We continue out series on the history of Carthage! Check out part 1 on the Rise of Carthage if you haven't seen that yet: th-cam.com/video/XCbag4UIvBc/w-d-xo.html. Also be sure to pop on by our Patreon page for previews of future episodes: patreon.com/InvictaHistory
@@dsmithum I personally always liked how you could feel, that he truly cared about what he was talking about and how he conveyed his love for and interest in history
I have always been awed at the scales of these bronze/iron age conflicts. They almost seem entirely fictional in scope and intensity. Like something you might read about in warhammer and the like with massive fleets of warships and eternal reoccurring conflicts over strategically important locations like Sicily and Spain.
George White I so agree! When learning about these ancient wars and the poetry of them ai have to wonder how much as been embellished by historians due to their epicness!
It’s hard to even comprehend, 100 people together looks like a large amount while wars of this time were often fought with over 50,000 men on the battlefield. Hannibal defeated an army of 80,000 Romans with an army of 50,000, that’s 130,000 men!
Hugh Morris if you’ve ever gone to an nfl game they hold around 80,000 people. Now imagine all them with weapons charging another stadium. It’s insane to think of how feeding that in ancient times for year long campaigns with no refrigeration
Dustin Arnold ayyy all the resources for gear and the training involved is just insane. It would have been spectacular to watch, if of course you desensitise the death!
What an awesome documentary carthage is most certainly one of the most overlooked empires in history. Good to learn something new keep up the great work!
@@XIXCentury They are. Throughout my years of learning history in both elementary and high school, we studied Rome extensively from the early years of the monarchy to the fall of both (Western and Eastern) Empires. Carthage in comparison was: they were smashed in three wars and conquered at the end, with the city utterly destroyed. That's it. If you don't look specifically for Carthage or Phoenicia, chances are you'll hear fuck all about it because it's overshadowed by Greece, Rome and Persia.
@@araknas3981 Just because you didn't know about Carthage and just because it's not taught as much as the Romans doesn't mean that they are one of the most overlooked empires in history. What about the Khmer Empire or Songhai Empire? Or even Umayad, Alhmohad, Portugal, Neo-Assyrians... Okay Portugal is pretty well known, but I could go on.
@@elcruzador3795 Never said I didn't know about Carthage, where exactly did you read that? You can bring up empires that are from far away and I ask you how much does the average Western person know about Thailand or Vietnam? How much does the average Western person know about Rome? A tad more. How much does a Japanese person know about present day Poland or Ancient Rome? And how much do they know about the Shogunate? Same goes for the Middle East. There's your answer. Let's not pretend Empires from outside our own cultural circle are overlooked. They are not. They are simply in the interest circle of others and are considered niche here. They are not taught because they had close to no effect on the lives of people in Europe. If they had, they would be more commonly known. Carthage is in the Mediterranean and fought THE most famous ancient empire in the Western World. They should be much better known simply because they collided with Rome. That's why there's so much more interest in Persia, because they fought against the Hellenic cultures.
I am Tunisian (and a Carthaginian descendant). Carthaginian Civilization is our Ultimate pride when it comes to our history. It is however rare (outside of Tunisia) to see things about it, other than the three Punic wars. Your work on this video is, the least to say, VERY good. I cannot wait for future videos. Keep it up
@@CDRNY25 not all North Africans are Berbers, those who speak arabic are either Arabs or descendents of Phoenicians .The Phoenicians were all over North Africa for many centuries and they left their descendents. Their language is similar to arabic , and that's why it was easy for arabic to take hold in North Africa , because one of its version already existed there before islam came in. All true Berbers still speak their berber language. Islam arabized nobody, it didn't arabize even some isolated very small tribes surrounded from everywhere by arabic-speaking people such as the Beni Boussaid, the Beni Mzab ,... The true name of Carthage in phoenician was Kharita Hadisht, meaning the new city, the Latin writers simplified it to Carthage . Hanibal Barca ,his name comes from hani and Ba3l, meaning the servant of Ba3l a deity worshipped long ago in the Middle East , historians interpreted the name Barca as meaning the thunderbolt, and in arabic barq means lightning ... The true origin of the Phoenicians is a part of Yemen and Oman, not your Levant. Some of them settled in Canaan, others were always on the move looking for new places. Even the greek historians Strabo and Herodotus trace their origin to Eastern Arabia. The city of Sousse in Tunisia was founded by the Phoenicians who gave it the name of Hadhramaut ( its old name ), and everybody knows that Hadhramaut was an ancient kingdom in Yemen. Why would they call one of their cities after a Yemenite kingdom if they had nothing to do with Yemen ? You are probably one those minorities in the Levant ( armenians , turkmens,...) , pretending to be related to the Phoenicians ,but in fact have nothing to do with them at all.
@Johnny Cage Sounds more like Dunning Krueger, id est, you are a self declared genius while in reality you are incapable of engaging in proper debate due to your own flaws.
The ancient city of Tyre excelled in producing a very fine purple dye extracted from marine snails called Murex. The Carthaginians took over the control of dye production and became extremely wealthy
The Spartans were apparently in the process of founding a colony. While they probably did take precautions given the volatile situation in Lybia at the time,It’s unlikely they had built up significant defences, or that they physically could have built those,defences in time to fend off attack
@Julio Argentino Roca Sparta's military capabilities were always exaggerated. Their success was down to their professionalism and reputation more than anything else. Once they faced equally competent enemies in pitched battle, like the Thebans, the result was a coin flip.
Brilliant production. I love ancient Phoenicians and Carthage! The fact that they were an ancient civilization and the colonial structure really picks my curiosity. Phoenicians came all the way from one end of Mediterranean to the other to found colonies and one of them became an empire itself in the end. From minor colonial traders to the rulers of Mediterranean through wars with lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Thank you for this awesome video guys!
I really appreciate the fact Invicta is doing a deeper series on Carthage because it's a State that I haven't really heard much about in the main stream. I'm very aware of the Punic Wars but that's about it. Keep up the GREAT content! I love it.
When Carthage loses a single battle against Rome "Last night the crying of the children kept me awake and I had a terrible vision, I saw the fall of our city.. bleached bones under a harsh sun.. Carthage... GONE, why would Bal send such a vision? He's not cruel he has watched over us!"
@@CDRNY25 Uhh, actually they didn’t call themselves as phoenicians rather they introduced themselves as carthiginians whose capital was Carthage at modern Tunisia. So, your comment is actually inaccurate at this point.
@@নামনেই-ঞ২র Uh, you're stupid? Phoenicians never called themselves anything but Canaani or from the city they resided in or came from. Even in Carthage, they still refered to Tyre/Canaan as their homeland. The Romans called them Carthiginians.
@@নামনেই-ঞ২র No, fool. They used both. Punic literally means the same as Phoenician but Romans at the time had more interaction with the Phoenicians who spent their days in the WEST closer to them while the Greeks had more interaction with the Phoencians of the east then west as they spread out. When a roman say "Punic", it is a general reference to the the Canaanites as whole but when they want to narrow down to a specific people and which city, they had to refer to the Phoenicians of Carthago aka Carthaginians. 🤦♀️
Rome probably would have bounced back if their allies didn't desert them. If they had to reconquer Italy... That would probably mean the restart of their conflicts with everyone.
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 Well. In Pyrrhus's case it would be like "Task succeeded with failure" That's where the term pyrrhic victory comes from
@@elang1702 because it is truly fascinating to think about is, what was one of, if not, the largest civilizations in the world at the time just having most of it's history just destroyed. Plus the fact i love most things to do with pre-empire Rome.
Great work! I have heard of most of this information before, but only in bits and pieces. You synthesize it all in a helpful way that I have never seen before.
Hey Invicta, please bring your voice back. It gave this channel some flair, and it was a good voice for narration too. Now it's like those other history channels. All of these voice actors sound so similar and I miss your voice.
I always enjoy videos about lesser known subjects like this. Honestly I never really put much time into learning about Carthage prior to it’s wars with Rome.
Same! Thats why I am so excited to be doing this series. We will have about a dozen episodes on Carthaginian military and social history before we even start on the First Punic War.
One small detail in this i'm in love with: you painted Carthage RED and Rome BROWN. So often we think of deep Red as "royal" and Brown associated with "otherness". It really makes Carthage feel like a main character, as it should here
This video was absolutely beautifully well done. One thing I take issue with is the framing that Carthage "used mercenaries". This is a very bad framing. As a city state, Carthage used "allies" from subject neighbors. In the exact same way the Romans did. The idea of mercenaries is a trope forever attached to Carthage by way of infinite repeat. As with Elephants in Hannibal's campaign despite non of them surviving the crossing of the alps.
@@SasoriZert I don't care about mods, I would like a new game about this, about, the rise of carthage and many other powers at that time, a time older than rise of the republic DLC
@@gastonhitw720 given the track record of CA Im sure they wont do many other time periods that close to an existing title cause that be just a short time before the rome series you'd either have to make it just a map of north africa, sicily, and maybe spain but if ya do that there be only one super power carthage. But who knows CA has done things that people havent expect before so can never tell if they do one or not
@Patrick B yep, many ancient civilizations, from the phoenicians to cannae battle, from nuragic culture to african tribes, if they really do this game someday I would like it to be bigger in scale than roma 2 tw, with many and many cities to conquer in just one region instead of just "Carthage" "Syracuse" etc... like thrones of britannia was
Invicta is rapidly becoming the best channel on Punic history. I can't wait to see how you enter in the second punic war in depth, it would be awesome if it is as good as your siege of Jerusalem.
The artwork in this channel is beyond beautiful. And mix with the content. This channel is explosive. My god u guys deserve medals. Respect from the rest of us sir.
I would rather have their archives, libraries are filled with ready narratives and biased information. Archives are older and bigger than libraries as well, so we could get source information on everything from population sizes, tax collection, army movement and so much more.
did Claudius not write a history of Carthage including their language? shame that never survived, it also shows that Claudius was a genius not an evil moron as often portrayed.
Most of it is inside the Vatican library , here in Tunisia there's a lot of things still undug and unearthed, thanks to our one corrupt government after the other there's basically no budget for archeological research, I went all over the country and saw with my own eyes a lot of forgotten structures in the middle of nowhere i saw the temple of Tanit being empty of it's treasures and history, dirty, forgotten and almost no one ever heard of it outside of the really small community who actually cares, few years ago a female minister was fired from her position because she asked for a budget to bring scientists for the purpose of archeological digs to find the history hidden underneath the ground on hopes of strengthening tourism.
This was an amazing documentary about Carthage, I've enjoyed it a lot. But there's a detail that I think needs to be addressed for future works relating to the Balearic Islands. The Carthaginians only were established in the colony of Ibossim, modern Ibiza. The indigenous populations of Mallorca and Menorca, were the Balearic slingers mercenaries were from, remained independent until roman conquest in 123 b.C Apart from that excellent job!
Carthagenians were majority Native Africans,and the ruling class.Watch the video ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF CARTHAGE. Phoenicians were EGyptians.Africans lived in Carthage long before anyone else ventured there.
Been following since about 100k. I've always loved your content and so pleased you're doing a series of videos on Carthage, my favourite bit of history. Everything about this one feels really smooth and professional so well done and keep it up
We would love to see more about the history ot Tunisia, it's amazing... the country Tunisia which gave its ancient name , ifriqya, to a whole continent, had Carthage Empire, Hafsides, Zirid, Aghlabid, and the Fatimid. All of them had significant changes on the world we know now
Magellan TV sounds interesting. I like how with something like this, you can cater to your audience with your own ads. Far preferable to the shitty ads you get on regular TV. Definitely checking this out
Awesome documentary, but seriously man at 2:19 you could have said "When Tyre began to tire..." You had a golden opportunity to make a lame pun and you blew it!
It’s interesting to note how different these societies really were. One a navel trading power and the other a infantry agrarian power. One with its army built on gold and the other with it built by force. I think Carthage was ahead of its time in a lot of way because it understood the power of taking only what you can control and is profitable. While the Romans tried to just roll over everything. With higher populations later in time and with better navel technology I think Carthage would’ve been like England opposing the Romans Napoleonic domination of the land. But it always amazed me how populations moved at this time and how whole cities were created and depopulated I’m such short timeframes.
Important to note that Doreuis was Elder Brother of Leonidas(300) and Cleombrotus (whom are believed to be twins). If Doreuis stayed in Sparta and served under his half brother Cleomenes who had no heir he would have become king and not Leonidas.
I love the quality and the content poured out on these videos! Would it be possible to feature South, Southeast, and/or East Asian kingdoms? That would be really cool!
We continue out series on the history of Carthage! Check out part 1 on the Rise of Carthage if you haven't seen that yet: th-cam.com/video/XCbag4UIvBc/w-d-xo.html. Also be sure to pop on by our Patreon page for previews of future episodes: patreon.com/InvictaHistory
you can make a video from payment roman? ty and still the nice work...
I liked your voice better, to be honest
Epic voice actor.
When is the Caesar videos comming
@@dsmithum I personally always liked how you could feel, that he truly cared about what he was talking about and how he conveyed his love for and interest in history
I have always been awed at the scales of these bronze/iron age conflicts. They almost seem entirely fictional in scope and intensity. Like something you might read about in warhammer and the like with massive fleets of warships and eternal reoccurring conflicts over strategically important locations like Sicily and Spain.
George White I so agree! When learning about these ancient wars and the poetry of them ai have to wonder how much as been embellished by historians due to their epicness!
It’s hard to even comprehend, 100 people together looks like a large amount while wars of this time were often fought with over 50,000 men on the battlefield. Hannibal defeated an army of 80,000 Romans with an army of 50,000, that’s 130,000 men!
Hugh Morris if you’ve ever gone to an nfl game they hold around 80,000 people. Now imagine all them with weapons charging another stadium. It’s insane to think of how feeding that in ancient times for year long campaigns with no refrigeration
Dustin Arnold ayyy all the resources for gear and the training involved is just insane. It would have been spectacular to watch, if of course you desensitise the death!
If you think this is big, China used to regularly have battles numbering in the millions of combatants.
There is no better feeling than finding a decent history channel with a lot of content while being quarantined. Keep up the great work! :)
Even better when it's finally something non-Roman.
Amunt Valencia!!!
Idk illegally breaking quarantine and getting away with it feels great it's gotta be close.
You forgot about snacks and sweatpants all day other than those 2 yeah true
*I can't get enough of Carthaginian history (which can sometimes be hard to find)... please keep up the good work and keep these videos coming!*
What an awesome documentary carthage is most certainly one of the most overlooked empires in history. Good to learn something new keep up the great work!
This is partially because the romans put very much effort into destroying historical accounts and remains of Carthage, they wanted them deleted.
carthage? overlooked? sure
@@XIXCentury They are. Throughout my years of learning history in both elementary and high school, we studied Rome extensively from the early years of the monarchy to the fall of both (Western and Eastern) Empires. Carthage in comparison was: they were smashed in three wars and conquered at the end, with the city utterly destroyed. That's it. If you don't look specifically for Carthage or Phoenicia, chances are you'll hear fuck all about it because it's overshadowed by Greece, Rome and Persia.
@@araknas3981 Just because you didn't know about Carthage and just because it's not taught as much as the Romans doesn't mean that they are one of the most overlooked empires in history. What about the Khmer Empire or Songhai Empire? Or even Umayad, Alhmohad, Portugal, Neo-Assyrians... Okay Portugal is pretty well known, but I could go on.
@@elcruzador3795 Never said I didn't know about Carthage, where exactly did you read that?
You can bring up empires that are from far away and I ask you how much does the average Western person know about Thailand or Vietnam? How much does the average Western person know about Rome? A tad more.
How much does a Japanese person know about present day Poland or Ancient Rome? And how much do they know about the Shogunate? Same goes for the Middle East. There's your answer.
Let's not pretend Empires from outside our own cultural circle are overlooked. They are not. They are simply in the interest circle of others and are considered niche here. They are not taught because they had close to no effect on the lives of people in Europe. If they had, they would be more commonly known. Carthage is in the Mediterranean and fought THE most famous ancient empire in the Western World. They should be much better known simply because they collided with Rome. That's why there's so much more interest in Persia, because they fought against the Hellenic cultures.
I’m always impressed by the ever improving quality and design of your videos Invicta.
I am Tunisian (and a Carthaginian descendant). Carthaginian Civilization is our Ultimate pride when it comes to our history. It is however rare (outside of Tunisia) to see things about it, other than the three Punic wars. Your work on this video is, the least to say, VERY good. I cannot wait for future videos.
Keep it up
calm down kaang
Carthaginian descendant? Are you Levantine or Tunisian? Phoenicians were Levantines, not Berbers.
It's Levantine history. You just got lucky we brought civilization to a small part of Tunisia. Nice try.
@@CDRNY25 not all North Africans are Berbers, those who speak arabic are either Arabs or descendents of Phoenicians .The Phoenicians were all over North Africa for many centuries and they left their descendents. Their language is similar to arabic , and that's why it was easy for arabic to take hold in North Africa , because one of its version already existed there before islam came in. All true Berbers still speak their berber language. Islam arabized nobody, it didn't arabize even some isolated very small tribes surrounded from everywhere by arabic-speaking people such as the Beni Boussaid, the Beni Mzab ,... The true name of Carthage in phoenician was Kharita Hadisht, meaning the new city, the Latin writers simplified it to Carthage . Hanibal Barca ,his name comes from hani and Ba3l, meaning the servant of Ba3l a deity worshipped long ago in the Middle East , historians interpreted the name Barca as meaning the thunderbolt, and in arabic barq means lightning ... The true origin of the Phoenicians is a part of Yemen and Oman, not your Levant. Some of them settled in Canaan, others were always on the move looking for new places. Even the greek historians Strabo and Herodotus trace their origin to Eastern Arabia. The city of Sousse in Tunisia was founded by the Phoenicians who gave it the name of Hadhramaut ( its old name ), and everybody knows that Hadhramaut was an ancient kingdom in Yemen. Why would they call one of their cities after a Yemenite kingdom if they had nothing to do with Yemen ? You are probably one those minorities in the Levant ( armenians , turkmens,...) , pretending to be related to the Phoenicians ,but in fact have nothing to do with them at all.
@@benamar.x8990 You're stupid.
Last time I was this early, Rome was just a bunch of weirdos on some hills.
Just two babies hanging out with a wolf
History Dose Man, you’re ancient lol
I wonder what ever came of that by the way.Weird strange folks on that hill they were.
Santi Somchay Legend has it they went on a centuries long stabbing spree
last time i was this early the phoenicians and their jewish cousins were still fighting it out.
I have simple wants. More Carthage content warms my heart
"One can therefore imagine cycles of conquest being guided by the economic interests of the upper class."
"War... War never changes."
@Főfasírozó brah, it's a quote from a video game. Chill out lol.
And yet, its true.....
@Johnny Cage
Sounds more like Dunning Krueger, id est, you are a self declared genius while in reality you are incapable of engaging in proper debate due to your own flaws.
The (production) quality of these videos. Unmatched by any other history channel.
I love how Carthaginian expansion is depicted as purple dye spilling onto the map.
guess that was why Rome had to kill it
The ancient city of Tyre excelled in producing a very fine purple dye extracted from marine snails called Murex. The Carthaginians took over the control of dye production and became extremely wealthy
Love how that large alliance had to form just to oust a small Spartan colony
Real men have that effect.
Back then it took a massive amount of manpower to siege a city, let alone completely destroy one
The Spartans were apparently in the process of founding a colony. While they probably did take precautions given the volatile situation in Lybia at the time,It’s unlikely they had built up significant defences, or that they physically could have built those,defences in time to fend off attack
@@count487 Spartans didn't build city walls so that wouldn't have helped.
@Julio Argentino Roca Sparta's military capabilities were always exaggerated. Their success was down to their professionalism and reputation more than anything else. Once they faced equally competent enemies in pitched battle, like the Thebans, the result was a coin flip.
‘Boots’ on the ground ??? .... ‘sandals on the ground’!!
And Salt in the ground
They did kind of function more like boots with the ankle wrap and protection.
Bet people wished they had socks.
Ash Ash imagine being either being the slave or payed worker that had to clean those feet and trim the toe nails
Caligulas on the ground
God I am loving this production value.
Brilliant production. I love ancient Phoenicians and Carthage! The fact that they were an ancient civilization and the colonial structure really picks my curiosity. Phoenicians came all the way from one end of Mediterranean to the other to found colonies and one of them became an empire itself in the end. From minor colonial traders to the rulers of Mediterranean through wars with lots of blood, sweat, and tears. Thank you for this awesome video guys!
F...The Phoenicians were Egyptians,and ALL ancient African Empires were native black and brown people of their lands.
I really appreciate the fact Invicta is doing a deeper series on Carthage because it's a State that I haven't really heard much about in the main stream. I'm very aware of the Punic Wars but that's about it. Keep up the GREAT content! I love it.
When Carthage loses a single battle against Rome "Last night the crying of the children kept me awake and I had a terrible vision, I saw the fall of our city.. bleached bones under a harsh sun.. Carthage... GONE, why would Bal send such a vision? He's not cruel he has watched over us!"
Its time to sacrifice more children.
Because Baal is literally the devil. All religious nations that had human Sacrifice were in fact worshiping the devil and his minions.
@@Barthaneous34 So that includes basically every religion? Nice, time to get rid of religion.
I hate Gauls....
@Mwaniki Mwaniki Abraham almost, but it was a test so it doesnt count...
Great work ! As a proud Tunisian i really love how you handled the subject even tho the ressources on Carthage are pretty scarce.
Yeah, very proud of the Phoenicians who built this city in your country.
@@CDRNY25 Uhh, actually they didn’t call themselves as phoenicians rather they introduced themselves as carthiginians whose capital was Carthage at modern Tunisia. So, your comment is actually inaccurate at this point.
@@নামনেই-ঞ২র Uh, you're stupid? Phoenicians never called themselves anything but Canaani or from the city they resided in or came from. Even in Carthage, they still refered to Tyre/Canaan as their homeland. The Romans called them Carthiginians.
@@CDRNY25 lol, Romans called them punics. Do you study first
@@নামনেই-ঞ২র No, fool. They used both. Punic literally means the same as Phoenician but Romans at the time had more interaction with the Phoenicians who spent their days in the WEST closer to them while the Greeks had more interaction with the Phoencians of the east then west as they spread out. When a roman say "Punic", it is a general reference to the the Canaanites as whole but when they want to narrow down to a specific people and which city, they had to refer to the Phoenicians of Carthago aka Carthaginians. 🤦♀️
Man! Carthage was so cool. Hannibal was so close to breaking rome, I wonder how the world would've changed if Carthage won the punic wars
Hannibal wasnt european nor carthageans
Rome probably would have bounced back if their allies didn't desert them. If they had to reconquer Italy... That would probably mean the restart of their conflicts with everyone.
@@lilyoyo77 Lol. Hannibal was from an elite class Carthiginian family which was highly influential conservative faction in Carthaginian senate.
@@নামনেই-ঞ২র yeah im.just saying he wasnt european
@@lilyoyo77 yes, he wasn’t European
Me after conquering rome carthage and greece as epirus using autosresolve cheats
Annex_Selukid Empire.
Prins van Oranje jij weer
Boo.
Butter Brickle Total War Rome 2
Butter Brickle the battle visuals he uses in his old vids were made using this game
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Like Pyrrhus of Epirus
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 pyrrhus _was_ epirus tho
@@voicelessglottalfricative6567 Well. In Pyrrhus's case it would be like "Task succeeded with failure" That's where the term pyrrhic victory comes from
@@doraorak Yeah so it would be reversed technically
God i love Carthage and everything to do with them.
Why though ?
@@elang1702 because it is truly fascinating to think about is, what was one of, if not, the largest civilizations in the world at the time just having most of it's history just destroyed. Plus the fact i love most things to do with pre-empire Rome.
@@systemerror3261 Ah, Fascinating
The scarcity of information about Carthage in popular circulation in itself makes it infinitely fascinating.
I especially love their eventual defeat (a joke)
The adition of a profesional voice over really add something. ^^
Your documentaries are really getting better and better.
Great work! I have heard of most of this information before, but only in bits and pieces. You synthesize it all in a helpful way that I have never seen before.
Y'all did a great job. Carthage is one empire I know very little about.
I love the music. Can it be accessed somewhere or was it produced for this documentary?
Can we talk about how beeeeeeeautifully the pictures are drawn for these videos! Fell in love with this channel from the first sight!
Excellent work Gentlemen
Hey Invicta, please bring your voice back. It gave this channel some flair, and it was a good voice for narration too. Now it's like those other history channels.
All of these voice actors sound so similar and I miss your voice.
This is fantastic and I'm also really glad that this episode didn't have the 10 second percussion loop going in the background the entire time.
I always enjoy videos about lesser known subjects like this. Honestly I never really put much time into learning about Carthage prior to it’s wars with Rome.
Same! Thats why I am so excited to be doing this series. We will have about a dozen episodes on Carthaginian military and social history before we even start on the First Punic War.
@@InvictaHistory u really now dont do gaming videos loved those war rome 2 days
@@InvictaHistory jesus fucking christ oakley, a dozen ?????
Keep making carthage stuff please! love the vids
One small detail in this i'm in love with: you painted Carthage RED and Rome BROWN. So often we think of deep Red as "royal" and Brown associated with "otherness". It really makes Carthage feel like a main character, as it should here
AMAZING! This promise to be the best series of historical content on TH-cam
This video was absolutely beautifully well done. One thing I take issue with is the framing that Carthage "used mercenaries". This is a very bad framing. As a city state, Carthage used "allies" from subject neighbors. In the exact same way the Romans did. The idea of mercenaries is a trope forever attached to Carthage by way of infinite repeat. As with Elephants in Hannibal's campaign despite non of them surviving the crossing of the alps.
now I would love a Carthage: Total War
You do know there is a few diffrent punic war mods where you can play this time period
@@SasoriZert I don't care about mods, I would like a new game about this, about, the rise of carthage and many other powers at that time, a time older than rise of the republic DLC
@@gastonhitw720 given the track record of CA Im sure they wont do many other time periods that close to an existing title cause that be just a short time before the rome series you'd either have to make it just a map of north africa, sicily, and maybe spain but if ya do that there be only one super power carthage. But who knows CA has done things that people havent expect before so can never tell if they do one or not
@Patrick B that dlc is pure crap
@Patrick B yep, many ancient civilizations, from the phoenicians to cannae battle, from nuragic culture to african tribes, if they really do this game someday I would like it to be bigger in scale than roma 2 tw, with many and many cities to conquer in just one region instead of just "Carthage" "Syracuse" etc... like thrones of britannia was
Invicta is rapidly becoming the best channel on Punic history. I can't wait to see how you enter in the second punic war in depth, it would be awesome if it is as good as your siege of Jerusalem.
The artwork in this channel is beyond beautiful. And mix with the content. This channel is explosive. My god u guys deserve medals. Respect from the rest of us sir.
I love the graphics. Those boats are superb !
Really hyped to see the video on the war on Hispania in the Second Punic war! the quality of the video is EXCELLENT! Loved it.
I hope someday they'll find an intact cartagenian library somewhere.
Oh I wish, a source of the people themselves rather than the romans' "edited" version
Hope is all we have at this point.
I would rather have their archives, libraries are filled with ready narratives and biased information. Archives are older and bigger than libraries as well, so we could get source information on everything from population sizes, tax collection, army movement and so much more.
did Claudius not write a history of Carthage including their language? shame that never survived, it also shows that Claudius was a genius not an evil moron as often portrayed.
Most of it is inside the Vatican library , here in Tunisia there's a lot of things still undug and unearthed, thanks to our one corrupt government after the other there's basically no budget for archeological research, I went all over the country and saw with my own eyes a lot of forgotten structures in the middle of nowhere i saw the temple of Tanit being empty of it's treasures and history, dirty, forgotten and almost no one ever heard of it outside of the really small community who actually cares, few years ago a female minister was fired from her position because she asked for a budget to bring scientists for the purpose of archeological digs to find the history hidden underneath the ground on hopes of strengthening tourism.
Modern day Carthage/Tunis is absolutely gorgeous. I can only image how beautiful it was during the Punic State
yeah. sad to see the only remains of the ancient city is the roman carthage not the original one.
Modern Carthage is the roman version😂
@@wankawanka3053 no there are still Carthaginian ruins around tunis near the legendary port
Excelente vídeo!!! Parabéns!!!!
Man this quality of the video is incredible 😍
Rome beating the magnificent Carthage Empire is what turned them into the Great Empire that last as long as it lasted.
And the pillaging of Greece and its massive wealth also
Don't forget conquering Anatolia, Hispania and Gaul, that allowed the Romans to move East into the Levant, Egypt and create the "mare nostrum".
@@LuizAlexPhoenix hispania was part of the carthaginian empire
Not true
The graphics on this video are absolutely astounding!
I like the background music in your Carthage documentaries, sounds fitting :)
We are here. Thank you.
This is the most beautiful artwork I've seen in a documentary like this. Great job!
Excellent!
Loving the Carthage content recently
Wow I LOVE these animations!
oh my god the editing is incredible for this video
I love your channel. Nice war history information and video
Absolutely love this series. Keep up the great work!!
The art and music keeps on improving, damn! And it was already great before... great job guys!
This was an amazing documentary about Carthage, I've enjoyed it a lot.
But there's a detail that I think needs to be addressed for future works relating to the Balearic Islands. The Carthaginians only were established in the colony of Ibossim, modern Ibiza. The indigenous populations of Mallorca and Menorca, were the Balearic slingers mercenaries were from, remained independent until roman conquest in 123 b.C
Apart from that excellent job!
Really great video, can’t wait for more on Carthage, especially the wars against Syracuse.
Carthagenians were majority Native Africans,and the ruling class.Watch the video ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF CARTHAGE. Phoenicians were EGyptians.Africans lived in Carthage long before anyone else ventured there.
@@matiusbond6052 Phoenician weren't Egyptians
@@matiusbond6052 carthage was creates by the Phoenicians how could africans be living there
One of the best productions of this channel. Congratulations!
Been following since about 100k. I've always loved your content and so pleased you're doing a series of videos on Carthage, my favourite bit of history. Everything about this one feels really smooth and professional so well done and keep it up
Love the Carthage series, Invicta. Thanks and keep up the good work.
The production value has really increased! Nice one man.
The quality is outstanding
We've covered mostly 20th century war in our videos so far, but documentaries like this one make us feel like branching out into the past! Good work.
I can't tell how long I was waiting for this knowledge
Estoy flipando con lo genial que es este vídeo ! Salve Invicta !!
We would love to see more about the history ot Tunisia, it's amazing... the country Tunisia which gave its ancient name , ifriqya, to a whole continent, had Carthage Empire, Hafsides, Zirid, Aghlabid, and the Fatimid. All of them had significant changes on the world we know now
I love absolutely everything about this video except for one thing: It ends.
Love your maps. quite cool.
Magellan TV sounds interesting. I like how with something like this, you can cater to your audience with your own ads. Far preferable to the shitty ads you get on regular TV. Definitely checking this out
I'm loving this format KEEP IT UP!
Best episode yet. Really enjoying this Carthage Series. Would be cool to see an in depth series like this on King Mithridates of Pontus
I subscribed to this channel in 2013 for Rome 2 content and I have never been disappointed. Amazing job!
When are you planning on working on the Sicilian wars? They sound super interesting
This is the series I’ve been waiting for. Thank you for covering this well known but poorly studied civilization. @invicta
What is that ending segment music!!! The flamenco guitar!
I have to give you props on the art style over these episodes.
By your documentaries you make me love Carthage 😍🧡
Fantastic video. The voice is absolutely fantastic. Compliments
This guy is the best narrator by far, keep it up!
Awesome documentary, but seriously man at 2:19 you could have said "When Tyre began to tire..." You had a golden opportunity to make a lame pun and you blew it!
It’s interesting to note how different these societies really were. One a navel trading power and the other a infantry agrarian power. One with its army built on gold and the other with it built by force. I think Carthage was ahead of its time in a lot of way because it understood the power of taking only what you can control and is profitable. While the Romans tried to just roll over everything. With higher populations later in time and with better navel technology I think Carthage would’ve been like England opposing the Romans Napoleonic domination of the land. But it always amazed me how populations moved at this time and how whole cities were created and depopulated I’m such short timeframes.
HOW IS THIS FREE CONTENT??? WE ARE TRULY BLESSED!
Amazing content. Thank you.
There is nothing wrong with the new narrator, but I'd still prefer the old one because his enthusiasm set this channel apart from the others.
I am intellectually captured by these great videos. It's robust in bountiful historical knowledge. Epic and tremendous.
I can't wait for the next video on carthage! Invicta is excellent!
I'm liking this new, higher - quality video A LOT. Keep up the good work!
AWESOME video!!
Look forward to more!!
Beautiful documentary guys. I am reeling for more 😀
Very well done!.
Fantastic production quality. Well done
Great video thanks
This is the only channel that actually listens to requests
The narrator’s voice is like a calmer Sean Bean. V nice.
Important to note that Doreuis was Elder Brother of Leonidas(300) and Cleombrotus (whom are believed to be twins). If Doreuis stayed in Sparta and served under his half brother Cleomenes who had no heir he would have become king and not Leonidas.
Here we gooo! You guys are great, new narrator is sublime.
love it man, improving production values, keep at it
I love the quality and the content poured out on these videos! Would it be possible to feature South, Southeast, and/or East Asian kingdoms? That would be really cool!