@@TominusMaximus Oop, I was just trying to make a joke. The word is vandalism btw, and it's extremely common in the Anglophone world, normally it's the go-to word when something has been altered without permission
The term "Vandalism" came about in the 1700's. They were just one of the groups blamed for the fall of Rome and so they were used as a rhetorical device.
@@TominusMaximus Suppose that throughout all the parts you do Rome itself would be given it's own place as even Persian dynasties or Islamic Caliphates could only do so much damage compared to a rogue roman general or a up-and-coming Byzantine House.
@@Byzantine-Revolt The greatest foe Rome ever faced was Iran which is also reflected in the sources. Rome and Iran were called the two eyes of the world and at one point Iran forced Rome to capitulate.
The best story for understanding Rome, is how the Senate auctioned the land Hannibal was encamped on right after Cannae. That sheer will is pathological
I think feeling like a community is part of it, a lot of them knew of what their father, grandfathers etc did, who designed what, funded what, built what. All of that built stuff being within their borders of land controlled by their community. We don't have that in the modern day, with only a few exceptions.
I personally think that the Vandals and the Persians were the greatest enemies of the empire. The Persians were a lethal threat under leaders such as Shapur, Khosrow I, and Khosrow II who during their final war with Rome nearly destroyed the entire empire. The Vandals basically delivered a key blow to the western empire's chances of survival by taking North Africa and then Geiseric smashed any attempt by the Romans to take it back.
Between Crassus and Antony Parthia did invaded rome and took I think all of the levant and part of Anatolia, it was Ventidius who defeated them and killed the Parthian prince leading the invasion, Im surprised you did not mentioned that at all.
Just as extra info, the Spanish region of Andalucía, which comes from Al-Andalus, in theory means “land of the Vandals” in arabic, because they crossed the straight of gibraltar to invade north africa, and so the people of the region thought Iberia was their land.
Salve, Tominus! I was looking for your video of early Roman stories but I'm assuming it was privated or taken down; I request you upload it cause I love that bit about Mucius Scaevola.
Seeing the Dacians put in the same category with Huns makes me proud and grateful that you acknowledge the danger of Dacia at those times until sadly they lost in 106, remaining only the free dacians and the carpi outside Dacia Romana. And we were before the Huns, but not as great as them. We were good archers too though🤘🏻🐺🏹
I assume this pre 476 ranking because the Persians not the goths came to the closest to destroying the empire by 620.rhe situation was so desperate Heraclius wanted to become the client state of the Persians
the Goths & other Germanic tribes castrated Rome, the Persians Exhausted that Roman Cardio, the Arabs Broke Rome's Spine & the Turks finished off that Roman cripple after Latin Crusaders pushed him out of his wheelchair LOL
The Germanic tribes burned half their face. The Persians and Arabs nearly beat them to death. The Turks kicked them in the balls. The Crusaders cut out their heart.
Christianity wasnt that strong among berbers even by the time islam reached northwestern africa The majority of berbers were still pagans or the limit syncretic Only some few urban centers were christianized As for the vandals, they allied a lot with the local berber tribes to conquer roman africa/carthage, even used them when they sacked rome and raided across the mediterranean sea, after the war, those berber tribes began to inflict defeats on the vandals and gradually taking back their territory until the ERE came back
A constant reminder of the larger epic struggles of the despotic East and the tyrannical West since the fall of a balanced Egyptian power during the Bronze Age Societal Crises, sparked by bad Mycenaean harvests and an abduction of a Spartan Queen by a prodigal Trojan prince.
Jews and Persians had good relations in antiquity. The Bible portrays them very favorably in the book of Ezra and they were usually very willing rebels whenever Persia attacked the Levant causing Roman retribution. Also good that you rank Goths and Vandals higher than the Huns/Attila. The Huns mostly did some raids and pillaging, they didn't do irreversible damage like the Goths and Vandals did. They even collapsed and fade away from history before the WRE did. Super overrated, important sure, but they were hardly the central cause of Romes demise like people seem to pretend.
The damage the Huns did to the Empire is seen as more indirect, but still significantly important and key to Rome's fall (at least for it falling as soon as it did). Because of the Huns, Germanic tribes had extraordinary cause to unite into larger confederations with the goal of settling in Roman territory.
Well, I doubt it. They were certainly very belligerent and in 626 almost conquered the capital of Constantinople, but they weren't as bad as say Ottomans, Arabs (by that I mean Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates) or Crusaders.
There is n0 such thing as the Byzantiums or the Byzantine Empire. They were a direct continuation of Rome. The Sassanids were a serious threat to them, but they were ROMAN. Get that through your thick skull.
"Brothers and sisters are natural enemies. Like Persians and Romans. Or Huns and Romans. Or Germanic tribes and Romans. Or Romans and other Romans. Damn Romans! They ruined Rome!" Willieanus Caledonicus
Why the sassanid don't conquer Syria or Egypt in the Crisis of Third Century? well Shapur I' campaigns were more for sack than conquer and after his death, in my humild opinion, the sassanid enter in a crisis for weak monarch until the Shapur II become in adult and after his death the sassanid have another crisis by weak monarch and the white huns attack in the East during the Five Century, when the Western Roman Empire collapse (but not the Eastern, more rich, urban and greek part). Sorry the bad english PD: I hope see a ranking of enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire (bad call "Byzantine").
Palmyrenes, bro... Apparently they're just that cool with a Syrian woman practically holding half of their ambitious historic claims (now mostly populated by Persian enemies)
I couldn't help myself and skip forward to see if my assumptions that basically Germans, Huns and Persians were the greatest opponents, and indeed they were. Now, let's look at the whole video LOL
I would say that the huns were hugely overrated They only came for a short period of time and then got defeated They are miles away from the persians and germanics
@@AB-fr2ei their simple existence caused so much harm to the empire, they caused the mass migrations that lead to imperial territorial integrity evaporating, they devastated the lands and coffers of both halves of the empire and forced both halves to plan around them and their reaction. They were short lived but while they were there they were the issue everyone feared and had to consider, they were the existential threat that traumatised the Roman state like no other
If you tell Romanians today that the Roman Empire pillaged Dacia's riches, they laugh like idiots, they genuinely think Dacians were poor savages and that the Romans did nothing wrong.
Yeah I am thinking about not giving a damn anymore and finally showing my face on regular basis. It might be an identity breach but man, probably so easier than editing the audio and then video separately.
The problem thw Jews had with the romans was mainly the way of taxing as in Judea people couldnt own land and the roman taxing system was land based so the romans forced the jews to own land which went against the jewish religion and the jewish roman relations started during seluecid rule and the hasmonean rebbelion when the jews allied the romans and together kicked out the seleucids
This list only goes as far as the end of the West. If this were a Byzantine list, they'd probably still be at #2, as Turks or Saracens would also outdo them.
@@wankawanka3053Constantinople was impenetrable, it’s not a fair comparison. They sacked the majority of their major cities, like Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria.
@@TominusMaximus Yes ofc but I never thought they got that voice in english especialy for Obelix, Asterix is good he sound clever, tiny etc It's one of the first cartoon/comic book I knew so imagine my surprise. Also I didn't knew it has a significant impact outside the triangle France/Switzerlanf/Belgium.
He's only considering pre 468. If he wasn't the Lombards, Ostrogoths, Turks, Avars, Bulgars and Slavs would be on the list, and the Sassanids would be higher.
As always, the Sassanids are underestimated so here's a list of their military victories against Rome Warning : It's long Ardashir Babakan defeated the Romans at the siege of Nisibis 235 and his forces raided Cappadocia along with Syria and reconquered Armenia He also defeated three Roman armies one lead by emperor Alexander Severus himself in Mesopotamia Based on a rock relief in Iran's Azerbaijan, the Roman army in Armenia was also defeated Severus lost the battle of Ctesiphon 233 to the Sassanids but before that, Ardashir crushed his vanguard before arrival of Alexander and it's likely that the third Roman army was also defeated after Severus loss and so Ardeshir was able to repel all three Roman armies marching against him Shapur I defeated 3 Roman emperors and even captured one of them Based on one of the Sassanid tablets, Gordian III also died in one of these battles Each Roman army had between 60,000-70,000 men outnumbering Shapur 2-1 He won the battle of Misiche (60,000 Romans), battle of Barbalissos (60,000 Romans), battle of Edessa (70,000 Romans), siege of Antioch 253, siege of Dura Europos 256, plundered 37 Roman cities in his second Roman campaign and plundered 36 Roman cities in his third, all of this while always being outnumbered 2-1 and yet he won all the wars Emperor Valerian was captured, emperor Philip the arab was humiliated and forced to pay heavy tribute while emperor Gordian III was defeated and probably killed in battle of Misiche against Shapur I according to Sassanid sources Odenathus didn't even fight Shapur's army in a battle he just attacked him from behind while he was already going back to Iran and still, Shapur kept most of his men, prisoners, plunders and loots He even had the time to raid Syria after this clash with Odenathus which means Odenathus army suffered heavy casualties and couldn't stop Shapur at the time even after that so called victory Odenathus failed to take Ctesiphon twice and was defeated at the battle of Ctesiphon 263 by Shapur and failed to conquer the city once again in 266 There's a lithograph/stone carving which scholars believe it shows the victory of Sassanid king, Bahram II over emperor Carus and his brother, the Kushan king, after a successful military campaign in the east against the Kushans Some scholars even say Carus might have been killed in a Sassanid counter attack or skirmish and not by a lightning like the Romans claim Before Narseh was defeated, he defeated Romans at the battle of Carrhae 296 and also in two other battles and inflicted heavy casualties on the Romans and if he had won one last time, the Romans would've been completely defeated that year One of Shapur II small armies defeated a much larger Roman army at the battle of Samarra 363 and a Sassanid killed emperor Julian by shoving a spear in his chest Shapur himself defeated the second Army in Armenia After that, the Sassanids retook Armenia, 15 fortresses and western Mesopotamia Check out Perso Roman peace treaty of 363 which was a humiliation for Rome and made up for the Sassanid defeat at Satala Before that, he sacked Amida and even though he was forced to retreat at the battle of Singara, he returned that same night and defeated the emperor in a night attack, retook his camp, routed the Roman army which was forced to retreat while suffering many casualties He successfully besieged Bezabde in 360 AD and in the same year, the Romans were defeated at Bezabde again when they tried to besiege it He also successfully besieged Singara at 360 AD He also made Manuel Mamikonian of Armenia submit to him in the year 378 AD and thus reconquered Armenia again like years before when he defeated the Armenian queen and her son Bahram Gur also defeated a Roman army but the war ended in a stalemate However, he was able to repel them from Mesopotamia Yazdegerd II raided Roman cities and the Roman emperor was forced to pay heavy tribute for him to leave Under the Kavad I and his Khosrow Anushiravan, the Sassanids defeated the Romans in three wars in a row The Anastasian war Iberian war Lazic war All won by the Sassanids with the Romans forced to pay heavy tribute each time at the end of each war and losing more battles or sieges than the Sassanids in each of them Khosrow destroyed the fortress of Dara in one of his campaigns which made Roman emperor go insane He raided the Roman provinces several times and each time got tribute from the emperor Khosrow even sacked Antioch Even Belisarius, the best eastern Roman general was defeated several times by the Sassanids Battle of Thannuris 528 (Sassanid victory) Battle of Mindouos 528/529 (Sassanid victory) Battle of Dara 530 (Roman victory) Battle of Callinicum (Sassanid victory) Battle of Nisibis (Sassanid victory) Siege of Sisauranon (withdrawal of Belisarius army) Two Roman forces that attacked Mesopotamia were also defeated before the battle of Thannuris Battle of Anglon 543 (4,000 Sassanids defeated 30,000 Romans) Bahram Chobin defeated Romans or Roman sponsored armies about three times or four times during the reign of Khosrow I and Hormizd IV Hormizd IV or his generals also won a series of victories in raids and sieges against the Romans in Mesopotamia and their borders Khosrow II generals, Shahrbaraz and Shahin, conquered half if not most of the Byzantine empire and held it for 10-16 years They even defeated Heraclius himself once at the battle of Antioch 613 when he had 68,000 men while the Sassanids had 40,000 The Sassanids took true cross from Romans for years and defeated Heraclius once or twice more after that victory near Antioch The war ended in a stalemate, not even a victory for any of the two
the anglo-*saxons* also made up quite a bit of the varangian guard after 1066 (many anglo-saxon warriors fled england after the norman invasion), but idk if you wanna include that for saxons because they are anglo-saxons
Ave Christus Rex!!! btw Tominus... I have family from around the Danube Delta. I took a DNA test and I got 4% Italian and 12% Greek which I'm super happy about, I've been called 'Italian Restaurant Owner' (my looks) by my mates and I take it as a complement.
If you check the map,borders of Yamnaya culture,Scythia and Sarmatia( thracians and dacians,goths,or getae,same peoples,by DNA,as scytjians and sarmatians),Hunnic empire,Onoguria and Old Great Bulgaria of khan Kubrat is weird a?And all,are horsemasters,from steppes and because of horse migrated all over the world.Old Bulgaria is a last confederation of this horse tribes,around Black see steppes and divided again,by his 5 sons(is it not the same everywhere,as Charlemane sons in other end of the Europe hihi,same story of greed for power).BTW bulgarian khan Krum,did drink,from East Roman emperor head later,but he tell Nikephoros-if you dont want a Pax,take my axe,was fair choice.Healt and happynes,and learn from history,not repeat old mistakes
Love to see you do one for the Eastern Roman/Byzantin empire. So many incredible enemies they fought against. The Arab Caliphates, the Bulgarians, the Lombards, the Kievan Rus, the Normans, the Crusaders, the Turks, Pechenegs, etc...
For Dacia one should not forget the Dacians were fierce warriors that ended up making up one of the four Gladiator schools of Rome: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Dacicus
Great video,though I think Persia/Sassanid should be the top 1 enemy because how they kept defeating Roman army,captured an emperor,trolling Justinian and almost besieged Constantinople in 7th century. In the end,the Turks and themselves were the greatest enemy that destroyed the Roman.
I just wanted to say that while I love your work I cant forgive you to being so unprofessional at seperating "greece' and "macedon" . Every historian knows this. For fuck sake stop continuing the slavic propaganda . Macedon was and is greek. There was no greece at that time. You will either refer to them as greek city states or if you want to call it grece,incorporate macedon.
9:40 that's what happens when you give up territories for no reason and then built a fuckin' wall😂 making control over other provinces costly enough to abandon them.
Great video! I would just mention that the sack of Ctesiphon by Galerius is rather uncertain since no source confirms it and it's only based on the assumptions of one or more modern scholars, other scholars only mention Carus, so it's a debatable topic I guess.
*Rome marches in with troops and takes over*
Jews: I sleep
*Rome imposes taxes*
Jews: Not my shekels!
The only thing they really care about
You know the Vandals were bad when there's an entire word in English regarding defacing property named specifically for them.
I didnt. Thank you for that note.
@@TominusMaximusIn portugal we also have "vandalos" which suposedly comes from the vandals
@@TominusMaximus Oop, I was just trying to make a joke. The word is vandalism btw, and it's extremely common in the Anglophone world, normally it's the go-to word when something has been altered without permission
The term "Vandalism" came about in the 1700's. They were just one of the groups blamed for the fall of Rome and so they were used as a rhetorical device.
Vándalos, en español
The best & worst enemy of Rome is Rome itself
This
Aren't you always your worst enemy?
@@TominusMaximus Suppose that throughout all the parts you do Rome itself would be given it's own place as even Persian dynasties or Islamic Caliphates could only do so much damage compared to a rogue roman general or a up-and-coming Byzantine House.
@@Byzantine-Revolt The greatest foe Rome ever faced was Iran which is also reflected in the sources. Rome and Iran were called the two eyes of the world and at one point Iran forced Rome to capitulate.
You have a good point there 🤔😆 I suppose that is the case with many empires and nations, isn't it.
The best story for understanding Rome, is how the Senate auctioned the land Hannibal was encamped on right after Cannae. That sheer will is pathological
I think feeling like a community is part of it, a lot of them knew of what their father, grandfathers etc did, who designed what, funded what, built what. All of that built stuff being within their borders of land controlled by their community.
We don't have that in the modern day, with only a few exceptions.
I personally think that the Vandals and the Persians were the greatest enemies of the empire. The Persians were a lethal threat under leaders such as Shapur, Khosrow I, and Khosrow II who during their final war with Rome nearly destroyed the entire empire. The Vandals basically delivered a key blow to the western empire's chances of survival by taking North Africa and then Geiseric smashed any attempt by the Romans to take it back.
Welcome back, Imperator.
No 1 - The Theodosian Dynasty.
Man I should Frigidus your ass for that comment!
Get Arbogast and Eugenius on the line!!@@TominusMaximus
@@TominusMaximusGet General Arbogast & Augustus Eugenius on the line for me!! ✊🏼✊🏼
Gala Placidia was the only compitant Theodosian change my mind.
@@josephnugent3065Umm, Marcian. Theodosius I is over-hated also.
Between Crassus and Antony Parthia did invaded rome and took I think all of the levant and part of Anatolia, it was Ventidius who defeated them and killed the Parthian prince leading the invasion, Im surprised you did not mentioned that at all.
Just as extra info, the Spanish region of Andalucía, which comes from Al-Andalus, in theory means “land of the Vandals” in arabic, because they crossed the straight of gibraltar to invade north africa, and so the people of the region thought Iberia was their land.
GOD BE PRAISE !!!! HE IS BACK
Sound design on this video was awesome!
Please do a video on the Ottonians and how they tried to emulate Roman customs and administration.
Salve, Tominus! I was looking for your video of early Roman stories but I'm assuming it was privated or taken down; I request you upload it cause I love that bit about Mucius Scaevola.
Seeing the Dacians put in the same category with Huns makes me proud and grateful that you acknowledge the danger of Dacia at those times until sadly they lost in 106, remaining only the free dacians and the carpi outside Dacia Romana. And we were before the Huns, but not as great as them. We were good archers too though🤘🏻🐺🏹
Sorry, I might be super crazy, but, when did the Sarmatians migrate to Iberia?
Yes, weren't they a scythian/steppe people?
Alans (Sarmatic tribe) migrated to Hispania after 406. Roxolani and Jazyges were constantly on the move so it would be hard to place them.
Could you do a video on enemies of the Eastern Roman’s next?
Unfortunately Tominus has no love and respect for our Eastern bois.
@@josephnugent3065 Bro that is not true.
I assume this pre 476 ranking because the Persians not the goths came to the closest to destroying the empire by 620.rhe situation was so desperate Heraclius wanted to become the client state of the Persians
21:36 thats the worst thing the could have done for sure. No wonder why that started hostilities for the next 600 years
Arrived before Iazyges Raids💪🏽💪🏽
Caucasian Iberia and Colchis not mentioned, very sad
VIVA IL TOMINUS ✋🏻🦅✝️🇮🇹🇨🇿
Viva Il Caligula
Damn it, he escaped the basement.
ayyyyyyyy its out
20:35 they didnt get along with 109 countries.
110 now. Maldives expelled them recently.
@@scythianrabbit3977 lets go!!!
Almost as if people love blaming minorities for their problems.
@@scythianrabbit3977 Total Maldivarian Life!
It wasnt their fault 109 times... lol
Will there be a part III?
Knew the Goths would be #1.
Sarmantians are located wrong on the map.
the Goths & other Germanic tribes castrated Rome, the Persians Exhausted that Roman Cardio, the Arabs Broke Rome's Spine & the Turks finished off that Roman cripple after Latin Crusaders pushed him out of his wheelchair LOL
The Germanic tribes burned half their face.
The Persians and Arabs nearly beat them to death.
The Turks kicked them in the balls.
The Crusaders cut out their heart.
Christianity wasnt that strong among berbers even by the time islam reached northwestern africa
The majority of berbers were still pagans or the limit syncretic
Only some few urban centers were christianized
As for the vandals, they allied a lot with the local berber tribes to conquer roman africa/carthage, even used them when they sacked rome and raided across the mediterranean sea, after the war, those berber tribes began to inflict defeats on the vandals and gradually taking back their territory until the ERE came back
Turks gonna win ez
The Roman-Iranian rivalry is probably one of the coolest rivalries in history. 600 years of war, peace, tension, and diplomatic maneuverings.
A constant reminder of the larger epic struggles of the despotic East and the tyrannical West since the fall of a balanced Egyptian power during the Bronze Age Societal Crises, sparked by bad Mycenaean harvests and an abduction of a Spartan Queen by a prodigal Trojan prince.
We pretty much have that war continued to this day.
For real
It makes the 100 years war between England and France look like a joke
NO FUCKING WAY WE ARE SO BACK
Id love a part 3 covering the enemies of the Byzantine empire!
Yes!
Absolutely support this idea!
make it happen
and obviously the 3rd Reich
The final Roman-Sassanid was truly epic.
Basically destroyed the ancient world and allowed for the Muslims to conquer everything in less than 100 years
pretty much the war of the beard from Warhammer fantasy
First Spectrum returns, now Tominus Maximus. Who's next, Dovahhatty?
Jews and Persians had good relations in antiquity. The Bible portrays them very favorably in the book of Ezra and they were usually very willing rebels whenever Persia attacked the Levant causing Roman retribution. Also good that you rank Goths and Vandals higher than the Huns/Attila. The Huns mostly did some raids and pillaging, they didn't do irreversible damage like the Goths and Vandals did. They even collapsed and fade away from history before the WRE did. Super overrated, important sure, but they were hardly the central cause of Romes demise like people seem to pretend.
Absolutely agree on the Huns part.
The damage the Huns did to the Empire is seen as more indirect, but still significantly important and key to Rome's fall (at least for it falling as soon as it did). Because of the Huns, Germanic tribes had extraordinary cause to unite into larger confederations with the goal of settling in Roman territory.
I suspect the Sassanids would rank higher on a list of enemies of Byzantium.
Indeed, good Dux Lotharicum
Well, I doubt it. They were certainly very belligerent and in 626 almost conquered the capital of Constantinople, but they weren't as bad as say Ottomans, Arabs (by that I mean Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates) or Crusaders.
There is n0 such thing as the Byzantiums or the Byzantine Empire. They were a direct continuation of Rome. The Sassanids were a serious threat to them, but they were ROMAN. Get that through your thick skull.
"Brothers and sisters are natural enemies.
Like Persians and Romans. Or Huns and Romans. Or Germanic tribes and Romans. Or Romans and other Romans.
Damn Romans! They ruined Rome!" Willieanus Caledonicus
WHEN WE NEEDED HIM MOST HE CAME! 🙆🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️
That's what she said,
@@TominusMaximus 🙆🏻♂️
Top three enemies of Rome
3. Sassanid Empire
2. Praetorian Guard
1. Eros
Why the sassanid don't conquer Syria or Egypt in the Crisis of Third Century? well Shapur I' campaigns were more for sack than conquer and after his death, in my humild opinion, the sassanid enter in a crisis for weak monarch until the Shapur II become in adult and after his death the sassanid have another crisis by weak monarch and the white huns attack in the East during the Five Century, when the Western Roman Empire collapse (but not the Eastern, more rich, urban and greek part). Sorry the bad english
PD: I hope see a ranking of enemies of the Eastern Roman Empire (bad call "Byzantine").
Palmyrenes, bro... Apparently they're just that cool with a Syrian woman practically holding half of their ambitious historic claims (now mostly populated by Persian enemies)
Yep, Yep, Odenatus and how stop Shapur I after Valerian was capturer in Edessa, sorry, i forgot, sorry
I couldn't help myself and skip forward to see if my assumptions that basically Germans, Huns and Persians were the greatest opponents, and indeed they were. Now, let's look at the whole video LOL
Yeah bro, who else did you expect? Lead and Yersinia pestis? ;)
I would say that the huns were hugely overrated
They only came for a short period of time and then got defeated
They are miles away from the persians and germanics
@@AB-fr2ei for the short amount of time the were there they had a big impact.
@@AB-fr2ei their simple existence caused so much harm to the empire, they caused the mass migrations that lead to imperial territorial integrity evaporating, they devastated the lands and coffers of both halves of the empire and forced both halves to plan around them and their reaction. They were short lived but while they were there they were the issue everyone feared and had to consider, they were the existential threat that traumatised the Roman state like no other
If you tell Romanians today that the Roman Empire pillaged Dacia's riches, they laugh like idiots, they genuinely think Dacians were poor savages and that the Romans did nothing wrong.
Romans and Parthians were just school friends that sometimes were enemies but still became friends much of the time.
Are you sure about that ? XD
armenia can’t hurt a fly lol, nice video
I’m seriously very happy to see you’re back! Are there any plans for regular uploads? Also when is the Caligula live stream?
Yeah I am thinking about not giving a damn anymore and finally showing my face on regular basis. It might be an identity breach but man, probably so easier than editing the audio and then video separately.
@@TominusMaximusI don’t see why not. Would also love to see more one off videos like the WWII and Ukraine ones.
I knew #1 and 2 😎😎😎😎 7 month wait, but was worth. Now enemies of Easter Rome!! Ahhh the Age of Mythology soundtrack couldn't miss, blessings! Desde 🇨🇴
You kept your word, part II is here, so nice, I hope my wife could deliver as easy as you do
Bro... :D
geiserich terrorised rome for at least 50 years
he died at 80+
The problem thw Jews had with the romans was mainly the way of taxing as in Judea people couldnt own land and the roman taxing system was land based so the romans forced the jews to own land which went against the jewish religion and the jewish roman relations started during seluecid rule and the hasmonean rebbelion when the jews allied the romans and together kicked out the seleucids
The Sassanids were robbed! They deserved that #1 spot >:( !!!
how many times did they sack rome?
Thank God that Sergius and Bonus saved the capital from Sassanids and the barbarians
We shall await the Ranked Worst Roman Enemies of All Times.
This list only goes as far as the end of the West. If this were a Byzantine list, they'd probably still be at #2, as Turks or Saracens would also outdo them.
@@wankawanka3053Constantinople was impenetrable, it’s not a fair comparison. They sacked the majority of their major cities, like Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria.
Persia will be number 1 if you would count the final war
Maybe the real enemies of Rome was the friends we made along the way
Maybe all that followed were the true enemies of Rome.
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What a choc for a french to hear Asterix and Obelix in english
I think the majority of people here would be confused if they spoke French. :D
@@TominusMaximus
Yes ofc but I never thought they got that voice in english especialy for Obelix, Asterix is good he sound clever, tiny etc
It's one of the first cartoon/comic book I knew so imagine my surprise.
Also I didn't knew it has a significant impact outside the triangle France/Switzerlanf/Belgium.
The Emperor Macrinus was also of "Berber" origin, being from Roman controlled Mauritania
I am surprised that the persians didn't sack Gaul as well 😂
You forget the Rashidun muslims, they did much damage to both Rome and Sassanids, then Persian and Egyptian lands got Islamized
He's only considering pre 468. If he wasn't the Lombards, Ostrogoths, Turks, Avars, Bulgars and Slavs would be on the list, and the Sassanids would be higher.
@@TheDirtysouthfan Oh I didn't see the specific years, then I didn't pay attention
It is Ancient Roman Empires enemies. Therefore we end this journey in 476.
@@tertmade9769Considering the title is “Roman Empire”, not “Ancient Roman Empire”, then what you said is valid.
@@SDArgo_FoC His entire channel is focused on Rome in antiquity. Otherwise he would have covered the Byzantines
As always, the Sassanids are underestimated so here's a list of their military victories against Rome
Warning : It's long
Ardashir Babakan defeated the Romans at the siege of Nisibis 235 and his forces raided Cappadocia along with Syria and reconquered Armenia
He also defeated three Roman armies one lead by emperor Alexander Severus himself in Mesopotamia
Based on a rock relief in Iran's Azerbaijan, the Roman army in Armenia was also defeated
Severus lost the battle of Ctesiphon 233 to the Sassanids but before that, Ardashir crushed his vanguard before arrival of Alexander and it's likely that the third Roman army was also defeated after Severus loss and so Ardeshir was able to repel all three Roman armies marching against him
Shapur I defeated 3 Roman emperors and even captured one of them
Based on one of the Sassanid tablets, Gordian III also died in one of these battles
Each Roman army had between 60,000-70,000 men outnumbering Shapur 2-1
He won the battle of Misiche (60,000 Romans), battle of Barbalissos (60,000 Romans), battle of Edessa (70,000 Romans), siege of Antioch 253, siege of Dura Europos 256, plundered 37 Roman cities in his second Roman campaign and plundered 36 Roman cities in his third, all of this while always being outnumbered 2-1 and yet he won all the wars
Emperor Valerian was captured, emperor Philip the arab was humiliated and forced to pay heavy tribute while emperor Gordian III was defeated and probably killed in battle of Misiche against Shapur I according to Sassanid sources
Odenathus didn't even fight Shapur's army in a battle he just attacked him from behind while he was already going back to Iran and still, Shapur kept most of his men, prisoners, plunders and loots
He even had the time to raid Syria after this clash with Odenathus which means Odenathus army suffered heavy casualties and couldn't stop Shapur at the time even after that so called victory
Odenathus failed to take Ctesiphon twice and was defeated at the battle of Ctesiphon 263 by Shapur and failed to conquer the city once again in 266
There's a lithograph/stone carving which scholars believe it shows the victory of Sassanid king, Bahram II over emperor Carus and his brother, the Kushan king, after a successful military campaign in the east against the Kushans
Some scholars even say Carus might have been killed in a Sassanid counter attack or skirmish and not by a lightning like the Romans claim
Before Narseh was defeated, he defeated Romans at the battle of Carrhae 296 and also in two other battles and inflicted heavy casualties on the Romans and if he had won one last time, the Romans would've been completely defeated that year
One of Shapur II small armies defeated a much larger Roman army at the battle of Samarra 363 and a Sassanid killed emperor Julian by shoving a spear in his chest
Shapur himself defeated the second Army in Armenia
After that, the Sassanids retook Armenia, 15 fortresses and western Mesopotamia
Check out Perso Roman peace treaty of 363 which was a humiliation for Rome and made up for the Sassanid defeat at Satala
Before that, he sacked Amida and even though he was forced to retreat at the battle of Singara, he returned that same night and defeated the emperor in a night attack, retook his camp, routed the Roman army which was forced to retreat while suffering many casualties
He successfully besieged Bezabde in 360 AD and in the same year, the Romans were defeated at Bezabde again when they tried to besiege it
He also successfully besieged Singara at 360 AD
He also made Manuel Mamikonian of Armenia submit to him in the year 378 AD and thus reconquered Armenia again like years before when he defeated the Armenian queen and her son
Bahram Gur also defeated a Roman army but the war ended in a stalemate
However, he was able to repel them from Mesopotamia
Yazdegerd II raided Roman cities and the Roman emperor was forced to pay heavy tribute for him to leave
Under the Kavad I and his Khosrow Anushiravan, the Sassanids defeated the Romans in three wars in a row
The Anastasian war
Iberian war
Lazic war
All won by the Sassanids with the Romans forced to pay heavy tribute each time at the end of each war and losing more battles or sieges than the Sassanids in each of them
Khosrow destroyed the fortress of Dara in one of his campaigns which made Roman emperor go insane
He raided the Roman provinces several times and each time got tribute from the emperor
Khosrow even sacked Antioch
Even Belisarius, the best eastern Roman general was defeated several times by the Sassanids
Battle of Thannuris 528 (Sassanid victory)
Battle of Mindouos 528/529 (Sassanid victory)
Battle of Dara 530 (Roman victory)
Battle of Callinicum (Sassanid victory)
Battle of Nisibis (Sassanid victory)
Siege of Sisauranon (withdrawal of Belisarius army)
Two Roman forces that attacked Mesopotamia were also defeated before the battle of Thannuris
Battle of Anglon 543 (4,000 Sassanids defeated 30,000 Romans)
Bahram Chobin defeated Romans or Roman sponsored armies about three times or four times during the reign of Khosrow I and Hormizd IV
Hormizd IV or his generals also won a series of victories in raids and sieges against the Romans in Mesopotamia and their borders
Khosrow II generals, Shahrbaraz and Shahin, conquered half if not most of the Byzantine empire and held it for 10-16 years
They even defeated Heraclius himself once at the battle of Antioch 613 when he had 68,000 men while the Sassanids had 40,000
The Sassanids took true cross from Romans for years and defeated Heraclius once or twice more after that victory near Antioch
The war ended in a stalemate, not even a victory for any of the two
the anglo-*saxons* also made up quite a bit of the varangian guard after 1066 (many anglo-saxon warriors fled england after the norman invasion), but idk if you wanna include that for saxons because they are anglo-saxons
Ave Christus Rex!!! btw Tominus... I have family from around the Danube Delta. I took a DNA test and I got 4% Italian and 12% Greek which I'm super happy about, I've been called 'Italian Restaurant Owner' (my looks) by my mates and I take it as a complement.
If you check the map,borders of Yamnaya culture,Scythia and Sarmatia( thracians and dacians,goths,or getae,same peoples,by DNA,as scytjians and sarmatians),Hunnic empire,Onoguria and Old Great Bulgaria of khan Kubrat is weird a?And all,are horsemasters,from steppes and because of horse migrated all over the world.Old Bulgaria is a last confederation of this horse tribes,around Black see steppes and divided again,by his 5 sons(is it not the same everywhere,as Charlemane sons in other end of the Europe hihi,same story of greed for power).BTW bulgarian khan Krum,did drink,from East Roman emperor head later,but he tell Nikephoros-if you dont want a Pax,take my axe,was fair choice.Healt and happynes,and learn from history,not repeat old mistakes
Love to see you do one for the Eastern Roman/Byzantin empire. So many incredible enemies they fought against. The Arab Caliphates, the Bulgarians, the Lombards, the Kievan Rus, the Normans, the Crusaders, the Turks, Pechenegs, etc...
Most youtubers dont do the subtitles but tominus maximus is indeed maximus and does the subtitle
Yeah some of my expressions might be incomprehensible
HOLY FUCK FINALLYYYYYYYYYY I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
For Dacia one should not forget the Dacians were fierce warriors that ended up making up one of the four Gladiator schools of Rome: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Dacicus
Tominus Maximus has returned! All praise and rejoice!
Watching this video while playing Total War: Attila is the best 😍
I will watch this when i get time to have attention. For now have this comment and like for the algorithm.
Have been waiting for this. Thank you!
Legendary Rivalry:
Roman-Persian Wars
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5:43 Asterix and Obelix!
This made my day starting off with a great afernoon!
Where is Boii. Those guys managed to sack Rome itself and they are not even in this list.
See the episode 1
The ppl who got bullied by Dacia,right.
Do I part 3 and 4 where you rank enemies of Byzantine and Western Roman Empire
The Roman Themselves: 1 first place
*You can focus more on the map (explain on the map) rather than on the table.*
Great video,though I think Persia/Sassanid should be the top 1 enemy because how they kept defeating Roman army,captured an emperor,trolling Justinian and almost besieged Constantinople in 7th century.
In the end,the Turks and themselves were the greatest enemy that destroyed the Roman.
38:20 In the 7th century the Persians were the apex threat to the Romans.
The Return of the King!
"...Briton still got sacked nevertheless"
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Can someone give me the specific original sources for the sack of Ctesiphon during the Sasanian era?
He came back Sul victoria
One of these days. One of these days I will fogure out where your accent is from.
NEVAAAAH!
Probably Roman lol
Is part 3 gonna be Byzantium?
Didn't the Dacians win the war against Domitian?
What did the Roman think? Persia and huns?
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YAYY!! He is indeed alive! I missed your videos ;(
Where is Rome? Rome was its worst enemy.
GOTHS DID IT
I just wanted to say that while I love your work I cant forgive you to being so unprofessional at seperating "greece' and "macedon" . Every historian knows this. For fuck sake stop continuing the slavic propaganda . Macedon was and is greek. There was no greece at that time. You will either refer to them as greek city states or if you want to call it grece,incorporate macedon.
Why did you not mention Persian Conquest of Egypt and Anatolia at the last great war of antiquity?.
Because the Antiquity ends in 476.
Why are Sarmatians in the iberian peninsula? What? I am so confused.
Alans
@@TominusMaximus ah, I see now
Guess whos back!
part 3 about eastern Rome?
9:40 that's what happens when you give up territories for no reason and then built a fuckin' wall😂 making control over other provinces costly enough to abandon them.
Eastern empire version???
Great video! I would just mention that the sack of Ctesiphon by Galerius is rather uncertain since no source confirms it and it's only based on the assumptions of one or more modern scholars, other scholars only mention Carus, so it's a debatable topic I guess.
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You should have included the fact that the Eastern Romans ultimately conquered the Vandals and Ostrogoths in the 6th century.