The first Civil War of the Roman Empire - The Year of the 4 Emperors

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The first Civil War of the Roman Empire - The Year of the 4 Emperors
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@finnfae7983 Ай бұрын

Otto killing himself was the most romantic move of 69 ad

@AnimeFan-dl4qd Ай бұрын

5:55 A man of honour

@lysimaquetokmok6755 Ай бұрын

Otho is my favorite roman emperor

@vivekkaushik9508 Ай бұрын

@@lysimaquetokmok6755better than aurelian or aurelius?

@umbertohaterhd722 Ай бұрын

@@vivekkaushik9508yea A lion among men

@avalle4493 Ай бұрын

At first I tought that you will talk of Sulla Vs Marius. Still a good video.

@jamesabernethy7896 Ай бұрын

Great video. Ths longer ones are interesting but these shorter segments are a great way to obsorb things. The visual style you use makes things easier to connect the people and events.

@GreenEmperor Ай бұрын

"In the summer of 69". I see what you did there.

@HarryKaneIsGoated Ай бұрын

No seriously dude, it happened in 69 AD

@darthparallax5207 22 күн бұрын

The Summer of 1969 was really famous as the Summer of Love. It was a coincidence that 1969 was the year of Woodstock, but it's not a coincidence that this video referenced the Summer of 69 in those exact words instead of picking a different wording. It was totally a subtle in joke.

@user-tm9pp1vy8i Ай бұрын

Love this channel

@chad12345678 Ай бұрын

Love this history of Roman empire series!

@kwezicanca3698 Ай бұрын

As a South African I would love a collab btw you, HistoryMarche and Epic History. That would be 🔥

@freedombro6502 Ай бұрын

Why ? What does south Africa have to do with anything ? All I know about South Africa is for past and current day racism and fake claims of genocide

@Imperium-YT Ай бұрын

Love your videos❤

@MoonbreonDad78 Ай бұрын

Love your Rome videos!

@BobBob-eb4io Ай бұрын

It amazes me how long the pretorian guard lasted

@imperitalica Ай бұрын

Galba was from my city! Terracina🇮🇹💪🏻

@Roachh2877 Ай бұрын

What a terrible honour to have

@imperitalica Ай бұрын

@@Roachh2877 well... at least a roman emperor was born here😁

@Roachh2877 Ай бұрын

@@imperitalica Cheers bro let's drink to that 🍻

@imperitalica Ай бұрын

@@Roachh2877 🍻 alla salute!

@davidhughes8357 Ай бұрын

After 60 plus years of studying roman military history I find this video documentary very interesting for it's conciseness.

@hamza_ch05 Ай бұрын

Please make a video about the Kingdom of Morocco

@billyjackson2605 Ай бұрын

Roman Empire and civil war are synonymous

@samehmehesen7121 Ай бұрын

Can i know what is the resource of the map used

@redrobin8544 Ай бұрын

First civil war was Sulla-Maruis, second Cesar - Pompey Magnus, then comes Octavian/Mark Antony - Pompey jr and then Octavian - Mark Antony. After all this Octavian becomes Augustus the Emperor. Even tho they had no official Emperor in Cesar timeline they were still an Empire no less.

@satanwithinternet2753 Ай бұрын

He means first civial war of the roman empire. What u mentioned were the civil wars of the republic

@theperipatetic2165 Ай бұрын

It's a matter of terminology, really. What we usually call the "Roman Empire" is the system created by Augustus, and this would be the first civil war within this system. But as the comment rightly says, Rome was technically an 'empire' long before this, in the sense that the Romans had long since ruled over numerous subject peoples from their imperial centre.

@freedombro6502 Ай бұрын

First civil war of the Roman EMPIRE

@alexanderrahl7034 Ай бұрын

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ no dude. No. Seriously this has to stop. It was a _republic_ alright? Re-pub-lic. "Empire" is not indicative of size. An empire is a type of government with an "emperor" at the head of state. A republic is a form of government with elected representatives of the people, and an elected head of state, all sharing power. The republic didn't have an empire. That's like saying you have a bicycle at home and it's your Toyota Corolla. They aren't the same thing.

@PeterOConnell-pq6io 24 күн бұрын

Pretorians seem to have taken a lot upon themselves. I'd always been under the impression they were answerable to the Emperor, not the Senate. Seem not only had they developed a bad habit or killing emperors, but had also become answerable to no one, thus a highly dangerous if not intolerable threat. Wonder how that happened (Claudius?), and why the Flavians or their successors didn't have the destroyed or disbanded on personal safety grounds.

@donmeisner4438 Ай бұрын

You didn't mention all the drama about the fake Poppaea. Maybe that's good. That gives me the creeps

@micahistory Ай бұрын

Interesting video, certainly a chaotic time to be in Rome

@MCorpReview Ай бұрын

Otho is so noble 👸

@CTY6258 Ай бұрын

Yeah... honorable. Anyways, do you know the story of Sporus?

@JasonFilippou Ай бұрын

What's happening around the borser of modern England and modern Wales at this time? Genuinely interested.

@CARL_093 Ай бұрын

The Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69, was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. It is considered an important interval, marking the transition from the Julio-Claudians, the first imperial dynasty, to the Flavian dynasty. During the Year of the Four Emperors, there were four Emperors in the span of the year 68-69 CE. They include, in order, Servius Sulpicius Galba, Marcus Silvius Otho, Aulus Vitellius, and Titus Flavius Vespasianus. The Romans sometimes used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste! At one banquet in Rome, the guests were served with hundreds of ostrich brains! Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were supposed to have been raised by a wolf! Cobwebs were used to stop bleeding.

@Based_Finn Ай бұрын

I Feel bad for the people of rome during this time.

@animeszene Ай бұрын

And why

@Based_Finn Ай бұрын

cuz you know, instability and civil wars?@@animeszene

@Fatherofheroesandheroines Ай бұрын

One issue here. Galba never styled himself as a general of the senate. In a manner of speaking he did use the old term for a commander, Imperator, but by now that was Emperor. His full title Imperator Servius Galba Caesar Augustus. Roughly, that means ' Galba the Great'. Kinda ironic I would say!

@Tom-Bomb Ай бұрын

Plz make more long form docs like the ones you did on Rome and the Ottoman Empire. These are too short to fall asleep too…

@GMKGoji01 Ай бұрын

Funny number AD? They picked that number to be the Year of the 4 Emperors? Welp, time to call Damocles.

@rg10mex Ай бұрын

The fratricide of the "mythical founders" of Rome Romulus and Remus anticipated the continuous and future civil wars between Romans...

@matthewmann8969 Ай бұрын

What if Persians, Greeks, And Romans all stayed united from ancient times all the way to modern times today?

@NickBroccolo Ай бұрын

That would make a great alternate history plot!

@Jason-gg4lm Ай бұрын

Borrrrrriiiiiinnnnggggg😂

@nathanielzarny1176 Ай бұрын

That's impossible since they owned overlapping territory

@lucone2937 Ай бұрын

The Romans destroyed all the Hellenistic Empires : Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire, the Ptolemaic Empire and other minor Greek powers in Europe, Asia and Africa. Only Bactria was too faraway for the Romans.

@lysimaquetokmok6755 Ай бұрын

Otho is a real hero

@WelcomeToDERPLAND Ай бұрын

Wasn't the first civil war the one fought between Octavian & Antony?

@alinv23 Ай бұрын

"I got my first real six-string Bought it at the five-and-dime Played it 'til my fingers bled Was the summer of '69"

@toyoman1652 Ай бұрын

Does anyone else remember the old voice the videos are gone but I remember that they was a old voice actor who did these video

@oliverhughes610 Ай бұрын

Otho was hella based for that. Shame the Praetorians couldn't resist the urge to have yet more bloodshed and refused to let Vitellius abdicate. Wild that it took until 193AD before the Praetorians had their power curbed.

@Bizansli34_ Ай бұрын

Türkçe altyazı nerede

@nathanielzarny1176 Ай бұрын

Vespasian was putting down a revolt in judea, so you should how showed them as their own faction

@adityaanggaisback937 Ай бұрын

Now do years of 5 and 6 emperor

@user-je1wd7nt3m Ай бұрын

Why Nero is so thin on his portrait?

@micahistory Ай бұрын

At least there wouldn't be a bunch of other ones in the future

@user-dt8vy2yb3d Ай бұрын

After the death of Emperor Nero. The Civil War in Rome is definitely the surprise war in history.

@svihl666 Ай бұрын

11:00 / 11:00

@samryan180 3 күн бұрын

How be only 50k views when gold?

@exiled_londoner Ай бұрын

"The first Civil War of the Roman Empire"... well that's only correct if you ignore the fact that La Res Publica Romana had already conquered a vast empire before there were any emperors, and the Roman Republic had several Civil Wars fought across its empire, including the one that gave Julius Caesar the title of his book.

@raidang Ай бұрын

That was the Roman Republic..this is the Roman Empire same state but different government system

@alexanderrahl7034 Ай бұрын

Its unfortunate that people seem to mistake "empire" for being indicative of size, rather than being an actual government.

@garybuck6535 Ай бұрын

On paper Rome was still a Republic @@alexanderrahl7034

@exiled_londoner Ай бұрын

@@alexanderrahl7034 - Well 'empire' does indicate that a political entity (Kingdom, Polis, Republic, etc.) has expanded to conquer or dominate territories and peoples beyond its own borders, which is linked to size. But empire is not really a form of government (except that it is imperialist by definition) but indicates that the external territories are under some kind or degree of control (usually coercive) by the original imperial power. Some empires offered their far-flung subjects full or limited rights to citizenship (eg. Britain and Rome) and others do not (eg. the USA), so there is a great deal of variation.

@exiled_londoner Ай бұрын

@@raidang - So if a Republic has conquered a vast empire beyond its own borders (as the Roman Republic had) is it somehow not really an 'empire'? Is it only an 'empire' when the ruler has the formal title of 'Emperor'? Does that mean that the British Empire only become an empire in 1877, when Victoria was proclaimed 'Empress of India'? I think that's a bit illogical.

@daveweiss5647 Ай бұрын

Crazy people can be bestowed the most powerful position on earth, with untold riches and opulent lifetime perks... and they horribly botch it by making the most idiotic decisions for no reason and throw it all away on a whim... humans are utterly bizarre.... sure it would likely go to my head a bit... but just on pure self preservation, I would listen to every advisor's and try to make every power broker happy. Etc... why not?

@Auxodium Ай бұрын

Better than that European colonial video on Africa, why Africa was claimed by Europe within 12 months. These videos are your channels best work. When there is no agenda shoe-horned into them.