Human ingenuity. Keep in mind that this technology was the bleeding edge of military technology back in these days. It'd be the equivalent of nukes or stealth aircraft in terms of how limited, expensive, and technical it was. Pretty cool stuff.

@conacal rubdur I'm guessing English isn't your first language. I'll explain. This comparison is called an analogy. The technologies are analogous vis-a-vis the contemporaneous military capabilities they grant, and one could also imagine the prohibitive costs. Roman siege doctrine is in no way similar to the nuclear triad. Agreed. There is no direct comparison.

@conacal rubdur So a comparison of contemporaries might be: the gap between Gen 4.5 and Gen 5 aircraft and the gap between two disparate ancient siege technologies, with the superior being the one here.

@conacal rubdur I'm sure you have a million reasons why I'm wrong to mention these two in the same breath, truly. It's a UKposts comment section, though. You're looking at this through an electron microscope (though you don't support your argument whatsoever). Explain why it's vague and pointless. When you argue something, support it. I'll explain what others gleaned: From a broad perspective, Roman siege engineering was ahead of the rest, very far ahead. It's important to understand that sieges in the ancient world often determined the success or failure of an entire war. So when you consider that other civilizations didn't have the ability to design and build anything like what the Romans did, it makes sense that it can be thought of as cutting edge. They were the regional military superpower in the 1st century AD. What country designs and builds 5th generation military jets? Oh, a military superpower who has the technology granting them the ability to conduct air operations that others can't match? Did these cost their respective users a lot to design and utilize? Did technological advancement scale the same way it did 2000 years ago? (No, lol) Obviously other people understand that it's a rough comparison of contemporaries. You're reminding me of a galaxy brain freshman (who was constantly praised by high school teachers) who interjects in large undergrad lectures: "Technically, Professor, wouldn't this not be true because in my opinion it's ackshyually this way?" I TA'd a course with a well-meaning but insufferable student who had Aspergers. Sometimes it's necessary to be the ackshyually guy, but on UKposts, like in undergraduate courses, it's pedantic. Have a good day, genuinely. I'm sure you have a million reasons why I'm wrong to even mention stealth jets and ancient siege engineering in the same breath.

They probably got the idea from fortnite lol

Build what ?a mountain? Hhhh ok if israeli said do

American loves wahhabi bed Josephus was not a liar and most of his works are considered legitimate by many historians, some later Christian writes did interpolate his works though so you should blame them instead, Josephus is not a traitor per se but a person who accepted Rome’s supremacy after his people’s revolt was brutally suppressed, in this he parallels Polybius( after Rome conquered Greece) and can’t really blame him. Masada was not made up it is considered a real historical event that Is even corroborated in Roman sources and for which there are evidenced and is accepted by vast majority of scholars, it was the last stand of the Jewish revolt and subsequent mass suicide. I have no idea why you seek to deny this tbh, it confuses the rational mind.

Isaiah 47:6-13 [6]I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. [7]And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. [8]Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: [9]But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. [10]For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me. [11]Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know. [12]Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. [13]Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

@@pelaiahisrael2389 a

@@messianic_scam romans still built a hell of a lot elsewhere besides Masada. Example: Alesia

REEEE I want blood REEEE

Yeah, wasn’t Sun Tzu against the mistreatment of enemy soldiers?

@@crose1466 While Im not sure on that, I think it was more the idea of not cornering a wild animal. If they've got a way out, they won't fight to the last man or as viciously.

IntenseWizardry that makes sense. That was probably the reason. I think there was another topic in art of war that had to do with treating captured enemies. That’s probably where I got that from.

... and now, CORONA virus...

Like a nightmare you can’t wake up from

Wait! There’s more. The nightmare is not over. A rabbi will come up with a great solution to your fears. Let’s kill everyone hiding from the romans so the Romans won’t kill us! Great idea Rabbi. Hence the saying: Jumping out of the pan into the fire.

Ha ha engineer salary goes skaplush

Actually, those working were Jewish prisoners. Jewish defenders had to target their own kin, sadly.

Yeah.... he didn't mention how the Roman's were scared to fight and ceaser threatening to kill any Roman that wasn't fighting with valor..... they were just as scared if not more

Did you release this on the Jewish new year on purpose or?

THFE Productions now that is some documentary level quality.

Just a happy coincidence I suppose

THFE Productions what about the history of the Roman legion series?

I plan on getting back to it eventually

There's a saying in the army that there's nothing you can't get done if you throw enough men at it.

+AzureDragon100 hmmmm

Read about the siege of tyre .. you'll like that one too

is it Alexander's invasion of tyre?

Yes

There are remains of swimming pools...Sorry

I visited the site as part of a tour while on liberty in 1985. It was indeed impressive, especially after I had seen the movie "Masada" just a few years earlier (1981). (USS KIDD - DDG-993)

Thanks for serving & G-D bless the USA

J.J. J serving what?

@@ELCADAROSA same here, We docked in Haifa back in 86 for a week,and was given the opportunity to visit several places (Jerusalem, Casera, Masada, Dead Sea) It was amazing. I had the opportunity to return to Israel 3 yrs ago for my 50th bday and it was equally just as impressed. Thank you and God bless to a fellow vet. RP2 Haber USS Concord AFS5 85-90

@@garyhaber333 i did the math, man you went in as a young pup didnt you? I was trying to figure out a guy who was serving when i was 9 is less than a decade older than me

Thank you for specifying

I was confused by this, so thanks for clarifying

"Shibboleth"

In Scandinavian languages, "korn" means cereal.

And Ein corn, one of the oldest grains. Or also like you said, a corn of wheat.

like a hill in Vietnam nobody ever heard of

I think it was a British actor who said that.

Peter O'Toole as Silva in the Masada mini TV series: 'We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.'

short sighteddog we just took iwo jima

@Adam Price almost certainly not and if it did it contributed what 0.0000001%?

WHY, ''mr. shitass'' ???????????? WHY ? Mt.12:34 (KJV) Mk.4:9 (KJV)

I would love to go to Israel one day. So much history. Beautiful country.

@@signoguns8501 i hope you will come visit you wont regret it aint other place like israel in the world

Palestine will be taken back

You still alive or did you get paraglider of peace'd?

Yep, but was funded by taxation of conquered peoples. The legacy of Empire is death, conquest, tyranny, and racism. Heaping adulation on its war machines romanticizes (pun intended) Empire. And it still crumbled under its own weight. WOLVERINES!!!

I'm tempted to quote Monty Python's Life Brian here but I'll try and resist. What have the Romans ever done for us? Well there's: - Latin based language, of which English is though with a large amount of German thrown in. - Democratic government, the Romans took a Greek idea and made it work more effectively. - Christianity, might not have taken hold without the Roman Emperor becoming a convert - Roads, Bridges and other infrastructure that previous civilisations in Europe couldn't match There will be others, that's just what I can think of off top of my head

Imagine if they had put that "can do" attitude to something constructive like building massive temples, pyramids or gigantic beautiful structures in their homeland instead of using it to slaughter millions. Yes they did make a few famous structures, but those pale in comparison to the massive monuments of antiquity. Ultimately the Roman Empire was a great bully that crumbled under its own weight.

What about all the engineering works like aqueducts and the building of roads, surely far more useful to more people and just as labour intensive compared to a huge stone pyramid honouring one man's life? The impressive thing about Rome for me is not that they conquered more of the planet than anyone before them but that they held it together for hundreds of years. The Mongol Empire, the British Empire, Even Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire couldn't hold their conquests together for centuries like the Romans did. Ultimately you are right though the Romans didn't know when to stop conquering and they were a deadly enemy to have. It's because of the Romans however that Europe is predominately Christian and that we speak Latin based languages like Spanish, French and even English that are now spoken globally by billions. I don't see ancient Egyptian or Phoenician being spoken nowadays.

You'd speak differently if it was your body it would have stood upon.

@eedd sdsd Yes, it was also a palace, or had a palace in it.

@@markmcelroy1872 Nope, Jesus was alive at the time of Herod Antipas, not Herod the Great

@eedd sdsd Ironic.

It was just a way for them to flex their muscles.

But I like the story of their first landing in the British Isles. Meeting those huge cliffs no one told them about and their progress watched by blue person on a horse as they looked for a beach.

anhar miah your comment is stupid on so many levels ...

The largest naval battle to this day was during the Roman times! People don't grasp the scale of war at that time when the world had a very small population compared today.

@שי כהן Fake AshkeNazi and khazars converts

They rebelled in the strongest point of Rome

Romans: We will exist forever. Jews: Unlike the Romans, we still exist today.

@@holypig777 So do Romans.

@@rao3704 Romans are alive and well mate, go to Rome and ask how they're doing. You can also say Romans are modern day Italians, and they're still here, doing fine. You can also say that the Western world is the spiritual successor of the Roman Empire, we still live according to many of their customs and traditions passed down on to us. We're still here mate, still doing fine. Long live the people, long live the senate, and long live Rome.

Ima SingusChickenus barely

@@holypig777 why dont romans exist today a few months ago i was in Italy and i found them to be pretty alive

It is pro Israel. Look at what and how he spoke about Germanicus and the Germans…

The Third Reich specifically *didn't* out-build their opponents, and the resultant lack of sufficient tanks, aircraft and other war materiel was a major factor in their ultimate defeat. In this case, getting two out of three (outfight and out-atrocity) wasn't enough.

Nah they often outfought you as well

Probably not. Oppenheimer (American Jew), not Einstein (German Jew) lead the successful effort in the US. Nazis had Heisenberg but did not focus their efforts on his work. Then there's the fact that the US was a much bigger economic behemoth and could bring new tech to the field much faster. Nazis were toast once they didn't make it to the Russian oil fields.

Catherine H. Einstein had ZERO to do with the Atomic bomb. It's a public belief which is plain wrong. Also, without anti-semitism you wouldn't even have the nazis OR their rise to power. Hating Jews was one of their core beliefs and what made them a lot of sympathizers ALL over the world - not just Nazi Germany. Henry Ford was one of Hitler's most vocal supporters and he also supported Nazi Germany with Ford trucks. Btw, the eugenics (race biology) the nazis implemented actually were *American* ideas - look up Harry H. Laughlin. The nazis used *his* ideas about compulsory sterilization. Btw, in the USA they still had Jim Crow laws so racist laws already existed there. Check up the Immigration act of 1924 too which specifically set out to prevent "non-white races" or "people of lesser stock" to enter the US. Bear in mind both Great Britain and France had global empires around this time and let's just say that the locals under their imperial rule were treated harshly indeed. Hitler admired the British for their empire and believed he could make his own with them as a template. Anti-semitism was popular in most European nations and many occupied countries actually HELPED the nazis round up their jews. Vichy France, Hungary under Horthy, fascist Croatia, Romania under the fascist Iron Guard to name but a few. Even Poland - which had the largest Jewish population in Europe (hence why all the extermination camps were built there) - had begun implementing anti-semitic laws BEFORE the nazi invasion. The Poles were looking into adapting their own "Nuremberg laws" much like the ones in Germany before the war started. Roosevelt was sometimes referred to as a "jew-lover" by Americans wanting to stay out of the war whenever he spoke to support the British or others. Anti-semitism was definitely condoned prior to WW2 and hatred of Jews (check up Henry Ford's "The International Jew" which he financed both the printing and distribution of in 1921, several years before Hitler came to power in Germany) was heard in academic circles as well as many in the Middle Class. During the Great Depression many blamed "greedy Jewish bankers and their cronies" too. With that in mind this "exception in racist Anti-Semitic" belief is anachronistic at best and plain ignorant at worst. The whole *nationalism* and its adherents in many countries had this as one of their core tenets. People were still calling Italians wops and guidos in the US during this time, any oriental person was "Chinese" and good for toiling only. Blacks were lower than dirt. Fact is Jesse Owens found it surprising people in Nazi Germany came up to him to congratulate him whereas he was just another n*gger back home. Read his biography. So you're making up mindless speculation. No anti-semitism, no nazis. Btw, no Great Depression and Germany being particularly hard struck by that and you'd see no nazis in power either. Compare the votes the Nazi Party got in 1928 German election compared to the 1933. They knew who to blame and who they believed were behind this Great Depression... And like FREEDOMINATOR1776 says, Germany lacked both the economy (the Manhattan Project was a monstrous economic undertaking) , natural resources and government support ever to get close to an atomic bomb. Mind you some people doubted the Manhattan Project would ever produce anything and some "weapon experts" in the US Government claimed the "A-bomb will never work".

Lyinar Baeldeth "and more often than not, out-atrocitied you" THIS also made them A LOT of *enemies* and ended them. In the end their greed and brutality meant everybody hated them. The Goths rightly sacked Rome in AD410, especially after finding out that the word of a Roman meant nothing. Rome nearly folded in the 2nd century under increasing pressure from ever stronger enemies but were given a new lease of life thanks to Diocletian. There was never any doubt Rome's pyramid economy could never sustain itself forever. *Roads* is how Rome built an empire. *Bread & Games* kept both the Roman plebs and occupied people pacified. For a while. They also understood how to divide and conquer nations, thereby making them easier to defeat. Worked well in Gaul. The tribes were too busy fighting within themselves to unite against the foreign invader and by the time they did it was too little, too late. Local kings and rulers could be bribed to become Roman vassals. For an opulent lifestyle and a few trips to Rome local rules complied. Well, until the locals great tired of them. Like Herod for instance. Roads = communication Bread & Games = pacified population Bribed vassals = complacent "allies". As for the Third Reich. Its economy or natural resources would *never* win a long war of attrition. Even Hitler knew that. Pillaging is how they tried to survive. They had no other option since Germany had no empire. Unfortunately this also made them hated by every nation they conquered. When you make enemies wherever you go... It should be clear the poster meant Nazi Germany "out-atrocity" their enemies. Forget about the rest. Nazi Germany lacked the natural resources so it couldn't bl*ody well produce tanks and planes from material they didn't have. The allies had five times more aluminium. Without the Romanian oil wells Germany could never even had started Operation Barbarossa in 1941. Lucky for them Stalin didn't just invade the rest of Romania in 1940 (he just took Bessarabia) while the nazis were busy in France. The war would have been over for Nazi Germany in 1940 already. You can't run your tanks, trucks and motor vehicles on happy thoughts now can you. When the nazis failed to seize the oil wells in Caucasus in 1942 their timer was ticking... Anyways. Brutal empires can only exist so long. Odds are against them when they anger too many people. Some present day "empires" could perhaps learn from that.

And the persistence of the Jews at the time to keep their homeland.

General noob Nah, almost everyone resisted Rome so the fact that the Jews resisted too isn't very interesting. The effort of the Romans on the other hand is actually interesting.

"Roma Invicta" Lmao, let me direct you all to 410AD, 455AD, and 476AD.

Vanders thanks for the correction but Pergamon Rome inherited and the king of Egypt left it to Rome as well as the iceni which went badly

***** awwww, is little boy salty?

Read about the Greeks. Alexander's army built a land bridge just to lay siege to a city on an island. And alexander went first over the wall since his soldiers were being little cowards and not jumping the wall

@@seantanzey1129 I personally doubt that a king, goes first during a siege

@@seantanzey1129 That was impressive too, but nothing beats Caesar's siege work's during the Battle of Alessia. His legions built essentially a second fortified city to circumvent the existing one, in order to prevent any foraging parties. Same they did during the Siege of Jerusalem in the First Jewish revolt. Alexander was lucky in a way that his only major siege was against Tyre. He won his battles outside cities and then cities mostly surrendered afterwards.

Sad, their culture by decades their culture change and called now.. Italy. Where is roman empire now, in history only.

@@ishams8979 You forgot the legacy of Rome The Roman empire spread Civilization along its territories Other empires just plunder and destruction... and what is left it's only bad memories

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Clean up you’re language

@@darrellcrawford1769 ehm, your'e, i think you mean your language....

+LIGER ZERO flaming missiles are a Hollywood creation... it would be VERY difficult to make something burn then fly thru the air super fast and somehow not get put out... modern burning stuff is very complicated.

***** Thats a recent (WW2) construction... I'm assuming if they had glass bottles they could potentially do it if they also had strong booze.

***** Even so they would still have to get up there and break down the walls, the thing wasn't made out of wood, only that bit of wall was...

***** slaves

***** slaves are extremely efficient, Btw yes, maybe they could have found a different way but brute force is a great way to be Roman.

the purest language ever: Latin. it generated all romance languages. the religious influence. the poetry and literature. the art. the alphabet, the calendar. unsurpassed and never will be.

@@gioq4702 it is incredible to study Latin today and to see how much this language effected western civilization, and by proxy, the world

@@anon2427 yep studying Latin was good fun... To revive their spirit. Fortunately Italian is very similar, it's kept the vocabulary and phonetics.

@@gioq4702 somewhat, I notice that Italian has some very different sounds than Latin, and the conjugations aren’t as similar. Learning Latin as an English speaker is surprising, so many English words have Latin roots or straight up Latin translations

They've been playin a lotta fortnite lol

Mine, too. Visited there a couple of weeks ago.

close second to reading a book while drinking a beer while floating in the dead sea

robraver I agree - having spent a gap year backpacking around Israel, the Sinai and Egypt, I visited Masada twice (sleeping on the site both times (this was back in 1983/4)..... It truly is an Awesome fort and location.

@William Pilston plastelin?

@William Pilston palestine? like narnia?

Thanks for the compliment! In every documentary I try something new so I'm glad to hear you thought the siege schematic was effective

Except the JEWS could not stock pile corn. Corn was brought to Europe by the Spanish Conquistadors in the mid 16th century, Almost 1500yrs AFTER the Siege/fall of MASADA. APPARENTLY most folks have never learned that. TOBACCO too, came from the New World. While the old world brought; smallpox, measles, mumps, chickenpox, and all the STD's. Not a very fair exchange.

@@walksfletcher shut up.

idiot watch the video

outline What’s Your Problem? Why so mad? He said the truth.

@@g3rn0m4ly7 nah

Angelo Cortez: Well Said, lol. The videos words did speak truth. - Masada is a testament, to how far humans, will go to kill other humans. . .

fortnite reference lol

in their time. in contemporary times that honor goes to the Third Reich. the competition isn't even close

Leo Peridot Is this a joke? Nuclear fission was discovered in the 3rd Reich and would have undoubtedly been expanded upon if were not for the war, the French fielded the first semi auto rifles in the First World War more than 10 years before the U.S adopted their semi autos, and by 1944 the Germans adopted the first assault rifle the StG44 that made U.S rifles obsolete for the next 15 years until the adoption of the AR10/15/M16. Germans had rockets, jet engines, infrared, etc. The only real point you have is about the bombers, US did have the best bombers. The best pilots were all German. Richard Bong ,the top ace in US had 40 kills while Erich Hartman the top German ace had 352 kills. Look up the list of the top aces of WW2 and you will see that the US wasn’t even close to the best, there were Romanians, Japanese, Russians and Finnish that all had higher scoring aces

@Leo Peridot not to mention fighting on two fronts separated by two oceans a t the same time.

@@Wombat_Astronaut german aces only stacked that much kills because they fought masses of unskilled soviets pilots and they dont get leave because they dont have replacement. they continue flying till their unit gets destroyed, lacks fuel or are themselves killed, while western allied pilot gets rotated home to teach new pilots. thats why new allied pilots can hold themselves against experienced foes.maybe the french had the first semi auto, but to make them basic infantry weapon, as in every GI is issued one? i dont think so. a german basic weapon or french is still a bolt action rifle. and the russian had the first assault weapon in ww2, the federov.there was less than half a million stg44 produced in an army of multiple million, Genius!!!! most of the time, poor fritz had to do with his grandpa's bolt action kar 98K ...fission is like the farthest u are from assembling an atom bomb. they spent shit ton of resources and and a small city of scientist and technician just to get the right type of uranium and in the sufficient amount. US spent material and made sure they have plenty of it. Instead of paying with blood. now that's what make a smart warfighter.

@Leo Peridot the British were pretty much absent in the pacific after the fall of Singapore. its the US navy that contained Japanese drive to Australia, of course in tandem with the Australian navy

He was more pro Roman when it was about Germanic wars.

+LIGER ZERO 15 tons is different from 500.000 tons.

We don't wait to adapt, we change nature to the way we want.

Yup, exactly. Slavery gets shit done xD

...and then the weather starts to change,..and nature cleans herself of you and your arrogant kind,.and lives on,...rid of @@GreenAndSuited

@@gino9094 this wasn't slaves, this was the legionaries. Slaves didn't accompany the legions.

This was a bit of a unique opportunity but I'll see if I can get similar footage in the future

THFE Productions I see. I hope you will be! :) It just gave an even better wibe to the video.

got patreon? would like to support this, Mr. Oakley Attenborough. :)

not yet but I may set one up in the future

I doubt there are many historical battle sites preserved this well and vividly over the years.

Morgulvale not really

What'd you think of it? I went there about two years ago and was was simply astounded. I didn't expect it to be that high, the Romans really had their work cut out for them there.

Βουλγαροκτόνος1014 Is was amazing, the views were astounding. It was bloody hot up there as well haha but it's definitely a must see.

I was truly impressed when I went to the Masada. It inspired me to buy a gladius, and read up so much more on history. Then I found out that most of the story of Masada is fake www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_56.htm

Morgulvale at my camp the oldest campers are in a group we call masada

They did not die for sand or rock. They died for an idea: "LIBERTY"

They died for freedom. Not to be enslaved.

@Robert Landin its always a good idea to put the name of the person you refer to in front of your comment otherwise we wont know to whose comment is referred. If it was meant for me I only tried to point out how isolated they must have been all cut off at the top of a hill, and that they were willing to die even though they did not have much to lose except their freedom

It was more fertile 2,000 years ago

Hope you had a great time Steve. It really is inspiring to visit.

J.J. J taking the cable car 🚠 up to the top of Masada was amazing and looking down at the remains of the Roman encampment gave me chills. To think that the jewish rebels looked down at them every day inching closer and closer must have been horrific

@@HeavenlyAmbassadors A man who believes there is no G-D and no soul after the body dies will always fear death more than a man with faith in the word of G-D. If you get a chance, go to the Jewish quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem and you will see beneath the plaza the remains of a Roman market from 2000 years ago (Cardio). The market, it's Roman culture & the people have long been gone; above that market now there are Jews living, praying and speaking Hebrew today - just as the Bible promised they would.

J.J. J because they were WILLINGLY IGNORANT of the truth G-D gave them over. I always ask myself how there could be unbelievers when we have prophecy and history to collaborate the truth of the Bible! What you just said is an example of the greatest modern day miracle! Thousands of years ago, it was prophesied that G-D would never abandon the Jews. Although they would get dispersed and return twice (never has a nation been displaced from it’s homeland, and return along with its national heritage/cultural,) yet Israel has done it twice

Kalel Kent thats nothing!!! theres thousands. & thousands. coming to invade north from CENTRAL AMERICA I GUESS WE GOING TO COMMITTING SUICIDE TO....

Oh I am sure a lot of those soldiers had "helpers" aka "slaves" to carry their gear on their journey...

You do realize that the Jews weren't from Masada and that they also walk all those miles through the desert. And they did it without slaves to carry their stuff

@@samaramel3.674 no they didn't, that would just mean more mouths to feed for the supply system and more people to keep in check. They had mules and carts but those were not for their personal equipment. They had to carry their stuff just like modern soldiers. Not much changed in that regard.

In Masada they had plenty of water. In the desert around there was none. Think of the logistics. How much water do you need a day for 10.000 men and animals?

Glad you enjoyed! I am probably going to cover the Siege of Jerusalem that happened prior to Masada. I may cover the latest revolts as well but I don't have as much information on that at the moment.

They didn't fight 4 legions they fought 12 (a third of the roman army). Two of which would be completely destroyed.

So true!

At least they fought for what they believe in, not just accept Romans as their owners and convert to their religion.

Well, where are the romans?

@@EL-oj6uq in Rome?

Tell me, now where is rome? And where's Israel? There is no roman empire and Israel is the 8 most poweful country and a tech capital.

THFE originally stood for "The Halo Forge Empidemic" which was the first channel I was a part of on UKposts. It revolved around the game halo and its custom map making tool called forge. I made this channel to explore new content and eventually just separated entirely. THFE stuck around but now I just refer to it as "Teaching History For Everyone"

That the strength with Acronyms. You can always change the meaning if needed. (I guess it a sort of backcronym however..) And I do like Teaching History For Everyone.

Mr. Burns indeed

*shocked gasp* That's how sieges were conducted for millennia. It's hardly a tough guess that until some drastic technological progress happens, it will stay the same.

“Thus says the Lord to His anointed, To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held- To subdue nations before him And loose the armor of kings, To open before him the double doors, So that the gates will not be shut: ‘I will go before you And make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze And cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness And hidden riches of secret places, That you may know that I, the Lord, Who call you by your name, Am the God of Israel. - Isaiah 45:1-3 (700 BC) Cyrus the Great was then born roughly around 576 BC, became the Persian King, and delivered the Jews from Babylonian captivity. In which the Jews soon after built their second temple.. There's too many fulfilled prophecies in the bible to simply blow off as mere coincidence.

@Leo Peridot One could say that Jesus even indirectly alluded to the exact year of their destruction in 70 AD. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/n3KpaZeRkYtntJ8.html

The bible was written in 250ad

In my country, History Channel only shows RealityTV about Hilbillies and pawn shops and something about sharks mow and then. UKposts has them long beat if you ask me.

Do you feel that place should be hard to capture?

@@withastickangrywhiteman2822 As is typical with heights, the video doesn't do it justice. I'd find it hard to believe anyone would think it would be able to be captured and even harder to believe the Romans built a giant ramp and captured it. Especially in a place that looks like Mars for all the vegetation and potable water that can be found.

I can not help but feel doubt too. The video says the Romans were running low on supplies that is the reason they decided to take the place by force at once. So, if the Romans were forced to attack because of low supplies. how can they wait to finish such a huge project?

Interesting, but not a place where warriors once stood.

Did exactly the same in 2000! Impressive place.

The siege of tyre?

Guy turned an island into a peninsula, and it has remained that way until today

The first ever causeway in the world Tyre (Sur) Of Lebanon today = Phoenicia/Canaan of Ancient times

@@dsk71 Founding city of Carthage.

@@Gracchi Yes, that's right (in a way). Carthage was founded by Elissa (Dido) whose husband was killed by the King of Tyre (her brother)

The mongols tooked intelectuals from their conquest to serve then as máster, i gess that they were aware of the culture tresaure they could get.

Masada was built by Herod. It had nothing to do with the Maccabees.

Seth is correct. It was fortified by the kings of the Hasmonean dynasty - i.e. the Maccabees.

Daniel Schindler Yes, it was started by Alexander Janneus, but that was well after the Maccabeean revolt, and the fortress we know today was built by Herod. So no, it was not the sight of some epic battle between the Maccabees and the Seleucids. Their HQ was always their hometown of Modi'in.

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If one place resists, then they can spread the rebellion and be a center of operation. And if the romans don't take them down, then their military might will be questioned,feeding even more the rebellious thoughts. I guess you know the expression " to cut off the evil at the root" if I may say so. This applies here. Leaving one rebel town prevents the region to step down.

@@thibs2837 I understand the concept of totally crushing the most recalcitrant elements of the local resistance, but It would have been extremely difficult to raid the Roman controlled areas from Masada which mattered, let alone lead a rebellion from it because the very things which made it such a challenge to besiege by 10,000 Romans, also limited the defenders mobility. As in Normandy where the Germans flooding the landscape not only pinned in Allied mechanized forces, but restricted their own avenues for counterattacks.

@@dpeasehead masada only cannot take back the region but keep in mind that Romans were in "hostile territory", the narrator talks about the second rebellion that followed soon after the first one.

That is my question too! Boggles the mind.

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***** I was thinking more about Roman glory. Not ignoble defeat like Adrianople.

I don't know about the Mithridatic wars man, he was really a dumb king and general (how the fuck can you make your men climb a ginourmous hill with wargear and expect to defeat a fully rested roman army at the top? Veni Vidi Vici)....

He was a poor general but he had a knack for diplomacy few have ever compared to.

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