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Rome's Journey to Superpower Status: The Samnite Wars
The Samnite Wars mark a massive turning point in Rome's history. At the onset of war between the Romans and the Samnites, Rome was at best a regional power. They had secured their hold over central Italy but were still boxed in with the Etruscans to their north and the Samnites to their south.
Yet these wars would completely change the political landscape of Italy for the rest of history. Rome would truly begin to dominate the peninsula and eventually the whole of the Mediterranean. So how did they do that? How did Rome manage to overcome the Samnites? And why is this war the turning point of Rome's early history? Let's talk about it.
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Sources (if you want recommendations feel free to ask!):
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities
Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
TJ Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome - Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars
Ross Cowan, Roman Conquests: Italy
Gary Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War
Nicholas Horsfall, The Caudine Forks: Topography and Illusion
E.T. Salmon, The Resumption of Hostilities after the Caudine Forks
Michael P.. Fronda: Livy 9.20 and Early Roman Imperialism in Apulia
Nic Fields and Sean O'Brogain: Caudine Forks 321 BC: Rome's humiliation in the Second Samnite War
Charles River: The Etruscans: The History and Culture of the Ancient Italian Civilization that Preceded the Romans
Tenney Frank, "Roman Census Statistics from 508 to 225 B.C.," American Journal of Philology 51
0:00 - Intro and 1st Samnite War
31:07 - 2nd Samnite War
1:49:39 - 3rd Samnite War
2:21:47 - Outro
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  • @jacoblongbrake8230
    @jacoblongbrake8230 วันที่ผ่านมา

    New channel named talks of the latins

  • @jacoblongbrake8230
    @jacoblongbrake8230 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Before Christian era BCE is okay

  • @Gee-ski
    @Gee-ski วันที่ผ่านมา

    man how the hell they catch a rhino

  • @billygoods22
    @billygoods22 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Underrated Roman history moment: When Livy rizzed up Augustus Baby Gronkus

  • @captainmurphy4720
    @captainmurphy4720 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    IS IT SAM-NIHT OR SAHM-NEE-TAY?

  • @vladsaint6344
    @vladsaint6344 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My cat Tullus Hostilius approves this video.

  • @williamroberts3719
    @williamroberts3719 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Take a shot every time he says “I can’t get into this too deep or the video will be too long”

  • @josephaurelius5567
    @josephaurelius5567 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Scipio Africanus is the goat, Hannibal would have made short work of Caesar if he faced Hannibal at the same age, maybe any age. Him and Fabian single handedly saved Rome

  • @ripclcze8845
    @ripclcze8845 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Epic

  • @nathan584
    @nathan584 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Woke up to this at 5am

  • @JimStanfield-zo2pz
    @JimStanfield-zo2pz 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They didnt get far

  • @peterbreis5407
    @peterbreis5407 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What are miles? Fun fact Americans only make up 4.23% of the total world population.

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      1.609 kilometers = 1 mile. Don't let your hatred for Americans stop you from learning something new.

    • @peterbreis5407
      @peterbreis5407 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@buckodonnghaile4309 Thanks for telling me what I know. And you just googled. Pointing out that Americans are a tiny minority is not "hating Americans". But your backwards cubit based measurement systems is holding everyone else back. Not just Americans. The Imperial measurement system may be contributing to your fear of maths, not just holding you back a year in school.

  • @eugenehong8825
    @eugenehong8825 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    NOBODY thinks the Ottomans are the descendants of the Roman Empire. That can safely be trashed.

    • @LawrenceEvers
      @LawrenceEvers 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’d contend you’re the only one who thinks that, people who are in Ukraine occupied by Russia do not think they are Russian, they think themselves Ukrainian, same can be said about the Romans

  • @cody5409
    @cody5409 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Was Hannibal black or white skinned? Someone tell me

  • @poisonedidiot4716
    @poisonedidiot4716 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I feel that the length & content of the video could be a lot shorter/simplified if you post the information you find is most accurate instead of referencing multiple sources & comparing which one is most likely to be the real events. That should be up to the individual to figure out if they were more interested. I find myself getting lost many times from the departure of the subject so it seems better to just skip these recaps.

  • @billatkinson4915
    @billatkinson4915 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    As an addition to TheMrPetechannel comment on why so few views. Your channel has come up fairly frequently on my feed since I watch a lot of ancient history material. However, simply because of the name of the channel I have passed it over as quite possibly an AI channel putting a computer voice to reading some public source document. However, the topic of Roman exploration of the Sahara is of interest to me so I decided to see. I'm very pleased I did. You have excellent content and relevant imagery and lots of information as well as enough information so I can follow up with more research if I want to. Thank You!!!!!!!! Excellent work, keep it up. Now the name of the channel is irrelevant to me but could still be a factor in limiting exposure.

  • @zeugenberg
    @zeugenberg 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Let's see if Mr. Duncan missed something to teach me :-D

  • @eugenehong8825
    @eugenehong8825 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You gotta pronounce 'Agricola' correctly. For the love of God it's, "Agrih-Koh-La"

  • @Weeb-ux8ov
    @Weeb-ux8ov 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Roman's were African kangs

  • @TheEruditeCritic
    @TheEruditeCritic 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Falling asleep to music 🚫 Falling asleep to 4 hours video about Rome 👍 Incredible video man, keep it up!

  • @scbtx
    @scbtx 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pretty good for a idiot

  • @degoose2447
    @degoose2447 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hopefully you go through Roman History up to Justinian The Great

  • @garycunningham2600
    @garycunningham2600 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Went to sleep. In my dream in Ancient Rome I pulled out my phone bc it wouldn’t stop talking and then things took a turn south.

  • @cmcmcmcm2354
    @cmcmcmcm2354 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    An extremely Western view of the source material. I am predisposed to lean west/US, and I'm not a smart historian, but this is clearly a reciting of facts from a 200 year old British worldview and the subsequent publications that agree with it. The video lacks nuance and depth and this issue is compounded by a matter of fact delivery. It suggests that this *is* the way things were, as if our current understanding is concrete because a book said so. Don't mean to blow you up like this, you clearly love Rome and did a great job compiling the info. You know your stuff and clearly many many people have commended you for this. I would suggest embracing bias in the historical sources, supporting information with cultural factors that help build our understanding the facts, and nailing details like pronunciation. Linguistics and word choice have a big impact on what people take away from a subject as information dense as this video.

    • @gumbowattersoon
      @gumbowattersoon 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wow an iceberg video about everything Roman doesn’t go over every nuance? I cannot believe this, make this video seven hours longer please I need my nuance!!

  • @goyslop-fh6cz
    @goyslop-fh6cz 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:20:54

  • @markstreeter4419
    @markstreeter4419 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Who the other person who watched to the end with me ??? Great vid btw 👍

  • @matthew_thefallen
    @matthew_thefallen 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Romans had a tough time with them because the territory and the terrain was very very wild and full of rocky cliffs and mountains. I've seen those places, they are full of good spots to hide and take out enemies. Till this day, it's a pretty rough place to live, very rural. But that's a blessing 🙏

  • @matthew_thefallen
    @matthew_thefallen 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video! My frandparents are from the land of the Samnites, precisely right near the Forche Caudine. Their legend is still strong and the area is called Valle del Sannio. We have great wine and food there 😅 (of course).

  • @sabbytheslothcat6663
    @sabbytheslothcat6663 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Instantly subscribed when I saw your sources section in the description!🔥🥵💕

  • @jasmine-jn9hf
    @jasmine-jn9hf 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    okay, This is the Americas Diamond Narrator. 100%.

    • @jasmine-jn9hf
      @jasmine-jn9hf 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      someone from San Antonio gets me

  • @fisharmor
    @fisharmor 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I click away and thumb down the second I hear "BCE"

  • @Carry-f2j
    @Carry-f2j 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love the long format stuff

  • @silkyjohnston7043
    @silkyjohnston7043 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I think they got to Briton and Ireland realized how many warriors they had. Propagated a false victory out of a skirmish and left

  • @malahamavet
    @malahamavet 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    as a romanian is simply impossible to accept the ottomans as the succesaors of Rome. My entire country was concieved whith the common ties to the romans, while people seacked independence from the ottomans. I have nothing against modern turks, its juat that as someone from the balkans i cant condone the ottoman empire, which i see as an invader, not diferent than the austrian and russian empires who also interviened in my lands history. I wouldnt say the state of romania is a roman empire, but i can say that we have more motives to call ourselves romans or descentants of romans than the germans or turks or russians, which in my perspective were large empires who just wanted to pose as romans

  • @fourmula4812
    @fourmula4812 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    _ pes 20 T numerol _ 20 sid swastika gamadion _ pythagoras tetractys hexagram sexagram 20 _ atlas _ atlast20 _ 048 even _ 1235679 odd _ english T 20th letter _

  • @GravNevS
    @GravNevS 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    this is brilliant

  • @ricolorenz7307
    @ricolorenz7307 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A FOUR HOUR VIDEO!?

  • @Comment66
    @Comment66 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Octavian would have been eaten by the wolves without Agrippa.

  • @geeblum6458
    @geeblum6458 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Adam green of know more news has lots of info in mythras. Another j invention

  • @geeblum6458
    @geeblum6458 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This shoulda been called how Xtianity destroyed Rome >Julian. First among equals Filth of rebbe yeshua death cult poison if equality. Globohomo 1.9.

  • @iamthatguyontv
    @iamthatguyontv 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    he said twitter but no one gives a shit

  • @alfredcommentary
    @alfredcommentary 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Idiot Talks History" *is extremely not an Idiot*

  • @MothOnFire
    @MothOnFire 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why do people care so much about using BCE/CE? It's a perfectly reasonable system. I get wanting to use BC/AD because it's what you're used to, but it's not like the other system is worse.

    • @ElectricalCurrent-bz7ou
      @ElectricalCurrent-bz7ou 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If you don't care about wanting to use a system just stick to the one we have used for all of human history up until now ac and bc

    • @LawrenceEvers
      @LawrenceEvers 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It’s easier for people to understand, not saying it’s superior to ad/bc, but off hand, anno Domini is harder to remember than common era/before common era

  • @williamcampbell3586
    @williamcampbell3586 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So censorship is your answer. Leave the narrative to the experts? Sounds like an inner conceit and a totalitarian quest . I’ll leave the Flat Earthers alone and keep my eye on your brand of ‘intellectualism. It’s gotten nations destroyed.

  • @kets4443
    @kets4443 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I love how Livy invented alternative history by saying that Rome would definitely defeat Alexander the Great of Macedon while it was struggling against Italians. Love this channel too, this area of history is underrated especially the Etruscans

  • @MTB91SC
    @MTB91SC 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The classic mixmatched use of "BCE and AD", rather than BCE/CE or BC/AD

  • @Epic17history
    @Epic17history 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    amazing

  • @Epic16history
    @Epic16history 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    wowww

  • @Epic21history
    @Epic21history 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    good job!

  • @mrtonslley
    @mrtonslley 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    woke up here