How Did the Roman Empire Expand so Efficiently?

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Beard, Mary., North, John., Price, Simon. Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Bunson, Matthew. Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire (United States: Facts on File, 2008).
Cowan, Ross. Roman Legionary 58 BC-AD 69 (United Kingdom: Bloomsbury USA, 2003).
Duncan-Jones, Richard. Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Keppie, Lawrence. The Making of the Roman Army: From Republic to Empire (United Kingdom: Routledge, 1998).
Lintott, Andrew. Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration (United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2013).
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@TheArmchairHistorian 3 часа назад

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

alr alr

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

im tha biggest bird

@JustifiedCrusader8975 2 часа назад

I wanna see how many times armchair changes thw thumbnail

@Commander1327 3 часа назад

Armchair History + Roman logistics? Never clicked so fast in my life!

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

calm down

@Commander1327 3 часа назад

@@Dutchmapper No

@JustifiedCrusader8975 3 часа назад

Let's go an armchair roman episode

@christopherrobin1616 3 часа назад

@@Commander1327calm up

@michaelchristy506 3 часа назад

Profile pic checks out

@capncake8837 3 часа назад

Wasn’t expecting another ancient history video. Nice.

@Charles_2011 3 часа назад

Another fire video from the Armchair Historian

@TC1YT 3 часа назад

Funny how the Roman Empire is capable of ruling a massive Nation with lots of diversity for longer than any modern empire could

@TheSuperhoden 3 часа назад

Because nationalism wasn't invented yet

@aaronbecker5617 2 часа назад

A willingness to incorporate other cultures beliefs and at the same time ruthlessly crush rebellion seemed to be the trick

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@aaronbecker5617So that's the secret. I have to write my congressman

@levinicusrex1006 Час назад

Imperial China: Am I a joke to you?

@TC1YT Час назад

@@levinicusrex1006 how diverse is china tho? And it frequently broke apart

@ShadowReaper-pu2hx 3 часа назад

Last time I was this early, Roman leaders had good models in Civilization games.

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

ur not becoming popular

@p03saucez 2 часа назад

Absolutely love your Rome content. Keep em coming!

@gamingwithalexander6030 3 часа назад

Armed chair vid about Rome? YESSIR

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

ikr

@kaltro_15567 2 часа назад

Armchair! Do more videos on Roman Empire. I appreciate your team's videos and consistently, and also you for putting in the work.

@dantetre 2 часа назад

"What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?" "Apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans Ever Done for Us?!"

@anguscovoflyer95 Час назад

Brought peace?

@Finn_the_Cat Час назад

Unfortunately no matter how much you can give others, they will never want to have to be under your thumb to get it. Like one Filipino man once said, he would rather see his country ran into the dirt by his fellow Filippinos than ran a paradise by any other

@Finn_the_Cat Час назад

Actually I was missing a part of that statement, the the full quote by Manuel L. Quezon was "I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans, because however bad a Filipino government may be we can always change it" I think my point stands that people won't be grateful for what you give them if it means being under your thumb

@wedgeantilles8575 31 минуту назад

@@Finn_the_Cat That statement is maybe correct today - but it was not correct during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Most were quite happy with Rome and did not want to be independend again. Yes, after taking a new region there often was one rebellion a little later. But most of the time, that was it. After this rebellion was done, people became happy and content. Just a few examples: The quite famous "Social War" fought in Italy, when several tribes like the Samnite rebelled against Rome. But what did they fight for? Their freedom? NO. They fought for ROMAN CITIZENSHIP. Or during the second punic war - most towns and tribes stayed loyal to Rome, even though Rome suffered heavy defeats. Or look at the Gauls. Extremly fierce fighting - but after their integration into the Roman Empire, they soon became a prosperous province, a little later they became senators - and just prospered and didn't rebel again. The reason why Rome was so successfull for hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of years was that all the tribes and regions they conquered benefitted and were content to live under Roman rule.

@Finn_the_Cat 6 минут назад

@@wedgeantilles8575 I see

@antoniojoserebelolourenco5111 2 часа назад

Thank you so much for doing a video about the greatest Empire! It´s not often you make a video about ancient history thank you very much!

@Patrick-youtube 53 минуты назад

Without the need of a phoenix concept. A formation without cost but then wages.

@compatriot852 2 часа назад

The Roman process of assimilation was probably the biggest factor which enabled rapid expansion. Unlike later colonial empires, there was a shared common Roman identity which all received representation.

@SuperWindsage 2 часа назад

if I remember right, Carthage finally falling, tied with Alexander's Heirs squabbling to much to unite against a greater threat leading to Hegemon.

@ElBreadini 3 часа назад

Armchair plus ancient history makes such a fine wine of content

@Vandal_Savage 3 часа назад

Nice cameo by Vitalstatistix 😉

@thalmoragent9344 3 часа назад

Ancient Rome. The aesthetics, achievements, inventions, prominence, it's always so encaptivating. Though of course, it's important to understand the realities of history: Celebrate the good and innovative things, condemn the darker aspects of it and learn from both.

@ericdanielski4802 3 часа назад

Nice video.

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

you still havent watched the full video yet

@naifalshemssie2046 3 часа назад

@Dutchmapper right? These people man

@Wolfswacht 3 часа назад

@@Dutchmapperyou just now it’s gonna be good

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

@@Wolfswacht alr

@ghost7344 2 часа назад

Thanks for watching!

@wildfiregaming2717 2 часа назад

Always a good day when Armchair Historian posts 🔥🔥🔥

@michaelchristy506 2 часа назад

Well, I’ve thought about Rome today now

@Dailyyy-moto 3 часа назад

NICE!

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

shush

@MotRekrab1347 2 часа назад

@@Dutchmapper someone got up on the wrong side of the bed (or got into it, depending on the time zone, I suppose)

@Melvin_Garrett 3 часа назад

Yesssssss!!!

@TheMan-sg9dx 3 часа назад

Because of James Bisonette

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

wtf shut

@azdinh6626 2 часа назад

Great job 👍

@leestudios9948 3 часа назад

Can you do one on Justinian and Belisarius?

@ThomasPiazza-zj8ly 3 часа назад

This panders to all of my autism at once

@Blastoice 2 часа назад

Omg, what a video 😮

@andrewblair370 3 часа назад

would love more ancient history!

@ianblake815 3 часа назад

Before I get into this I'm going to say it was the combination of their complex supply lines and the brilliant structure of the legions.

@billandmonicaschleicher9018 Час назад

You should do a video on roman tactics. Nice video!

@nathanielwatkins7584 52 минуты назад

So I see America’s doing the same thing with places like Japan, Nigeria, and Iraq. Nothings changed but the year

@samasinoothebest 3 часа назад

Veni vidi vici. I came, I saw, I conquered. -Julius Caeser 46 B.C

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

english pls

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@DutchmapperAre you stupid?

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@DutchmapperThey literally translated it. Troglodyte

@kevinkelleher4284 Час назад

"Mom! Mom! The armchair historian dropped another video! Don't bother me now!"

@The_Daily_Tomato Час назад

What? Hold on son i'm gonna watch it too! 😁

@EsquinogarciasupaBR 3 часа назад

Eres el mejor explicando historias

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

yap

@EsquinogarciasupaBR 3 часа назад

miau

@Ddnmddnn Час назад

From the skies of Terra, to the Galactic Rim. Let the seas boil! Let the stars fall! Let the Galaxy *Burn*

@domiganslmeier1769 Час назад

It’s interesting that while traditionally Gaius Marius is seen as a reformer of the Roman military system, more recent scholarship views the Marian reforms more as a process, which started a few decades earlier. Many of the reforms that are typically credited to Marius are only much later mentioned in the sources (e.g., by Plutarch, who lived ca. 200 years later).

@neilhannan5112 3 часа назад

Armchair Historian videos not WW2 Hook it to my veins

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

yee

@panzer1736 2 часа назад

How about Dacia before and after Roman conquest? That's a cool idea for a video,a subject not many people speak about.

@build4timetfisakilometer 2 часа назад

armchair historian cooked with this one

@asherjobin9939 3 часа назад

Logistics. It's always the answer

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

dont act smart

@arandomguardsmen 3 часа назад

@@Dutchmapperwars are won with logistics

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@Dutchmapper

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@DutchmapperLogistics is a powerful weapon.

@kryzzan7039 Час назад

Logistics and more importantly, money, granted I guess you could count money as logistics.

@swordsnspearguy5945 2 часа назад

just when I thought I was done thinking about the Roman Empire

@michalschade7734 2 часа назад

You meant AD(Anno domino)

@tigovanderpauw111 2 часа назад

Hear me out on this one: the Gallic wars from the Gallic perspective?

@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin 3 часа назад

Rome was founded in the 8th century BC. The 8th century BC was also the age of a strong phoenician presence in the mediterranean, where most trade centered around the city of Tyre - a city that had stood for nearly 3000 years before then. Further east were the Neo Assyrians with their powerful and innovative (for the time) armies, whom would expand to conquer egypt, creating one of the largest empires in the world at the time. In Italy, Etruscan writing dates to around 700 BC (ie. final year of the 8th century BC), making it older than ancient greek writing (since iirc, Homer dates to the 7th century BC) - but it can't be interpreted. Tyre declined with its conquest by Alexander, wherein other cities took over portions of its old market share.

@Kumimono Час назад

Heh, at 9 minutes, I've wondered, how historically accurate Asterix was... Aside from the super powered strength.

@ReezeGoingSenseless Час назад

As Civ taught me: Roads, filius.

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

How? Roads. I would assume roads. Logistics is the most powerful weapon in any military.

@DanH-u3f Час назад

Stone roads and aqueducts

@ChannelStowyn 2 часа назад

I saw Rome... so here I am

@Lead_Ache_5 51 минуту назад

Because back then Men had ⚽️ ⚽️

@XxKINGatLIFExX Час назад

I have to say, not that I don't like this video; but it's a lot harder to follow along when you cover classical antiquity. I think it's because the content is less nuisanced than WW2 and it's politics.

@paulomartins1008 42 минуты назад

Because becoming Roman is a blessing, not a curse.

@thatoneperson134 Час назад

Do Aurelian next

@tricolourbearer2435 Час назад

Willpower.

@joetheperformer 3 часа назад

Yo! Roman military logistics! Let’s goooooo!

@wesleysinnema7210 Час назад

Crazy to think that logistics we call “basic” today took hundreds of years to develop

@honodle7219 2 часа назад

Civilization. Pax Romana. Rome was a light in a very dark world.

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

Debatable. There were middle eastern Empires that were doing pretty well. As well as China being unified

@kaiseramadeus233 2 часа назад

I think this is the earliest time period they've done

@Tommy-fw5iv 3 часа назад

Rome mentioned by Armchair 🗣️

@3bostonboys Час назад

Ironically while Rome expanded quite efficiently, it had an extremely inefficient economy and agricultural output (one of the less known factors in the fall of Rome was huge amounts of land in southern Italy being infertile due to poor farming practices).

@ZooZwaves 2 часа назад

Will there be some new episodes about the early modern era?

@ShortHistoryfactsforyou 2 часа назад

"Veni vidi vici" I came, i saw this video, i liked it - Julius Ceaser

@AllNineLivez 3 часа назад

"Fastest click in the west" ahh comment section

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

nah shush

@Hauptmann_Rudolf.Rudi.Winkler 2 часа назад

@Armchair historian Could you make a Video about the Evolution of the Byzantine Army, Maximinus Thrax, The Campaign of Emperor Heraclius and The Strategikon? 🦅

@NoTimeForTalent 3 часа назад

ROME 🗣🗣🔥🔥

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

calm down

@dinis8629 3 часа назад

Roma Aeterna

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

no yapping allowed

@MalikF15 2 часа назад

This video proves griffin does think about the Roman empire

@AltCtrlSpud 2 часа назад

man we need to bring back imperialism...

@chancegalster3509 54 минуты назад

looks like I’m starting a new total war campaign..

@ElMo-dv3cj 3 часа назад

Love ur vids man

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

so do i

@ElMo-dv3cj 3 часа назад

@@Dutchmapper bros responding to everyone’s comment 😭

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

@@ElMo-dv3cj no im not

@arandomguardsmen 3 часа назад

@@Dutchmapper yes u are

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

@@arandomguardsmen no im not

@Huffmaniac 3 часа назад

FINALLY Another Roman empire video

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

calm down

@ethanton7074 23 минуты назад

3:56 Just a quality note, is something happening? It's easy to see.

@Y_ooKang 2 часа назад

Imagine being such a fierce empire, that it took itself and the entire known world to take it down.

@TheOhioNews 3 часа назад

YESSSS! Armchair History + Rome = Like

@Adolfocarballoh 3 часа назад

Nice video, bro

@Matthewyoung1848 3 часа назад

Daddy armchair with Rome🥵

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

ew brokey

@JustifiedCrusader8975 3 часа назад

Cool

@josephpe90 Час назад

Roma Invicta

@hellohellohellohellohello-h5l 3 часа назад

It took them around 870 years to grow from a city to an empire. Impressive for sure, but I'm not sure I'd call it efficient...

@Charles_2011 3 часа назад

You have to this was 2000years ago

@nicholasgutierrez9940 3 часа назад

Caesar killed/enslaved like half of Gaul. Then some salty Gallic chief cried about it. That’s how they usually did it.

@arandomguardsmen 3 часа назад

@@nicholasgutierrez9940 I mean not really Greece was a different way about how they took it

@kryzzan7039 59 минут назад

And you also have to realize that Rome almost never fought an enemy which was similar in strength to it, exceptions being Carthage and Parthia and a few others, they usually fought a few "tribes" at once (If all of Gaul had rallied against the Romans, though highly unrealistic due to just how many different Celtic peoples populated Gaul, they would crush the Romans easily.) which could only rally a few thousand/hundred men each and couldn't afford to throw their men into a meatgrinder like Rome often did. Rome had a large poor population which meant that they could afford fighting a war of attrition and recover from it.

@arandomguardsmen 56 минут назад

@@kryzzan7039 I would said Epirus and Macedonia they fought big wars

@seloimperija 3 часа назад

I normally don't watch these videos but this is ROME

@jakebranch2599 3 часа назад

Map Painting

@yaasinm 2 часа назад

I feel so dumb. I have never known Roman empire had kings...

@Vaabenmationmakesstoff 3 часа назад

What about the Skåne war

@maineiacman Час назад

0:01 *AD* you mean

@ManusBlokus 3 часа назад

OOHO

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

unlike your own comment

@wojtas__11 2 часа назад

PARADROPERSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@naifalshemssie2046 3 часа назад

Yall are the best history Chanel and yall mad a vud about rome? Sign me up.

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

no we wont

@naifalshemssie2046 3 часа назад

@Dutchmapper then am gonna do some forced entry, man.

@nigelkwang2352 3 часа назад

Finally, something that is not modern age related.

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

yap

@polarbeartrainer8252 3 часа назад

Rome was such a powerful empire and organized society(I will not fair.) and of course a very much dominant empire.Internal divisions and non stop expansion contributed a lot into its collapse with rebellions here and there against their imperialism.But its contribution in the history of mankind is significant, just like other civilizations by the way.

@wedgeantilles8575 26 минут назад

Actually there was extremly little rebellions. Yes, a short time after a new province was established, there often was one rebellion. But that was it (for most provinces), after that the people there became very happy being part of the Roman Republic (later Empire).

@georgepatton93 3 часа назад

2 words, logistics planning

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

uhhh ok?

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

@@DutchmapperLogisitcs is the most powerful weapon any military can wield

@MmaSultane 3 часа назад

Please can you mention the musics used in the description, thank you.

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

DONT BE TOO GREEDY

@ghost7344 2 часа назад

if you provide a time stamp I could give you the exact track name.

@MmaSultane 52 минуты назад

@@ghost7344 thank you very much for responding to my comment, you guys are doing great 🙌🏼

@MmaSultane 51 минуту назад

@@ghost7344 i found it, thank you

@MmaSultane 51 минуту назад

@@Dutchmapper 🤔

@marijnyboy8402 2 часа назад

This is my roman empire

@TwistedTales1234 3 часа назад

SUP, GUYS

@Dutchmapper 3 часа назад

yappp

@SeoulMan 3 часа назад

Romanes Eunt Domus!

@person3275 3 часа назад

I frigging love Rome it’s so epic

@demonzabrak 3 часа назад

The real answer is the illusion of historical analysis. It took a thousand years for Rome to expand. It took a thousand years for Rome to leave the area of the city of Rome. Roma was inhabited no later than around 1700 BC; and the Roman Empire reached it's peak at around 120 AD, and didn't actually finish collapsing until the mid 1400's AD. Compressing 3000 years of history into a single sentence makes it seem like it didn't take 3000 years to happen. America owns twice the land Rome ever did and it "only" took us "250 years" to go from 700,000 km^2 to nearly 10,000,000 km^2; instead of going from 2,500,000 km^2 at 27 BC to 5,000,000 km^2 at 117 AD. Average of 37,000 km^2 per year for the US, average of 17,500 km^2 for the Roman Empire. And plot twist: America is falling apart too. Our government has been corrupt and getting away with lying to the citizens literally the entire time, this isn't a new thing with modern politics, this isn't a "them vs us" thing about political parties. They all do it. It's illegal to lie to the government, it isn't illegal for the government to lie to you, because that's what the government decided. So they do. Wonder how many decades it'll take to actually collapse. It could be fixed, but that isn't going to happen without a lot of stuff contemporary people will say is going to break it. Historians will white wash it because it would work, but the people living it? Outrage. "Both" "sides."

@soulknife20 2 часа назад

The US isn't falling apart. We are having a rough patch that all countries go through, and even then, it really isn't that bad. And you have to separate the Roman Republic from the Roman Empire. Two very distinct times in Roman history.