Roman History General - Built on olive oil and blood.

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God's strongest milkman

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It's the Ides Of March today.

So in honor of the greatest Roman to ever live, and one of the greatest men to ever scare senators this is the Roman History General.

The history of Rome is usually separated into three sections.

The kingdom founded in 753 BC upon Palatine Hill, understood to have ended in 509 BC

The Roman Republic (my favorite) which started with the end of the kingdom in 509 BC and ran until 27 BC.

And the Roman Empire which ran from the end of the Republic in 27 BC to 476 AD.

What the fuck is a Byzantine?

This empire shaped the Mediterranean, Britain, Italy, Germany, France, Spain and pretty much all of Europe and North Africa in ways that still effect us even today. The Roman language Latin formed the alphabet which you are using to read this right now.

The founding of Christianity, the destruction of the second temple of judea, the assassination of Caesar (rip the homie), the first large functional representative Republic that formed much of the framework for the largest power of our time, America and the first recorded writings of many different peoples usually at the end of a gladius.

This civilization found its start more than 2 and a half millennia ago and many of its writings and histories still exist to this day.


There are many excellent videos, channels, documentaries and movies focused on this with some of the more accessible and quality on YouTube being.

Invictia. https://youtube.com/@invictahistory?si=vdOlWoWrDk_KqS85

Historia civilis. https://youtube.com/@historiacivilis?si=OsZVvtf2lQmkQw3Y

Imperium Romanum https://youtube.com/@imperiumromanumyt?si=5IPyXViqo4RdwRLC

Ursulas Historical Recipies (her Roman playlist) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJrlcrLQ8LzosBVSZXvnvwreTUH6aMY45&si=AsdO4Nm4Zj-VWXqU

Historical Italian cooking. https://youtube.com/@historicalitaliancooking?si=ooe4Lm_qIeh-NGrk. (Warning. This man has a ridiculous accent)

Roman history continues to be interesting and relevant to us millennia later and really shows us how far we've come and how little has changed in human beings all at once. Caesar did nothing wrong. Fuck Cato, all my homies hate Cato.
 
Lest we forget...

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Really partial to Generic History Videos, particularly his Sulla, Gaius Marius, and Mithridates long form videos. He's good at talking and keeping a long form video flowing with throwing in humor that doesn't get annoying, and focuses a lot on the people that most of the big channels seem to specifically avoid talking about.

Can't even count how many times Historia Civilis goes out of his way to say he won't talk about Sulla for example.
 
Generic Anime Girl said:
Thoughts on the First Battle of Hoover Dam?
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I was genuinely disappointed in his little content there was for the legion. Like imagine if they had the same amount of quests and characters that the NCR camps did.

If you're gonna Roman larp (one of the most fun larps there is) with hundreds of nuclear apocalypse tribes you gotta go all the way. I would've loved to have seen some sort of fallout Nevada Triumph after a great battle.
 
Because of Civilization and Civilization II, I may think of white as the "team color" of the Romans. Also America sorta reminds me of a modern day Rome. Large land area, a bunch of provinces states, is republic, and neoclassical architecture for government buildings.

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!

In honour of Gaivs Ivlivs Caesar, remember men, you have a duty to honour yourself and strive for greatness. The man died over 2000 years ago and savages still cower in terror at the uttering of his name, he helped set the stones to create an empire that many nations still today seek to emulate and claim honourary heirship to, yet in truth, none can claim such a title. He was a man of ambition and drive, nobility and thuggishness, a man of contradictions yes, but no doubt a true man, pushed on by a divine purpose by honour and power. Nary has such a figure walked this world since, we can count but a few who would live up to his legend, but that does not mean we should not try to, in fact, we are obliged too!

Marcvs Antonivs came to bury Caesar, not to praise him, so we must do it for him. He thrice refused the crown of kings, and so we shall venerate him; not as lord, not as king, but as something more; as Caesar!
 
The greatest empire of all time, bar none. Fuck you Britain and Mongolia, your empires rose and fell in less than 300 years. That's nothing. The Romans were the Rocky Balboa of empires. Never give up.

Gauls sack Rome? They'll live to regret that in a few centuries when Caesar commits genocide on the Gauls. Hannibal kill 20% of the Roman men, many of which were middle and upper class movers and shakers, while the Carthaginian navy sinks their entire fleet multiple times? Just raise another army, build another fleet, kick his ass. Multiple civil wars devastating the empire? Guess what, centralization under Augustus leaves them stronger than ever before. Crisis of the third century which would have spelt the end of literally any other empire in history? Don't worry about it, Aurelian spanks their enemies like disobedient children and Diocletian finishes the job. Western half of the empire fell? Justinian reconquers a big portion of it. Rise of Islam? The Romans lost much of the east, but continues being a bulwark against Islam for another 800 years. The Latins sack Constantinople and squat in its ruins? A rump state in Trebizond manages to regain control and reassemble the broken pieces of the empire together.

It only ended when their final city fell, and like a true Roman, Constantine died defending his city. :semperfidelis:
 
Chieftain Coke Peanut said:
It only ended when their final city fell, and like a true Roman, Constantine died defending his city. :semperfidelis:
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Categorically wrong. Constantine DISAPPEARED defending his city after heroically leading a charge against the attacking Ottomans.
Nobody knows where he went, nobody knows what happened of him and that's perhaps the most fitting end for the last emperor of the Romans. No one will ever know what became of him and that's for the best.
 
Anyone actually read Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? I've been meaning to since I discovered Project Gutenberg but have yet to put in the time.
 
Dwarf Lord said:
Really partial to Generic History Videos, particularly his Sulla, Gaius Marius, and Mithridates long form videos. He's good at talking and keeping a long form video flowing with throwing in humor that doesn't get annoying, and focuses a lot on the people that most of the big channels seem to specifically avoid talking about.

Can't even count how many times Historia Civilis goes out of his way to say he won't talk about Sulla for example.
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I listened to his mithridates video at your recommendation and it was very good! He reminds me of a less obnoxious Lindybeige for some reason.

Historia millitum also has good videos on Rome, I'm particularly interested by how their logistics worked. Their money and road building and how 30 thousand people matching hundreds of miles for months keeps themselves fed and supplied.

The Romans had an infamous sort of pride and sense of superiority that they were the greatest and most civilized empire on earth. That they were the physical manifestation of civilization. And given their water network, intense legalism, extremely comprehensive government and infrastructure and their sort of unmatched mind for organization, Its not difficult to see why they would say this.
 
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