Stimpak Reacts to OverSimplified "The First Punic War"

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  @NUBME1STER · 11 months ago

  "Never heard of Carthage before."  Rome-"Great Success."

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  @SalmonLord-014 · 11 months ago

  "I don't know anything about Carthage. Like I've literally never heard of it before." Scipio still winning.

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  @LoneWolf4069k · 11 months ago

  Rome losing around 300,000 men and 2 or three fleets <br><br>Carthage: Just give up already! Your finished! <br><br>Rome: I didnt hear no bell

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  @themoderndavinci3801 · 11 months ago

  “I’ve never heard of Carthage.”<br><br>Well, over the next few videos in this series, you are about to find out why. Although you may have heard of one of their best generals (Hannibal Barca).

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  @wittyreviewer · 11 months ago

  The idea behind only having the consuls serve a one year term was to prevent any serious damage being done if one of them turned out to be god awful at the job, basically. The reason it ended up causing so much warfare was because of how much stock Rome put in earning glory.

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• NI

  @nikot.9920 · 11 months ago

  I love me a girl who enjoys her history. So cool to see you watching this Stim.

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• KA

  @kaii3170 · 11 months ago

  Yes, the Punic wars series from oversimplified is great! Happy to see stim reacting to it :)

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  @polaullon5116 · 11 months ago

  One thing you must consider. At this point in history Rome was still not the unstoppable force that will make almost all Europe trumble, in fact pretty much no one actually expected them to win a war against Cartage.

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  @christerprestberg3973 · 11 months ago (edited)

  Two of my favourite historical quotes comes from this era, &quot;Carthago delenda est&quot;, or &quot;Carthage must be destroyed.&quot; by Cato the elder, a roman politician that would end his speaches with that quote. The quote in it self is not that awesome, but its how he would just add it to the end of speaches. And ofc Hannibal Barca&apos;s promise to his father, &nbsp;“I will always be an enemy to the Romans.&quot;

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  @patrickwitek · 11 months ago (edited)

  I&apos;m not sure if you misunderstood it, but I did for a long time so might as well point it out. I assumed that when they said Carthage will need to pay Rome 2200 Talents of silver, it meant that they had to pay them 40 million USD in today&apos;s money. But turns out he was talking about 1 Talent of Silver being worth 40 million USD. So in reality Rome asked Carthage to pay 88 billion, but then changed it to 128 billion. They raise it again later to 176 billion (which would be around 195 billion in 2025, crazy how much inflation there&apos;s been since 2022) so they really were having a laugh. Off topic but something I found interesting, Germany was asked to pay a little over 3x that amount after WW1.

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  @anthonyrinaldi1331 · 11 months ago

  Talking about the difference in honor. The &nbsp;Roman Consul went back to be tortured because he made a promise,while the Carthage elite ran off the Spartan who saved them because him being so competent made them look bad

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  @StephanePare · 11 months ago

  Elephants were in the back for the same reason Europeans rarely used their large battleships in WW2. They cost an ungodly amount of time and resources to grow/train/build. Losing a battle can be recoverable, but even in victory you don&apos;t want to be the leader who lost most of your biggest bad ass weapons. In the case of Carthage, that would be ground for crucifixion

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