Evocati are directly linked with the term 'Vocation'. Originating in the word Vocatio (Latin for 'Calling') these men were literally called up for service. And why people, 2000ish years later, still ask if you have "found your calling" when asking you what you want to do (work, study, etc).

there's nothing short about those careers.

Best Empire ever. Today we still use their ways from engineering to language. Even our comments in English use 90% Latin alphabet. What an Empire, wow.

This reminds me of Evocati cohort in Rome 2 total war. Absolutely insane unit

Soldiers retired were trained in many vocations. Construction, farmers, and small business

If only veterans today where looked out for as much as the Romans did for there veterans!!

20-25 years by todays standards is still a HUGE amount of time. 1 in thousaunds of ajy branch will actually stay for a retirement pension after 20 years. Average time spent in is around 4-8 years.

What an amazingly informative video! Thank you for the many, many hours you invested in researching, depicting and presenting this fascinating subject! May God bless you. Respectfully, Michael Weeks, San Antonio, Texas.

Thanks for the video ⚔️

Do we know what percentage of legionaries made it to retirement age?

I love rome history

Really enjoyed the video. Covered a topic I didnt even realize i didn't know much about And I recognize the middle guy in the thumbnail lol. They *really* need to male a sequel to "Ryse: Son of Rome" or at least make more games where you save Rome instead of fight it

Great video.

Another great video 👍🏼

1:44 ah yes, the avocados

They took old man strength to the next level. It reminds me of the silver shields lol

That was interesting. Learn something new about the Romans is good. ✌👾

More Greg stories of battle and horror

I have a question how do you draw your comics because I really want to make my own comic books I love your art style😅

Can you do a series of the oddyssey

Can you do Mesopotamian Myth (Day 21)

Hi See U in History it’s my birthday today 😊

Career active duty U.S. Army Soldiers who retire join something called the retired reserve. They receive a portion of their active duty pay, the percentage of which depends on how many years after 20 they served. The last recall of people in the the U.S.' retired reserve of significance happened after 9/11.

Wow! Now that was amazing story of Evocatus: The Elite Veterans of the Legions of the Roman Empire. They should join military train hard skills and tactics to win a war! Like Ares and 300 Spartans to save Greeks from Persian.

How often do this channel upload videos and at what times? I want to comment, but there's always dozens of comments posted already 😅

May his enemies flee from him. May their city walls crumble. May their cattle and women be taken. This man... is now Evocati.

4:50 Yoooo is that a praetorian guard (the right one) from Ryse Son of Rome

I like the other videos much better

❤🤍💙 all your videos mate👍

1:24 did he say 30,000 and then 5,000 ? was that a mistake?

Ave... True to Caesar.

lancerlot and his excalibur

I misread "Elite Veterans" as "Elite Vegetables" 💀

How do these service lengths sound short when most only serve for 4 years and get out, plus we live longer 😂

Avocado army

Seems like us veterans then were more respected and honored back then...

My father was apart of this group

Advocadi with fetta and rocket on toast with pork chops and apple sauce with a hint of garrum

Here's a peculiar question, were beards and or long hair the style than? I only ask because you see a lot of representations showing such. But I've seen and read where facial hair and long hair were not the norm.

Nowadays, Evocatus can be farmed in Mexico. They even have the soft and sweet Hass Evocatus.

they were not used for making roads because they are already old.. they are put to better use to be trainers...

arthur the mythical highland hare got lost in the english forrest

There are two things in this video that don't partiuculary add up to me, but maybe someone else knows the anwer to this: First is the fact that the evocati supposedly predominantly recruited from the pretorian guard. This doesnt make that much sense because in this video we learn that the evocati gained their importance through their experience, knowledge and guidence, fullfilling roles as instructors, architects, military advisors, elite militia for emergencies and so on. Following this logic you would want those kind of legionaries who have experienced the most combat. The pretorians main task however was the protection of the city of Rome and the emperor. Therefore there isn't a lot of historical evidence of the pretorian guard actually participating in a lot of military campaigns or major battles. Its ranks probably mostly consisted of rich and or royal Romans who wanted be part of the prestigious guard without risking too much danger. Considering this, i'd want someone who spent 20 years of his life fighting in Gaul, Africa and Brittania to train my upcoming professional soldiers instead of someone who spent 16 years of his life patroling the streets of the captial. The second fact that confused me was the the idea of evocatii becoming centurions. To my knowledge, being a roman centurion meant being at the front line for the entirety of the battle. While the normal legionary would be exchanged for a comrade after a certain amount of time and if the situation allowed for it, a centurion had to hold his ground, inspire and command his troops and generally expose himself to the very front of the brutal meat grinder an antique battle usually used to be. Whoever has even a little experience with fighting and/or martial arts knows how exhausting even considerably short training/sparring sessions can be. Now imagine this combined with all the adrenaline of being in the midst of battle while fighting for your life and instead of doing this for 5, 10 or 20 minutes, your doing it for hours. This is a task only the fittest of the fit would be able to cope with and even among those the mortatility rate was probably incredibly high. Now imagine someone who's body already experienced 20 years of fighting, probably took lots of damage and is also not able to perform on the same level it could 10-15 years ago. I feel like, even though there probably were exceptions, someone like this would be wasted as a front line officer. They surely were still able to fight, since there are some things you simply do not forget or unlearn and their experience must have given them a superior moral in diffiicult situations but no matter how far the mind can go, the older a person gets the less the body is able follow. I can definetly imagine them being held as reserve and then swapped in and out in decisive moments of a battle but a 40 year old, tired, battle worn man fighting for hours and hours nonstop without a break just doesn't seem like the best fit for the task, especially considering the fact that his knowledge preserves so much value being shared with other soldiers. I just don't se why you would waste that by throwing him at the font lines.

Compare that with how veterans today.

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They are real Mandolirian

Nation builders

So does Nikocado Avocado.. 😂

missy widow you hungry soon?

The avocados ;)

I'm sorry , but you dont really have got an grip over life expectancy and how it is calculated.

THIS is what the praetorian guards should have been

they peel his blue skin off

Evocati can also be called in the East Kung Fu masters! Kung fu means superior skills acquaired through hardwork! K

avocados

It would do your videos a great favor if you added the sources for this nonsense!!

I like the video, though some illustrations are clearly fantasy. Better get rid of those for future videos.

20 years is a short enlistment? lol. Average military contract is 4 years. 20 years is the longest most people chose because of that pension lol.

Anyone today serving 25 years is not a combat soldier warrior.

eaten

"Amazing Men" These were murderers.

Brainwashing history I believe never spoken about avocado lol

They were butchered in Teutenberg forest by German youth with clubs and lirtle armour. So much for elite 😂

They were black

Homie used video game image as his reference.