The Roman Empire. Or Republic. Or...Which Was It?: Crash Course World History #10
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In which John Green explores exactly when Rome went from being the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Here's a hint: it had something to do with Julius Caesar, but maybe less than you think. Find out how Caesar came to rule the empire, what led to him getting stabbed 23 times on the floor of the senate, and what happened in the scramble for power after his assassination. John covers Rome's transition from city-state to dominant force in the Mediterranean in less than 12 minutes. Well, Rome's expansion took hundreds of years, he just explains it in under 12 minutes. The senate, the people, Rome, the caesarian section, the Julian calendar and our old friend Pompey all make appearances, but NOT the Caesar Salad, as Julius had nothing to do with it. Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Follow us again! http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
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Talking about the Empire before Julius Caesar is stupid, there was never so much power as in the Emperor and Caesar Augustus who was arguably the first emperor
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0:18 that bad latin made my ears bleed
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I love you John Green. You are the boss.
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So the US Senate needs to be passing endless laws and rubber stamping edicts from the executive branch? It's exactly this kind of thinking that helped lead to the decline of the roman republic. The year this video was posted the federal government issued over 3700 regulations totaling roughly 79,000 pages. "Obstruction" in the senate is the best thing for individual liberty, lest we go the way of the Roman Republic.
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Caesar was actually in the scene when Sulla was there and was almost killed by him, but got out because of his connections.
-That one guy in the comment sections who thinks he knows everything, but is commenting on a youtube video. -
I heard the Refugees of City of Troy were the founders of Rome.
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that's not true you can still see carthage on the map
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jump cut @ 10:56
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just to ask, but it would be possible for a US general to ammass enough control over the military and succesfully lead a a coup and overthrow the government?
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NOT totally an invention of Shakespeare's: " And in this wise he [Julius Caesar] was stabbed with three and twenty wounds, uttering not a word, but merely a groan at the first stroke, though some have written that when Marcus Brutus rushed at him, he said in Greek, 'You too, my child?'" -- Suetonius, Divus Julius 82:2
The "my child" is significant in that Marcus Brutus' mother had earlier been Caesar's mistress for many years, and Caesar may have believed Marcus was his biological son. -
knowledgeable and fun as usual guys, thanks! Little criticism, i quite agree that the fall of the Republic lies with one man seizing power but that's a negative definition of the Republic. If you had mentioned what power specifically it would have been much better: a Republic is not as abstract as one might think... Polybius says 'To the people belongs the power of approving or rejecting laws and, which is still of greater importance, peace and war are likewise fixed by their deliberations. When any alliance is concluded, any war ended, or treaty made; to them the conditions are referred, and by them either annulled or ratified.' When the empire comes along obviously all these decisions are made by the one guy. So a Republic relies on people's assemblies approving or rejecting the laws, not sooo abstract is it?
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u speak too fast ..shut up
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Oh my god the oversimplifications in this episode are so many and sundry. Or maybe I'm just noticing them more here because I focus as much on Roman history as much as I do.
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Hi Im john green. Hi Im john green. Hi im john green
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Emperor "There is a baby attached to my leg" Augustus
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Pompey was named "consul without a colleague" by the senate which was pretty much illegal you can't do that the senate broke more laws so they could box Caesar in while Caesar was trying to prevent a civil war by trying to contact Pompey but the senate wouldn't allow Pompey to talk face to face with Caesar
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Et tu brute! 😂😂😂
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would appreciate a discussion relating this video to our upcoming new presidency (how capitalism created this monster, forthemostpart, in our hands)
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Thank you for condensing six weeks of my Roman history class into 12 minutes.
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will i pass my test now
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