Top 5 most Disastrous Battles that led to the Fall of Rome.
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Again a great video, one question, are you not the Hyperloop guy? I am just curious.
Hadrian’s video link isn’t in the description, Dominus.
Many historians in the world, such as Mary Beard and Ian Hughes, believe that Flavius Aetius won the battle on the “Catalan Fields”, and his victory is indicated by such facts as: 1) The failed siege of the city of Orleans by the Huns. 2) Attila’s losses in the battle were greater, which is why he and the remnants of his army retreated from Gaul, thanks to which the spoils from the battlefield went to Aetius. Which became a symbol of his victory over Attila. Prosper, Jordanes and Gregory of Tours wrote about this. 3) The Roman vassal Merovey became the king of the Franks. And not his older brother, who was a vassal of the Huns!
It’s crazy how little credit the Vandals get for causing the Fall of Rome
Maybe, but their name has gone down I'm history a a synonym for destroying or defacing with no other purpose than that, even by people who couldn't tell you who the Vandalls were, if their lives depended on it.
@@andreweaston1779 ya that was because of that time they sacked Rome pretty good because of that Princess
Ikr! They should sue!
The ease with which Belisarius conquered the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa in 534 (using only 16,000 soldiers), showed how weak the Western Empire had become.
Or alternatively, it showed how skilled belisarius was in war
Maioranus would have conquered the vandals easily if the ships wouldn’t have burned in the harbor 😢
It had been 100 years or so. It could also just show how... civilized... the vandals had become, maybe.
Geiseric' biography dwarfs any Hollywood script. All his ventures were doomed to fail but he succeeded again and again and again. Roman emperors came and died, but Geiseric ruled for 50 years.
@@doppelwaffenTime and again, he made the Romans look like idiots, and proved to be the bane of their existence. I still firmly believe the loss of Africa doomed the Western Roman empire in the long term.
Battle of Mursa Major is maybe the most underrated civil war battle by the Romans. The lost of good soldiers in the west and east were never really replaced. The Roman armys strength and quality was never the same after it.
The Constantinian and early Valentinian dynasties were pretty hard on the troops. Chrysopolis, Mursa Major, and Julian's campaign each caused the deaths of tens of thousands. And then Valentinian himself dies in 375 and Adrianople in 378. Even the Crisis didn't see that many major defeats in a 50 year span.
Indeed, battle of Mursa in 351 was a HUGE loss of Roman manpower (about 50k soldiers dead)! Battle at Adrianople in 378 had less than 20k roman casualties
I'd love to see a coop on Late Roman warfare between Maiorianus and Schwerpunkt
Why Schwerpunkt? It takes him 2 hours to cover a topic that better KZheadrs can break down much quicker, and you have to filter out his fanboy attitude in between the actual analysis. Every so often he has a specific video that's interesting but he would do himself a favor by heavily editing his work. Thersites the Historian and The Historian's Craft are both academic quality with much more polish in terms of breaking down concepts and organization their thoughts.
Ive learned more about Roman history from you than from my History teacher in school. Thank you. (I was born in Barcino, Hispania, and can trace my ancestry to the Romans)
I disagree with your view on the Battle of Catalaunian Plains; what was the alternative? For sure would include it on that list.
Excellent list and description of their respective significance. It’s probably more compelling to think that after the late 4th Century the Western Romans were even able to hang on for another 80 years or so. 🤔🤨
Another wonderful presentation!
Great video
This was a particularly excellent analysis.
Another great video! Thanks!
It was an informative and wonderful presentation 👏🏻 👌 👍🏻
I love your content Maiorianus. I wish I could donate now, but when I can, I will.
Hi. I could not fin the link to the Hadrian channel in the description. I am interested.
Where is the link to the animated channel guy?
In 407 AD Stilicho's Gothic wars were over and Rome had won. Yet Stilicho kept the troops in Italy, planning to join Alaric for an invasion of the east Roman empire, which according to Zosimus was scrubbed due to the usurpation of Constantine. It seems that even Stilicho was more concerned about Constantine than about the barbarians. Unfortunately, the court in Ravenna took some very stupid decisions.
The Imperial Court in Ravenna played STUPID GAMES, and won STUPID PRIZES !!
Second day in asking you whether you can make a video on Balkan Romans🇷🇴👍🏻
Liking your comment, cause Balkan Romans are underrated. Since the Hunnic invasion, people just think all of them were killed, but they continued existing, and their heritage today lies in Romania. God bless, and a hug from Brazil.
I don’t want to ruin it for you but hummmm Romania mostly inherited language, but not that much else from the romans
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@@me67galaxylife I don't want to be rude here, but it is ironic when someone tries to teach a Romanian about what is Roman about us....but you are right about one thing I give you that, that our language comes from the Romans. However, our ethnic identity, our traditions, our ethnic history and our toponyms comes from them. Our ethnic identity which is _Român_ etymologically still means "Citizen of Rome" is inherited from Rōmānus which is Roman. Two examples of traditions from Roman paganism is Mărțișor and Sânziana, being for the Roman God of war and agriculture Mars and goddess of the moon, hunt, animals and fertility Diana. "Mărțișor" means "Little Mars" and comes from Feriae Martis celebrated on 1 of March, it was adopted by the North Macedonians and Bulgarians too. Sânziana comes from "Sancta Diana" (Old Romanian: Sândziana), and is also in our folklore. Then many toponyms has been inherited from latin, unfortunately some were changed such as the former name "Darstor" from "Dorostolon" where Aetius was born but was changed with Silistria, the Constanța from Constantines sister, and Timocu from "Timacus" where Galerius, Constantine, Licinius and Maximinus Daia (among others) were born still inhabited by Romanians.
@@InAeternumRomaMater Oh so being romanian gives you a definitve edge on the matter ? No because it's funny but anyone can look up the subject and being romanian does not give you anything another person wouldn't have. Let's consider that : The word romanian has some very serious chances of not being related to the romans until the 19th century and the rise of romanians nationalities, where the similiarity of the word was used to try and define a link to the romans. Regardless it's not really an argument because as said the language stayed, so it's irrelevant. Romanians are genetically more or less identical to slavic populations too, and had many, many slavic words and influence in culture... Until the 19th century, when it was decided that romanian should be "re-latinised". They weren't even using the roman alphabet before. You are right in saying the "ethnic identity" comes from them as it was built as such in the 19th century. However, historically, it is much, much more complicated than that.
I really think the Arab Conquests (and the battles therein) ended Rome for good, it no longer had the grain from Egypt to feed itself and the benefit of trade through the Red Sea which made imports through there more expensive as the Arabs collected their own duties and tariffs along those routes. Not to mention, the Mediterranean was no longer a Mare Nostrum and became a hotbed of piracy not seen since the times of the Republic. At least prior to that, Emperors like Justinian were slowly clawing back the Western territories, regardless of whatever fate the Western Roman Empire had. The Arab Conquests made it virtually impossible by not only taking wealthy provinces with them, but putting those provinces under a new hostile rival. Plus the old pre-Islamic Eastern Roman borders were easier to defend with the various desserts surrounding whilst Anatolia had to be fortified in many places to mitigate invasion and was unsustainable ultimately.
So you could say that the sassanids did in a way bleeding themselves out with the romans
Where is the link to hadrian?
youtube.com/@studiohadrian?si=ztNNgeEXY9lvBR2l
Battle of the Savin is battle of Mursa right ?
I feel like your videos would be more popular if you titled the as Fall of Rome like this one instead of Western Roman Empire. Your Majorian video for example could’ve been “The Emperor who tried to save the Roman Empire” and I think would’ve sounded more appealing
Why should he repeat Gibbons mistakes?
@@bobflemming100 For revenue. It's KZhead, c'mon, clickbait is the name of the game. You could clickbait in the title and in the video explain that Gibbons is wrong, for example.
@@bobflemming100 I was once talking to a woman at a coffee shop and she made the point that just because Mongolia still exists doesn’t mean the Mongol empire didn’t fall. I think the Byzantine Empire is the same way, that even though it still existed that doesn’t mean there was still a Roman Empire
@@Avinkwepi agree with your original comment, but I strongly (tho respectfully) disagree with your follow-up comment. The Mongolia analogy is not really applicable to the Eastern Empire because the Eastern Empire was still THE Roman Empire, just the surviving Eastern remnant. The Mongolia analogy would be accurate if the question was about whether modern Italy could be considered to be the Roman Empire, but with regards to Mongolia, the point would be more like saying that the Yuan Dynasty doesn't count as being the Mongol Empire when it clearly was. Sure the
*As a side note, KZhead's comment system (at least on my phone's app) had suddenly become buggy and won't let me complete my previous comment). *Sighs*
If possible, I'd like to know what happened to my hometown of Cremona in the last years of the West and the Gothic War. I know what happened from foundation to the Year of the Four Emperors, and that it resisted the Lombards for a long time before being razed, but not what happened during the Fall of the West and the Gothic War.
What total war mod is this ?
I really wonder how much the cultural split between church and pagans played a part
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The battle of Armageddon will be fought with swords and horses, from the prophesy it seems like the solar storm will set back humanity to pre electricity. Also prophesy Rome will become the capital of the world with the leader ascended wearing a toga. Can't wait to live during that time when our love for the Roman empire will be reality.
A solar storm won't remove electricity forever. You can just repair the damage. Also people will still have the knowledge of what electricity is and how to generate it.
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It's very important to mention that vizigoths at Adrianopol are not invaders in this moment, they a migrants 😂. Valens was to stupid...
Yeah but it also his officers' fault too For forcing the Goths to exchange their kids for food If only the Romans just accepted them as citizens
If Emperor Justinian decided to favor the construction projects similar to the Hagia Sophia more instead of reclaiming the territories that are now occupied by the Germanic tribes, will his descendants have more money to pay for the troops to defend the southern frontiers from the Arabs by the 7th century?
IMO the time frame is too long. That money would have been spent in some other way in the intervening time.
The majority of it would have gone against the Sassanid war 602-628 and they still would have been weak against the Arabs. Heraclius is still amazing because Rome still survived despite the Arab invasion.
collapse of the population was the cause for the lack of troops and revenue
In the earlier times, I felt that people would just gift to defend Rome. The late Romans seem so peaceful and unwilling to raise another army, why? -The barbarians didnt kill as many romans as Hannibal did. and if the barbarians did, at that time the population of all Rome was much larger and with a way better infrastructure. Like, I dont undertand this. Conscription should have occurred.
I want to add, Conscription would of ended the need to pay for military forces again maybe having some type of governmental change. If you think about it, everyone else used Conscription except the romans then after. In this case, the Roman state failed to evolve. In modern times, countries use military conscription when absolutely necessary.
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Am I the only one who hates the AI art in his vids? It makes the content feel mass-produced and cheap.
They lost the culture wars to the greeks and they lost the actual wars to germanics. Plain and simple.
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