The Logistics of Ancient Empires
How did ancient empires work? What were the logistics behind them? There have been many great conquerors in history, but what was needed to make sure an empire would last?
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"Triumphal March" by David Chas
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"Cold Journey" by Alexander Nakarada
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[1] www.britannica.com/technology...
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It takes years to get around the Mediterranean in Rome Total War, my soldiers must be lazy.
@12jswilson
Жыл бұрын
You should give them an old fashioned decimation.
@awaisanjum2110
Жыл бұрын
you are not the leader
@awaisanjum2110
Жыл бұрын
oh i forgot
FINALLY, A useful tutorial for my most desired question.
@frankwalker5921
Жыл бұрын
I'm gonna use this to not collapse Roman Empire again
Was waiting for this for 2 thousand years
@sizanogreen9900
Жыл бұрын
did it still arrive in time or was it too late to be helpfull?
@frankwalker5921
Жыл бұрын
Literally feels like forever
@frankwalker5921
Жыл бұрын
@@sizanogreen9900 it's never too late to change
@botrust6543
Жыл бұрын
@@frankwalker5921 nah mate, mine already collapsed
Impressive that the Romans built a road over the English Channel! (1:41)
@stratospheric37
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@Homer-OJ-Simpson
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they built the Chunnel
@aychill7357
Жыл бұрын
Roman ingenuity
@timurthejerk9270
Жыл бұрын
I assume this was after their successful campaign against the sea
Well done! Really enjoyed this video.
I always appreciate channels that fill in the closed captioning. Thanks.
You knew we would instantly recognize the EU4 resource icons!
Great timing releasing this on Easter Sunday 👍
Thanks, this may come in handy one day
Great video.
Just got recommended this by the almighty Algo. I've "watch later"'d 14 videos of yours. Wouldn't be surprised if you had one mil subs in a year. Thanks for the great content!
Shame you didn't touch on China, being as spread out as Rome but didn't have the luxury of having a massive sea help reduce infrastructure costs
@rateeightx
Жыл бұрын
And yet they still managed to create the largest canal in the world without modern technology.
@That1HotMF
Жыл бұрын
Actually they werent as spread out as rome
@shinsenshogun900
Жыл бұрын
@@rateeightx That technically comes right around the so-called Darkened Middle Age in Europe, which basically means nothing to the otherwise short lived Sui Dynasty and the succeeding Golden Age-regarded Tang Chinese and their inspired Korean and Japanese neighbors.
Really nice video, but I don´t think the Inca Empire is part of ancient history, do to the fact that it is considered to be officialy founded only in 1483 A.D, having Pachacuti as its fisrt emperor, just a comparison, people were studying in Oxford for almost 400 years before the Cusco kingdom had become an impire, but again, really nice video.
@samuelbuettner1214
Жыл бұрын
Not ancient time period but perhaps ancient technology
You're definitely going to cover some guides in setting up the First Chinese Empire (Zhou, Qin, Han, & Western Jin), right? Right???
Im new here, literally it was just uploaded. Can confirm I clicked for the title
@frankwalker5921
Жыл бұрын
Lucky 🍀
I enjoy these sorts of videos looking into the everyday inner workings of society that often get glossed over. Thank you! God be with you out there everybody! ✝️ :)
I noticed you used Orbis to how the roman road network. would you happen to know of other sites for other networks for different time periods and locations? ie Sumerian, Edo, Inca, etc
Now all i need is a time machine and I'll be the ruler of the world.
a question about a totally other road ... the silk road mainly it was between Rome & China through Persia ... I heard a rumor about an alternative route through sea that ends at Yemen then go north to Rome ... not to be mixed with the same route that carried African (Ethiopian) trade goods north
@hyperion3145
Жыл бұрын
It did exist and was one of the reasons Yemen at that point was particularly rich. Also would change hands between the Aksumites, Yemeni and Iran a few times.
@sasi5841
Жыл бұрын
It did (though it also included significant portion of east Africa and much of south east asia). This was the naval equivalent of the silk road, and was actually much more expansive, wealthier and continuous
@Pantsinabucket
Жыл бұрын
This was the Erythrean Sea (Red Sea/Indian Ocean) trade route, good bit different from the Silk Road as it was far more focused on India/East Africa with Yemen and Oman being the safe midpoints, although Silk Road goods definitely did get transported along it too.
The eu4 icons in sea trading got me.😂😂
"Pipelines for electrons" *shows ethernet cable which has galvanic isolation*
It must have been easier with a contiguous empire with Rome at the centre. The Carthaginians must have had it tough having their empire so spread out in little bits!
@tultoi5651
Жыл бұрын
I would say it’s actually quite a bit easier. The carthaginians mainly conquered trading posts, ones that they would travel to and back by boat. They simply owned a city here and there on the coast while the Romans owned an entire landmass they needed messengers and local lords and such to administrate effectively.
3:20 *Did you Just use EU4 icons for trade goods?*
I had my eyebrows raised during 0:07 👀
@Dragoon77
Жыл бұрын
🤨
Can someone Send link to Part 2?
Rly helped now I can run east Roman empire
Where's part 2?
The new world (Americas) had no animals they can ride nor any animals to help plow fields. That’s a major reason they never developed as much as the old world. In addition, the old world had so much many more people and inventions, ideas, animals, and foods were shared along the Eurasian continent
@genericwhitemale9566
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. No animals to ride means you can't travel across the continent as fast which limits your communication with the rest of the tribes so they all remained isolated instead of forming any sort of union. No domesticated animals means food production is much MUCH lower. This led to farming never really catching on so they mostly remained as hunter gatherers. This means much smaller families which means no major population growth and no major development needed to keep up with the population.
@Homer-OJ-Simpson
Жыл бұрын
@@genericwhitemale9566 "This led to farming never really catching on so they mostly remained as hunter gatherers.". Yes, this was a big part. Eventually farming did happen but no where near on the scale of what Euroasia did. In part the reason farming didn’t grow more regardless of not having animals to plow - they had little means to transport the food! So while Eurosia had lots of trade in food and metal, bulk item trade in the new world was too difficult. And there aren’t many good river systems in the new world. Mexico where the biggest population was has no good navigable rivers. South America has few good navigable rivers and the biggest river is Amazon which is in a terrible location since the Amazon isn’t good for farming or living. Incas were up in the mountain where rivers are small and not useful. The only good set of navigable rivers is in what is now the US. But they were mostly just hunter gather civilizations so bulk trade wasn’t important to them. If the Mexico and south american tribes had rivers like those in the US, they would have had far more use for it. I’m a little surprised that they didn’t use sea trade more often. > means no major population growth and no major development needed to keep up with the population Well, they did have a handful of major cities but the first to break 100k wasn’t until around 400AD while the old world may have broken 100k about 2,500 years earlier in 2100BC and certainly reached it by 1200BC (1600 years before new world). At the time the Spanish arrived, that area now known as Mexico city had 140k-200k people and believed to be one of the top 3 cities outside of China/India.
Neat
I got that reference 3:34
Did he never make a part two?
@KhAnubis
18 күн бұрын
I wanted to, but the views on this one were too abysmal
Could have taken Mongol Empire as example. Communication in sea based empire is far easier than a land based empire like Mongols.
@fathirizzanzahrano.r6161
Жыл бұрын
Mongol Empire exist during middle age not ancient
@kalpeshmanna7233
Жыл бұрын
@@fathirizzanzahrano.r6161 good point 👍🏻
@shinsenshogun900
Жыл бұрын
Mongols at the height of Rome were once Eastern Barbarians known as the Xianbei
This channel "official" subtitles are always poorly done, why?
DRATS. Lured here by your Roman empire thumbnail! Curse my Romaboo urges! CURSES!
Day 2 of asking for a video discussing how French Government works? I've already seen the German and Chinese one and both were great videos ❤️✨
Within 7 days!
Instructions unclear I am now in charge of a global secret society and the leader of South America
Tax farming was an issue in ancient regime France and I thought the guy who climbed a tree in the Gospels was a tax farmer. But I could be wrong.
@shorewall
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, a publican.
You know what they say, All roads lead to ROME!!!!!
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1:48 Is this sayin smth to the extent of "Whoever doesnt join the Khanubis discord server, should be killed?" bcuz thats what google translate seems to think, or at least smth near to that
@rateeightx
Жыл бұрын
I think it's more "Who wouldn't join the KhAnubis discord server?", If you replace the 'v's in "QVIS" and "IVNGERE" with 'u's (How they'd be spelled in modern Latin) google gives you something similar to that, And if you swap it and ask it for "Who wouldn't join the KhAnubis Discord Server" or "Who doesn't join the KhAnubis Discord Server" in Latin it gives you something fairly similar. From personal experience Google Translate isn't too good for Latin, But I think this is accurate as "Quis" and "Iungere" are related to Italian words I know with similar meaning (And actually to the English words "Who" and "Join").
eu4 fan i see
Am I missing something or does this video not really tell us anything about logistics? This all seems like general knowledge. All roads lead to Rome, the Nile is the lifeblood of Egypt, Rome used ships (Mare Nostrum). This doesn't seem to give any information more than a brief google search of, "how did people move around [insert empire]". I enjoy your videos generally, but this one seems redundant. Maybe I just underestimate the general level of knowledge of this things?
How to run an ancient empire? Murder and a lot of it. Having horses and or runners helps too.
Whoa almost drew something very German on Germany at the beggining 😅
Amm KhAnubis mate,if those spices you put in india are chilis,I have to tell you,those fruits are natives to the americas
@sizanogreen9900
Жыл бұрын
it was an EU4 joke as in the same segment he used EU4 trade good icons whereever he could, including the one for "Spices" which unfortunatly does in fact display chilli peppers.
@langoloql
Жыл бұрын
@@sizanogreen9900 aaaah I see,I never played a EU game.good to know.thanks
B O A T S
Boats, It is always boats!
Okay but it's about time to revise that language you're using "when the Europeans discovered the Amazon." They weren't the first humans there. In fact it was extremely populated back then, as you must know. "When the Europeans arrived/invaded" would be more accurate and less irritating to indigenous peoples who are often erased as if Europeans were the first humans to find this continent.
First comment.... 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
With just a lllllittle bit of genocide As a treat.
@shinsenshogun900
Жыл бұрын
Divide et Impera
Ummm idk what so say....sooo first?
@shorts9900
Жыл бұрын
Bro thinks that he's first
Too bad the Romans never Industrialized. Billions of lives could have been saved from poverty