Imagine being chosen as an empereor during the height of the crisis: -Hey you're the empereor now. -Yeah sure, let me just say goodbye to all my loved ones.

Rome: Six emperors in one year. Argentina: Five presidents in TWO WEEKS

Therapist: "Walpole voorhees isn't real, he can't hurt you" Walpole Voorhees: 7:16

“Wait, it’s all Walpole?” Extra Credits: “Always has been.”

Third crisis century in a nutshell: da da da, another one bites the dust da da da, another one bites the dust

Really wasn't expecting a song to recap a series of dead emperors, but I'm not complaining.

EH this is fantastic Walpole: check Romans: check Music: check Humour: check Assassination: check Political squabbles: check Complexity: check I’ve hit extra history bingo

I love how the soldiers all look so _happy_ about killing Emperors. 7:10 And Valerian's son is just _annoyed_ at getting murdered. "Seriously guys? We were on a 15 year streak of breaking this 'dead emperor' trend."

South Vietnamese: so we've been through eight coups and attempted coups during one war! Rome: hold my posca.

This Roman Emperor succession crisis thing seems like a typical event that happens in Crusader Kings II quite often.

Me, having watched Dovahhatty: "Can't wait to cry for Aurelian again."

Emperors' names by timestamp they died 6:19 Gordian I and II 6:25 Pupienus and Balbinus 6:33 Gordian III 6:41 Philip the Arab (w/ Philip II) 6:43 Decius (w/ Herennius Etruscus) 6:46 Hostilian 6:52 Trebonianus Gallus (w/ Volusianus) 6:55 Aemilian 7:02 Valerian 7:10 Gallienus 7:13 Claudius Gothicus 7:16 Quintilius 7:21 Here comes Aurelian!

Don't let me live through Aurelian's story again... I'm not strong enough.

Out: using verse to remember the Quadratic Equation In: using verse to remember Roman assassinations (Their actual names would have been kinda nice though :P)

Ah, Aurelian, The only emperor to be better than Trajan and luckier than Augustus.

Emperors: “So it’s treason then!” Praetorians: “You emperors really like saying that.”

We will watch your career with great interest

“Rome hear me, for we are in crisis! To the north, Roman impostors lead by Tertricus grow ever stronger. To the East, the usurper Queen Zenobia marches her armies into our lands. This is unacceptable! Give us an emperor from humble beginnings! Give us a leader our army will follow, give us, EMPEROR AURELIAN!”

emperor: *exists* preatorian guard: "OH BOY HERE I GO KILLING AGAIN"

"Known as Caesars" Dude, they literally sealed the fates of their successors when they named em that

Outrageous dismissal of Gallienus and Claudius Gothicus laying the groundwork for my boy Aurelian

‘A series of overlapping crises that both magnified and fed on each other’ Me in 2020: 🧐

One interesting thing about Western Rome right before it’s fall is how the administration had a “shift” (*mainly in Gaul*). Most administrative and legal position where mainly held by rich aristocratic Romano-Gallic families. Because of the third century crisis most of them had to pay more and more taxes to provide necessary fund to the empire. Yet at the same time, Senate positions and higher administrative post where less and less given to lower administrator but more and more trough nepotism and other factors like bribery. This meant that continuing to serve administrative posts served no real benefits other than a limited amount of power. What quickly happened was a shift of a Romano-Gallic aristocrat becoming part of the clergy, and then serving these administrative post. This in a way permitted them to keep their influence that these post had, while not paying taxes since the clergy was exempt from them. All of that made a “shift” (since the people that held the power were technically the same, just under a different “branding” now as priests) of legal and administrative positions slowly to the church, which is one of the reason why the church held so much power during the Middle Ages. When the Franks slowly and surely grasped the religion of Gauls during the end of the 5th century, the priest kept their administrative post. All of that slowly and surely became a normal thing, that mainly clergyman held the administration.

Thumbnail: Severus Alexander: Guys, I'm not cake I swear! Roman Soldiers: That's exactly what cake would say!

The succession is more what you call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome to the Roman Empire Caesar Diocletian!

The Virgin Praetorian Guard vs The Chad Sol Invictus

Kind of wish they were able to talk more on Gallienus, Valerian's son who lasted 15 years.

This will be one of the most replayed videos on this channel, at least a certain part of it, starting at 6:06. Seriously though, great choice of the topic yet again!

Extra Credits: *Makes A Third Century Crisis Video* Me: Nice ME also remembering the Aurelian Part: Oh no, OH NO OH NO!!!!

China in the 3rd Century: That's rough, buddy.

List of Emperor From Maximinus to Aurelian (mostly legitimate emperors names missed in the video) - Gordian I and II - Pupienus and Balbinus - Gordian III - Phillip The Arab and Phillip II - TRAIANVS Decius - Trebonianus Gallus and Hostilian - Gallien - Claudius II - Quintilis

So, let me try to guess from wikipedia: the 14 emperors mentioned from 6:18 would happen to be the following? 1 and 2 - Gordians I and II 3 and 4 - Pupienus and Balbinus 5 - Gordian III 6 - Philip the Arab 7 - Decius 8 - Hostilian 9 - Volusianus 10 - Aemilianus 11 - Valerian (mentioned in the video) 12 - Gallienus 13 - Claudius Gothicus 14 - Quintillus

Roman Emperor's succession sounds like how British kings began overthrowing each other after Richard the 2nd during the 100 years War. You get enough military and political support, you can be ruler, the only thing that kept them from going completely insane was having to have a blood or marriage right. Also I think this is the baseline for how empires and countries begin to fall: mass inflation (Venezuala, Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany etc.), multiple political leaders/successions, and military coups. ALso great song.

narrator in extra history: has legs and show them on screen me: impossible

7:30 I'm filing this under "Suspiciously Happy".

Historians: we have no idea what killed that emperor. Everyone: IT WAS WALPOLE!!!

Kind of a rule of history. When nations fall, it's never because of one thing, but everything happening at once 😟

Aurelian, the only Emperor luckier the Augustus and better the Trajan. Shame he got taken out before his time.

I’m so glad you guys have followed Dovahhatty’s footsteps and devoted part of a video to talk about Aurelian and the Third Century Crisis! Few men in history have accomplished so much in so little time with the odds so greatly stacked against him. Hope you guys do an entire video for the Restitutor Orbis down the line too. He deserves it. Great vid!

Thanks for the song. This is the most creative history narration I have ever seen. Lots of hugs guys.

Give us an emperor from humble beginnings. Give us a leader our armies will follow! Give us, Emperor Aurelian!!

Finaly, the most underated historical times of Roman Empire, "Crisis of the Third Century". Also Emperor Diocletan build his summer place wich still exists today in Dalmatia and is part of city of Split.

My area of expertise! The story around Alexander Severus 4:24 is really interesting and never talked about enough. If you have a min read this it'll all make more sense. So the Parthian Empire invades Syria and young Severus, who has no military training, is forced to lead the legions to repel the invasion. To raise an army he takes legions guarding the Danube river and marches with them to Syria. An important thing to note is that legions by this period were defensive forces- not offensive ones. These men guarding the Danube had families in the region and were from there. So these men were pissed that Severus was taking them all the way to Syria. Then- sickness spreads through the camp killing 25% of the army. After arriving Severus tries to make peace with the Parthians. The men were FURIOUS. He takes them from their homes to come and make PEACE with an invader? They demand Severus punish Parthia and Severus is forced too when Parthia denies peace talks. Alexander devises a plan. He will split his army into 3 parts and invade from the North, center, and South with Severus personally leading the center group. North and South invade and do so well that Severus decides to just skip his center invasion and he says in Antioch. The Northern army does not leave it's rear protected because they assume the center group is there to protect it. Well due to this the northern army is destroyed and the Southern army is forced to retreat. Alexander has to agree to harsh terms and leave the region. The legions were beside themselves with anger. This child had let 2 whole armies get destroyed because he was afraid to fight as he planned. They were taken from their home only to sit around and watch Romans die thanks to their coward emperor. The Danube legions returned home to find that their homes had been raided by the Germans in their absence. Furious they demand Severus avenge them and attack these tribes. What does Severus do? He sends a delegation to start peace talks. This was the final straw- the men kill him and make a tall Thracian emperor. Severus was not a bad emperor though. Elagabalus before him was the most INSANE emperor but Severus really tried. His mother was a great strength and weakness. She hoarded money and controlled him like an abusive person but she also prevented him from becoming a hedonist or sadist. Severus was considered a great and fair judge. The people and Senate loved him and he was a very calm and kind emperor. The army did not though and if the legions don't like you you cannot rule for long. Sad story

5:55 the podium: dissappears Everyone: wait, that's illegal

Ah yes, the _other_ national pastime of the Roman Empire - succession crises Lots and lots and _lots_ and *lots* of succession crises

Oh, my gods! They killed the Emperor!

Was expecting more about Gallienus (because of how consequential his reforms, military and administrative, were), however, cool song!

Extra History/Credits, if you are reading this then that’s great! I just want you to know that how you teach many forms of history, mythology, game design and sci-fi inspires me! Your teaching skills are spectacular with how you can teach history etc in the form of a story and put much needed love and care into researching topics! I know you and your team are not actual teachers but you will always be a great online teacher in my heart! 😊👍❤️

EC was having way too much fun with a song basically about how a bunch of guys were murdered or assassinated. XD

You did Gallienus so dirty, he deserves a lot more respect.

I’ve watched this vid multiple times just for the song, it’s fantastic! good job whoever wrote that

Just want to give a shout out to Gallienus and Claudius Gothicus. They didn't live very long, even shorter than Aurelian, but they really got the empire over the hump and laid some of the groundwork for a path forward

This is already one of EH’s best series just from the song alone

7:15 WAAAAAAAAAAAAALPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE!!!!!

Emperors: “Praetorians! To me!” Praetorian Guard: “Okay!” **Begins stabbing the Emperor and ushers in a new one to get paid**

"Who killed the next guy is unclear" I t w a s w a l p o l e !

Oh yessssssssssss! Extra History going back to the BEGINNING!

7:00 my face when the narrator began to sing, literally. Wasn't expecting that to happen xD

_Seeing a new video about the Third Century Crisis and then remembering what will eventually happen to Aurelian_ I can't not again, I'm not strong enough...

So just an opinion but personally I really enjoyed how you told the suilman the magnificent story It was different but refreshing to have you tell it from his prospective looking back on his past Those are the kinds of videos I want to see again.

Maximinus is in fact the direct ancestor to my RPG character Min-Maximus. He's a munchkin.

following in the great tradition of 1066 & all that, as well as the 'divorced beheaded died, divorced beheaded survived' rhyme that english children use to remember Henry VIII's wives

YES! I've been waiting for this for so long! Roman History has always been my passion and Extra History is one of my favorite History channels on UKposts. I've already learned a lot about the Third Century Crisis from Mike Duncan's exceptional The History of Rome podcast, but Extra History's series will be closely followed be me as well!

Gallienus deserves his own episode... 15 years on the throne, at the hight, of the crisis of the 3rd century?... That's impressive

Thank you so much for do a series on such a forgotten part of Roman history

YOU DARE SHOW HIS FACE?! HE WHO WAS LUCKIER THAN AUGUSTUS, AND BETTER THAN TRAJAN?!

You guys never cease to amaze me with how you take complicated subjects and break them down into simple to understand stories. Now with songs! I hope you guys are around for a long time. I want to use some of these to teach my son history and mythology, but he won’t be born until January.

I was expecting the 'End of Samurai Era' instead of this. Anyway, I think you already did excellent episodes on the Roman Empire. Oh, and too bad you won't be doing the 30 years war series. That's a topic I'd love to see covered by EC team! Peace!

6:06 - 7:25 THIS, is why I love this channel some much

I literally went "Not a song, not a song, please not a song" when he started complaining. 😆

I've been obsessed with Rome in the past month, thank you for this series! Love u guys.

I've binged a lot of you videos, you need more songs. This is a great video. You and your team are awesome.

I love delving into this period, and with this series i can relive it in Extra History fashion!

I'm really looking forward to this series. Will definately be among my favourites from this channel. While I'm generally very fascinated with the Roman empire, and have been for a long time, it's really this period and onwards that holds my interest nowadays. The song was very enjoyable. I would probably have liked for you to stick the names of the various emperors beside them, but I can see that wasn't really the point of the song. Liking the looks of the figures as well. I remember how simplistic they were back in the Punic Wars and Sengoku Jidai series, and while they're still simplistic, the increased detail is very pretty. Cheers.

I loved that song it was halarious! And Warpole killing the one dude I never saw it coming lol.

so glad this got chosen to be made into a series!! always been fascinated by this period of Roman history

6:48 I didn’t know JonTron was a short-lived Roman Emperor!

Eyyy Roman history again

So glad you guys are doing this one!

No matter how long I’ve watched you, it never gets boring. Great vids!

5:50 I was expecting you to only have boxers behind the podium

AMAZING!!!🙀😁😁😁 My jaw is on the floor and fist are in the air!✊😄✊ Who ever is/are your song writers, I cant express enough my amazement from these peoples work❤❤❤ Good singing by the way😉👉👉

You are amazing. I spent my day by searching third century crisis, and i am very excited about this serie

I'm so Hyped. I really like this period you are going to cover, specially because at the end there's going to be cabbages.

I'm a simple man. I see Extra History video on Rome, I click.

"...a series of overlapping crises that both magnified and fed on each other" where have I heard that before?

the way you guys teach is so understandable and amazing!

Finally! So glad to see EC doing another major Rome series!

After seeing Diocletian demonized so much in Christian historiography, I love seeing a more nuanced and positive approach. And a take that gives Aurelian the recognition he deserves as restorer of the empire.

Technically the Gallic and Palmyrene Empires can be considered as more examples of Roman Civil war, rather than breakaways. Since Zenobia crowned her son (who she was running as regent & conquering for) as Roman Emperor, and the Gallic Emperors came from an old emperors line, who classed themselves as the true emperors of Rome. Source: Adrian Goldsworthy, Pax Romana. (Chap: Beyond Pax Romana)

Finally, I’ve been waiting for this since your video on odenathus

The guy who had a pretty good run (Gallienus) in the song was actually responsible for a lot of the reforms that solidified the success of Aurelian.

Around 6:00 if you want to keep listening to the song!

As we all know, every unsolved case ever was done by Walpole.

How nice, I just watched Kings and Generals video on Aurelian, and love the content on both the channels!

This is good. It’s been too long since I’ve enjoyed an extra history video

When it’s 2050, can you guys do the the 2020 crisis

Give us an Emperor of from humble beginnings, give us a leader which our armies could follow, GIVE US EMPEROR AURELIAN!

I have been waiting for this

I'm usually not into this kind of stuff but you guys killed that song! amazing!