Conquering the Ancient World || Rome's Expansion Province by Province

[@JustSomeGuyWlthoutAMustache]

If your empire was so based that empires in the future cosplay as you, you have truly done a good job!

[@45bear11]

157 likes and no comments? Let me fix that.

[@therainsuze]

y only 1 reply

[@vic3r0y8]

this is truly an empire of all time

[@AXAXAXAYt]

Was this not a robtop joke?

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Imagine building an empire so based that different empires that come after you claim to be your successors.

[@MausOfTheHouse]

Truly one of the empires ever

[@stargazer-elite]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240for real. There is only 1 true Roman successor and that’s… Rome 2 or I mean Rome ll

[@toxicavenger-oz6tr]

You’re going to get rome simps mad

[@possiblehistory]

Honestly, Rome is underrated fr

[@alessandroroccaforte4515]

But really underrated

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Rome is SO fascinating 🎉🎉🎉

[@toadsterer747]

fr fr

[@fildafernandes4366]

How? Literally everyone knows of Rome

[@sadsenmmxvi]

Marcus Aurelius is literally me fr

[@ChaffyExpert]

You should do "what if US states were organized like Roman provinces" like based on conquest/when it was taken.

[@possiblehistory]

Oh that could be really fun

[@Maxzes_0]

@@possiblehistory when

[@davidking6242]

@@possiblehistory still waiting on this fr

[@theguy-fg5ox]

Damn that sounds really interesting

[@Dougoul]

​@@possiblehistorystill waiting...

[@cgt3704]

Rome had so many ferocious enemies against them yet it still managed to come out on top and it lasted more than any other empire.

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

It lasted merely 400 years. The ottomans lasted more with 500 lol

[@azlanadil3646]

@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTERR/technically true

[@azlanadil3646]

Also, Japan’s Empire is like 1700 years old.

[@cgt3704]

@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER if you dont include the eastern roman empire (or the byzantine empire if you are a lardass)

[@The_Romanian_Terror]

The Chinese empire Laughs in your face at your ignorance

[@dragonsword2253]

I've always had a lot of trouble remembering Roman provinces. Seeing them all laid out like this in an easy to understand and well-explained way is really helpful. Awesome video!

[@Gino3mila]

As an Italian this is what we study for 5 years

[@SrJomba]

Ohhhh I envy you. I'd love to study the Roman Empire in school but unfortunately here in Brazil pretty much anything before 1500 is just brushed over and Antiquity is completely ignored

[@InfoRome]

Rightful pride.

[@savannahvarns2126]

0:36 the nonchalant delivery of that line always gets me

[@basicallynaic6508]

Would be crazy if Rome actually became a super state would love to see a full video on this alt history Scenario

[@ldubt4494]

It actually did, but then bad leadership during bad times happened and it went down the drain. Its sad.

[@basicallynaic6508]

@@ldubt4494 yeah sure it 🙄

[@pyropulseIXXI]

Rome was as super state, wtf are you talking about? Also, the history of Rome is largely made up fan fiction. Crazy what historians count as evidence. The analogy is thus; if physicists used the same standard of evidence as historians use, then they would be claiming the Earth is flat.

[@DarkPortall]

it was impossible for Rome to last. it was just too big to stay united forever, someone was gonna split the state, even if not in the same way it happened in the real world.

[@MrGamer-mb9ct]

Very good video glory to rome

[@franck3382]

Thanks ! Would love the follow up video during the decline and the change of the provinces. Keep up with your great work !

[@LouisMcK]

Man those up and coming videos look so good, legitamty smiled when I say the pakistan one suprised anyone would make that, keep up the great work

[@beans00001]

This is a certified Roman Empire moment

[@mr_joebama]

truly a lasting impact on history

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Your profile pic is going to give me nightmares.💀

[@OrangeSheepPlayz]

Nice video! :D Very interesting! :D

[@richardheath3923]

Such an insightful and useful video to understand Rome’s administrative structure. I’m no EU federalist but for those that are just adopt Latin as an official language and slap on some of these beautiful provincial names that roll off the tongue so nicely

[@Amibingus]

As a romaboo I find it to be a beatiful work of art

[@Onezy05]

Idea: what if the Roman provinces were organised like US states? Can imagine Britannia being the Ohio of Rome

[@ldubt4494]

No, the danube provinces would be more fitting for Ohio. Britain was more like a Mix of Washington (southern part) and alaska (northern part)

[@Onezy05]

@@ldubt4494 That's an interesting thought on it. I suppose the level of chaos that often occured there would fit better. I'd say that one of the eastern provinces (Egypt or Syria) would have been the California of Rome due to the level of wealth there.

[@benoneyahaghotu1588]

Rome the city would be DC and Italia would be Maryland

[@MrNTF-vi2qc]

Nah it'd probably be Judea "You're going to Judea" sounds a lot more horrifying than "You're going to Britannia".

[@robzsarmy5471]

Britannia would be Hawaii Since Both are far away from the mainland and had the least Roman / American influence of the provinces/states

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks man! Love the history and evolution of rome! Thats why youre one of the Best 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheSwedishHistorian]

753 BCE (foundation of Rome) to 1453 (the fall of Constantinople). If you really want to get technical, you can argue that Roman civilization only ended in 1461, 1475, - or that it even lasts today in the form of the Catholic Church. Either way, Rome as a civilization lasted around two millennia.

[@ilect1690]

if you count the holy roman empire as rome than the empire of austria should be included too meaning you'd have to include 1918 also. And if were getting really abstract, the crown prince of austria hungary otto von habsburg who was the son of the last austrian emperor died in 2011 meaning you could even argue that rome fell in 2011. Also if were including all eastern rome rump states than we should also include dalmatia under julius nepos which fell in 480 and the kingdom of Soissons which fell in 486. Also we need to take note that the actual eastern roman empire didn't fall in 1453 but actually fell in 1204 after the 4th crusade, the "eastern roman empire" after was just the kingdom of Nicaea which would fall in 1453,

[@toast2300]

​@@ilect1690the eastern Roman empire fell 1204 and then on of it's successor states revived it. I think there's no argument to be made that post 1204 it wasn't the eastern Roman empire

[@MahamudaAkhter-og9ku]

Tbr it is very unfair to count byzantines into Rome's time period. Mughals are never counted in Mongolian empire's time period are they?

[@Chadius_Thundercock]

@@MahamudaAkhter-og9kuthat’s not the same situation at all. The Byzantines were one half of the Roman Empire after it was split. The Mughals are pretender mongols ruling in India, barely even related to the mongols

[@MahamudaAkhter-og9ku]

@@Chadius_Thundercock they are successor of chagatai Khanate, one of the four successors of Mongolian empire

[@peterwainio2134]

I would like to recommend a concept for a new series you could do. The idea is that you take the place of a historical leader, and you choose what decisions to make as that historical leader based on what would be the most beneficial for the nation the historical leader you chose ruled over. The way you would go about doing this is you would base your decisions off of the knowledge you had at your disposal at the time. For example, you could do a video where you take the place of Louis XIV and you choose how you would expand the size, influence and power of France in the 17th and 18th centuries. Or you could take the place of Louis XV and decide how you could preserve the French empire in America and India. Perhaps you could even take the place of Louis XVI and decide how you could prevent the french revolution if you were in his position. A criticism you could levy at this idea is that it’s too similar to the series you’re already doing on “What if everything went perfectly for X”, but I disagree. Firstly, this series is about making decisions as a single person, not for an entire nation over the course of hundreds of years. Secondly, with your “What if everything went perfectly for X” series, you utilize the benefit of hindsight. With this series, you limit yourself to the knowledge of your chosen leader. You Don’t HAVE to do it this way, you could utilize the benefit of hindsight for this series too, but limiting yourself this way would help differentiate this series from your “What if everything went perfectly for X” series. You might as well try this idea on for a video and see how it performs. If it performs badly, you don’t have to continue it. But if it performs well, you could have another successful series on your hands. It is low risk, high reward. With how many historical leaders there are, the possibilities for this series are limitless! Some ideas for historical leaders to make videos on are Seleucus, Justinian, Louis the Pious, John I, Charles V, Phillip II of Spain, Charles XII, Peter III, Napoleon, Charles X, Napoleon III, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and so many more!

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

Honestly, if Louis the XVI had a spine and actually acted like an autocratic ruler then he'd been able to avert the French Revolution. It took a lot, I mean a LOT, for the french people to chop him up. Ruling in the aristocracy, finding a noncrazy wife, and implementing many important reforms would have done it.

[@ldubt4494]

1:05 However Italy became organized into provinces in the late roman empire after the diocletians reforms.

[@BradleyDantzer-x4m]

This needs a part 2 for the decline of Rome

[@hunterfranke4833]

Wasn't Germania technically a province for about a decade before Arminius' betrayal?

[@schnitzel6852]

wish you could do a video on Lycia, in this video its quite overshadowed but for the longest time it had a long history of being its own nation, a federal democratic one at that called the Lycian league which had an interesting relationship with the romans

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

0:41 **before deciding that kings are cringe** Truly profounds words man.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

The French Revolution in a nutshell.

[@sadsenmmxvi]

Based, otherwise you'll get cringelords like Commodus.

[@mappingshaman5280]

If half the Internet would decide that Internet discussions would be more interesting instead of just "BASED KAISER WILLY GOTT MIT UNS JA JA JA."

[@RomanOf2002]

Love this guy’s channel.

[@nazotheultimatehedgehog9019]

@possiblehistory, aren't going to make more videos about roman provinces after Trajan as well? I seemed to recall about Hispania being split into 5 provinces before 400s, Pannonia into 4, Africa Proconsularis separating into Africa and Tripolitania and another one, and the original Mauretania would end into 3 rather than 2. That, and as well pos-500's Eastern Roman Empire's provinces and Byzantine' Themes.

[@raditudesydney]

thank you, cody from alternatehistoryhub with an accent

[@Robert_L_Peters]

Thank you

[@christiandevey3898]

It would be interesting to see something like this for the British empire

[@tamaozinnamikaze_3174]

Its insane to see how rome affects the entirety of history after them, one of my favorite empires and countries that ever existed, simply for their influence for the rest of time.

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

I'm sorry for writing a second comment which is definitely annoying,but I felt that my old comment would get longer and I just wanted to say: Thank you,Possible History.I never thought that anyone might ever make a video for Pakistan.You have no idea how much this means for most of the youth here because I have a couple of friends who are also great fans of alternate history and it was them who introduced me to your channel.Your content is very different from other channels because you never discuss any sort of controversial content and even if you ever did,you always approach it with a neutral standpoint and present your thoughts and ideas with real facts and information instead of coming up with things yourself(unlike other channels I know) and always reason and explain with logic instead of emotion,personal belief or favourite or politics.This is what makes your channel so amazing and even how your channel always discusses everything from everywhere making your content so diverse(instead of just sticking with just World Wars,Cold War and other stereotypical stuff),so that even your fans get knowledge about what we would've never known about. In short,I love your channel and I hope I'll be here long enough to see you get famous and get the fame and appreciation that you deserve. Love from Pakistan.💞💞💞

[@Caroban]

Bro too much lol

[@TheLuigiBrother77]

but the video is about rome not pakistan?

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

@@TheLuigiBrother77 I'm talking about the next upcoming video.

[@maharajmaharaj4626]

Mughal empire in 2024

[@why....-]

O boy we got a chaterbox here 🤣🤣

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Eastern Román Empire idea: What if Justinian, after the conquest of the vandals, looked east instead of west?

[@daign2859]

that is interesting because persia had Khosrow as shah who was very competent

[@precariousworlds3029]

Likely a brutal and destructive war leading to favourable Roman concessions in Armenia, Arabia, and Mesopotamia, but weakening and bankrupting the empire leading to Gothic and Avar invasions

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

He would have lost. Khosrow Anushiriwan was a superior ruler to Justinian.

[@angrymonkeynoises]

Of that happened Egypt and Syria would had been taken by Persia 80 years before our time-line

[@shiny_teddiursa]

nothing, Persians literally can’t be conquered unless its extremely swift and quick, otherwise the war just drags out.

[@dailyedits220]

Nice

[@Maltheus_]

Idea: What if everything went PREFECT for Mexico? (point of departure maybe before the war of independence)

[@luisricardolozadaamaya670]

Or Maximilian

[@tetraxis3011]

I’d love that. Mexico got it pretty bad in history.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Idea man: What if everything went perfectly for spain starting with Miguel da paz surviving?

[@shubhanjalshukla3879]

This bouta be a long one...

[@hitrapperandartistdababy]

Ironic how so many rebelled against Rome, yet when they fell everyone tried to become their successor

[@Mr_OogaBooga]

Been here since 1.5k subs :)

[@HaiIey897]

I'm first yet again

[@raditudesydney]

2nd* lmao

[@HaiIey897]

@@raditudesydney nah I checked I'm well first by like maybe 30 seconds

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

No.Possible History was first.

[@HaiIey897]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240 I guess your right

[@maharajmaharaj4626]

Thanks for Pakistania episode

[@Philip-du9uc]

0:41 based

[@RMProjects785]

It would be interesting to continue this through the 'Byzantine' Empire until the final strongholds fall to the Ottomans in 1479.

[@marym7104]

33,007th viewer of this video!

[@j.37]

great video, hope to see a what if everything went perfect for argentina one day :3

[@webelmapping]

👍

[@contxt.mp4]

Average internet nerd when asked about the Roman Empire (I am one of them and can completely relate):

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Conquering the Ancient World: Rome's Expansion Province by Province momentum 100

[@i_amgrant]

I have an idea: What if France never existed? No, I don't mean what if it just never formed or united, or anything along those lines- But, what if France, in its common borders, was simply erased off of the map? I imagine it'd have great ramifications, with Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon erased, and Hannibal not being able to go through Hispania to Rome. Maybe more focus is put onto the Balkans later in the Romans' history, replacing France with Romania or something along those lines. I think it'd be funny.

[@neiletienne6430]

Near perfection. Now just remove england and you have absolute heaven.

[@ChaffyExpert]

Rome might not fall then, without since the borders would be harder to cross.

[@WhenDoesTheVideoActuallyStart]

Without France, Rome wouldn't have been as big of a deal. Far less trade going on in the western med compared to IRL

[@samuraipenguin8120]

I memorized them all by memory lmao

[@RS_N5]

What about the province of Armenia minor (Lesser Armenia)?

[@RodiniaA]

7:06 so thats how the roman empire looked like in the time of Xena: warrior princess (so Xena happens in 64 BC)

[@Yanto_sangat_ireng]

Why did the thumbnails change?

[@pep-qew]

Can you do: What if Poland conquer milki way?

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Poland can into space.😀

[@pep-qew]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240 guy named Hermaszewski was in space (he was pole)

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

@@pep-qew I know.I was talking about the meme.

[@Wertzuio]

imagine if they werent as expansionist in the later years and had worked to stabilize and industrialize. by that time other europeans havent even formed states yet so they would get crushed like the natives in america. society could be 1000+ years in the future right now if rome never became complacent and conquered the entire world in the end (they would also have to force other cultures and religions to assimilate or die of course, because that how an empire becomes unstable)

[@RhodesianFur]

You forgot about the province of Germania (also known as Germania Antiqua) which was a roman province for 16 years under Augustus

[@johannchristian2551]

Brilliant job using AD and BC instead of fake and ungodly ones

[@Kaiser_von_Europa]

do what if everything went perfect for austria, pls

[@Number1Irishlad]

notice that the Bosproan Kingdom was only directly conquered for about 30-40 years, but has been primarily independent (albeit a roman _client state_). Thus being one of the longest continuous Hellenic States to exist 😤

[@JustRomanian95]

Can you pls do a video about "what if history went perfect for Romania"?

[@MajinTurles-ng2gy]

I wa looking for this two days ago😂

[@rostdreadnorramus4936]

The Bosporan Kingdom was also turned into a province by Nero, but then reverted back to a vassal after his death.

[@memorymeme51]

Planning on doing any other nations next?

[@marym7104]

Within 6 days!

[@kulkuljator]

I am surprised how close to the modern day borders are the balkan provinces

[@flakey35248]

From the discord

[@bones6448]

What if everything went perfect for Imperial Austria next!

[@amir_iceking]

Now would you do one with the persian satrapies ?

[@ducksongfans]

Dang, not even mentioning the samnite wars just saying they expanded

[@radored7750]

Very exicited for seeing if protestants won 30 years wars, because of Bohemia.

[@ComradeKilo]

I am rome

[@Catitect]

Suggestion: what if dacia didint get conquered by the romans or what if everything went perfect for romanians in history

[@dfredericks86]

Didn't annotate with years...brooooo, the missed opportunity....

[@dizzle632]

Day 4 of asking for an video on the Third Odyssey (Byzantine go to America)

[@nightvvisher7713]

What if Napoleon sold Louisiana to someone else, maybe Russia or Ottomans, or even Britain or Denmark

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Well,first off,the Ottomans and Russians have no reason to buy Louisiana as they have no interest in North America,so cut them out. Second,Napoleon sold Louisiana,so that he could get enough money to fund the war he was having against the British,so cut them out too. I don't know much about Denmark.

[@nightvvisher7713]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240 i know, but maybe Ottos would want colony for prestige, Russians also, maybe he could have sold it to confederation of the Rhine etc, anyone not totally hostile...

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

@@nightvvisher7713 Well,the Confederation of the Rhine was a French puppet.Heck,most of Europe was either a puppet or a place where Napoleon made either one his family member or general the ruler or just completely under his rule,so he did technically own all of their wealth either way,so point in selling it to them. However,maybe Russia might be a perfect candidate,so yeah.Let us go with Russia.

[@雷-t3j]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240 The same Russia that Napoleon was about to invade? The one who would be unable to navally support an American colony? The one already with massive sparsely populated provinces in the East? Russia would not buy Alaska off the French, and they wouldn't try to sell. The boring truth is that the USA was the only viable client, and would have invaded anyway if the French hadn't sold it.

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

@@雷-t3j I know,but just for the sake of alternate history,we have to assume things as something else. Yes,there is no doubt that apart from the US,no one else would've been able to buy Louisiana.

[@BombettaPela]

Bosphorus kingdom 😢🤧

[@scotandiamapping4549]

Armenia wasn't going back and forth between Roman client and independent, it was going back and forth between Roman client and Persian client

[@Gino3mila]

Make a video called what if everything went good for Italy

[@orivilletycoon1437]

He didn't even say Regnum Bospori :(

[@Jrfuente]

Hey can you do a what If Charles of Spain invaded Elizabethan England was a success?

[@Primitiveman-dk4ud]

Noice

[@casssaph2287]

oooh would be fun to see the same format but the decline

[@vb3playz66]

Carthage lovers where you at

[@random_estonian5356]

You know what i haven´t seen at all? An alternate history where the Axis forces decides to deploy their chemical weapon stockpiles during the Second World War. Can we get a video of that somewhere in the future?

[@wilcowen]

The allies would deploy theirs

[@bojanglespills84]

Still mad about Carthage

[@theChaosKe]

They also conquered all of Germany for a while but couldnt hold it.

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Not exactly whole of it.They only managed to conquer the Rhine and couldn't advance any further.

[@theChaosKe]

@@yasirnazirbutt8240 The region up to the rhine was what they could hold, not their furthest extent. Tiberius went past the elbe, with many germanic tribes being clients of rome.

[@TrickBott]

There is no evidence for Carthage's earth being salted.

[@natemorrow2911]

"Erhm acthually there ish no evidence of carthage's earth being salted🤓🤡"

[@TrickBott]

@@natemorrow2911 Good day to you too!

[@bluefame2966]

Idea:the complete expansion of mongol Empire

[@bladefox-ik5iy]

What if the Von Habsburgs were Protestant?

[@jackscott3094]

What if history went perfect for Britain 🇬🇧

[@MrLraewoo]

1h ago

[@ilect1690]

so was crimea just never turned into a province?

[@Adir-Yosef]

probably later, this is taking into an account just the peak, so it's very possible that it did became one during the decline

[@B_men_apo]

What if history went perfect for the Netherlands

[@yasirnazirbutt8240]

Rip Indonesia.

[@esckings-ts9vd]

Hi

[@ZioMcCall]

2:23 That's not how you pronounce "Scipio" lol

[@SrJomba]

It is. That's exactly how the Romans pronounced it. What do you think it should be?

[@wilcowen]

Yup thats an empire alright

[@Smoke-gi2pi]

Make : what if everything wehnt perfect for the Soviet Union

[@Shayrin2]

Not to be that guy, but Rome never salted the earth. I know its a common myth but there is no contemporary sources for that.

[@fje_grg]

wdym by that

[@merci3367]

Great Britain: Britannia España (spain): Hispania Names based on Roman regions