This 1 is good. Im impressed with the presentation. Romans were not unigue in their beginning...but became extraordinary in their progression to becoming unigue. Greater than any civilization of the ancient world...a thousand year reign closing in on a defined empire of immortality.😮
When Hannibal was outside of Rome and not attacking, it has been said that Hannibal's brother said to him, "You know how to win a battle, but not how to use one."
16:00 Here, Larry Lamb walks the lovely patterned cobbled streets of Erice, _Eryx_ of antiquity, overlooking the modern city of Trapani; a truly magical place where one may still see the remnants of the original Carthaginian walls.
It mentions the Gauls as barbarians but they lived during the Iron Age meaning they could smelt iron and form tools and weapons. Smelting iron was like NASA stuff Rocket Science for their time... How could they be termed as Barbarians then?
The same way the idiot called them nomadic tribes. Academic papers and books are where you get useful information from. Most of this video is a travelogue of modern Italy and stupid observations that a child could come up with. Couldn't even watch the rest of this drivel.
Didn't all the 'barbarians' have iron tools? I think using iron was pretty commonplace by the time the Romans started labeling anyone who wasn't Roman 'barbarians.' I'm more familiar with UK history but iron was all over the British Isles by then, and they were usually far behind the continental tribes like the Gauls.
3:55 true the Gauls attacked and seized the city until one of Romes legendary Generals Camillius raises his own legion and arrives and and tells the gauls instead of gold will give you blood and steel and he and his soldiers defeat and drove out brennus and his Gauls and saved and liberated the city back into Roman hands and rome continued to go on living and conquering the rest of the Mediterranean and half the known world in the future and myth and legend has it they named him second founder of Rome because he saved and liberated rome from this disaster
@@oldbeergangster2381 maybe but what's even more fascinating is the evolution of the roman army from just regular foot soldiers durning the beginning of the roman Kingdom and the Republic to becoming the well organized militarized professional army it later on becomes
My theory on why Hannibal couldnt destroy or take the city is because after Cannae his army broke apart at least that what the text say and true Cannae was his biggest victory but also his biggest defeat cause after the battle Hannibals resources and his army dwindled and depleted drastically as well as his army was in total shambles so the reason why he couldn't lay seige or take rome is simple cause a city wide siege can hold up to days weeks even months most definitely even years and Hannibal just didn't have the resources or manpower to do it
Back then you made your siege weapons where you stood; he wasn't recalled at that time - they recalled him when Scipio took over Spain and went for Africa The real reason I think was that Carthage "senat" decided not to send him reinforcements and after years of campaigning he simply lacked manpower to siege a large city as Rome was, which I always think, despite being Romanophile lol, was a great shame: such a beautiful victory as Cannae wasted
Rome WAS the worlds first superpower peirod. At first they were ruled by divine kings, then they became a republic (perhaps their greatest period) before finally becoming an empire. How a group of farmers, who started off fending wolves to protect their livestock, eventually became the greatest empire in all history is the stuff of legends. Coupled with an excellent military and administrative system, the Roman Empire, or rather ancient Rome, is also one of the longest-lasting. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology, religion and language in the Western world. In fact many historians consider the Roman Empire to be a perfect empire - influential, fair, long-lasting, big, well defended and economically advanced. The influence of the Roman Empire is felt to this day, if for no other reason than the influence on the Catholic Church, which took much of its administrative nous and pageantry from it.
First sentence is terribly incorrect. Egypt was a great superpower for centuries before the Roman Empire even existed. Not to mention Alexander The Greats Empire which was also at its peak at around 300 BC which is only barely around the time that the Romans were expanding past Italy. And thats only mentioning 2 in just the European region.
Egypt never hadly left the Levant. They were a regional empire. Look at the scope and span of the Roman Empire. We are talking Superpowers here, not regional powers or other empires.... don't get butt-hurt about it.
7:20 - 7:25 this helmet weights 8 pounds ? why would you inscribe that in your gear ? i thought it had to do something to say about what part of the army he was.
Just guesswork. After being discharged I'd imagine that if he wanted to exchange his helmet for cash, 8 Roman lbs of bronze would have had a market value. If he'd been killed, one of his surviving fellow soldiers could have taken the helmet to his family.
Another lesson the word Mani means jewel in Sanskrit.Since Roma means hairy, manu is the creator of the ARYAS, combined together producing ROMAN, which could mean hairy man.
To all you guys not thinking that Rome was the world's first superpower....The Roman Empire-which reached the height of its power in the second century-was by far the dominant power in most of the ancient world. Though its power did not reach as far as India and China, the Roman Empire’s prowess was unquestioned in the Middle East and Europe. It covered almost all the major population centers and civilizations of antiquity, including Greece, Egypt, the Levant, Carthage, Anatolia and Italy. The population of the Roman Empire at its peak was about 60 million, dwarfing all its neighbors and comprising a large portion of the world’s population. The empire’s size meant that it did not need to trade much except to acquire luxury resources (silk, lapis, spices, incense and so on). The empire was by far militarily dominant over its neighbors, with the partial exception of the only major organized state that bordered it- Persia, whose power was still nowhere equal to Rome’s. While Roman legions could and did ravage Persia’s heartlands, there was no chance that a Persian army could reach Rome. Rome’s legions were essentially undefeatable in pitched battles with its enemies. Rome ultimately fell not because of external threats, but due to continuous civil war, economic depredations and an over-reliance on mercenaries. You also have to think of all the engineering, roads, standard currency, laws, art etc.
Here, Larry Lamb is in Erice, the _Eryx_ of antiquity, overlooking the modern city of Trapani; a truly magical place of patterned cobbled streets where one may still see the remnants of the original Carthaginian walls.
There are a few things a country needs to be a super power 1. size 2. Military 3. Spreading of culture and ideas . rome size was and it spreading of culture and ideas spread across west east Europe and middle east just on that alone would make it a super power the han and other countries named may have had the same size & military may have been close but the spreading of Rome cultural ideas far surpass han .
Rome was established as an empire (not republic) by 27BC and reached military peak around late first and early to mid second century AD. Han was founded as an empire by third century BC and reached military peak and regional dominance around first century BC. Unless you wanna argue that Han was not a super power, I don’t see how Rome was the first super power. Han and Rome were similar in land and population size so I don’t see how one was a super power and the other wasn’t. Even if you argue that Egypt, Persia, etc didn’t count because they were not as big and populous, I don’t see how you can discount Han unless you are really Eurocentric at all cost. You can somehow argue that Rome was the first superpower in the Western Hemisphere if you really insist, but not the world.
To all you guys not thinking that Rome was the world's first superpower....The Roman Empire-which reached the height of its power in the second century-was by far the dominant power in most of the ancient world. Though its power did not reach as far as India and China, the Roman Empire’s prowess was unquestioned in the Middle East and Europe. It covered almost all the major population centers and civilizations of antiquity, including Greece, Egypt, the Levant, Carthage, Anatolia and Italy. The population of the Roman Empire at its peak was about 60 million, dwarfing all its neighbors and comprising a large portion of the world’s population. The empire’s size meant that it did not need to trade much except to acquire luxury resources (silk, lapis, spices, incense and so on). The empire was by far militarily dominant over its neighbors, with the partial exception of the only major organized state that bordered it- Persia, whose power was still nowhere equal to Rome’s. While Roman legions could and did ravage Persia’s heartlands, there was no chance that a Persian army could reach Rome. Rome’s legions were essentially undefeatable in pitched battles with its enemies. Rome ultimately fell not because of external threats, but due to continuous civil war, economic depredations and an over-reliance on mercenaries. You also have to think of all the engineering, roads, standard currency, laws etc.
Ted Tedster what do you do when you don’t like the truth and reality? Reach for the race card! Snowflakes like you make it hard to discuss anything nowadays. When you are offended by facts you just pull out your race or gender cards...go watch CNN all day if you just wanna be pampered.
I just love these anglo-centric/ euro-centric bullshit documentaries. World's first super power? Are you presumably Oxbridge educated revanchists even aware of the fact that the Chinese were centuries ahead of the Europeans in terms of technology, philosophy, literature, art, navigation, and social organization (and just about every other metric of civilization) than the Europeans?
Western style? It looks more like the three thousand year old tradition of an all-powerful authoritarian dictatorial central government with a massive bureaucracy. Now with Emperor Xi to continue the Mao Dynasty. The big cultural change is that the merchant class is no longer at the bottom of the traditional caste system. At any rate, I was commenting on the Euro-centric habit of referring to Western empires as "controlling the known world". I think the Chinese, Indians, Incas, and Aztecs might quite rightfully find this view ludicrous.
I would suggest that it says the same things as the statue of Marx in London and the statue of Marx, Engels, and Lenin in Seattle. Which is nothing. Statues lack the ability to speak. You must believe that North Korea is a democratic republic because it self-identifies as such.
Rome was not first super power this video is joke or something according to some if not many historians the Neo Assyrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser III or the Median Empire under Cyaxares or Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nebuchadnezzar II were the first super power but according to most historians the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great was the first super power according to most historians the first super power country was Iran and the first superpower emperor was Cyrus the Great Cyrus without question is one of the most successful and best military commander in world history if not the best , conquering most of the world known to the Achaemenid Empire including the 2 most powerful Empires of is time the Median Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire
Sheeple - a bunch of fuckin dipshits so naive and trusting that they put a cake eating oompa Loompa in office, that procedes to mine their country with his corporate thieving friends and then laugh all the way to the bank, leaving said sheeple without two nickels to rub together.
