If possible can you do the Abyssinian-adal wars Or the ajuran and Portuguese naval battles across the east coast of Africa. Would be cool if you did as it is underrated

More naval focused battles in general would be a welcome change of pace to me.

The later Julian was the one who almost saved the Empire. But the anti-materialist "withdraw from the world" monotheists weren't going to allow the Empire to defend itself. They've always been suicidal, just like their absurd godling that got himself mailed to a tree.

Your videos are amazing, the editing, and narration is just impeccable. Keep up the good work.

@Stefano Dawg Thank you for watching. My friend Hoc Est Bellum did the lion's share of the work in this one. Make sure to check out his channel, he makes some awesome animated battles as well.

omg yesss, looks like someone being playing sum total war

Never heard it called that but instantly knew what you meant lik

Thanks a lot mate. It means a lot coming from you. Cheers!

Greetings "History time", thank you for watching !

Yes they always say “the empire ended after Adrianopole” it is absolutely not true

The Roman Empire at it's best! with a line of great emperors, My favourite timeline that is indeed mostly forgotten about.

@DeSPoTNemanjaS I heard unfortunately. I am happy that you didn't

That's always the shame and sign of a downturn. Fighting for a country that stops fighting for you.

@@mcjive4371 Kinda reminds me of Admiral Yi or Khalid ibn al-Walid , guys who fought amazingly well, but were let go by their own countries.

@@jonbaxter2254 I've recently been rewatching Ken Burns Vietnam war Doc. The world is still living out the effects of that shameful event.

@@jonbaxter2254 Don't forget Hannibal. Winning every battle and still being left to rot by his own country.

@@amshaegar7170 in that case add Scipio too

Indeed! Why do you think the Roman's failed where Alexander succeeded?

@@Gewrgio way more fronts

@@Gewrgio Their tactics weren't compatible to the parthians.

From the Seleucids, not the Parthians or Sassanids though. The Romano-persian border barely moved for almost 700 years.

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Very pleased with how it looks mate. Looking forward to the next one!

i thought he would punish the catraphractii with decimation

You did a great job!

@@levinb1 Thank you very much

@@soviettankmen He meant to. But couldn't afford it.

So you speak german?

@@coldworld289 No i don't.

@Rafael Resende Goldschmidt If you want to play this game : you mean Argentoratum ? The rightful Gallo-Roman city ? ;)

I live in colchester in the uk, its the oldest recored town in the uk, when ever they do building work around the town centre, they are guaranteed to find something roman, recently they where rebuilding our theater, found some roman ruins, so now, the main reception centre of the theatre has a class floor, its amazing

@@lukeyoung6479 😯😯 that's soo cool

Towards the late empire the legions shifted to more cavalry, then infantry, because their enemies had more cavalry + it was easier and cheaper and faster to engage the barbarian war bands who raided the roman lands. Cathracts were common in the late roman empire, they were adopted long before this battle took place and werent uncommon in the western part of the empire.

Thank you sir.

Your welcome 😁

Yep, gave me a headache too. But you can't put a good man down. The little book worm got the last laugh.

@@HistoryMarche Indeed! Can you make a video on Aurelian? He's the greatest Roman emperor noone talks about. Your excellent eye towards cinematics and the narrative makes you the perfect channel to make a video on him, in my eyes

@@RexGalilae Aurelian is definitely on the agenda. Can't say when exactly, but I'll get around to it for sure.

@@HistoryMarche Looking forward to it, man! Become the Restorer of History on KZfaq :')

@@RexGalilae Hehe

But also force, he was a cracking soldier

General Julian DESTROYS irrational BARBARIANS with LOGIC and PHILOSOPHY

He literally defeated them in battle, the fuck are you talking about? Julian was no ''nerd'' he was a fucking military commander, who mastered the *intelligent application of force.*

and roman legions apparently

@@gabzdark07 he was a nerd, he studied and has you say masterred the inteligent application of force but he didnt do it in the field like the tribuni in the republic era, he did it with the previous knowledge learned from his books.

I'm not from this world this is black day, our general has fallen

Total war is leaking

@@Jackilichous Sherlock...

ParanoidMaster You don’t understand my comment

Gernans were playing rise of the samurai on legendary. No matter your tacticks, you cannot rout the infantry line!

rofl

lol, thank you very much

HistoryMarche you got a sub from me today ;)

Bro, the gods just want him out of this shit. He’s a good man

i think they might have been used more as a kickboard and not an actual boat. due to the weapons being heavy, they must have used the shields just to help them stay afloat. but idk for sure :D

Lord Voldemort even they needed some weapons. Swords are quite heavy. It was their armor that was lighter, allowing for more mobility. I think. I am no expert, it just seems logical to me

@@ragael1024 Sword aren't that heavy in themselves

French or German side? In fact most people are understanding german on both sides... for reasons

@@ragael1024 swords are like a pound or to, a kg at most

Now that's the spirit(s)!

That's quite the bender, enjoy

You're a proper warrior!

I brought popcorn

I made coffee, watched it during breakfast.

@@ahmedibrahim9082 fatass

Ahmed Ibrahim me too

Modern weakness

Bbbarberians!

That's very kind of you, thank you. I'm working on Hannibal 8 right now, it should be finished in a few weeks.

The Roman Empire self destructed because a good political system (republic) was replaced by a bad system (dictatorship which developed into monarchy). With no accountability to the people or a powerful senate, really bad laws and decisions, corruption and power struggles became the norm, with a few more intelligent leaders halting the decline only temporarily.

@@carldombrowski8719 I wonder if you could tell the same if you were a plebian whose farmland taken over by a patrician just because you were out for longlasting war and your familiy could not afford to live without you

Usually, soldiers on duty received spoils and land for that. Your argument makes no sense. Also, dictatorships have always exploited their people more than democracies and made their countries poor through mismanagement and corruption.

@@carldombrowski8719 No it wasn't. roman people went to the war to defend the their country, there was no land for that untill Marius. you should read some history (starting with gracchi brothers) before calling arguments 'non sense'. You are just being populustic here with bragging about democracy. Did you even think about why the hell 'saviors of republic' forced to go exile after assasination of Ceasar the dictator?

@@carldombrowski8719 that "good system" did not worked well any longer.That is the main reason why it was replaced.System was designed for small city state but was not efective enough for huge territorial Empire.

Thank you very much.

Don’t know why you call a people group incredible psychopaths not cool

LMFAO what an idiotic comment. Vicious psychopaths? That's the time period buddy. The Roman's slaughtered just as many lmao. Especially throughout their history. They made a sport of genocide.

@@UltimaSigmarAlonso Because they only plundered and destroyed.

@@mich722 so did most civilizations of that time

@@UltimaSigmarAlonso Except the barbarians didn't build anything or replace the things they destroyed and areas under their control mostly went backwards in development. That is why they have such an extremely negative reputation.

Thank you sir. Make sure to check out Hoc Est Bellum's channel, he did the lion's share of the work in this one, and makes great animated battles himself. Here's the link: kzfaq.info/love/l5m12RUvypT4e7w-mWrzsA

@@HistoryMarche Your joint work makes for some of the most clear and memorable history videos I've watched. Interesting and no unnecessary ambiguity, thank you

He was a complete hero.

@@dreamer2260 he was a champion and a hero. " The only inheritance i have of my fathers is a heart the knows no fear" or something like that.

@@sunofpeter2 ah very nice.

Hehe, thank you kindly. Glad you enjoyed the video. Make sure to check out Hoc Est Bellum channel, he did the lion's share of the work in this one.

Aussies. For them is the thumbs up so show mercy to the gladiator.

Thank you very much!

Given what we know about Constantinos, this may actually be true.

even before the video was over, i also had the baaad feeling Julian could have some """tragic accident""" in the furture

@@Blei1986 you weren't wrong, he lost against persians

Sassanids were no joke. Only General Belisarius and Emperor Heraclius had astounding victories against them. But, whaever has a starting has an end. Sassanids were later wiped out by Rashiduns.

@@user-dg9xy9sm5e "Only General Belisarius and Emperor Heraclius had astounding victories against them." Let's not forget that Galerius decisively beat them. Infact he had a more decisive victory against them than Heraclius or Belisarius did.

Thank you sir. That's very kind of you!

Wikipedia is not a 100% reliable source of truth, everyone can write and edit the info

@@GiNyYu222 Even so, everyone knows that it consistently delivers an easily-digestible, low-resolution image of events. If you're looking for specifics, you look to the references and elsewhere.

@@GiNyYu222 r/whoosh Really though, Wikipedia is a trustworthy site as all its content is constantly monitored by *thousands more* with all needed citations and such. No one in Wiki, especially in academic articles, make things up from their arse. They have to cite any input of information.

@@Azoth86730 Actually both views are correct.He is right that Wikipedia is problematic source(...and at universities they are usually not happy if student states "wikipedia" as source).On the other hand it does not mean every article on it is bad.Many are actually well written and in case informations are given references it should be no problem.At the same time however it is not hard to find very eroneous informations even in otherwise well written articles there from time to time.

@@GiNyYu222 even your mom

I think most unique generals have been recorded bc they were so unique

I think that The ones that make it also won politically in the end. And the things we know are higly told through propaganda

Thank you sir.

Been waiting since 357AD

Thank you sir.

Hey Dan, always great to see you here. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Hoc Est Bellum is a close friend so I'm quite happy we're working together on these.

@@HistoryMarche woooow close friends!! I guess destiny brought you guys together for this great cause :)

Thank you for watching.

Cheers mate! Yeah, Hoc Est Bellum is a close friend. He make awesome animated battles himself.

That's very kind of you. Thank you very much.

Hehe, thanks mate.

Thank you sir. Make sure to check Hoc Est Bellum channel, he did most of the work in this one. Here's the link to his channel: kzfaq.info/love/l5m12RUvypT4e7w-mWrzsA

Admired i mean

From the end of the Pyrrhic War up until Yarmouk, the Romans were supreme. Casually a 900 year run.

@@geordiejones5618 The Romans weren't a superpower at that time. And the Eastern Roman Empire is not the Roman Empire. It's the Eastern Roman Empire.

@@JJaqn05 its the roman empire* nobody called themselves eastern romans, just roman

@Rebas I didn't read his comment properly. I was talking about the Byzantine empire/roman empire from after the muslim invasions and during the late middle ages when it was just an ottoman vassal state. "And everyone in that empire saw fhemselves as Romans not Eastern Romans" Maybe the majority would have seen themselves as Romans but not everyone. "they saw themselves as the part of the people of the same empire which controlled land from britannia to Iraq" Yes and they were delusional for thinking that. Their military campaigns to retake the old western territories ended up in disaster

@Rebas Uhhh what? Rome is still a city today. Where as Carthage was destroyed by the Romans in the Wars & even though they used the city for centuries, it was abandoned almost immediately after the Arab Conquest in 698 & the failure of retaking it. Modern Tunis isn’t Carthage btw

Thank you for watching.

Thank you sir, I appreciate the feedback.

Yep, the casualty figures are suspect, to say the least. But that's what the sources gave. The Romans probably played down the real number of men that died in the battle

Thank you sir for the kind words. Make sure to check Hoc Est Bellum channel, he did most of the work in this one. Here's the link to his channel: kzfaq.info/love/l5m12RUvypT4e7w-mWrzsA

Thank you sir. Make sure to also check out Hoc Est Bellum's channel. He did the lion's share of the work in this one. Here's the link to his channel: kzfaq.info/love/l5m12RUvypT4e7w-mWrzsA

@@HistoryMarche wow, thanks. His stuff looks great

@@GeraltofRivia22 You're welcome. Hoc Est Bellum is a close friend. His channel is still new, but there will be a lot more videos to come over time. I'm very glad you liked his channel.

@@HistoryMarche wow, not only do you make great content but you seem like such a nice person. I wish you all the success in the world

@@GeraltofRivia22 Hehe, "Mago" is indeed one of the kindest and smartest persons i had the pleasure to meet through the internet.

Thank you for watching. I definitely plan to cover more of Khalid's battles in the coming months. There are some true gems there.

@@HistoryMarche Good luck with that waiting you Sir

Thank you very much.

@@HistoryMarche Can't find words to praise you guys more!

Though wether that's for better or worse is impossible to tell. I may be biased as a christian here, but the benefit of one generation can be the disaster of another.

@@rockyblacksmith Christianity was responsible for diverting the finest minds and most ambitious men in the late empire into the dead-end and interminable irrelevant doctrinal squabbling of the church, whilst exterminating the rich tapestry of cultural and religious traditions that are indigenous to Europe, leaving us with the completely impoverished religious landscape of Europe today. If he had succeeded in preventing the adoption of Christianity as the state religion, I have no doubt that would have been positive in the long view.

@@dreamer2260 There is an EASY counterargument here. Without christianity as a uniting factor, Europe would have splintered into a thousand pieces after the fall of the Roman Empire. Which, as it's causes were economical and social, was inevitable. Without an entity that exertet authority beyond regional and ethnical borders, the transition between antiquity and the middle ages would have been another Bronze-Age Collapse, where endless amounts of knownledge and progress were lost because societies couldn't keep the structures in place that retained this knownledge. But a large-scale religion was abled to retain it's structures even among rising and falling kingdoms. Roman polytheism never had such solid structures as monotheism offered.

@@rockyblacksmith Perhaps it was inevitable that the Western Empire collapsed as you are right about the social, structural issues at work, as well as barbarian pressure etc.; but the East didn’t collapse, and I see no reason why a rejuvenated paganism, and less powerful, non-institutionalised Christianity in the East would have prevented that half of the Empire’s survival, with all the knowledge they had preserved. Of course, we know that a key part of the Renaissance was the exodus of Greek scholars, artists, intellectuals etc who fled the Empire after its final collapse in 1453. It’s possible that there would have been less knowledge transfer in the West without the overarching framework of state Christianity, however I think the new Germanic rulers would have been incentivised to maintain some continuity of governance systems, social structure etc even without that framework, as it was simply easier for them to do so and the desire to piggyback off the legitimacy and prestige of Rome would still have existed, so there would probably still have been some preservation. And even if this was negligible, on the plus side you would have, as I said, perhaps even a rejuvenation of local religious practices and cultures which could only have been beneficial for European cultural and religious diversity. In any case, even with Christianity institutionalised in the West, an enormous amount of knowledge and culture was lost and submerged regardless; I am not convinced the loss of dominant state Christianity would have changed the trajectory of social and technological progress that much, and as I say, it’s indisputable that it was a massive brain drain, century after century, of ambitious and intelligent people, who wasted their time on theological rather than real world or governance questions.

@@dreamer2260 "ambitious and intelligent people, who wasted their time on theological rather than real world or governance questions." And here, I think you are thoroughly wrong. People, before and after the advent of christianity, did BOTH. The two things aren't mutually exclusive. Ideally, they are complementary, and many people throughout history recognised this.

Hey Ahmed. Both Alex and David are on the team. You'll hear Alex soon in Hannibal episode 8

Totally agree. Nothing personal against David of course, but for me Alex is the voice of Historymarche

@@HistoryMarche Hannibal episode 8! Yes

The other guy has a fuller, rounder sound, like some air caught in a pocket is his throat is also reverberating. It's quite pleasant to listen to, and gives this channel a unique quality. :)

@@emamag6455 yeah, David is also cool

Thank you sir.

Thank you sir.

@@HistoryMarche *You mean that my Face, did NOT FooL you?*