Emperor Aurelian - In Five Minutes 

And so sadly… he was right and they did.

And he could do it too.

it's amazing how traitors changed the course of history at master level. xD

totalwarplayer perhaps yes But doesnt that mean if even a Weasel like him could Make such a big diffrence and alternate the Course of history, that we other humans could Do that Too? (positive Manner ofc)

We actually alter the future by every decision we make but it is hard to say how much of an impact we make. Maybe some of us have already done something presumably harmless which can, in the end, alter the future in unimaginable ways and we will never know. From a historical point of view, I find it frustrating how a seemingly minor incompetence, mistake or even bad luck can ruin everything. For example, you can be an archduke's driver who takes a wrong turn, stops right in front of his assassin and therefore fucks up the whole 20th century.

To be fair, that assassinated simply triggered a war that was inevitable. Tensions between world powers at the time were at an all-time high; WWI was bound to happen.

not if he survived his plans were amazing he wanted to aknowledge all ethnic cultures or groups living in the austrian empire giving them their own states he then wanted to create USGA(united states of greater austria) which i doubt would join germany since it would become more republican/imperialism than just monarchist and since the people would be more united the austrian army would have been stronger en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austria

Noice

Same

@@titansjojo1445 fk yeah

same

@@InFiveMinutes He is talking about Dovahhatty, dude.

Sadly, few remember him today. Emperors like Nero and Caligula are more famous than he is :/

Rex Galilae They are remembered easily because both were insane, just that.

@@victuz Still, I'd rather everyone knew about a genius than a mad emperor

General Mattis just spoke of him on C-SPAN, Yale's Jackson Institute. May Day 5-1--20. Here's to some good coming from corona virus.

New conglomerate bruh.

Not quite. The shitty emperors used to last very short until some rival or restorer murdered them.

Not in the third century they didn't, they died like rats.

Augustus, Trajan and Marcus Aurelius : Are we a fucking joke to you?

@@feduntu Wait, wasn't Avrelivs got assasinated??

@@peterongan9655 if you got your information from the movie Gladiator then you are wrong, he wasn't assassinated, he most likely died from the Antonine Plague which was still active at the time, seems as though he had the symptoms during his last couple of days

My sincere opinion about this era: Aurelian > Dioclecian >>> Constantine >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The rest.

Constantine killed more Romans than he ever did foreign enemies. He also led to the persecution of many innocent pagans. Coincidentally the only bad thing to be said about Diocletian was his needless and futile persecution of the Christians. Aurelian live and let live as far as religion goes.

They didn't even teach us about this absolute badass in high school. After Marcus Aurelius, I remember Diocletianus and Constantinus, but other than that, a lot was skipped.

@@akechijubeimitsuhide Aurelian militarily reunited the empire, but Diocletian is the one who implemented reforms to address the systemic issues of the empire.

​@@rotciv1492 Dioclecian divide the Empire, the civil wars Star after his abdication

Which continued to be the army's religion long after him.

Well, one of my favourites too. Only thing I dislike is that he wanted to attack the sassanian empire. He finally had Rome had under control... and instead of letting it enter it enter a golden age, he was going to put more strain on it. Did not matter as he died sadly died :(

nikola 1809 sassanian/parthia empire was the thorn of Rome, eliminating them would have let them dominate for many more centuries and would stop the rise of islam

Will Brown Persia was an enemy to Arabian tribes. If not for the Persia, Arabs would conquer Rome instead which would be much more disasterous for the christian world. And Arabs had the means to do it, by the time they reached Damascus they had 10000 troops, thats 3-4 legions worth. By the time they reached Spain they had 200k troops, 50-80 legions worth.

Constantine the Great, my favorite

Holy Paladin What are you saying? Byzantine Empire dominated the Sassanians.

he is the greatest military commander rome ever had, he quelled with the gallic and palmyrene empire. Pacified the invading barbarian tribes in the north whilst being in a civil war.

He was a superb military commander and from looking at his reign he was an ok adminstrator at the very least. If he had reigned for a decade more there would probably be no christianity

You also watched the video of dovahhatty?

I did

Based

Brian Griffin yep

caesar then aurelian

Ironically, it being abandoned saved it. The fact it remained outside the empire turned it into a comple poor, backwater, a place where slavs didn't want to settle (as opposed to the rich roman balkans).

@@antoniudraculea4507 some theory says that Slavic influence actually helped Wallachians to keep their case inflections whereas all the rest romance languages were getting rid of them. Slavs were still settling there although not in such big numbers as in other provinces.

Being discarded by the Empire saved it from the Plague of Justinian which is the cause behing the major shift in demographics of Europe after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Eastern Empire remained highly urbanised and interconnected and was rapidly recovering from the 5th century's devastation in the Balkans, but that interconnection and urbanisation proved to be its bane since it helped spread the plague even more rapidly and increased its devastation as the densely populated urban areas proved to be breeding grounds for the plague and the well preserved Roman roads helped carry it far and wide across the Empire's holdings in a matter of days. Persia suffered from this too. Meanwhile, the Barbarian Kingdoms, Slavic tribes, Arabs, Nomads like Huns and Avars and places like Dacia were spared from this degree of devastation as they were neither as well connected nor urbanised in any meaningful form. This made the organised Empires of Rome and Persia disproportionately weakened to the enemies surrounding them, paving the way for 6th and 7th century migrations and conquests of the Lombards, the Slavs, Nomads such as the Turks and the Arabs as well as the collapse of the Persian Empire and the partial collapse of Eastern Rome. It also led up to relatively more minor events such as the disappearance of final Latin speaking strongholds in Eastern Europe such as Illyria as they got overrun by the Slavs. Of course this wasn't the only cause leading up to some of these events but it was definitely a very major factor.

Rob Evans Agreed. Only few Romans could even ride on Caesar's coat tails and even fewer can even be put on the same pedestal as him.

If only he was given time to deal with the Goths and Vandals. It's funny how they dominated the Empire thereafter, considering that Caesar ate tribes like that for breakfast.

@@ChrisDynamo "ate them for breakfast" might be an overstatement. Dude was on the brink of defeat many times. The reason he was never defeated is why we know of him as an unparalleled genius. Things did get heated, though. He ate Pharnacus II for breakfast, but Ambiorix and Vercingetorix were a little different

@@baxter987 To be fair, Cesar had not a very eficient subordinates to count on. Just Labienus... Until he backstabbed him.

@@baxter987 Caesar only had a small portion of the republic's army and he was able to crush entire tribes, In the late empire the entire imperial army was struggling to defeat them, imagine if Caesar had the legions in the east as well?

nah,Aurelian was killed because of confusion.

Wouldnt compare them. Caesar enslaved Gallica for his own benefit, Aurelian kept an Empire together.

@@karthago1469 The enslavement of Gaul is what eventually civilized them into Gallo Romans.

@@blacktemplar7087 Gauls were already civilised. They were just didn't have any central authority and not a lot of access to important trade routes meaning they were relatively poor (that being said; their skill in metallurgy was superior to that of Rome at the time; just an example). We usually talk about "tribes" when we're talking about the Gauls (but also Germanics), meanwhile many contemporary historians refrain from using that term.

And saving in the process the undefended city of Rome, whose walls were practically unexistent at this point.

That Guy seems like an anime character a total badass

*DOOM music kicks in*

@Horizon585 "They're rapists, they're murderers, and some, I assume, we can conscript into our Legions"

Rome 2 dlc

Hanibal destroyed Rome

@@souhilaoughlis5832 are u dumb?

@@diadokhoi5722 no am serious Check It out Check who's Hannibal

Thanks, mate! Stay tuned - I've got another in the pipeline.

@@InFiveMinutes I'm happy to hear it!

Lack of historical records. If the records were more detailed, he'd be seen as one of the great emperors.

Dammn you praetorians

Praetorea delenda est

....and Ostrogoth alliance. Theuderich was the Ostrogoth King of Italy

i still cant tell if i like flavious aeitius or not, on the one hand he defeated the huns at the battle of catalaunian fields and saved the empire but he also tried to get rid of majorian who was arguably the last good emperor of rome

Yeah, except I've seen the Attila battle referred to in some sources as Chalons too. Historians in general don't speak with one voice.

Theodoric was on roman side. He fought against huns

I was going to say that!

There has been a lot of places where more than one important battle was fought and those also took the name of the place. Ex: Termopilae, Ardenes, Catalaunian Planes, Paris...

Mojoe Money because he's about to murder your ass for something you didn't do. A shit faced official who was going to be accused of corruption forged up a fake document that put the blame on a bunch of high ranking officers to get them executed. The officers panicked and killed the emperor.

Mojoe Money Because of a secretary and a false document.

Fuck off with your Game of Thrones crap.

Sit down and be quiet. You might learn something about one of the most interesting periods of Roman history there has been. The 'Age of Crisis' which is largely ignored and overlooked in most curriculum's.

you must be fun at parties

Except that Aurelian had a lot more success that Stannis

That's true Aipe97. But otherwise there were a lot of similarities. Even religiously, Aurelian heralded the solar cult, which he thought would reinvigorate the empire. It had a lasting effect even influencing Christianity as we know it (Christmas day and Saints having Halos). Whilst Stannis championed a new religion, the lord of light.

Maybe you'll see a video on the latter soon 😉

Diocletian destroyed Rome's economy and society. It was like a communist regime, suscesfull in keeping order but disastrous in the long run.

The encouragement is much appreciated. I have a new video up, and I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Thanks for the encouragement! I just uploaded a new one and intend to do more.

yup, that's the reason i watched this video as i didn't know much about the crisis

Same here. Now I'm pumped for the new expansion.

Omry Maor Same

Thanks, man! I actually just uploaded a new video. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for the encouragement! I actually just added a new video. I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks man!

Thanks, pal! Just uploaded a new one. I hope you enjoy it.

no empire has the power to rule the world,u can be sure of that

Armin Cal Well if you think about it, humans rule the world currently, so the Empire of Man exist.

Armin Cal And I'm talking about sentient species of course.

If Italians weren't so Italian then they could.

The Roman empire was not The Italian empire. But the generals, it seems, were too often more interested in their own ascendancy

Thanks! I just added a new one if you're interested.

Thanks man. I have a new video up because of encouragement like this.

No Constantine?

Daniel Bratu How?

I would add Constantine the Great !

Not in top 5

The achievements of an emperor are not to be measured by his personal life events but by the way he run the Empire. Claudius was a very very capable administrator and a great builder and his reign corresponded to a great period of stability for the empire

I plan to now that I'm trapped at home again like everyone else! Thanks!

I am back, my friend! New video posted today!

not "simplistic" but simplified that is clarified without inutile or confusing details !

@@ezzovonachalm7038 Yes sir

hahaha painfully true

They were having their own problems

@@TonyFontaine1988 As a matter of fact they did. Shahanshāh Bahram I was busy persecuting Manichaeists.

Hanibal

Thanks! :-)

Thank you! I had no idea people would enjoy the video as much as they did. It looks like I'll have to make more.

New video up! I hope you enjoy it.

The only illyrians left are some dudes in istria lmao I doubt your Illyrian.

Ask and ye shall receive!

Thanks!

Nope. Trajan destroyed the biggest 2 threats of his time.... the dacians and the parthians... not to mention defeating the germans and pacifying the rebelious eastern provinces and the jews... and doing it fighting a conquest war in mesopotamia. Aurelian is to be comended for doing it with shitty resources.... but it s the first emperor to abbandon a province. And he has the advantage of having the best cavalry the romans had....

@@neddhu Trajan got defeated by parthians (like in hatra) then parthians reconquared all their land. So that's stupid.

@@shapurthegreat8314 Yeah he failed to capture Hatra but only because half of his eastern Empire was in rebellion... but he defeated the parthians in open combat anexed armenia and mesopotamia, and even captured their capital. So a succesful campaign in my oppinion.. too bad his succesor was a complete moron and couldnt carry out his plan and defeat the parthians for good. Imagine how history would have played out if the romans had a secured eastern flank... maybe they could have kept the danube limes intact, cause the parthians kept half of the roman army occupied.

@@neddhu He didn't defeat parthians. They were locals. Parthians were too busy.

Trajan might be the best conqueror no doubt but aurelian proved his shit and was remembered as a figure for the romans in a span of 5 years. Trajans success was largely due to the fact the empire at his reign was at its absolute peak while aurelians reign the empire was on the decline. Aurelian defeated the alamanni, goths, vandals, jurthingi, sarmatians and capri and quelled the secession of the gallic and palmyrene empire. He reunited the empire while being at war with the rampaging barbarians amidst the empires civil war.

New video uploaded! Thanks for the encouragement.

@@InFiveMinutes thanks for the heads up

@@user-uq8nl7mt6r Sorry it took so long.

@@InFiveMinutes dont worry about it, you dont owe me anything