I actually like this better than the main channel for listening to while I work/workout, since I don't have to come running to screenshot a map or a graphic as much.
Rome is honestly a testament to importance of willpower in humanity. People who say willpower and determination aren’t factors in history just need to look at Rome. Rome often had so much stacked against them, and just didn’t give up. Their incessant determination and grit is truly remarkable, and almost unparalleled in history. It’s absolutely badass they didn’t surrender to Hannibal after Cannae. Any modern day country would’ve fallen in complete despair after losses like that. Rome’s determination is the best of the human spirit in that sense. Hard-nosed people like the Romans are the humans who survived the younger dryas, and gave rise to humanity when so many of our relatives went extinct. It reminds me of when I was reading the Silmarillion, which is the prequel to Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, where the High Elves of the Noldor are at war with Morgoth/Melkor (who is LOTR’s Lucifer). They win at the start and siege Angband for 400 years. In that whole time, they do nothing to finish the war or change the balance of power, and just grow comfortable in their realms and decadent. Meanwhile, Morgoth never gives up. He stays determined even after centuries of losses. And, after all that time, Morgoth crushes the Elves in just 2 battles. 1-The Dagor Bragollach, where he breaks the siege of Angband. And 2-The Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Innumerable Tears, where the Noldor counterattack. And after that, the Elves basically give up. They present no unified force against Morgoth, and stop fighting him, choosing instead to kill each other for the Silmarils. And Morgoth just picks them off 1 at a time until he conquers them all. In the Silmarillion, unlike in Lord of the Rings, the bad guys win. Morgoth crushes the Elves. And he’s only vanquished when the Elves cry enough to the Valar (the gods of middle earth), that the Valar literally invade and conquer Morgoth’s realm of Dor Daedaelos themselves, banishing him to the void. The Elves just gave up. I don’t think Rome would have. Frankly, it’s fun to imagine what Morgoth would’ve done if he had to deal with Rome. Rome would’ve never surrendered, and just kept hammering him forever. Rome was just on another level, and they could’ve stared Morgoth down with their determination. Insane. I guess that’s actually a key difference between LOTR and the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion was a battle between Morgoth and the Elves, while LOTR was one between Sauron and Men. And Men, unlike the Elves high and mighty as they were, had an inherent fire and will with their gift of mortality that the Elves didn’t have, and they won without having to literally having to ask the gods to bail them out. Rome is the furthest extension of that human spirit. And, if I were forced to choose a society to defend Earth from either an Alien invasion or AI invasion to wipe us out, I’d choose Rome.
"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
Erik, respectfully, what’s the point of being on the podcast if you just say “so what happened next” whenever Rudyard pauses? Do some prep or just let him solo it
Brought this up in another comment. It’s so disorganized and ramble-y. It’s essentially just another WhatIfAltHist video on a separate channel, if you have an interviewer who doesn’t interview. Each of these is like the Vaush debate all over again. No structure, haphazard transitions, no overarching question or theme (other than a very, very general one). It’s just poor quality.
Yep. I was thinking exact same. Nothing against the guy. I'm sure they're good friends, but he really doesn't add anything remotely significant whatsoever to these "discussions". They need to have him prepare better or just have Rudyard do it solo.
I think an underrated facet in the Rise of Rome is the demographics of Europe. A large part in why the Greeks expanded so much and had their golden age was because they had a population boom during their golden age. By the time of the rise of Rome, Italy had around 7 million people while all of europe had around 26 million at around the 1st Century BC.
2:25 Latin and Ancient Greek are two very similar languages as well, especially in terms of grammar and syntax, but also had similar vocabularies, and similar scripts as well
Amazing mind , everything make sense . French being from latin , can you relate how the language evolved after the Roman Empire . I'm french and I love history . Thank you for all you do ❤
Whatifalthist youre wrong! I caught you making a mistake! Hannibal wasnt captured in Syria in the Seleucid Empire as you said and showed on the map in 51:22 but in the kingdom of Bithynia, the brown right above it near the northern western egde of Anatolia. In the town of Libyssa to be precise. He was betrayed by king Prusias the 1rst of Bithynia who offered him sanctuary and allegiance in the beginning but later handed him over to the Romans. This king with the coordination and help of Hannibal also founded the city of Prusa (modern day Bursa in Turkey) which was named after him and which served as a significant stronghold of the Byzantines and later the Ottomans as one of their first capitals. About 8k greek bithynians remained in the city up until the end of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922 and it is the birth place of the most popular street food of both countries (greek gyro and turkish doner, which is the same thing but the greeks use pork meat while turks use beef meat... and even the words gyro and doner have the same meaning).
I agree mostly with the assessment "not culturally inventive" but I get there from a different perspective, they were pragmatic. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
i think "the cycle" of empire is more of a power "bubble" kind of thing. through the resistance to decadence, an empire or whatever system becomes so powerful that the only outside threats are weak and not major, thus they become a system in a bubble. after a while the power bubble can only build so much pressure within itself by more and more vicious competition between participants of the same system. then it destroys itself because they cant compete for power outside of their own system, and so eventually the system becomes the enemy to people that cant compete.
Dude I was drumming on my laptop and it was shaking at exactly the same speed as your video was when you started your camera @ 0:18 and it through me for a loop.. I'm about to record a video myself, but I had not turned on any camera yet.. but the synchronization of my drumming and the swaying of my laptop back and forth from it was literally 1 to 1 with your camera shake, same tempo and everything. Bizarre!
Rome actually reversed engineered Carthaginian ships during the first punic war i feel like that was a important detail left out, as they had no idea how to build a ship
Small thing: The Etruscans weren't an empire, they were a series of city states. That is part of why they didn't unite against the threat of the Romans quickly enough. Also their language is unique, I don't think it's a similar language around Troy but I'm not sure.
If you're interested there's a beautiful channel called Schwerpunkt that deals pretty much in-depth especially with the rise of Rome and Romano-Italic warfare. I'd love to see you two cooperate
Great show fella’s. Never miss an episode. A couple points of observation: Rudyard, not sure what the hell is growing out of shirt but found it super distracting lol! Either wax that shit or go button up and tie. Could be a good look for you anyway. Also, go get yourself one of those ol timey big chalkboards or something for you to interact with during the lecture since Eric isn’t much of a sparring partner. Which brings me to Eric. Definitely need some more from you. Maybe try bouncing alternative versions of events back at rudyard or just ask more questions. Even if you know the answer, ask them anyway because the viewer may not. Anyway, sorry for the harsh critique. Just love the show and want see you all succeed 😅
The way you talk about hanibal vs rome is like I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY IT'S THE COOLEST THING EVER! RUDYARD WILLAMS LYNCH YOU ARE THE BEST HISTORIAN EVER AND BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE BY MILLIONS OF TIMES!!! i never heard anybody make history even remotly intresting but you talking It's soo captivating
Respectfully but these videos need more of a centralized thesis/talking point because these videos tend to be all over the place also I would say research more into those topics because a lot of times in this video and others your glossing over very important details and sometimes are completely wrong in your analysis when your telling history. Even when your right it lacks structure that it makes no sense almost. I don’t mean to be rude or disrespectful I completely love your videos on sociology and anthropology as well as political theory and even philosophy and religion but history isn’t your strong suite which is why I say this. Again my intent isn’t to be negative for negatives sake but to hopefully make your videos better in terms of historical analysis, structure in relating history correctly, and being more cohesive in your narrative for the video. Much love no hate
I have some skepticism that ancient peoples would salt the Earth on a large scale. Salt was very expensive in ancient times; it would be much cheaper to a run religious ceremony where a symbolic and modestly-size plot of land is salted. The remaining land is now forbidden to settlement by association.
I would disagree that Americans don’t develop artistically, you really only need to look to the music industry to disprove this, America has been the epicentre of all the most popular music genres of the 20th and 21st centuries, including but not limited to: blues, country, jazz, rock and roll, hip hop, and many more, and Europeans all listen to American music produced by American artists, and marketed by American record labels!
Approximately 45-50 minutes in, Professor Lynch mentions "spoilers" in regards to Scipio Africanus. Perhaps because of my fascination with history, spoiler alerts don't work on me (even with fictional books and movies). Knowing the end of a story might even actually motivate me to learn more about any given topic.
43:31 It was also incredibly common in ancient warfare that after a total battle like Cannea, the losers'd sue for peace. sieges were horrible for both sides and if Hannibal succedeed it surely meant rape and slavery for the entire population of Rome. But like you mentioned, Rome didn't believe in losing. So like a mythical hydra dragon you keep chopping off heads and it doesn't stop fighting. It makes sense that Hannibal aimed to turn the allies against Rome or atleast capture some ports for contact with Carthage. In my reading experience it felt like Hannibals failure to capture a port like Neopolis or Carthage's lack of support was more to blame. Mainly the identity of Carthage being a trading company, and the barca family the only succesfull military branch is what caused failure in the end. also the fact that he wasnt able to join forces with his brother.. I do really enjoy your view on what makes empires like Rome or Macedon great is that they bordered Giants and therefore were forced to adapt and overcome. the celts and carthage almost destroyed Rome, but they also made it, and without them Rome might have collpased without strenght (teeth) like someone else commented. great video!
I wish you didn't have such a short time limit for these videos. I don't mind the rambling format, but it's hard to hit every point in such a short form
16:15 If true, then I wonder what it was that made Romans so loyal to their society. That is, what made the cohesion? I doubt religion alone would be responsible for that. This kind of loyalty can only be seen in small pockets of society today.
I lost a lot of respect for WhatIfAltHist’s opinion after watching this video. I understand this was an impromptu monologue but there were so many errors. Here are just 3 glaring obvious ones. The Etruscans DNA isn’t linked to Asia Minor. Hannibal didn’t just turn one of Rome’s Allies. He turned the entire Po Valley, Capua, almost all of southern Italy and even Syracuse. His statements about Greek democracies being a thing of the past before they contacted Rome is just plain wrong.
hot take: the romans were the closest thing to the ubbermench ever. the only rules they followed (at their peak) were the ones that mantained the vigor and strength of theis character and nothig more
Um, The Roman Military after the Samnite wars was so overpowered, with only the armies of the Germanic tribes, Dacian tribes, Nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, the Arabic tribes, and the Sassanid Persian Empire being able to face the Romans in battle pretty equally.
18:00 somewhere there you mention that polygamie weakens a society, but the Parthians and the Sasanians where that and they did not weaken that much. They got even stronger in Time.
You’d have to go back a very long ways to find a time when Rome “just a small town by the Tiber.” Going back as far as the late Bronze Age Rome has been the central transportation and trade hub for central Italy. Due to this Rome was likely one of the largest and grandly adorned cities in the Mediterranean by the mid 6th century BC.
I know you’ve already started to do this in your other channel, but could you please make a few more videos, on practical small steps we can make to fix our society, and perhaps fit those steps into a historical context. There is hope, let’s make an alternate history of the rebirth of the West!!!😮😊
European here: You are aware that the eastern roman empire, including greece, continued for another thousand years, for hundreds of years including the wealthiest regions of the ancient world, while america was overrun.
The dating of the Trojan War is actually 650 BC not 1200 BC. The etruscans came from Phrygia in circa 800 BC. Brutus (who Britain is named after) was like the grandson or great grandson of the king of Troy. In circa 500 BC he left Rome and then went to Troy and Then went to Britain where he became king. (the surviving Trojans fled there to seek refuge with a people who were only separated from them by a couple hundred years and they spoke the same language) this was taught as historical fact until the 1700s in England and until early 1900s i think in wales. Not only does the genetic evidence back this up but the language does as well. You can use welsh to read Etruscan. You can use welsh to read Egyptian hieroglyphics as well. Go to britains hidden history on TH-cam for the better details.
Bro you are brain dead. Homer is likely to have written Iliad in the 9th or 8th century bce, yet he somehow wrote about a Trojan war that hadn’t even happened yet??? Troy fell at the end of Bronze Age 12th century bce my guy. This is the brain rot you receive when everything you know about history comes from fringe youtube videos
It's really hard for me to watch Rudyard anymore since he spent ten minutes of his "incel revolution" video listing all of the ways that he's not an incel and has sex all the time.
Re-read Polybius Book 6 - Polybius argued that Rome's political system was key to its rise because it was a 'mixed constitution' with monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic elements, preventing/delaying the instability of the anacyclosis. Some scholars argued the Republic was a democracy (e.g. Millar) Polybius definitely did not. Hope this isn't seen as nitpicking/well akshually bad faith criticism as I do like some of your videos and get the usefulness of a macro/breadth focus. But these types of errors (some mentioned in other comments) create concern about rigour/Gell-Amnesia effect in the building blocks of these macro points.
Drills were not really a great breakthrough, the breakthrough was the recreation of standing armies which had not been much of a thing in Europe since the romans. Drills naturally become a thing with standing armies for natural disciplinary reasons and were not taken from the roman in any way.
Take the idea that future empires lie on the periphery of existing large strongmen countries, what could the next future empire be after the US is finished it's 4th turning?
I actually like this better than the main channel for listening to while I work/workout, since I don't have to come running to screenshot a map or a graphic as much.
Rudy talks about keto like it's chemotherapy
LOL
Ketotherapy
it is 😅
😂
Rudyard randomly swinging his sword around as he is speaking is the funniest stuff ever.
Rome is honestly a testament to importance of willpower in humanity. People who say willpower and determination aren’t factors in history just need to look at Rome. Rome often had so much stacked against them, and just didn’t give up. Their incessant determination and grit is truly remarkable, and almost unparalleled in history. It’s absolutely badass they didn’t surrender to Hannibal after Cannae. Any modern day country would’ve fallen in complete despair after losses like that. Rome’s determination is the best of the human spirit in that sense. Hard-nosed people like the Romans are the humans who survived the younger dryas, and gave rise to humanity when so many of our relatives went extinct.
It reminds me of when I was reading the Silmarillion, which is the prequel to Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, where the High Elves of the Noldor are at war with Morgoth/Melkor (who is LOTR’s Lucifer). They win at the start and siege Angband for 400 years. In that whole time, they do nothing to finish the war or change the balance of power, and just grow comfortable in their realms and decadent.
Meanwhile, Morgoth never gives up. He stays determined even after centuries of losses. And, after all that time, Morgoth crushes the Elves in just 2 battles. 1-The Dagor Bragollach, where he breaks the siege of Angband. And 2-The Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Innumerable Tears, where the Noldor counterattack.
And after that, the Elves basically give up. They present no unified force against Morgoth, and stop fighting him, choosing instead to kill each other for the Silmarils. And Morgoth just picks them off 1 at a time until he conquers them all. In the Silmarillion, unlike in Lord of the Rings, the bad guys win. Morgoth crushes the Elves. And he’s only vanquished when the Elves cry enough to the Valar (the gods of middle earth), that the Valar literally invade and conquer Morgoth’s realm of Dor Daedaelos themselves, banishing him to the void.
The Elves just gave up. I don’t think Rome would have. Frankly, it’s fun to imagine what Morgoth would’ve done if he had to deal with Rome. Rome would’ve never surrendered, and just kept hammering him forever. Rome was just on another level, and they could’ve stared Morgoth down with their determination. Insane.
I guess that’s actually a key difference between LOTR and the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion was a battle between Morgoth and the Elves, while LOTR was one between Sauron and Men. And Men, unlike the Elves high and mighty as they were, had an inherent fire and will with their gift of mortality that the Elves didn’t have, and they won without having to literally having to ask the gods to bail them out.
Rome is the furthest extension of that human spirit.
And, if I were forced to choose a society to defend Earth from either an Alien invasion or AI invasion to wipe us out, I’d choose Rome.
Lol keep smoking that weed
I can't believe I just read through all of that
Russia survived the worst atrocities due to the same reason
I think it's a bad comparison, Morgoth was also a god, Hannibal was not.
When I'm in a 'sucking off Rome' match and my opponent is DarthHoosier3038
"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)
Fucking classic
Really?
>THIS IS JUST LIKE MY CAPEHERO GOYSLOP MOVIEARINOS AND HECKIN COMIC BOOKS!!!11!!
Just like the simulation!
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Watch out for those wrist rockets!
Damn, time to play that shit again
Don’t feel like you guys need to speed through these. I would love to hear this episode go twice as long
Erik, respectfully, what’s the point of being on the podcast if you just say “so what happened next” whenever Rudyard pauses? Do some prep or just let him solo it
Brought this up in another comment. It’s so disorganized and ramble-y. It’s essentially just another WhatIfAltHist video on a separate channel, if you have an interviewer who doesn’t interview.
Each of these is like the Vaush debate all over again. No structure, haphazard transitions, no overarching question or theme (other than a very, very general one).
It’s just poor quality.
Was thinking the exact same. These "podcasts" are just Erik interviewing Rudy & provides no knowledge of his own so he's just useless 😂
It kind of creates a more relaxing atmosphere
Agreed, guy is pointless and annoying.
Yep. I was thinking exact same. Nothing against the guy. I'm sure they're good friends, but he really doesn't add anything remotely significant whatsoever to these "discussions". They need to have him prepare better or just have Rudyard do it solo.
The tea chugging brakes are amazing. Love the mug my man
Hannibal: "May you live in interesting times."
Romans: "nuuuuuuuuuuuu"
I think an underrated facet in the Rise of Rome is the demographics of Europe. A large part in why the Greeks expanded so much and had their golden age was because they had a population boom during their golden age. By the time of the rise of Rome, Italy had around 7 million people while all of europe had around 26 million at around the 1st Century BC.
This channel is so underrated. keep up the good work Rudyard
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Oh my god the awkward cuts had me laughing to tears.
Man needs his tea.
2:25 Latin and Ancient Greek are two very similar languages as well, especially in terms of grammar and syntax, but also had similar vocabularies, and similar scripts as well
obligatory comment to fight the algorithm that is suppressing this channels subscriber growth
I really like these series, but I would like for the host to put more effort into keeping some sort of chronological order.
Amazing mind , everything make sense . French being from latin , can you relate how the language evolved after the Roman Empire . I'm french and I love history . Thank you for all you do ❤
Father: "Son I need you to kill the Romans."
6 Month year old son: *Accepting baby noises*
Whatifalthist youre wrong! I caught you making a mistake! Hannibal wasnt captured in Syria in the Seleucid Empire as you said and showed on the map in 51:22 but in the kingdom of Bithynia, the brown right above it near the northern western egde of Anatolia. In the town of Libyssa to be precise. He was betrayed by king Prusias the 1rst of Bithynia who offered him sanctuary and allegiance in the beginning but later handed him over to the Romans. This king with the coordination and help of Hannibal also founded the city of Prusa (modern day Bursa in Turkey) which was named after him and which served as a significant stronghold of the Byzantines and later the Ottomans as one of their first capitals. About 8k greek bithynians remained in the city up until the end of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922 and it is the birth place of the most popular street food of both countries (greek gyro and turkish doner, which is the same thing but the greeks use pork meat while turks use beef meat... and even the words gyro and doner have the same meaning).
I agree mostly with the assessment "not culturally inventive" but I get there from a different perspective, they were pragmatic. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The Greeks are to Romans, that which the Romans are to the Byzantines.. They kinda evolved and took off from each other
Great video as always Eduardo
i think "the cycle" of empire is more of a power "bubble" kind of thing. through the resistance to decadence, an empire or whatever system becomes so powerful that the only outside threats are weak and not major, thus they become a system in a bubble. after a while the power bubble can only build so much pressure within itself by more and more vicious competition between participants of the same system. then it destroys itself because they cant compete for power outside of their own system, and so eventually the system becomes the enemy to people that cant compete.
23:56 this trend started already before the Roman conquest of Greece, after the Roman conquest of Magna Graecia (Southern Italy and Sicily)
been waiting for another one of these
This is one of the most fascinating videos I have heard...
Dude I was drumming on my laptop and it was shaking at exactly the same speed as your video was when you started your camera @ 0:18 and it through me for a loop.. I'm about to record a video myself, but I had not turned on any camera yet.. but the synchronization of my drumming and the swaying of my laptop back and forth from it was literally 1 to 1 with your camera shake, same tempo and everything. Bizarre!
These are great videos! I hope you guys do an ancient Egyptian history video. Or kushites?? Or Sumeria Mesopotamia.
Rome actually reversed engineered Carthaginian ships during the first punic war i feel like that was a important detail left out, as they had no idea how to build a ship
Also, after that they had no idea how to do naval warfare, so they invented naval boarding.
Please talk about the Celtic civilization next.
That's less history and more archeology.
Good to see the birth of the small kingdom that facilitated the growth of the Catholic church
Small thing: The Etruscans weren't an empire, they were a series of city states. That is part of why they didn't unite against the threat of the Romans quickly enough.
Also their language is unique, I don't think it's a similar language around Troy but I'm not sure.
If you're interested there's a beautiful channel called Schwerpunkt that deals pretty much in-depth especially with the rise of Rome and Romano-Italic warfare. I'd love to see you two cooperate
Where can I find the Dan Carlin podcast about the Punic wars?
A Hardcore History following Hannibal Barca would be really cool!
Does anyone know the name of the Punin Wars episodes on Carlin's channel?
@@eloybox Hardcore History 21-23 - Punic Nightmares Series
Great show fella’s. Never miss an episode.
A couple points of observation:
Rudyard, not sure what the hell is growing out of shirt but found it super distracting lol! Either wax that shit or go button up and tie. Could be a good look for you anyway.
Also, go get yourself one of those ol timey big chalkboards or something for you to interact with during the lecture since Eric isn’t much of a sparring partner.
Which brings me to Eric. Definitely need some more from you. Maybe try bouncing alternative versions of events back at rudyard or just ask more questions. Even if you know the answer, ask them anyway because the viewer may not.
Anyway, sorry for the harsh critique. Just love the show and want see you all succeed 😅
Rome is eternal
16:04 the name of that Roman General was Manlius.... True fact manliest manly general Manlius
The way you talk about hanibal vs rome is like I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY IT'S THE COOLEST THING EVER! RUDYARD WILLAMS LYNCH YOU ARE THE BEST HISTORIAN EVER AND BETTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE BY MILLIONS OF TIMES!!! i never heard anybody make history even remotly intresting but you talking It's soo captivating
33:30 I have that same cup, but in red.
"Hey how often do you think about the Roman Empire?" "Dude I *identify* as Roman."
Respectfully but these videos need more of a centralized thesis/talking point because these videos tend to be all over the place also I would say research more into those topics because a lot of times in this video and others your glossing over very important details and sometimes are completely wrong in your analysis when your telling history. Even when your right it lacks structure that it makes no sense almost. I don’t mean to be rude or disrespectful I completely love your videos on sociology and anthropology as well as political theory and even philosophy and religion but history isn’t your strong suite which is why I say this. Again my intent isn’t to be negative for negatives sake but to hopefully make your videos better in terms of historical analysis, structure in relating history correctly, and being more cohesive in your narrative for the video. Much love no hate
I reckon it's fine
No sound, or is it just me
Just you
How is it that some people have sound and others don't
Force shut the app and come back.
Not me.
that's just youtube adblock for you. reload the page
I have some skepticism that ancient peoples would salt the Earth on a large scale. Salt was very expensive in ancient times; it would be much cheaper to a run religious ceremony where a symbolic and modestly-size plot of land is salted. The remaining land is now forbidden to settlement by association.
24:24 in other words, slaves were more like servants, they served their masters but apart from that still had normal rights as individuals
Who up Risin they Rome rn
10:06 Damn, we really are quite similar to the Roman Republic
0:44 Knew it
😂😂
I would disagree that Americans don’t develop artistically, you really only need to look to the music industry to disprove this, America has been the epicentre of all the most popular music genres of the 20th and 21st centuries, including but not limited to: blues, country, jazz, rock and roll, hip hop, and many more, and Europeans all listen to American music produced by American artists, and marketed by American record labels!
Do an Africa one next.
Which part? 😬😨
That's a *big* topic.
you mean like Mali Empire or talking about Mansa Musa?
I do an Africa a day right before lunch
They "invented" mud and used it to make hovels and never invented the wheel.
Should cover around the past 2 millennia.
Approximately 45-50 minutes in, Professor Lynch mentions "spoilers" in regards to Scipio Africanus. Perhaps because of my fascination with history, spoiler alerts don't work on me (even with fictional books and movies). Knowing the end of a story might even actually motivate me to learn more about any given topic.
The longer you listen, the more you can’t help but notice the massive intellectual gap between these two
18:47. Depends on what what "Hollywood" you are talking about. The early east coast or the later west coast industry.
43:31 It was also incredibly common in ancient warfare that after a total battle like Cannea, the losers'd sue for peace. sieges were horrible for both sides and if Hannibal succedeed it surely meant rape and slavery for the entire population of Rome. But like you mentioned, Rome didn't believe in losing. So like a mythical hydra dragon you keep chopping off heads and it doesn't stop fighting. It makes sense that Hannibal aimed to turn the allies against Rome or atleast capture some ports for contact with Carthage. In my reading experience it felt like Hannibals failure to capture a port like Neopolis or Carthage's lack of support was more to blame. Mainly the identity of Carthage being a trading company, and the barca family the only succesfull military branch is what caused failure in the end. also the fact that he wasnt able to join forces with his brother..
I do really enjoy your view on what makes empires like Rome or Macedon great is that they bordered Giants and therefore were forced to adapt and overcome. the celts and carthage almost destroyed Rome, but they also made it, and without them Rome might have collpased without strenght (teeth) like someone else commented. great video!
53:15 When Rome went wrong and stopped being a good country because they committed genocide but more importantly broke its word 😂
Julius Caesar: Why not both
You skipped the sack of Rome by the Gauls, which was vital for giving Rome its teeth.
true
I don't think it's true that the Americans built the European Union. I think the Europeans did most of that themselves; with the U.S. supporting it.
Great video Eduardo
Very helpful. Thanks.
Her: Do you really think about the Roman Empire often?
Him:
What happened to the old guy
Romans did not spread salt over Carthaginian land, that's a myth.
How do you feel about the Gracchi bros?
is this reupload?
I wish you didn't have such a short time limit for these videos. I don't mind the rambling format, but it's hard to hit every point in such a short form
I'm looking forward to the Spanish Empire!
Lol I'm listening to this in the background while playing Rome 2
16:15 If true, then I wonder what it was that made Romans so loyal to their society. That is, what made the cohesion? I doubt religion alone would be responsible for that. This kind of loyalty can only be seen in small pockets of society today.
Byzantines so underrated.
11:16 good info
I thought he used the mug as a joke but he probably drinks 1liter of coffee and needs a huge cup😅
I lost a lot of respect for WhatIfAltHist’s opinion after watching this video. I understand this was an impromptu monologue but there were so many errors. Here are just 3 glaring obvious ones.
The Etruscans DNA isn’t linked to Asia Minor.
Hannibal didn’t just turn one of Rome’s Allies. He turned the entire Po Valley, Capua, almost all of southern Italy and even Syracuse.
His statements about Greek democracies being a thing of the past before they contacted Rome is just plain wrong.
hot take: the romans were the closest thing to the ubbermench ever. the only rules they followed (at their peak) were the ones that mantained the vigor and strength of theis character and nothig more
Not really. The spartans take that position by far.
@@ivanbro1208 acc true dont know why I said that
Hannibal’s brother was Hasdrubal. A first name still given in Latin America pronounced Asdrubal.
Why do you have time limits? its a podcast
at least go over an hour
Um, The Roman Military after the Samnite wars was so overpowered, with only the armies of the Germanic tribes, Dacian tribes, Nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, the Arabic tribes, and the Sassanid Persian Empire being able to face the Romans in battle pretty equally.
18:00 somewhere there you mention that polygamie weakens a society, but the Parthians and the Sasanians where that and they did not weaken that much. They got even stronger in Time.
Good stuff, but poor organization.
it looks like there are two spots on his neck which are quite distracting, idk if they're shadows or hair or a birth mark.
You’d have to go back a very long ways to find a time when Rome “just a small town by the Tiber.”
Going back as far as the late Bronze Age Rome has been the central transportation and trade hub for central Italy. Due to this Rome was likely one of the largest and grandly adorned cities in the Mediterranean by the mid 6th century BC.
No sound
I seem to remember Livy wrote a decent history of Rome as well.
Honorary comment to fight the algorithm
I know you’ve already started to do this in your other channel, but could you please make a few more videos, on practical small steps we can make to fix our society, and perhaps fit those steps into a historical context. There is hope, let’s make an alternate history of the rebirth of the West!!!😮😊
European here: You are aware that the eastern roman empire, including greece, continued for another thousand years, for hundreds of years including the wealthiest regions of the ancient world, while america was overrun.
The dating of the Trojan War is actually 650 BC not 1200 BC. The etruscans came from Phrygia in circa 800 BC. Brutus (who Britain is named after) was like the grandson or great grandson of the king of Troy. In circa 500 BC he left Rome and then went to Troy and Then went to Britain where he became king. (the surviving Trojans fled there to seek refuge with a people who were only separated from them by a couple hundred years and they spoke the same language) this was taught as historical fact until the 1700s in England and until early 1900s i think in wales. Not only does the genetic evidence back this up but the language does as well. You can use welsh to read Etruscan. You can use welsh to read Egyptian hieroglyphics as well. Go to britains hidden history on TH-cam for the better details.
Bro you are brain dead. Homer is likely to have written Iliad in the 9th or 8th century bce, yet he somehow wrote about a Trojan war that hadn’t even happened yet??? Troy fell at the end of Bronze Age 12th century bce my guy. This is the brain rot you receive when everything you know about history comes from fringe youtube videos
I love how he's just an enthusiastic Spergertist in Little Kid Mode. Life should be more like that.
It's really hard for me to watch Rudyard anymore since he spent ten minutes of his "incel revolution" video listing all of the ways that he's not an incel and has sex all the time.
Well he was stuck either way really. If he says he isn’t one, then he’s coping, if he says he is one, than nobody would hear him out.
@@hismajesty6272 yeah, you're right. I just didn't need it rubbed in my face that HE gets a bunch of tail and I can't.
Re-read Polybius Book 6 - Polybius argued that Rome's political system was key to its rise because it was a 'mixed constitution' with monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic elements, preventing/delaying the instability of the anacyclosis. Some scholars argued the Republic was a democracy (e.g. Millar) Polybius definitely did not.
Hope this isn't seen as nitpicking/well akshually bad faith criticism as I do like some of your videos and get the usefulness of a macro/breadth focus. But these types of errors (some mentioned in other comments) create concern about rigour/Gell-Amnesia effect in the building blocks of these macro points.
32:34 Hans-Hermann Hoppe has entered the chat
Guys, improve the sound and the decor. Please. And do something about the back and forth too.
What’s up with the banter at the beginning.
I love this guy
Drills were not really a great breakthrough, the breakthrough was the recreation of standing armies which had not been much of a thing in Europe since the romans. Drills naturally become a thing with standing armies for natural disciplinary reasons and were not taken from the roman in any way.
two different coffee cups in a short amount of time
Take the idea that future empires lie on the periphery of existing large strongmen countries, what could the next future empire be after the US is finished it's 4th turning?
Lore of Explaining the Rise of Rome momentum 100
Rome really hated Carthage because they did child sacrifices
He made a stunning and brave joke lol
My guy drinking milk
If Greeks and Roman’s were the same civilization, then eastern Rome is still Rome, so Rome lasted until the 1490’s
I can’t speak for the genetic but the Etruscan language is in no way related to any language in Anatolia that we know of.