The Destruction Of Carthage: Why Ancient Rome Feared Their Great Rival | Carthage | Timeline
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- Carthage was Rome's equal, rival and almost her conqueror. In 146 BC Roman general Scipio destroyed the city of Carthage so painstakingly and utterly that not a single building was left standing.
What did the Romans so fear about the Carthaginians that in the end they would be prompted to the most terrible acts of reprisal in the ancient world? A new archaeological dig by Dr Richard Miles of Cambridge University, penetrates the burned layer of this Roman holocaust and uncovers fresh evidence.
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There is a close battle that the Prophet Muhammad told us about is the battle of Dabiq, it is an area near the Levant in Palestine, where the battlefield will be between the Romans and Muslims. Romanians, Westerners or Easters, for example, are they currently from Europe, America or Russia, but according to the opinion of scholars and researchers, some agreed that what is meant is uncle from Russia and what proves this blame, they control the Middle East because the Islamic caliphate is not established to defend the Arabs and Muslims
It would have been cooled if the host was dressed up as a Roman soldier.
@Cornelia Fulmore 5t⁰
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When Rome said something needs to be destroyed they really meant it.
Donald Trump, the Death Cult President, is trying to do the same. Unfortunately for him, he’s in the wrong country.
@@yolamontalvan9502 You're a weirdo
@@yolamontalvan9502 imagine thinking about trump 24/7. He's your whole life. Rent free
1994CPK - Trump is in the 6 o’clock news every day. Do you watch the news?
@@yolamontalvan9502 never cable news, this isn't the 1960s anymore.
I love how the phrase "Delenda est Carthago" is constantly switched around (i.e. Carthago delenda est) by historians. Everyone agrees Cato said it about one million times, but nobody can agree on what order this 3 word sentence goes in.
I might be wrong but I think Latin is a highly inflected language so it means the same thing no matter the order
That being said, true
Yeah I've wondered loads of times.
I thought order didn't matter.
Someone needs to make a film series about the the Punic Wars.
Or Hannibal crossing the alps!
I think Sean Kingston should do the series. Last i heard he was at war.
There is one. I watched it on youtube a couple years ago. If i come across it I'll holla.
@@hrthrhs Any luck locating it?
There is one
Why do you keep showing the statue of Constantine over and over again? He was born 500 years after the Punic wars
He is a millennial SJW. Everything he believes must be taken with a grain of salt.
Agree>!
Raymond DeFlaviis um. What
alien cat 😂
@@raymonddeflaviis9532 Raymond, you are an ignorant cretin
as a Tunisian I'm proud of my heritage and history , thank you for this
Carthage wasn't tunisian wdym
@@inri247 a significant part of Ancient Carthage is now in modern day Tunisia
@@inri247Carthage is Tunis 😅
@@barcak1912 he is referring to the ethnicity of the people not the geography.. genetically speaking modern day lebanese is the closer you got to the carthaginians!
@@barcak1912 turks have a bunch of ancient greek stuff in their country so that suddenly makes them greek?
Hannibal didn´t take Rome because he knew it would be impossible to subdue such a city with the army he had under his command. Even if he entered it the population was simply to big to effectively subdue.
“This isn’t some schmuck in a flak jacket” is the *funniest* thing I’ve ever heard
When/where was that said?
How anyone can talk about Hannibal in Italy without covering the battle of Cannae is beyond me.
Rome's worse defeat ever, about 60,000 killed (in one day of battle.) Hannibal was a military genius.
Best to watch this first: "Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome"; it's all there.
@Where Is Waldo My favorite, In time when beat Hanibal he been just 23 years old I thing.
Hannibal was Phoenician, from Carthage.
@@samray3297 Scipius Africanus
I can't get enough of Timeline on Rome. Well done
You love Carthaginians, you love history and your commentary is excellent. Thanks.
When Carthage failed to take over Sicily it signed its own long term Death Warrant - for without Sicily Carthage would lack population (farming citizen-soldier population). The move from a citizen army (mentioned by Aristotle - in the old days no one could vote in Carthage unless they had first undertaken military service), to a mercenary army that could defeat Rome in battles - but never, in the end, in a war. The Carthaginians had been appalled by their losses in the wars with the Greeks in Sicily - but, by trying to avoid losses (by turning away from a citizen-soldier culture) the Carthaginians made sure that, in the end, their losses would be TOTAL.
Ironically the Romans themselves turned away from a culture of citizen soldiers - thus signing its own long term Death Warrant.
That may be, but the disasters in the Cimbri wars exposed the weakness of the militia system and led to the Marian reforms.
@@Charlie-ii5rr Yup. Professionals will always be superior to citizen-soldiers. They key is keeping the generals loyal...
But the problems with soldiers who work only as soldiers, their loyalty not always for the motherland or fatherland, but with who pay the salary and guarantee their or their family life, which is general or just who pay them handsomely.
Timeline left out the influence of the ancient Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranean and their interaction with Rome and Italy as well as the Hellenistic influence on both Rome and Carthage. I was hoping to see a lot more in terms of Carthage's founding and early development.
LMAO at the people in the comments saying this doc is "biased," that's the whole point -- traditionally we always get the Roman version, which is just as biased. Let the man tell the other side for once
yeah well everything this doc said is actually facts, yet people used to Roman version, but there was a roman governor of carthage after the war kinda liked carthage and said it was wrong to erase carthage from history, he revolted against his emperor and took his place, he orderd the reconstruction of carthage and to write down whats known about the original carthage yet the roman version is itselfe biased, but thanks to other civilizations like greece and others confirmed or denied the stories and who kept whats known about carthage. yet history is written by victors .
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And that governed would’ve had flawed info as well, because to revolt against an emperor (not a republic) he’d had to of done it at least 100 years after Carthage’s erasion
@@tadhgknight3484 Exactly, Erasing something then trying to tell it with another way wont be the same, THEY even tried to rebuild Carthage and wasnt even close to the original one.
I don't mind the bias but there are some bits where the bias borders on unfactual. I.e. calling rome imperial when rome was far from an empire and and calling Cato a xenophobe when I have never heard anything to support he cared about race.
@@lucasstemba xenophobia isn't about race, it's hating what is foreign. Imperialism, pure and simple, is invading other territories to profit from them as well as imposing your culture on the occupied areas, and that's what Rome was about since day 1.
A bit simplistic. Rome as the evil thugs versus Carthago as the noble victim. At the end of the day they were two major powers fighting over the same territory.
I agree.
Carthage might have been imperialist as well, but Rome was no doubt a ruthless, savage empire. There is no comparison between the two.
One is able to make this judgement only if you examine the world history in comparison, comparing and contrasting various societies.
@@parjanyashukla176,Rome was remembered as ruthless only because they won all 3 wars, but what would have happened if they had lost? In Carthage, there was children sacrifice for the sake of the harvest, unlike the ancient Rome
In 1996,almost 2,100 years of Punic Wars,a symbolic peace treaty was signed between the mayor of Rome and Tunis where Carthage was under a district jurisdiction marked the end of rivalry of 2 cities even it was changed on the time but also Italy and Tunisia are allies
So did Athens and Sparta 2,000+ years after the whole issue
@@isaiahcalderon366 Yes that same year a peace treaty was signed between the mayors of Athens and Sparta, both in modern day Greece 🇬🇷
Love , love, love all the history I can find!
Me too
I like the book “ The Great Controversy “ by e.g. White it’s from a religious perspective but covers before earth to eternity. Covers everything in between. It’s said to be in the White House and distributed widely to politicians and royals and as many people as possible. In my opinion it’s the best information known to mankind.
38:45 Boat named "Hannibal" , that's awesome.
Phil Tanics why
My 23andme test results line up with everything I've been studying about carthage and the Pheonicians. My last name is Cartagena, and as a Christian, I also learned about the dark practices of the Pheonicians, like Jezebel for example, and can tell that my ancestors may have also dabbled in dark practices. Learning all of this is so eye-opening and refreshing.
You understand that the Roman Emperor Constatine (the guy that established the Religion) and his Priests made edits to the texts and the Roman Religion isn't what Jesus/Yeshua was teaching + he was a Practicing Jew and a Rabbi.
It takes the History of the era, and an open mind + time to explore.
Just your choice, to be Religion or to search for what Jesus taught.
Either way, as long as you have clarity, are positively supported by your beliefs, and realize your self worth, ✓
Positive is absent of fear.
Religion and then there's our personal, spiritual, experience and practice. Religion is organized and established by man, your spiritual is your direct link to God, Creator, Source of all.
Take your time and trust your intuition and logic. Jesus will Guide you to what you seek, just ask and trust.
😘
Most of your ancestors lived long before Jesus was born. Whatever happened to your ancestors, they were doing the best the could with whatever tools they had. The reputation they received came from the people who stood to gain from it. People in those times loved to embellish themselves compared to "the others" - savages, barbarians etc. Carthaginians did the same to Rome.
Thank you, Dr. Miles. You brought the story to life.
4:43 Damn that sounds so cool It makes you sad about Carthage too
@Dan Dman it was burnt for 18 days they say
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Carthage let itself be destroyed, they were too modern for their own good.
Love this series & love learning bout Rome, thank you for this documentary, keep it up :)
Each boat was marked
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Peter Walker
I have finally reached that part of the presentation.. and I finally understand your comment, which I read as it started.😂
No.
That joke cracked up me. Thanks man :)
Έλα άλλος ένας Έλληνας 🤭😂🇬🇷
There is a close battle that the Prophet Muhammad told us about is the battle of Dabiq, it is an area near the Levant in Palestine, where the battlefield will be between the Romans and Muslims. Romanians, Westerners or Easters, for example, are they currently from Europe, America or Russia, but according to the opinion of scholars and researchers, some agreed that what is meant is uncle from Russia and what proves this blame, they control the Middle East because the Islamic caliphate is not established to defend the Arabs and Muslims
The Carthaginians were hated by the Greeks long before the Romans entered the scene. The Punic were seen as an evil race. Some of it comes from their (occasional) human sacrifices, which both the Romans and the Greeks had in disgust, but there's more. For example, sentencing your best general to crucifixion just because he's too popular with his mercenary troops after a victorious campaign in the name of Carthage. It happened more than once. Even the great Hannibal, he went to exile not because of the Romans but because the Carthaginian senate really were a crazy ungrateful untrustworthy bunch.
Now that I think of it, I know of another crazy bunch like that: the Venitians. These merchant people just don't play by the rules.
(I have great admiration for Carthage, I just like to play the devil's advocate.)
That is the romain misinformation ! for greeks you should read politics written by aristotle chapter 8. Carthaginians had war with greeks but olso treaties
"Occasional" human sacrifices? What about the 20,000 clay jars of burnt infants left behind in Carthage? Carthage was destroyed, but the Phoenicians had cities all over the Mediterranean coastlines. Then the Phoenician alphabet (modified) was in Rome. Then the Phoenician survivors fled to Venice and Genoa. Before they were known as Phoenicians, they lived in present-day Lebanon and we're called Caanites. Same folks, still no better behaved.
One of the nastiest things the Venetians ever did was pitching in on the capture of Constantinople in 1204 in what was supposed to be the 4th Crusade.
They sacked & pillaged Constantinople of anything of value, much of it going to Venice where those golden horses (still on display in Venice) were given to the "dogie".......one of the biggest traitors ever to Western Civilization, right behind the No. 1 traitor.......big Nick Ducas of Byzantium (1071 AD).
..."fides punica"...
It seems as if every foreign nation disliked the Phoenicians. The Ancient Israelites despised them, conquered them in Canaan (which was modern-day Israel/Palestine) and founded Israel.
Thanks for the upload! I never really knew the history behind this. When it was mentioned in Gladiator, I never understood what it was about. Now I get it!
Absolutely wonderful. Now only if all history lessons could be this informative and entertaining.
A 15 year campaign in Rome. That's literally enough time for boys to grow up to become soldiers, more than enough time to create entire new armies consisting of a new generation of soldiers. Hannibal's own soldiers would have started to hit middle-age at the end of the Italian campaign. There was no way Hannibal was ever going to defeat Rome by himself after that length of time.
Thats right, technically after cannae, Hannibal suffered heavy losses and he calculated that even if hen tried sieging Rome another army would be assembled to end him for good. His men were very low on morale and exhausted, Rome just kept on sending armies, sadly even if we would make excuses, Carthage and Hannibal could not have winned the 2nd punic war.
England and France had a war that lasted 116 years although called 100 year war.
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Thank you for this.
Very well-produced, indeed.
I appreciate you and your passion and love for history thank you for doing this for us
As a Tunisian, it warms my heart to find such beautiful documentaries acknowledging the greatness of the Carthaginian civilisation. Great upload, you got yourselves a new subscriber! :)
It was great! But weren't they completely eradicated? If so, what is your connection to them?
there is no connection....as usual trying to take credit for the real civilizations that preceeded them for eg persia,egypt etc
Tunisia's cool, of what I know.....Wisconsin USA.
maxyakov she is more connected to them than you can ever be.
maxyakov If you paid attention to the documentary, it said that around 50,000 of them were spared and were enslaved by the romans. In any case, even if I'm not a direct descendant of the Carthaginians, they are still a big part of our history.
JALJ3011 Wow, I never knew you were the official authority on "real civilizations".. I do believe historians and archeologists wouldn't be bothered studying a "fake civilization" now, would they? But I wonder how this "taking credit" you're talking about happens, even though the civilizations you mentioned took place year and miles away from the Carthage/Rome incident. Remember, we're talking about the west Mediterranean here.
The current senate house was built a century after the Punic wars, so it is wrong to claim Cato spoke from those benches.
Yes, I think that's the Curia Julia that was started during Caesar's dictator years but not completed until after his death in 44 BCE. The previous one was nearly on the same spot though.
Way too many adds on youtube all of a sudden
Nah it's just this douche adding in too many of them
for your desktop use a adblocker. for your phone look up how to block ads with luna just download the vpn follow a few step and all ads on the youtube app are blocked
Imagine if morgz mad this video
I pay for TH-cam. Cheap money. I barely watch TV though so I may have a different opinion than many on here.
Fast forward rewinde & walaaas
Would it not have made sense for Carthage to see the writing on the wall, pledge allegiance to Rome and become a prosperous city-state within the Roman Empire? They could have kept their culture that way while also assimilating the best parts of Roman sophistication.
No context at all is provided, I don't believe Rome would invest that much money and manpower to destroy a large city on another continent for no reason at all.
After two wars against Carthage the Romans realized the necessity of it's destruction, Rome had come to view it as an existential threat that could not be tolerated.
How long after the scenario that you propose would it take for Carthage to rebuild and once again seize an opportunity to challenge Rome? there was room for only one dominant power in the mediterranean.
And now let us switch over to the history experts in the comment section:
What a wonderful channel and series of programs. I love the host as well, excellent voice and cadence.
That was great. Thank you. Your prononciation is also really good for my English practice.
The English don’t speak English correctly. Learn from north Americans.
@@kevin6293 lmaooooooo
@@kevin6293 😂😂😂
Lol this guy tells history this way:
"Carthage were minding their business happily making money of their trade routes and singing along in camp fires, while suddenly, a greedy, violent evil monster without scruples rose up to steal and kill them all...a monster named...Rome!"
Pretty much.
Another young white indoctrinated to loath western civilization and prop up any inferior culture or society as the greatest in history. It wasn't history, but rather cheerleading.
YES ROME WAS A MONSTER
@@matiusbond6052 just like any other civilization at the time by today standards...they were just better at it than the rest
Rome is monster cuz it ruined the all city and architects of carthage
I really enjoyed this ... Very well done 👍
I didn't know Robert Webb presented history docs
Great documentary, Jez!
Superb video. Thank you..I've always wondered what was the true story.
Well presented.
"Carthage was the tutor who's feet Rome learned the art of Empire. So powerful it stood in the way of Rome's greatness." 5:50.
Chills. Love this documentary!
yet another great upload thanks again :)
Fascinating. Lots of detail I've heard nowhere else.
I'll watch P1 and P2 more than once.
Absolutely fantastic documentary. Thank you
Carthage still so salty
I know. To this day you still can't even talk to one of them about it wink face
golden shadow Well, from heavenly wealthy might that dominated the mediterranea to erased among civilisations. What would you expect.
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And peppery too but I prefer mustard
I live in Carthage now and sometimes i think how would this place would be if they beat the romans .
Let this be a lesson for all empires,the elites are nearly always responsible for their empires downfall.
Bernie Sanders.
@@genericname1366 Mhm yup, Sanders is definitely the elite and Jeff Bezos isn't. Absolutely.
This is why I treasure my Carthaginian coins. History of an Empire seen as an ultimate alternative history empire is very significant.
220 ships in just 45 days!?!?! That's incredible!
Great program I just wish it was longer.
I can't stop thinking of That Mitchell and Webb Look. He is constantly walking at the camera!
Haha. Brilliant. Watch the football!!
Great work!
Really really good luv it, more please.
I love this doc, thank you!
Another Great video of the day! Imagine if the Senate had sent the seige equipment, Hannibal ordered?
A much-needed perspective beyond the warped historical version of the "victors" The forgotten stories of the vanquished must be heard if we are to understand humanity. This is a superb documentary.
Hannibal at Cannae?? I was staggered that for a presenter eager to tell the Carthaginian story he barely mentioned Hannibal’s incredible military supremacy in winning all battles in Europe including his total annihilation of the Romans at Cannae! It was arguably the most brilliant, and bloody victory by any military leader in the ancient world and ranks up there with Alexs victory against Darius at Guagemala and against Porus at Hydaspes. Hannibal’s only defeat was at Zama, supported by the treachery of his own people.
Pulsonar This wasn’t written by a historian.
Porus didn’t lose to Alexander, that is a lie
Morgoth The Real MVP Alexanders Macedonian army and Indian allies defeated King Porus in 326 BC at the Hydapses River. This is not propaganda it is fact, recorded in the Anabasis by some of the most famous historians in antiquity. Alexander was tested to the max and was nearly killed it that engagement, the closest he came to defeat in over a decade of conquest across Asia.
His calvary was godlike
there was a whole documentary on it, this one is about the fall.
I read about this when I was a kid(I was a fan of ancient Roman history), but forgot about it after all these nearly thirty years. It's an unfortunate part of history, and I still wonder why the Carthaginians deserved this punishment.
According to historian Tristan Erwin in The Cults of Moloch and Baal--no I can't spoil it for you. But he gives the reason with lots of Roman references. Very interesting.
Nice, Phillip Glass as part of soundtrack!!
You are correct IMO. Great information and presentation.
Thank you Dr. Miles.
D E V A S T A T E = Destroy to the uttermost.... this is the operative word that Rome deployed against the Carthaginians in order to annihilate them and assure that they would NEVER rebuild / re-populate Carthage. Not only did Rome destroy all of Carthage's buildings, but they sowed the soil with salt so Carthage could NOT grow any crops. Rome accomplished its survival purpose as demonstrated by the fact that there was never a 4th Punic War.... objective undeniably fulfilled.
Interesting documentary, but it should be noted that Carthaginian civilization did not disappear with the destruction of Carthage itself. Many Punic cities survived long after the bloodshed and prospered under Roman rule while maintaining much of the culture of their Phoenician ancestors.
Exactly this is clear misinformation!
Yes it wasn't a genocidal attack to exterminate all Carthaginians.
We still breathing and we are here the carthaginians 🇹🇳🇹🇳
How much was a slave there
I love you timeline !
this is all overstated
They needed photon cannons and Protoss Carriers to defend the city.
Great documentary so far, very informative but can we talk about why no one has noticed that this narrator is absolutely gorgeous and his voice goes through my ears like liquid silk? I could listen to him talk forever. Can i have him? To read me old literature until i fall asleep every night?
Brilliant stuff.
Love you Timeline
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Legend!
Do you mean click the replay button or move the time scroll back to the start? If this works youve saved me from many frustrations.
@@dave9401 yup....
Bt u'll get 1 add at the end....
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# Vicky, that wasn’t a yes or no question, lol.
@@kevin6293 🙁
Let me explain this Italian Style: You hit us, we hit back!
Roman Darius didn’t see that style in world wars 🤷🏻♂️
Didn't work so well in ww2 for you
@@wankawanka3053 , Britain Won, right?
So explain this: 1. Britain is still paying off the debt of World War 2. 2. Britain has lost all of their colonies! 3. Britain is now being colonized. (In 50 years, the British White People will be a minority in their own country, they are being replaced!)
Thank you .
I love these!
You missed a few key details, after his first major victory, one of Hannable's allies insisted that he head right for Rome, use that victory to it's fullest and take Rome while its stunned and demoralized. Hannibal knew his limitations and that Rome had a huge wall around it, it was heavily fortified. When Rome finally defeated Hannibal they did not want to just kill him, Rome had a habit of parading their enemies through the streets and torturing them long before they kill them.
They didn't kill him
He committed suicide before the romans could take care of him
@@Bazooka_Sharks where did he say they killed him?
@@Bazooka_Sharks No thry didn't ...He got away... FAKE NEWS there Joe.
Actually they often made Allies of those they defeated. You need to study more...it was a looooong Empire with many Leaders and results and "habits". .
You talk about murdered Carthaginians, but you don't mention that before that Carthage tried to wipe out and MURDER all of Rome.
Very well presented thank you, I enjoyed this documentary.
I was pretty luke warm about this guy until he bellowed "Delenda est Carthago, Carthage must be destroyed" with the echo, I felt that. 32:33 if you want to hear it again.
Fire with fire. Carthage basically did a slaughter in Spain. They were conquering and destroying several Iberian tribes. One of those tribes were trade partners to the Roman republic and war followed. Hannibal showed the world Rome was mortal. Hannibal killed more people then the Romans did in Carthage. Two major wars and 1 smaller one and not to forget Hannibal aided the Seleucids in war against Rome. They destroyed the city. Which is a very normal choice for a republic of that strength and in that time.
They were both equally evil empires.
Hello, can you please tell me the name of the song at 4:40? Thank you!
i was in carthage the other day having a breakfast in the punic art cafe that it had a great view of carthags bay and i was imagining the invasion of the romans and the years of siege it was a mixed feeling of sadness and fantasy.....
There is so many historical inaccuracies here...
Most important -
(1) by the time of the 1st Punic conflict, there is no reason to believe that anybody considered Rome an upstart. It had already defeated Greek armies on the battlefield and conquered Greek cities in Italy.
(2) Sicily has its own history. The Romans never agreed to let it be if the Carthaginians would let Italy be. Sicily was contested by the Carthaginians, the Greeks and the native Sicilians. The complication came about when disbanded Roman and Italian soldiers formed an enterprise to own a Sicilian city and succeeded introducing a 4th faction into the conflict and providing Rome with an excuse to intervene in Sicily (because they feared that Carthage was going to win Sicily).
(3) Historians provide none of his ignorant and wholly made up 'fear and greed' motives. They simply state that the Roman state 'feared' or, more so, 'believed' that it was Carthage's intention to surround Rome and isolate them. Either Rome fought to prevent the encirclement in Siciliy or Rome would have a harder fight at some later point. Polybius is the most credible source on the matter... just read.
(4) Exterminating cities was not as profound in that era. He should have been more clear that many cities received the treatment that Carthage got instead of making this seem unprecedented.
I think people need to know that they are being lied to by a presenter that is either ignorant or dishonest. Don't take this seriously, it appears to only be entertainment.
Marc Otac Agreed and so many modern historians will LIE in order to push the Marxist world view. Don't fall for it!!!
Marc Otac Exactly! Well said.
Its like that for every single documentary. Ask any historian what documentary show they watch. Their answers will be none.
Cite some sources on all that please. I suggest you read Mary Beard's books and publications.
I appreciate your well thought-out and detailed commentary. Most of these documentaries are dramatized to pull in more viewers. No one would listen to, we have evidence along these lines and oyher evidence possibly that there's also x y and z. A fair discussion of the understanding does not make for good TV. Someone that is truly interested might stay to the official presentations at conferences and the research papers presented. I appreciate the intent of the documentary to interest and hold the viewer. Regardless you have added value to my understanding, thankyou.
Thank god for TH-cam where I can binge on stories of history and great civilizations from the past. I thought I was biggest history buff but looks like there are a lot of us out there. I've been watching a lot of documentaries on the Roman empire, American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Dark Ages, WWI and WWII (I like to jump around). I haven't even started on Greece, Egypt, and other ancient civilizations. So much to watch, so little time!! haha
Great video. This guys voice sounds just like that guy from the peep show. If you know you know
Great educational and entertaining work here, thank you for posting this
Hannibal really took the meaning of "holding a grudge" to a whole new level when he marched with elephants from Spain all the way to Rome. That looks like a massive hike if you just look at the distance on a map, imagine how long and arduous it was in real life. And the ironic part of it is that in the end, after all that effort, Hannibal still didn't achieve anything significant in terms of inflicting any serious damage on Rome's power.
I learned a lot, Thanks. Liking underdogs, I've always had a special liking for Carthage (but didn't know much about it, except Hannibal's elephants and the Phoenicians). And liked Troy, another underdog.... i liked here the first Scipio's wisdom: That Rome needed Carthage to keep it sharp, and to inspire improvements.
Rome was the underdog. Rome didn't even control all of Italy, Carthage had lands all over the Mediterranean. The Romans won Spain because the local tribes joined them against Carthage, and their army was a militia as opposed to mercenaries.
@Thelondonbadger Watch the video or otherwise... E.g., the video and other investigations show that Rome produced BS anti-Carthage propaganda to self-justify Roman genocide against Carthage. Such as: the false story Carthaginians killed their babies and cooked them. Truth is Carthage was simply the main rival to Rome.
The Romans rebuilt Carthage as a colony and she eventaully became famous as a home of Christianity's most powerful bishops until (ironically) the Bishop of Rome superceeded the Bishop of Carthage. Check it. Carthage didn't just vanish.....she was moved and the city was renamed Tunis by the Arabs.
Carthage vanished when Muslims destroyed the city after conquest in the 7th Century
It ain't carthage without the Carthaginians
The Romans gave Carthage a choice of surrender. That no harm would fall upon them. But of course Carthage refused and the slaughter began...
THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ,, LOVE FROM SWEDEN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Rome knew it's time was at an end, and its leaders saw that Carthage was becoming everything rome had failed to be. Their anger and jealousy now echo through the ages. And the lesson still stands today.
Tell me this dude hates Rome without telling me he does
Beautiful Tunisia 😍
Thx sister 🤗❤️
Thank you Sir for this documentary
I think it's would be interested to contact Mr. Karim Mokhtar he has many truth about Carthage
Why does the song at 4:43 hit so different?
When did Robert Webb start narrating documentaries?
phaedrus000 Ha dude I was just thinking the same thing. Sounds exactly like him. I was imagining some weird hybrid of jez and Mark that had jez's voice and Mark's penchant for history... and this fella's face I guess
lol exactly
exactly what i thought, they must be related
Haha..Dammit.. went through comments after implying same thing.
Mate i was looking for this comment 😂 he even sounds like him
wow avicii is such a great presenter
_Who?!?_
LOL.
You think so?? I thought he was awful and seemed full of hate for people who lived almost a few thousands of years ago. This video was completely one sided and bizarrely ignored the attacks, killing and destruction of the Roman mainland by the Carthaginian army.
Robert Fulton he said in the beginning that the history was written by the victors (Rome), and he wanted to tell the story of Carthage, so that's what he did.
@@LifeAdviceSite Yeah but he completely ignores the terrible misdeeds of Carthaginian empire building while accusing the Romans of the very same thing. It's bizarre and completely biased history. Sure, tell the story of Carthage but don't pretend they were something that they were not, because they were certainly no more virtuous in their political life and military conduct than the Romans were. And it's a blatant lie to say they were.
Just fascinating...
35:26 "As he unfurled his toga, out dropped ripe, juicy figs."
Robert Jeal at his age, only figs, not plums....what else? “Yes, we have no bananas...”
Made my Day 😂😂
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Martin A. M. Erickson, III LMAO!!!😂😂. Good one!!!
Figs not plums 😂
19:57 that's a lot of boats
4:41 does anyone know the name of this music?
It is awesome