So, the "emperors" didn't exist until a couple centuries after the Punic Wars. The Republic was led by a cohort of different magistrates (of which the Consuls were the top two), but they were *usually elected by the people out of the Senate which was the council of patrician city elders (social class was important). The Senate became the de facto legislative body since all the power brokers were in the Senate anyways The Senate predated the Republic (being the kings' council), continued through the Republic and then all the way through the Empire and actually outlasted the Empire for a few decades after the fall of Rome Marcus Aurelius was *not Julius Caesar's grandson, there is no direct relation. Marcus lived two hundred years after Caesar and was part of a completely different dynasty. At this point "Caesar" was becoming less of a name and more of a title
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Did Caesar even have any grandchildren? I know that his daughter had a miscarriage and died shortly after, but I'm honestly not familiar enough with the subject to know if he even had other children besides her (and Ptolemy/Caesarian, but we all know how that story ends)
@@awzthemusicalreviews none that are known and readily identifiable. Did he have illegitimate children with Servilia? Or from any other unremarked daliance? We really can't say, and he certainly didn't make any noise about legitimizing other potential heirs when he had no legitimate male heir.
On the OP list: in terms of companies, the VOC (Dutch east asia trading company) it was/is still regarded as the most valuable company of all time, more than the top 3 or 4 combined (if we compare it to modern day). They were allowed to declare war, have enourmous war-fleets (which they did), armies, even their own territory. Eventually they owned most of Indonesia. It was basically a company.. with country powers. Compared again to other places in that time, that company would alone be one of the main powers. It was insane. It was insane OP for the Dutch (which was why for a while they became a global hegemony) to have basically a proxy-country, to gain lands through/wage war through.
Julius Caesar was the grand uncle of Octavius the first emperor of Rome. Octavius would later be given the name “Augustus” by the Roman senate. Augustus would establish the Julio-Claudian dynasty which ruled the Roman Empire from 27BC-68AD. The Julio-Claudian dynasty comprised the first five Roman emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. With Nero’s suicide in 68AD the dynasty ended.
Hannibal was in the Punic Wars but he was in the second one, not the first. I think the Second Punic War is probably the most famous one since that was the game changer for both sides
Hannibal Barca was not in the 1st Punic War, but his father Hanilcar Barca commanded the Carthaginian land forces in Sicily from 247 BC to 241 BC, during the latter stages of the First Punic War. What's funny about this stage of the war is Rome and Carthage switched rolls, Rome (primarily a land army) became the dominate naval power and Carthage (mainly a sea power) became under Hanilcar a land power.
Regarding that comparison of the Germans in WWII vs the Roman Army, I think it’s more accurate to describe Germany as something of a glass cannon. The German army was extremely powerful on the offense, especially early on in the war, and punched way above their weight for the time. The issues are that the Allied powers were caught on the back foot very early on and it took time for them to recover, meanwhile the disastrous Russian campaign stalled their momentum severely and allowed their flaws to catch up to them.
The interesting thing about the Consuls is after they served their year, they were forced to leave Rome proper; it was another check to them acquiring power, especially since everyone knew they'd probably done all kinds of shady things while they were Consuls. Usually they ended up being Provincial Governors, and could use these positions to have what amounted to a fairly cushy retirement, but they were forbidden to re-enter Rome itself. This system carried on until a certain ex-Cosul that shares a name with a Salad decided to shake things up a bit. And that's actually where the expression "Crossing the Rubicon" comes from, as the Rubicon river represented the boundary of Italy itself with the provinces, and Caesar knew once he did that he'd either win and be Dictator for life... or be dead ("The die is cast.")
@thenorseman6119 Thank you, I've been well. I can't wait for Part 2. Maybe you can do a reaction video to the new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer from Rockstar.
The most OP ancient society was the Nordics. Even enemies like the English would comment on how savage and fearsome Nordic "viking" warriors could be. And some Nordic warriors are said to be able to take on entire armies single handedly. The second most OP would be Sparta. Rome definitely isn't the strongest military of their time.
Rome was a petty kingdom, then a republic, then an empire. By legend the foundation of Rome itself was 753 BC; the republic established in 509 BC and the empire....well it was a gradual degradation of the republic in the latter first century BC.
Rome started as a city state in the Greek style(unofficially), then Kingdom followed by a Republic, Augustus formed the Principate (a dictatorial regime that still retained the Republican elements) with him as the Princeps/ First Citizen/ Imperator(Victorious General). The Principate lasted until the reign of Diocletian who dropped all Republican pretenses and declared the Empire. Roman Consuls were able to come for reelection after a 10 year period. However in some cases they were allowed reelection in times of crisis. The 10 year rule slowly faded in the late republican period. At the end of their year as consul they were assigned a province and a single legion. Over time this tradition led to the rise of dictators such as Sulla and Caesar. Sulla used his governorship of Asia that was at the time a frontier with several legions to seize the Republic. After Sulla, Pompey Magnus, his subordinate had successful campaigns in Spain and Syria which became breeding grounds for his legions that would come in handy during the Caesar's Civil War. Caesar used his term as Proconsul/Governor of Cisalpine Gaul(Northern Italy) and Transalpine Gaul(French Alpes) to conquer all of Gaul and raise more legions.
Marcus Aurelius was not related to Julius Caesar. The Julian Dynasty died out upon the death of Nero in AD 68. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD well after the line of Caesar died out.
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The Romans had the best infantry for their time, everyone used phalanx's still while Rome developed their own style based on a phalanx with flexability. The issue they had was their armies usually had aux troops for cavalry and archers from allies and horse archers humiliated their infantry on more than one occasion
Rome had strong equipment and gear but tactics wise they were actually quite bad. They used very basic strategies a lot of the time and could easily be thwarted by gurellia tactics. As you see in both this war and the second, they've got determination but not much tactical prowess. Vikings absolutely had armies and were well trained in combat. The shield wall formation tactic originated from viking warriors.
You were talking about the wrong time for Rome, Rome didn't have emperors at that time, oversimplified literally just explained it. (BTW, good video, no hate.) Edit: theres a new punic war vid rn watch it
Look im sure it wasnt meant how it seemed. Maybe im judgy but ur lady justified ancient child sacrifice as "kids are expensive so sac them to maintain wealth." I mean its all funny to me but damn.
Its not that there were more people its that the government had more power over them cause people had a sense of fighting good peace bad until christianity came around
