Most people don’t comprehend how crazy it was that Rome stayed relevant for as long as it did. Especially given all of the internal issues it had. We only ever talk abt the fall and how they couldn’t last forever, when no civilization lasts forever
@gffhvfhjvf49596 ай бұрын
Plus, you have to keep in mind that the fall of 450 concerned the Western roman empire, and that the Roman epmire technically survived until 1400 with the Eastern romans
@jaro5516 ай бұрын
Your comment bothers me. Why do people always have to write generic sentences like this? "Most people" don't care and have no opportunity to learn about this whole topic. So using the term "most people" doesn't say much to begin with. So when we talk about people who are interested, we can defenitely say they 'comprehend' that is very unusual. That's why we talk about it to begin with... you do not have to state this all the time. It's also not strange that we would be very interested as to how such a great empire crumbles so we can learn from their mistakes and do better.
@jonathanprice71576 ай бұрын
Heh, I still can't even comprehend how that went on about achieving all that with even having thought about zero being a really useful counting character?!?
@JcoleMc6 ай бұрын
China
@NixonThr336ix5 ай бұрын
@@gffhvfhjvf4959 not really Byzantium was romes Greek colony if the US collapsed & Puerto Rico claimed to “Thee United States” would not make it so
@CB-so8xd6 ай бұрын
Rudyard, really like this casual style history series, hope you stick with it
@jepp.68475 ай бұрын
for real!
@kiroshi325 ай бұрын
Why is this all sounding so familiar.
@ManicMercurianAstrology5 ай бұрын
Right? It's eerie. Are we talking about the distant past, or the present/future? 😆😅
@orboakin80743 ай бұрын
Because it literally happens to most civilizations on earth, even here in Africa.
@hardlo71463 ай бұрын
Because he's doing it on purpose. He's trying to say the fall of Rome is equal to what's occurring to us right now, the sole fact he's using words like socialist or degeneracy should be a giveaway not to take these people seriously lol.
@waburg95732 ай бұрын
@@hardlo7146 real
@ringthatbell95979 күн бұрын
Your a whatifalthist fan, we all know why this sounds familiar
@heroes86895 ай бұрын
Rudyard's analysis into these topics is thought provoking; giving his perspective as a historian is just great for listening too. Easy to digest.
@will_50536 ай бұрын
These podcasts episodes are always an insta watch for me thank you for the awesome content
@user-uf2df6zf5w6 ай бұрын
The crisis of the 3rd century did not start with the assassination of Commodus in 192, as claimed here. There was beef turmoil, after which the severance dynasty took power, which still ruled over a largely stabile empire into the 240s. The severans inflated the currency to pay the army (as they had no other legitimacy, not even being descendants of any Italians) and went bancrupt under Severus Alexander, after which the army killed him, and the empire gradually collapsed into permanent civil war over the next 20 years or so...
@sheldoniusRex6 ай бұрын
Illegitimate emperors inflating the currency certainly sounds like something which belongs in the discussion of "crisis."
@verscarii32385 ай бұрын
@@sheldoniusRex President's too
@sheldoniusRex5 ай бұрын
@@verscarii3238 yeah. That's the (unfortunate) joke.
@KaiHung-wv3ulАй бұрын
@@sheldoniusRex Not to mention only one of the Severan Emperors DIDN'T get assassinated.
@VTCivilStudent5 ай бұрын
Would love for you to do a WhatIfAltHist video on what terrain is most suitable for living in a population collapse. Without any knowledge, farming on a south facing slope seems like the easiest to defend and grow food from.
@josiahmorris57996 ай бұрын
I love autumn in Rome 🍁 🍃
@mikeg23065 ай бұрын
Rome fell because it ceased to be something worth fighting for. In the 5th century it wasn’t even the capital of the West. And the dictatorship and excessive taxation meant that ordinary citizens didn’t really have buy-in. Plus the mixing of cultures and genealogies meant that the concept of what it meant to be Roman became kinda blurred. The last emperor for example was the son of a half-barbarian general. Plus the Empire survived in the East so the Empire didn’t fall, just the Roman part of it did.
@stevenjames6830Ай бұрын
The eastern Roman Empire was also the Roman Empire so no the Roman part of it didn’t fall because then it wouldn’t be a Roman Empire. The western part of it fell.
@juandelgadillo26565 ай бұрын
way too short
@ryanbradley32936 ай бұрын
Is common ground dead? It seems like this stuff has taken over, which I’m fine with but I wish it was both
@FozzyBBear5 ай бұрын
Martin Armstrong has used metallurgical testing of Roman coin hoards to identify the annual health of the Roman economy by the amount of debasement of the coinage. He's used it to track when and where harvests succeeded and failed, the output of their mines, and the course of their wars. His book on Anthony and Cleopatra's civil war against Julius Caesar uniquely examines the conflict through a monetary lens.
@stephenlocilento6494 ай бұрын
Thank you for your insight. You do a great job of adding your analysis to history. More importantly, you make it clear when it’s you opinion vs historical fact.
@jmanjman26856 ай бұрын
I would love to see a video on your favorite emperors. Not exactly the best ones just the ones you find most interesting.
@Norquay.MikadoАй бұрын
By far the best discussion I've heard about the Roman Empire.
@android69_3 ай бұрын
these podcasts are great. would be sweet if you could dive into more detail / extend the duration.
@ethank.32012 ай бұрын
Ok 😂
@yanx47975 ай бұрын
27:00 I think the word "hun" is related to the name "Hungary". The latter word is related to the Turkic word "on" which means ten, while the other has debated etymology.
@joryiansmith5 ай бұрын
Fascinating deep dive jam-packed and unparalleled to any 1 hour documentary.
@Paddythelaad5 күн бұрын
Rome fell because Augustus told the future generations to not expand. Considering the context of the time including Rome's culture, this doomed Rome to civil wars. It Also made it inevitable that Rome's neighbors would (eventually) unite against a prosperous Rome. I think Rome could have conquered the world before collapsing, but with a high likelihood of a lot of civil wars too. But having the cultural option to expand instead of civil war would have helped the empire a lot!
@martneb5 ай бұрын
Rome wasn't build in a day and it did not fall in one either.
@tonyfriendly44095 ай бұрын
It would still be weird in like 800 AD to look at the ruined aqueducts and the Arc de Truimph and think to yourself "how in the heck did they build that?"
@bevbevan61895 ай бұрын
The Arc de Triomphe was built by Napoleon, but otherwise Yes. And it’s still pretty amazing.
@devoncook62756 ай бұрын
Can we get a video on the rise of Rome and what was good about it?
@TheWorldOnPaper6 ай бұрын
I agree
@mikeg23065 ай бұрын
His facts are a little off. Gibbon marks the beginning of the decline at 180, but the “Crisis of the 3rd Century” is actually from the assassination of Alexander Severus is 235 to the rise of Aurelian and Diocletian in the 280’s.
@SopaDeLengua4 ай бұрын
❤❤❤ my new favorite channel!
@PjPjPaul4 ай бұрын
This was amazing! Thank you for this
@Maytrx5 ай бұрын
Where do you get your information for the predictions you make for the near future?
@teiuq6 ай бұрын
Absolutely enjoyed this! Thanks gentleman.
@ponternalАй бұрын
I would prefer if the other person in the podcast had some history knowledge so they could at least talk about some of these topics
@jacksonklark61196 ай бұрын
Does anybod have a link to felipe fabre?
@bevbevan61896 ай бұрын
Philippe Fabry
@jacksonklark61196 ай бұрын
@@bevbevan6189 thx seems like I searched the wrong name
@breezyx9766 ай бұрын
Title correction: explaining the future of America
@mikesecondnameАй бұрын
32:35 I hate to be ‘that guy’ but we’ve got parallels for all of those threads happening in the west now. Are we in living in a new ‘Fall of Rome’? How do we black-pill ourselves out of this disintegrated? Best get your stoic hats out, boys.
@megaman18082 ай бұрын
I prefer the 24 hour format that Dan Carlin use
@kumel13035 ай бұрын
Can you please do "explaining french revolution" video?
@vandergrift38345 ай бұрын
Anyone got a name for the intro music? Please and Thank you
@buckaroobonzai29094 ай бұрын
This guy looks like dollar store Clark Kent.
@effexon4 ай бұрын
@06:11 "Alans".... well nice to have tribe to people named Alan :D
@julian98985 ай бұрын
What’s your third favorite era? The Ottomans in the 17th century?
@ZontarDow6 ай бұрын
I'm surprised no mention was made of the transition of Roman citizenship going from just the city if Rome to all of the Latins in Italy.
@ingold14705 ай бұрын
Claudius referenced this as a precedent for allowing Gauls into the Senate, according to Tacitus.
@user-mv1vm6il1h6 ай бұрын
I love these videos
@renatoe96482 ай бұрын
Id say biggest diference between Rome and China is China has a big core with major rivers that support a huge population so even with barbarian dinasties the majority is still Han and there is apool of chinese people to go back to a new vertion of China. A Rome with masive farmland in Italy would have had the Visigoth dinasty and a frankish one but still go back to Latin dynasties for the most part, like we see so mqny empires trying to be a new Rome. Religion was also a big part too though
@Tarik360Ай бұрын
Rome underwent a "mostly peaceful" sacking you say?
@davidbacon92445 ай бұрын
Very good video, but I must make a small criticism: he doesn't talk about to population transition from Rome to the first period after the fall, wich are mislabeled "Dark ages". I mean, Rudyard compares the Hun empire with 10 mil against the 70 mil +- of Rome, but what happened to this people? It's estimated that Europe in 1000 AD was about 56 mil people. If the individual life of the fringes of empire improved, what happened to everyone? There's a huge death toll that I never see mentioned anywere when people talk about the fall of Rome.
@hardlo71463 ай бұрын
I wouldn't try to learn much from this video, it's very clearly trying to push a biased conservative viewpoint of it to push their agenda. Plagues and the breakdown of society were the reason for the death tolls.
@Funkopotomis6 ай бұрын
does that mean bread was super expensive?
@JustinianG5 ай бұрын
Can I be in one of your podcasts?
@stevenjames6830Ай бұрын
The western Roman Empire fell in 476 not 450 and the eastern Roman Empire fell in 1453 not i 450
@t.m.81285 ай бұрын
I have a wife, a little girl and a job. Man, it's hard to be productive with this kind of vídeo! Congrats
@sahilhossain82043 ай бұрын
Lore of Explaining the Fall of Rome momentum 100
@kalacaptain4818Ай бұрын
there was no "hunnic empire"
@emZee19943 ай бұрын
11:19 that's incorrect They were the same people, they were descendedents of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (Yamnaya) and they had the same religion too. Jupiter and Zeus are the same Gods (Dyeus Pater)
@leonardticsay80465 ай бұрын
Looks like it’s that time of the day again.
@thaeus01matthaeus865 ай бұрын
hey man thanks to the video
@heroes86895 ай бұрын
We need a multiple part series on this; complete history of Rome.
@JcoleMc6 ай бұрын
Is that Whatifaltist ?
@josiahmorris57996 ай бұрын
No It’s Rudy
@Paddythelaad5 күн бұрын
Young Hannibal could beat a lot, but not young Scipio's Roman army number 5 :)
@slavhondacivicsi4 ай бұрын
Peace & safety = sudden destruction
@Izadirad19955 ай бұрын
So wait what happened to common ground and the old white guy? I like this stuff but it almost feels more like his main channel. Also what about the fall of the Han and three kingdoms ?
@anthonywalker62685 ай бұрын
They tried to fight history. They lost. Unprecedented things stay unprecedented.
@noahtylerpritchett26826 ай бұрын
A few less civil wars a few less coups in both eastern and western roman empire and they may of lasted a century or more.
@loganstrait75036 ай бұрын
> compares discussing the fall of Rome to a Rorschach test > proceeds to attribute the fall of Rome to contemporary conservative talking points lol
@hardlo71463 ай бұрын
It's what they do, they all try to claim our modern society = the fall of Rome, they do it to push their agendas.
@stevenjames6830Ай бұрын
There are many parallels that are valid to bring up leftists seem to over contextualize things and pretend like we can’t make observations based on path events and their modern parallels. Also, it’s just your interpretation that those are conservative, talking points the same way that we can say that your beliefs are leftist talking points that you just claimed to be objective but are leftist nonetheless.
@loganstrait7503Ай бұрын
@@stevenjames6830 I'm not actually a leftist I'm just criticizing Ruddy for being a fool
@heroes86895 ай бұрын
Would love to have a video series of complete history of Rome.
@FozzyBBear5 ай бұрын
Check out A.D. History Podcast here on KZfaq, they do 60-90 minute episodes covering each decade and have covered from 0 to 440 A.D. so far
@MsPrgames5 ай бұрын
One small correction: eastern europe was inhabited by iranians, peoples like the alans and the sarmatians.
@manwiththeredface78216 ай бұрын
"it was just a village, and then the Romans just through sheer force of will and intelligence..." And by kidnapping a bunch of women in the beginning from a neighbouring village, forcing them to be their wives. (How did Wardaddy say in the movie Fury? "Ideals are peaceful, history is violent.")
@deinemamasagtgehheulen5 ай бұрын
We in germany call the middle ages sometimes also the golden age maybe not in an expansionalis but a spiritual way
@TexasTimeLord5 ай бұрын
No one, even the barbarians, Rome destroyed. They just wanted to run the place.
@peter1mckinnon655Ай бұрын
Nice nice
@joeturner46665 ай бұрын
He said Pupienus!!!
@adwans14918 күн бұрын
Rome just never gave up. The biggest chads throughout history.
@ashtonbarwick66966 күн бұрын
Looks like whatifalthist
@yux.tn.36416 ай бұрын
so no more common ground?😢 (not that this isn't good)
@julian98985 ай бұрын
Rome in 450: A Mostly Peaceful Sack lol
@notsocrates95294 ай бұрын
49:45 lolwut
@ArchitectStrange6 ай бұрын
These people acting like Oversimplified doesn't exist
@buzter81356 ай бұрын
Doesn't that guy post like twice a year?
@henrykurniadi18056 ай бұрын
@@buzter8135now it is more like two years once
@Peak_Aussieman6 ай бұрын
BIG! STRONK! ROME!
@tacituskilgore87476 ай бұрын
First!
@Rock.E.Bottom6 ай бұрын
Second)
@tristanhodgson66765 ай бұрын
"Socialist" despite the fact the grain dole never went beyond the city of Rome and their bureaucracy was miniscule.
@nicholasmatthew96874 ай бұрын
Very modernist perspective.
@nialllewis87945 ай бұрын
Saying the modern state of Hungarys name stems from the Huns of east Asia is objectively false and takes a five minute google search to disprove.