First Punic War - Roman Conquest of Sicily 

I hope he doesn't do anything too crazy

Surely he wouldn’t have the audacity to invade Hispania!

@@Bruh___452 what’s crazy to me about the Punic War, is that Carthage didn’t have to invade Rome when they did. They had the financial advantage and they had more territory, they could have bidded their time for 5-10 years and built the biggest army the world has ever seen till that point with the riches from Spain. Imagine if Carthage had invested the efforts of Hannibal and their armies in to simply defending and keeping Spain from the scipios. Rome also depended heavily on trade to feed its population, and Carthage had control of the seas initially. They could have just raided romes grain shipments from Africa/Egypt for years and crippled them without even setting a foot on Roman soil. They never should have stepped foot on Italy until they had a large enough force to take Rome itself and seige all the major cities around it. Even Hannibal simply pulling out of Italy after the battle of Cannae to go back to crush scipios army in Spain probably would have been enough to tilt things heavily in carthages favor. Rome getting Spain as easily as they did was the reason Carthage ultimately lost the upper hand.

@@MrBubblecake I thought Hannibal had to take his route because of Roman naval power?

Sadly, there isn't much information on the final Roman conquest of Etruria. That part of history is described in some of Livy's lost books (books 14 and 15 probably). We will cover the Roman expansion into Cisalpine Gaul in the next video in the series.

Yes, this is correct. We also contradict ourselves later in the video about this point. The army also had a large number of Libyans who were more of a levy than mercenaries (although they were also paid).

I wonder if you could have brought some elite Romans from the time of the Middle Republic into the future when the Julio Claudians were in control, would they have been impressed or horrified?

@@illerac84 Not to much difference in terms of gear or formations. Scutum, gladius stayed the same legions of the imperial day got better equipment and more standardized stuff, then the maniple was just a smaller unit in the legion format the imperial side would come to use, probably the weirdest thing to the imperial side to them would be the wealthy guys in the back with spears. And the fact the front was made up of seasonal fighters not professionals. If the middle republic was impressed I would probably say it was by the fact the imperial Legions had grown to 28 full time legions with some 350,000 men if at full strength 5,500 men per legion plus the auxiliaries compared to the 4,200 that composed them then and much less auxiliaries and how they had added to the manipular and scaled it up more so to accommodate this. The real ones that would be impressed would be the early Republic a bunch of phalanx style guys looking at an almost unrecognizable Imperial Rome. 🤣😂

@@richardroberts1212 I should have been more clear as I meant the government structure.

@@illerac84 Lmfao oh easy Horrified at the fact the senators and the public weren’t included in government decisions and all things went through an Emperor or essentially a monarchy. They would probably be curious when this happened so they could avoid it. Which would create 2 scenarios. Kill Caesar as baby and probably loose their greatest General and political man to exist or rather than back him into a corner allowed him back to rome without all the threats of being punished. I always saw Caesar’s power grab as a man who wasn’t going to be labeled a traitor or punished for bringing Rome to its apex peak. If they had played nice I think Caesar would have retired out taken a province to administrate and watched the younger lads have their time. 🤷‍♂️ I live in the Camp Caesar didn’t wanna be king he wanted to fix a broken and corrupt Republic. Senators forced his hand, murdered him and his adopted Heir decided why not do what dad could have done if he wanted. Found an imperial dynasty 🤣😂

What do you mean you have seen it? It is brand new!

@@MagistraVitae I mean you`re technically right, but still weird to not at least write in the description that it`s a compilation.

We applaud your effort!

He followed Scipio around, documenting the war from the first hand. He didn't actually fight in the war, he was around 50 at the time.

@@MagistraVitae After the success of the new Shōgun series on FX, I do have a dream that they would decide to do a series on the life of Polybius.