Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. It's said that the allied populations prepared supplies along the road, so that the legionaries could eat and drink while marching, and stop only to sleep.
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  2. "You have been defeated!" "We'll call it a draw. "I slaughtered all of your armies!" "Let's fight a little more and see." "That's madness!" "No... ...That's ROME!"
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  3.  @Starfire861  There is nothing like an "authentic Greek mith". Every Greek mith had tons of variations, regional or temporal, and even completely different endings.
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  4. They were deeply involved in Spain, that was the place from where the money to pay that war came (mind that the Cartaginean army was a mercenary one, so much more expensive than the Roman one). Much of the Second Punic war had been fought outside Italy. Mind too that, at that time, the Roman fleet was stronger than the Carthaginian one, so, the only way to bring reinforcements to Hannibal was to escape the Roman legions guarding the Pyrenees and cross the Alps with another army. Finally Hasdrubal managed to do it late in the war, after Spain had been lost for him, only to be slaughtered later.
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  5. Tell that to Thomas Becket.
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  6. He was 68. You don't expect 68 yo guys, in 12th century, to participate in long journeys across the middle east, and take a swim across local rivers. Both in armor or not.
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  7.  @carloshenriquezimmer7543  Consider that early iron weapons were not that superior to bronze. In Europe iron replaced bronze completely in little time at the end of the bronze age because of the limited availability of tin (that practically doesn't exist in continental Europe or middle east), but in China weapons of bronze, iron and cast iron kept on being used toghether for centuries.
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  8. As an admirer of Diomedes (as strong as Ajax the giant, and as level headed as Odysseus) I'm as enraged as Achilles in this moment. "one Achean", pffft! Diomedes is THE hero of the Iliad.
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  9.  @Danilium  It's because he fought for France in 1870, after the fall of Napoleon III and the declaration of the Third Republic, obtaining at Dijon one of the few French victories in the Franco-Prussian war. Rallying his volunteers in Genoa he stated "Yesterday I said to you: war to the death to Bonaparte. Today I say to you: rescue the French Republic by every means." It had been his last campaign.
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  10. +Ruben Del Mazo Yeah, he was so good to play mind games on Hannibal, as when, after having burned the Cartagenean camp at Utica, he allowed Hannibal's spies to visit his camp, and take notice of the strenght of his army and learn the position of all the tents and the magazines. The message was clear: "what you have done, I can redone (like at Ilipa), but what I have done, you can't".
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  11. The only thing that ruins the south are southerners. What about stop crying and bettering the place, if you don't like it?
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  12. To charge interests on loans was a sin. To avoid that, medieval banks didnt' formally charge any interest. What they charged were fees on various services.
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  13.  @MarcoCaprini-do3dq  Si, vabbè, ancora la gestione piemontese. L'Irlanda è stata una colonia fino al 1921, e non mi pare passino tanto tempo a piangere.
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  14. It's said that, after Cannae, the Cartaginean embassy sent in Rome saw long rows of people at the recruitment's tables wanting to enlist the Legion. Problem is that, since Hannibal slaughtered army after army without giving the legionaries time to gain experience, they were always newbies, while Hannibal's soldiers were battle-hardened. It's a problem Rome had until the Marian Reform of the Army, and that's why they often lost the first battles of a war in repubblican time.
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  15. Homer specifies that the boar's tusk helmet given by Meriones to Odysseus was an heirloom, passed down through the generations. More, Odysseus is described wearing it only during his moonlight incursion in the city to steal the palladium. It's quite obvious that a clanking bronze armour was not the best choice in that situation. In the same expedition, Diomedes worn a simple leather helmet without crest or other ornaments.
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  16. The bill was all but unintentional. It was specifically tailored to avoid Beatrice Borromei, wife of Giovanni de' Pazzi, to inherit the enormous legacy of her father, and so the Pazzi to become richer than the Medici.
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  17. Sibylla married Conrad's brother.
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  18. There had been a Sixtus the Fifth, but none wanted to be Sixtus the Sixth.
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  19. I don't think modern inventions and whining will be part of the video.
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  20.  @akaneh1989  Or, in the Odissey, Odysseus actually "thinks" something, while in the Iliad, when some hero has an idea, is always a god that put it into his head.
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  21.  @OniGarro  Diciamo anche che si governano un tantino meglio, sono appena un po' più efficienti, finanziano un po' meno organizzazioni criminali..., sai, quelle cosette che fanno la differenza tra la crescita economica e lo stare a piangere sui torti subiti dai piemontesi. Anche il Veneto era una zona depressa fino al dopoguerra. Però poi uno dalla depressione esce, se vuole e ne ha la capacità. Non è che sta a lamentarsi dei torti subiti dai Lanzichenecchi.
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  22. In the former Genoese Republic, since the republic itself ended 10 years before he was born.
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  23.  @1cspr1  With WWI Italy gained Trentino - South Tyrol and Friuli (that are still part of Italy), and Istria-Dalmatia (that would still be part of Italy without the participation in WWII), so I would say the participation to WWI had been profitable.
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  24. Maybe he read the Divine Comedy. To have been ordered, and pardoned, by the Pope, didn't save Guido da Montefeltro from hell.
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  25. Consent had always been needed. Infact Isabella's previous marriage had been annulled on the basis of the fact that she had been kidnapped by Raynald of Châtillon when she was 8, locked up in the fortress of Kerak for three years, forcefully married to Humphrey of Toron, godson of Raynald, when she was 11 (too young for the ecclesiastic law) and, above all, she never expressed consent during the ceremony. One noble, present to the ceremony (made in haste, when the fortress of Kerak was under siege) testified that and, when Humprey instead said that there had been consent, he challenged him to a duel to estabilish who was right. Since Humphrey refused to fight, the question was settled and the marriage annulled. Isabella then had not been "forcefully married" to Conrad. She had been persuaded by HER MOTHER (she had been the one that "kidnapped" Isabella from her husband infact. With the death of Raynald of Châtillon she could finally reunite with her daughter) to marry him, and she clearly consented during the ceremony.
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  26. The same metric helps those poems to stay unchanged, because every change would ruin the flow.
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  27.  @9iconic636  Minor details? The Iliad is practically the story of Diomedes carying on the war, with the occasional help of Ajax, Nestor and Odysseus, while Achilles and Agamennon are having a temper tantrum.
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  28. The reform was all but unintentional. It was specifically tailored to avoid Beatrice Borromei, wife of Giovanni de' Pazzi, to inherit the enormous legacy of her father, and so the Pazzi to become richer than the Medici.
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  29.  @OniGarro  E' proprio il tuo commento che non dice niente sull'argomento. Te la prendi solo con l'interlocutore, come ogni poverello che crede di nascondere la sua pochezza in questo modo. Ti ripeto ciò a cui non hai risposto. "Diciamo anche che in Irlanda si governano un tantino meglio, sono appena un po' più efficienti, finanziano un po' meno organizzazioni criminali..., sai, quelle cosette che fanno la differenza tra la crescita economica e lo stare a piangere sui torti subiti dai piemontesi. Anche il Veneto era una zona depressa fino al dopoguerra. Però poi uno dalla depressione esce, se vuole e ne ha la capacità. Non è che sta a lamentarsi dei torti subiti dai Lanzichenecchi." E adesso continua a parlare di me. Prendertela con qualcuno invece di affrontare i problemi ti viene naturale, giusto? Guarda che sei tu che sei venuto a cercare me, non il contrario. Per me te ne puoi tornare dove ti ritieni a tuo agio (in qualche genere di melma probabilmente).
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  30. Ironically, after the fall of Napoleon III and the declaration of the III Republic, Garibaldi fought for France against Prussia in that war. Always on the receiving end.
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  31. Probably not any more at 68.
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  32. Actually in the latin spoken at that time it was pronunced "Skipio", like Caesar was pronunced "Kaesar".
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  33. That's "church latin", the pronunciation that imposed itself during the middle age. In ancient latin the "c" was only "hard", both the letters of "ae" were pronounced, and there was not difference between "V" and "U" (it was always pronounced as "U"), so, for example, "Cicero" was pronounced "Kikero", not "Chichero" or "Sisero". See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0
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  34. For that matter, the causes of the death of William Longsword and his son Baldvin V had not been really estabilished.
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  35. The kingdom was not only the city. Byzantines called themself "Romans" even if they had not own the city for centuries.
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  36. The education was needed for Garibaldi to get his patent of sea Captain, since a Captain must be able to do complex calculations, read and compile reports. Infact Garibaldi, in South America, when he was not fighting or trading, earned a living by teaching math.
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  37. Considered that Richard was French to the bones, and considered England only a source of money for his wars, it would have been pretty stupid.
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  38. @@cu6upckuu48 Joining the NATO is voluntary.
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  39. Like there's no evidence that William died of malaria for that matter.
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  40. He was a Phoenician, so a Semite.
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  41. Yeah, but it happened around sixty years before. None of Scipio's soldiers had direct knowledge of them.
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  42. Since when 18 is "child"?
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  43. Yeah, but Scipio's men had, at best, only heard stories about them. Elephants can be easily defeated, and Romans started to do it very soon, but the countermeasures had to be perpared first than the battle.
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  44. Barbarossa. "red beard" in Italian.
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  45. That of Paris. It seems he was an handsome guy after all.
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  46. Saladin lost his momentum when Conrad of Montferrat succesfully defended Tyre, destroyed Saladin's Egyptian fleet and forced him to burn the siege engines and lift the siege. It's a shame that this part had been completely left out. For the Muslim chroniclers Conrad was a more dangerous enemy even than Richard.
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  47. It needs time to gather and bury around 4000 people.
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  48. Actually Massinissa was betrayed by the Cartageneans, that allied with his enemy Siphax after he was defeated at Ilipa.
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  49. More "Beppe" (one of many common shortening of "Giuseppe").
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  50. He was not the only one. The heirs of House Savoy had the titles of King of Cyprus, Armenia and Jerusalem as well (as legal heir of the house of Lusignan that went extinct in XV century).
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