Roman Republic: Origins and Rise to Dominance 

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Historical accounts of ancient military forces usually focus on the technical aspects - equipment, organisation, tactics, logistics - and the Human relationship side is often left out. I was surprised when you mentionned how the Triarii were often the fathers, uncles, mentors, etc, of the younger soldiers. Very interesting!

Rome has the distinction of being the only civilization in history to gain all of its territory exclusively through “defensive” wars 🤣

I was stunned by your pronunciation of the ancient Italic lands: Etruria and Umbria. It was perfect, to the very last note. I have never heard this coming from a native English speaker. 10/10. About the Roman kings and Rome's relationship with Etruria: there were ancient sources that named the last of these figures as "Lucumones", an Etruscan word that meant "governor" or "ruler" (more or less). In the Roman tradition this is mostly overlooked as a case of wrong translation between the two languages (in Latin it was seen, or wanted to be seen, as a name of a person, like Mario, or at best as a distant honorary title of Etruscan tradition). In reality this could have been the proof that Rome, for a period of its time, had actually been one of the many cities subjected to Etruscan rule and, de facto, part of the Etruscan "confederation". This goes heavily against the common historical sentiment that Rome, though small as it was, had always been independent and self-reliant through its "epic rise" to glory and power.

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yo that super bus joke got me lmao

Regarding the term Superbus, one of the meanings of superb in English is arrogant, though it's probaly not very common nowadays. "Superbi" is an adjective in my native language that comes from the same Latin root and shares the same meaning.

Rome being content with Carthage remaining economically influential and rich while crippling its armed forces reminds me of Germany and Japan after ww2.

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Liking a lot of the content coming out recently!

Always a good day when Thersites uploads

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6:17 The monarchs before the birth of Roman republic(509 BCE) 9:30 The birth of Roman republic.(From Monarchy to Republic) 12:50 The major struggle between the patricians(Nobles) and the plebeians(common people) in earliest Roman empire. Ancient General strikes of Roman republic. 20:50 Roman republic's The system of Manipulation of Legions 24:37 Conquest of the Samnite 26:30 Revolutionary Conquest of the Intalian Greeks 29:10 First Punic war (first naval battle of roman republic) 33:11 Second Punic war (against Spain, military genius Hannibal in human history still thought and studied in the West Point) 37:43 Further Conquests driven by Roman Senate.(Roman republic had crushed Sparta and Macedon) 41:59 Carthage(Tunisia) and Corinth 45:00 Romans abused gods for the sake of war (Ultimatum) 47:08 The era of Strom Clouds (Starting of conflicts between Roman citizens and Non citizens)

Thank you for this. Wish there was more on the Latin Kings and stories from there.

Great video - thank you for taking the time to create it.

This channel is amazing. Thank you so much for continuing to present these amazing lectures 🙏

The Roman strategy of starting wars through ridiculous ultimata sounds rather familiar these days...

Nice. Always on point

High quality stuff here boss. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing thorough video

It really is Sunday Fun day.

Would you be able to make a Playlist with these?

Your content is best-in-class and pleasing to listen to. You've likely taught millions of people with these videos!

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Being a bit of an amateur student of Biblical history, as well as theology and Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious history and theology, the parallels between ancient Roman and ancient Israelite culture are glaringly obvious. In fact, I believe that comparing Roman legends to Jewish legends, and then by comparing the parallel historical basis behind the emergence of such legends, we can extrapolate what probably happened in the Ancient Kingdom of Rome. We are struck by two curious facts. On the one hand, we have this hatred and emnity between Rome and its neighbours, especially Etruria and the Sabines. Yet on the other hand, Rome clearly owes a great debt of influence to them, in culture, religion and institutions. If we align the first two facts with the fact that the Roman Republic was founded on hatred of the monarchy, it becomes obvious that much like in the foundation of the ancient Israelite Kingdom, the Roman Republic was founded in a "War of Independence" against their Etrurian overlords. There are also many other parallels with ancient Israelite religion as found in the Bible, for example, the idea that nations were founded by men taking women from different tribes, often being old men, this is something like, the "essence of a nation" took elements from different tribes and were united under one culture. This is similar to how Jacob took many wives, representing the fact that the original ancient Israelite confederation was composed of both indigenous Canaanites who rebelled against Egypt as well as some Indo-European Sea Peoples. What really confirmed this parallel for me was the story of the end of the Republic. Lucretia was supposedly raped by one of the King's sons. This story is almost paralleled exactly in the Spanish legend of the causes of the Arab invasion of Spain. Count Julian's daughter was supposedly raped by Roderick, a usurper and rival claimant to the Visigothic throne under the legitimate king Achila (they had an elective monarchic system). In revenge, he invited Tariq b Ziyad, the Muslim Berber General from North Africa to destroy Roderick's kingdom. My immediate impression of this was this was actually a sort of code, again taking the model of male = leadership, women = nations (this linguistic phenomenon is still preserved in the Semitic languages where the words for mother and nation are very similar). Count Julian represents the aristocracy of Visigothic Spain that opposed Roderick, the rape of Julian's daughter represented the oppression of the Jewish and Arian people in Spain under the Catholic Kings since the time of Reccared. In revenge for their oppression, Jewish and Arian noblemen and noblewomen sided with the Arabs and helped them destroy the Hispanian Visigothic Monarchy which had oppressed them. Applying this model to ancient Rome, Lucretia represents the Gens Romanes, the People of Rome, and the King Tarqinius Superbus represents the Etruscan colonial government who ruled as a kind of royal house over the city oppressing them. The rape by the Tarqinians of Lucretia, represents the oppression of the Roman people by the Etruscan colonization. Thus, the Roman Republic was founded when the council of advisors, picked from Roman citizens as well as Etruscans who influenced each other, threw out the Etruscan authority through their Milites. We also have another parallel with ancient Israelite culture, that of the existence of two classes, a priestly class (Aaronid) and a secular class, the priestly class being associated with cultural elites, rather than wealth. Hence, Patricians were something like Priestly classes, coming from the root Pater, Father relating to the idea of the "Master of the Household", and the priestly class in Judeo-Christian and Islamic culture is often endowed with certain mystical supernatural powers. I would suppose this was also the basis by which the Patrician class owed its authority. There are also obvious parallels with the American Revolution, where the early American society was still deeply influenced by Great Britain, despite having a bloody war of independence against them. Thus, the early Kings of Rome were probably Etruscan governors appointed to rule the Etruscan colony of Rome. Interestingly another parallel with Semitic cultures is that Superbus both means great and proud. This is similar to the Arabic word Akbar (Great) which has the same root as Mutakkabir, meaning something like, "to be arrogant". It literally means "One who makes himself into something great".

this guy is great lecture speaker. Wish u were my teacher man!!!

Love it

This is great! Only thing missing are maps that's it. It's very well researched and presented.

Was looking forward to coverage on the earlier periods of Rome

Your videos are always of high quality, I love it. Also what font did you use for your slides?

Hey Thersites, in your opinion, is Pontious, the Semnite general who won the second Semnite war, an underrated figure in history? Of course the battle of the couldine forks is one of the first battles I learned about in Roman history and I didn't think much of it. But after learning A LOT more about Roman history, I realize now, how impressive that was to beat a Roman force without them even drawing their weapons.

What was the peninsulas population and how much bigger was it in comparison to it's rivals?

I wish you'd do Chinese history in the same way you did this.

"Damn the Romans!"-Leto II

Isn't Latium pronounced with a hard "t", same as Latin? Lat-ee-um.

14:35 'citizenship strike'!!

Hey there Thersites, big fan here! I always heard about how "easy" it was for Rome to defeat Antiochus III (and the battle actually was) but after watching how he performed in the war, as a whole on "Kings and Generals"... He was just so CRAFTY... Dude did EVERYTHING he could to stay in that war, lost a battle but never wavered, never got shook, constantly on the move, constantly trying to out maneuver the Romans AND Phillip V. Running all over the map like a madman... Am I giving Antiochus too much credit? I just have a lot of sympathy for guys who put up a really good fight, but are mostly remembered for a loss. Like Antiochus III, Jugurtha, Vercingetorix, Pompey Mithridates VI. I think people have a skewed perception, Like they have to be like "Hannibal level dangerous" to appreciate a worthy adversity.

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The conflict of orders was not a “general strike in solidarity”. Marxism has done more to bastardize the past through its distorted lens than any ideology in the common era. Ancient Rome was a caste society with strict rules about everything from political eligibility to marriage. Variants of these social systems were common in the Mediterranean basin. When there’s a general strike in contemporary France it’s basically the state owned classes demanding that the state control the economy and their lives to an even greater degree than they already do. There’s nothing remotely close to the motivations of the plebs who were seeking basic political representation in the institutions. This distortion is like the narrative that Spartacus was an anti-slavery revolt when it was a slave revolt, not a revolt against the institution.

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I disagree with some of your points on Graham Hancock and certain other historical events, but I really love your channel and I hope it blows up soon as to match the quality of your work :)

Does anyone else feel like Rome was something of a vassal state before it was a republic? It seems like Etruria had the most influence on them and kept that by placing a king for them and it would explain why they did the same to the Latin League, then the Etrurians/Sabines and pretty much everyone else. As a Republic they were a lot more like the Athenian empire with one central city state overseeing a confederation and I like to think that its because thats how they started as a satellite of someone else.

That Achaean League thing was a same excuse what Russia has used at least a hundred years to attack it's neighbours.

Was anything in Titus Andronicus real?

The idea of voting for someone else to represent your interests and deal with all the bs that goes along with it...

Roman foreign policy is so much like America's

Great video, I just wish you would have pronounced "Latium" correctly instead of "layshium".

I have heard that the punic era boarding device is close to a myth. Here's an interview with a relevant archaeologist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EVnXG0Yrfns.htmlfeature=shared Is the information in this video current?

Recent studies have shown they actually have some “Troy” blood. Most myths bare some truths.

you say they were wrong about being different from Latins. they were different than the Latins because they were ruled by etruskins who eventually gave their blood to the plebs as well

Roma semper victrix 🐂

I'm curious how high You we're when you made this.... At least you're not as bad as Metatron the 💩!

I like your videos but wish you would at least make a marginal attempt at pronouncing Latin properly. Latium should not be pronounced "Laeshium" for instance.

The Romans, well now the Italians, haven't changed as they still try to obtain wealth any way they can. Ask the EU Commission.