But in Total War Rome II you simply paint the world map red.

There's no need for a silly Italian accent when speaking Latin. A Czech researcher actually wrote a paper on why the Romans didn't roll the R back then, it's not hard to find and I suggest you check it out.

I'm from Rome. Hit me up if you ever think of coming here, I'll buy you a drink while I show you around ;)

Any good books on early Roman history? Preferable the regal period. All I’ll found is Livy and we all know how reliable he is.

Invicta does this mean you'll continue your evolution of the Roman army

Rome wasn't built in a day

‘a day is as a thousand years’ - bible.

Boi Sandwich I agreeeeeee

Listen to Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast for a fantastic overview of the WRE from 753 BC to AD 476. Super-in-depth but always accessible.

Go on historyofrome.com everything is there from the rise of Rome to the Punic wars, to the Empire, and its collapse.

I'm from Roma and i love the history of the Roman Empire, but if you like history too i suggest you also have a look at the organization of the Ottoman Empire, very interesting too

History of Rome, England, France, Russia, German states&Austria, Japan and China, those idiots at Hollywood should use their billions to create epic series about all of that instead of making a cinematic universe of comic books, i have always thought that if they used all that money and manpower to actually educate and tell us about History it would be like a new renaissance, something like Lord of the Rings + Gladiator but real and well written.

HistoryMarche And I love your channel you have very good animations and your story telling is also very good :)

@HistoryMarche I am Waiting for the hannibal sequence!

Both of your content is A+ work

When is HistoryMarche, Invicta and Kings and Generals going to admin that they are the same people?

Billy Grahammer when the Romans conquered Etruria they already held all of southern Italy and were the most powerful entity on the peninsula.

*cries in burning of the great library of Alexandria*

@Jay Arre Because they basically started western civilzation as we know it today, as well as using languages based off their own. There is a reason why the U.S. senate is called a senate after all.

They were the Borg.

​@@musing1977 Speaking of the wiring, there was brief mention of how they sent their own priests out into the conquered cities. The religious aspect is never to be under-estimated. Very strong organizing/rallying principle.

Rome basically started the Western Civilization, along with Greece, which you guys conquered too eventually. Understanding where we were to understand why we're here. Pretty much the most important historical period untill the renaissance, which itself only happened thanks to Rome (and Greece).

You pleb romans were trojan not Italian

@@andyrewpantah94 You idiot the trojans were assimilated into the latin culture of Latium.

@@catalyst772 doesn’t make em Italian by blood now does it?

@@andyrewpantah94 no but the intermarriage between the two cultures does

there are serious books and writers around roman history and greek history but many smartasses know nothing and the only job they have is to write a smart comment when they see a video. they dont know how to understand the details and the stages. they do not know anything around literature. they do not know anything about social and literal matters. anyway. its a very good video for the unification of the italic tribes and cities. one special thing that people should know and understand about the past is that in more cases, the political unification happens when a stronger city or a stronger ruler makes wars and unifies the others under the sword. your comment is much essential. well done

Another really good book about ancient Rome is SPQR by Mary Beard, though that one only covers Rome from its founding to 220 CE

While good, it is missing the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.

@@bluerock12 that’s why the history of Byzantium exists

@@charadradam9985I love THoR. It’s not a definitive history of Rome & doesn’t pretend to be so. It’s a basic analysis of Roman history from foundation to the fall of the WRE.

Guess someone`s been reading a lot of Tolkien

"the terrain that unfolds like a rich tapestry, rolling from its peaks to its shores.." Mommsen style :-)

It's not that it's swept over, it's that we just don't have a lot of good sources for it. The Romans mythologized a lot of their early history after they became an empire, and it's easy to write about destiny and being the most chosen city when you know the outcome.

Exactly, I thought aside from the Roman conquest of the Etruscans, all this was lost to history. It's so cool we can extrapolate it somewhat more, with the Latin League. -- The Romans got their language from the Latins, alot of culture and agriculture from the Etruscans, and adopted the gods wholesale from the Greek colonies of the south and Siciliy. Quite amazing this video for zooming in on these regions.

16 legions, if you are thinking of Cannae.

Teutoburg forest and carrhae are examples of this

@@robertjarman3703 that is INSANE

@@Hugh_Morris That's just the beginning. During the battle of Philippi between the Liberators, Cassius and Brutus, Caesar's assassins, and the Second Triumvirate, Octavian and Mark Antony, the Liberators supplied 17 legions and the Triumvirate had 19 legions, for a total of 36 legions, plus tens of thousands of the hired mercenaries that the Liberators got from the King of the Parthians, for a battle with two hundred thousand men fighting.

@@pedrofreitas1661 foreat was not such a big loss percent wise. Cannae was much much worse

Caffeinated Wizard edgy... but they did work for a good part of a millennia. And aren’t most if not all rules easily bent?

So he made Sulla dictator while he was 18? Seriously, Sulla was an awful, awful person and was perfectly capable of seizing power without the help of a teeenager, not to mention Caesar was actually politically aligned with Marius’ successors and was actually Marius’ nephew through marriage. It is also important to realise that the conflict between the Populares was not merely a conflict between an oppressed people and brutal, hypocritical elites or a few populist strongmen against the defenders of the republic. It was both. The Optimates were defending a corrupt oligarchy which was perfectly willing to massacre Roman citizens to maintain power, was systematically undermining rule in the provinces with governors using their position to despoil loyal provinces and perhaps most importantly, was not even especially representative. Puttting aside the millions who were subjects of the empire but lacked citizenship and the vote, the system was stacked in favour of the wealthy. The Senate had a wealth requirement for entry which confined entry to less than one percent of the citizens. The Centuriate assembly, which elected the Consuls, first allowed the wealthy to vote in atiered system wheremiddle class Romans only voted if the elite failed to reach a consensus amongst themselves and the poor were of no importance unless there was a truly massive divide, in which case their votes were still underrepresented by the nature of the Centuries which made up the Assembly. The Tribal Assembly was geographic in nature but only allowed voting at Rome, meaning that only a few could afford to make the trip to Rome to vote, further shutting out the people. The Tribal Assembly was so poorly attended that a quorum was established of less than a dozen for each of the 35 tribes, thus ensuring that the lesser magistrates were also elected by plutocrats. Finally the Plebian the only real voice of the people of Rome. The Populares were also thugs but unlike the Optimates, realised the need for reform. They generally sought to do this however, by seizing power for themselves. In summary both sides sought supreme power for themselves and were perfectly willing to destroy Rome if they could rule the ashes

Roman law is still the basis of modern continental European law codes (the UK has a different system based on the common law, I'm not sure about Ireland) and by extension the same holds for many non-British former European colonies.

@Comstar: Space AT&T Cicero outlived Caesar. He wasn't killed by him. Cicero was killed by Octavian and Mark Anthony.

@Comstar: Space AT&T Julius Caesar died on March 15th, 44bc. Cicero died on December 7th, 43bc, about 18 months later, during the purges/"proscriptions" of the 2nd Triumvirate (Mark Anthony, Octavian, & Lepidus). It was Mark Anthony who targeted Cicero as Cicero had just written a denouncement of the former to be read in the senate. Of the many sources that cover this, Plutarch is a prominent one.

lol haha

I know it wasn't used for most of Roman history, but it looks so cool I just want to forget

Oh this is a meme now. Wonder where this one came from.

Where did a historian say that?

BBC is a joke

Its pretty much how total war works

Got some good news for you friend, There is a game being made by Paradox interactive which lets you do just that; Its called Imperator:Rome. Starts basically just after Rome takes the four nearby towns as seen in the video, from there you can do all kinds of stuff; There isn't just Rome either, the map spans from Spain to India and everyone, and yes I mean every group considered a nation within that massive span is playable. Comes out next year probably in March if you are interested.

paradox games are too complicated for total war casuals though :>

At first they can seem excessively convoluted, but watch a few videos of people explaining the game and perhaps give a few hours to try it yourself, then you will start to form a decent idea of what to do. As someone who came from Civilisation, it took me months of watching their games before even considering buying them, but now I know the inside and out of their games. Given enough time, I'm sure a Total War player could get the hang of it.

tell me about it. opened CK2 for the first time, played tutorial, somehow got 3 kingdoms and when i died and passed to the next generation all 3 kingdoms were independent again...i was like "wtf happened?" ofc, had gavelkind succession and everything i had split, but still...needed someone to explain THAT cuz the game doesnt really do it. along with MANY little things that are pretty important. and dont even start me on HOI4

That and the pure luck...look at where they started...basically the garden of eden with defense advantage

WRONG. They collapsed because of WELFARE. State couldn't support anymore the 500,000 leeches that were expecting egyptian grain every month.

Zamolxes77 .. I mean, yeah, one of the problems is that the state couldn't support the welfare programs necessary to take care of the poor. But the inability of the state to do that is the result of the same thing that caused poor people to need welfare in the first place: massive amounts of productive land being concentrated into the hands of an untouchable group of economic, political, etc., elites, which meant that large amounts of Roman wealth did not go to the Roman state or the Roman people, but individuals who were, more often than not, already exceedingly wealthy and influential. As a result, things like paying soldiers were left up to generals, who, as a result, either needed to be wealthy or have wealthy patrons. This meant that the armies of Rome ended up being loyal not to Rome itself, but to their generals or their patrons, whose ambitions often threatened Roman stability. The problem then, as it is today, is not welfare. The problem was and is rich parasites. Many attempts to fix the issue were attempted, and often were crushed by the established elite, as the rich and powerful have always put their own interests above those of the people.

Abel Abebe have you seen Constantinople/Byzantium, the so called Golden Horn? that was the garden of Eden, 3 sides defended by the sea. Rome as a city was weak, vulnerable and approachable by a conquering army from all sides, and with a huge river crossing it right in the middle, Rome was very hard to defend. The romans understood this very fast, for them offense was not the best but the only defence. From being a random political entity in the 4th century BC to becoming the uncontested, settled superpower of the Western world in about 200 years is something nobody has ever done in history, anywhere in the world

@@Zamolxes77 The grain dole actually facilitated a modern commercial economy.

Here in Italy, this is like common history studies we do at least twice...middle school and high school. I am surprised is overlooked in the academic community!!

Thanks : )

thanks, I like diving in to the niche but interesting areas of history that are otherwise overlooked

Already exist in a 100 plus part pod cast. Look it up on KZfaq. The History of Rome. Amazing info.

Fletcher Peillet-Long Praise Augustus, he has brought glory upon us!

yes

Glad you appreciated it. There really is such a great density of rich history its mind boggling.

The Republic era it's as important as the Imperial

Greg Pincus Romans got deafeated alot too

You mean the siege of Jerusalem

Thomas Maiolino why not both

Hey guys I have an idea: how about we support Invicta on patreon so he can quit his job and do videos for us all day?

Moptopgames the Roman siege of Jerusalem

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