American Reacts To 'The Longest Year In Human History'

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[hakairyu]

It's been a while since I've watched this so I'll feel really foolish if this comes up in the video after I post it, but something to remember is that before Caesar even went to Gaul, he had earned a triumph for his work in Spain and Cato blocked it by making him choose between consulship and the triumph. Historia Civilis mentioned this I think in the triumph video, where he also noted it shocked a lot of people that Caesar chose to run for Consul over a triumph. So basically, Caesar had earned another triumph in addition to Gaul, and Cato took it away from him, which must have played a role in him deciding to get 4 now with one of them focusing on Cato. That, and the fact that he could.

[mxlexrd]

Leap years are skipped every 100 years, but not every 400 years. This means 2000 was a leap year. The last time a leap year was skipped was 1900.

[BlameThande]

3:27 I don't know why you think a King means a more absolute ruler; I hear that a lot from Americans, but historically the vast majority of monarchs have had less power than republican dictators (whether the ancient Roman variety or modern military juntas). Monarchs are usually constrained either by powerful aristocratic classes (barons) and/or parliaments that control taxation, they're not like dictators that can do whatever they want.

[isiteckaslike]

Very enjoyable - thank you for reacting to this video.

[hakairyu]

The way the calendar works now is years that are a multiple of a hundred are not leap years, except for the years that are a multiple of 400. So 2000 was a leap year, 2100 won’t be. This understandably doesn’t come up very often and most people are surprised when it does. And a fun fact, it was Pope Gregorius (one of many) who introduced the Gregorian calendar, and the Orthodox churches didn’t switch to it, so countries like Russia and even the Ottomans who used the Julian for international business kept the Julian calendar all the way to the early 1900s. This is why the February Revolution happened in March, and the Bolshevik October Revolution happened in November.

[marcushertz]

An extra piece of information on the early roman calender which will make you go In the very early days of Rome, way back during the monarchy the roman calender only had ten months. To this day this is visible in the names of the months - sept, oct, nov and dec being the latin words for seven, eight, nine and ten.

[williambranch]

The current year in human terms, is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45 seconds long approximately.  The Julian Calendar ignored this small shortfall of less than 1/4 days per year.  This was corrected by Pope Gregory, in Oct 1582 (Vatican has fine astronomers to this day).  This only applied in Catholic lands.  In the American colonies, the old Julian Calendar system continued, until 1752.  So in books George Washington's birthday, has two dates ... Old Style and Gregorian.  Calendar irregularity continues to be a problem, hence the Year 2000 computer update problem.    In the Gregorian Calendar, the current correction to "no leap year" happens every 400 years, first in 1600 and again in 2000.  The problem with lunar calendars continues with the current Jewish and Muslim calendars.

[LightxHeaven]

Caesar did well for himself to have this upcoming month named after him. Though the Senate would make sure that the month of August were made equal to July in the number of days. After, all Augustus couldn't be seen as inferior to his adoptive father.

[kargaroc]

The enemy has invaded, and is here to claim their chair in the legislature.

[windsaw]

Isn't there something wrong with the description of the triumph?
Vercingetorix was strangled in the Carcer Tullianus, which is on the Forum. It was also done outside of public eyes.
The temple of Jupiter was at a totally different location, wasn't it?
I thought I should mention this because Historia Civilis makes a big point of comparing those executions to human sacrifices. If Vercingetorix was killed with no temple in sight, I don't think this counts as sacrifice.

[cjrecio]

I'm guessing the next series is the Between 2 Wars?