The War That Ended the Ancient World | 14:14
toldinstone | 587K subscribers | 2,131,709 views | June 10, 2022
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Rome vs. Persia
2:55 Babbel
4:07 Enter Khosrow II
5:37 The Persian attack
6:44 Persia triumphant
7:55 The (Roman) Empire strikes back
8:50 The siege of Constantinople
10:11 The battle of Nineveh
11:04 Roman victory
12:16 The collapse of the ancient world
13:10 Back to Mren Cathedral
Bet they didn’t have 6000 sesterces toilet seats...
One of the bigger changes from the pre-Marian reform Roman army was that the soldiery were not expected too bring their own arms and armor. The poor who enlisted for pay had to have that provided to them, which represented an additional public expense and need to more public armories and manufacturers of arms. The costs were deducted from a soldier’s pay, but the up-front cost was publicly borne.
They were a bunch of pricks...................
Rome is rearming?
Will they form the same legions as 2,000 years ago?