Underrated comment.

There's still time.

Wasn't worth it. Have you tried parking there? Nightmare.

@@Malky24 can't say I have 😂

Too touristy

Probably still cunts in bearsden called Septimus Severus knowing they lot

Cool!

Yeah cool, I like your thinking, I live 20 miles south of you, when i was younger I went on a 2 week holiday touring hadrins wall, while staying at a campsite on the wall (we done our holidays in a touring caravan) me and some other kids,went exploring in a forest and came across a big ravine and the recent storm had washed away part of the side of the ravine and exposed a part of the wall, I was mucking about and fell through a bit right into a old bunk house, you could climb down and the window if you stuck your head out was facing the ravine. Was crazy to think us kids just found and exposed something nobody had seen for all those years. When we told the adults later they just shurged it off as kids nonsense. I wonder sometimes if anyone else found that.

Live just next to Bearsden and they still have a Roman solider on their coat of arms

I live a mile away from Hadrians Wall and often take the history for granted. I always forget about the Antonine wall further north. Are there many remnants of the wall left?

The queen being on their money says that they can and were defeated lol

Uh, the BRITS???

@@hardchooligan The act of union was not a military conflict. England asked the king of Scotland if he would be their king also, Somewhat different.

​@@hardchooligan technically Scotland conquered England 😉

@@hardchooligan Yeah that never happened.

is simple the lusitanians did fleced roman empire of its best legions , they conquered galia in 7 years , England even less , Lusitania they wasted 200 years

@@AngusMacKinnon-xm5ko no one provokes me with impunity 👌

Easy to know. Weather. People from mediterranean don't love harsh weather.

'Laddie' fs.

@@AngusMacKinnon-xm5ko you don’t half talk some waffle 🧇 😂😂😂😂

Both reasons are why they didn’t come to Ireland

yep i’m half scot, we are so boastful about our warrior past and how we fended off and overcame the romans, it was hard to believe at first but then reality hit. Scots are unbelievably patriotic as is my other half 😂

It seems more like luck and roman apathy 😂 every time they showed up, they won and took land, but then a random reason would cause the romans to withdraw (the roman emperor falling ill, recalling a general out of jealousy, the heir of the roman emperor not wishing to continue the war out of apathy etc.)

Not worth the effort is how all wars end.

@Francisco HEVIA VERGARA To be fair, warlike-stubborn peoples make everything “not worth the effort”, so yeah, we can say it applies for Caledonians and Mapuches, so promps to them. 👏

Not technically true, the Mongols controlled all of Asia from Vladivostok to the Mediterranean, only a lack of land stopped them expanding further, and the British controlled every corner of the globe in an age when it took months and months to relay information from London and back

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau I wasn't trying to disprove or ' HURT ' anything. The fact is the Romans obviously expended Enormous resources to try and take Scotland and continued to do so for hundreds of years but couldn't, Hadrian's wall was build to keep the Scots from fighting back, which didn't work by the way, they ransacked it on a routine basis . Much like the Mongols did on the Great wall of China. Have you ever seen Hadrian's wall in person? It's incredible!! Almost a work of art in the way it straddles and conforms to the natural landscape to be as effective as possible, it must have taken decades of surveys just to plan it's design, Putting Evan a qualter of that effort into a concerted invasion would be much less costly and resource intensive, so why didn't they ? Because as the video says, conventional forces fighting against guerilla warfare is always going to get you wrecked. Just as the US found out in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. That's why the English cut down almost every tree in Scotland, to deny them that advantage . Also the Scots clans weren't United back then, so even if the Romans could bribe some of them to do their bidding , the rest would just be like .... ' nahh, fuck that , come and try to fight us' .

@@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau sure, okay, I'm on board with that, but what would have been the limits if Genghis Khan hadn't fallen off his horse ?

@@jedaaa I mean the Mongols weren't invinciblle or anything, they had limits like anyone else. They didn't even reach their territorial peak under Genghis, yet tried and failed to conquer Japan, India, Egypt, Burma, Indonesia and Vietnam. Just like mountains and forests stopped the Romans, large bodies of water, jungles and mountains stoppedd the Mongols.

"Reaching their limits" and "not worth expanding further" are euphemisms for "they were defeated." If you call a spade a spade, then you have to say that the Afghans defeated the British, Russian and American empires in one century. Similarly, the Vietnamese (specifically the Viet Minh) defeated Japan, Britain, France and the USA.

Well in Fairness, it wasn't the Scots that the Roman's couldn't defeat. It was the Picts. The Scots would have still been in Ireland at that time. The Scots came over later and the MacAlbin treachery and the basic culture genocide launched against the Picts by the Dal Riata led to Scotland being formed. That being said I suspect most Highland clans would be heavily related to the Picts still even if the culture and language was all but destroyed.

I think you really are delusional! How about you go learn about your history and you will find that Rome tried many times to conquer Scotland and failed so they built the wall but even then that didn't stop the Scots from raiding across the wall.

@@Kaziklu Spoken in the same spirit that history is told by. The victors. Not one shred of credit to be given for the Indigenous people who defended that land. As someone from the first highland Clan myself I can tell you it was always Pictich first, Norse second and Scottish third. Exactly in that order.

​@@Kaziklu Picts and a celtic tribe called the scots were the anccestors of the scottish people

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Im Adrian

No, you are not.

@@dwightschrute900 you aren't Dwight Schrute either

Scotland loss. Why would you not be seduced by the Roman way of coins wine and hot hookers from Morocco 😚

Being not worth the price doesn't mean they couldn't.... they most likely could have conquered it eventually.

That's wrong cause they were literally about to take it until the last minute and were like eh maybe tomorrow

​@NIHKEY1 yeah and they could have conquered australia too.. could have would have... shut up

And this is why such things like calculus is so damn important. Because both are stupid decisions. Short term vs long term.

Yes, as a Scot we learn about this in history, Scotland is basically Rome's Vietnam.

because of the Scots! Even they want to leave.

Romans were not stupid, Scots and Germans under their tribal leaders were. Romans had nasty plans for slaves but in all honesty, same was reserved for slaves of scottish tribes. But Romans also delivered goodies, tribes did not...

@@pexxajohannes1506 yeahhhh general rule of thumb, don't go around calling certain historical societies stupid. Sure, people make stupid decisions but generally speaking societies adapt as best they can to the circumstances they're in. 1. Slavery wasn't that prevalent in early Scotland, nowhere near as prevalent as it was in Rome. Slavery was mainly a staple of settled societies in the ancient world. 2. Scotland wasn't as developed because Scotland as a place is harsher, the clan system emerged to make the best of the limited food supply that Scotland supply. Germany was the same at this time. Both of these lands would be developed later due to advances in farming technology during the medieval period and, later, the development of global trade and colonialism.

Exactly, the video fails to address how insanely different the highlands are from the lowlands. Terrain definitely played a factor, as did the weather. If groups of hikers can still get stranded around the Glens, despite knowing the terrain, then groups of Roman soldiers who were entering it for the first time had no chance

In fact Tom, the land up to the highland line, once part of the kingdom of Northumberland, was ceded to Scotland by one of the kings of England whose name just skips my memory. Regard the language: "Scots" is Northumbrian Anglian.

you are forgettng one important thing .... and that is that scotland looked totally different back then. scotland was for the most part covered in dense forests. ENgland aswell was for the most part covered in forests.

@@gordonsmith8899 indeed. southern scotland was english. people spoke scots, a saxon-germanic language, were largely saxons

@@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo I didn't forget that. A lot of land round here is still covered in ancient forests. Older forests are actually easier to see/walk through than young regenerating ones.

Then why would the Romans follow them? Why wouldn't they just stop at a certain point when their supply line was getting too inefficient.

@@olibep4115 Patterns of empires, I suppose. They never just stop and maintain except from outside pressure, they just keep expanding and expanding until they meet resistance they can't overcome.

@@olibep4115 Arrogance

I know very little this particular slice of history BUT based on this video, I am left with a creased brow, shaking my head. The conclusion is that "the Romans could not conquer Caledonia"??? What about they were a hair's breadth away from doing so when internal Roman politics pulled the endlessly successful Agricola from the frontline and buried him deep within the Roman administration? I'm sure the fierce disposition of the Scots played a significant role however, if there were just a little more in the way of resources (i.e. motivation for the Romans), I'm sure they would have stuck around and whittled the Scots down to defeat. The fact seems to be that as it stands, Caledonia got lucky a few times, at a few key moments - an internal power struggle between Roman generals, an ill Roman military leader, etc. At the end of this video, when the KZfaqr comes in and says they "could not be conquered" just reeks of Scottish bias.

@@esperago The same is true for the Japanese. They got lucky _twice,_ saved from being conquered by the Chinese by typhoons. The Japanese considered it divine intervention.

GOD blesses anyone that Resists Roma Pax. Especially TODAY!!!.

@@lamonthamilton667 Which god? Be specific.

@@lamonthamilton667 JESUS!! KING OF KINGS! . LORD OF LORDS! . ( EVERY KNEE WILL BOW . EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS JESUS CHRIST IS LORD)🕛⏳✝️

They saw what happened to the English and Welsh and knew better than to engage en mass

@@Tempusverum how did the see what the Romans did to England & Wales not as if they had TV, Radio or the Internet pmsl

They came back and massacred the Germans, just like they came back and enacted genocide on the Picts. Evil bastards. They could and did beat these groups (our people). But they weren’t worth bringing into the empire, which was starting to have management issues and couldn’t handle becoming any bigger.

Interesting a somewhat similar point in Bond.

Germanicus Julius Caesar led 3 successful campaigns in Germania, if it wasn't for Tiberius's jealousy and recall he would have conquered it. Gnaeus Julius Agricola was destroying Caledonians for 4 years until Domitian ordered his recall because Agricola's successes outshone the emperor's own modest victories in Germany. Nothing could stop the Roman Legions except politics or other Roman Legions.

@@Elandil5 And a nice high wall to wave from.......

@@S-u-p-a Welcome to Scotland ......boom!

duh

@@jakxcombat Fucks your problem?

Yeah the Scots didn't live in Scotland at this point this would be like calling the cells english

@@rsr7014 the main story line was based on the english War of the Roses but I think it's incorrect to say all of Westeros was based on engerland. It doesn't have deserts like Dorne for a start. The north of england has a very mild climate and is nothing like "the North" of Westeros.

@@rsr7014 the story was, but the actual map of Westeros is the British isles upside down and merged into one land mass. The finger peninsulas on the Westeros map are actually the south west Irish coast and even the name Westeros sounds familiarly similar to “Wester Ross” in the Scottish highlands

It was called pict land and as I say I'm from my pictish ancestors people don't know anything about them

​@@lesterjohnston8888 at this point in history dude the Picts were a long way off being formed. The Picts were an amalgamation of different tribes that spoke the same language and shared culture. They banded together to combat increasing outside threat and eventually became known as the picts around the 3rd century.

@Terry : do you mind elaborating on parts of Scotland's resistance to Rome that wasn't covered, or scantily covered, here? This video was hasty with its account, even if it was accurate as you say, so I'm curious for more detail :-)

you do a lot of research but still consider this to be Scottish history? but Scotland did not exist yet? this would be pictish history not ''Scottish'' , Scotland did not become so until the 9th century, the romans were well gone, yes blood history will suggest a high percentage of Pictish genetics in modern Scots but roman Campaigns never took place in ''Scotland'' because ''Scotland'' did not exist yet . If you want to discus ''history'' you should follow ''history'' where Scotland has not always been Scotland, It may be populated by the majority of the ancestors of those who were there when Rome wanted to add it to their map, but those people were not Scots yet, Scotland did not exist.

Kilts didn't come for another 15 centuries and by that time their ethnic lineage was mostly Scandinavian.

@@montycasper4300 Scandinavian?

@@user-pv8lp6ht3z Yes, during the Viking age significant numbers of them settled in Scotland which was less able to mount large scale resistance as England was. However a significant part of England was occupied for well over a century. Ireland similarly, especially the eastern part of the country.

@@montycasper4300 wrong ethnically they are mostly Celtic they were never subsumed the amount of Scandinavians were never enough o replace the pivot Gaelic peoples. Genetically Scots are A mix of Gaelic and Pictish with a smattering of Germanic: Saxon or Nordic

@@davo1924 Well, since I'm from that neck of the woods and know the history, I disagree. My clan name was from the Northern Isles, all of which were settled by the Danes (a generic term at the time that encompassed many modern nations from Finland to Norway), as to what became of the Picts, probably some form of apartheid. That clan was subject to the highland clearance and shipped to Ireland where my ancestors mixed with Danes who settled in the Dublin area, who shared the name of a certain Boston mobster, who's name also had Viking heritage. Incidentally, the Celts migrated from present day Turkey around 8K years ago, the ancient Brits (who were apparently quite tall) died out during the little ice age.

Wasn't that from when Astrix the Gaul went to Britannia?😂😂😂

Brilliant !

err the 'other side' of Hadrian's Wall is Northumberland. At no point is Hadrian's Wall the English/Scottish border - never has been.

Barbarian propaganda for the feeble minded.

@@ronhall9394🤓👆🏻

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus Maybe because it is largely believed to be fabricated

As opposed to the Scots who make a sandwich and call it piece.

Mind you, that's almost guaranteed to have been in invention by Tacitus for rhetorical and/or political means. Those Roman historians are unreliable bastards...

Was it not a Scottish farmer who coined the words 'best laid plans of mice and men often go awry'?. I often quote this line on the attempt the Indians make to subjugate Sri Lanka these days.

@@aloysiushettiarachchi4523 Sure looks a lot more like the Chinese are the ones subjugating Sri Lank but sure. Maybe try being allies with your neighbours instead of allying their enemies?

There's a big difference between warriors and soldiers. Warriors were better fighters 1-on-1, but soldiers are trained to protect each other. Of course, most of the Britons that the Romans fought were just farmers.

Picts not Scots. Scots don't come to the area until just before the 6th century. It is unclear if they all came from Ireland or some local tribes allied with the Irish Fergus Mor (assuming he existed) to form the Dal Riata... which became Scotland but at this point it would have been Picts not Scots. It is important as the Picts culture and language was basically stamped out by the Scots after the MacAlpin Treachery. So honouring the Picts is important.

it was the Picts

It's story telling rubbish.

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948

@@crinolynneendymion8755 Best get some ice on your butthurt or it will end up looking like a burst doughnut.

A great post Evelyn

Domitian was jealous of General Agricola

Also, they could trade for what they needed form the points north, as in the parts of Germany they did not occupy.

The Romans had a camp in the far northeast too, around about the area of Insch/Oyne, Aberdeenshire and one of the strong contenders for the as yet unproven but highly likely location of the battle of Mons Graupius is the nearby hill range of Bennachie that dominates the local landscape near my hometown. So they did unfortunately get pretty far North.

I was born between the Ochils and the Forth and hiked to both a few times. A Roman passage through Glen Devon and Glen Eagles would be perilous in the extreme, with high steep slopes on either side. Farther east, Glen Farg would have presented a smaller version of the same problems, so I suspect that they would have chosen to find a crossing in the vicinity of Perth, or even have chosen a seaborn invasion somewhere in or beyond the Firth of Tay. Now I wonder if they might have prevailed upon some of their mariners who had ferried their force onto the island of Great Britain to rendezvous with them farther north? Passing through mountains is usually perilous, as any invaders of Afghanistan have found, again and again, so an eastern coastal invasion might have been an important component of the Romans’ strategy. Unfortunately whatever records made were mostly lost, although there are many sites across Scotland whose various artefacts bear witness to a sustained occupation at least in the lowlands. And there are many ‘iron age’ ruins of hilltop forts, never after reoccupied, that provide poignant suggestive evidence of their genocide, although studies of the genome of the region don’t seem to suggest it was complete, nor that it was without similar punitive retribution once their main forces were withdrawn.

actually there is not a single shred of evidence that the Picts actually painted themelves. It turns out to be a myth

Picts sounds too anglo... Pictus or pictos maybe

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948

The picts were a group in Caledonia or Scotland but weren't the only culture that lived there.

It's was pictland my ancestors Romans said they won the battle to save face the picts can't speak for themselves because today they still have no idea how to read there symbols but all the raised stones are all over East as today Scotland. One pictish Fort is under the the towns nairn in Banff

@@lesterjohnston8888 note Scotland had universal literacy before Rome.

@@jerrymichaelgreen2675 That's impressive considering that "Scotland" didn't exist until 500 years _after_ the fall of the Roman empire.

Because the Romans were well known for never telling lies

Hahaha!!!

Exactly!

Irn*

Lol

Only the brave enter

@@AquaFyrre I live in Scotland ya rocket.

@@AquaFyrre I see what you done there 🤣😂. Now flurry off.

@@AquaFyrre Poor patter. 🥱

Unified? That's a good one. 🤣

@@DefinitelyJarvis he said they were NOT unified. That would make them easier to conquer, but more difficult to govern.

@@PoochieCollins yeah Ik I was saying they were right, sorry if that got portrayed weirdly.

😂😂😂 peccato che la Scozia e' esistita dall' 843 d.C.

Those roman soldiers were really confident until a man in a plaid skirt and a beard down to his knees comes running out of his house playing bagpipes as he kills you.

Not Scottish but pictish that's my ancestors

It's called a map my g and using the sun/stars as a compass

You’re trying too hard lol…. You can’t imagine a European knowing where Scotland is on a map? Behave lol. You gotta stop thinking you’re some unknown country. Also stop believing these fake American YT videos of Americans getting it completely wrong. 🙄

I met someone stationed up there. During the summer months they moved that group to the Sinai desert where ground temperatures were over 140 degrees Farenheit. You obviously had to get on someone's sh*t list for that duty.

"Modern Heat" lol.

Huh no lol

And the isolation - quite a distance by sea from any other land mass.

Also, the Highlands were forested at the time, making control even harder. Polen analysis suggests the Lowlands, including the Southern Uplands, had been grazed into something like the way they were at the start of the 20th Century.

Well said kid and no maps until a Scot, General Roy, mapped Highlands & Lowlands in the 18th century. General Roy's superb maps are available on line.

dumbest take ive ever heard

No. They successfully built forts and roads as they moved... combination of things - would be interesting to know the definitive reason that may have been written and long gone.

Scots were agricultural for millennia at that point. We weren't nomadic either. Some moved twice a year between two fixed locations (a summer pasture and a winter one), not at all free moving that they could just move to evade romans

@@TrueNativeScot But the peoples in that region at that time were all Picts, were they not - before the Irish began to progressively move East across to Scotland (400AD?) They were quite a different breed to the Celtic/Norse/Germanic Scot of later centuries. I don't know if your usage of the collective 'we' with the Picts is so according, my Celtic brethren :)

If you ever come to Scotland, send me a message and I'll give you a tour and help you out.

Thing is Aussies or Americans of European ancestry really just all have the same back story as us Anglo Saxons, except with a more recent emigration added in 😊

Depends on how you look at history. 125th Street in Harlem NYC is an old Indian footpath that pre-dates Roman London. I find that pretty astonishing. And North American history is utterly fascinating in its own right.

🤦‍♂️ American history goes back as far as any in the world , the problem is a lack of written history and the fact that new comers destroyed the history of the indigenous.

@@chrisbrunette9495 Bullshit. Indigenous people had no written language, printing press, or had anything even remotely resembling civilization.

An excellent comment. The Scots came in from Ireland much later.

No one knows where they went, one can assume they had to mingle with the rest and ended up etiolating amongst the population.

Actually Tacitus made a good description of them and also told they were quite swarthy . 🤷‍♀️

Picts are actually related to modern day Western Scots, Northumbrians and Welsh. They were there definitely in most of modern Scotland during the 3rd and 4th century, but due to Anglo saxon, Norman immigration Eastern Scotland became culturally and racially less pictic.

@@godswearred2052 not to hit you with the “source? 🤓” but this sounds interesting any resources you can point me to?

while it seems like an issue at first sight. Be aware that Italy is a bit mountainous as well, their formations were design to excell in such conditions

That's the lowlands. You should see the highlands. Even more beautiful.

Aye, try the Highlands. Your Roman ancestors never got that far. 😜😂😂

Cool

@@anryx555 you mean the furthest village in the roman empire?

@@kingbjorn1832 i meen, seems cool live in an ancient village, near such a symbol of history, or how must be intriguing wake up in such place (i do know, i imagine it very rural) and yada yada yada There is a lot of things that tingle my subconscious about such thought and i cant describe them all

Yes, that and all the cold, wind and rain. Not what they were used to further south.

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The midges beat me too!

Domitian needs agricola troops for dealing with dacian Kingdom and germanic tribes

This tiny creature inspired the book "War of the Worlds".

@@TheGnome21 They did not fail, I think they draw the same conclusion as for the Scotts: there is nothing to get out of these people. History proven right till today.

@Mick Barnes if you say so. 🙄 Apparently you didn’t watch the same video I did. Which of course would be what my comment was referring to.

They though we would be a pushover like the english untill the first encounter then thought f#ck that.

@@GG-ml3vr yah, the empire that literally conquered and held the majority of Europe for centuries, got to what was to be Scotland, and ran scared because of one tough battle. 🤦‍♂️ Nope! No way there’s more to that story, huh? 😂

Not worth the effort? I agree, LOL Sort of like the Iron Islands. A pile of rocks and birdstains.

@@Sivadtu The Vikings never conquered Scotland either . They only colonized some coastal areas and islands. The majority of the mainland was not only rough , but the vicious Scottish clans repelled the Vikings in battle . 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

i don’t think you understand the goal of an empire

England was a Burden to Mainland Europe since Roman times, eh?

Had Queen Boudicca succeeded in wiping out governor Gaius Suetonius and his forces, it might have marked the beginning of the end of Roman rule in Britannia. The empire would’ve launched a punitive campaign of reprisal to punish the britons like they did the Germans, but the Romans wouldn’t have stuck around to reoccupied the island once they had their revenge.

That argument can be applied to most imperial/colonial conquests. But the Map sure does look pretty with are flags every where. 😅

@@DJZO1203 but its stupid and ridiculous. Why expand and waste lives when living thogeter in peace with other nations makes both nations richers and better

And great engineers. When I visited Rome I couldn’t believe all the structures still around 2,000 years later.

@@robertburch3813 Agreed. I've been to Londinium / London, and several places in France, Switzerland, Italy, they are a tiny part of the ancient Roman world. Among those places it's easy to see ancient Roman works, roads, bridges, buildings, theaters, schools, amphitheatres, racetracks, sports venues, tunnels, aqueducts, libraries, baths, sanitary facilities, art, statues, mosaics, etc even walls that look identical no matter in London, France, Switzerland, Italy or Rome city. And, as people in this forum have shared, they live in Scotland near ancient Roman structures and can still see them. According to a Lighthouse Spotter & Club, there is a Roman lighthouse on southeast side of Dover, Kent on Mortimer Road near Dover Castle that was built ca 1,200 years after the lighthouse. Treasures in plain sight that are too obvious to notice, even when labelled World Heritage Sites. Also, here we are utilising the Roman aka Latin alphabet.

But the English did take the mighty Scotland.

@Jabs05 Didn’t take anything. After years of wars and Scotland winning its independence in 1314 the kingdoms were joined in union. Don’t act like England conquered Scotland and in fact the British empire would be nothing without us on the front lines.

@@TheLeeBonner The Scots joined the English because otherwise they would have been swallowed by the English. The Scots approach was if you can't beat them, join them.

@@jesusbermudez6775 the english needed Scottish support, so once again the Scots took mighty Scotland, the only thing the english took was the credit

@@nicholasscott5905 If Scotland is so mighty why isn't the UK parliament in Edinburgh?

Irish invented whiskey. Scots only contribution was to store whisky in old barrels, drink the stuff and not die. :D How to speak gaelig, first drink the bottle...

@@pexxajohannes1506 firstly, it's whiskey in Ireland and the states. Its whisky on Scotland. The fact you don't know this already tells me you don't know much about the subject. Secondly your statement that all Scotland did different was to keep it in barrels. Yeh, no. Irish and Scottish whisky have very different requirements for the final product. Irish whisky is triple distilled and can use any grain. Scotch has to use malted barley, the stills have to be copper, and it has to be aged for at least 3 years, amongst many other requirements. Again, you don't know much about whisky There's no definitive evidence that it was made in Ireland first, either.

Had us in the first half

@@pexxajohannes1506 After tasting that shyt Connor Mcgregor punts out - ill stick to my "whisky" here thanks

@@pexxajohannes1506 Aye the Irish made that shite called Whiskey While Scots made the perfection that is Whisky

Nop the Romans lost a complete legion to the picts

Whiskey?

@@johnadams-wp2yb Whiskey is Irish. Whisky is Scottish. And we’ll worth fighting for. Slainté!😊

@@humblebum59 go raibh maith agat

Ian Bru and deep fried Mars bars (in batter of course).

Scotland = 500 mountains poking out of a vast forested bog pitted with hundreds of lakes. I can't think of anything the Romans could possibly have wanted from it apart from prestige.

This, there seems to be an assumption all over Romes border that they "couldn't" expand further. It was more the lack of seeing the value of it and their borders at the height of the empire were also very defensible. The Roman borders in Europe pretty much lined rivers, they weren't just happenstance.

Not so. The Romans briefly established a colony in Thule ("Ultima Thule") in Iceland. And they had a thriving trade with Scandinavian vikings They knew about northern winters.

@@kenoliver8913 Thule is in Greenland. Is there any archeological evidence for a Roman colony there? There were no Vikings until long after the Western empire fell. Vikings did trade with the Byzantines in Constantinople, but they sailed to Constantinople, not the other way around.

you do know the Roman army was not only composed of Mediterraneans right? Romans had German and brits who were Roman citizens serving in the army and Roman legions had men locally from their provinces serving inn the army. That's what made the Roman army so powerful its adoption of different things so roman soldiers were very capable of different environment since they have been stationed at their posts for years

@Strongboy1770 So the Romans were ok with England though. Where I live, there's a Roman fort about 2 miles away. It never gets pitch black dark through July and early part of August. It gets cold in the winter and where the fort is, it's high up. I find artefacts on my drive, including coins with Hadrian on. The Romans weren't Mediterraneans per se, that idea is totally untrue. It's in it's early stages, but another Roman fort about 20 miles away, anecdotally are finding DNA in some of the residents now, to be linked to Romans that stayed there and they not Italian or on the Med.

Bah, murdering and killing humans don't care. They just want to kill and murder. Still happens every decade, even in modern times. Mankind has always been on a path to self destruction.