Units of History - Early Germanic Warriors DOCUMENTARY

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We continue our Units of History documentary series on one of the many "barbarian" foes from antiquity that all too often get stereotyped as wild brutes. In this full documentary episode though we dive deep into the much more nuanced history of the Germanic Warriors. We begin with an exploration of Germania itself which is quite difficult to define from a top down perspective. As a result we end up looking at their world from the bottom up as they would have seen it. This involves a huge social web that started at the basic family farm and eventually built its way up to the clan and tribe level.
We discuss the weapons and armour of these Germanic warriors, how they trained, how they organized, and how they fought in battle. We then conclude with a summary of their service history which stretches over many centuries. Primarily this involves their interactions with the Roman Army starting from the Cimbrian War with Gaius Marius to the Gallic War with Julius Caesar during the Roman Republic and the later decades long struggle of the Germanic Wars that stretched out over the course of the Early Roman Empire. This latter conflict saw the famous events like the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and the Idistaviso. We cover it in more military history between the German and Roman Army during our Avenging Varus series.
What units of history should we cover next?
Credits:
Research: Eric TenWolde
Script: Eric TenWolde
Narration: Guy Michaels
Artwork: Penta Limited
Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
Powell, Lindsay, “Combat 6: Roman Soldier versus Germanic Warrior”, Osprey Publishing, 2014
Wilcox, Peter, “Men-at-Arms 129: Rome's Enemies (1) Germanics and Dacians”, Osprey Publishing, 1982
MacDowall, Simon, “Warrior 17: Germanic Warrior 236-568 AD”, Osprey Publishing, 1996
McNally, Michael, “Campaign 228: Teutoburg Forest AD 9”, Osprey Publishing, 2011
D'Amato, Raffaele & Frediani, Andrea, “Campaign 336: Strasbourg AD 357”, Osprey Publishing, 2019
Elton, Hugh, “Warfare In Roman Europe AD 350-425”, Oxford University Press, 1996
Kiley, Kevin F., “An Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Uniforms Of The Roman World”, Lorenz Books, 2017
Goldsworthy, Adrian, “In The Name Of Rome: The Men Who Won The Roman Empire”, Phoenix, 2004
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@InvictaHistory 2 жыл бұрын

What Units of History should we cover next?

@Mr_M_History 2 жыл бұрын

Used this when teaching threats to Ancient Rome to my high school students. They loved it! Keep up the good work.

@CirosKhan 2 жыл бұрын

- Can go berserk

@JoeSmith-sl9bq 2 жыл бұрын

"So what gear are you taking for your invasion of the most powerful Empire on earth?"

@HistoryOfRevolutions 2 жыл бұрын

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection"

@SchwarbageTruck 2 жыл бұрын

"Resources such as timber, salt and Pete"

@ktheterkuceder6825 2 жыл бұрын

Germanics and celts were awesome but my boys dacians and thracians get overlooked a lot.

@KelsaRavenlock 2 жыл бұрын

One thing I rarely see pointed out is that Germanic warfare used to start with both armies making of show of men and arms so that the other had a chance to cede and withdraw limiting the amount of death from inter tribal disputes, Roman's on the other hand would hide cavalry on the flanks, catapults at the rear and ranged in the bushes and use this show as a time to decimate the enemy ranks. Of course the Roman's later complained when the Germanics learned their lesson and used ambush tactics on them, it seems when a Germanic does it the Roman's see it as having no honor.

@pastorofmuppets4552 2 жыл бұрын

“The greatest crime for a warrior was throwing away his shield.”

@metatronyt 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, as always.

@delinquenter

As a german myself, I enjoy it when people take close looks and informative takes on my ancestors legacy.

@Kevc00 2 жыл бұрын

Would love a video on early Celtic warriors

@arkad6329 2 жыл бұрын

This channel is an absolute gem. I subbed back when it was THFE and when they just moved from Halo (yes, this used to be a Halo channel) to Total War. They used to do replays of multiplayer matches, and it’s grown to one of the more premium history channels on KZfaq.

@SavageDragon999 2 жыл бұрын

Axe Infantry

@tomhanks1769 2 жыл бұрын

"Marcomanni" I think i know where Bethesda got their name for their Elder Scrolls villain.

@saulnine7786 2 жыл бұрын

Sturla Ellingvag of Viking Stories has mentioned that new evidence is showing that the tribal kingdoms of Germania actually stretch back to the early Bronze Age. It seems that the more historians and geneticists dig into the Germanic past the more sophistication emerges from the obscurity of a people without their own written record.

@channellegendarium7677 2 жыл бұрын

Many (though not all) aspects of early Germanic warrior culture remind me of early Rome, especially around the monarchy or Early Republic. Social organization based on personal charisma and strength, a "do it yourself" approach to warfare, equipment based on wealth, and a population spread out over small villages remind me of Rome's first years.

@18Krieger 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@Plexpara Жыл бұрын

I heard the Germanic people were way more civilized as we today think. They found very old Stone streets and stuff like that in Germania

@terrynewsome6698 2 жыл бұрын

One of the biggest challenges to Germanic warfare would come about by the introduction of roman style plows and grains ( which originated in India and arrived in rome around the late first century A.C.). This saw Germanic farming evolve from the equivalent of intensive guarding( substance farming with hand tools) to large scale agriculture. This gradual agricultural evolution coupled with the increase trade of furs, honey, amber, and slaves to rome empire would lead to a massive increase food production, population size, and material wealth. This in turn lead to the consolidation of larger and more well organized states able to feild well equipped armys like that seen with the vandals, Alamanni, goths, and franks in the 4th and 5th. A similar event happened at the end of the vandalic period of Scandinavia, with improvements to achroculture allowing for larger scale raids to be organized and launched by Norse and Danish peoples.