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KaffeeKarpfen :
well supply lines, communication and cohesion ist also an important part.
2026-11-03 00:25:28
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The logistics alone makes it impossible for any country today or in the past to conquer literally the whole world not even America can do it
2026-11-03 16:20:31
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Jays Kindell :
Military Momentum is what I call it. The defeats (even minor) will deter even the best militaries. Also Gluttony of Glory. I love your videos bro. Its crazy how a pebble can trip a giant. But it happens almost every time.
2026-11-03 00:16:54
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Mindowgas :
skill issue they couldn't because
2026-11-03 14:01:58
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peasant conscript :
Two innovations eventually doomed the Romans: the rise of professional armies and the institution of the Emperor. The first gave rise to soldiers with more loyalty to their commanders than the state and the second political instability because the state depended on the ability to lead in one person. Too many incompetent emperors destroyed the Western Roman Empire.
2026-11-03 15:54:56
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Johnny :
What kept the Roman Empire together and made it last longer than any other empire was imo the fact that they realized that expanding to infinity isn’t realistic (in Britannia, as they fought the then Scotts, they realised that it was not worth it because they resisted too fiercely and the area wasn’t particularly profitable, in Germania because they were too far, and too densely forested with once again, too many enemies they decided to defend the Rhine and the Danube which were more realistic borders, same was with the Persians, which Trajan did in fact defeat but never annex). That made their actual conquered land far easier to control because they focused on building infrastructure there, which in return reduced instability and corruption. What seemed like an insane fact to me when I read The Pursuit of Glory by Tim Blanning was that the Western European roads up until the 1700s were the same roads the Romans built and maintained until the 500s, only unmaintained and in some parts destroyed. Think about that, so many hundreds of years and no rulers came close to the Roman roads despite technological advancements and more localized authority. Humans are corrupt, they are ambitious and they are also hard to control. If an empire is built on the shoulders of a few incredible warlords, generals or armies, the people eventually revolt, the generals and successors kill each other in their ambition and local governors embezzle funds for their own gain. Moving around their populations like the Ottomans did, suppressing them with vastly superior recourses and technology the way the British did, or terrifying and slaughtering many of them the way the Mongols did only works for so long until the administration, civil wars and new foreign threats stretch the central government so thin it breaks.
2026-11-03 06:23:53
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Nrod Lagorsson :
I love late western Rome it’s such an interesting period for the empire and cool to see the slow process of what would come right after the early medieval era in the west
2026-11-03 14:43:07
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Cornelius . Admin 🇵🇸 :
Even the healthiest of people drop dead. You die like you live, Swiftly.
2026-11-03 03:28:59
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ادم حسين :
I wish I had you as my history teacher
2026-11-03 16:18:54
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Hannah 🩷 :
yeah, nowadays they've figured out that the best way is to control all the money and resources, even if it's not directly. the borders don't matter that much. and in any case, the current system is clearly collapsing anyways. I hope one day humanity can advance past the point of creating empires and violence
2026-11-03 09:49:58
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nealtoomey :
They didn't have what we have.
2026-11-03 02:43:25
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r8mysteez :
That was the idea of the United Arab Emirates of Palestine and through to the Trans Jordanian planes of existence
2026-11-03 06:57:24
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Larissa Ferreira :
🤓
2026-11-03 12:15:49
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a132 :
Elections sure are nice
2026-11-03 06:09:54
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