It was great working with you, Invicta!

Democrat and Republican are not on opposing ends of the political spectrum.

Will you put all the Punic-Sicilian wars videos into one big documentary so people can watch it in one go or listen to it more easily like a podcast?

Nice job with the video. I always like learning about little known time periods.

Make a video about the Serbian-Vizantian wars wich brout Vizanty empire to its knees and allow the Otomans to begin their counquest of the Balkans

Syracuse was never a match against Rome

They also swatted away an invasive attack from Athens...with unbelievable atrocities and savagery.

(entire Hellenic world been perpetually united)-well, they performed mediocore at best after uniting into the kingdom of greece after the ottomans............

Wouldn’t really call that the entire Hellenic world.

@@James-sk4db why? what was left out? cyrpus?

only in total war does sending your entire army to attack an enemy city while your cities are getting conquered seem to happen. if this scenario happened in a video game, most people would think the ai had no sense of self-perservation.

1988 300 GRÈCE REMI GOFFLO

We need a Syracusan faction....

I am tunisian and i didn't hear about it too 😂

Greek history is so deep! Even decoding linear B tablets reveals amazing things about Mycenaean bronze age even through to late Greek history, like these invasions of Africa. I find Greece to be one of the most fascinating places on earth. Even during Athens, so many literary geniuses came from that city while the city never had much more that 200k population and about 50k citizens.

Italian history purposefully neglect all history of its southern half, favoring the teaching of its northern bits, so not even Italians study this part. Just to give a bit of context on the importance of ancient Syracuse, Greek historians (Herodotus and Aristotle) wrote that the battle of Himera was on the same day of the battle of Salamis. That was not true but was greek propaganda aiming to frame the two main powers of ancient Greek culture that defended their freedom and roots against the two big empires of that time: Persia in the east and Carthage inthe west. This give an insight on how the Sicilian polis was publicly perceived and its main role in ancient times.

Yes because teaching this depth of History is a waste of time at schools where most of the Graduates will go on to work at McDonalds.

Really proud to be Greek, and grateful we share history together!

@Bobby The Crazy Bichon Frisé against... other Greeks?

@Bobby The Crazy Bichon Frisé many fine empires fell to Rome. No shame there. And they battled enemies even larger centuries before and won.

@@bobbythecrazybichonfrise7634 the Greek culture disappeared? Really now? Check how many English words derive from Greek words and go to any university in the world and check how many sciences are taught based on Greek heritage there. Just check.

@@bobbythecrazybichonfrise7634 just say you hate Greeks without saying bs.

@@bobbythecrazybichonfrise7634 yet you re here commenting on a subject that involves Greece. Your opinion is respectable but not the superior one. Greece is eternal and the heritage is strong and forever. Where are you from by the way?

With the difference that Agathocles and his sons got wrecked in the end. He saved Syracuse from falling but his attack ended in disaster. Scipio was far more skilled than Agathocles

@@nisarbo3781 Scipio had a bigger and better organized military force though. And Agathocles's strategic purpose wasn't actually to take Cartahage, but to create a diversion, in order to con a part of the Carthagean forces that besieged Siracuse to follow him, and eventually end the Siege of the city. And it worked. Scipio used the same tactic with Agathocles in order to force Carthage to recall Hannibal's forces from Italy. Later Emperor Heraclius used the same tactic, he invaded Persia, in order to force the Persian forces to retreat from Asia Minor.

Before Scipio there was also Atilius Regulus in the First Punic War

@@athanasiosmegas6016 Yes, but Regulus invaded after his triumph at the Battle of Cape Eknomus, while Agathocles's move was a strategic diversion, in order to reduce the Carthaganean pressure at the Siege of Siracuse. Scipio, with Hannibal in Italy, followed the same tactic with Agathocles, in order to have Hannibal retreat from the peninsula.

I'd say Hannibal didn't need to be diverted back to Africa as he wasn't much of a danger anymore by 203 BC Scipio's goal was probably just to strike at the heart of Carthage and end the war there, with or without defeating Hannibal

And now I'ma hit up your channel cause never enough history

Bit random, but as someone who despairs at the echo chambers people find themselves in, fair play for trying to do something. Thing is, they never know they are in one....be it Fox or Vox.

I just got your app and I have to say it’s what I’ve been looking for for ages so thank you. However, I don’t really know how to guide myself around it, if the blind spot indicators show how much left/right wing media ignores the topic or something else. Is there a tutorial on how to best use the app?

does it work for the UK?

@@oliverforde1115 it has a uk option but it does have a few complaints about being a bit too much US stuff

There was no such thing as Greece or Greeks. Greece is not ethnicity. They probably referring the Phoenicians and Etruscans as Greeks.

@@supermavro6072 Greek comes from the Latin Graecus, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek Graikos. A name that comes from Graia a city where the Romans first contacted the Greeks. The Greeks called themselves Hellenos. Hellenic is a language, a culture, and an ethnicity. Unlike today the ancient Greeks were fiercely independent of one another, but they would have still seen themselves as Greek or Hellenic. Well, I shouldn’t say Hellenic language because there were multiple distinct dialects of Ancient Greek.

@@segovax2852 You just copy pasted this from Wikipedia. I don't think you know what "Greek" is. Can you give the definition of this term "Greek or Greece", I meant what is it's exactly meaning

@@supermavro6072 cope 😉 where were the albanians in antiquity 😂 ???

@@segovax2852 let the Albanian cope because of his jealousy of the greeks 😁

Yeah, literary sources pulled off my a$$

They're loaded with exaggerations

1988 300 GRÈCE REMI GOFFLO

I gave up in the first 30 seconds. If you can't differentiate between a definite and indefinite article, then the rest of your 'research' is bound to be flawed.

0:16 they are not "greco-punic" wars

This is a war between the Scythians against the Han, and the Scythians were defeated at the beginning, but they managed to kill 90,000 Han soldiers, and in the end the Scythians took control of the land and spread their religion of Buddhism in China

Kings and generals has a video on the war

@@user-cg2tw8pw7j source bro?

@Angeal zeal K&G already made a video about it

Another good one would be the abbassid-tang war since they both use a lunar calendar.

I'll have to dig up what he said about him. Based on Agathocles’s achievements in the face of such odds it seems like there are some valuable lessons in his story

@@InvictaHistory There's a part of "the prince" where he talks about the proper use of cruelty in state craft. He uses Agathocles and one Oliverotto as examples in that chapter. Now l see why. That move where he knocks off the Senate and the leaders of the commoners in one blow is just classic. Very cruel but classic.

*Evangelos Mourelatos* Above all, the whole world be polite and the nations would not suffer from the disturbed barbarians since 2020, to say the least...

I assume they were trying to force Carthage to withdraw from Western Sicily, but I feel like they should have gone full scorched Earth and burned the farms all around the city if they wanted them to panic.

Drag out the war and hope the morale of Carthage would fail causing them to seek terms. It makes sense. And going full scorched earth is iffy cuz it could've enraged the carthagians enough to not surrender

More than anything, Carthage cared about its citizens, hence why they employed mostly mercenaries. Agathocles' plan was basically to traumatize them enough so that they would seek terms, if not surrender completely. It was a sound strategy, since Africa had been free from war for the past three centuries. The Carthaginians had no intentions of fighting there themselves, and the prospect of losing their riches could only add fuel to a raging fire, as he countryside was bountiful with loot. It's more or less the strategy that Hannibal Barca used against Rome a century later, wrest its allies from it and pillage the countryside to force the Romans to surrender.

@@praiza1481 Its a devious strategy but it tends to backfire if you do it to the wrong enemy. For example: many muslim nations even today would just outlast you and all crimes against citizens only adds fuel to the hatred and desire to fight. It can really backfire unless you are evil enough to go full genocide.

at some point syracuse numbered over half a million population

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They were quite famous for tatooing, I recalled

That’s the Libyans, Cartage hired mercenary for their armies. The Libyans were known for tattoos. Amazigh people still have those tattoos till this day

@@zakaria497 They were combination of Carthaginian citizens and allies/vassals (who did not have to be Lybian Berbers, they could be from other Punic cities in Africa, like many Lybo-Phoenicians, so Phoenician-speaking. In Greek sources Lybian and in Roman African are mostly geographic terms not ethnic ones ), not actual mercenaries. These people fought as vassals as part of their cities tributary obligations towards Carthage, similar to Socci system of roman allies. Most of large armies of antiquity were like that, including Syracusan one. Carhtaginians are reported to wear tatoos.

@@ivandicivan4189 ancient Libyans, ancient Mauritania and Numidians all of them had Amazigh tattoos and were mostly used by Cartage in wars. Carthage even had a mercenary wars with us the Berbers that was brutal. So most likely the people with tattoos in the North African armies were of Berber descent.

The Greeks didn't invade,the Athenians sent 6000 men with 200 ships to aid Egyptians (inarus) who had revolved against the Persians.

@@stergioskatsibras8445 "who were already in open revolt against Artaxerxes I of Persia" This is exactly what I said And anyway, it does not change the fact that Inarus was a rebel and the Athenians attacked Achaemenid Egypt. and I believe every Trireme could carry up to 200 men so with 200 ships and simple math shouldn't they send at least 40,000 men?!

@@maxnetirtimon4121 they 6000 hoplites interfere in battle with the Persians alongside with the Egyptian rebels and they lost.

@@stergioskatsibras8445 Dude, how could they only be 6000 while their ship needed a minimum crew of 170 men and they sailed with 200 of those to Egypt?!

@maxnetir timon because the 6000 were heavy hoplites not marines the ships didn't interfere,that's the numbers that some of the ancient historians gave not me,maybe only 6000 disembark and the rest went to other expeditions

I appreciate that as it's always been nice for me to retain a personal touch on these projects even as we grow

Look up the Moorish wars, one of the reasons why the Byzantines didn't expand further West.

@@Holybatman3603 - What? Moorish refers to NW Africa (Berber or Berber-derived). I'm guessing you mean the Muslim (Arab, not Moorish in any way) expansion but actually... that came after the Byzantines had truly f***ed up their realm, first by trying to invade Italy and failing and then by getting exhausted at endless wars with the Persians,, who also collapsed and causing internal strife in sectarian conflicts with the Afroasiatic churches of Alexandria and Antioch. The Arabs just took on extremely weakened foes, it's amazing that Byzantium survived where Persia could not. In any case that's not really "forgotten": I have watched several docus on the matter. Now pre-Muslim and first Muslim Arabia would be an interesting forgotten period (several wars) to dwell into, beginning with Talmudist-Jewish (and also Christian) expansion in the Red Sea area, the formation of Christian Axum and Jewish Yemen (and also Jewish very strong influence in Mecca, all of which directly connects with the weird life and militant prophecy of Mohamed) and ending with the post-Mohamed wars between the tribes/sects and the consolidation of the Rashidun Caliphate, which was the one that invaded the northern powers. It would take some dare to actually take on Mohamed as historical character (which he is, no doubt) without bending to the superstitions and taboos of the still many believers, often extremely fanatic, but it should be done because History, including Muslim history, belongs to Humanity and not to sectarians.

@@LuisAldamiz I was talking about the wars between the Catholic Berbers and Orthodox Greeks and Anatolians. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_wars One of the reasons why Christianity didn't last as long in North Africa was because of Huneric's persecution of Catholics and the systematic slaughter of North African Christians during the Moorish wars.

@@Holybatman3603 Ah, OK: that's a very unknown war or series of wars, certainly. I was not really aware of them: I know that there were some diffuse conflicts but thought they were almost unknown. After all it was the dark ages, so for instance, if you look at my country of Vasconia (not very far away and not very different in many aspects to the Amazigh realms), we barely know of a few notices of campaigns, interpreted contradictorily and barely complemented by an archaeology which is almost unable to discern one ethnoculture from another. I didn't know of Vandals "systematically persecuting Catholics" either. In any case you opened my mind to a period and region I was not even thinking I could find much info about. Definitely worth a "forgotten wars" chapter.

@@LuisAldamiz The Vandals were the most fanatical Arian tribe in their early days, Genseric particularly despied Christianity and made considerable efforts to suppress it in North Africa, his son Huneric took it to a new level and massacred 4,966 priests and clergymen in 483. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/4966_martyrs_d%27Afrique North Africa is a region of the world that is still shrouded in mystery because of the lack of archeological research there, even to this day there are still historical discoveries that are being made.

Uh not really the first time they were only successful because of a greek mercenary the second time well ...

Thanks for the kind words! We've got a lot of plans to expand our "Live History" and "True Size" series this year which hopefully keeps things fresh

@@InvictaHistory Y'all make content I can watch with family when I visit. How ever long it takes I'm gonna stay on board and push for others to watch. I legit think you and others could team up and teach schools. I know I'd be a better student if this stuff was common back then. I only wish I could donate and help fund y'all instead of just waiting. History is Great and you guys make everyone interested in it. I could never ask for more then that really

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I find it ironic that Thanos is suggesting talking about Genocide.

Or the on going genocide of all Europeans.

@@Liquidsback Haha true! The funny thing that Thanos is also my true name because I am Greek.

@@antiantifa886 What pogroms are those?

@@thanosandnobill3789 your parents gave you the name 'death'? that is so fucking cringe holy shit

We were planning on wrapping it up here and releasing a compiled version of these 7 wars. The Pyrhhic war is definitely on our to-do list but would be its own thing