I think the slow grind of Roman expansion was the reason it was relatively stable, alongside its political organisation
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
Agree.
@naerbo193 жыл бұрын
If you compare the slow grind of Rome which wasn't fractured fast, you have Alexander the Great's Empire where it splits fast, mostly I hink due to being organized around an individual rather than a proper political system. One of Alexander's generals become the first pharaoh of the Ptolemy of Egypt I think around 305 BC, and it takes until around 30 BC where Cleopatra comes to power for the first ruler of Egypt after Alexander's conquest to speak the native language of Egypt at the time.
@caferustwat3 жыл бұрын
There is a reason why Roman principles are still used in modern politics and judicial systems.
@seans49613 жыл бұрын
@@naerbo19 Ptolemy became a Pharaoh of egypt but the first pharaoh was in 3150 BC
@naerbo193 жыл бұрын
@@seans4961 Yeah. I really should have specified that he was the first pharaoh oh the Ptolemy line instead. Changing it now.
@junas41663 жыл бұрын
I think it's amazing that you look at differnet things in history, not just focusing on wars or large empires, but things as Jack the Ripper and hopefully D.B Cooper soon ;)
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
It’s coming. :)
@GalacticDragon053 жыл бұрын
@@VloggingThroughHistory thank you, i really want to see what you think of the D.B Cooper case which i also requested in the final Jack the Ripper video
@MarkSashegyi3 жыл бұрын
“What if Vlogging Through History Reactions Never Existed?” “It would a less educated world, tethering on the brink of another Dark Age. Without WiFi.” Seriously awesome and honest insights! I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and have been going back and watching your older videos, and saw your subscribers grow from 50k to 200k+ in just a couple of months. Congrats! Look forward to all future uploads.
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mark and welcome!
@skdubey6543 жыл бұрын
@@VloggingThroughHistory would you please react to extra history's new series on india please
@borichaa31283 жыл бұрын
I love the Hardcore History shout. It's such an amazing show!
@letsgotothemax3 жыл бұрын
Glad I discovered your channel, learning more here than in my college classes 😂
@DingleDobber3 жыл бұрын
The max and ruby pfp is... Different
@agatalynch35343 жыл бұрын
Wow
@andrewhickey12303 жыл бұрын
Welcome. You will love it here
@reintaler63553 жыл бұрын
Why does almost every single video have comments like this? Does college really suck that bad?
@letsgotothemax3 жыл бұрын
@@reintaler6355 college doesn’t suck, it’s just I can learn about multiple points in history here, whereas my college class is only focused on one point
@shayliara86203 жыл бұрын
Found your videos since the WWI series. Absolutely loving your channel. Pretty much inspired me to dive back into history. Keep it up! 👌
@How234973 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@luciendolo66043 жыл бұрын
Something that's worth mentioning since it came up a few times. Part of the reasons the Gauls really hated the idea of unifying and submitting to kings was because of the Arverni. They were a powerful Gaulish tribe that had begun carving out a kingdom of their own, conquering a quarter to a third of Gaul before a war with Rome over control of Marseille led to their decline. This is the same tribe that Vercingetorix came from, and according to the Caesar (so take it with a grain of salt) Vercingetorix's father was the old chief of the Arverni who was killed for trying to unite the Gauls. Gaul left to itself might have unified a lot earlier under the Arverni if Rome hadn't interfered at Marseille. They also seemed to have had a good line up for future kings with Vercingetorix and his father.
@groyf6kl3 жыл бұрын
Nice Ipswish Town shirt, love that club crest!
@nate22513 жыл бұрын
I was about to say the same thing when I saw the crest
@uzzle54413 жыл бұрын
Nice shirt! Was at the game today!
@tryt31703 жыл бұрын
i think that opinion of carthaginians being incompetent is unjust, while they weren't as military skilled as romans both their naval superiority and without rome their dominance in western mediterranean would lead their expansion east where after death of alexander greeks were still disunited and cathage could have competed with diadochi over influence in the region using much more stable government and lack of opposition in the west to their advantage, after all carthaginians were expanding their influence before punic wars, so without them they wouldn't have reason to stop
@Yora213 жыл бұрын
The Carthaginians were so strong at sea that the Romans had to redefine naval combat from traditional ramming attacks to boarding actions.
@LordWasHere3 жыл бұрын
Great channel, keep going this is superb
@gamerwithopinions20363 жыл бұрын
13:48 the reason Rome was able to win against Carthage is that the Carthaginians were using a special method of ship building all the pieces of the ship were marked with an assembling number think of it as the Ikea of ship building. By a stroke of luck Rome capture one intact was able to copy it easy as all the plan was written on ship. That gave Rome a navy that could rival Carthage. Early Roman history is so deep and complex, documents are often bias so its really hard to get a real picture. We are learning a lot from archeology of tribes the cultural and commercial links were far more extensive and early than what history painted as a picture.
@PaulGaither3 жыл бұрын
7:50 So, what you are saying is that Rome wasn't built in a day.
@coochieman28373 жыл бұрын
Underated comment
@TheOneOrMore3 жыл бұрын
I've really been enjoying your reactions and how much you can contribute to these videos. Your style of reactions really should be the norm across KZbin. For another reactions, I'd like to suggest the video "The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Germany".
@johnwhittaker3113 жыл бұрын
We’ve literally just finished covering Ancient Rome in History at University. This video could not be better timed
@comusrules12443 жыл бұрын
Ask to have it presented in class! Give your teacher a challenge! 😉
@martinsjoquist3 жыл бұрын
Please do the other episodes, I love all these reaction videos, keep up the fantastic work!
@thephenome14623 жыл бұрын
Ahh, gotta love me some speculation! This is a really difficult one to even vaguely figure out, there are a few thoughts though: 1) Without a rival empire to compete against, Carthage could potentially expand north along the coasts of Iberia and Gaul, all the way up to Britannia and Hibernia. Since these guys are traders, not conquerors, chances are they make peaceful contact with the local Celtic people, and as such, there would be at least one Celtic state, that would appear. How successful or expansive it would be, or where it might appear - that's anyone's guess. 2) If we assume that events happen the same way in the east, in the 4th/5th centuries, I reckon the Germanic tribes actually have a tougher time moving into Gaul and the Apennine peninsula, since only the coasts would be populated by "civilized" people, hence the infrastructure would be way less developed. As a result, they might not have presented nearly as much of a threat to Carthage, the dominant empire of the time, or even a hypothetical Celtic state, as they did to the Romans, who were overstretched and in a decline at the time. 3) If Carthage does survive the Barbarian invasion period intact, and maintains it's grip on the Mediterranean, the next, and frankly - last big question mark in my mind would be about the Arabian expansion. The Arabs built their empire in a few decades, defeating the Byzantines and Sassanids through knowing the empires' tactics and because the empires were weakened. However, if Carthage didn't expand east across North Africa, and never came into contact with the Arabs, we could assume that the light cavalry tactics of the Carthaginians would be a match for the mobile Arab units (unlike the heavy infantry and cavalry armies of the Eastern empires), halting their progress westwards. Thus, it's plausible to think that Carthage could survive into what we know now as the late Middle Ages, and here's a really out there thought - they could be the first people from Western Europe, who reach the Americas. Of course, it's all just wild speculation, but that's just what I think. Can't wait for the next part, got some thoughts on the East as well!
@Jester75023 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video appreciate it
@Jester75023 жыл бұрын
I mean I appreciate it
@GamingBuddies993 жыл бұрын
definitely my favourite KZbinr of the moment👍🏼
@dymaxion39883 жыл бұрын
What if the roman empire fell early? Like in the 1st-2nd century or so, before they’ve become really established, before christianity becomes official, etc.
@RadioactiveKetchup3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see someone talk about this omg
@aomais_3 жыл бұрын
They really could’ve easily fell in the early-mid third century too with the crisis
@Nebulasecura3 жыл бұрын
Talk about bad karma for their jesus treatment
@debragee42693 жыл бұрын
I am really enjoying your videos Cuz! Nicely done!
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
Hey! Glad you found your way here. Hope you're doing well.
@JeezyF3 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, so glad you mentioned Dan Carlin's "Celtic Holocaust". Mad Respect.
@JeezyF3 жыл бұрын
I think his WW1 series is absolutely perfect. I'm sure you've heard and thoroughly enjoyed that epoch.
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
That's next on my list now that I've completed Celtic Holocaust and Supernova in the East.
@CrisSelene Жыл бұрын
Dan Carlin's podcast is too good to describe in mere words. I listened to the Celtic Holocaust episode twice, and it's a hefty episode
@Tjorpas3 жыл бұрын
love your videos dude, keep em coming! i'd love to see the next episodes
@vanillacakez25863 жыл бұрын
It's just badass that there was a guy with the name Vercingetorix
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
Will be an interesting part 2
@HistoricallyProven3 жыл бұрын
Man got his Ipswich town shirt on, amazing!
@ct7567CaptRex3 жыл бұрын
I dont know if it's said in the video, but the entire language landscape would radically change. Most of middle and western europes languages are heavily influenced by latin. French, romanian, spanish, italian ofc, but also english, german to an extend and many many more. And about spanish, look how south and middle america would look like.... Like a lot would change. Only a few european languages of today would stay uneffected.
@MWMTEE3 жыл бұрын
Said that at start of video
@igloo.5503 жыл бұрын
On the topic of etomology, Finland is unique and fascinating.
@theofficialy1b3 жыл бұрын
Nice Ipswich shirt 😄
@LouisMcK3 жыл бұрын
hey, love the channel! I think it would be super cool if you react to 'Potential Wars of the 2020s and 30s' by whatifalthist, the type of videos this channel does would fit in really nicely with what your channel does and I think for this video in particular you would have lots of good insights.
@skronkolius3 жыл бұрын
Love the Ipswich jersey
@AtlasAccord3 жыл бұрын
I think a good comparison you could've used at 05:25 would be the Iroquois Confederacy.
@tyronemannhart50963 жыл бұрын
This Chanel actually makes me want to wake up in the morning
@ConkerVonZap3 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir!
@numnuts-nx6nu3 жыл бұрын
can you do a video on anglo-saxons? or maybe something to do with humans who used axes and knifes to fight, the sort of 300-700 period?
@A_Name_3 жыл бұрын
Dan Carlin is the man. Everything of his I have listened to is great (history atlest I haven't listened to his other stuff)
@Rayrandhy3 жыл бұрын
you should react to Great Schism by kings and generals, i like to hear your thoughts about it. Love your videos and educational reactions, may your channel keep growing.
@DominicanStud1013 жыл бұрын
Do the other episode!
@YouTubePremium-ce4qu2 жыл бұрын
May I ask where why you have the Ipswich Town shirt? They're my local team and I never expected to see them on any channel I watch nvm yours! Haha
@ghost67713 жыл бұрын
I really much enjoy all of your videos about history, but these with a secret or unsolved mystery, like "The Lost Colony of Roanoke" are my favorit. So I wanted to ask if you could, if possible, look up for more of this kind.
@fernandogomez80303 жыл бұрын
If the Roman Empire had never existed, this Monday I wouldn't have my history exam, which I think is a huge plus.
@Longshanks16903 жыл бұрын
I think that after his Woodrow Wilson video, this is the best content AHH has ever put out, because it is one of the most important and history shattering things that could have happened had Rome never existed from culture to language to religion to “Europe” as a concept being radically different in a world where Rome was but a dream. I don’t agree with all of his conclusions or arguments, but the difficulty of trying to guess what the world would look like by grasping at the fog of history when other possibilities are staring at us like cut glass is difficult enough so I don’t begrudge him too much for that.
@nathanielweber7843 Жыл бұрын
I recognize how late I am to this, but my answer for pt1 to your question about eastern influence. (May post changes on final video) I don’t think eastern expansion is a likely thing going into a non-Roman Europe, for a few reasons. The biggest being that a lot of eastern Mediterranean powers contact with Europe came from rome. Persia never really envisioned itself moving further than Greece, it’s size was already about what it could sustain and it’s leaders knew this. They fought the Greeks and later the Roman’s because they were territorial neighbors, where flipping provinces for a few decades of tribute could work, but ultimately they couldn’t really push too far in either direction. The only way Greek states would push further west and specifically north would be if they remained unified under macedon while also being assured of not being invaded by Persia while on the March in south east Gaul. And then you have Ptolemaic Egypt post Alexander the Great which would have remained a dying power in the south with just enough pull to keep both Greece and Persia interested. They were all pretty well self contained, until the Greco-Roman conflicts and Pompey’s resistance to Caesar.
@oli87253 жыл бұрын
As a Norwich fan I cannot believe you're wearing that.
@LeSethX3 жыл бұрын
This what if scenario played out more intelligently than I would normally assume.
@jen00143 жыл бұрын
please please please cover extra credits punic war series!! its amazing
@GamingBuddies993 жыл бұрын
Also calling it football is wonderful thank you
@Hoistorialis3 жыл бұрын
Extra Credits,great northern war reaction when
@RPEpsilon-lc4vm3 жыл бұрын
Have you ever considered on making a reaction to some of the videos on KZbin on Viriathus and the Lusitanian wars ?
@showbuster3 жыл бұрын
lets go brandon
@HeavilyCensoredKitty3 жыл бұрын
Russel Crowe would never have starred in Gladiator and one of the best shows of all time Spartacus would never have existed.
@paulcochran17213 жыл бұрын
12:45 Rome - Like Disney, only less evil! 🤣🤣
@michaelgreico96303 жыл бұрын
I know its aong one but Cody does such a great analysis of the 1912 election and you should react to it
@griffinhunt26923 жыл бұрын
Not surprising you're a Dan Carlin fan! Have you listened to Supernova in the East?
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
That was my first experience with Dan Carlin. Loved it!
@griffinhunt26923 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it :]@@VloggingThroughHistory his World War podcasts are pretty captivating. Blueprint for Armageddon and Ghosts of the Ostfront are basically audiobooks
@jonathanrichwine19963 жыл бұрын
You should take a look at LateNightStories video about the Franklin expedition
@marryof9953 жыл бұрын
Well since we are finally diving into ancient rome, i hope "ancient rome in 20 minutes" (and ancient greece in 18 minutes) by arzamas is coming up soon here.
@XaviRonaldo03 жыл бұрын
Strangely I find these what if scenarios more interesting than the actual history
@yj90323 жыл бұрын
I too love Dan Carlin's podcasts.
@cyndiebill66312 жыл бұрын
Nature doesn’t care how rich or poor you are. When she decides to let go she doesn’t care who you are. Great video. Really enjoyed it. TY👍
@Presidentchip-3 жыл бұрын
There is three parts by the way
@evalationx26493 жыл бұрын
17:20 I wondered this as well. In this timeline Pyrrhus is still born and likely claims the throne of Epirus. His dream was to recreate the glory of his ancestor, Alexander. With Rome no longer in play would he still try to invade Italy though? If he does who would actually be united enough to stop him? Carthage is a great sea power, but their land forces were kind of pathetic until Hannibal came along. Plus the Etruscans fought each other as much as the Greeks did.
@mrdorf27843 жыл бұрын
Okie dokie. What’s with the Ipswich shirt? Ha ha
@ab30406 ай бұрын
Rome was so influential that even in a video about what if it doesn't exist, it's mentioned repeatedly
@Y0sh1no5am Жыл бұрын
If Roman didnt exist. We would not have the famous quote "Alea Iacta Est" When I went to College first time I got to make a metal Dice and when I showed it to my old English teacher he said that quite and asked me what I know about it. He asked like "Alea Iacta est, What do you know about Dice?" and I had no clue what he was saying and he slowly explained the story of Julius Caesar went ship tripping through a canal or river, that only had one way to go and when Julius and his men were nervous, Julius said "Well, it's too late to turn around, The dice has cast" Or Alea Iacta Est.
@axelhvetlander22123 жыл бұрын
Could you react to "History bombs ww1,ww1 and Cold war, the not very long, about 10 minutes or less but it would be very fun if you would react to them.
@Innerste_3 жыл бұрын
react to the Emu War oversimplified
@dallaskluesner57833 жыл бұрын
That’s so weird I just watched a video like an hour before this and they were talking about the Sioux and the Lakota
@dbach10253 жыл бұрын
It has always been amazing to me the power small kingdoms like Carthage possessed. I know we can't use modern ways of thinking of power, but it is amazing to me the tiny Carthaginians we're that much of a threat to anyone else. Reminds me of a small Christian highschool having a basketball team that can compete with the larger public schools with a huge talent pool to tryout. But it does happen as we see. Great review, as always, Chris. Praying your family is well.
@Thraim.3 жыл бұрын
This one's a tough sell. Since the Roman Empire was so long ago and influenced all of Europe and lots of Asia and Africa (yes, even the parts they never conquered) this will go into pure speculation pretty fast.
@noone.35323 жыл бұрын
This is a good book, written from the perspective of those Romans attacked
@noone.35323 жыл бұрын
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Jones%27_Barbarians
@Yora213 жыл бұрын
Cisalpine Gaul is Northern Italy, on the near side of the Alps for the Romans. France is Transalpine Gaul, on the other side of the Alps.
@Pichunter50003 жыл бұрын
If you wanna see another series on the Roman Empire you should check out the Overly Sarcastc Productions videos on it
@carllinderum90303 жыл бұрын
An Ipswich shirt, wow
@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod3 жыл бұрын
I would highly recommend a channel called "Fall of Civilizations". They cover the fall of many great and well known empires and civilizations, mostly in two part videos. They are long, but also a very good watch. Also, cheers to your channel mate, you deserve this.
@Davey-Boyd3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I love 'Fall of Civilizations'. They are told so well I even shed a tear or two.
@YlO4143 жыл бұрын
Can you please react to alternate history Hub what if America had a King it's an interesting one
@alchemiaofficial14642 жыл бұрын
Haven’t started yet but I would imagine there would be a lot more Celts in the world
@abraxaszee89532 жыл бұрын
I’m working on an alternate history novel that takes this idea even further. POD: Troy wins the Trojan War. They were the mythological ancestors of the Roman Empire.
@Avenge_Computers3 жыл бұрын
Please do Alexander the Great!!!
@leosoffer78843 жыл бұрын
This what-if is just impossible because without the Roman Empire our history doesn’t exist.
@jamesfetherston11903 жыл бұрын
As for Roman copying other cultures, if it weren’t for that, there is a huge amount of Greek sculpture that would be unknown to us. Much of the examples of Ancient Greek sculpture we know today are Roman copies (in marble) of Greek (bronze) originals.
@chromewizard64213 жыл бұрын
You should consider reacting to Light in the Black by Sabaton. Seriously underrated song about the UN Peacekeeping forces
@hayleybaldwin48433 жыл бұрын
Can you please react to "The Real History of Alexander Hamilton"?
@jivetime23 жыл бұрын
Have you ever read escape from Rome?
@langeweileonline47203 жыл бұрын
Thank u so mutch for saying footbaal instead of soccer Greetings from germany
@lisandrovalencia10913 жыл бұрын
Ipswich Town!?
@deweycox84093 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! May I also recommend reacting to Fredrik Knudsen's The Battle of May Island. It's a major EU screw-up where you keep saying "It can't get any worse than this!" but events just keep spiraling out of control. Entire submarine fleets getting thrashed among themselves underwater because of simple miscommunication. I promise it's worth the watch.
@williamowsley97713 жыл бұрын
In the absence of Rome, I can see western Europe developing a bit like North America before the Europeans arrived. A lot pf different tribes, generally getting along for the most part.
@mastermax27923 жыл бұрын
I like Alternate history hub referencing that Rome wasn't prophesized to have the largest empire. For those who did not know in the Aeneid, the sequel to the Illiad and the odyssey the refugees of Troy followed a man named Aeneas ( The son of Aphrodite ) and fled to Italy and founded Rome, because Zeus prophesized that the descendants of Troy would found an empire that will take revenge on Greece.
@louikirkwood55343 жыл бұрын
Rate the football tops but you said you were a rangers fan wheres that jersey?? ;)
@VloggingThroughHistory3 жыл бұрын
Don't have that one yet. It's coming.
@reygonzalez47193 жыл бұрын
I always love this series of his because ,even though sometimes it's overhyped, Rome is so important to the West that without the world as we know it will be so different. The east like China the middle East, Greece, and North Africa they were civilized so to them it wasn't that important. But to us westerners is probably the most important Empire to ever exist in.
@empress_alex3 жыл бұрын
The Romans invaded North Africa and Greece and so the Roman Empire was incredibly important to those places.
@osaka_phong3 жыл бұрын
If there were no romans, my guess is that germanic tribes would have occupied what is now Rome, and their contact and subsequent conflicts with other nations outside Europe, would have make them turn into something similar of an empire. Language like spanish and italian would not exist, and the main religion would have probably still be germanic, or some weird abrahamic-germanic mix. Architecture, as some other cultural elements would be also different.
@WulfCoree3 жыл бұрын
there is a speach by Alexander the great about the opis mutiny i believe it is by epic history tv it's chill inducing i recommend checkin it out everyone
@truckersmiky2 жыл бұрын
Yah I love The Dan Carlin's hardcore history Podcast Reference I've heard all of them All the way back to episode one where he Where he compares Alexander the Great and Hitler
@JettKuroi3 жыл бұрын
More interesting, how does the New Testament's stories unfold without Rome behind the crucifixion of Christ?
@alexanderthered56033 жыл бұрын
Well the cross itself was a Roman instrument. Not that crucifixion didn't exist, but it would have had to be another method. The roads wouldn't exist, meaning it likely wouldn't have spread anywhere near as fast as it did. Not to mention prophecy of Daniel.
@polumathes97293 жыл бұрын
I get very confused with all the different names. Is there any difference between Celts, Germanics, Gauls, Gaels and Galatians? Are Danes and Norwegians and the Dutch and Anglo-Saxons related? Are they all tribal names?
@germanball96523 жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t Mongolia also be a it happened overnight empire because it’s just like Alexander’s empire where it was built around one maybe to people before it collapsed
@davidhald18573 жыл бұрын
Ipswich???
@How234973 жыл бұрын
Place in england
@theofficialy1b3 жыл бұрын
@@How23497 i think he means the football shirt that Mike is wearing
@ierbutza213 жыл бұрын
One could in theory make guesses of what might have been ,but ,BUT it is really hard to say what might have been had the Roman Empire not formed or existed,this is one topic i would run away from if i had to wright about it because it involves so many hunderds and hundreds of years and a lot of tribes,groups of people,migrating people and so on ,in reality this is one of the hardest topics one could try to figure out.
@bradp58483 жыл бұрын
The name of Hannibal might get the historical context it deserves as. Hannibal Barca: fearless leader, a head for tactics, masking his tracks, setting traps, and an intense leader of men. Instead of the now more famous Hannibal Lecter: Silencer of Lambs, setting tactless traps, slicing another's head into a mask, and of course a fearless and intense eater of men. A distant second place goes to the Doom of Crassus' "When in Parthia do as the Parthians do" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.. Would Assyrian bread in today's verbiage would be Asspitta bread? And would we today be eating Chicken Hannibal Saladin out of an asspitta pocket wraps? Summer Vaca in the months of Sigismundius and Charlamaugust? Sounds as terrible. Think Romancing today's Huns is hard? Imagine the alternative where our Roe's demand Hunishments.
@WhitepawWolfGaming3 жыл бұрын
In the alternate timeline, European languages develop wildly differently, and these phrases would likely either not exist or would exist in a form that indeed rolls off the tongue in the alternate dialects.
@bradp58483 жыл бұрын
@@WhitepawWolfGaming I'm hampered by English and used actual history as a crutch. However, Asswrapped Chicken Hannibal Saladin for some All Night Hunishment during Ides of Sigismundius is unlikely? That's some beyond glass half full optimistic analysis.