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@@danielsantiagourtado3430Cheers Daniel! Yeah, I wanted to merge this mini-series so you guys can view it all in one place. The Third Samnite War is often overlooked, but it's one of the pivotal conflicts in the evolution of Rome. One could argue that, before the TSW it was a toss up who was the strongest power in Italy. And even if there was one, a coalition of other powers could've outmatched it - which is exactly what happened in the Third Samnite War. Rome ended up fighting against a coalition of 4 other nations and emerged on top, which is quite remarkable.
@@HistoryMarcheseeing I have your attention, I shall say this: Your videos have had a Great influence on me.i have been watching you since I was 12 years old ,and I believe you are one of the reasons I like history so much,and that I didn't follow the 'wrong' paths in life. Don't ever stop please
The Samnites were a very resilient people we have to give them that. They bounced back after countless defeats and still managed to muster significant forces. The first few battle would have ended the average medieval kingdom.
I think part of that ability to 'bounce back' was the effort by Rome just for fighting. It's like a soccor match really. The death knell was sending in colonists. They should have done that all along. The 'old way' of fighting the 'match' and then dealing such a heavy blow THAT peace is sued, damages paid...... THAT is the 'Game". They didn't start fighting to 'conquer' like later. They wanted 'Hegemony'. The Right to Rule. Hence making money. The Vikings just wanted to raid, like going to Walmart, shopping spree. The Mongols wanted to "Conquor", not install a civilization. Not for Gold. Blood lust. The Spanish of the 1400s? They were conquoring for God but the objective was the Gold. Conquoring is expensive, God doesn't travel on alms after all. The Brits came to the USA for land. Settling in place. Soooo, the Romans came in. Played the matches, but when the season is over, they go home. All any commander was after is gold and a few trophies. Rome itself wanted Glory. I think cities, the citizens of the cities, knew that they'd have to figt, accepted it even. They EXPECT to fight, that is why every city has a wall and garrison. It's a game we don't really understand. Can't live it now. Sending in the colonists to cities already established put everyone on notice, season is over. We are tired of the rivalry.
@@SuperChuckRaneysaying the Mongols just wanted to conquer for bloodlust and didn’t want gold or to establish a civilization is a silly idea considering Mongol kingdoms ruled over a good portion of the world for a long time and had massive cultural and political impacts on the places they ruled - including China.
@@kilianjones549 i was thinking of Genghis Khan himself and his kids. The other tribes soon went out on thier own. And stayed to found Kingdoms. Corporate spin off companies if you will.
@@GrasshopperKelly war in the Americas, specifically Mayan, was a ritual. It was all about tribute. You bring your best 10, I bringmine. Whoever wins gets Tribute for a yeear. It worked for hundreds of years, till that OINE day, the new lady ruler thinks, what if we just killed ALL of them and took everything? Seems so obvious to us. Aztecs seemed to war the same way, except it had larger battles. Not sure it was a ritual war.
I loved that story about the wolf that walked in front of the roman soldiers, i knew that wolves were important to the romans, but i didn't know they were considered sacred
Of course. The Romans believed that the founder of Rome - Romulus and his brother Remus were saved from death by a she-wolf (Lupa Capitolina). Interestingly, they were born to a virgin of Vestal (priestesses of Vestal who were sworn to celibacy) and supposedly conceived by Mars, the god of war. King Amulius, the ruler of the Latin League saw the infants as a potential threat and ordered them to be cast out from the city of Alba Longa into the river Tiber, to be left to die to the elements. It is said that Lupa Capitolina found the infants washed up on a bank and nursed them to health by letting them suckle her milk. Afterward they were adopted by a shepherd and once the twins learned their true identities, they returned to Alba Longa and disposed king Amulius by killing him (I guess his hunch was on point). Remus was sadly killed later in a dispute with Romulus to where they should found the new city and so Romulus went on to found Rome on his own and successfully ruled for several decades as the king. Then, about 200 years later the Romans decided they don't like kings anymore and the last Etruscan king was overthrown. The Romans vowed they will never bow to one person again, which impressively lasted for almost five centuries* until a certain Gaius Julius came along and messed everything up :)
@@Pancake_Nix I think you meant 5 centuries, not 5 decades, that Rome went without a king and heavily relied on their two-consul and senatorial system before the rise of Julius Caesar.
It's often the Empire era of Rome that gets the most attention. Personally, I find the Republic era to be the most fascinating. The Punic Wars are my favorite parts of Roman lore, but the Samnite Wars are pretty interesting too because of how they shaped the military tactics that would eventually forge an empire.
I totally agree. Not only because there is so much interesting history in the republic era, it's the fact that it was *a republic* In times where everywhere except maybe the polis of Athens had a form of autocracy. The Romans took an entirely different approach and instead of directly subjugating the neighboring nations, they assimilated them and allowed people to become citizens even if they were not from the province of Italia. The fact they no matter how devastating their defeats were, they always bounced back and managed to assert dominance over some very powerful nations speaks volumes about their resilience and determination. I'm actually a little sad about the fact that most movies and high-budget documentaries we get are not focused on the rise of Rome but more on its long decline.
Agreed 👍 I prefer the early republic era more interesting especially the Samnite wars , they were romes toughest enemies in the Italian peninsula and most of romes best consuls were samnites that says a lot for me
As an Iranian teenager I loved the content. Can you believe that here in school they don't teach us these stuff but we have to memorize what those Arab muslims did in the early Islam age
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i find it amazing that at this stage, Rome could muster such huge armies, while in medieval times, much larger kingdoms could barely gather a few thousand. To see romans growing from a backwater village into a war machine is eerly similar to the ottomans. fascinating.
Romans made entire system reward war. From top to bottom every single roman citizen was benefitting from conquest, and thus rome could call upon large mostly volounteer armies one after another. There was always a young aristrocrat raised to be a general from birth eager to prove himself to lead, and always tens of thousands of young plebs looking for their own fortune in war trough looting and generous military pensions. Part of these pensions were decent sized plots of farmlands often in newly conquered territory, and even in retirement a roman soldeir serves the state by occupying, colonising, interbreeding, assimilating locals, reinforcing past conquests merely by his presence. And even after his prime is past the roman veteran is looked after, and has enough wealth for his family. The only ones not benefitting were the conquered enemies of rome who were enslaved and sometimes outright genocided.
@@sosig6445 Well said. I would like to point out tho' that in the republic majority of Roman soldiers were actually conscripted citizens and they had to pay for their own gear initially. The pay was also kinda bad and often irregular. It was only in the late republic under Gaius Marius (ca. 100 BC) that concrete reforms were made and people could volunteer and get funded for the basic gear. And it wasn't until the early empire under Caesar Augustus (13 BC) that an actual pension plan was formed, offering a whopping 13 annual salaries to retired soldiers. Is true that a good deal of Roman soldiers were landowners (tho we're mostly talking about modestly sized plots) and that did in fact benefit everyone, like you said, because after their (relatively short) conscription ended they weren't some useless unemployed citizens with ptsd, but contributors to local agriculture/economy. Tho' I suspect that they either were landowners to begin with or were able to buy the lands with their war plunder (which some generals were known to share generously and fairly among the troops), not their salaries or with the help of some kind of senate's retirement plan. With soldiers dying in the thousands and by claiming new territories I presume there would be a good availability of affordable land, which even a basic legionary could save for during his military career. But no matter their recruiting policies, it is indeed very impressive how they managed to muster such armies, even after grave defeats, time and time again. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if more rural towns just ended up full of women, children and old people in times of great wars.
Maybe it was also the way Romans treat their defeated foes. Their defeated foes eventually will complement them, manpower, wealth, resources.@@sosig6445
@@Pancake_Nix It was indeed a major problem throughout the Republican era that many peasants were recruited and died on the battlefields. Which left large portions of the farm lands abandoned; - ready to be bought up cheaply afterwards by the land owners class who possessed armies of slaves . With results that were probably somewhat similar to the 18th century: Large parts of the rural population fled into the cities, for work. Or, they tried to take a professional career path in the army. Meanwhile, the land owners, like e.g. the British in India , changed the production from basic food to "advanced " products with a higher profit margin, like wine. Which meant that wheat had to come from "elsewhere", like Egypt. While the increasing demand for jobs in the army led to the Marian reforms that eventually would seal the fate of the Republic.
Medieval armies were much more expensive than ancient armies. The best of your soldiers are usually nobility and lords who were fewer in numbers equipped with very expensive gear [horses, layers of armor, well-forged swords and spears] and trained for much of their life in combat. Even more expensive if you're gonna conduct a siege because you need the logistics of always having enough food to keep your army fed and combat engineers to build siege weapons. Given all these expenses, most medieval kingdoms would've went bankrupt trying to maintain *standing field armies* at ready to attack/defend. If you ain't got no money honey, you have to basically raise an army only when it's absolutely needed. If you were gonna attack your neighbor, he better have nice stuff to make back the investment you made in raising up an army.
It's fascinating how different perspectives can be. For me it's insane how rome went from a city state to ruling the known world in only like 300 years 😅
It’s really interesting learning about how Rome became so powerful...seeing them on the map of Italy in 300AD, their territory looked little more than a regional power...its fascinating learning how they defeated so many other peoples and grew into the empire they were known to be...thank you for all of the hard work that went into this video, truly amazing
@@mrhumble2937 They actually did conquer Germania but they lost it after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. But Tiberius didn’t want to proceed with the reconquest after the Battle of the Angrivarian Wall, arguing that it was not worth the economic cost; though it’s also possible he was afraid of Germanicus’ popularity had he allowed him to conquer Germania.
@@mrhumble2937They conquered most of Germany at some point and held about a third of modern day Germany for centuries. The other parts of the country was literally swamps and forests.
It was thanx to their land distribution systems. As many Romans as possible were given land. There were legal limits put on how much land any 1 Roman could own. Only landed men who could buy their own equipment were recruited. And there were many of them due to efficient landistrubution. Hence why Rome (and Samnium who the Romans copied) during this period seemingly had endless reservoirs of men. The war with Hannibal corrupted this system, which started the long slow fall of Rome. In that war, for the first time soldiers didn't return to their farms after campaign seasons. Their farms went into neglect, and many started to go bankrupt. Wealthier Romans started creating loopholes to own huge amounts of land, via proxies. The large number of slaves acquired in the aftermath of the war with Hannibal made slaves plentiful and cheap. These mega farms used these plentiful cheap slaves. Multitudes of now landless Romans started flooding to the city of Rome in seek of economic opportunity. (resulting in grain doles, etc and the Plebian mob in Rome) This changed the political dynamic in Rome, and caused the rise of Populist politicians like the Gracchi brothers, Marius and Ceasar. Ceasar's main policy from which he derived power was the promise of fixing the land distribution system. Rome ran out of soldiers, because their land distribution system broke down. Hence why Marius made reforms to hire landless Romans as professional soldiers that were more like mercenaries, compared to the previous era when each Romans fought to defend their little patch of land.
@@tylerdurden3722 Full time solders are better then farmers that act as part time solders. Just pay them good and arm them and forget about making any land deals if you offer them a retirement plan for when they get to old to serve anymore and they will be fine and they will have something to fight for. After all why would anybody want to hold down a farm when they are to old to serve. Plus it don't take long to run out of land to give when you got whole armies to give land to. Rome's down fall was corruption from the lowest to the highest level, social programs, Plagues, woke, outside cheap labor force known as slaves and making countless enemies of everybody they run into. Sounds a lot like us. LOL.
This channel is awesome! May I be so bold to suggest some potential topics for future videos? As a Dutchman I'd love to see you guys cover the siege and relief of Leiden (1574), and the events in the 2 years leading up to it. Multiple towns were sacked and massacred by the Spanish already, and Leiden, the 2nd largest city of the country was next on their list. A landslide defeat at Mookerheide allowed the siege to be briefly lifted and the city resupplied. And we finally broke the siege of Leiden (and the dominance of the Spanish army) in a last ditch all in effort with the addition of numerous mercenary forces (Germans, Flemish, Scotts, English), and the seabegger fleet. After weeks of fighting to secure the roads and levies to Leiden, the lands around Leiden were then flooded. They sailed over 70 ships up the rivers and canals to provide artillery support and relief for the city, and attacking the Spanish positions over the flooded fields on over 200 small boats, flatbottoms, barges and whatever else floated. And/or otherwise the events of 1672 "het rampjaar", the year of disaster. The French (Louis XIV) teamed up with the English (Charles II), with Köln (Maximillian Henry of Bayern) and Münster (Prince-Bishop of Münster, Bernhard "Bombs" von Galen). And the 4 of them simultaniously attacked the then Dutch republic. The English by sea, the French from the south via Köln, and Münster in the east and north-east. "de regering radeloos, het volk redeloos en het land reddeloos", meaning the government was without council, the people were without reason, and the country was doomed. They came real close to breaking the country. Oh, yes, and we ate our prime minister ... William III of Orange became warden (stadhouder) after that, you know, the same guy that also became king of England.
Samnite is in a way similiar to Hannibal. One of the strongest and the most stubborn enemies Roman have to face but cannot capitalize their victory to decisively destroy Roman until Roman eventually adapt and overcome them. Although i guess it's more appropiate if i used this comment in the previous Samnite war because by the third war Roman have already adapted and overcome the Samnite.
I had never heard of the Devotio. It's very Roman though. Running headfirst into the enemy expecting to die in order to incite the wrath of their own troops... Decimus Mus must have been loved by his troops. I wouldn't continue fighting, if I saw my leader do that UNLESS I respected and loved him. Clearly the Devotio is a double-edged sword. I wonder how often it was used and how the Roman senate and people reacted to it.
I'd love to pin this comment to the top, but I have a pinned sponsor message. For anyone looking for a great discussion on this era, this comment thread is the place. Dr. Byron Waldron wrote my Third Samnite War series.
@@RandooGaming No worries! I love bringing attention to less well known conflicts. Fun fact: Agathocles, the dangerous, determined and vindicative King of Sicily, who defeated Carthaginians, Macedonians, Cyrenaeans, Magna Graecians, Sicels, Libyans, and Bruttians, was campaigning in Bruttium and around Tarentum while the Third Samnite War was taking place, and he had Samnite, Etruscan, Gallic and Campanian mercenaries in his service, and had received Etruscan assistance in the previous decade (another period when the Etruscans were at war with Rome). In an alternate timeline there could have been a clash between Agathocles and the Romans, whose armies were sometimes just nearby in Lucania. Fabius Rullianus himself was in Lucania in 296. What a clash that would have been!
How long do series like this take to be put together? I've been thinking and it must've been daunting finding enough sources to accurately describe the events in such detail - really impressive!
28:09 I have a coin from the Gaulish senones. Not sure what’s denomination would have been but it’s bronze with symbols of a god one side and a warrior on the other but it probably did it have a denomination like modern money but was done by weight and the one I have is bronze. One of the coolest things about it and I’ve never seen anything like it before with other coins, but there are clear tapered breaks on each side meaning that the money came in a series of maybe 5-10 which you could then break off just one or two when needed or use the whole piece
I was cool to see how Rome really started to expand during this time and how they did more with less. The Roman Empire was truly a really great empire that lasted for almost 2 thousand years though in different forms.
It's by the help of Patreons and channel members, ofc. Actual YT revenue for creators has dwindled a lot in recent years, so it would probably be hard to keep up the level of quality on that alone.
Excellent stuff once again! Decius Mus is the embodiment of the old etrurian/latin, religion, absolutely no fear of death, dedicates his life as ransom to the deities of the Netherworld for a Roman Victory, and it worked. It seems this was the day that Rome sold it's soul to the devil.
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just discovered the channel, Love this style of depicting history, looking forward to watch the other series as well. I commit the devotio to the algorithm may it lead you to victory xD.
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They keep uploading videos about the same exact topics though. It’s getting frustrating. HM use to have videos about much more obscure or less covered wars and battles, which I loved.
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@@danielsantiagourtado3430Cheers Daniel! Yeah, I wanted to merge this mini-series so you guys can view it all in one place. The Third Samnite War is often overlooked, but it's one of the pivotal conflicts in the evolution of Rome. One could argue that, before the TSW it was a toss up who was the strongest power in Italy. And even if there was one, a coalition of other powers could've outmatched it - which is exactly what happened in the Third Samnite War. Rome ended up fighting against a coalition of 4 other nations and emerged on top, which is quite remarkable.
@@HistoryMarche Very true man! Rome's fisr step to becoming the superpower it did
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@@μιατρελητρεληφαρμαI agree
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The Samnites were a very resilient people we have to give them that.
They bounced back after countless defeats and still managed to muster significant forces. The first few battle would have ended the average medieval kingdom.
I think part of that ability to 'bounce back' was the effort by Rome just for fighting. It's like a soccor match really.
The death knell was sending in colonists. They should have done that all along.
The 'old way' of fighting the 'match' and then dealing such a heavy blow THAT peace is sued, damages paid......
THAT is the 'Game". They didn't start fighting to 'conquer' like later. They wanted 'Hegemony'.
The Right to Rule. Hence making money.
The Vikings just wanted to raid, like going to Walmart, shopping spree.
The Mongols wanted to "Conquor", not install a civilization. Not for Gold. Blood lust.
The Spanish of the 1400s? They were conquoring for God but the objective was the Gold. Conquoring is expensive, God doesn't travel on alms after all.
The Brits came to the USA for land. Settling in place.
Soooo, the Romans came in. Played the matches, but when the season is over, they go home. All any commander was after is gold and a few trophies. Rome itself wanted Glory.
I think cities, the citizens of the cities, knew that they'd have to figt, accepted it even. They EXPECT to fight, that is why every city has a wall and garrison. It's a game we don't really understand. Can't live it now.
Sending in the colonists to cities already established put everyone on notice, season is over. We are tired of the rivalry.
@@SuperChuckRaneysaying the Mongols just wanted to conquer for bloodlust and didn’t want gold or to establish a civilization is a silly idea considering Mongol kingdoms ruled over a good portion of the world for a long time and had massive cultural and political impacts on the places they ruled - including China.
@@SuperChuckRaney I think I'm already smoking what you're smoking.
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i was thinking of Genghis Khan himself and his kids.
The other tribes soon went out on thier own. And stayed to found Kingdoms. Corporate spin off companies if you will.
@@GrasshopperKelly war in the Americas, specifically Mayan, was a ritual. It was all about tribute.
You bring your best 10, I bringmine. Whoever wins gets Tribute for a yeear.
It worked for hundreds of years, till that OINE day, the new lady ruler thinks, what if we just killed ALL of them and took everything?
Seems so obvious to us.
Aztecs seemed to war the same way, except it had larger battles. Not sure it was a ritual war.
I loved that story about the wolf that walked in front of the roman soldiers, i knew that wolves were important to the romans, but i didn't know they were considered sacred
Not just sacred, the wolf is literally family. Rome owe its existence to a wolf that raised rome's founders remus and romulus, or so the legend says.
Of course. The Romans believed that the founder of Rome - Romulus and his brother Remus were saved from death by a she-wolf (Lupa Capitolina). Interestingly, they were born to a virgin of Vestal (priestesses of Vestal who were sworn to celibacy) and supposedly conceived by Mars, the god of war. King Amulius, the ruler of the Latin League saw the infants as a potential threat and ordered them to be cast out from the city of Alba Longa into the river Tiber, to be left to die to the elements. It is said that Lupa Capitolina found the infants washed up on a bank and nursed them to health by letting them suckle her milk.
Afterward they were adopted by a shepherd and once the twins learned their true identities, they returned to Alba Longa and disposed king Amulius by killing him (I guess his hunch was on point).
Remus was sadly killed later in a dispute with Romulus to where they should found the new city and so Romulus went on to found Rome on his own and successfully ruled for several decades as the king.
Then, about 200 years later the Romans decided they don't like kings anymore and the last Etruscan king was overthrown. The Romans vowed they will never bow to one person again, which impressively lasted for almost five centuries* until a certain Gaius Julius came along and messed everything up :)
Is any of this regional identities still felt in the modern day peoples of Italy?
@@DannySweeney-g1o No.
@@Pancake_Nix I think you meant 5 centuries, not 5 decades, that Rome went without a king and heavily relied on their two-consul and senatorial system before the rise of Julius Caesar.
It's often the Empire era of Rome that gets the most attention. Personally, I find the Republic era to be the most fascinating. The Punic Wars are my favorite parts of Roman lore, but the Samnite Wars are pretty interesting too because of how they shaped the military tactics that would eventually forge an empire.
I totally agree. Not only because there is so much interesting history in the republic era, it's the fact that it was *a republic* In times where everywhere except maybe the polis of Athens had a form of autocracy. The Romans took an entirely different approach and instead of directly subjugating the neighboring nations, they assimilated them and allowed people to become citizens even if they were not from the province of Italia. The fact they no matter how devastating their defeats were, they always bounced back and managed to assert dominance over some very powerful nations speaks volumes about their resilience and determination. I'm actually a little sad about the fact that most movies and high-budget documentaries we get are not focused on the rise of Rome but more on its long decline.
They were a very advanced civilization but like all things human greed and envy brings it all down
Agreed 👍 I prefer the early republic era more interesting especially the Samnite wars , they were romes toughest enemies in the Italian peninsula and most of romes best consuls were samnites that says a lot for me
Weren't they still a kingdom when they were fighting the samnites?
@@bananian at the very beginning, yes. But if you mean the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Samnite war, that was officially SPQR by then.
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'People should know when they are conquered'
"Would you, Quintus? Would I? "
"shadows and dust"
i find it amazing that at this stage, Rome could muster such huge armies, while in medieval times, much larger kingdoms could barely gather a few thousand.
To see romans growing from a backwater village into a war machine is eerly similar to the ottomans. fascinating.
Romans made entire system reward war. From top to bottom every single roman citizen was benefitting from conquest, and thus rome could call upon large mostly volounteer armies one after another. There was always a young aristrocrat raised to be a general from birth eager to prove himself to lead, and always tens of thousands of young plebs looking for their own fortune in war trough looting and generous military pensions.
Part of these pensions were decent sized plots of farmlands often in newly conquered territory, and even in retirement a roman soldeir serves the state by occupying, colonising, interbreeding, assimilating locals, reinforcing past conquests merely by his presence. And even after his prime is past the roman veteran is looked after, and has enough wealth for his family.
The only ones not benefitting were the conquered enemies of rome who were enslaved and sometimes outright genocided.
@@sosig6445 Well said. I would like to point out tho' that in the republic majority of Roman soldiers were actually conscripted citizens and they had to pay for their own gear initially. The pay was also kinda bad and often irregular. It was only in the late republic under Gaius Marius (ca. 100 BC) that concrete reforms were made and people could volunteer and get funded for the basic gear. And it wasn't until the early empire under Caesar Augustus (13 BC) that an actual pension plan was formed, offering a whopping 13 annual salaries to retired soldiers.
Is true that a good deal of Roman soldiers were landowners (tho we're mostly talking about modestly sized plots) and that did in fact benefit everyone, like you said, because after their (relatively short) conscription ended they weren't some useless unemployed citizens with ptsd, but contributors to local agriculture/economy. Tho' I suspect that they either were landowners to begin with or were able to buy the lands with their war plunder (which some generals were known to share generously and fairly among the troops), not their salaries or with the help of some kind of senate's retirement plan. With soldiers dying in the thousands and by claiming new territories I presume there would be a good availability of affordable land, which even a basic legionary could save for during his military career.
But no matter their recruiting policies, it is indeed very impressive how they managed to muster such armies, even after grave defeats, time and time again. Honestly, sometimes I wonder if more rural towns just ended up full of women, children and old people in times of great wars.
Maybe it was also the way Romans treat their defeated foes. Their defeated foes eventually will complement them, manpower, wealth, resources.@@sosig6445
@@Pancake_Nix It was indeed a major problem throughout the Republican era that many peasants were recruited and died on the battlefields. Which left large portions of the farm lands abandoned; - ready to be bought up cheaply afterwards by the land owners class who possessed armies of slaves . With results that were probably somewhat similar to the 18th century: Large parts of the rural population fled into the cities, for work. Or, they tried to take a professional career path in the army. Meanwhile, the land owners, like e.g. the British in India , changed the production from basic food to "advanced " products with a higher profit margin, like wine. Which meant that wheat had to come from "elsewhere", like Egypt. While the increasing demand for jobs in the army led to the Marian reforms that eventually would seal the fate of the Republic.
Medieval armies were much more expensive than ancient armies. The best of your soldiers are usually nobility and lords who were fewer in numbers equipped with very expensive gear [horses, layers of armor, well-forged swords and spears] and trained for much of their life in combat. Even more expensive if you're gonna conduct a siege because you need the logistics of always having enough food to keep your army fed and combat engineers to build siege weapons. Given all these expenses, most medieval kingdoms would've went bankrupt trying to maintain *standing field armies* at ready to attack/defend. If you ain't got no money honey, you have to basically raise an army only when it's absolutely needed. If you were gonna attack your neighbor, he better have nice stuff to make back the investment you made in raising up an army.
Its crazy from here to Caeser is 250 years, as long as america has been a country. Just insane Rome survived so long esp in this time period.
AMERICA IS NOT A COUNTRY YOU GENIUS. SALUDOS
It's fascinating how different perspectives can be. For me it's insane how rome went from a city state to ruling the known world in only like 300 years 😅
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It’s incredible how in italy at this time period they could field so many thousands of soldiers over and over again.
True but they did outsoars for more troops.
It’s really interesting learning about how Rome became so powerful...seeing them on the map of Italy in 300AD, their territory looked little more than a regional power...its fascinating learning how they defeated so many other peoples and grew into the empire they were known to be...thank you for all of the hard work that went into this video, truly amazing
300 BC*
Also it's crazy they conquered all those areas but never Germany which was right above them. Just odd.
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They actually did conquer Germania but they lost it after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
But Tiberius didn’t want to proceed with the reconquest after the Battle of the Angrivarian Wall, arguing that it was not worth the economic cost; though it’s also possible he was afraid of Germanicus’ popularity had he allowed him to conquer Germania.
@@mrhumble2937They conquered most of Germany at some point and held about a third of modern day Germany for centuries. The other parts of the country was literally swamps and forests.
They took it then lost it.
Real life history is more entertaining than most shows these days
Sadly history is fast becoming lost and forgotten, replaced by what people "think" they know.
The ability to keep fielding new armies by both the romans and samnites is really impressive.
Especially when you compare it to the later mideival eras where armies were only around 1500 men, truly astonishing
@@3rr0r4o40 Those r rookie numbers compared to this era!
It was thanx to their land distribution systems.
As many Romans as possible were given land. There were legal limits put on how much land any 1 Roman could own.
Only landed men who could buy their own equipment were recruited. And there were many of them due to efficient landistrubution. Hence why Rome (and Samnium who the Romans copied) during this period seemingly had endless reservoirs of men.
The war with Hannibal corrupted this system, which started the long slow fall of Rome.
In that war, for the first time soldiers didn't return to their farms after campaign seasons. Their farms went into neglect, and many started to go bankrupt.
Wealthier Romans started creating loopholes to own huge amounts of land, via proxies.
The large number of slaves acquired in the aftermath of the war with Hannibal made slaves plentiful and cheap. These mega farms used these plentiful cheap slaves.
Multitudes of now landless Romans started flooding to the city of Rome in seek of economic opportunity. (resulting in grain doles, etc and the Plebian mob in Rome)
This changed the political dynamic in Rome, and caused the rise of Populist politicians like the Gracchi brothers, Marius and Ceasar. Ceasar's main policy from which he derived power was the promise of fixing the land distribution system.
Rome ran out of soldiers, because their land distribution system broke down. Hence why Marius made reforms to hire landless Romans as professional soldiers that were more like mercenaries, compared to the previous era when each Romans fought to defend their little patch of land.
@@tylerdurden3722 Full time solders are better then farmers that act as part time solders. Just pay them good and arm them and forget about making any land deals if you offer them a retirement plan for when they get to old to serve anymore and they will be fine and they will have something to fight for. After all why would anybody want to hold down a farm when they are to old to serve. Plus it don't take long to run out of land to give when you got whole armies to give land to.
Rome's down fall was corruption from the lowest to the highest level, social programs, Plagues, woke, outside cheap labor force known as slaves and making countless enemies of everybody they run into. Sounds a lot like us. LOL.
yeah i mean, the pop numbers were much lower@@origami83
I can’t tell you how much I absolutely love the small details. amazing job thank you!
Glad you like it! Thanks for watching
This channel is awesome!
May I be so bold to suggest some potential topics for future videos? As a Dutchman I'd love to see you guys cover the siege and relief of Leiden (1574), and the events in the 2 years leading up to it. Multiple towns were sacked and massacred by the Spanish already, and Leiden, the 2nd largest city of the country was next on their list. A landslide defeat at Mookerheide allowed the siege to be briefly lifted and the city resupplied. And we finally broke the siege of Leiden (and the dominance of the Spanish army) in a last ditch all in effort with the addition of numerous mercenary forces (Germans, Flemish, Scotts, English), and the seabegger fleet. After weeks of fighting to secure the roads and levies to Leiden, the lands around Leiden were then flooded. They sailed over 70 ships up the rivers and canals to provide artillery support and relief for the city, and attacking the Spanish positions over the flooded fields on over 200 small boats, flatbottoms, barges and whatever else floated. And/or otherwise the events of 1672 "het rampjaar", the year of disaster. The French (Louis XIV) teamed up with the English (Charles II), with Köln (Maximillian Henry of Bayern) and Münster (Prince-Bishop of Münster, Bernhard "Bombs" von Galen). And the 4 of them simultaniously attacked the then Dutch republic. The English by sea, the French from the south via Köln, and Münster in the east and north-east. "de regering radeloos, het volk redeloos en het land reddeloos", meaning the government was without council, the people were without reason, and the country was doomed. They came real close to breaking the country. Oh, yes, and we ate our prime minister ... William III of Orange became warden (stadhouder) after that, you know, the same guy that also became king of England.
Great video! I never get tired of documentaries from the Roman era. Thnx for another great one!
Why do I find this so much more interesting than a movie.
Thanks legend!
That wolf-deer interaction tho
LOVED this series man! Early roman history is so cool! Thanks for this 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
This is amazing. Historymarche is doing Kings and Generals style of presentation. I like how detailed you described the battles.
13:38 was so badass I was near tears in sheer awe of how epic and poetic that fable is.
I love history... and your channel is amazing. Greetings from Italy.
History is the most exciting branch of education and a pillar of humanity
That was so fascinating. Thanks for sharing
People don’t give enough Credit To how formidable the samnites were
The samnites were bad ass.
Absolutely brilliant being able to get this military history condensed succinctly and the scale and tactics visually displayed . Great work team!
Samnite is in a way similiar to Hannibal. One of the strongest and the most stubborn enemies Roman have to face but cannot capitalize their victory to decisively destroy Roman until Roman eventually adapt and overcome them.
Although i guess it's more appropiate if i used this comment in the previous Samnite war because by the third war Roman have already adapted and overcome the Samnite.
grande lavoro complimenti , la storia raccontata nei minimi dettagli , gran bel lavoro
I love watching your documentaries. Very clear, well spoken and therefore very informative. The appropriate music throughout is also worth mentioning.
That was so fascinating. Thanks for sharing
I had never heard of the Devotio. It's very Roman though.
Running headfirst into the enemy expecting to die in order to incite the wrath of their own troops... Decimus Mus must have been loved by his troops.
I wouldn't continue fighting, if I saw my leader do that UNLESS I respected and loved him. Clearly the Devotio is a double-edged sword. I wonder how often it was used and how the Roman senate and people reacted to it.
Thats where the word devotion comes from
Excellent documentary, thank you!
Hi all! I wrote the series. If you have any questions, please ask!
I'd love to pin this comment to the top, but I have a pinned sponsor message.
For anyone looking for a great discussion on this era, this comment thread is the place. Dr. Byron Waldron wrote my Third Samnite War series.
Thanks for your help byron
@@RandooGaming No worries! I love bringing attention to less well known conflicts. Fun fact: Agathocles, the dangerous, determined and vindicative King of Sicily, who defeated Carthaginians, Macedonians, Cyrenaeans, Magna Graecians, Sicels, Libyans, and Bruttians, was campaigning in Bruttium and around Tarentum while the Third Samnite War was taking place, and he had Samnite, Etruscan, Gallic and Campanian mercenaries in his service, and had received Etruscan assistance in the previous decade (another period when the Etruscans were at war with Rome). In an alternate timeline there could have been a clash between Agathocles and the Romans, whose armies were sometimes just nearby in Lucania. Fabius Rullianus himself was in Lucania in 296. What a clash that would have been!
thank u dok. u 2 are a elite power-team. the video was illuminating & knowledgeaBle. Bonus laBor.
How long do series like this take to be put together? I've been thinking and it must've been daunting finding enough sources to accurately describe the events in such detail - really impressive!
28:09 I have a coin from the Gaulish senones. Not sure what’s denomination would have been but it’s bronze with symbols of a god one side and a warrior on the other but it probably did it have a denomination like modern money but was done by weight and the one I have is bronze. One of the coolest things about it and I’ve never seen anything like it before with other coins, but there are clear tapered breaks on each side meaning that the money came in a series of maybe 5-10 which you could then break off just one or two when needed or use the whole piece
This is my fav part of roman history. Please make more videos of these early republic years!
This time period isn't talked about enough. Awesome video.
I was cool to see how Rome really started to expand during this time and how they did more with less. The Roman Empire was truly a really great empire that lasted for almost 2 thousand years though in different forms.
Anyone else here love HBO's Rome? I've seen it more times than I'd like to admit. "Thirteen!"
I still can't believe these videos are freely available for us. Thank you history march team. Keep up your amazing work ❤
It's by the help of Patreons and channel members, ofc. Actual YT revenue for creators has dwindled a lot in recent years, so it would probably be hard to keep up the level of quality on that alone.
Man I love history and your channel is a gem for me, plus I get to see small little boxes beat each other up
This was a really good video mate! Well done!
What a fascinating period of Roman history.. Amazing that they prevailed.
Brilliant video, I feel immersed in Rome. You've earnt a sub, sir!
The sheer numbers both sides managed to muster for thier armies is astonishing
Love this channel!! Keep up the AMAZING work!!!
I am a complex man: i see HistoryMarche video, i watch 14 hours later.
I wonder how Italy and the world would have been if Samnium defeated Rome and fought Carthage and Became the dominant power.
Me too ..
As always thanks for your hard work HM!
My pleasure! Always great to see you here KHK
Ah, a wonderful series this was! Glad to get to watch it again!
Glad you enjoy it!
Gotta say, most of the reason I watch History Marche is because of their awesome maps
Excellent stuff once again! Decius Mus is the embodiment of the old etrurian/latin, religion, absolutely no fear of death, dedicates his life as ransom to the deities of the Netherworld for a Roman Victory, and it worked. It seems this was the day that Rome sold it's soul to the devil.
Cooperating with Srpske Bitke was top notch move
Man
The Hannibal series is too intriguing
Hope the next part comes soon
This was an excellent video. I love roman history.
Excellent, all 5 stars, once again. Thanks :)
Very well done, wow. Made me play: Total War: Rome again!
Binging your channel for a 3rd day in a row. Great content, great work!
Great work! So much sweat and effort, magnificent!
per fare un video di questo genere c'e' un grande lavoro dietro , bisogna leggere le fonti , davvero un grande lavoro
I love military history. I would like to thank all the people who make this channel possible. Thank you all for your hard work, full respect. This channel is brilliant. I have alot of historical warfare channels that I subscribe to, for me this channel is my favourite.
I absolutely love your videos. Do you think we could see some battles from the Latin American Wars of Independence, like the Battle of Carabobo?
8:00 Oh man another valley ambush? Why did these commanders never send scouts forward to check for these things? 8:15 Fabius Maximus...you da man.
I m big fan of your channel. This videos are awesome. Brilliant video..we always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Love and admiration from Sri Lankan fan. ❤️🇱🇰🤝🏴
Thank you so much 😀
I loved the presentation, thank you for making this!
Love these documentaries. Keep up the great work. Great narration too.
Damn, these videos are very well made. Great work!
just discovered the channel, Love this style of depicting history, looking forward to watch the other series as well. I commit the devotio to the algorithm may it lead you to victory xD.
Thank you for this great video. I really enjoy if history comes alive like this.
It's fun hearing different ways of pronouncing words like Principes, Hastatii or Triarii.
So that's how Roman started their Reign. Thanks for this valueable video
This made think of the Roman Empire again
Up the Italian Samnites. Never forgotten. 🙏
great stuff, thanks so much for putting all the parts together!
Thanks for the video! Didn’t even realize you just made it. I’m just starting it now, but awesome to see more Rome stuff from you! Thanks for all your awesome content!
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The voice of narrator is absolute top notch and spot on
Roma Victrix!! Amazing upload. Thank you!
Quite good; love the tactics.. Everyone in @HistoryMarche who's making these videos. Please know that your work is appreciated. thank you
Simply amazing video. Thank you very much for covering a period, that is not so known and famous, as the post Caesar one.
This was amazing, that´s how Rome Empire was built.
Love your content, you’re one of the top history channels along with kings and generals
They keep uploading videos about the same exact topics though. It’s getting frustrating. HM use to have videos about much more obscure or less covered wars and battles, which I loved.
Immensely interesting. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you as always HM, comment for Algo. 👍
Thanks for sharing this knowledge
Always Click or save for later time... Keep doing fine work 👍
Brutally interesting and ell made. Many thanks for this!
Great details! Please accept this sacrifice
I love Roman history!
My favorite channel by far! Need more videos lol I get itchy waiting
I've been waiting for this voice to talk to me about rome for a while now :P. so relaxing and calming
Thank you very much for your hard work HistoryMarche. For sure, one of the best channels on youtube.
JESUS! Your videos are freaking awesome! Like watching a real movie. Great Production my brother. 👍👍
Shame there are not more documentaries covering the Roman wars with their regional neighbours. Its so interesting.
Love the Wilhelm scream at 29:29
Outstanding program all around.
Man i love those videos about Rome! Keep it up!
now we know where Rome absorbed this handy ability to quickly recuperate after hard defeats.
I said it before in one of your Napoleon documentaries but your voice suits these series very well!