Canadian Reacts to The First Punic War - Oversimplified (Part 1)

[@VideoLife146]

PART 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpmnp4SCeq5ga7s

[@artembentsionov]

Fun fact, “Carthage” means “new city” in Phoenician. The Spanish city of Cartagena was originally called Carthago Nova, “New Carthage”, or “New New City”

[@MNN1991]

The Assyrians were actually the first ones with a professional standing army. It was one of the many reforms done by Tiglath Pileser III to save and strengthen the empire in the 8th century bc.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

As far as Roman expansion goes; Rome was initially a weak power surrounded by enemies and spent most of their early history being the punching bag for the Etruscans, Samnites, other Latins, and occasionally raiding Gauls. Eventually they would conquer and annex their enemies*, but then would bump into new enemies which they would annex and then bump into the enemies of those they annexed. So the Romans had the tendency to view expansion as a protective preemptive measure. *A lot of their expansion was also done by integrating client states and friendly tribes as well. A lot of Italy and Greece was willingly integrated into Rome. A lot of kingdoms in present day Turkey had kings who left their kingdom to Rome when they died. It wasn't only conquering land.

[@arnoldoalvarado8250]

Oversimplified vids come once in a century. Great reaction

[@ap6480]

If we took 100 people off the street and asked them if they knew Carthage there's a really good chance all of them would say they don't, even in Europe, schools never teach us about the punic wars (unless you're in Italy) and ancient history isn't something most people are interested in. I spent 2 years watching and reading content about medieval and ancient history and I only discovered Carthage existed some 9 months ago, so I doubt many people know about the civilization wich is a shame.

[@VideoLife146]

I agree, I think it is a bit of a shame. It makes me wonder how many other civilizations have been "lost" to the popular consciousness

[@ap6480]

@@VideoLife146 The mesopotamian civilizations also suffer from that, Akkadians, Sumerians and Assyrians had great civilizations, perhaps the greatest of their times but people don't know about them at all because we're only taught about greece and Rome in school and the only other civs people know about are Egypt and Persia because they became part of popular culture

[@melonmusk8924]

We learned about the Punic Wars in school and I'm from Hungary. Of course it wasn't that detailed, but it was in 5th grade, so I think that's fair.

[@ap6480]

@@melonmusk8924 That's odd, I'm from Portugal and we don't study the punic wars at school despite the south once having belonged to Carthage and the punic wars having heavily influenced the future of the peninsula, in what context do you study the punic wars at school?

[@melonmusk8924]

@@ap6480 We studied History in chronological order from the Anciant times to the Modern days from 5th grade to 8th grade. Then in the first year of Secondary school we started over with a bit more detail. But about the Punic wars I think I remember more from the 5th grade.

[@flyingeagle3898]

I doubt 50% would know about Carthage. But there were a fairly large number of documentaries on the 2nd punic war that got pretty popular on history channel in 90's and 2000's. (back when the history channel actually covered the history and lots of people watched TV as a shared experience) I'd say at least 20-30% probably would know about Carthage (though for specific facts Hannibal and the 2nd Punic war, and the eventual defeat and destruction of Carthage by Rome are probably the only things more than 20% of people know about). It's highly likely that this oversimplified video is the introduction to the 1srt Punic war for a lot of people who have a passing familiarity with ancient history. Not for me though because I listened to "the entire history of Rome" podcast by Mike Duncan. Violence and conquest were definitely a big part of how Rome expanded, but they did require a reason a "causes Belli" usually in the form of a perceived slight or threat against themselves. Also, a big part of the way Rome expanded was by entering into alliance with other cities, offering military protection in exchange for a contribution to the roman military forces, and other forms of tribute. Which was often a pretty good deal for those cities compared to the threats they faced outside such an alliance.

[@striderhiryu2]

The biddest reason for exoansion was to submit future enemies and defeat closer enemies.At the end the barnarians prevail and take it donw rome.

[@TheGallantDrake]

It’s fascinating how many times we’ve had to learn that killing people for making mistakes doesn’t help prevent future mistakes.

[@nathankev9002]

A scary thing is that back in the day you wear armor in battle(which is heavy), and if you fall into the water, or off a boat, you're going to be sinking like a rock.

[@VideoLife146]

Man imagine that. Possible years of training and experience, all to fall off a boat and drown because of the very thing that is made to your protect you. Crazy

[@cbeaudry4646]

You should react to Atun-Shei Films video on King Phillips War And just found the channel, great reactions

[@andrewmckenzie292]

Its amazing how many historical directions are influenced by mercenary actions. Or at least I can think of 2, this and the fact that likely the Kingdom that eventually became England (Wessex) may have been founded by mercenaries called the "Gewissae" invading England with the Saxons (the Gewissae themselves likely were of at least partial Saxon origin) and founding Wessex.

[@TGamesTmedia01]

Amazing video, Keep up the good work

[@DOSFS]

Battle of Cape Ecnomus might be the largest in terms of People (because those ships also have soldiers intended on landing in Africa too) but historians still debated the exact number to this day (including others like the battle of Red Cliff in Three Kingdom China) but of course in term of overall people, material and total tonnage, Battle of Leyte Gulf of pacific war is still the largest. All so as we knew, the number is kinda exaggerated to some degree for the whole conflict (but still pretty huge, hundred of thousand).

[@maozedong8370]

The number is not exaggerated.

[@DOSFS]

@@maozedong8370 We can't say for sure as it only have some written records of its number, we knew it was really large especially for ancient time but most historian believed it isn't 'that large' as its claimed

[@maozedong8370]

@@DOSFS That's the thing with history though, You can't determine what is real and what isn't but that war would have been enormous.

[@andresromerowerth6914]

Roman expantion had an economic reason. It was a way to redistribute land to the landless people. At the beginning was a virtous circle: aristocract obtein fame and money, and poor people land and the posibility of not starving. But land it's a limited resourse so...

[@samuelgarcia8677]

I think the first(at least after the fall of the Roman empire) profesional army in Europe was the spanish tercio during the XVI century but they used pikes and the early firearms of the time

[@artembentsionov]

There’s a book series called The Last Regiment. A regiment of Union infantry is retreating after the Battle of Gettysburg and gets transported to another world where they encounter other humans who have been transported to the planet throughout history. The second book in particular deals with them making friends with the nation of Roum. As you can guess, they’re descended from Romans who got transported there during the First Punic War. Their primary enemy is the nation of Cartha, which dominates the sea

[@artembentsionov]

There’s little evidence that the corvus was used more than once. It proved to be more a liability than an advantage due to the increased weight and made the ship unstable in choppy waters. They removed it from their ships pretty quickly, but by that point they got a lot better at seamanship. Besides, there were other ways to board enemy ships. A ram could also be used to break the other ship’s oars, immobilizing it and allowing it to be boarded. At the same time, rowers were trained to form their oars into a shield to try to protect their ship from a ram

[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

5.30 I do believe the first ever sewer system was built by the Indus River Valley Civilisation in modern day Pakistan

[@VideoLife146]

Didn't know that, I remember something about Roman sewer systems being the first something. Maybe the first underground?

[@flyingeagle3898]

@@VideoLife146 prob not. Romans definitely had high-quality(and upgraded on past versions) sewer systems, but other ancient cultures had them first

[@abogaymer69]

Great reaction, man

[@il.nathan9437]

I learned about that painting of Saturn assassin's creed 2

[@boygg1862]

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[@bakthihapuarachchi3447]

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[@Kristof1]

Well done Bideo, speedy reaction

[@nintendofan1749]

Wow that was fast

[@louis2294]

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