The First Punic War [Part 2] | Oversimplified | A History Teacher Reacts

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Welcome back to Part 2! Oversimplified is back with another banger! Rome vs Carthage in the First Punic War. The Punic Wars are easily among the most famous and influential set of wars in the ancient world. Rome really gains its identity and confidence from the worlds, only quickly after will assert it’s dominance further into the Mediterranean world and across mainland Europe. As always, Mr. Terry adds his commentary as a high school history teacher along the way!

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  1. 🐘🐘

    I knew a little about the second Punic War and hearing about Hamilcar Barca I was, like, "ha, what is that a cheap knock-off of Hannibal?"

    Funnily I've always known him as Hannibal Barca but Barca was actually an epithet (meaning lightning) that belonged to his father. As far as I can tell Hannibal's name would have just been Hannibal son of Hamilcar.

  2. The Roman Pleb was blood thirsty and intolerant of anything that made Rome look bad. Were American's will have gusto at the beginning of a conflict, that gusto goes away as the casualties mount. Not Romans. The more casualties Rome took, the louder the Plebs would demand victory from the Senate and they cared not for the additional price for that victory.

  3. Does the Roman Republic seem similar to any other Republic? Mass genocide of native peoples…built on the backs of slaves…aggressive expansion like it was destined…almost like a "manifest destiny." Lol 😆 🤣

  4. I realized the after certain countries/country put harsh terms one particular would come back totally not talking about Hannibal and hitler but they were godly

  5. Mr. Terry, the saddest part of your review is when you sad "I cannot show this in my class."

    That's too bad. This is great history and history is brutal. If your little snowflakes, or their parents, cannot handle this you need to reconsider your career field.

    Of course, I am sure you are required to provide gender affirming pronouns without fear of retribution. Just don't tell the truthful history of violence that made the world we live in today.

    "Ideals are peaceful; history is violent." ~ Wardaddy

  6. The dragon bit has text at the bottom saying it may be a translation error or the "dragons" were snakes or lizards or whatever. He also apologized for telling us to shut up earlier.

  7. If you ever doubt how big slavery was in Rome, remember this, Roman philosophers quite literally did not think Utopia was possible without it.
    Something about earning the privilege of a Utopian society through forced labor type spiel.

  8. On your point about the Romans using 50% of their budget on the military, the Republic of China used 80% of theirs on their military and still lost to both Japan and PRC

  9. While the 1st Punic war is a really interesting historical war, it pales in comparison to the 2nd Punic war, which might as well be a fictional 'epic war' come to life. It has tons of narratively interesting elements like the grudges of war being passed from father to son (in Carthage: Hamilcar to Hannibal, in Rome: Scipio Asina to Scipio the Delayer [who effectively brought Hannibal to a standstill by refusing to face him in battle] to Scipio Africanus [who finally beat Hannibal], battles where armies slaughtered forces 3 times their size [like Cannae, where the only reason any Roman infantry survived was because Hannibals troops eventually got exhausted cutting them down), insane military feats that somehow work (the crossing of the Alps and Hannibal rampaging across the Roman peninsula without military support for 17 years), corrupt politicians trying to backseat drive the war and nearly causing the war to be lost (Rome mocking The Delayer until the battle of Cannae where they realized that the tactic of avoiding a fight might actually keep them alive), other corrupt politicians who think the war has nothing to do with them (Carthage refused to give Hannibal support in the war, believing into be a war between Hannibal and Rome, effectively crippling Hannibal's ability to crush Rome once and for all) and finally, war geniuses meeting on the night before battle, in awe of each other, briefly considering to call the war off to mess with said corrupt politicians, before deciding to fight anyway to find out the truly superior general (depending on the source at least). It sounds like an epic literary war, except it actually happened.

    In comparison, the 3rd Punic War seems anticlimactic.

  10. You said the treaty of Versailles was harsh, check the treaty of Neuilly against Bulgaria after the first World War. Even tho they won their battles and even hummiliated the French-British-Greek forces they were treated worse than Germany after the war. And that's because Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria killed Bauldouin (the french king) in medieval times. The only reason Bulgaria hasn't revolted against this is because they weren't a superpower like they were in ancient times.

  11. What the Romans managed to accomplish with building those fleets over and over and over again is beyond impressive. A true life lesson there to be as stubborn as possible, especially when your enemy gets complacent and arrogant.

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