The whole account is questionable. Some sources (Polybius) make no mention that Regulus even went back to Rome for negotiations, while those that do mention it give entirely different accounts of how he died. The one in the video comes from Augustine of Hippo. In reality he was likely just captured then executed.
I see Kit is a man of sophistication... For even he has witnessed the greatness that comes from The Abridged! PARTY, PARTY, PARTY, WE'RE GUNNA HAVE A PARTY!
The channel DOVAHHATTY made an entire "unbiased history" series on Roman History from founding to the last sassanid war in the VII century. The series portray the events from a totally NOT biased (not biased I tell you!) roman prospective, doesn't take itself too seriously and feature many tropes of meme culture. Including anime opening for certain episodes. As a history fan was a blast not only for the depth of research of many episodes, the increasing quality of style and animations but only the funny tone. Of course real roman are CHADs meanwhile "germs" and other barbarians are portrayed as LESS chad (as they were) of course is not PC. As any good thing is xD Might be worth a look. Especially from the "new style" (where his art style really mature): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gHNVzAapPus.html
Kind of hoping there's some arma 3 40k rubixraptor in the works like Trying to Destroy The BIG Orbital Cannon or fear not the imperial knight. I'm sure Kit will love it
To answer Kira's question on how Rome kept fighting even after losing over roughly half a million soldiers and citizen? Well, there's a lot of factor to take into account. First, the fact that Roman society is built on military might. Every citizen is/was a part of the military, and it's basically the back bone of their republic/empire. Second, the fact that ancient times doesn't have a lot of stuff that we do nowadays is a huge factor in them building their population. They work, eat, sleep and fuck. It's common for a main family to reach the double digits because of that, and adding in factor number one, Rome basically has the BIGGEST, most POWERFUL land armies in the world, at the time. Third, a lot of historical "facts" is often exagerated according to who-wrote-what. Sometimes they "up" the numbers, sometimes they "down" the numbers. Let's not forget to mention the "heroic" tales of their generals and such, to make sure they were remembered through the history. Basically, it's hard to say whether something actually happen the way they were described unless there were multiple accounts from various sources.
4:59 missed text at the bottom. It's also possibly a translation issue. Perhaps the "Bagradas Dragon" was just a really big snake. Then again, maybe it never happened at all. A lot of ancient history is disputed like that. But hey, since you took the time to pause the video and read this, I just want to let you know you're real swell and I'm sorry I told you to shut up in part 1. I swear I didn't mean it.
1 ) most of the grain that Carthage consumed was imported from Corsica , Sardinia and Sicily 2) the 3 island are the biggest island in that sea 3) Sicily was very rich 4 ) without Sicily they didn't control the trade routes 5 ) with Sicily in the hands of Romans their capital city was vulnerable 6) 40millions x3200 is 128 billions in 10 years and that means 12,8 billion per year 7 ) the sum to pay was higher because Hamilcar didn't want to accept the first conditions and Rome punished Carthage like this for delaying the peace treat . So Hamilcar was blamed by his own people for that
Remember when the allies punished Germany to hard?.. It's not a good idea to punish a ultimate power like Germany that fought against 80% of the world alone and almost won.. Or Carthage because it was also a world power at this time.. Backlash is coming.
The tale of Marcus Regulus' being paroled back to Rome, him dissuading the senate from making peace and then returning to Carthage to be tortured to death is apocryphal, made up centuries later. He died, most likely of starvation, in Carthaginian custody some time after the battle of the Bagradas River. They never sent him back to Rome.
hey y'all, ever thought about reacting to True sight? Is Valve's documental on the finals of its dota tournament, The International. It's pretty cool, although you should start with true sight for TI8 and go from there up, cause it's when it gets "good for everyone" good
