ScreamingSunPlanet
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https://vimeo.com/31781946
storyoftheviper
"Jupiter's Cock!" - every episode of Spartacus
sjm127
If you were mailing something to a Roman you could literally say he's not in this century
mburicao
I need spaghetti right now...
interrobangcat
This would have been FAR better as a static infographic.
miloziing
Nope.
Karb0n13
*skips the 100 5sec videos and watches the source video*
Shistosomiasis
FunFact: Decimation is a punishment that involves 1 in 10 being killed, & was used for roman legionaries for mutiny/desertion
cryborg
The law was a bit more Draconian back then
LosDelSudUsMataremATots
These Romans are crazy
CtNero
Is noone else bothered but me that including officers there was 84 people in a century... Century mean 100... Why is this upsetti me so much
EricRiester
This is pretty damn interesting
Braytac
Go nuts, stuff from ancient Egypt to now. https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige
stewy2201
Total war doesn't say that
StarfishSpencer
I understand percy jackson so much better now. The other set. Not the lightning one. Not the Egypt one either.
0x1CEB00DA
they tried to conquer Germany,we killed 3 of their legions in just 3 days,they retreated and built a 342 miles long stone wall ("the limes")
Dvicemuse
Fast forward to them being allies in the 1940s
0x1CEB00DA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest prisoners were cut open alive and their organs sacrified to Wodan (= Odin)
HereticsAllOfYou
Well, turns out they just had to wait and then all the Germans joined the army....and then sort of took over.
IMakeListsAboutThings
It is more like the Slavs took over. Look up where Odoacer is from.
Flare295
Not really, but I do now
wackjack
Important: is this before or after the Marian reforms?
skelitor120
After; the Marian reforms are best known for the invention of rank/file rather than layering by equipment/class.
9seasons97years
Post Marian, in the video it mentions the pension and land scheme, something un-required in Pre-marian time because the already owned land
Retsam19
Pretty sure it's after. From wiki "During these reforms, the legions were also organized into permanent cohorts for the first time."
wackjack
I'm going to go with after judging by the lack of hastatii and triarii etc.
gefy
Those are Hastatii.
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
Marian was the one who organized it this well if i remember my grade 11 history correctly.
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
If i remember correctly the Marian reforms allowed for much larger armies as before they were restricted to upper middle class men 1/
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
And then he allowed landless men to join and supplied standard armaments, whereas before they supplied their own arms. 2/
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
Also I'm pretty sure they had no standing army before, and then when they had to go to war one consul would take the richer men and fight 3/
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
But with the marian reforms they used the plebian masses and made them full a standing professional army. The only decent career around.
Justifiable
When you're a phone user and want to die......
frustratinglyneutral
It's going to be Legion...wait for it!...NARY!
BarbaTenusSapientes
Thirteeeeen!
KharnApproves
I don't wonder, because this is a repost the OC explained it.
primadonna13
FUCK YOUR MANY SHORT GIFS
onepositivedude
source?
Retsam19
https://vimeo.com/31781946
wittie888
And the entire thing fell apart because they drank wine out of lead cups and bathed in lead baths.
LizardEnterprises
Well, that and climate change caused a ton of hostile migrations towards the empire... and they ran out of land to conquer.
Retsam19
If your "reason the Roman Empire fell" is anything less than a Top 5 list, you're grossly over-simplifying things.
AmbiguousGardens
Uh no
HereticsAllOfYou
A shit ton more complicated than that. Look up the Marian reforms and the Diocletian reforms.
LizardEnterprises
This is a post-Marian army... Would be pretty difficult for the Marian reforms - which created it - to destroy it...
IMakeListsAboutThings
Dude... If you think the Marian reforms had to do with the fall of Rome (Or Diocletian- but you could make a case), you're out of your depth
Cela84
No. Not the Christian's fault either. Over-reliance on mercenary armies whom they taught their tactics + not paying & over-expansion.
MantisTobagganMD
Bingo. When they tried to use Germanic peoples as auxiliaries and auxiliary generals....major fuck up
IMakeListsAboutThings
How so?
MantisTobagganMD
Rome was spread too thin, so they had to promote Germanic generals. Their Germanic auxiliaries had no loyalty to Rome, but to their generals
IMakeListsAboutThings
Sorry, I entirely misread your first comment and thought I was about to school you on some Roman history, but you're solid. Carry on.
dandelionbomb
I wonder which normal everyday item will take us out.
KingNatmeet
Vaccines
LordHosk
Oversimplification of the world to single false answers without becoming truly informed about anything. Like: "lead poisoning ended Rome"
wittie888
Gay High Velocity Impact Sex
FlappinBurgers
I knew it!
poobacca
High fructose corn syrup
BlackTwitterRep
Soda
Hybris51129
Apple products.
combatwombat0
https://xkcd.com/419/
icameinlikeafeckingball
One day, there will not be a relevant xkcd for a certain situation. Today is not that day.
confuciusman2
Spoons, we have neglected them for a long time. But time for a spoon rising
QueenCousland
That's why we need SPOOOOOON GUAAAAAARD!
RarePepeHunter
Gluten
Jabman48
Antibiotics/meds
FlyingSquirrelMan
Lead paint, same as them
dandelionbomb
Oil
terrytheplatypus
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
shibbytothelibby
Interdastingly, it was the sub-group of goths called vandals that sacked Rome. And that's where the word comes from, "destroyer of culture".
aworkoffiction
Those cant be real goths, out during the day for a social gathering while dancing exuberantly albeit very poorly.
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Could be, they might be a new breed of Germanic barbarians driven by the last to conquer and pillage Europe
aworkoffiction
So...cosplay era?
TimeAndMemeLordOfGallifrey
Acid era?
TydenS
The one on the far left is cyberpunk. Could be a mixed group.
Withywindle508
Actually, I was just wondering this very thing.
SossidgeRole
me too really, I am reading malazan book of the dead and this is exactly their military structure, which allowed them to conquer savages
Withywindle508
Sweet! I'm on Deadhouse Gates as we speak!
MechaNinja
This is ONE of the ways the Roman army was constituted. They were around for nearly 1500 years if you count Byzantium.
Thijssie88
Roman empire just turned into a church
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
This is post-marian reforms right?
Vayaconvacas
But did they really have to supply their own arms post-marian?
AlrightKeepYourSecrets
That was the way before marius, as well as there being no professional army, just middle class men who would be called to fight by a consul.
IMakeListsAboutThings
Yes, it is post Marian reforms.
accidentalfritata
Even further, probably Claudian or post. Segmentata wasn't instituted under Marius.
MechaNinja
That sounds about right. It doesn't account for Diocletian's smaller legions or the cataphracts/heavy cavalry that showed up later.
preaction
You know we don't! https://youtu.be/4dCs3mSi8YI?t=35s
MechaNinja
Ok but was the slap really necessary? That kinda hurt.
RoyFuckingMustang
I count it, IIRC there was no real gap between them so why shouldn't it count?
SgtPancakes
If an empire is going to be counted as Roman, shouldn't the city of Rome be a part of it? (HRE notwithstanding as that wasn't holy or Roman)
Retsam19
Here's the source; much less frustrating than a twelve part infographic: https://vimeo.com/31781946
BetteratLurking
Yeah, like why am I struggling here, thank you.
HookersandBlow
Dot
menschmaschine
I quickly scrolled down just hoping for someone like you to come along. Thank you.
TheFloristFriar
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MrGatsby
doot
Ablus
much thanks senpai.
HouseOfEvil
Yeah. This isn't worth watching without the narration. Thanks for the link.
KangInDaNarth
better than the post.
iwearlittlesocks
Much
ATLUTD741
Save
majesticmorningwood
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YourLordCthulhu
dot
Mywholelifeisthunder
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deghcfhjfvb
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omcho
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judocop
You're doing God's work.
ImgurianElysium
Bless you.
ularg
Getting really tired of 3 pages of gifs because the posters Karma is more important than the creators success.
CrackleThePerv
The real hero here. You deserve far more than 65 points, dear sir/madam.
nervousdoggo
JustSayingHowItIs
Need this
cryborg
Ximien
I think hes hiding jews in his basement
Level8Gazebo
Disappointed that it was not a smashing gif
PapiBlanco
I was honestly expecting that also
theczar90
I can watch this scene a million times and I'll still get goosebumps every time.
cryborg
Shakespeare would have loved this
Squirrelmastersbitch
Tru
theczar90
2 chainz?
Squirrelmastersbitch
4 bracelets
Highlander8795
Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next.
dubbgoeswubbwubb
What movie?
longoriaisaiah
Gladiator
SarcasmIsMyTurnOn
Gladiator.
Ionlycommentfinggold
Gladiator
Ionlycommentfinggold
Gladiator
ZhuochengTan
Gladiator
Ionlycommentfinggold
Gladiator
PapiBlanco
Gladiator
Ionlycommentfinggold
Gladiator
Polysloth
What have the Romans ever done for us?!
Treadstone
Cement
Katielady089
Fun fact: some Roman soldiers wore trinkets emblazoned with penises as a sign of strength and virility. Source: Roman museum in Germany.
TheFreemen
Showed us (along with the Greeks) how a republic can easily fall into an empire and how incompetent rulers can crash a mighty empire.
Polysloth
Ok except for sword control, plumbing and roads, what have the Romans every done for us??
AgolfHiller
Structured a republic. Commerce. killed a couple of cunts... Uhmmm i'll get back to you tomorrow to tired now
frshwaterfrank
It was actually an oligarchy in which you had to buy your way into the senate but, I guess if you put it that way your technically correct
frshwaterfrank
It was actually an oligarchy in which you had to buy your way into the senate but, I guess if you put it that way your technically correct
ApparentlyBritish
The aqueducts?
TeamSpicyTacos
Roads?
butthesuniseclipsedbythemoon
A good system of irrigation
butthesuniseclipsedbythemoon
Wine
TheRakshaw
That was the egyptians. Rlmans just had good plumbing.
ForeveraKritik
They poisoned our water, burned our crops, and delivered a plague onto our houses!
HelloSer
They did!?
ForeveraKritik
No... But are we just gonna wait around until they do?!
Oldtime155
Didn't they give us numerals?
ApertureScienceInnovators
No, our numerals and the decimal system are from India. And much more pracital than the roman wierd adding and subtracting to get a number
schopier
No. Even worse, the numerals they DID give us make simple arithmetic terrifying. Mathematics as an abstract study was stagnant for them.
MantisTobagganMD
Brought peace?
GoAheadAndDownvoteYouFlippingFascist
Oh yes... peace. Shut up!
aguasdebeber
I like your quote (of sorts). Is it just me or did everyone else commenting here miss it?
cherypi
steal our jews
EvilIncarnate
Pizza and spaghetti. Nuff said.
Madethisusernameforonereason
Cough, cough. Columbian Exchange. Cough.
cryborg
Mais quam scire
thegroovemonkey
apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health? Nothin
Lardokingofnerds
Well besides the aquaducts what have the romans ever done for us?
emkay443
The sanitation!
GeorgeHWBushsGhost
What have us ever done for the Romans?
Heterosapian
Well I've done extensive online "research" and found we still honor the custom of Orgies.
LetMeGoogleThatShtForYou
PIZZA PIZZA!
SchwiftySanchez
You sir deserve top comment of the top comment. I will settle for top content to the 3rd power
TLC127
Ice Cream
Heterosapian
I wonder if they ever had sword control issues for civilians. Perhaps our gun control situation could be solved the Roman way.
RarePepeHunter
And for a very long time you couldn't even bring an army into peninsular italy. Armies had to be disarmed and disbanded before entering
Thijssie88
This. Hence the phrase crossing the Rubicon, not done.
ZombieZooZombieZoo
Here's actually a great reddit thread on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1kvi0f/open_carry_in_roman_times/
Heterosapian
Thanks fellas
JohnFloorwalker
Even if there wasn't, it's kinda hard for one man to commit a "mass stabbing" & if you do you'd be considered a demi-god.
aFactIsAFact
Happend in china. Guy killed 50 people
JohnFloorwalker
& do they have those about 3 times a quarter year like in America with guns?
aFactIsAFact
Do they have a media system that promotes the attacks?
Nujako
All weapons checked at the gate. No weapons inside city walls except for the Praetorian guards.
Nobody7713
*No sharp weapons. As a result thugs often carried home-made wooden clubs.
Nujako
Correct. Heterosapian was wondering about swords in particular, so that is what I mentioned. Haha.
mutedia
what about guns?