😂 Fantastic job Kings and Generals!

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching!

  • @cyrusshakeri1103

    @cyrusshakeri1103

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@KingsandGenerals it's always a pleasure watching your videos!

  • @captinobvious4705
    @captinobvious47054 жыл бұрын

    Now this is civilisation!

  • @LazyLifeIFreak

    @LazyLifeIFreak

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ehh, I'm not 100% sure, there are certain aspects which I'd rather live without. On the other hand, its impressive work the Roman's managed to construct these buildings with such basic tools. (Basic compared to our modern understanding)

  • @enesakhan4032

    @enesakhan4032

    4 жыл бұрын

    for many historians and for most of the peoples anchient world was more civilazed than today .. both in human terms and other things .. egypt's tecnhological advance is still an argument point ... even with today's knowledge profs cant explain how they manage to do many things and some still believes they get help from aliens :D :D .. so anchient world is really fascinating to me indeed :) i like to learn more about them

  • @leonbriski5929

    @leonbriski5929

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Pommy Pie bums protecting your home from barbarian invasions

  • @ericconnor8251

    @ericconnor8251

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LazyLifeIFreak The Romans didn't have power tools or anything electric, obviously, but they had far more than just basic tools. Like the Greeks before them, they had literal mechanical treadwheel cranes used for lifting, stacking and building things like temple columns and aqueducts.

  • @3John-Bishop

    @3John-Bishop

    4 жыл бұрын

    Organization, bitch thats where its at.

  • @Intranetusa
    @Intranetusa4 жыл бұрын

    Let's not forget there were at least 3 levels of Roman camps and forts: 1) their daily marching camp that they built after marching and dismantled over night, 2) their more permanent forts that they didn't dismantle every day when they were staying in an area for a longer periods such as a few weeks, and 3) their permanent garrison fortresses as mentioned by this article. People often commonly confuse their daily marching camps with their more permanent forts. Their daily marching camps had a small wall composed of wooden stakes that each soldier carried in pairs, and embankments and ditches were just a few feet tall/deep and were only there to delay an attacking enemy. Their marching camps did not have tall wooden walls or tall towers because the stakes were only a few feet high. Page 132 of "The Late Roman Army By Pat Southern" by Pat Southern and Karen R. Dixon distinguishes between daily marching camps and more permanent fortifications where the Romans stayed for longer periods - the daily marching camps had simple wooden stakes on top of a relatively low dirt bank and ditch: "...in the early Empire the Romans built them, perhaps for a variety of reasons. It is usually said that the army on the march built a camp every night, and this is perhaps true in so far as the soldiers carried stakes (pila muralia) with which to form a palisade on top of a bank of earth, which would be raised up from digging the surrounding ditch and turning the soil inwards. The banks need not have been very high or very wide. This sort of temporary camp, quite insubstantial in archaeological terms, may have differed widely from a more permanent camp....camps still evidence in north Britain may be of this more permanent variety." p. 132 books.google.com/books?id=qeTGH_WjDeYC&pg=PA132&dq=pila%20muralia&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMzZ_3j-rlAhVkTd8KHUOOA1YQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=pila%20muralia&f=false "Roman Legionary Fortress 27 BC-AD 378" by Duncan B Campbell talks about the evolution of different types of Roman forts - marching camps vs more permanent forts. "The Roman army had a long tradition of constructing fortified encampments while on campaign. Simple bank-and-ditch defences enclosed an area criss-crossed by a pattern of streets, dividing the camp into a regular layout..." p. 8 Page 66 specifically talks about how daily marching camps evolved into wooden fortifications (that most people typically think about) as the legions were garrisoned permanently in an area, and some evolved into stone and brick fortifications over time. "From the reign of Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) onwards the Roman Army became a standing force with permanent fortresses distributed throughout the empire. These fortresses developed from the temporary fortifications of the legions on campaign into temporary wooden structures, before finally becoming more elaborate stone fortifications designed to stand the test of time" p. 66

  • @DB-km2in
    @DB-km2in4 жыл бұрын

    Greetings from Castra ad Urbanus (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦)

  • @NimbleBard48
    @NimbleBard484 жыл бұрын

    Oh damn. Last time I was this early Sartorius was owning Romans in Iberia.

  • @annoyed707

    @annoyed707

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah? The last time I was this early, Romulus was just find the she-wolf's teat.

  • @benjamingrezik373

    @benjamingrezik373

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@annoyed707 last time I was this early Aenus was just escaping the fall of troy

  • @justcallmeSheriff
    @justcallmeSheriff4 жыл бұрын

    Listening to the History of Byzantium podcast, so I can't wait until you cover the transition to cataphract cavalry and then theme armies.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte71984 жыл бұрын

    When people from the Antiquities have better hygiene than subsequent eras

  • @wardeni4806

    @wardeni4806

    4 жыл бұрын

    their bathhouses were very nearly on par with modern ones. But then again, many inventions we see as part of the modern world are actually ancient. for example the Sauna was invented in Finland about 3500 years ago. It's interesting to think that things you see in modern resorts and buildings might actually be thousands of years old.

  • @aokiaoki4238

    @aokiaoki4238

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@wardeni4806 Romans took it from the Greeks, cold, hot, dry baths all come from Ancient Greece. Spartans heated rocks with water like sauna en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Baths Minoans had baths 5000 years ago

  • @abhisheksikdar2329

    @abhisheksikdar2329

    4 жыл бұрын

    Of course population at that time was very low. Also no automobiles. So no pollution and better quality of life

  • @isiaharellano3789

    @isiaharellano3789

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@abhisheksikdar2329 yeah but lower life expectancy because of endless wars

  • @famicomnintendo

    @famicomnintendo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@isiaharellano3789 and no antibiotics, vaccines, very high child death rate, etc...

  • @Walangord
    @Walangord4 жыл бұрын

    I am absolutely delighted by the amount of work you dedicate and the in detail explanations you provide. Please provide more content like this.

  • @maikoe7198
    @maikoe71984 жыл бұрын

    I've gotten so used to the voice that it feels weird watching other history videos

  • @maikoe7198

    @maikoe7198

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Hilltycoon hey thanks for the recommendation, I'll check them out

  • @markdonalquisalas3593
    @markdonalquisalas35934 жыл бұрын

    Such comfort for the army..the more I watched the video the more I get amazed..thx as always..

  • @IpostedaCoDvideoonce
    @IpostedaCoDvideoonce4 жыл бұрын

    Great video. I love these in depth discriptions of how things were or likely were back then, it gives so much more to the story than just the banners clashing and shattering on the battlefield. The classical age is so distant to us, but yet we want to know more about it. It's what made Lord of The Rings so good, Tolkien and Peter Jackson didn't only make cool battlescenes with superheroes that for some reason never dies. They made a living world, a believeable world that we could enjoy. With these videos that's exactly what you're doing, and I for one love these! Great work, keep it up!

  • @tg1982
    @tg19824 жыл бұрын

    I fully agree on a previous commenter that states that you guys put history related channels or tv programs to shame with your productions and the level of detailed information you provide us. We truly are lucky to have you. Thanks for keeping the quality really high and for finding interesting and educational material to share.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    We appreciate the kind words! Here to stay!

  • @dtomcheck
    @dtomcheck4 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel! It’s excellent on every single level. It’s incredibly informative without being incomprehensible, it looks great, and I absolutely love Roman history, so I pretty much stay on your channel all day. I also just bought my Julius Caesar shirt as well as The Roman Collection shirt and I cannot wait to wear them both at school (I’m a teacher) and out on the town. Keep up the great work! My only suggestion would be to pump out more content but quality is much more important than quantity so just keep doing what you’re doing. Thanks for everything you do, I hope you know how much we all appreciate it.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate the support! We are trying to release the videos that we have accumulated in 2019 and enter 2020 with new plans, ideas, better quality and so on.

  • @WielkiHapu
    @WielkiHapu4 жыл бұрын

    1:19 i just love a casual Monty Python reference 👍🏻

  • @pathutchison9866
    @pathutchison98664 жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love this channel. Thank you so much for the great content.

  • @emerestthisk990
    @emerestthisk9904 жыл бұрын

    Great detail, amazing artwork - one of your best yet

  • @todrkdck9805
    @todrkdck98054 жыл бұрын

    I love this booming tempo of your uploads!

  • @wilhelmseleorningcniht9410
    @wilhelmseleorningcniht94102 жыл бұрын

    Honestly thank you so much for the layouts of the buildings and names, they're really useful

  • @-----REDACTED-----
    @-----REDACTED-----4 жыл бұрын

    I live near the Saalburg...and a small Castellum ruin is on the way if my usual rout I use for day hikes.

  • @Misses-Hippy

    @Misses-Hippy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well worth the detour. It is reconstructed. Even Mick Jagger once visited. It is great!

  • @Krushnerabs
    @Krushnerabs4 жыл бұрын

    Still blown away by your videos and Iv been subbed a few months. I save your videos to watch whilst eating a meal alone (only peace I get with a young family) and I look forward to this. Iv been fascinated by the Roman Empire since I was a child and have heavily researched all aspects of their existence. And yet I still learn new things every time I watch one of your videos. They are informative, interesting and well put together. Keep up the good work

  • @dukaf2468
    @dukaf24684 жыл бұрын

    It's great to see how the quality of this channel evolved over the time,you guys are doing a great job! Ps:I'm still waiting for the rest of the slave riots in Sicily under the Roman rule,those videos are so interesting...

  • @StefanMilo
    @StefanMilo4 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant stuff, love learning about ancient architecture!

  • @cathar1209
    @cathar12094 жыл бұрын

    Awesome work once more. And that music piece at the end, love it.

  • @LividLobster
    @LividLobster4 жыл бұрын

    Romans 2000 years ago: builds indoor plumbing, bath houses, infirmaries, gardens and heated floors Medieval People 1500 years after Romans: gets flu, bleeds self out until dead, shit on the floor

  • @JjackVideo

    @JjackVideo

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can say the same of much of the West in 200 years.

  • @histguy101

    @histguy101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, except Romans practiced all of the medical techniques that Medieval people did, including leeching/bleeding. The vast majority of the population of the city of Rome lived in filthy conditions.

  • @miguelpereira9859

    @miguelpereira9859

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@histguy101 Rome proper must have been a shithole, like any big city

  • @ZheyuanLi

    @ZheyuanLi

    3 жыл бұрын

    only for citizens... based on current social status. most people here will be slaves doing hard labour

  • @essidmedamine8130

    @essidmedamine8130

    3 жыл бұрын

    maybe because germanic tribes that inherit the empire are no where near the romans

  • @californiadream1365
    @californiadream13654 жыл бұрын

    More and more amazed about the roman military machine. Perfect videos!!!

  • @andysway6011
    @andysway60114 жыл бұрын

    So much work in this video. Thank you

  • @pranavtyagi7478
    @pranavtyagi74784 жыл бұрын

    I’ve been wanting a video on this FOREVER

  • @sebastiantapia804
    @sebastiantapia8043 жыл бұрын

    really interesting video, love the channel, thanks a lot for the content!

  • @xarisdrag1890
    @xarisdrag18904 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are great, I admire your work, keep up doing what you do best!!!

  • @dingus8531
    @dingus85314 жыл бұрын

    Kings and Generals is my number 1 KZread channel.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    We appreciate it!

  • @mika1660
    @mika16604 жыл бұрын

    Do a video on the battle of Didgori.. Great work ! Love this channel

  • @jeanlannes8710
    @jeanlannes87103 жыл бұрын

    This was so fascinating! Roman ingenuity always grabs me.

  • @nm425
    @nm4254 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for these videos!

  • @theindooroutdoorsman
    @theindooroutdoorsman3 жыл бұрын

    The way this intro was worded, makes it sound like an oreintation video for brand new legionairies to the frontier.

  • @stormelemental13
    @stormelemental134 жыл бұрын

    These are my favorite kind of video. Battles are neat, but these help me understand.

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good, more on the way!

  • @KHK001
    @KHK0014 жыл бұрын

    Always great to see more KnG videos 😀

  • @marcwittkowski5146
    @marcwittkowski51464 жыл бұрын

    In my hometown of Koblenz in Germany, there is actually an excavation site of an early fortress which is open to the public. In German it is called "Römerkastell". So seeing this video pop up in my feed was quite a welcome surprise.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge63164 жыл бұрын

    Nice documentary video. It was interesting to see how the Romans built and operated their fortresses. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.

  • @billiondollardan
    @billiondollardan4 жыл бұрын

    I love learning about Rome and her armies

  • @davidc6510
    @davidc65103 жыл бұрын

    Very Cool - thanks for sharing!

  • @laylobinson5839
    @laylobinson58394 жыл бұрын

    Truly amazing stuff, hard to believe they had all that over 2000 years ago. I dont even have a tub lol.

  • @jjs8426

    @jjs8426

    4 жыл бұрын

    How? How is everyone here commenting about what the Romans had so amazed with running water?

  • @manueljoshua175
    @manueljoshua1753 жыл бұрын

    I was born in Bonn and have always lived here and knew that there has been a roman camp, but sadly I don't exactly know where it used to be. Now I'm really interested in it again. Thanks for teaching me something new about my home ☺️

  • @mrjoba3208
    @mrjoba32084 жыл бұрын

    Honestly my favourite channel

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video! The Romans were amazing engineers for their day, even their forts are a marvel.

  • @discoverynorthcarolina9824
    @discoverynorthcarolina98244 жыл бұрын

    Excellent informative Video 👍👍👍

  • @hightea2546
    @hightea25464 жыл бұрын

    I certainly enjoy your work , thanks for all the research

  • @KingsandGenerals

    @KingsandGenerals

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching!

  • @sdev8317
    @sdev83174 жыл бұрын

    i would love to take a walk around a castrum in its prime. great video ! please consider doing a video on Vindolanda, i enjoyed a visit and am impressed by what they found and are still finding

  • @TyLarson
    @TyLarson4 жыл бұрын

    Shared this video on the fb page of my friends making a new edition of the RPG Lex Arcana and they liked it.

  • @JulianO-um5ik
    @JulianO-um5ik2 жыл бұрын

    Dude, watching these videos really surprises me. The romans were breathtaking in all of their aspects, while eerily similar at the same time.

  • @todanic
    @todanic4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. Brilliant!

  • @mario_1683
    @mario_16834 жыл бұрын

    Love your animations.

  • @rumenruler9796
    @rumenruler97964 жыл бұрын

    💜 nice work

  • @Diogolindir
    @Diogolindir3 жыл бұрын

    Im In love with this series.

  • @yvesst-aubin5529
    @yvesst-aubin55294 жыл бұрын

    On a different subject, I always am intrigued by the constant presence of the "Batavian" cavalry or presence all around the empire (so it seems!?). Are you planning, eventually, on addressing the topic of the Auxiliary cohorts? Thanks!

  • @carlosnevarez4003
    @carlosnevarez40034 жыл бұрын

    Thanks K&G!

  • @SDreamchaser1990
    @SDreamchaser19904 жыл бұрын

    Finally it’s here!!

  • @archiostivnnih2774
    @archiostivnnih27744 жыл бұрын

    Need more videos like this

  • @willbick7889
    @willbick78892 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see George Boon getting a mention. He was a friend of my father. I remember my father being very upset when he died about 30 years ago.

  • @DemonRazor88
    @DemonRazor884 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna try to build some of these buildings in Conan Exiles.Thank you for posting quality content

  • @enesulker6944
    @enesulker69444 жыл бұрын

    such a great video

  • @razzaus1570
    @razzaus15703 жыл бұрын

    I still dont understand how im watching this for free. Many thanks mr kings and genarals.

  • @Taistelukalkkuna
    @Taistelukalkkuna4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video K&G. Will you continue about Roman forts? About canabae, the civilian settlement that usually formed around fort. Or Britains Saxon Shore forts?

  • @Membarock
    @Membarock4 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff! I would love to see some videos on archaic Greece.

  • @DrumApe
    @DrumApe4 жыл бұрын

    Another amazing video!

  • @maincoon6602
    @maincoon66023 жыл бұрын

    Great video 👍🏻

  • @jeremyg4560
    @jeremyg45604 жыл бұрын

    This channel is second to non! Bravo and carry on with the Roman content, much appreciated.

  • @kronosjr1197
    @kronosjr1197 Жыл бұрын

    Bro 0.28 you used the barracks sound from age of empires 2 game ... Amazing , I'm playing that game competitively

  • @saadkhan1128
    @saadkhan11284 жыл бұрын

    Please do a video on medical services for the troops like surgeons, and other equipment used for field operations by Roman army

  • @DynastyFBN
    @DynastyFBN2 жыл бұрын

    It's astonishing to what detail we know of these roman camps built 2000 years ago, a testament to their civilization and our ability to study history

  • @gigantorize
    @gigantorize3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful during this C-19 crisis we have marvelous videos to watch on the Roman Empire as we view in these two months of July and August, named after the Roman general and statesman 'Julius Caesar' and the following month in honor of his nephew 'Augustus Caesar'. Good show chaps.

  • @xasthurwithin4178
    @xasthurwithin41784 жыл бұрын

    A Roman Legionaire had unironically a higher living standard than me lmao

  • @xasthurwithin4178

    @xasthurwithin4178

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't think the Romans had a concept of nation states like we do today, @S billings. Also if you want to talk about people who contribute nothing to society, talk about shareholders and Wall Street yuppies. And socialism has the famous principle of everybody being obliged to work (as said by Engels, Lenin, etc.)

  • @deadmansdeeds3787

    @deadmansdeeds3787

    4 жыл бұрын

    ​@@xasthurwithin4178 The Romans had a stronger concept of their nation and their state than 'modern' peoples. Furthermore in communism you're only required to work, not chose your living or make your own way in life, there is no room for the individual. Even the Romans, who repeatedly had to ask everything of their citizens, did not remove individual freedom like this.

  • @LazyLifeIFreak

    @LazyLifeIFreak

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Hip Russian Man or live out a lavish lifestyle in a tax haven somewhere else, giving nothing back to their community. Who truly knows when shareholders hold no loyalty to their nation. *shug*

  • @BM-wf9uf

    @BM-wf9uf

    4 жыл бұрын

    @S billings Because capitalism is any different? Socialism is just the government abusing its wealth and power and creating poverty. Capitalism is just at the other end of the scale where big mega companies abuse their wealth and power, also creating more poverty.

  • @ronaldgrayson9302

    @ronaldgrayson9302

    4 жыл бұрын

    @S billings What socialist sympathy? Capitalism and Socialism are both fundamentally flawed.

  • @gm2407
    @gm2407 Жыл бұрын

    Great video.

  • @TheMrgoodmanners
    @TheMrgoodmanners4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see how organized some of these ancient societies were compared to some of the most powerful nations today. Funny also how There are parts of todays world that will never see this level of civilizational organization

  • @ryannguyen7466

    @ryannguyen7466

    4 жыл бұрын

    Even today, people still try to figure out how the Roman did it as most of Roman's techs were lost. At least some Roman military doctrines were still being used even today.

  • @histguy101

    @histguy101

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ryannguyen7466 Such as what? The only Roman invention I can think of that remains a mystery is the recipe for Greek fire, but it's okay, as we have far better weapons.

  • @realname4898

    @realname4898

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@histguy101 roman cement

  • @realname4898

    @realname4898

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lock an key

  • @kambiz7556
    @kambiz75563 жыл бұрын

    I have to watch this again.

  • @oslonorway547
    @oslonorway5474 жыл бұрын

    Can you guys also make a video about how the Romans quickly built temporary fortresses for encampment during campaigns? For example, when going through Britain and Caesar's army comes under attack, they would quickly built a fortress for defence and stay there overnight. Sometimes, they'd even dismantle the whole thing before daylight and sneak away unnoticed. .... Would be interesting to learn how they quickly set up and dismantle such fortresses, and if they marched from place to place with the prefabricated walls, timber & equipment required for quickly building such fortified temporary encampments.

  • @TheMan00007
    @TheMan000073 жыл бұрын

    Zup K&G. Have you thought of selling merch like battle maps or floor plans of encampments/forts/castles?

  • @manny2ndamendment246
    @manny2ndamendment2464 жыл бұрын

    Well done