This is from the podcast series The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan. He currently does The Revolutions podcast www.revolutionspodcast.com/
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@weilandiv83102 жыл бұрын
My little brother passed away, and the voice of Duncan helps me through the day. Amen.
@Julianspillers2 жыл бұрын
I have always found ancient history - especially Roman history - a strong support in troubled times. God bless Duncan, and God bless you, Sir.
@F4Phantom56572 жыл бұрын
I am sorry for your loss. 😔
@BPond7 Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry to hear about your brother. I lost a younger brother seven years ago, and it’s rough. Keep on keeping on, man.
@Joseph-ue5wc Жыл бұрын
Me too.
@WQuantrill Жыл бұрын
This isn’t Caracalla is it?! I’m kidding, I’m sorry for your loss
@_BirdOfGoodOmen2 жыл бұрын
Listening to these from the Severan Dynasty onwards always gets me feeling down because you know the good days are long past. It's like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.
@peteenglish877325 күн бұрын
Reminds me of our current times, more like Sulla and Marius.
@noneinparticular2338 Жыл бұрын
Still coming back to hear this fantastic series. Many thanks , a classic.
@michaelsmyth3935 Жыл бұрын
Taking journey #4 right now as I practice.
@victormeunier9075 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelsmyth3935 #3 for me. ^^
@valmarsiglia7 жыл бұрын
Great series, I love the level of detail -- two hours for a 25-year span? That's what I'm talking about! Thanks for all of these.
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
:)
@dramlamb51965 жыл бұрын
best Roman history I've found
@zachariahalex37443 жыл бұрын
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@giovanniryder40573 жыл бұрын
@Zachariah Alex yup, I've been using InstaFlixxer for years myself =)
@mosart70253 жыл бұрын
Severus was disgruntled with his life as emperor? It's like Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting what you want."
@DTL0VER4 жыл бұрын
One of the best things on you tube. Love these series!
@bladdnun3016 Жыл бұрын
It's surprising that Elagabalus lasted even four years. He was illegitimate and unpopular and had no powerful friends.
@thebenefactor6744 Жыл бұрын
Jesus, I listened to the whole thing. I couldn't stop.
@dougiee658910 ай бұрын
this is the funniest episode best narrator of dialogue ive heard ... the roman empire begins to turn well on its way down to the septic tank
@Freedomandroad3 жыл бұрын
I listen to this after a long day of work . Helps get my mind off of work
@user-no_body7 жыл бұрын
I love this series. What a daunting task! A very late thank you for the time taken to bring history to life.
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
Thanks man :)
@gingerbill1282 жыл бұрын
@@jforozco12 it's written clear as day on every single video in the description. Not hard to see .
@jforozco122 жыл бұрын
@@gingerbill128 You're right, deleting my comment.
@tessierashpoolmg7776 Жыл бұрын
@@jforozco12 what'd he say?
@jforozco12 Жыл бұрын
@@tessierashpoolmg7776 i got a little bit overzealous and my stupid brain started accusing the uploader of not giving credit to the original creator of the podcast, which he does in the description My bad
@danielcarroll11932 жыл бұрын
Greatest most epic KZbin series ever and this was made 10 yrs ago
@rigulur2 жыл бұрын
every dude with a name that has 'plaut/plot' in his name just decides to be the funniest person ever and fulfill their namesake
@Wallyworld306 жыл бұрын
Carracalla performed a real red wedding. Damn he was cold blooded!
@lukejones71644 жыл бұрын
The Severus send their regards.
@andrewhaugen16844 жыл бұрын
What he did was stupid and foolish. It ended up getting him killed. He didn’t know how to wield power.
@Grabovsky853 жыл бұрын
There are only a few original stories in either the books or show. They drew from the vast history of our world, and then modified it.
@pharaohsmagician83293 жыл бұрын
And remember when he killed his old first wife he had a teenager too, long after exiling her and her whole family.....He had promised out loud to kill them years prior. Caracalla was an evil emperor who Proscribed more than Augustus it looks like
@Wallyworld303 жыл бұрын
@@pharaohsmagician8329 Augustus and Caracalla also both attempted to erase their rivals from the History books. Caracalla had his brother removed from history books and his name chiseled off monuments. Augustus attempted a similar eraser campaign with Mark Antony but that was a hopeless cause.
@jacobhammock3355 Жыл бұрын
"Because after all, his life depended on it.". I was just laughing.
@nickjohnson3619 Жыл бұрын
Oh man I'm glad I found this in time for lunch!
@fastfingers1103 жыл бұрын
Boo Carracalla, boooo lol
@johnmurdoch30836 жыл бұрын
Caracalla is one of the few emperors i can find 0 redeeming value in. Ill never believe nero and caligula were as bad as they say but caracallas changes were all for the worse.
@robertgiles91243 жыл бұрын
" Ill never believe..." right, because it's always
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
I think Elagabalus is worse. Emperors don't have to be nice, but they do have to be strong. Tiberius is absolutely repellent if you look up what he was doing on Capri, knowing that detail makes him at least as bad as Caligula and WAY worse than Nero.
@mikeh79173 жыл бұрын
If I could give this 900 more thumbs up...for Jupiter Optimus Magnus.....I would!!
@tombrennan83723 жыл бұрын
Anybody who quotes Dwight K Shrute is fine by me! Love this. 2nd time round and it’s surprising how much I missed first time round. Next, The French Revolution! Encore of course! Damn fine podcast and no mistake. 👍👍
@castellamedia5 жыл бұрын
Comodus was bad, but come on Carracalla sounds so much worse
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
Carracalla sounds kinda funny in a horribly trollish and petty way. Bankrupting entire towns to throw parties nobody is invited to? Seems almost jokerish.
@terrenceabate11165 жыл бұрын
Thank u for sharing
@Thesoullessone743 жыл бұрын
Ditto on the great series...best thing to put me to sleep...i've cycled thru the series at least x6...kinda left me wanting more...
@Wallyworld303 жыл бұрын
I think you will love my playlist I created if you enjoy Mike Dunkin. Check out my playlist called “Caesar War commentaries” is probably the best. The Caesar playlist also has 2 incredible audio books narrated by same voice actor. Most the playlist is Caesar’s Gaul war commentaries which are amazing! Sounds like Julius Caesar is telling you his story personally. The first book is Alexander the Great Anabasis by Arrian- 12 hour audiobook of audio bliss I’ve gone to sleep to dozens of times. The second book: Harold Lamb - Hannibal - One man against Rome 11 hour running time. For copyright reasons Actual audiobook starts at 6:52:00 to end of video and then start at 0:01 to pick up where it left off.
@paulrosa61733 жыл бұрын
I found something interesting today while looking at Google earth. I recall somewhere reading that there was a massive earthquake in Rome during the 800s. I tried to google this a few years ago and couldn't find any mention of one that far back. Maybe it was in Gibbon but there is no index to make finding small facts easy. If you look at the photo of Caracalla's baths - most of the eight massive piers that supported the dome of the caldarium are gone. Only two are left standing and I wondered if they were torn down to use the rubble for infill of walls elsewhere. St Peter's piers are gigantic and are built like traditional roman construction except that they don't use the roman brick methods exactly. But they are brick or stone walls (later covered in marble or scagliola (stucco made to resemble marble), or cut stone for the finished exterior and the cavities between the inner and outer walls are filled with rubble masonry - or something like roman style concrete. Like roman concrete, the walls build a formwork that stays in place. All sorts of Palazzi and Churches are built this way because brick and stone is more expensive than rubble and mortar. Even later Gothic Cathedrals are built this way. The more expensive material is used to contain a rubble filler. But I don't think the bath's piers were torn down. They were knocked down by that massive quake sometime is the 800s.. If you look at the Coliseum just north of the bath complex, the low side that is well documented to have fallen in that quake, the collapse is on the same side, about south west, as the side of the baths that lost the piers. The ground probably lurched that way. One other thing. On Kanopy there is a good lecture series on ancient technology by an engineer who teaches at West point. One lecture discusses the Baths of Caracalla. I did some more research and found mention that there were artists sketches from about the time that Rome was being rebuilt during the Renaissance and after the Popes had returned from Avignon, when the baths were far more intact than now. The artist, Marten Van Heemskerck, drew the piers for the dome of St. Peters while it was still under construction, during the mid 1500s, and drew a few pictures of the ruins of the baths but they were already in an advanced state of ruin and appear to have been completely stripped of their decorations and columns and wall sheathing even by then. So nobody ever had a chance to really see what had been there. The Middle ages just wasn't interested. It surprised me because it means during the Middle ages, when Rome was really a very small city of less than 30,000, that had shrunk to about 3000 while the Papacy was in France, all the good material either went to Church construction and most of the marble, as I understand it, was burned to make lime for mortar. If anyone sees this comment- and knows how to find sketches from the early renaissance, I'd love to find were.
@gleeart2 жыл бұрын
Can't help but there's a good vid of the baths when built: in computer sim, on YT, & it does the decor well.
@natesell26154 жыл бұрын
i laughed out loud at carracalla's wedding
@benjaminvidstein60294 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@Nonamearisto3 жыл бұрын
Dovahatty does it very well.
@alexandredufresne74643 жыл бұрын
@@Nonamearisto Dovahatty is a genius lol, so good
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
Carracalla lived life like somebody overdoing an evil Fallout playthrough.
@somaliano99kingkonghimself753 жыл бұрын
Love it historey that gows back 3000 years just fantastic. All credit to the man. Great highly detailed film my buddy love it
It seems that the Roman empire took almost as much as it gave, revenue wise. Reminds me of the fall of all the European colonies after WW1 part two in 1945. If they were a net benefit and the European powers were bankrupt why then wouldn't they continue exploiting their assets? Isn't it the truth that they were never net assets, not without the mass subsidies paid for by the State and their tax slave citizens.
@jamestcatcato71326 жыл бұрын
If I have not misunderstood your post, it takes money to exploit resources, bankruptcy precludes the ability to make the initial investment.
@tommyodonovan38836 жыл бұрын
James T Cat Cato But some of these "colonies" had been established for hundreds of yrs. Why would the fact that they were bankrupt in 1945 have anything to do with it.
@gingerbill1282 жыл бұрын
some colonies generated vast wealth , vast vast wealth. They where a massive net benefit.
@ClassicusHomo4 жыл бұрын
Exzellent.
@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg5 жыл бұрын
40:39 best part
@benjaminvidstein60294 жыл бұрын
Getachiuc
@weilandiv83102 жыл бұрын
Rome still sounds great to me. Let's go!!
@Moribus_Artibus4 жыл бұрын
low key, Dwight would be a formidable emperor
@stevekon117 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Mike Duncan is still conducting the Roman history tours ?
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
No, I think he's moved on to other things by now, it was several years ago now.
@sekeriyasharif65933 жыл бұрын
He’s doing revolution podcast
@icemule5 жыл бұрын
imp rer, great series.
@OrchestrationOnline5 жыл бұрын
You can't list Elagabalus's crimes unless you quote them in elegiacs - at least, if you want to be a proper Modern Major General.
@kajbubu5 жыл бұрын
Roman history tour 2011 :( take me back
@benjaminvidstein60294 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@ilnigromante666 Жыл бұрын
So Severus Alexander was a kind of roman Seymour Skinner.
@alessandrogini5283 Жыл бұрын
Alexander severus Is underrated
@ilnigromante666 Жыл бұрын
@@alessandrogini5283 Simpsons references apart, he was a consciencious prince with an elevated notion of his office. But his overly controling mother and his own incapability of standing up to her would spell doom for both. Also he reigned just as the Empire was beginning to go through such momentous challenges.
@alessandrogini5283 Жыл бұрын
@@ilnigromante666 the problem was the he needs better military advisors that tell him that he Need to make preventive campaign against weak enemy in Europe to win the respect of the army,as well improve the strenght of the army with ausiliarry with heavy and light cavalry as Sarmatians,alans and goths,so he could had avoided mutiny...this means that the campaign against the sassanids started earlyer,in 232 September, and not in the spring of 233.. this had allowed the central army to not be stopped by illness,heat and dissentery,as well to weakned the enemy army ( the bows of sassanids performance weakned in the Rain and humide season)..all this could had make Alexander severus to reimpose the arsacid dinasty.. Alexander severus army reached hatra,but the army was inable to fight due dissentery and heat... In Summer season and mesopotamia,even the armyes of trajan and septimius severus suffered casualties due to heat and lack of fresh water
@tommyodonovan38833 жыл бұрын
Better to be Strong and Wrong than Weak and Wise.
@michaelmcgee20262 жыл бұрын
I don't know about this one
@TK-js7yzАй бұрын
I really wish to see something like this done for the Han Empire, parallel lives of Romans and Chinese so to speak. Yes, I am inspired by Plutarch 😅
@adamm209124 күн бұрын
That would be awesome
@YesSabbath53 жыл бұрын
I am loving this series but I wish there was the closed caption option
@incompetentobjectivist38502 жыл бұрын
Some get closed captioning. No punctuation, horrible misspellings, some hilarious!
@fadelaelzalet86743 жыл бұрын
He was born in leptic magna Libya 🇱🇾 and became most strongest emperor who controlled all Roman Empire and he occupied a lot of countries including 🇬🇧 Uk ,he died in York city in 🇬🇧
@enriquelescure92024 жыл бұрын
Why do I see the actor who portrayed the character "Reggie" in the KZbin original "Wayne" as Caracalla?
@honjon666 Жыл бұрын
Pretorean Prefect Inanimate Carbon Rod soon found itself vying for the throne of the empire
@palacehaunter5442 Жыл бұрын
What about the Alemanni invasion and annihilation of Theodosius the first and the Western army in 271 AD ?
@Timmersan Жыл бұрын
If he had been made Emperor, Roddus Inanimatius Carbonicus would have been the best of the bunch in this episode. ✋Hail Caesar!
@JamesR19863 жыл бұрын
1:29 Hard to put a lesh on a dog after you put a crown on his head.
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
Next week, they'll go with...THAT
@BrandonWilliams-wf6hg5 жыл бұрын
1:23:40 bookmark
@dyls2702 Жыл бұрын
A interesting piece of trivia is that a African Roman emperor built the wall that delineates the city of London.
@LTrotsky21stCentury Жыл бұрын
Of course, Duncan gets the significance of Caracalla's citizenship grant completely wrong. Arguably, the historical influence of Rome on Europe would have been much, much less if this grant hadn't happened. It made most of Europe into "Romans" -- it made Europe a cultural entity. The Roman tradition is such because of this grant. All Duncan can manage is 'the greatest distinction in history was blown apart.' Ironically, Duncan would not even have done a Roman history podcast had it not been for this act of Caracalla.
@jamiecullum556710 ай бұрын
I think your exaggeration is a bit extreme, people from the provinces had been rising to the senate and even emperor for literally centuries before the grant of universal citizenship.
@LTrotsky21stCentury10 ай бұрын
@@jamiecullum5567 It's not an exaggeration if it is true. The mass grant of citizenship involved a grant citizenship for about 30 million people overnight. There's no record of anything even close to this in history. And this isn't just my opinion, it's the opinion of academics as well. The focus on "Senators" and "Emperors" or other notables who constituted only a miniscule portion of the population of the Empire, will not permit you to see the full story and impact of Rome on history.
@jamiecullum556710 ай бұрын
@@LTrotsky21stCentury im not arguing it isnt an important event, just that its not the foundation of western civilisation. To the romans all it meant was that they had to pay taxes now. Before the grant they were subjects not official citizens. There was no real voting or democracy by that point so their "citizenship" was barely different to being a subject as they had been for centuries
@LTrotsky21stCentury10 ай бұрын
@@jamiecullum5567 "all it meant was that they had to pay taxes now" - what an incredibly narrow and contextless view. Typical for people who think Duncan is an insightful historian. The idea of Roman Citizenship was an incredibly powerful cultural and social force. Entire wars were fought over this mere idea. Free people all over the littoral sought affiliation with Rome and attempted to obtain Roman citizenship. It was a cultural idea even the illiterate, downcast and ignorant were familiar with. A sense of this cultural impact can even be seen in some of the writings of Paul in the Bible. Long after Roman citizenship ceased to have any meaningful content politically, it continued to have deep cultural identity meaning for centuries. My argument is that Western cultural identity may have had completely different meaning if Caracalla's grant had never happened; and may not have taken hold at all. If you want to posit a thesis that it was "just about taxes" and ignore all of the other things, that's your right. Caracalla of course wasn't thinking about any of the things were talking about - he was a brute. But what his motivations were are almost completely irrelevant to this discussion.
@jamiecullum556710 ай бұрын
@@LTrotsky21stCentury yes i know what your argument is and as i said i think its an exaggeration. Do you really think some random simple tribesmen or peasant working on a small farm cared about being a roman citizen. Maybe the elite did for the benefits and status it might give them. But to say its the basis of western civilisation is an exaggeration
@justindearmond12 жыл бұрын
Elagabalas was the last emperor to posses the Holy Grail....the ophoplos stone, the benben stone, they are all the same artifact. In fact you can see it on coins from Elagabalas' reign. Its being carried on a chariot with its trademark "netting" on it. The holy grail was, in fact, a stone, or perhaps 2 stones (several?) from Heaven....read: meteorite....and it was highly magnetic. Its where the legends of the Sword in the Stone come from. It would grab the sword from the hand and to the ancient people that would seem like magic...or the power of the Gods.
@R.D.B2942 Жыл бұрын
gonna need a source on that one bud
@jamiecullum556710 ай бұрын
Sounds like bullshit to me
@dyls2702 Жыл бұрын
Is this the emperor that built the wall that still delineates the city of London.
@Inca137 жыл бұрын
will u do one on the history of ancient greece??
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
I would if I could find one I liked. I plan on doing one on Byzantium after i'm finished with Mike's History of Rome. There are short series' on Alexander and the Hannibal, but I don't know of anyone currently doing a Greek History podcast.
@jacobsoltero28726 жыл бұрын
+- Timaeus - Bruh Greeks mythology could be podcasted for days that would be interesting also how is ties into Roman mythology. But i assume you like sticking to factual history which im all for. I'll suggest mabey the Mycenaean Kingdom and the Trojan wars. Does eventually tie into to Rome's founding according to the Romans themselves idk how true though. Trojan Wars! Or Peloponnesian Wars! Or the Greco-Persian Wars! Or an entirw pod cast on the Achaemenid Dynasty the mightiest of ancient empires! Im bias towards the Achaemenid's empire in more ways than I should be TBH (2 B Honest) We all got are favorite civs of history. Whats yours? jk
@biancachristie2 жыл бұрын
I recently read that Caracalla actually got his nickname because he gave those distinctive cloaks to his soldiers, which would kinda make sense with the whole “enrich the soldiers” thing (which in no way means he didn’t wear one himself too). Btw I also think it might mean or be a corruption of “snail” in Latin, so I imagine the cloaks curled somehow around the wearer, or at least protected them, similar to the shape of a snail’s shell.
@808_rafa4 жыл бұрын
Caracalla really fucked up the opportunity of possibly uniting Rome and Parthia 🤦🏽♂️ i swear this guy is worse than Commodus.
@Marcus1Arelius35 жыл бұрын
The middle of the Empire’s 503 year lifespan was around 211 C.E... Coincidence that everything went downhill from there? I think not?
@histguy1015 жыл бұрын
If you are counting from 27bc to 476ad, then the halfway point would be the year 224, but the empire didn't begin with an emperor.
@aasifazimabadi786 Жыл бұрын
I don't remember learning about Elagabalus (r. 218-22) when I was at college in Stony Brook; it's a shame they skipped over his incredibly fascinating story. We probably jumped from Commodus to Diocletian after discussing a general overview of the Crisis of the Third Century when there were "many emperors, but we don't have time to discuss them all" as I recall Professor Lipton saying in the fall of 2005. I wonder if things have changed. Maybe nowadays, universities overemphasize him for their social justice (i.e. cultural Marxist) agenda.
@cringlator11 ай бұрын
Check your pipes for lead
@frankvandorp205910 ай бұрын
@@cringlator Check your skull for brain cells, but don't hold out too much hope.
@808_rafa4 жыл бұрын
2:07:00
@hamishmitchell8842 жыл бұрын
Haha
@808_rafa2 жыл бұрын
@@hamishmitchell884 I don’t remember why I posted that so now you’re in some inside joke with me that only you know about
@hamishmitchell8842 жыл бұрын
@@808_rafa Ah, well. I clicked on it, and it took me right too the end of the video. So I just assumed that you were being cheeky 😆
@kanyekubrick53914 жыл бұрын
Man idk who’s worse- Comodus or Caracalla
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
Elagabalus.
@kanyekubrick5391 Жыл бұрын
@@blindthrall in terms of degeneracy? Yeah, he was the original lgbtq
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
@@kanyekubrick5391 That'd be Hadrian, who was awesome. Egadabugs (whatever) was not only a degenerate, but tried to upend their most sacred beliefs. If he'd had tried that a century earlier he would have been executed on the spot.
@fadelaelzalet86743 жыл бұрын
Septimus Severus is Libya 🇱🇾 from Libya Berber
@auri0n3 ай бұрын
the severans have quickly become my least favorite imperial family 😭
@hibernicus56852 жыл бұрын
50000 pretorians?
@nikosalexoudis88747 жыл бұрын
where can I find the originals?
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
The link is in the description, but the whole history is made up of 180 episodes. That is why I wanted to compile them here to make it easier for people. I plan to put them all together into 37 episodes of which we are on the 21st. Thx for watching :)
@ianstance18237 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these! Mike's podcast is awesome and you've made listening really easy and pleasant. Keep them coming!
@pharaohsmagician83293 жыл бұрын
@@-timaeus-9781 You are a hero. I know you did it so long ago, in another Era....but it was a very lucky day for me when I found your project. Jove! Bless him!
@brandonstanley91257 жыл бұрын
Fuck yea.
@-timaeus-97817 жыл бұрын
:)
@mathiascorvin99895 жыл бұрын
Excellent great work. What I do not understand are the dislikes.
@robertgiles91244 жыл бұрын
The people who want fake history films where it's all over in a few hours with movie stars and hot babes.
@neildahlgaard-sigsworth38195 жыл бұрын
Oh dear, our presenter doesn't understand the word prove in the saying "the exception that proves the rule" means test and not the usual meaning of prove. Apart from that it's a very informative series.
@n1kobefan4 жыл бұрын
Shut up.
@wazzy48772 жыл бұрын
Boo to Caracalla! Booo!!
@kushiteduray97914 жыл бұрын
This documentary proves that Caracalla was actually a good man because it clarifies to me that Geta coincided with Septimus's prefect and that Geta probably knew that the prefect and his daughter conspired to kill Caracalla. Caracalla is also very handsome with a modern day, photogenic face. Under Marcus Auralius, Septimus and Caracalla, didn't you notice it was rome's HAPPY HOUR? No barbarian tribe wouldn't dare invade at the time of their rule. So for me and anyone else who has an open third eye, Caracalla is an admired HERO!!
@craigmason9893 Жыл бұрын
What is this caracalla or what
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
He was a better emperor than Elagabagus, Tiberius, and maybe Caligula.
@colmhain3 жыл бұрын
Egg. Quit. Day. Equite
@BPond73 жыл бұрын
Eekwite. 😢
@kevinharty1759 Жыл бұрын
Hail Ceasars
@richardkenny75553 жыл бұрын
Games of Thrones should sued for plagiarism
@paulrosa61733 жыл бұрын
Every mention of how crazy men like Caracalla or Ellagabalus were makes me wonder that they couldn't have been entirely looney. Were they trying to stimulate the economy somehow? Caracalla's desire for sea food far inland may be something like the later church's dictate that there should be meatless Fridays or that pilgrimages should be made by the faithful to saints tomb's? Or why Mohammad, a merchant, should require pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina? Requiring an inland city to provide fresh seafood means someone there has to create a supply chain to the coasts, something the locals may not have been inclined to do without his direct command.. After the emperor left, the supply chain may have survived him? The later church's meatless Fridays were a way to stimulate a demand for fish and a spur to coastal fishing communities. Pilgrimages were a way to get people to pick up and get around more. I even read somewhere that protestant England continued with more meatless days to encourage the coastal fisheries and keep a merchant and fishing fleet alive. With so many military actions and civil wars. that acted like a sponge on local resources, the capital to float long distance trade may have been drying up, or had become very conservative and kept in dead or even buried piles of wealth that few dared to risk. Maybe those with any capital just put it into more land and inflated it, the way people today keep plowing it into the stock market in spite of the fact that the prices are far higher than the fundamentals really justify. That would only have aggravated the social displacement of the less well off. The later Dark Ages is notorious for the collapse of long distance trade. It isn't until after the doomsday year of 1000 had passed that economic life in Europe seems to have started to revive. Cathedral building really began when trade had been well revived and those gothic piles are both a cause and sign of renewed economic vitality. Money is blood flow and after the collapse of the empire, the flow was severely restricted and even dead in many places. Before the complete collapse it could have been slowing down considerably. Maybe Caracalla and Ella, are both a sign or how poorly the economy of the empire was doing? They intuit the need for stimulus spending when there are no real economic theories to justify that instinct. For all the scale and comparative sophistication of the imperial system, the population isn't much more sophisticated than the people they are surrounded by in the far less tamed world of the "barbarians". It will take about 1500 years before you see economic theorists like Adam Smith. Gibbon never has anything good to say about the senate after Augustus, so anything they like or dislike is always suspicious. The rivalry between brothers is nothing new to history. One or the other had to take a back seat. Isn't that why Ann of Austria raised Louis XIV's brother Phillippe as a girl? And male hormones are also why the imperial court was frequently manned by eunuchs. Eunuch's don't tend to think with their equipment. A lot of Chinese emperors would have told you that. We all live in our "own private animal".
@yaboyed57792 жыл бұрын
I actually like this
@craigmason9893 Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@blindthrall Жыл бұрын
Nah, Carracalla lived for lulz. Evil, nihilistic lulz.
@luciusgarvous3 жыл бұрын
Caracalla might actually be the worst leader of all time of all emperors
@rickvassell83493 жыл бұрын
Anteny no th. lol
@tehutibrim5945 жыл бұрын
This is the Africanus era of emperors of Rome, one of them
@dramlamb51964 жыл бұрын
Well I guess at least some of us are paying attention haha
@tehutibrim5944 жыл бұрын
@@heofonfyr6000 own history huh komin from kulture vultures that's a real hoot!!! I didnt say it btw whoever wrote the history said it vulture
@tehutibrim5944 жыл бұрын
@@dramlamb5196 yea ma'am
@heofonfyr60004 жыл бұрын
@@tehutibrim594 @@tehutibrim594 culture vultures???? you can take off your clothes, stop reading, stop speaking my language, give up law, chemistry, industry, engineering, medicine, iron, steel, concrete, animal husbandry, transport, the wheel, running water, electricity, theosophy, music, painting, sculpture, brickwork, photographs, recorded video and sound, knowing ANYTHING that didn't happen right in front of your eyes, the fact that 75% of you no longer die in early childhood, dong ANY job other than subsistence farming and pretty much anything that isn't stone age or further back before you call anyone a vulture... literally trying to hijack other peoples' history and you call people 'culture vultures'... fuckin' idiot.
@tehutibrim5944 жыл бұрын
@@heofonfyr6000 thx 4 sharing, actually imbecile it's not ur language English is made up of over 350 languages so its everyone's, being mathematics, the spoken word itself, the teaching of how to make fire etc are the building blokks of ALL I feel komfortable saying kulture vulture, I use ( k's) blood 4 obvious reasons & u being disrespectful is also obvious, I'm in South Central, Kali ain't hard to find tough guy
@elcativoful5 жыл бұрын
Caledonian is not a race..
@mosart70253 жыл бұрын
A place? Scotland?
@incompetentobjectivist38502 жыл бұрын
As much a race as 'Scottish'. Not as much as 'Scots'.
@jasonmccallop6605 Жыл бұрын
Could have mentioned they were African :) but you know...western history!
@nicolasclermont893 Жыл бұрын
They were roman african. They were white people.
@mikligardur9104 Жыл бұрын
They were Mediterranean as Septimius had Punic and Roman Italian ancestry.
@craigmason9893 Жыл бұрын
Commie
@jamiecullum556710 ай бұрын
Pretty sure he did
@jt76384 жыл бұрын
Donald Trump is a strange blend of Nero and Caracalla.
@Woman_in_the_Wilderness4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you sound a little on the not so smart side.
@robertgiles91244 жыл бұрын
@@Woman_in_the_Wilderness Agree.
@jt76383 жыл бұрын
@@Woman_in_the_Wilderness I can back my points. But try reading more.
@jt76383 жыл бұрын
@@Woman_in_the_Wilderness not a literate counterpoint at all.
@robertgiles91243 жыл бұрын
@@jt7638 ....and after several months....we have yet to her all those "points". FAKE NEWS
@dramlamb51965 жыл бұрын
I'm glad Mike at least acknowledges that Elagabalus was a probably a trans woman, because she definitely was a trans woman. I still don't see how she should make the short list of bad emperors. All she did was try to live her best life. Sure, she offended the misogynist and religious sensibilities of the Roman aristocracy. Sure, that was clearly not a great idea. But it's not like she was purging half the senate or committing genocide. She wanted to get a sex change, worshipped the wrong gods, and wore the wrong clothes. What a monster.
@ioncomet5 жыл бұрын
dramlamb He was a sexual deviant and a spoiled brat, the Romans had seen that in the past and weren’t willing to risk it especially if this brat was going against traditional Roman values and dismissing traditional Roman paganism with his own beliefs such as replacing Jupiter with his Sun God
@dramlamb51964 жыл бұрын
Yea she should have used more tact. But Aurelian and Constantine did, in effect, the exact same thing and they are seen as two of the best emperors of all time. They were also a lot smarter about it of course. The point is that misogyny often clouds how we view history. And it's not just the misogyny of the ancient historian, but also our own. Elegabalus was a woman. The only reason that we don't come out and say it is because of our own tranmisogyist biases. The further point is that she probably isn't as terrible as everyone says, considering her gender expressions are often pointed to as her most heinous crimes. It's laughable. Alexander's unwillingness to defend the empire was probably, objectively a lot more dangerous.
@denizmetint.4624 жыл бұрын
@@dramlamb5196 Compared to Caligula, Nero, Commodus and especially Caracalla, I think Elagabal was pretty tame. We don't know if any of the wild acts attributed to Ela are actually true or just overly exaggerated to make her look bad which now seems very likely. I also think the main reason Ela was hated, was the fact that she placed her foreign "barbarian" God, no one had ever heard before, over Iupiter. And generally of course, if an emperor is no longer backed by the corrupt praetorians - the ultimate kingmakers, he is done for.
@persuitoftruth6604 жыл бұрын
Elgabalus was NOT transgender. He was a religious prophet who spoke the truth and saw himself above gender, but still implicitly male. Most of what is said of Elgabalus's sexuality was written by Cassius Dio for Alexander as a post hoc justification for the removal of Elgabalus
@persuitoftruth6604 жыл бұрын
@@denizmetint.462 Sol Invictus/Elgabaal was hardly a foreign or barbarian god