Why didn't Alexander the Great conquer Rome? (Short Animated Documentary) 

Considering I have never seen a suggestion for this topic and I don't remember a single ancient history video since the good ol' 10 minute format this is extremely plausible

I Don think so

And, Alexander the Great was implied after he fully conquered Persia?

@@guadalupe8589 No, he obviously got the title by conquering the afterlife.

Has he made one on Vlad the pincher or Richard the Hamsterheart yet?

He finally got other worlds to conquer

Twould be grand if he did, then returned here with an army of the dead to finish the job

Maybe that's why Jesus hasn't come back yet.

If he can't do it after 2300 years, then no one can

​@@dustinprewitt so basically like Nagash from warhammer fantasy

Which would you better like to reenact, Xenophon's Anabasis or the Athenian invasion of Sicily? Pillaging your way across Persia sounds a lot better than dying of thirst in a quarry.

Alexander the G. on oriental sources was a cousin of himself Kirus - the shah of Persia. He didn't even step on the land of the other side of Bosphorus. Medieval sources about him are more interesting than what Vanilla wikipedists willed to mention about.​@@hypothalapotamus5293

ROME Wasn't Built In One Day 👀💯

Rome, yes, it wasn't that important by then. But the cities of Magna Grecia, in the south of Italy, were arguably the richest cities of the Greek world, and were technically considered Greece (their citizens participated to the Olympics, and many of the most famous winners, and of "Greek" philosophers, came from there). So Alexander conquered Persia, Egypt (that was part of Persia at the time), but only half of the Greek world.

@@neutronalchemist3241 This is so ridiculous explanation of why Alexander did not go there :) He didn't go there because he never stepped on the European side of Bosphorus. He has always lived either in Asia Minor or Middle East.

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Rome: You lost everything. It's a pity. Alexander: I don't even know who you are.

Latter, many Roman senators and writers, really admire Alexander, even some of their imperator, seeking some way of other to claim they're the inheritors of Alexander. Why that achievement not inherited to one of Greeks polis? I think, only Roman, who succeeded to combine Athens and Sparta, combined some elements and become the mighty of Roma

Cant think of the roman empire when it doesnt exist yet

​@martintang2885 +1 obvious point for you my friend, and -1 for not getting the joke

Liberal males dont ever think about Rome or greece. They only think about Africa and palestine

This meme was never funny

Liberal males never think of the Roman empire, only africa and p*lestine

The: ok The: pretty good The: the notable Then he conquered the afterlife and became The: great 😅

FR bro this guy humor should be arrested because its always killing me.

If Alexander had conquered Rome, would he have become _Alexander the Magnificent_ ?

He would've become Alexander the Bisonette

​@@hentehoo27Or the Alexander of all Alexander's?

Underrated comment right here 😆

@@BOSIE321Damn

Underrated

Don’t understand do explain

@@beetlebg3759 phyrrus of Epirus attempted to take Rome 2nd cousin of alexander

Later on in the late 20th-21st century "Alexander the Macedon"" Alexander the not Greek but Macedonian who are confused Bulgarians claiming to be descendants of Alexander" It's fun being a Mace- sorry, a "Serbianized Bulgarian who thinks is a Macedonian" Balkan moment.

​@@DacLMKIn fact Alexander was macedonic, a barbaric people helenized. Alexander was greek, but ethnic he was macedonic. Its like being a gaulish, being assimilated to the roman culture and then forming your own empire that spread the roman culture

Wasn't he also, Alexander the Butch?

"Alexander the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad"

@@Newramsin His boyfriend thought so. (And yes, he definitely had sexual relations with men. The modern concept of homosexuality wasn't really much of a concern back then.)

Indeed. Also 3. I suspect that Persia was much richer than Italy at this point in history. So, better loot.

​@@lightworker2956 there is nothing to suspect, compared to Persia Italy was an irrelevant backwater

​@@user-vv4gz7lq1e Achaemenid India alone was more valuable than italy at this point

As the video mentions, going west at the time, would have meant fighting Carthage, which was the major power in the central Mediterranean. Alexander’s biggest obstacle in doing this was that he died young.

When he went in Anatolia he could barely afford to take a small army across. I don't think he could have afforded to go west first, anyway

I was searching this comment. Pretty cool piece of history.

Exactly!

Pirro would make famous his type of close victory

Ohhh, ok is not THE Cleopatra, it's A Cleopatra

@@nugolderp4115 More precisely, she is the Cleopatra who served as the "inspiration" for the name Cleopatra VII of Egypt (and a lot more Cleopatras in Egypt), who was from the Ptolemaic dynasty (Alexander's general).

That’s pretty cool actually

Where is that quote from?

​@@EvilEgg331 Ward.

So he didn't just spare Israel from a rampage, but respected the local culture, gave money to the poor, and -- best of all -- went west and never came back. No wonder they liked him so much.

I never thought of it as a Jewish name. I always associated it with Greeks and Scotland.

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He could've reached the Pillars of Hercules

He would have still needed to reach the western encircling ocean as well for World Domination

“Taking Rome” was step number 3 after the Oceand

When he and his men reached the Hindus Valley to the south east, they tried to find a path through or north east of the Great Hights (Himalayas). They couldn't find anything and the mountains to the north had no end so they gave up and after that he agreed with his men to go back home.

Obviously

Top 10 greatest generals of all time

these jokes are getting old now

I saved myself for marriage but found out I married a trans woman on our wedding night.

Damn, beat me to it.

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You’ve only got one year left man… R.I.P

You haven’t conquered the world yet so I think you’re safe from bodyguard assassination

Soon

now complete the family and have two sons: one named Alexander and one named Herakles

Have you considered backpacking in Central Asia

If anyone can get the power of all 3 at once, they can become unstoppable,unmoored, uncaged, downright unreasonable

Don’t forget Words on Books Podcast

Boooring

Is that from another video? I don't remember seeing it

I suspect it's meant to be Medusa. Anyway, detail like that is peak History Matters.

If you name your child "Alexander the Adequate" they are bound to overcompensate.

So much better than Alexander the meh

Indeed

they gonna need a part 2 for it.

There's really no reason to believe the rest of the Mediterranean would fold like Persia. I mean first he need to break through Carthaginian navy at least

Sparta was considered a joke at this point. Alexander's regent taking care of Macedon took a spare army and defeated Sparta while Alexander was away invading Persia....turning Sparta into a vassal state.

He didn't personally take Sparta just out of respect for its past. That also explains his expansion eastward. He grew up in the myth of the Persian wars.

Something something James Bisonette something something. Still that is one strange coinkidink

I believe in coincidences, they happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.

Yeah, I was watching Jack Rackam's (no h) video when this one came up in my notifications. Since neither of them mention the other one, I have to assume it was just a weird coincidence.

@@therwfer Garak quote FTW

Daniel 8 1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. 2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai. 3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. 4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great. 5 And as I was considering, behold, *an he goat came from the west* on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. 6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. 7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. 8 *Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken;* and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven. 9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. 11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of the sanctuary was cast down. 12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed. 15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. 16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision. 17 So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision. 18 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright. 19 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be. 20 *The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia.* 21 *And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.* (Alexander the Great) 22 Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. (Lysimachus, Ptolemy I, Cassander, Seleucus I Nicator.) 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. (Antiochus Epiphanes) 24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. (Antiochus Epiphanes dies of illness.) 26 And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days. 27 And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

He did a video about albania in relation to its soviet and chinese relations where he mentioned the bunkers

I know but if he did ANOTHER

That'd be cool. I'm for that.

he used to do 10 mins videos so a 10 min video on the an lushan rebellion would have been great

Sparta was considered a joke at this point. He didn't personally take it just out of respect for its past. That also explains his expansion eastward. He grew up in the myth of the Persian wars. Alexander's regent, taking care of Macedon, assembled a spare army and defeated Sparta while Alexander was away invading Persia....turning Sparta into a vassal state.

Rome was an up and coming backwater and the Greek states were well established. Its why Pyrrhus of Epirus tried to conquer rome and despite winning many victories could never conquer all of southern italy. Also remember a failed expedition to italy is what bankrupted Athens in the Pelopenesian war. Italy was to the Greeks what Germany was to the Romans.

@@TheAdmirableAdmiralThe Athenian expedition has nothing to do with Italic tribes nor Rome. The Athenians attacked Syracuse which was Greek.

@@ChronosHellas hmmm you maybe right. for some reason I assumed Pyrus was associated with the Sicilian expedition but I could be off by a few hundred years. thanks for the perspective.

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@@wilhelmbuzzkyll Nuh uh. YOU stole my pfp

I don't think there would've ever been a Roman Empire if Alexander encountered the Republic.

You would see a successor Carthage, I doubt Alexander would have resources to take Rome after or the interest.

Good question but the answer is kind of boring. They weren’t destroyed but kept p quiet. The CCCP didn’t dare to have anti-Christian pogroms

@@010101110100 Not as boring as you say. In 1995 a Russian commission(Headed by Alexander Yakovlev) stated that 200,000 Russian Orthodox priests, monks and nuns had been killed under Soviet rule. Thousands of churches had been destroyed.

Cos the latter was but sparsely populated then, the Alleghany Proclamation prevented the 13 colonies from expanding west into ‘Indian’ Country. One of the causes of the War of Independence.

One does not simply walk into Appalachia. Its Black Peaks are guarded by more than just Indians. There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire and ash and dust, the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume. Not with ten thousand men could you do this. It is folly.

It was mainly due to the policies of New France. The French government, for more than a century, was focused on transplanting the rural feudal system along the shores of the Saint Lawrence up to the split with the Ottawa river. The lands to the West were left mainly to the fur trade, and thus were not developed further than trading and defensive outposts. The fact that the St. Lawrence was frozen half the year did also hinder the back and forth with the metropole, which slowed down the growth compared to the British colonies further South on the coastline.

and then philip invaded and sparta was forced to cede territory, so sparta kinda just talked shit, got hit, and stayed irrelevant until the last gasp of Cleomenes III

Philip took that if as a personal dare and made the Spartans regret saying it. They just had a better PR guy.

wonder how that went for them

@@zenzenulous2243 I thought he just… didn’t attack them?

Hence the word Laconic as Sparta was/is in Laconia.

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brazilians trying not to mention their home country impossible challenge

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And main reason, nor very rich too 😂

"Conquering the Persian empire is Great, of course, but how about Carthage, sire? You could advance to become Alexander the Fantastic."

Dude donated and havent received a single like. This is prob my first time seeing something like this. Anyway, take my like and reply.