American Reacts The First Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 2)

[@frostyguy1989]

1 Talent of silver = $40,000,000. (Forty Million) so 2200 Talents = $88,000,000,000 (Eighty-Eight Billion) 3200 Talents = $128,000,000,000 (One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Billion) Crazy thing is Carthage not only paid all of that back in the allotted time, it actually *made* money through conquering Iberia and its gold mines, which is why Hannibal was able to afford, train and blood a quality veteran army and Carthage wasn't utterly destitute. The irony; Rome sought to cripple its old nemesis, only to make it more powerful than ever.

[@astrodoops]

Hamilcar is Hannibal’s father. Two different people.

[@erzzn3851]

This is 44 millions dollars for 1 talent not the 3200.

[@ac1455]

For reference, Ancient Rome nat its height around 0-200 AD had an average gdp per capita of like 400-600 usd/year, and at its height its population was about 70 million, so its gdp would’ve hovered around 28-42 Billion USD. Therefore, those reparations of 128 billion over 10 years would be roughly 30% of Rome’s annual GDP Near its height, but Carthage would’ve had only 4-6 million people in 221 bc which was 40 years after the war, so perhaps by the end of the 1rst Punic war it had a population closer to 5-7 million people. If the average Carthaginian was as wealthy as the average imperial Roman after 0 ad, then it’d have a gdp of only 4-6 billion, meaning each year of payment to Rome would’ve been DOUBLE the entire GDP of Carthage. Those are just my napkin ballpark estimates though, not to be taken too seriously as exact figures, but that shows just how devastating the reparations were. This is like Treaty of Versailles * 10 levels of punishment.

[@claregale9011]

Rest in peace your majesty, long live the King.

[@chair7336]

R.I.P the queen

[@Thaitanium73]

Long live the king...

[@nicola1175]

RIP our Queen Elizabeth ll

[@kaluschke]

Hamilcar Barca really is of great importance for the history of the First Punic War, the following Mercenary War in Carthage and the conquering of great parts of Iberia. He is a very good example to understand the relation between the First and Second Punic War. Also his opposing role to the Carthaginian leaders who did not understand that Rome was not interested in peaceful coexistence is remarkable and also some kind of explanation for missing Carthaginian support for Hannibal in the Second Punic War. I highly recommend "Hamilcar Barca" from Serapeum as a very good video about Hannibal's father and his role in the whole conflict.

[@williambranch4283]

Hurricanes are in the Atlantic, but big storms do form in the Med with enormous waves ... this was demonstrated in 2010 by a cruise ship that had a fun fun time, 26 ft rogue waves, two passengers killed. Even larger rogue waves are found in the oceans. Roman ships were tiny compared to a cruise ship. Two Phoenician ships, probably sailing together and destroyed at the same time, in 750 BCE, were found on the bottom of the Med. Even larger rogue waves in the ocean, have been detected up to 100 ft tall. Romans just double down. The Romans dropped the corvus, because they realized it made them top-heavy in a storm, but they weren't smart enough to learn how to stow it away in the bottom of the ship, so it would help stabilize them ... they needed a Greek engineer! "Χρειαζόμαστε Έλληνα μηχανικό"

[@iKvetch558]

Connor...to answer your question about storms in the Mediterranean...here is a quote from the Wiki article on the subject... "Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones...are meteorological phenomena occasionally observed over the Mediterranean Sea. On a few rare occasions, some storms have been observed reaching the strength of a Category 1 hurricane, on the Saffir-Simpson scale, and one storm has been recorded reaching Category 2 intensity."

[@jamesgiles4517]

When are u reacting to the second punic war oversimplified

[@samsativa245]

1 talent of silver is 30 million dollars. They charged them 3200 talents of silver in the end. 3200x40 million

[@darreljones8645]

To answer your question at 15:58, Spaghetti Jeff first appeared in the "War of the Bucket" episode.

[@ajvanmarle]

21:20 His fault was that he stopped. About half a century later, another Roman consul, Aemilius Paulus, would play the same game with omens, but he had stamina. He just kept killing bulls until one had the kind of liver he needed to see. Result: victory

[@williambranch4283]

The war lasted so long, the Carthaginians had to debase their coin, but that is what they paid the mercenaries with, and the mercenaries realized they were screwed. Modern dollars is misleading. A talent is a weight, of about 70 lbs, or 840 oz. An oz of silver would pay a mercenary soldier for 14 days. so 3200 talents would pay for about 96,000 men for a year. Hamilcar Barca made his son, Hannibal, swear to never make peace with the Romans, in a sacred blood oath then he was 9.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Instant like for the critical thinking on why the elephants were placed in the back to begin with.

[@letheas6175]

Yes, a like for this comment. I agree. Glad you are not of those -oh rip the queen, let's forget all about the bad traditions in this monarchy, the exact reason why we are feeling bad now- types.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

@@letheas6175 Well, as someone with no skin in the game, I thought I might as well stay out of it.

[@letheas6175]

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Fair point, have a nice day fellow nice human :3

[@jasonwhite7890]

R I p our Queen.

[@letheas6175]

Can I just tell you how inhumane the whole ''abdicate when you die'' thing is? It's really backward if I have to be completely honest. Britain has such weird traditions. I much prefer the other monarchies, which seem to be more humane in every way. And you know, less extreme, in terms of power (I mean try to watch English media in the next few days, I wish you good luck, they have rules and things they have to follow to honor the queen) so dumb.

[@aidan2139]

@@letheas6175 She could of abdicated at any time.

[@jasonwhite7890]

@@letheas6175 makes know sense leaving hateful comments at a time like this .You don't like it why go out of you're way to be hateful .Comes down to respect and historic Queen.

[@letheas6175]

@@jasonwhite7890 I'm literally not hateful, I'm saying that it is inhumane to only change power when the king/queen (let me put this in perspective, your mother or father, would die) this is the British monarchy, their way of doing things. I think this is very difficult for the nation, but mostly, for the children. Again, very inhumane. Who are you to say I can't have criticism towards that? You are being very rude, saying I'm hateful why you have no facts to back that up. You know free speech is a thing in the EU right, oh, wait, you're not part of that anymore. Hmm, I guess you still have that freedom in some regard, right? It can't have all disappeared within that short amount of time.

[@letheas6175]

@@aidan2139 But she didn't since that's the tradition. There are a lot of interesting videos and books about this (plus it is literally a well-known fact! It's a tradition thing. To each their own, but I am also free to say that I think this is inhumane.

[@huemungy3212]

I love how based Regulus was.

[@Mercure250]

3:17 Obligatory comment about how there couldn't be tomatoes in this part of the world at the time. You can carry on with your day now.

[@JackulaHD]

To understand the Consul here... He had failed. He had set out to obtain his dignitas and be immortalised as the man to take on Carthage on their home ground and defeat them. After his defeat he had a choice. Live out his days in failure and be forgotten or make a big show of returning to Carthage to keep his promise and martyr himself. This decision led to him being immortalised as the peak of Roman virtue for all of time. Thus by returning to Carthage he turned his failure into his success.

[@joshuawells835]

I have had teachers who either relied heavily on KZbin or who even made their own videos. For example, my sophomore world history class involved a lot of Crash Course with John Green and then senior year, my pre-cal teacher would upload videos that we then had to take notes on for homework.

[@MicheleAndreoli12]

40 millions is one talent. That has to be multiplied for 2200, so around 88 billions

[@williambranch4283]

Both war elephants and war horses could spook. War elephants were frequently given wine and mistreated, to make them mean. "verius per iocus" ... butt of the joke. Sparta was the source of war masters to other countries, long before this. Often just one Spartan general was enough, given local fighters, to win the battle. This is how Athens had their invasion of Sicily destroyed by the Syracusans around 410 BCE, one Spartan general.

[@ataahqureshi3753]

RIP HM Queen Elizabeth II God save the King.

[@letheas6175]

Yaaaay let's go (more Netherlands content after this? You still have to learn more about the 80' years war Connor! I know you always like to pick sides, and the kind of underdog story of our nation is I think something you will love when you learn even more about it, you've got the basics now, let's go further! Your new Dutch viewers would absolutely love you for that! And again, I'm sure a history nerd (good thing) like you, would love to learn more about it)

[@digitaltennisshoes]

The eyebrow convey your emotion because there are 6 major expressions, anger, happy, sad, fear, disgust and surprise. Other expressions are a mix your brows, eyes and mouth says a lot.

[@atakinpowa]

Lmao the sponsor part

[@SubtleHawk]

It's about $40 million per talent so like $128+ billion total.

[@andreaskoschela2742]

i'm not sure, but i understood it that way that ONE talent is worth 40 million $ om 2022.

[@speedy5622]

One talent of silver = 40mill so multiply that by 3200. Thats what carthage would have to pay. 40 mill is not the total

[@cm-jr9vt]

It is Hannibal

[@lazios]

Winning battles is useless if you lose the war, Hannibal or not *Carthago delenda est.*

[@alek0245]

No ofcouse 40 million would not cripple a government nowadays. But at that time, that is a HUGE amount of money.

[@McJibbin]

Yeah but I thought they adjusted for inflation. I could easily be wrong and sound stupid right now but lmk

[@heshangunarathna3262]

I think its just one talen that is 40million$

[@MarcMagma]

A peace treaty with really harsh terms placed on the losing side of a (in retrospective) 'first' war causing a lot of resentment to grow eventually leading to a leader rising up who leads an army against the victor. Why does that sound familiar? For those who couldn't tell: That was a rhetorical question.

[@raidang]

$40 million = 1 Silver Talent not 2200 It would be 40 million x 2200

[@stirlingmoss9637]

Were you camping in a pie shop?

[@dale897]

R.I.P Queen Elizabeth II, Long live the King

[@racheldicker5611]

The Queen is dead

[@kingwacky184]

Just want to say Hamilcar is not Hannibal. It was his father. So you are still jumping the gun it seems.

[@joshntn37111]

Stop trying to be so PC. Just say what you what. These are YOUR opinions, which is why people watch. They want to hear what you ACTUALLY think. No matter what you do there will be someone who is offended. Just ignore them. Don't even acknowledge them and move on with your life. Good luck going forward.

[@Ikit1Claw]

You need to understand oversimplified is not a historian who does comody, he is a comedian who does history. He doesnt really explain anything, speeds up through events, and personally I find his "comedy" annoyance. If you wanna understand what happened, he is the wrong channel to watch.