Could You Survive as a Roman Soldier?

Man do I love the Romans, most people don't know they had strict laws governing sexual relationships. Incest was punishable by death, unlike what yhe film portra. Most romans were not perverts. I also love the Persians, my favourite ancient empire!

25 years to get citizenship? Thats crazy

I've always wondered how the Romans survived anything lower than Mediterranean temperatures in shorts and sandals.

The centurion guy really puts it all together! 😊

This channel is one of the most underrated history channels I've seen! These are high quality and very interesting to watch. Thanks for making this amazing content!

This was such an awesome video

Articulate and entertaining 💜🌸🧐

This is awesome!

Great work

I'm best friends with the owner seriously he's called kethlan

Not bad, enlightening.

Wonder how some rome. Felt during the punic wwr

Nothing survives that might resemble an ancient drill manual does it not? OMFG.

I say no... But I'll try to make the best of my time.

24 AD: Feign sickness to the physician to get out of training
2024 AD: Feign sickness to the medical officer to get out of training
20,204 AD: Feign sickness to the medical droid to get out of training

"The Spear is a Weapon; you can uh..hold it and fight with it"

Wow 10/10 educational lesson there.

Just another conscript complaining as usual; not enough pay. The food is terrible, blah, blah, blah

So, if the long iron shaft isnt meant to break off if you tried to pull it out of a shield, why are they built like that? If it was just a normal javelin why not have a more standard design from the time that would be cheaper, lighter, less cumbersome, and more universally unable by any auxiliaries with backgrounds in tribal warfare?

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0.01 secs in, no.

I spent 4 years as a Marine, and I don't even think I'd survive back then. They were on another level, hard times make hard men.

Even the Romans believed Roman stereotypes.

Da best! 🙌🏼❤️

Blue Romans

I was sent to the Welsh frontier as a Roman soldier on a 'work for the dole' program. Spent most of our time playing Rugby and drinking lager.

My ancestors were Spartans

No .

Can you survive as a Roman legionaire?

Hey this is ya boi Claudius somethingius Maximus stargathius, I asked the prefects where we’re heading and they said a small town named cannae. Something about crushing a small army.

I thought a century was 80 soldiers and 20 support?

How can I enlist to be apart of this legion

Fantastic. I havent enjoyed a history documentary like this for about 15 years.

So every guy that wanted to be a soldier had to show the officer his testes, so he was sure he had more than 1 testicle?

Imagine being a knight, the current year is 1562. You just surpassed your squire days and became a knight, you have bought all your gear and heraldry. You hear word that your kingdom will lay siege 2 days in the future, your train, prepare, pray, and are sent off north. As you are preparing, staring at the enemies across you, next to your brothers on arms. Your Commander in Battle says the infamous 6 letter word “Charge” and you run to the person you were death staring from 2 miles away. Your lines and brothers clash with the opposing kingdom, all you hear is screaming and swords clashing and men crying in pain. And next thing you know there’s a Knight 5 feet away from you raising his sword to slice you up. You get lucky and manage to get some lucky hits, and you’re saved by your vanguard buddy. You tip your hat to him and look at the carcasses of the knight he had just slain, you remember he had parents, a life, and a happy family. You decide to shake that off your shoulders and fight the next person you see, you have morale because your anger from you wounds. But unfortunately that’s the last choice you ever got to make, next thing you know. Your body is seen decapitated, scratched, bruised, pale, and that was his first siege. Moral of the story: Most knights and more didn’t even have more than 1 or 2 battles, that’s the brutality of medieval warfare.

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This is bonkers! But looks like great fun.

I love how there's a random central asian yurt in the middle of the fort. Those darn scythian auxilias, am I right?

A lot of actual Roman soldiers didn't . . .

It really weird that its so standard for media to show an "artists impression" of a building when it's clearly an "architectural draftsman's" early drawing or digital model.
Artists are never involved.

Tbf this is one of the few times that term might be closer to reality than usual.

No, I wouldn't survive😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

too much intelligence was frowned upon? can someone explain why?

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Awesome content!

Is it racist to have a little white blonde girl interstate a step warrior?

I would say about 99% of people today would not survive very long as roman soldier let alone even survive very long in those times just look around at people today and prove I'm wrong you won't do it

No you couldn't, not a single one made it back alive. (/sarcasm)

Yes.

I shudder to think of surviving in a world with no modern medicine. Nevertheless, this is a good video.