How the Roman Government Worked

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The Roman Empire was one of the most influential and long-lasting civilizations in world history, and their government has strongly influences modern governments around the world. So how did the Roman government work, and how did it govern its vast territories without modern technology?
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@heinzlilio4612 3 жыл бұрын

"How the Roman Government worked" *gets compared to a discord server within 25 seconds*

@butterskywalker8785 3 жыл бұрын

A discord server where it isn't just a mess

@jimboonie9885 3 жыл бұрын

30 seconds

@richardfranek4335 2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget that the US government, therefore, is also comparable to the discord server.

@Dovahhatty 3 жыл бұрын

"Jhulios Sheezur, or I V L I V S * C A E S A R..." Finally, someone at least tries

@randomhistory788 3 жыл бұрын

Hey you

@gery8218 3 жыл бұрын

Ave Dova

@conorshannon444 3 жыл бұрын

How most say it: Jewlius Seizer

@gery8218 3 жыл бұрын

@@conorshannon444 🤢

@romyow6326 3 жыл бұрын

Im still waiting for new video

@ecurewitz 3 жыл бұрын

I like it when people pronounce Classical Latin correctly. Good job :)

@ecurewitz 3 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroRodriguez-wl9ou he did better than most

@lxi9648 3 жыл бұрын

@@AlejandroRodriguez-wl9ou Yes Alex he did better than most don't be such a buzzkill

@dyz39 2 жыл бұрын

Made me subscribe

@DiogenesDworkinson Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... But how would you even know?

@ecurewitz Жыл бұрын

@@DiogenesDworkinson there are texts written as to how to pronounce it, they compared letters to actual sounds be it from nature or other languages or moving your mouth in such a way to create a sounds. I don’t think we could get it perfectly, but we have a very good idea of what Latin sounded like

@FreakishSmilePA 3 жыл бұрын

KhAnubis just wants to flex his Latin lol

@woltersworld 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on the 100k subs! Awesome to see.

@MrSarki 3 жыл бұрын

Wolters World! Mitä kuuluu?

@bajlozi6873 3 жыл бұрын

Cool to find you here. Its a small world !

@GeographyWorld 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!

@MythologywithMike 3 жыл бұрын

4:49 What a genius transition. I genuinely did not see that coming Also this was a really good refresher for me on how Rome operated cuz I haven't actually looked into it in so long

@NazriB Жыл бұрын

Lies again? Target Believe In Allah

@artificialgravitas8954 3 жыл бұрын

That cameo of the discord server is pretty hilarious, almost makes me wish I were still consul. Either way very glad to see it!

@cenkuygur6841 3 жыл бұрын

The Patrician and Plebeian classes were virtually irrelevant by 200 BCE. The ranks on the Comitia Centuriata eventually became the basis for societal structure, as your rank in that determined your ability to influence policy. The Equestrian Class eventually replaced the Patricians in terms of dominance, with the vast majority of the already small Patrician families fading into obscurity(the Iulii, for example, could barely afford their own insula).

@spiritualanarchist8162 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting concept. One can argue that things started to change once Emperor Vespasian came into power, being the first emperor from the equestrian class ( and man who saved Rome from the bankruptcy and madness of the Julio -Claudian emperors ;) . But if i remember correctly, didn't the patricians still manage to own 90% of land and wealth before the official end of the Western Empire ?

@bkh5746 Жыл бұрын

Its 2022 lets lose the ancient roman thinking in politics.bc as you see its not working.have ya seen the news lately.

@markcoroneos7811 8 ай бұрын

"Its current year guys!" *cringe*. What would your solution be? @@bkh5746

@dakine2266 Жыл бұрын

Phenomenal video. This helped me a lot with school. thank you!

@coinstalker224 3 жыл бұрын

This channel is so underrated you should get more subscribers

@CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 жыл бұрын

The real title should be how the roman government worked, didn't work, changed, worked, didn't work, changed, Etc.

@ChuckHackney 6 ай бұрын

That may be true but name me a civilization that lasted for 1000 years? Like all human endeavores, two steps forward, three steps back etc. Yet they endured. With all the conquering, slavery and gladiatorial brutality, (and I make those remarks based on modern standards), they endured and created essentially what is westetn civilization. They are the world's longest lived and arguably greatest civilization. 1000 years!!!!!!! BTW, you can only judge a society or civilization based on what we're the standards or accepted norms at the timeline they lived in, not by modern standards.

@batjargaltemujin7179 6 ай бұрын

⁠⁠⁠⁠@@ChuckHackney The Holy Roman Empire, Byzantium (which I would say is the continuation of Rome, which means that Rome lasted for 2000 years). If we start including non empires then Venice lasted 1100 years

@ChuckHackney 6 ай бұрын

@batjargaltemujin7179 that makes it even more impressive...

@ChiChiLand299 3 жыл бұрын

If you can I'd love to see on Aztec government explain. The new world cultures often get so ignored.

@xxxBradTxxx 2 жыл бұрын

Or Maya, if you ever visit Quintana Roo there’s old administrative ruins in the middle of the forest near Tulum.

@mlgdigimon Жыл бұрын

or Inca

@bl1nky991 Жыл бұрын

2:16 Sulla actually expanded number of senators from about 300 before civil war to as many as 600. (Not 900)

@FuturologyChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100k subscribers!

@spiritualanarchist8162 2 жыл бұрын

The Roman empire was limited by how far it's legions could march.The Mongolian Empire was limited by how far it's cavalry could ride.

@samaccardi 3 жыл бұрын

"How the Roman government worked." Seriously though, it's amazing it did XD

@indisciipline 3 жыл бұрын

Should be How the Roman government "worked"

@larsrons7937 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, detailed and comprehensive.

@Drakrau_TheDerg 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k Khanubis! 🎉🎉🎉

@8tag824 11 ай бұрын

Really like the video. Thanks for explaining the Roman Empire

@sun_geography 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k!

@harrisonofcolorado8886 3 жыл бұрын

Great job on 100k!

@interstatehighwayfan_645 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this

@ConservativeArabNet 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative

@yuritori2068 2 жыл бұрын

very good video im so thankfull !

@louisonggo1147 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats to a 100k ur channel is great and very educational

@MagnusIratusLiberales Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing !!

@manuelkong10 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT video

@TheMrNalsur 3 жыл бұрын

I am surprized that the ending wasnt a segway to Curiosity Stream

@tobyroberts1848 3 жыл бұрын

Congrats on 100k

@B0H0 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought your name was a play on the word Cannabis

@KhAnubis 3 жыл бұрын

Ka + Anubis

@jakegold9036 3 ай бұрын

Anagram innit

@aidsowen8369 Ай бұрын

@@KhAnubisain’t you mean Khan and Anubis tf

@Talthiel 3 жыл бұрын

Also gg on 100K

@JamesCharlesJr-em9ve 2 ай бұрын

hey khabis this is good it helping me in school

@sssslnee 3 жыл бұрын

0:26 That cameo of the elders of the server lol

@watercressfabrique3333 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@artificialgravitas8954 3 жыл бұрын

*Regrets of being constantly invisible intensify

@Saviarai-Dravolika 3 жыл бұрын

Hey bud! Congratss for 100k subs!

@RevoltAgainsttheOrder 2 жыл бұрын

The Roman Empire at its maximum height was larger than is shown in the map, it covered a bigger area of the Middle East and had a few more territories in Northern Europe

@gilgabro420 3 жыл бұрын

It really bothers me that the borders aren't drawn properly. There are so many small enclaves on the map which didn't exist in reality. That's a bit nitpicky but whatever that's what I live for.

@dankus2323 3 жыл бұрын

First time watching you and I already subscribed.

@dankus2323 3 жыл бұрын

I really like the idea of going into different forms of governments and seeing how they work too

@nirajvaidya32 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for making this video, I always wanted to know this ..... please make a video on how the Mauryan empire's government worked

@ThePro-qn6wr 3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I wanted to know all three. The Three great empires :- Roma, Maurya and Hana ( Rome,Maurya & Han I change it up so it sounded cool)

@coreystockdale6287 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePro-qn6wr ah a man of culture I see

@user-hk1vi9pz9s 3 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of maurya until now

@user-mi9cy6ed8c 3 жыл бұрын

ThePro 69420 we have scant to no written record of how government worked in Mauryan India. Arthashashtra by kautilya and religious scriptures are the only sources from that era. From those sources we can only say that it was a refined kingship and nothing more. It was not as innovative, influential or intricate as government of Roman republic.

@nirupamakumar3917 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-mi9cy6ed8c Not true. There are hundreds of academic writings on the Mauryan Empire and its government. The Mauryan emerged more than 300 years before the Roman Empire yet its still known for its sophisticated centralized administration. The Mauryan style of administration, which itself draws much inspiration and influence from the previous Nanda and Persian Empires, was very influential in ancient India up until the Gupta Empire in the 3rd century CE. The Shungas, the Satvahanas, the Mahameghavanshis and the Kushans heavily drew from the Mauryan administration style. Rome was great but it's highly overrated, sophisticated and intricate governments existed in India, Persia and China long before Rome became an Empire.

@liamh2255 3 жыл бұрын

Yoo - congrats on subs*100K!

@jansalomin 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, greetings from Oregon (Congrats on 100,000 Your one of my favorite KZfaqrs)!

@TheCaesarMania 3 жыл бұрын

“... and I’m so good I can explain it in 8 minutes”

@piuscalvinus 3 жыл бұрын

Impressive, very nice

@JustinCage56 Ай бұрын

3:58 "You dropped this, Rex."

@me0wsh473 Жыл бұрын

we just watched this in social studies 😭 i had to look up the video lol

@dwarasamudra8889 3 жыл бұрын

Can you talk about the Imperial Indian Styles of Governance like those of the Mauryan, Gupta, Chola, Vijayanagara, Mughal empires? They were very different to how things worked in places like Rome, Europe, China or Persia. They were less centralised than the Chinese and Persian styles but more efficient, centralised and powerful than the Medieval European style, a good balance between centralisation and localization with a single emperor with his provincial governors but multiple principalities too.

@Ggdivhjkjl 3 жыл бұрын

This would be interesting.

@jarp5581 2 жыл бұрын

India has more than half of the world wealth !!! That's why they were searching for India (Through sea) and also found USA which has majority of world wealth today

@src175 3 жыл бұрын

Patrician and plebeian status stopped mattering around the Late Republic and Imperial era though, don't forget that. Only thing that mattered at that point was wealth.

@christianadam2907 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like reverse Star wars :D

@robertjarman3703 3 жыл бұрын

Tribune Aquila approves of your video.

@ZetaFuzzMachine 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaq is getting unbearable: although I am a subscriber, this video did not show up in my feed. Is khanubis in any other platform like nebula?

@gladladgaming908 3 жыл бұрын

thx

@sergei8264 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do more of these history videos?

@danieldelrosario7447 2 жыл бұрын

Italy was neither a Senatorial or Imperial Province. It was the metropole.

@fallendown8828 2 жыл бұрын

It was a mess of alliances between italic speaking states to improve the quality of the elite of the cities formed because of fear of invasion from Carthage

@fallendown8828 2 жыл бұрын

So call it whatever you like

@nicmagtaan1132 2 жыл бұрын

NO one wants to govern Italy oddly if ur an proconsul

@danieldelrosario7447 2 жыл бұрын

@@nicmagtaan1132 Because Italy was under the direct rule of the Senate.

@prometheus7387 3 жыл бұрын

Epic Consul momento

@ryanwolkow5048 3 жыл бұрын

Wow how does this not have more likes

@healtheworldforabetterplac7574 3 жыл бұрын

I thought we only had thousands of senators in Star wars

@sengin 2 жыл бұрын

1:32 There were wealthier plebs than the patricians. Division between them was not derived from their wealth. But yes most of the patricians were wealthier than the most of the plebs.

@jaojao1768 3 жыл бұрын

By the late Republic and the Empire the plebian/patrician distinction was not as important anymore, and wealthy/famous plebs could become senators (Cato and his family were plebian, for example)

@r.vanrammawia6358 2 жыл бұрын

I've already got my Bachelor degree in history, and ths gonna help me alot for my Master degree,thanks

@sirBrouwer 3 жыл бұрын

whoop whoop the KhAnubian discord server. The best discord server dedicated to this channel. And just before the internal election of our senate. How fitting

@bob-vf8mw 3 жыл бұрын

are those star trek fonts?

@MWV999 Жыл бұрын

3:46 Well being in a position that's absolute and "hereditary" (It wasn't for the most part) doesn't automatically make you a king. The same way elective monarchies aren't republics.

@danielmclaughlin5546 3 жыл бұрын

Good video, but it does contain a significant factual error concerning Patricians and Plebeians. You state that the Patricians were the rich in Roman society and the Plebeians were everyone else. That was simply not true. The Patricians were the aristocrats of Roman society, but that did not mean Plebeians could not achieve glory or wealth. In fact, many of the wealthiest and most prominent Romans in the late Republic were Plebeian. These included: (1) Marius, who was elected Counsel a record 7 times; (2) Magnus Pompey, member of the 1st Triumvirate and one of Rome's greatest Generals; (3) Crassus, another member of the 1st Triumvirate and Richest man in Rome; (4) Cato, the leader of the Conservative faction; and (5) Cicero, famous statesman. As for the Patricians, by the time of the late Republic many of them shared the fate that a lot of British aristocrats found themselves in during the Victorian era. They had a noble name, but were in debt and trying to arrange marriages with wealthy commoners.

@kellanf5001 2 жыл бұрын

how do people know things? I'm just an insignificant turd pile of a 6th grader

@danielmclaughlin5546 2 жыл бұрын

@@kellanf5001 Because I read. : )

@crimcrammoo 2 жыл бұрын

i dont get. are the consuls elected by the citizenry or the centuriate assembly? he said both

@michalpieter3926 2 жыл бұрын

@@crimcrammoo It is both. While they may seem mutually exclusive, one must remember that (at least before Marius) ALL Roman citizens were military. And while centuriate assembly started out as a real military assembly (because originally citizens were assigned to military units based on wealth, as they paid for their own equipment), later the connection was lost and only the wealth requirements (mostly) remained. Furthermore, not only was every citizen a member of the centuriate assembly, but also of tribal assembly (but this time divided not by weatlh, but by residence (sort of)) and either plebeian assembly (plebs) or curiate assembly (patricians). For more info I highly recommend Historia Civilis' early videos on Roman government.

@nicmagtaan1132 2 жыл бұрын

The tribune of the plebs have insane amount of power idk to do with that info but yeah

@Ggdivhjkjl 3 жыл бұрын

@6:51 Why didn't the Roman Empire have the Internet?

@SonofSethoitae Жыл бұрын

Their power generators didn't have the output to power both the internet and television, and Romans were notoriously fond of watching Jeopardy.

@michaelwegner663 3 жыл бұрын

24th Good job on 100k subs

@nihouma11 3 жыл бұрын

I love learning about ancient civilizations and their administration, from the Maya to the Qin, and everyone else

@stevelucky7579 2 жыл бұрын

*Squints at the tiny asterix in the corner* oh okay so he does know there were wealthy independent women in Rome just not many of them so he decided to put it into writing in the corner of his video so as not to disrupt his narrative flow because adding in another hint of truth is too hard for him. Or it would make the video 8 seconds longer?

@giuseppelogiurato5718 2 жыл бұрын

0:48 ....he seems to lapse into "Millenial-ese"... It's not his Latin that I'm criticizing, it's his English (or, as the younger crowd says; "itná'izz lâ'indadaimkrüddisaizen, i'tsizZínglish"

@luciferangelica 2 жыл бұрын

the patricians and the senatorial class are not exactly the same thing. senator was required to make a minimum income from land ( business didn't count, as it was frowned upon, but a lot of 'em did it anyway) the patricians descended from the oldest families in rome and you just couldn't buy your way in, except by finding a patrician impoverished enough to marry a part if his family to yours, and then the offspring may be patrician, but snickered at by their peers for generations. there were certain offices only plebs could hold, like tribune

@secretscipio 3 жыл бұрын

One minor correction. There were poor Patricians and rich Plebeians.

@animangle8479 2 жыл бұрын

6:36

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 жыл бұрын

Explaining Rome is the perfect way to celebrate reaching 100K. Congrats

@chrishoover4888 3 жыл бұрын

Barely scratches the surface

@Talthiel 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you referenced the Server in the video

@prometheus7387 3 жыл бұрын

With a kanji and Erate cameo

@sirBrouwer 3 жыл бұрын

for all that want to visit the Discord server. discord.gg/RFrqp2M (or look for the link down in the description) We have free ice cream* * You have to provide your own ice cream and are free to eat it at your own fancy.

@prometheus7387 3 жыл бұрын

@@sirBrouwer I give Consular seal of approval

@user-hk1vi9pz9s 3 жыл бұрын

hon hon hon

@rye811 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness, notifications are back!

@noobmaster3490 3 жыл бұрын

I am working about the roman empire in school and i learned morr of this video

@user-hk1vi9pz9s 3 жыл бұрын

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that the video had 476 likes...

@JessmanChicken86 3 ай бұрын

0:40

@joehellar8123 3 жыл бұрын

would you do a video on the Osci proto-italic oscan language

@thehawkeye7020 Жыл бұрын

me watching this 10 minutes before the test

@MikeGill87 3 жыл бұрын

I'm perfectly aware there are many schools of Latin pronunciation, but literally nowhere in Europe would one be taught that every C is read as K. This "Greek" approach is simply misguided. The pronunciation of C always depends on the vowels following it. If C was always a K, all the Romance languages would sound entirely different today.

@makky6239 3 жыл бұрын

Depending on what letters?

@iancuPotcoava24 3 жыл бұрын

That is because this is classical Latin. Romance languages evolved from Vulgar latin. The Latin thought in schools is Ecclesiastical latin.

@jaojao1768 3 жыл бұрын

The pronunciation of C in modern Romance languages is because of later sound changes, how a modern language sounds it not necessarily indicative of how ancient people would have pronounced it. Nowadays most linguists and classicists think C was always a K in Classical Latin. Anecdotally, referring to your second point, I was taught classical pronunciation (always k) in high school in Sweden

@SonofSethoitae Жыл бұрын

Roma writers actually specifically state that C and K were pronounced the same way because they wondered what the point was of having both letters if they sound identical.

@TradRaider 3 жыл бұрын

I have always thought that the best governmental system ever achieved was the Roman Republic

@elle7533 2 жыл бұрын

🤨

@TheChosen2030 2 жыл бұрын

It was full of corruption

@fallendown8828 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheChosen2030 just like every system that isn't a full democracy that is being funded by modern capitalism. Corruption isn't just a pesky crime but a way of governing with buying and selling royalties and only way to get rid of it is to make an easier way to gain loyalty than simply buying it

@fallendown8828 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheChosen2030 gdp grey's video "Rules for Rulers" explains it pretty good

@SonofSethoitae Жыл бұрын

@@fallendown8828 Full democracies funded by capitalism are also rife with corruption

@gandalfstormcrow8439 6 ай бұрын

Hey, if you're going to count millions of square miles of uninhabited steppe, mare nostrum should count.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love to see you explain how Juche works

@ryanalmazi6802 3 жыл бұрын

oh kim, please marry me

@suppleleaves 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah now we got business

@cliffgulliver4626 3 жыл бұрын

Through immaculate grammar.

@aadithyaaryatej6593 2 жыл бұрын

1:37 There were actually 4 classes of Romans Patricians were the top super rich ones Equites were rich and were descendants of famous ancient cavalry men but still lower then Patricians Plebians, everyone else And... slaves

@michalpieter3926 2 жыл бұрын

Not quite. Patricians were the most "noble", tracing their lineage back to Roman Kingdom, but not necessarily the richest. In fact, later on, many patricians became destitute and often willingy let themselves be adopted or married to wealthy plebeian families. These were the equites who were in fact plebeians (but also were considered aristocracy, nobiles, together with all patricians). Many of the most influential men in Roman history belonged here. In fact, the senatorial class (which included quite soon both patricians and plebeians) can be considered the most prestigious and wealthy, but in case of plebein senators, they were (usually) also equites. Lastly slaves were NOT considered Romans, and, understandably, could not vote. The poorest of the plebeians that constituted the lowest class of actual citizens were called the proletarii.

@aadithyaaryatej6593 2 жыл бұрын

@@michalpieter3926 Oh ok thanks, I never knew that

@paperkid6821 3 жыл бұрын

So basically the Roman government had five assemblies and 600 people, two people were in charge but if war happened then there will another one. The in charge had power who can be emperor it's backwards in English. Sponcer . The Roman empire wasn't one it's 2 sides and a dozen more afterwards and military broke it down

@cenkuygur6841 3 жыл бұрын

Dictators weren't summoned anywhere near as much as he suggests in the video...

@ismantc1653 3 жыл бұрын

*Likes before watching the video*

@JonatasAdoM 2 жыл бұрын

Julius Kaiser. The Latino raised in Germany.

@nekrial 5 ай бұрын

This doesn't really go into any detail on the government at all, just a rough overview of the Roman Empire and some various titles. Could get any of this information from skimming the summary section and first few paragraphs of the Roman Empire wikipedia article.

@mongolianfishingvillages1371 2 ай бұрын

That’s yt

@stephenambuul8539 3 жыл бұрын

@sarahmulrooney6457 2 жыл бұрын

Who WAS the final authority on the passing of new laws?

@nicmagtaan1132 2 жыл бұрын

It depends on who is in charge, In earlier times it's mostly the people, On the latter times the Senate itself Or you know just the consul/dictator

@SonofSethoitae Жыл бұрын

@@nicmagtaan1132 Technically the Senate didn't pass laws, it advised magistrates who passed the laws. In practices the magistrates mostly did what the Senate said, but technically it was up to them.

@boytulussinaga293 3 жыл бұрын

1:10 more like: "...many 'modern western' historian call it Byzantine Empire...."

@chpet1655 3 ай бұрын

The Mongolian empire was 90 % empty so a bunch of empty land is kind of easy to rule whereas Rome was full of cities and vassal states all packed into the Mediterranean region and beyond even. Rome was indeed vast when you look at it from that point of view

@dutchvanderlinde5004 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@buckyharris9465 3 жыл бұрын

I saw so many errors of fact & interpretation in the first 2 minutes that I gave up. Examples: the map showed the Roman kingdom as much too large: the Roman Senate already had 300 members during the period of kings; and the patrician/plebeian dichotomy was obsolete by the end of the Republic, when "nobiles" could have either patrician or plebeian ancestry.