American Reacts How did Rome defend its empire? ⚔️ Ancient History

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[Ayns.LA]

Augustus(Octavius), was the father of Germanicus, Tiberius and Claudius, Caligula was the son of Germanicus and Tiberius' favourite nephew. Upon Germanicus' death Tiberius adopted Caligula. Claudius was looked down upon, as he was Lame and had a stutter he was treated like an idiot and was unable to reign which was why Tiberius named Caligula as his heir, his harmlessness and perceived stupidity was what saved him during both Tiberius and Caligula's Reign, once Caligula was assassinated and the rest of the family executed, the Pretorian guard thought he would be an ideal, easily controlled Emperor and so they backed him as Emperor however, Claudius, underneath his physical problems had a brilliant mind.

[SuleimanTheIndifferent]

The order of emperors for the Julio-Claudian dynasty is
Augustus 23(bc)-14(ad)
Tiberius 14-37 ad
Caligula 37-41 ad
Claudius 41-54 ad
Nero 54-68 ad

[maksymdegtiarov]

On the german front, romans used the rivers as their main border, since it was a good defensive borber, so leaving the river to go back to the Alps made no sense for roman defence, since you could have two defensive borbers. Then the problems with mountains was that they were hard to monitor and defend, since you couldnt guard the entirety of the alps, and then being able to defend the empire in a terrible terrain for combat

[williambranch]

Augustus did try to conquer Nubia and Yemen ... and got defeated there! He tried to conquer Germany and got badly defeated. But the based military system he developed, was the best of the Republic and a complete redo of the coinage (which had suffered for the previous 60 years of Roman civil wars. Using outright barbarians backfired after 120 CE, creating a negative feedback loop that devalued the money in civilian circulation. Eventually all the gold was used to pay the barbarian soldiers, because they only accepted gold in payment.

[williambranch]

Pax Romana at its height (say 100 CE) was 250, 000 ... legionaries and provincial auxiliaries (not much barbarian war bands hired yet). In a simple agricultural society (as we all were until 1800 CE) this was a huge expense. A legionary of that time got a denarius a day and supplies equal to that (rations etc). That would be $5 per day or $1825 per year per soldier or over $456 million per year. That is a lot of the total Imperial budget. The estimated GDP for the Roman Empire was less than $600 per capita per year, and population varied because of war, plague and draught. With 50 million people, that would be $30 billion GDP or about 2% load. For the US now, on a GDP of $20 trillion, a DoD budget of $1 trillion or about 5% load. Load can be higher now, because of industrialization, you can't exploit endless farmers who are dirt poor.

[williambranch]

Crimea was under a protectorate, having been previous colonized by Greece and Pontus. This was still a thing under the Byzantine empire, but it was impossible to hold it against the steppe nomads. One economic principle (violated in the occupation of Britain and Germany) is that don't occupy some place that won't pay for itself. The Sahara wasn't profitable until the Middle Ages, when gold, slaves, salt and camels made it profitable. The legions quickly figured out they ran the Emperors, not the other way around. This created increasing instability until it all collapsed.

[kamino]

The Roman’s were not traditionally a naval power and while the most of their fighting took place in Italy they didn’t need to be. Most would argue that the Roman’s did become amazing sailors during the Punic wars and few could match them at sea after that.

[raidang]

There's already a video about what if Rome never conquered Britain

[paulwindebank]

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