History Summarized: The Roman Republic

Let me spin you a yarn about the history behind my favorite acronym ever: SPQR.
It's Rome time.
(Yes, I've already made some videos about Rome. This is me replacing those videos with way better videos. Enjoy your nice, shiny new series on Rome! It's the Roma-pocalypse.)

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[highdefinitionapollo]

Seriously someone needs to make a tv show about the second punic war, there's literally everything you need to make a successful series, there're epic battles, bitter rivalry between families, two of the greatest military commanders with surprisingly similar backgrounds facing off with each other, political drama, elephants and wacky war machines, a variety of cultures and characters ranging from African prince to genius scientist, give it to a big station with budgets like HBO and you've got a new tv epic with at least five seasons worth of material. The whole thing is basically writing itself.

[izzy]

said the romans, eating the entire mediterranean for breakfast.'

[myohmy]

Roman Government: We are a republic! We shall never have a king again!
Augustus Caesar: Good thing there is nothing in there about emperors! :D

[nikitakrim]

Its so funny that in slavic languages it IS called "Rim"

[ath]

My real name's Remus. Reme will rise, mark my fucking words.

P.S. wonderful choice of background music

[cherrypie]

early.
I should make a joke....
How was the Roman Empire
cut in half?





*With a pair of Caesars.*

[sylendraws]

1:27 The greatest empires always start with pizza, it all makes sense now.

[IceQueen]

"Greek kid on a horse" daaaaym the shade

[ChocoboProduction]

Fun fact: One of the reasons for the slow spreading of rome's empire was actually greed. Yes, you read that right. The reason being: Basically EVERY roman noble dreamed of becoming consul. It was the ultimate achievement for any roman. Problem being: There were only two new consuls each year, but six new praetors, who would compete for those two positions. And you could (legally) only apply for consulship three times in YOUR WHOLE LIFE. As a result, elections in Rome were BRUTAL. Next problem: For each new province, rome needed basically an ADDITIONAL acting praetor to govern it. They mitigated that need somewhat by using ex-praetors as well, but that could only bring you so far. Now you'll see why large parts of rome's nobility HATED the idea of new provinces... They even entertained the idea of simply passing up on the kingdom of pergamon in asia minor, which was bestowed upon them by the will of the last king of pergamon (Blue mentioned it in this video.)

[christianbuffum-robbins]

"Alexander the Shortsighted"

I love you.

[TheSecondVersion]

“There was once a dream that was Rome, you could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.”

- Marcus Aurelius, 'Gladiator'

[kirbymarchbarcena]

Since Romulus killed his brother and built a city, isn't it more fitting to call his people "Romulans"?

[ediskey]

My old english teacher used to say rome would had been so unthreatening if if weren't called Rome "The Remens are coming! The Remens are coming!" It's not as scary!

[RutilatedQuarz]

ah yes, the roman empire. the longest slow burn story

[thehopeofeden]

I'd get tired of my king too if his name was Tarky-Tark Super-Bus

[kittykat]

WHHHYYYY DID YOU UPLOAD THIS RIGHT AFTER MY TEST ON THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE

[MajorWX]

Loving that AC:Brotherhood music in the background

[manofcultura]

Government of Rome: The Etruscans have WMDs.

People of Rome: Get 'em before they get us!

[carmacksanderson]

"Preemptive retaliatory strike"

That, right there, is peak Roman Republic

Edit: Also, "Salty chapter in Roman history"

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[trolllord]

Red: How much Rome videos do you want to make blue??
Blue : Yes



I Iove it