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No, of course not. I started yesterday and I should be done before Memorial Day weekend (at latest). I wouldn't be surprised if there were people watching it 10, 15 years after it was uploaded. The history of Rome is a most fascinating subject; I just can't ever get enough of revisiting it.

3rd time listening to this

Nope, I listen to this often. It's the best history lesson I've ever heard!

I am on the 3 run...So no :)

Thank you for letting us know! I’ll definitely check it out.

The book is simply......MARVELOUS!

Yeah this is his podcast

This is literally him

@@XDivineSouljax yea, that's why I referenced his book

Same, too much info to get it all the first time around

Ok dude

@@JasonParmenter lol

Sone people listen to this for fun 😅

:)

Lmao ooo

Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Imagine that today. Like Biden is up there in the senate “Yes, and this is why I think we should raise taxes 5% on the top 10% of earners, while lowering them on the bottom 20%. In addition we also need to spend more on infrastructure, and lower military spending. Also, I am of the Opinion we should burn down Tunis.”

Your comment rings especially true this year

legodude19999 fr

Called it.

History is cyclical.

@@alexanderiverson707 only those who fail to learn from it.

If it means that much to you, then just buy one.

Well at least the podcast is completely finished so you can binge all of them without waiting. I just found it about a year ago. Enjoy. It's also on Spotify if you have that, so you don't have to keep youtube open.

Everything in history is a common theme, that's why it's so important. He also talks about populist politicians polarising society, for example.

@@LoneKharnivore Populists don't polarize society: they take advantage of an already polarized societies. You can't blame somebody for banging your wife if you can't satisfy her.

@@Big-guy1981 Oportunists are still devicive. They see a powder keg and decide perfect conditions for a lit match.

This series is so good, thank you so much for sharing this with us!

@@gm2407 Who created the powder keg?

no one cares

@@nicholaskrancher2693 i care ~~

@@juanferrero2009 me too

I caught that too. Thanks for pointing it out. Why was his name changed? I suppose the default answer is by mistake. However I think since the modern era we associate Asia with non-European peoples,

I've changed my name to don't give shitious

same here, its my life's enjoyment and contrast listening to rome and turn these into latin

Terrence McLain Me too. Just wish he presented maps to better illustrate his narration.

You MUST be deaf not to hear that hissing.

ever feel like your beginning to see a trend?

Even more oh fuck now...

Even more oh fuck now

12 byzatine emporers

@@aslanlovett4059 Amazing!! Thank you!!!

“History of Byzantium Podcast.” It’s ongoing right now, and on KZfaq.

It's the best. I listen to it in bed and find my self sometimes dreaming about what he's talking about because it's left on as I fall asleep, then I wake up and have to skip back to were I fell asleep 😂

I think those are cicadas.

If you find someone, Ill literally pay them

@@Moribus_Artibus He did do one on the US revolution that was good.

@@Omegaxero Yes! Part of his revolutions series. Do you know anybody who does a good take on US history after the fall of the Soviets up until the Recession of 08?

Get busy professor.

They found a new enemy rather quickly haha

@@kajbubu *made up

First time I have heard the quote. Simple, perceptive, seems acurate that without a motivating force a construct needs substituing into the place, or another challenge rise into the space.

America is not an empire and has never been an empire. What Empire that has ever existed gave what they had just fought and bleed for right back to the people they were just fighting? There is no society that ever conquered a people then turned around and gave it back to them, everyone said we went to war in Iraq for oil, yet we gave all the oil contracts to the French, We have the Canadians right to our North, huge natural resources, yet we get into trade wars verse taking it they could not stop us. No what has happened to the U.S. started in the 1930s with the welfare state that started with all the social programs Rosevelt implemented. The same happen to the British at the same time. There are always enemies to fight. No what has happened is a huge bloated federal government, Before WW2 began we had a military of a little under 1 million men, we spent no money on defense. No we made another mistake after WW2 we didnt finish it. The Russians had an Alliance with Germany to spilt up Europe, the English and the Frech went to war because Germany and Russia invaded Poland. Yet we let the Soviets keep what the had wanted to begin with. No we were tired of war and took the easy way out instead of turning our nuclear arsenal against them and finishing it before they got nukes, What America has lost is quit simple, or leaders now have no incentive to innovate. They have cushy 250k jobs great benefits, 8 and a half weeks paid vacation every year. America could not win a war with China or Russia. No what we lost wasnt an enemy to fight but the courage to fight the enemies that have pulled a Paplatine

​@@tylerscofield9799 typical American yank. Believes the whole world, full of perceived "enemies" should be dominated by America; nuked if necessary Grow up and get your head out of your ass

Rome 1 is way better

Seige a city with 2 armies 1 main army, 1 support army support army is all war dogs Knock a hole in the walls unleash thousands of pissed of war dogs into their city Laugh, look down on them and laugh

Ma'Zareen kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZxxh6R7scqwpas.html

Really, not much is about Roman History... just a song Crossing the Rubicon. Hope you like...

Nah. They were housed and fed and paid depending on who the dominus was

please explain how "overreached discourse of liberty and self determination"? I am an American i believe where the world and America has gone wrong. Is people have distilled liberty. Where u say it is impractical. I say Liberty died when people thought the government gives u liberty. Humans need suffering look at the American youth their life's are so good that they are willing to burn down their own neighborhoods for people not calling them, "it, her, she, they". The Romans proved this also. They became so soft, nothing was enough.

The U.S. won't learn it - just as the Roman ruling class did not. The only path forward for humanity is for the rest of the world to see the U.S. for what it truly is, not the beneficent force they imagine it to be.

@@LTrotsky21stCentury Says the communist

@@tylerscofield9799 real shit

Yes. But skipio defeated hannibal. Why? Because hannibal failed to learn from skipio. Ergo, skipio was the better general.

@@hongcha2020 Argo ben Affleck

@@hongcha2020 people can not even write his name right, so he can not be the greatest

Its Scipio

Woe to the conquered

No, he was not. In fact, he was a despicable commander. Keep in mind that greek (macedonian) phalanx was just a solid line of hoplites armed with spears and shields. Light infantry (peltastai) and cavalry were separate units under overall command of senior commander. If phalanx became splinted, light infantry or cavalry should fill the gaps and prevent any flanking. But this require sharp eye, quick mind and decisive reaction. In the hands of skilled commanders like Alexander or Pyrrhus this would work quite well. But in the hands of less skilled commander, all this would crumble. On the contrary, roman legion had its own organic light infantry and cavalry. So, any suddenn change on the battlefield would trigger the reaction at a mid level command. Even in the hands of a less skilled senior commander, the degree of initiative at mid level command would exploit any oportunity or prevent an overall disaster. Of course, this arrangement would not prevent debacles like Cannae. It doesn't matter how skilled your subordinate commanders are if the senior commander is a dumbass. :)

Tommy O Donovan That is why the USA needs Russia and vice versa. Without either countries, those two countries would need "made up" threats which are actually very insignificant to distract their people.

nodinitiative I hope you realize what you just said there.

Alexander Hernandez tell me what is wrong with my statement.

nodinitiative Nothing at all not trying to say your wrong. Just in my opinion foreign threats can be made up as well. Fear mongering on a global scale to keep the division intact.

Alexander Hernandez your opinion is basically what I also said

...you realise that the period after the empire fell was disastrous, right? It was only Charlemagne re-uniting a large European community that ended centuries of conflict and strife.

In Roman times, it was literal, every 10th man would be killed. But now it's definitely colloquially.

@@HateTaxesWASt In current usage, “decimated” is usually referring to some near-absolute catastrophe, much worse than the 10% casualty rate of the literal Roman usage. Not that it matters a whit but out of curiosity, I wonder when that particular word began to be misused. I know that languages change all of the time but not all of the changes are for the better.

@@ThisTrainIsLost Current useage is so poor when we have the word "Annihlate" to mean reduce to nothing. Which is better when we are talking about destruction whilst exagerating the amount. "Decimate" is rather an undersell.

@@ThisTrainIsLost neither, incorrectly.

You heard them too?

Two continents are garrisoning the world?

...what? The title is absolutely accurate, that is the period covered by the video.

Indeed.

Their entire independent history was spent looking east, first fighting the persians, then athenian empire, then Alexander, then fighting over Alexanders empire. All east or eastwards. They sent some colonies west but very few comparatively. How exactly do you think they laid the foundations for western civilisation?

All of gaul? Full conquest of spain?

Mesopotamia?

I think he was talking in place of the Greeks who probably thought they where the oldest and everyone else was barbarians

@BLUE DOG the antikhytera device was created while greece was already firmly under roman rule. The question in this thread was aboit the oldest civilizations, which certainly weren't the Greek, not by a landslide. The Sumerians, the Akadians, the Egyptians, hell even China all had bustling cities and vast empires while the greeks were nothing more than disorganized hill tribes. The Greek civilization was impressive and certainly unique, but you should really read some history books before you go ahead and call people stupid.

BLUE DOG BLUE DOG Your the idiot if anything by adding the requirement of creating something smarter than the other group. Civilization is groups of people coming together in urban areas due to the advancement of agriculture and religion, the Sumerians were older than the Greeks, and so where Mesopotamia, and Egypt, and those three actually formed enpires. I don’t understand where your coming from, because simply put, and using your argument, the Greeks arnt even a civilization! Because we have Macs, items that can access the vast wealth of human knowledge at our finger tips! What do they have? A primitive computer that has very very limited uses? As said by my favorite fictional character, just like your mind, so uncivilized! :)

BLUE DOG what a pity the current day Greeks cannot even keep an economy together....