Again a great video, one question, are you not the Hyperloop guy? I am just curious.

Hadrian’s video link isn’t in the description, Dominus.

Maybe, but their name has gone down I'm history a a synonym for destroying or defacing with no other purpose than that, even by people who couldn't tell you who the Vandalls were, if their lives depended on it.

@@andreweaston1779 ya that was because of that time they sacked Rome pretty good because of that Princess

Ikr! They should sue!

Or alternatively, it showed how skilled belisarius was in war

Maioranus would have conquered the vandals easily if the ships wouldn’t have burned in the harbor 😢

It had been 100 years or so. It could also just show how... civilized... the vandals had become, maybe.

Geiseric' biography dwarfs any Hollywood script. All his ventures were doomed to fail but he succeeded again and again and again. Roman emperors came and died, but Geiseric ruled for 50 years.

​@@doppelwaffenTime and again, he made the Romans look like idiots, and proved to be the bane of their existence. I still firmly believe the loss of Africa doomed the Western Roman empire in the long term.

The Constantinian and early Valentinian dynasties were pretty hard on the troops. Chrysopolis, Mursa Major, and Julian's campaign each caused the deaths of tens of thousands. And then Valentinian himself dies in 375 and Adrianople in 378. Even the Crisis didn't see that many major defeats in a 50 year span.

Indeed, battle of Mursa in 351 was a HUGE loss of Roman manpower (about 50k soldiers dead)! Battle at Adrianople in 378 had less than 20k roman casualties

Why Schwerpunkt? It takes him 2 hours to cover a topic that better KZfaqrs can break down much quicker, and you have to filter out his fanboy attitude in between the actual analysis. Every so often he has a specific video that's interesting but he would do himself a favor by heavily editing his work. Thersites the Historian and The Historian's Craft are both academic quality with much more polish in terms of breaking down concepts and organization their thoughts.

The Imperial Court in Ravenna played STUPID GAMES, and won STUPID PRIZES !!

So you could say that the sassanids did in a way bleeding themselves out with the romans

Liking your comment, cause Balkan Romans are underrated. Since the Hunnic invasion, people just think all of them were killed, but they continued existing, and their heritage today lies in Romania. God bless, and a hug from Brazil.

I don’t want to ruin it for you but hummmm Romania mostly inherited language, but not that much else from the romans

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@@me67galaxylife I don't want to be rude here, but it is ironic when someone tries to teach a Romanian about what is Roman about us....but you are right about one thing I give you that, that our language comes from the Romans. However, our ethnic identity, our traditions, our ethnic history and our toponyms comes from them. Our ethnic identity which is _Român_ etymologically still means "Citizen of Rome" is inherited from Rōmānus which is Roman. Two examples of traditions from Roman paganism is Mărțișor and Sânziana, being for the Roman God of war and agriculture Mars and goddess of the moon, hunt, animals and fertility Diana. "Mărțișor" means "Little Mars" and comes from Feriae Martis celebrated on 1 of March, it was adopted by the North Macedonians and Bulgarians too. Sânziana comes from "Sancta Diana" (Old Romanian: Sândziana), and is also in our folklore. Then many toponyms has been inherited from latin, unfortunately some were changed such as the former name "Darstor" from "Dorostolon" where Aetius was born but was changed with Silistria, the Constanța from Constantines sister, and Timocu from "Timacus" where Galerius, Constantine, Licinius and Maximinus Daia (among others) were born still inhabited by Romanians.

​@@InAeternumRomaMater Oh so being romanian gives you a definitve edge on the matter ? No because it's funny but anyone can look up the subject and being romanian does not give you anything another person wouldn't have. Let's consider that : The word romanian has some very serious chances of not being related to the romans until the 19th century and the rise of romanians nationalities, where the similiarity of the word was used to try and define a link to the romans. Regardless it's not really an argument because as said the language stayed, so it's irrelevant. Romanians are genetically more or less identical to slavic populations too, and had many, many slavic words and influence in culture... Until the 19th century, when it was decided that romanian should be "re-latinised". They weren't even using the roman alphabet before. You are right in saying the "ethnic identity" comes from them as it was built as such in the 19th century. However, historically, it is much, much more complicated than that.

Why should he repeat Gibbons mistakes?

@@bobflemming100 For revenue. It's KZfaq, c'mon, clickbait is the name of the game. You could clickbait in the title and in the video explain that Gibbons is wrong, for example.

@@bobflemming100 I was once talking to a woman at a coffee shop and she made the point that just because Mongolia still exists doesn’t mean the Mongol empire didn’t fall. I think the Byzantine Empire is the same way, that even though it still existed that doesn’t mean there was still a Roman Empire

​@@Avinkwepi agree with your original comment, but I strongly (tho respectfully) disagree with your follow-up comment. The Mongolia analogy is not really applicable to the Eastern Empire because the Eastern Empire was still THE Roman Empire, just the surviving Eastern remnant. The Mongolia analogy would be accurate if the question was about whether modern Italy could be considered to be the Roman Empire, but with regards to Mongolia, the point would be more like saying that the Yuan Dynasty doesn't count as being the Mongol Empire when it clearly was. Sure the

*As a side note, KZfaq's comment system (at least on my phone's app) had suddenly become buggy and won't let me complete my previous comment). *Sighs*

A solar storm won't remove electricity forever. You can just repair the damage. Also people will still have the knowledge of what electricity is and how to generate it.

Yeah but it also his officers' fault too For forcing the Goths to exchange their kids for food If only the Romans just accepted them as citizens

youtube.com/@studiohadrian?si=ztNNgeEXY9lvBR2l

I want to add, Conscription would of ended the need to pay for military forces again maybe having some type of governmental change. If you think about it, everyone else used Conscription except the romans then after. In this case, the Roman state failed to evolve. In modern times, countries use military conscription when absolutely necessary.

IMO the time frame is too long. That money would have been spent in some other way in the intervening time.

The majority of it would have gone against the Sassanid war 602-628 and they still would have been weak against the Arabs. Heraclius is still amazing because Rome still survived despite the Arab invasion.