Ancient Rome in 20 Minutes | The quickest history of Rome I've seen (Reaction)
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- Ancient Rome in 20 minutes, as explained by Arzamas. I had to take notes during this video, too many leaders/events that I didn't know about. Leave your thoughts on any of the history you found interesting
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Oversimplified has done a great series of video on the first punic war, 2 so far more to come for the second and third punic war.
Edit: Dante's works inferno, purgatorio and paradiso have been written by Dante almost 1000 years after the empire collapsed, altough he was really fond of a roman author, the one who goes with him through hell, he was called Virgil, and he did some awesome literature at the early empire's time
I was gonna suggest the exact same video. It’s so straightforward
Yes. This.
HistoryMarche does a good job focusing more on the military campaigns aspects of the war
Oversimplfied don't have the 2nd or 3rd Punic Wars ... but their version of the 1st Punic War was hilarious.
Defenitly this!
She is one of the only youtubers that I would love to just sit and talk to about various topics with. She is super self-aware and never pretends to know if she doesn't. She is very refreshing and I always look forward to her next video.
So refreshing to see a reaction youtuber with an actual intelect, in this case she seems so interested and smart. Plus, the intro is perfect, really. Doesn‘t talk about I don’t know what. Very easy to watch!
Scenery, agree with you...she is quite well-informed and hungry for more,I love it!
Schrem001 but my phone translated it as scenery.
bro that is so true. I have seen a couple of other reactions and it was pure ignorance on display
Lady reactor knew her history well. She beeing american made her reaction it even more enjoyable. Well, good for all of us uppity euros, cant call americans ignorants of history if such educated reaction youtubers reacts to our common history.
Idem ditto. This and her other videos give me hope for the future, next to my own kids and their friends in their approach to the world. A lot of youngsters tend to choose being informed instead of being easily entertained (Panem et circenses?) these days. This video is a fresh wind amongst most other videos on YT. A lot of Roman tactics can be applied to this time btw: "divide and conquer",.... Being informed also decreases the chance of being misinformed (if you choose your sources wisely) and avoids very extreme opposite camps imho.
On TH-cam, Invicta has a good but lengthy series on Carthage and the Punic Wars, but Oversimplified's version is entertaining and more easily digestible.
Thank you for the recommendations! I’ll look into both
@@NoProtocol totally agree with the comments on the channel oversimplified for the punic wars run down, over 20 minutes but they are as accurate as they are entertaining. That was a superb video by the way though I was surprised you didn't know Londinium of Brittania I always thought you knew everything 😂✌️
As an Italian, I'm surprised by your knowledge of Roman history. Seeing videos around I was convinced that it was not part of your school curriculum. And congratulations also for the Italian pronunciation, perhaps a little spanish, but it's a 9 on 10.
I'd say Spanish pronunciation is pretty close to ancient Roman. Let's remember Iberia was a key province of Rome for a very long time.
I"m an American and have always considered Roman history to be classical knowledge that any who considered themselves educated would be familiar with.
Do you know anything about the US schools curriculums? Let me tell you in world history ancient Rome is a big part. And so is classical Greece. We spent a lot of time on Western cultures not so much on the other stuff. I don't remember any of the lessons on Africa for example.
Me as well, being of Italian descent myself (or to be more accurate 100% Sicilian) it was interesting to see how much you have on European history.
I said the same thing, she has good knowledge of roman history, much more than other TH-camrs I have seen watching this video
Every video i m surprised how widespread this girls common knowledge is; especially European history as an American :)
Honestly U.S. history classes will tell you far more about the history of the ancient Middle East and classical Europe than U.S. history. Because, like... what, are they gonna willingly tell kids how the only reason they get 40 hour workweeks is because Unions *literally* went to war against union busters, bombings n' all?
A curious mind is a beautiful thing
There's a lot more of us than you think. People just hear the stupid ones and make assumptions lol
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Lmao you're generalizing a country with the 3rd highest population in the world? there's a ton of us who know a lot about American and European history, I wouldn't expect a European to be dirty and anti social because of stereotypes.
Ms. No Protocol: I enjoyed your reaction! You are obviously an intelligent person. I'm a long time student of scientist, philosopher, and theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg. Helen Keller called him, "The Light In My Darkness". Maybe you may find Swedenborg to be profound as I do. His bestseller is "Heaven And Hell".
Great concept. A curious young woman watches and learns, while I, an older man (hey, not that old), still learn both from the video and your enthusiasm and vigour. Never stop learning, never stop checking out things you wonder about, and always find more than one source on things that are contested, to get a better feel for the facts.
I love how you get right to it without bs. And I love how when you pause to comment, you say something that adds to the experience. Quickest I ever subbed to a channel.
Because of your commentary, I thought I should include a couple of additional titles. 1) Parzifal by Wolfram Von Eschenbach (Vintage books a new translation introduced by Helen M. Mustard and Charles E. Passage). In the introduction, it is stated: "The scope of Parzifal is greater than that of any medieval literary work except Dante's Divine Comedy" with which I also concur. And then of course Faust, by Goethe translated by Walter Arndt. These two were considered truly Alchemical works by the great psychotherapist Carl Jung and hence, in my opinion truly transformational. Cheers!
The scale of the Punic Wars is difficult to fathom. They were like the WW2 of their time, and probably one of the most important of all time too. The world we live in today is shaped by those wars, regardless of where we're from
Rome went out of its way to bury everything about Carthage. That is why it is hard to fathom what Carthage was about in the ancient world.
Historia Civilis has many good videos, he has a series where he goes through key years in the Late Republic, starting with 63 BCE in the video called 'His Year: Cicero'. If you were enjoying the Latin language then latinturorial has a series of very short videos called Minutiae where he looks into etymology and cultural asides, no prior Latin is needed for these.
As for general interest Suetonius is very enjoyable, as is Juvenal and Apuleius. If you wanted to dive into the Punic wars then to Livy and Polybius you must look. For mythology there's Ovid. The podcast 'The History of Rome' is quite listenable. The old BBC production of 'I, Claudius' is fantastic.
Suetonius is like the Sun of his era though
A lot of archaeological discoveries really showed how much the senate class ruined Tiberius and Claudius's reputation - Tiberius still ruled w/ terror over the Senate class but overall he was a real able administrator..
Claudius honestly got crapped on unfairly b/c of his disability - but extending the citizenship to the Gallic elites really really was a seminal moment.
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I agree, Historia Civilis is A+.
Don't know if it's been recommended before, but if you're into podcasts, The History of Rome by Mike Duncan is a must. It covers all of Rome's history up until the formation of the Byzantine Empire. The History of Byzantium by Robin Pierson is THE follow-up podcast to the History of Rome, in case you want to listen to that also. They are both very well researched and sourced and have a more narrative approach to the subject, which means basically easy listening yet full of delicious info :)
Seconded, Mike Duncan's podcasts are excellent. I haven't listened to the History of Byzantium podcast yet, I intend to get around to it, you know... someday.
This channel is easily in my top 5. Thank you for being such a beautiful breath of fresh air
Hillsdale College has the whole series of lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy. Exceptional. The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough is a novel but also worthwhile.
I haven’t heard of Hillsdale College but this is something that I’ll definitely be interested in! Thanks so much for sharing
@@NoProtocol my pleasure. HBO, BBC and Cine Citta (giant film studio Mussolini built) joined forces to produce an astounding series called Rome. Circa 2006 I believe. Really worthwhile. It ran for two seasons but was deemed too expensive. Shame.
The best thing they have to offer and it's free is their lessons on the Constitution, which doesn't hold too many interest hence why we're in the situation that We are in now.
What a wonderful reaction to this video, really refreshing seeing someone not only engrossed in the video, but someone who has an already general understanding of the history. Subscribed.
I just recently started to study history as sidesubject with focus on the late ancient time (around 250-700 - from Diokletian until the end).
It is so unbelievable interesting to discover this cosmos and how it formed and was connected to the entire world. Better then any Game of Thrones and so on stories, with actual real life references sort of. Some major things still impact our ways of life almost 2000 years later. It is just incredible.
Now back to study it in more detail for my upcoming exam next week :D
The lays of ancient Rome and specifically the keeping of the bridge by Horatius was always my favourite story
Your channel has been intriguing as a recent subscriber. Please keep up with the excellent content!🖖🏼
Thanks Todd!
@@NoProtocol I just reported a whole commemt thread of bots with the WhatApp crypto scam. You might wanna add some words to your "blocked words list" for your vids. Include: WhatsApp, APK, Telegram, investing and the variations.
I'm sure they're on other vids so go thru them, get a word list and block them all. Gotta be proactive. Don't want the algo penalizing you for their BS.
Fun fact it was my love of history that brought me to the study of Stoicism, a life altering philosophy especially from Meditations. I am living such a happier life since
A great read is "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius. Written around 100 AD, it covers the life and deeds of the first emperors, from Gaius Julius to Domitian.
Also, the English drama series "Rome" is very enjoyable, historically accurate and extremely well researched. It tells the story of the evolution from Republic to Empire seen by two soldiers of the 13th Legion
Thank you Lluís!
Suetonius is to be taken with a grain of salt.
@@jeffW1971 As any historian should
Yes, I read that one.
Pleasure as always!
I'm impressed by your education, your thoughts and so often very detailed knowledge, your spectrum of interests (history, physics, philosophy, animals, comedy, MMA etc. etc.). And recommending literature is awesome, I love it (and read some of the recommendations in the past).
I am really curious about your educational or professional background. Being a historian myself I sometimes think, you also have to be one (judged by your knowledge), but the amazing spectrum of your topics makes me doubt. But I understand and appreciate that you protect your privacy.
All in all: I'm so glad I discovered your channel. Please keep up the fantastic work. Thanks to you now I'm not only a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious delivered in story format but also of the interesting, informative and hilarious delivered in reaction format.
My recommendations for the Punic Wars are already mentioned here, but nonetheless: HistoryMarche, Invicta, Extra History.
Dan Carlin's podcast from a few years ago is my favorite telling of this history. It's epic in scale and detail (of course) and it's entertaining in ways that make one forget it's probably a day in total length. His "Punic Nightmares" series is equally good.
There is a great series that covers that time. It was very well done. Two seasons Rome a HBO series.
If you are interested in Roman History, the history of rome podcast on spotify is amazing and very detailed. Probably a hundred hours of content.
I do listen to this! And perhaps one of the only reasons I was familiar with some of these events lol
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Even today, I learn so much from Ancient Romans. It's amazing how insightful those old maxims and other texts are - centuries of experience at work.
I highly recommend watching kings and general TH-cam channel for anything Roman. They mostly talk about battles (hence the name) but they have a couple of videos on the culture of rome.
Historia Civilis has four videos on four specific battles in the 2nd Punic Wars, specifically covering Hannibal. Bonus, all the videos are under 10 minutes.
I love ancient history. I don't believe that I have ever seen a TH-cam host watch history videos with their viewers. I like it so I subscribed. Thanks!
HistoryMarche is my favorite channel for detailed videos about ancient conflicts and military campaigns
Honestly im impressed with your knowledge its unsual to see somone who actually knows history like you and i do so congrats lots of lessons to be learned from history.
Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is the best thing I have ever read in English.
Refreshing to see an inteligent and inquisitive person to take interest in these topics. If you are interested in learning a lot more about ancient Rome in a very ""digestible" and, dare I say, fun form, I recommend a Mike Duncan´s History of Rome podcast.
We love your TH-cam is so family friendly and interesting Thank you
HistoryMarche's Hannibal series i think is the best in depth video series about the 2nd punic war, they do a great job showing the perspective of the battles Hannibal waged
The period of Pax Romana was NOT the first instance of "globalization".
The era which preceded the Bronze Age Collapse (~1200BC) involved trade stretching from China, through the Mediterranean, Northern Africa, and up to Britain (for Tin). It was just as widespread as what came later with Rome.
Roman Law was NOT the first to be written down. The Code of Hammurabi precedes it by a millennia.
For a book recommendation, it's hard to go wrong with Plutarch's "Parallel Lives". Yes, Plutarch was Greek, but "Parallel Lives" covers both Greeks and Romans, including both Caesar and Pyrrhus.
For video recommendation, I really enjoyed several long form videos on the channel History Bro, with guest Sargon of Akkad covering:
1) Alexander the Great, 2) Hannibal, 3) Pyrrhus, and 4) Peloponnesian War.
History Bro also dis a great series on Stalin in an 8 part series.
King and Generals Channel has high-quality videos on roman wars, I mean seriously good.
It's such a pleasure to watch your videos, you are knowledgeable and interesting person
A brief history of England: Prior to the decline of Rome, the Roman governors of the province relied heavily on Britons, a specific tribe to enforce their authority, when Rome abandoned England, it was primarily the Britons who assumed control of the previous roman sphere of influence, but had difficulty pacifying the local populace and protecting from outside threats, so they hired mercenaries- primary of which were the Angles and Saxons. The Angles and Saxons initially just acted as mere mercenaries, but when the Briton Rulers started to miss payments, they just chose to take over instead. At that point, that area was called Anglo-Saxon land which through time eventually morphed into Angland- then England. Ironically for and Anglo-Saxons, they eventually fell into the same pitfalls the Britons did and started hiring foreign mercenaries to enforce their will, and thus began the age of Vikings.
If you haven't seen it yet an interesting TV series to look at is "Medici". It talks about the famous family and their growth to power. It's really nice, although with some artistic liberties.
What I love most about this video? No BS. Start off immediately. I subscribed just for that. Keep going!
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has a great series of podcasts (3 episodes) on the Punic wars called "Punic Nightmares I, II & III". 60 to 90 mins each.
It's a great listen while going for a run or doing some menial chores.
Extra Credits aka Extra History was my first in depth series in to the Punic Wars. All these years later and I still remember it fondly. But, anything..ANYTHING Rome related ,I go for my guy, Historia Civilis!!
He kinda glossed over the citizenship thing, since it is just a 20 minute overview of a looong, moved history, but if you are interested in some of the events around it, there is a video by Overly Sarcastic Productions, I think it is called Romes First Assassination, and it should be fairly recent
Edit: Ok, I should have watched a few seconds further. The video I mentioned goes into more detail about the Graci brother
love the note taking :) I personally enjoyed the podcast “history of rome” and both “history on fire” and “hardcore history” have fantastic histories of Rome.
A great Channel for military history and battles from the roman republic/empire is Kings and Generals. Fantastic channel!
Historia Civilis has good videos about Roman History, especially series about Caesar and Octavian. It has simple graphics, where you are watching adventures of some squares of different colors, but these squraes make you feel for them! XD
And there is Dovahhatty's Unbiased History: Rome which is... """unbiased""", that is what makes it so fun. First videos are a bit fast and rough, guy was just learning to do them along the way, but later videos, especially about the late Empire, are really cool.
By the way, Arzamas has also a video about Ancient Greece.
Thanks!
Very interesting and diverse subjects that you cover. Glad i stumbled into your channel.
Thank you so much David! I’m glad you’re liking the channel so far as well (:
Historia Civilis is an excellent channel. They have a great series on the Punic wars but mainly dealing with the second one and Hannibal
You should do a video on Marcus Aurelius. Very interesting and unique character for an emperor.
You are so nice and so knowledgeable about history! I love your channel. New subscriber :)
I'd like to note too that the Eastern Empire (we call them Byzantines but they never referred to themselves that way) continued on for many hundreds of years and there were even some attempts to reunite the divided empire. They thought of themselves primarily as Romans
What I know about Romulus and Remus is that they were the sons of a Vestal (and Mars). Since vestals were supposed to stay virgin to guard the sacred fire, she abandonded them in the way you said. They were later found by another woman, Acca Larentia, who used to be a prostitute (shewolf comes from the italian term "Lupa", term used by romans for prostitutes) who raised them.
They were the first of many things but they were not global, they were regional. The first global power were our cousins over the water in Britain, and they created globalisation (for better or worse). Latin also forms the basis of many English words, but that wasn't acknowledged either. The foot, yard, mile was a Roman addition, yet today continental ways sees these terms abolished, but not in the UK.
Love your channel, if you can find the time, "Caesars Messiah" really well done, your kind of thing!
There is also "Ancient Greece in 18 minutes" by the same channel. Good stuff.
Kings and Generals have a lot of excellent videos on Roman conquests, but it's definitely a war focused channel.
For a good series on the Punic wars, the TH-cam Channel "Extra Credits" has a really good mini series on the Punic wars that I would highly recommend.
Another Italian must-read book for you: Il Decamerone - a collection of stories from the times of the Plague, hence late-medieval early Italian.
And another Italian title for those who want to understand the politics of power: N. Macchiavelli: Il Principe. Macchiavelli himself would have considered the "Discorsi" his main publication; while the Principe is above the inner workings of the power of a single person and still a relevant piece of literature today, the Discorsi revolved around the inner workings of a republic (as Macchiavelli considered himself a republican - in a classical sense). The latter book is longer and lengthier, and today is mostly seen as of mostly historic interest and less as a source to understand modern republics and states, as this form of governance as evolved a lot after Macchiavelli's time.
This is a great video, glad to see you react to it!
It was recommended to me! Glad I watched it, I learned more here than I had in school
@@NoProtocol Glad you enjoyed it! If you don't mind could you check out a video by the channel called TREY The Explainer called "The Story of Onfim (a Medieval Child)". It's really touching honestly and I think you'll like it. One of his more recent videos entitled "Books you can (Never) read" is also fantastic! Keep up the good work, love the channel. You always have so much to comment on and also a lot of additional information of your own you bring to the table which so many other reactors don't do. Thanks!
I wanted so badly for that little inset of Spartacus to be a cutout of Kirk Douglas I can't even.
Ceasar's first wife is Cornelia Cinna (mother of Julia). second wife is Pompea (grandaugther of L.Cornelius Sulla). third wife is Calpurnia
Anything by the channel Invictus is a glorious view into the daily live of a Roman. Highly recommend it
I think its interesting "res•publica = public thing" since the word "thing" has an etymology as the word for essentially a townhall meeting
Dan Carlin's podcast has an amazing series on the fall of the Roman Republic. You might have to buy the episodes but they are well worth the money if you want to learn more about that period.
Try extra history, it’s a four part series on the Punic wars, it’s simple but awesome
I think one channel you should definitely watch is Historia Civilis if you want a detailed analysis of Cicero, Caesar, Marc Antony, etc.
Oversimplified Punic wars is a good one 👍
There's a great channel on here called Historia Civilis that's all about roman history that I highly recommend to everybody that enjoys this topic.
It may not be videos, but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has a whole series about the Punic Wars called Punic Nightmares.
Stephen Fry's Mythos series is quite good. I listened to it on Audible. Good video
The English classical scholar Mary Beard has made a bunch of documentaries about Rome for the BBC. She usually tries to focus on what life was like for the ordinary people rather than just emperors etc. I love her programs, many of which are available on here on yt.
Colleen McCollogh, of The Thornbirds fame, also wrote a wonderful series of historical fiction about ancient Rome. The first book is called "The First Man of Rome" which covers the rise of Marius. Subsequent novels are about Caesar and Octavian. she did a lot of research and she presents everyday Roman life in a believable manner. The events depicted in her novels are all historically accurate but being fiction it's presented in a nuanced way.
Hello No Protocol,
I like your Videos very much.
Thank you for your content.
I would like to add another book recommodation, as I've read it quite recently and thought it was very informative historically and also politically.
The book is called "Discorsi" by Niccolo Macchiavelli
Have a great day
Rome is a magical place, crammed with history in every nock and cranny. The Pantheon! When I was young, I traveled Europe alone (I wouldn't do that now in my dotage.) Crazy to think I did that then. I was in the US Army, but it's odd to think I was not accosted. Crazy youth.
So many videos of people asking history and geography questions (getting them wrong). Need more videos like this. Creating sapiophiles on the daily :P
All things Oversimplified, but his Punic Wars and Pig War are all up your alley.
16:34 The Roman system of roads still determines the transport map of Europe because the roads were built in the most appropriate places for them.
love the enthusiasm.. fully prepared with pen..
They did Maximinius Thrax so dirty saying he was a shepherd with a good physique, theres some good stories about how he joined the legions.
I love the picture on the wall very cool
It is so wild how an educated and strong empire would fall so completely. If only our politicians would study this and use that information to avoid repeating those fatal mistakes. But now as then those in charge are to power hungry to see the events happening around them.
Now you totally have to react to ancient greece in 18 minutes it's totally worth it!
The lack of shameless self promotion for the first 5-10 mins of a reaction video is incredibly refreshing
"Ancient Greece in 18 minutes" by the same channel is pretty good as well!
Oversimplified did a series on the Punic war that pretty good and fun. Extra history also has one I believe.
Oversimplified has a 2 part video on the 1st Punic War
Hey, love your content and especially your intros, if you’re looking for more content you should watch Allan savorys ted talk. It is a little outside of your wheelhouse but I still think it will make for a good watch. Thank you.
we, italians,are pretty pride pf ours ancient ancestors....the video is very interesting and educational...thank you for share this!!! ❣❣👏👏
I could recommend you a french narrative channel i discovered recently named "alterhis" ,
it's like elaborate alternate what if universes, one I quite liked was "what if the 3rd industrial revolution took place in ancient Rome" it was amusing but there are so much more interesting alternative timeline videos, really you should at least try to look it up, his narration skill are amazing there are no real english subtitles but the auto one do the job if you don't speak french,
anyway keep it up reacting to interesting videos it's fun to react to your reaction especially when it's videos I already seen ^3^
I should try to find you a good video on the Bronze Age collapse which is short enough. Eric Cline, who is the best scholar I know of on the subject, has done a brilliant video on it, but that one is far too long. Cline's book "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" should be regarded as the authoritative work on the subject.
I read the first two books of the "Divine Comedy", and I have to say I loved "Inferno" (had the Dorothy L. Sayers translation that included maps and other illustrations).
Still need to look at "Paradiso".
And you might like "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius and "The Decameron" by Boccaccio.
A small detail, rome wasn't the first to have written law, sumeria was with hamorabi code. Fun fact: we have sumerian jurisprudence in most of our judicial sistems.
Yes on meditations!
This probably wouldn't be a good format for a TH-cam video, but Dan Carlin has an amazing series on the Punic Wars called Punic Nightmares I believe. I'm sure someone else has already recommended it 😁
The Punic Wars ? Look up anything Hannibal would be a great start.
Batttle BC is a great series if you can find on TH-cam.
_Pax Romana_ isn't the first example of globilisation. We see globilisation around the bronze age levant, prior to the bronze age collapse with the economic zone stretching from Sardinia to Carthage.
Also, I though Imperator meant "first citizen".
I have to read more 🥳 Great reaction 👍🇳🇴
Extra History (aka Extra Credits) has a nice series on the Punic wars
as far as roman history is concerned there are only three sources i will advocate 1.) history of rome podcast by mike duncan 2.) historia civilis 3.)invicta