Life in a Roman Fort - What Was it Like? DOCUMENTARY

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[@InvictaHistory]

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Love watching them.

[@edmardenosta5006]

Great work from these guys. Nice break from drawings and animations which sometimes can make you feel disconnected

[@JackyHeijmans]

Did I get it wrong, that a centurie had 80 legionairies and some 20 slaves to do certain tasks for them, like making their shoes, and cooking and cleaning? Did they have their own cook, and like a medicus in a centurie? And were they sometimes send to guard a house of a wealthy man? Or like a ludus? I love your documenturies, thank you so much! 🤗❤

[@BiggusDickusMaximus]

Prefer a 3d animation than a cheap fort irl

[@Guus]

@@InvictaHistory awesome job! Little bit of a directing tip for future videos that might enhance the experience. It will read better to give talent a small objective within their conversations instead of telling the talent to pretend to talk or to point at something in the distance. Keep going though it’s awesome nonetheless.

[@fideliselan]

"There is always something to do, even if it is painting the pebbles" - written by a veteran. I once had to rake the sand around my squad bay into a "Zen Garden" for the Gunny. He thought it was funny as hell... Excellent video as always, Invicta!

[@Kelnx]

Sounds about right. I was a submariner, and we had a couple small patches of tile flooring in engineering that the chiefs always insisted were kept spotless and regularly waxed...even though it became hazardous to stand on if the boat took a steep up or down angle. I swear they were put there specifically to create pointless work as everywhere else aft had metal no-skid deck plating. Just like they put random "bright work" everywhere to have something to polish.

[@citricdemon]

I was a roman legionnaire. We didn't do any of that and you guys look like losers.

[@idcanthony9286]

I remember we raked the hail and tumbleweeds away from our building when the AFSOC Command Chief visited the base. Just to have all the tumbleweeds come right back the next day.

[@silverjohn6037]

It may not always make sense to young soldiers but old nco's often have an understanding that "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop." If you don't keep young troops busy they'll find something to occupy themselves with... usually something that will end with broken equipment or broken troops.

[@iainballas]

@@silverjohn6037 Busy troops complain. Bored troops break things.

[@SultanBrokenClock]

Ahh the Witcher music in the background AMAZING! 👍🏽

[@jimster1111]

i recognise it from songs of syx

[@Unofficial_History]

its not picked up by the copyright system at all? does it limit ads?

[@JK-pp9uz]

just finished my second playthrough last week and I was thinking huh where is that music from!

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More Witcher music under videos❤

[@bryanmatthews2370]

Was that from the Witcher? I heard the music and thought it was familiar but could not place it.

[@uamsnof]

I grew up near the Saalburg: A larger fortification along the Limes-Wall at the edge of the Roman Empire. We would go for a class trip. They've rebuilt/reconstructed the walls and some of the buildings inside to serve as a restaurant with Roman dishes and a museum. They also let kids practice the bow-and-arrow and throwing the pilum. Good times. It's great to see a video on a large youtube channel bring the experience back to life and go into detail about the daily lives of the people that lived there.

[@yeah4195]

@@uamsnof I was there as a kid. It's amazing. I got to wear the gear of an Auxilia. I think that's where my passion for Roman history started.

[@ak9989]

I got my two sons into Roman and greek history. They love these videos and all the times we visited actual sites from the UK to Germany to Italy.

[@tadeuszsa8314]

Based dad. Greetings from Hispania.

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

I got mine in to university and now they both rich in money and knowledge guess its a perspective thing huh

[@jonbaxter2254]

Hadraian's Wall if you can! Some amazing forts and museums along the whole stretch

[@ShaDOWDoG667]

Having done this, almost the exact same thing in the modern military, this is a captivating topic.

[@InvictaHistory]

War... war never changes

[@talknight2]

@@InvictaHistory neither do officers haha

[@talknight2]

The Romans practically invented the idea of a large professional national military. Modern military traditions and organization ultimately go back to the Legions.

[@ColonelPeppers]

Video on Roman Empire: Intrigued. Video on Roman Empire fort: guaranteed click.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

I'd assume life in a Roman fort is pretty much like life in a forward operating base. Crappy food, sleeping in tents, waiting for something to happen, training, fiddling with your gear, writing letters home, patrolling...

[@patrickcurrie7440]

Right? I can't imagine it was anything different than what we were doing, just the Weapons and gear. No running water, no electricity (accept for the TOC of course) and relying on you and yours is timeless.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Also a little exciting, knowing the enemy is just over there

[@4rnnr_as]

Awesome! Cooncidentally, this video released THE DAY BEFORE I am visiting Limesfort Pohl on 20/10. I went to Saalberg a few weeks ago. As an American Soldier stationed in Wiesbaden and a Roman enthusiast I feel so lucky to be here.

[@DragonxFlutter]

I started watching this channel for the Warhammer stuff, and clicked this video on a whim. But honestly? This was actually really cool! I think it helps that you had the assistance of the live reenactment groups and their footage, because it was actually really fun to see them perform the same tasks that an actual soldier would have done back then!

[@InvictaHistory]

Glad you enjoyed! This format is one of my favorites and we've been blessed to work with some really talented reenactors. There's a lot more of these episodes in our "Live History" playlist

[@jonbaxter2254]

Watch the Germanic War vids if you can, incredible stuff

[@mariuslorson751]

Good video. May I add that one of the common features associated with fixed fortifications on the Roman borders was the "vicus". The vicus was a kind of village, which started to grow outside of the fortifications themselves. Often these began as fixed housing for merchants, the families of soldiers & local service providers. This was a consequence of the mixed supply system, which was used by the Roman military (sending supplies from larger fortifications to smaller ones, buying from local traders & living off the land). Sometimes a vicus got so big, that it would be recognised as an actual town. We can see an example of that in the modern German town of Rottweil - which was founded a fort by Emperor Vespasian around 69 AD. The vicus underneath the modern suburb/village of Göllsdorf in Neckar valley grew so large that it later was recognised as the "municipium arae flaviae". [It should be mentioned that Arae Flaviae by that point in time wasn't a border town any more. Though it is a neat example. I could go into other places such as Augusta Treverorum, which also is quite a tale, worthy of a video. Maybe Invicta will get to that some day.] We have further examples of Roman soldiers on the frontiers creating their own gardens to grow food, herbs and other useful plants such as hemp to turn into fibres (though linen seems to have been the preferred fibre to make clothing).

[@funmiester]

Thanks for this added info

[@schlirf]

Remember visiting a Limes in Germany back in the day. Very similar to our border camps on the former East German and Czechoslovakian borders during the 1980s.

[@uamsnof]

I grew up near the Saalburg which was part of the Limes.

[@ak9989]

Well if it isn't 11th ACR😂. I was with the 11th. 34th, 33rd, 66th, 10th cav, 3rd acr in 23 yrs😂. And yes just like our border camps😉 stay strong brother

[@schlirf]

@@ak9989 Always will! But, nothing like a good old fashioned Lariat Advance or Fragrep to get the blood flowing (...not to mention one of them that Handicap Blacks). Party on, and don't forget to file for Tinnitus an its secondaries. Scouts Out!

[@robbabcock_]

The wonderful reenactors really add a whole other dimension to these videos! Fantastic! 😎⚔🔥

[@jonbaxter2254]

I like the guy in the temple who really went 🤌🤌

[@z54964380]

Don’t you love some Witcher bgm while listening to how the Romans operated their forts? Almost imagined some poor blokes getting ambushed by some drowners

[@entilzha1283]

Or the fort commander talking with a white-haired hunter for the local Griffin.

[@rockyrowlands3652]

As a soldier myself serving over 30 year’s boredom was an issue irrespective of where posted, unless on specific duties or op’s. Therefore it was importance to have a regular routine and purpose. I suppose the same was for a Roman soldier. A bored soldier usually gets into or finds trouble or worse cause dissent. When the peace process in N Ireland came about we were taken off the streets. It was soon noticed that morale in our unit became an issue and our officer commanding spoke to the company to find out the reason. I spoke up stating that there was nothing in particular wrong, and I suggested that our purpose (patrolling the streets), had been taken away from us due to the peace. The Officer commanding agreed and instigated a programme of courses, adventure training and other initiatives. Morale soon increased again.

[@patrickb1303]

Perfect timing. I’m taking the plastic sprues from my models for AoS gonna trim them down and make Roman palisade terrain with them. So yes I am a nerd. And now I can use these as visual reference.

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

As someone who was once ordered to "sweep the puddles", I relate heavily to pebble painting.

[@pavlobirch]

I love "life in a XYZ" series - they fascinate me the most. There is nothing interesting for me to know about yet another battle number #7890, but learning how regular people lived is way more enjoyable.

[@jacktribble5253]

Falling asleep on watch hasn't been a minor infraction in any military organization I can think of.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

Correct. It puts the entire force you're guarding at risk. Executing people who fall asleep on watch is a pretty common stance throughout history.

[@jacktribble5253]

@@huntclanhunt9697 Turns out that most military commanders don't like having their soldiers killed in their sleep.

[@friedrichweitzer3071]

@@huntclanhunt9697 Remember General Patton? "There are 200 neat graves on Sicily, just because someone slept on duty. But they are German graves because we found the bastard before them."

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Video starts at 3:35

[@helmort]

Simply Amazing, this video is perfect in each detail, neither BBC can do something better!

[@paranoidandroid7718]

Love the roman information especially. Asterix and Obelix were my introduction to the Roman legions, and I've been interested ever since

[@uamsnof]

Not just to Roman legions, but to Roman life. Alea iacta est. Veni vidi vici. Ave Caesare, morituri te salutant... Old names of places like Lutetia. I want to read the comics in Latin one day but I hear the translations are actually quite challenging.

[@andezong9565]

12:48 even in the Roman Army you can’t escape Motor Pool Mondays and armory day

[@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347]

*furiously takes notes for D&D campaign

[@gorvarhadgarson5227]

You doing Ancient Rome inspired as well?

[@babysealsareyummy]

I love these, please keep making these! Seriously well made!

[@JustGrowingUp84]

I * love * seeing all of this brought to life! The reenactors are much appreciated!

[@FlatSpinMan]

This is just astonishingly good! It really gets to what has truly interested me about Rome or Greece. What was it really like, how did they live? And to see it brought to life so realistically is more than I could dream of. Incredible stuff.

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

I suspect the soldiers were subject to much of the same as current day soldiers: Rushing headlong in heartpounding haste only to stand around and wait for something to happen.

[@tacitronin4970]

Yet another fantastic doc on the Romans. Keep it up please. I watch ever episode released. Cheers!

[@Jonathan-bu7iv]

This is such a well made documentary. Love it.

[@konkyolife]

Awesome video as always. A small city with markets and a vibrant economy created more peace than a fort many times its size.

[@friedchiken3038]

it would be cool if you made a similar variant of this but of the Alamo!

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This is some of the best content you guys do. Keep it up!

[@InvictaHistory]

Glad you enjoy it! I also love these live formats and especially getting to work with awesome reenactors

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​@@InvictaHistoryah you have reenactors who are lifting and care for their body for to play soldiers?

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Saars

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Adore these life in the place videos.

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0:32 I love the music, it is pure magic 😍🤩

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@@stonefish1318 the fields of ard skellige from witcher 3

[@willis32]

@@dorivaldojunior2254 I couldn't pin down where I knew it from!

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Amazing Video, and great Reenactors, it would also be amazing to see you visit Carnuntum as part of this series!

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Y'all did a wonderful job on this video ❤❤❤❤

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[@KellyYerkes]

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[@fewminutes4499]

The Roman Limes system was truly ahead of its time. 🗺 It's amazing how they managed such vast territories with limited manpower.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Finally one video that when it speaks of "life in a Roman fort" they don't mean "in Vindolanda".

[@merovekh]

Excellent production with one minor nitpick: you in the maps (for example, at 4:25 minutes) you adequately mapped all the forts along the old Rhine (as it flowed during the Roman era) but the red zone indicating the Roman empire follows the modern day Rhine. A substantial amount of the Netherlands is not shown to be part of the Roman Empire, even though it had fortifications (and even a city, Forum Hadriani).

[@m.cl.ballista4642]

" They were competing with each other on who will harm first, better and more decisively the enemy. Our Army were simple men with virile values and seekers of the traditional virtues. That is why although we were much less most of the times, we defeated much more enemy forces" -SALLUSTIUS, De Conjuratione Catlinae. (Rome is always here.)

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[@johndane9754]

"There's always something to do." No matter the era, army life never changes

[@Lusa_Iceheart]

Awesome video, love these reenactment groups. Would be awesome if we had some of them here in the US, they'd add a bit of variety to the tons of Civil War groups lol.

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amazing documentary

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[@anthonyhargis6855]

@14:00 Idle hands are the Devil's play ground. Officers know this well.

[@Lassisvulgaris]

If it moves, salute it. If it doesn't move, remove it. If it can't be removed, paint it white.... I suppose they had skulkers too. Trying to look busy.....

[@anthonyhargis6855]

@@Lassisvulgaris Bongo! Except, in the Infantry, we had to "paint it green." LOL

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@@NorthForkFisherman Well known fact.....

[@JanB1605]

Falling asleep on watch or generally offences in related to watch duty is still a severe offence in most militaries. I know for one example that depending on the severity, you could get a punishment ranging between a hefty fine up to multiple years in prison.

[@ilirlluka6789]

This was such a pleasure.

[@casslane3932]

great video and didnt realise how much i missed that wticher music great track

[@FatBoy42069]

That age of empire add was a bit funny when you know that the opening music you used is from mid evil total war.

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Teşekkürler.

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[@MasjalUl]

It's almost an hour after the midnight then this vid spawned on my yt homepage 😆

[@spectre-8]

8:08 the gams 🫦

[@zulazhar1259]

The first background music is heavenly. I thought thats from rome 1

[@shankems2000]

The parallels with the modern military superpower are one for one nearly. Bases everywhere, soldiers bored to tears or marching around in circles waiting for... something to happen. There was a parody of Modern Warfare, instead of "running around shooting enemies" they showed a "Game Trailer" of soldiers forced by their officers to dig holes and fill them back in to keep em busy...

[@patriot30308]

Witcher 3 wild hunt music?!?!?! Love it 😎👍

[@liamm9962]

Forgot how great the Ard Skellig soundtrack was

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[@FrancesButler-i4m]

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

[@jackjohnson40]

Epic! Thank you!

[@Moodis-r8p]

The opportunity of a lifetime passed before him as he tried to decide between a cone or a cup.

[@jonathanguzman3044]

The sheer amount of similarities between the Roman army 2000 years ago and the US military today is so Erie

[@jonbaxter2254]

Fields of Ard Skellig feels like home

[@penultimateh766]

Fascinating stuff.

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My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperial, can you say the same?"

[@TheKD3333]

Stopped to check the video out. Stayed for the witcher music.

[@Panagiotis1709]

Instant like for fields of Ard Skellig.

[@thelegendaa1425]

Can you also make a video of life in the ship for roman navy

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

"never second in Rome", Steam Demo. Im building my character right now and this pops up.

[@AbhyudayaSinh]

Very informative ❤❤

[@geolefleur4908]

HOLY BANGER

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

If you think about it, life in a Roman fort was probably like life on an American military base. Yeah, some are in zones of intense hostile activity, but the vast majority were probably boring and mundane AF. Heck, even a lot of the “hot zone” ones probably still had prolonged stretches of relative mundanity

[@VengeanceMkII]

For ordinary humans, they were still extraordinary.

[@FrankLew-o3t]

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

[@RlainrLl]

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

[@Zbigniew_Nowak]

I have a question. Roman forts were initially surrounded by an earthen rampart, and then sometimes an additional wall. We see something similar in China: an earthen rampart + wall. But something like this doesn't seem to exist in medieval Europe. Why? After all, the connection of the wall with the earthen rampart provided great protection against the ram, and then even early artillery.

[@paprskomet]

It definitelly did existed in medieval europe.

[@Zbigniew_Nowak]

@@paprskomet But probably not universally? However, I heard an opinion that the introduction of cannons caused the walls of the fortresses to quickly collapse, and if they had an additional pile of earth behind them... This is a much more difficult task.

[@DeRegelaar]

Serious witcher vibes.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

So where is this particular recreated fort? I'd love to try and re-create it in Sims4.

[@InvictaHistory]

You can find it as the "Pohl Limesfort" in Germany

[@shaggycan]

17:30 this is how Rome did the vast majority of its 'conquering'; not through war but through occupation of territory, by slowly giving the locals Roman citizenship. By building communities of Veterans that blended with the local population.

[@MaxwellPeacock-v2s]

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

[@colemclean1676]

I like the skeliga Witcher theme music.

[@braincell4536]

The music reminded me of Witcher 3. Damn it

[@LunarShuriken1]

I wonder if you went back in time carrying a rifle on your back if they would suspect anything walking into the city or if they would recognize it as a weapon just by instinct

[@briancross7835]

Throughout time, equipment and methods may have changed, but Soldiers will ALWAYS be the same.

[@3_am___]

Truly the greatest Empire to ever exist (sorry Brits)

[@Techtalk2030]

They got rekt by Persians under the Sassanids and Parthian dynasties

[@Alexq79-]

the Sassanids and parthians also got wrecked. Plus i dont remember Rome being sacked/destroyed multiple times by the glorious shahansha?

[@Techtalk2030]

@@Alexq79- how many times did the Sassanids and Parthians use Roman emperors as foot stools for their horses? Lol. The Parthians and Sassanids had 4 different capitals btw, cstephone being only one.

[@quinshotton6352]

Witcher music? Hell yeah

[@ĐàoTrọngKhánhRobert]

The background soundtrack is very familiar but I can't find the name. Can anyone help?

[@EllisBetty-s8z]

He didn't understand why the bird wanted to ride the bicycle.