The general explaining his idea to the troops. The troops: Your tactics confuse and frighten me sir.

The first casualties become those so called little kingdoms between empires... 😏

I was searching for info about Saint Febronia of Nisibis and stumbled upon your video. What a bizarre piece of history (even if it's perhaps partly legend). Great video with clear explanation!

Definitely a moment to visit (from a distance and with a telescope) if you have a time machine.

@LordWyatt

Жыл бұрын

Just like most of the rest of history😅

So interesting, huge wars of the past that are almost entirely forgotten.

@genovayork2468

9 ай бұрын

Lol, open a book.

It would be interesting for you to cover the later loss of Nisibis to the Persians and how Pseudo Zachariah describes how people of Nisibis were forced out of the city and into the city of Edessa. The issue also is how the Persians planned on repopulating it as the original inhabitants were cast out.

@proconsul6840

Жыл бұрын

It just wouldn't be a proper Sassanid related video if it didn't have you leaving a comment below

@althesian9741

Жыл бұрын

@@proconsul6840 Well i enjoy the subject a lot. Relationship between the “two eyes of the world” is really underrated in historical subjects.

@genovayork2468

9 ай бұрын

​@@althesian9741 It's overrated.

@lambert801

9 ай бұрын

​@@genovayork2468 To be honest almost everything about the Sassanian empire is underrated.

@genovayork2468

9 ай бұрын

@@lambert801 Its relationship with Rome is overrated because Rome is overrated. No, the Sassanid empire is not really underrated. If you think it is underrated, you know little history.

Brilliant! Thank you.

@TheFallofRome

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

One of my favorite sections in Gibbon, so glad to see something on this!

"Ours is a god of plagues and insects, look, we're the GOOD guys!" Happens in the Old Testament too, doesn't it? A plague of locusts?🤔 Nasty business!! But what mastery of seige warfare these two great empires of their day possessed, what monumentality. Incredible.

The simplest explanation is right more often than not.

Terrific video!

@TheFallofRome

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Military historian, poliorcetics is a focus. This is amazing, thank you.

This is a wild story! Wow!

if you're talking about the Siege of Nisibis (252) the Sassanid DID take the city

Amazing.

@TheFallofRome

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! This was a lot of fun to research too

Cool story

Also the siege of amida Is Amazing

The plan of Constantius was solid.

At 6:13 also the three breach's might also be a reference/confusion that it was during the third/3 siege. at 7:35 it might have been the regional leader and he had an extra rode/cloak that was left behind be Justance. 7:35 to add confusion to the enemy troops. and morale among allied troops.

Please make the First sassanid Roman war

👍

Didn't Emperor Trajan do a similar thing?

I'm confused. The names of Iberia and Albania by the Caspian Sea... But there is the Iberian Peninsula and the Nation of Albania off the Adriatic Sea.

@marcdigiambattista751

Жыл бұрын

"Iberia" was an exonym, apparently the Greeks called both places Iberia for some unknown reason. The "Iberians" on the Caspian sea called their nation Kartli but the Romans called it Iberia. "Albania" is also a name the Greeks gave the region, and it also is unclear why. It's thought that the locals called the place something along the lines of "Alhuwank". Back in Greco-Roman times, what we call Albania today was known as Illyria, just to add some further confusion. You can find out more about these kingdoms by googling "Caucasian Iberia" and "Caucasian Albania". And for the ancient history of Balkan Albania, look up "Illyrians" (and avoid any wild pseudo history written by Albanian conspiracy theorists and ultra nationalists, you will stumble across them).

@rgpnovo

Жыл бұрын

@@marcdigiambattista751 You might well be right, but the most commonly accepted etymolgy of the "Spanish" Iberia is that it comes from the river "Ebro", which flows into the Mediterranean just south of Catalonia.

@janki3353

Жыл бұрын

Iberia turned into Georgia, and Albania assimilated into Armenia mostly with some descendents (Udis). They both disappeared long before the modern country of Albania and Spanish Iberia.

@lambert801

9 ай бұрын

​@@marcdigiambattista751 I think the Greeks called that region 'Albania' because of its native population-the Alans. The Persians called that region _Arran._ It's very common for the sounds [R] and [L] to be replaced by one another when getting borrowed from another language (or even as a result of natural linguistic evolution). I don't know why the Greeks called it Albania and not "Alania," but such "anomalous" linguistic developments aren't uncommon.

Elon musk just said this. Rome was having birth rate issues even during the reign of Caesar. is this true/?

@obamabiden

Жыл бұрын

Augustus did enact laws incentivising marriage and childbirth and penalising the opposite, but i don't know if this was a birth rate thing, an attempt to foster a larger population in future or in effect basically a morality law Roman noble families did have a bad habit of going extinct throughout much of the late republic and imperial periods though, that's something documented

Executions will continue until officers improve

First!

@allanlarmour7460

Жыл бұрын

🏆

Pretty sure that’s not at all where Albania is… (initial map) 🤣

@marcdigiambattista751

Жыл бұрын

You're actually incorrect, but I don't blame you for thinking that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_Albania

@genovayork2468

9 ай бұрын

Lol, imagine you being this stupid.