Battle of Aquilonia, 293 BC ️ Roman Legion vs Linen Legion ️ Third Samnite War (Part 3)

Great video. I would like to see your take on the Batavian revolt in 69ad. It;s usually overshadowed by events in Britain.

Falisci gave indemnity of 100,000 of their asses!? like literally gave their personal ass as insurance?

Very comprehensive video ... I give you an A+ ...

The History of man is simple ... All we do is kill each other ...

100000 Assess???

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I don't care who you are, 500,000 asses is a steep price.

We love HM, Roma Victor !!!

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I don't know about other folks, but the Republic is profoundly more interesting to me than the Empire. It's so fascinating seeing this beautiful unique machine based on ambition and structured rules being used to conquer the Mediterranean from the beginning. The struggles. The moments of peril. The spread across their neighbors and the upheavel it caused. The Punic Wars or Rome's expansion across Italy is so much more fascinating than the Empire. And it all culminated in this amazing end phase where the ideals of the Republic led to such an unheaval. Republic > Empire.

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Answer in a nutshell... Homosexuality.

What software did you use?

HeGemony , as in Gisela, Gee, Gel, not g as in give

That's a brilliant gambit, fooling your own men to give them encouragement.

Great stuff thanks

To be fair, I think Rome at any stage of development would win against an army of flax-based textiles

500,000 asses each damn

Thanks , great addition to my studies.

Olhe aqui Marte. Eu dedico este comentário a você. Oh poderoso Marte.

It is really interesting to see what "victory" looks like in different eras, in different cultures. Defeating an "ally" in battle to secure their loyalty? Wow. With friends like that... I wonder to what degree the Samnites considered this a real alliance or if everybody understood it was essentially conquest.

Almost like reading a book, but much quicker and 0 effort required! Amazing work.

I wonder, if the Romans had been conquered by one of these other Latin tribes, if some other city-state had conquered the Italian peninsula, what would our history look like...
Would there have been a Samnite Empire? An Etruscan Empire? Would they even bother with an empire? If they didn't, who would have gone on to build an empire? The Germanic tribes? The celts? The Egyptians appeared entirely content to maintain their lands without expansion, but the Parthians might have expanded throughout Europe...
Without Roman dominance, our history might be ENTIRELY unrecognisable!!

If the Romans were fighting linen, that might explain why they were so victorious.

It's easy to imagine how many samnite women and children were raped, slaved and tortured to finally make those stubborn tribesmen resign. The absence of final campaign records makes good sense.

You might want to work on correct pronunciation of names. Great work though.

First time I’ve ever heard “500,000 asses”

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Many make the mistake of thinking that Rome became dominant because of a superior military system or political organization. It wasn't any of this. It was numbers. The relative isolation of the Italian peninsula meant that for about a thousand years the populations could develop and grow in relative peace in a fertile land. When the Romans developed from a tribal system to an organized, civilized polity, they could call upon vastly superior numbers which would negate any temporary battlefield setback. It was simple concentrated population at a level much higher than all of the surrounding regions, along with a centralized system which enabled this sustained projection of social power.

Lesson from Fabius Gurges: Fear the old man. He has lived many years, and is patient enough to see you dead.

For those wondering if they heard that wrong, an "As" or "Assarius" was am ancient roman coin.

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One Hundred Thousand ASSES

Lets play Rome Total War 2 - Rise of the Republic Campaign!

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Great video

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Now I want you to try the hardest challenge you mentioned

I am still waiting for the end of Hannibals campaign against Rome.

Republican Rome being tricky bad asses, old style. I love that you showed the whole progression of that battle.

The Republic's government was an aggressive bunch, but I love their attempt at representative government. They were noble savages.

Great Stuff. 🙏

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These were the beginnings (not really the beginnings, but close) of Roman quest for rule of their Italian boot. They were powerful and learned from their errors and mistakes and that was part of why their military machine was unstoppable. That, and they had manpower to draw on that made both defense and offense tenable.
I both admire and hate the Romans. They did what was in their nature.... make war! The fact the far reaches of Roman rule more than matched the far reaches of Macedonian rule at the apex of Alexander's conquests.

Up the Samnites! 🎉👌

Makes you wonder, what if the Romans had not prevailed? Would there be no Roman empire, perhaps an Etruscan or Samnite empire instead? And what mark would they have left on world history?

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Father Fabius is pretty mad of his Son for not obeying that order. So he "rescue" him.

Excellent !