The First Punic War - OverSimplified (Part 1) - Historian Reacts

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[samrevlej]

26:18 Having studied the Punic Wars a year ago, there's a fun fact on how the Romans managed to reverse-engineer Carthaginian ships so easily: Carthage's arsenal built ships with standardized detached parts and signs/numbers/letters inscribed on them, much like an Ikea furniture piece (that is the exact analogy my history professor used). Once the Romans figured out the system, they copied it, and managed to mass-produce these ships.

[jean-philippedoyon]

They talk a lot in that Oversimplified episode about how impressive Rome is at adapting technologies fast and building ships fast...but what they don't mention is also their crazy ability to gather a professionnal army fast too ! It's almost supernatural how easy it is to build legions in Rome, war being a religious matter must surely help in the process !!

[bradybales]

Fun fact: that painting of Saturn at 4:03 was actually painted by a Spanish painter named Francisco Goya in the early 1800s. He painted it in his villa during the Peninsular War. The grossest part was that this particular painting in his villa was in his dining room

[michaelsmagalaiii]

Every time Oversimplified uploads, world peace is achieved for a whole week.

[famguy]

Back when I was in school, I just couldn’t wrap my head around how Rome managed to pull off a victory in the first Punic War. They made so many mistakes, lost so many ships, lost hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Now it makes sense. They just kept smashing their own heads into a wall until eventually they made a crack in the walls and not in their skulls.

[jeyysi]

"You don't want the enemy to get the technology especially if it's the one they don't have."

*And the maker of the greek fire took that VERY seriously*

[rohanb]

As far as the toilet goes, I've been to the Roman toilets at Housteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's wall in Britain. We're not sure if each soldier had his own sponge on a stick or if they shared. Regardless, the trough of water (which was flowing) in the center was to wash the sponges, and the basins in the middle held vinegar to sanitize them. Not up to our standards, I realize, but still remarkable for the time.

[dart_fart]

I originally watched your videos because I loved your oversimplified reactions and as of a couple months ago I wasnt all that into history and to see all the upgrades you’ve added to your channel is awesome to see

[MichaelCorryFilms]

Polybius is one of the main sources for most of the Punic wars. He was Greek and a pretty detailed and even keeled historian. By the way, in 2010 Archaeologists pulled up war ship rams from the 1st Punic war naval battle of Aegates straight, the last naval battle of the war. The artifacts (Rams, Helmets, etc.) are from the war and were right where Polybius said the battle took place.

[Avatar]

as a historian, I love that this became so viral

[incredulousdisbelief]

What's crazy about all this, apart from pretty much everything, is that world population stat you used for the time, 150 million, would mean that 0.2% of the ENTIRE world's population was a part of the Battle of Cape Ecnomus. Truly insane. And then there's Part

[gregeast]

1:22 I cannot believe he did not mention the poster on the back wall. The Roman numerals says “10 before 100 followed by 9” ie 99, making the poster read: “I got 99 problems, but ROME ain’t one.” GENIUS!!!

[rumasai]

25:35 man, I was a lifeguard 16 years ago, and an exercise we did for training was treading water for as long as we could with a 25 pound dumbbell in our hands. The majority of my class sank within SECONDS. I can't imagine having a full set of heavy armor and trying to swim with it.

[spxdel]

Dude this uploaded and I clicked on it straight away the best reaction channel covering my favorite channel on yt lets go!

[bigj]

39:40
For even greater understanding of scale, that would be like the entire population of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Utah all fought in one battle.

Or, about half the population of Canada.

[magnusengeseth]

Another side effect from the system of having yearly consuls is that our year starts in January instead of March. This is from a bit later in Roman history, when they have expanded into Hispania (Spain and Portugal). Since Hispania was a proper overseas colony, it usually took the newly appointed consuls several months to organize an army in Italy, gather enough funds to pay for their transport to Hispania, bribe/threaten/convince enough local allies to join you etc. So it wasn't uncommon for the consuls to find that by the time they could start campaigning properly, the campaigning season was more than half over and their local allies would soon start leaving for the harvest, and they would have to start thinking about how to get back to Italy again.

So the Romans, ever pragmatic, solved this by simply starting the year two months earlier to give new consuls two extra months to get organized. This way they could usually set sail as soon as they were sure that winter was truly over, with plenty of time to find glory and plunder for the consuls.

[Zazume_]

You unsimplifying Oversimplified videos is easily one of my favourite formats on YouTube. I watched the whole thing only a few minutes ago, but happily do it again with your additional comments.

[Woofer]

ancient warfare in a nutshell:

Step 1: War
Step 2: Battle
Step 3: Siege
Step 4: Pillage
Step 5: Rape
Step 6: Slaughter
Step 7: Enslave
Step 8: Repeat

[SilverBlade]

The Roman Empire times are my favorite historical time frame to read/learn about and what turned me into a history nerd so I’m beyond thrilled Oversimplified did this one, and a fantastic reaction as always

[MrVault]

Found VTH through oversimplified reactions, stayed for the amazing history rabbit hole. Love it, Cheers~