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Democracia não existiu nessas vilas. Existiu a política da marretada, da espada, da flexada e do mais forte.
As a man , I am required to think about Rome, several times a day. Thank you for making this more accessible. Subscribed!
The lady who bought the bread from the convenience store was from India. Long way from home. Maybe she will go back home soon.
This kicks a**. We don't need another KZread video on modern helmets(especial ww2)anyway.
Imagine germany without doners😂
Very good and informative Video. Well done! Thank You!
it's not 'caligay' it's 'calige' ae is pronunced as e
Only if the US Army has create a steel helmet design based only classical Imperial Roman army helmets before WW1. Then they wouldn't brought the Brodie helmet from the UK which was based on the Middle Age European kettle helmet used for the Crusades and the UK french invasion that led to Agincourt.
I'm Brazilian, and I gotta say your Portuguese is very good. Go on!
Can you tell me about when the plume was adopted for wear on the Montefortino helmets? I'm under the impression that during the time of the mid Republic (Punic Wars,etc.) that the three feathers were the main decorations on the helmet.
It would make sense if you think of a siege where enemies spawn at each other's face at the walls. it kind of remind me of Katana & Wakizashi, katana is believed to be used in man to man fighting, kinda like duel , but Wakizashi been used in massive melee clash.
would this have been the kind of blade peter used to cut off that roman guy's ear?
The original greek word used is most commonly associated with large single edged knives or short swords. It’s unlikely that word would have been used for a pugio, but it’s possible.
@@Typexviiib either way it would have been pretty cool
The gladius is a short sword, well-fitted for close-quarter combat! What would have been the use of a dagger like the pugio as a primary weapon then?
The press. If two masses of infantry are pushing into each other the guys in the front row have no room to move their arms in either direction. In more modern disasters, people trapped in building presses have literally suffocated. At the end of the day, it only takes 4 or 5 inches of thrust to cause q casualty, anything past that is just to reach them. If they are so close you can touch them with your bare hands and 18 inch blade can become a liability. Definitely a niche situation, but a practical option
The Romans invented almost nothing, but perfected much that they borrowed.
It seems to me that if you wear a helmet that is just metal then a heavy hit could still cause you a concussion. That could be mitigated by a leather lining, which would decrease the force on the skull by increasing the duration of the impact. Is there any evidence that the helmets were lined?
Strange i have a helmet but its not in this video.
Rome was already a city-state by 500 B.C. The Greek colonials and their Greek kings were already in conflict with the Romans in the central Italian peninsula long before the so called Iberian dagger. It’s hard to imagine the Roman Legionaries going into battle before the 2nd century B.C. without being armed with a dagger. There has to be some information on what type of daggers were used for 3 centuries before the Iberian dagger became their preferred one.
What is an example of a Roman civilian weapon?
Very interesting video. Thank you. The Pugio seemed to be a very personal up close weapon. That would be tough for me. I would rather shoot an arrow from a distance and run like hell. 😆
15:30. All my happiness went away.
Fruit loops was Nero’s fav , capt crunch Caligula 😮😢 , Frosted Flakes emperor Claudius 😮😢
“Most people know the Roman sword, the gladius..” I wish.. more like 1%
The gladius was supreme in close combat as a thrusting weapon that could also slash. But the quick thrust was the preferred method because of the small amount of energy required to perform it, and the lethality of the thrust was well known. Also, the Romans were not trained to be swordsmen in the classic sense. They were trained to be a lethal wall of heavy infantry that acted as one. The thrust is easy to learn. The slash is not, and requires more strength and accuracy to be effective. In a melee where opponents might be crushed together so tightly that even the gladius could not be used, the pugio would be ideal. It's just a short gladius. It's advantage in very tight, compressed melee is obvious.
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been binge watching your videos and I LOVE it
Then there is the cinquedia...
12:58 Almost everything besides two wolf cubs started as being not part of the empire. 😂
I believe it’s important to avoid mythologising the people of old, like Germans and attaching our modern concepts of what honour is to their culture. It’s completely logical that Germanic armies were mostly comprised of melee foot soldiers, but we should strive to explain it with objective factors like Germanic society being heavily fractured into tribes, which made it hard for them to arm their soldiers with more expensive weapons and armor (having shield and spear or an axe is much cheaper then a bow and a horse) and their army being mostly militia-based. Also the forest terrain means that it’s hard to ride horses. Meanwhile, we also see that Germans do use horses and ranged weapons, Caesar in his memoirs mentions a very peculiar way Germanic nobility was fighting on horseback. In case of range while the bowmen were rare, simpler weapons like a sling or javelins were still present and actively used for skirmishing. So explaining this by some code of honour is a great oversimplification and portrays Germanic people of this time period as dumb barbarians for whom our modern understanding of honour is more important than military tactics.
It's quite normal for lack of resources to result in a culture of getting by. Plenty of warrior cultures have looked on with disdain at the 'effeminate' city dwellers over the next hill while the city dwellers in turn look on in disgust at the primitives living out in the sticks. Those attitudes even exist today between rural and urban populations. For the warrior society it becomes a point of honour to get by with the bare minimal to survive and Caesar mentions the Germans as finding saddles a sign of weakness - yet I don't believe Germanic auxiliary cavalry are ever depicted as riding bareback like the Moors so take that statement with a grain of salt perhaps or it was specific to one Germanic group. Remember that the Germanic tribes back then were as far east as what's now Poland and they were in contact with the Sarmatians who are noted for their cavalry. That doesn't mean the ones along the Rhine were much affected by that contact but there was the potential for influence from a strong horse culture to reach that far.
Is pugio Latin for thumb?
It means dagger, distantly related to the word pugil (modern pugilist) referring to a boxer/fist fighter. Both words have a sense of punching at something.
Aurelia was Caesar's mother but he depicted her & referred to her as Venus on his coins. A gift of a son to his mother as to depict her as the Goddess of love, beauty fertility, prosperity and victory. I can think of view greater gift's or displays a son could show & demonstrate to a mother? I would like to offer my own mother a gift if even only a fraction as flattering but have yet the means or opportunity to do so for I have more to thank my mother then any on this earth by a considerable margin as frankly most have been a burden or a waste of time to me in this life. Most every man loves their mother but few mothers I would say genuinely deserve that love of their child as few mothers go out of their way for their children in practice! Worse yet a friend of mine was raped by his mother as a child & he was told to love her which he did for a time though she deserved no such thing. The conduct & manner of some people makes them worse then any monster that can be thought up in my opinion as the awful I have seen or learnt of others is astounding in it's unpleasantry. If anyone is a saint upon this earth it is my mother & not those claim by clergy which I can say with certainty. The only person I genuinely give sh!t about upon this earth is my mother & am even a tad self destructive by my own callous nature that I acquired young.
I lived in Ipswich while stationed at RAF Bentwaters. The city of Colchester, (Camulodunum) was about 30 miles from my place there. In the year 54 the Romans built a stone temple, dedicated to the God Claudius. I have heard a few estimates of how many Romans were killed or captured at Teutoburg. some numbers go as high as 30,000. The number of immunes, who were skilled craftsmen, slaves, engineers etc. and, families were difficult to calculate. Also they were 3 Legions heading to winter quarters, which meant that everyone was on that march.
Ancient pistol
Correct me please, was his father and mother already blood relatives before they got married? If so, Claudius was an inbred and would explain the deformity and sickness.
Claudius was on the spectrum and could have used a good dose of Ritalin and Prozac.
If they could afford it they could
Described in many sources the germanic cavalry was high in demand as a mercrenary/auxiliary unit for the Romans (reguarly chopping up celtic cavalry in Ceasars De bello gallico) . The Celtic tribes were famous for their chariots on the other hand. It doesn´t seem that horses were insignificant in middle and northern Europe
There must have been good training with that dagger it doesn't seem it would be practical given the way tome fought.
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Was there any differences between Celtic and Germanic arms and armor since this channel shows mostly Celtic equipment
it was NOT CATASTROPHIC. Stop spreading propaganda. Way before Claudius explain better Germanicus and Tiberius utter, complete defeats of the germanic tribes so much they did not dare anything for decades
ah yes the incredible amphibian Batavian auxillones, capable of swimming with armour on apparently. 😄
I really enjoyed this. Well done.
Is did toevallig gefilmd in het Archeon?
In terms of Tacitus' accounts, the auxilaries wearing spathae and cutting down their enemies may have been a reference to Batavian cavalry being dismounted and sent into fight (there's no indication that infantry wore spathae until much later, spathae were cavalry weapons at this time).
Go and read Robert Graves's two 'Claudius' books I Claudius & Claudius God. woven into history fiction, but brings clauw-clauw to life... 😉
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Great work thank you.
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Claudius is seriously underrated as an Emperor.