- How many casualties they inflicted - The psychological damage they left on the romans (like Carthage) - Material destruction that resulted - How long said conflicts lasted for (say, the Parthian/Sassanian wars) - What the romans gained after defeating said enemy (the importance long term) - How much respect they had for their defeated enemy (differences from how they treated the greeks to say the gauls)
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How prepared the Romans were to mess with them again. If someone kicks your butt so hard that you don’t ever go back, that’s one hell of a victory. Even if it was only ever the one fight.
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Some categories: -destruction (deaths, infrastructure) -how much they changed Rome - contribution to the fall -territorial changes -circumstances of the conflict -type of state (like germanic tribes vs. parthian state) I hope this can help!
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-did they wear trousers? -did they eat sitting or Lying Down? -are they carthage?
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1. Military acumen and achievement 2. Fiscal responsibility 2. Legal and Policy impact 3. Length of Rule 4. How did they leave the Empire 5. Were they a legal successoom or a usurpation after there death 6. Historical popularity
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How much territory they lost, like how Greece was completely conquered despite having the “best” army of the Mediterranean.
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Hannibal Barca, Spartacus, Mithradites of Pontus, Boudicca of the Iceni, Viriathus of Hispania, Alaric of the Visogoths, Attila the Hun, Jesus of Nazareth, and so on. 😄
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Some of the enemies of the republic were romans themselves. Will romans who marched on rome count? Or maybe it’s more of a civilization clash type of list?
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Tominus Maximus
Currently making another ranking video, this time about Ranking all Enemies of the Roman Republic. What kind of criteria do you think that would be relevant in this case?
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