History Re-Summarized: The Roman Empire

The plot twist of Rome is that it was always a mess, now sit back and enjoy the marble-covered mayhem.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
Books – "The Roman Way" By Edith Hamilton, "Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants" By Garrett Ryan, "The Classical World" by Robin Lane Fox, "Rome A History in Seven Sackings" by Matthew Kneale, "SPQR" by Mary Beard, "The Enemies of Rome" by Stephen Kershaw.
Great Courses Lectures – "The Pax Romana", "Rome's Golden and Silver Ages", "Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response", "Barbarians and Emperors" from "Foundations of Western Civilization" by Thomas F.X. Noble, lectures "From Commodus to Caracalla", "The Crisis of the Third Century" and "Diocletian and Late Third-Century Reforms" from "The Roman Empire: From Augustus to The Fall of Rome" by Gregory Aldrete.
University Credentials – I have a Bachelor's Degree in Classical Studies.

Extra special thanks to our Discord community members who looked over my initial draft and provided invaluable assistance & insights: Catia, Chehrazad, Chrisps989, Jacob, and Jonny. Any remaining errors are my B.

This video is a Remastered, Definitive Edition of three previous videos from this channel — "History Summarized: The Roman Empire", "History Hijinks: Rome's Crisis of the Third Century", and "History Summarized: The Fall of Rome". This video combines them all into one narrative, fully upgrading all of the visuals and audio, with a substantially re-written script in parts 1 and 3.
If you want more Histories to be Re-Summarized, please comment and let me know!

TIMECODES:
0:00 1 – The Empire
10:44 2 – The Crisis of the Third Century
21:32 3 – The Fall

Partial Tracklist: "Scheming Weasel", Sneaky Snitch", "Marty Gots A Plan" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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