The Animated History of Italy | Part 1

The exciting first video in the History of Italy series. Find out how the Italian peninsula was perfectly positioned at the heart of the Mediterranean to both dominate trade, and then rise to defeat its rivals, becoming the most powerful empire Europe, and perhaps the world has ever known

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[Suibhne]

Just to clear it up, yes. There will be more than one part in this series

[nazigol]

I'm an Iranian studying here in Italy. Such a lovely country and culture and also my dear Italian friends. saying hi to you from a Persian

[kaczuszkapaczuszka]

Love Italy🇮🇹 from Poland 🇵🇱❤️
Did you know that both of our anthems bear mutual historical references?

[zanzao-ps]

Also known as the coolest history of all the time

[Bigsnake]

I love the comments: "this is the history of Rome not Italy"
Why does this historical revisionist argument comes up only about Italy? what about Sweden? are people going to argue they have nothing to do with the Vikings? what about modern China and ancient China?
The Romans literally called themselves Italic, the political campaign of emperor Augustus had "Italia" at the center, he unified Italy itself, are we going to ignore the historical and genetic evidence of modern Italians being descendants of the Romans? what about the millennia of history between the two?
It's just an excuse to deprive Italy of it's legacy and it's done out of pure envy.

[TheArmchairHistorian]

Great stuff Suibhne. I look forward to the Part 2!

Griff

[lombardmordesian]

I LOVE MY NATION !!! I am italian, sono italiano, great video !!!

[timothymclean]

...I'm pretty sure Justinian wasn't the last thing to happen to Italy. Is this supposed to be a part 1 or something?

[mohamedbouchanane]

Italy has a rich history and culture 🇮🇹🇩🇿❤

[studentofhistory]

Look whos back with a bang! Good to see you back man!

[Gnger]

Man its so strange to hear Rome described like a foreign society. Most people tend to take a first person or relatable approach to the Romans because of how much info we have about them. Gives great new perspective

[Bacon-Dave]

One of my favorite phrases I remember from studying Latin in school: Carthago delinda est!

[cerberus]

The Flavians WANT you to think they had nothing to do with Pompii being destroyed but Tidus Flavious left a bad Yelp review at a pizza place there and that was all the excuse the gods needed.

[gutsjoestar]

I'm French and the French language is a mix of germanic, latin. Mostly latin as italy and spain so every latin language is kinda italian.

[oscarbelmare_]

Greetings from The U.S. to Italy 🇺🇸-🇮🇹

[JezElectro]

Love to Italy/Włoch from Poland, only country that doesn't have "Italy" related name for them 🇵🇱❤️🇮🇹

[aureliano_]

Love to Italy from Germany! Such an interesting and rich history and culture Italy possess.

[tvgirlover]

Finalmente qualcuno che apprezza la nostra storia ormai dimenticata

[Ifritlordofire]

It's "Panem et Circenses", not Panem et Circunsenses (?!).
Good video though!

[ericsummers]

Just became a Patreon supporter and wanted to say how much I appreciate the effort you put into these great condensed history lessons. I hope that others join me so that we can help you get to a more consistent gap between uploads. Best of luck!