Invicta | What Was Roman Army Basic Training Like? DOCUMENTARY @InvictaHistory | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
A live history documentary on what Roman Army basic training entailed. The first 1,000 people to use my link to sign up will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/invicta04221
We continue our Live History series which seeks to use reenactment to bring the past to life. This was made possible thanks to the awesome team at Imperium Romanum: youtube.com/c/ImperiumRomanumYT
This episode is largely based on the detailed account of Vegetius of how the Roman army of the Early Roman Empire was trained to peak efficiency. This all would have begun when a new recruit passed their probatio and set off to join their assigned legion. Over the course of the next four months they would be whipped into shape through basic training. This would first have begun with learning the basic step and engaging in long marches to instill both discipline and proper fitness. Lessons would then progress to basic drill, formation, and combat. Roman army training would continue throughout the long career of legionary soldiers and involved many other tasks such as road construction, striking camp, and conducting mock battles.
We hope you enjoyed this history documentary on basic training in the Roman army. Let us know what other topics you would like to see covered next!
Check out these other Live History episodes which recreate aspects of the Roman Legion
"How Did Roman Cataphracts Prepare for War?" youtu.be/Ip1H5std7Gs
"What was Watchtower Duty like on the Roman Frontier?" youtu.be/dLp62Tcc0Pk
"What was it like to journey beyond Rome's Rhine Frontier?" youtu.be/PYvFjMcWv5w
Credits
Research = Chris Das Neves
Writing = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum
#history #documentary #romanarmy
A live history documentary on what Roman Army basic training entailed. The first 1,000 people to use my link to sign up will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/invicta04221
We continue our Live History series which seeks to use reenactment to bring the past to life. This was made possible thanks to the awesome team at Imperium Romanum: youtube.com/c/ImperiumRomanumYT
This episode is largely based on the detailed account of Vegetius of how the Roman army of the Early Roman Empire was trained to peak efficiency. This all would have begun when a new recruit passed their probatio and set off to join their assigned legion. Over the course of the next four months they would be whipped into shape through basic training. This would first have begun with learning the basic step and engaging in long marches to instill both discipline and proper fitness. Lessons would then progress to basic drill, formation, and combat. Roman army training would continue throughout the long career of legionary soldiers and involved many other tasks such as road construction, striking camp, and conducting mock battles.
We hope you enjoyed this history documentary on basic training in the Roman army. Let us know what other topics you would like to see covered next!
Check out these other Live History episodes which recreate aspects of the Roman Legion
"How Did Roman Cataphracts Prepare for War?" youtu.be/Ip1H5std7Gs
"What was Watchtower Duty like on the Roman Frontier?" youtu.be/dLp62Tcc0Pk
"What was it like to journey beyond Rome's Rhine Frontier?" youtu.be/PYvFjMcWv5w
Credits
Research = Chris Das Neves
Writing = Chris Das Neves
Narration = Guy Michaels
Reenactment = Imperium Romanum
#history #documentary #romanarmy
![True Size of a Samurai Army [c. 1600] 3D DOCUMENTARY](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/deV34RTyPO8/hqdefault.jpg "True Size of a Samurai Army [c. 1600] 3D DOCUMENTARY
History documentary on the True Size of a Samurai Army! Watch the Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailer (https://ubi.li/1bL6W) and pre-order the game now (https://ubi.li/qF6Fe)! Thanks to @AssassinsCreed for sponsoring this episode.
In this history documentary we seek to bring to life an army of the Sengoku Jidai. Such a task is quite the undertaking given the poorly documented and fast-evolving nature of the eras military forces. Yet we can nonetheless model a typical Samurai army which captures most of the key themes of the period.
We begin with context on the history of Japan from the early Heian period though the Kamakura, Muromachi, and eventual Sengoku eras. Next we establish the general structure of a Daimyo Kashindan and how this network of vassals mobilized its forces. This includes mobilization records of the Koku based system which give us a sense of each vassals obligations. We then inspect each type of soldier which went to war. This includes peasant non combatants, ashigaru troops, and samurai warriors.
Finally, with all these pieces in place we see how the mustered forces were organized into an army. This begins at the smallest level of the Go (squad) and rises up to the tactical unit of the Sonae (battallion). Multiple Sonae would in turn be configured into the major elements of an army in the field. We conclude with a final positioning of such forces as they may have existed in an actual Samurai battle of the Sengoku Jidai.
Sources:
Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period - Volume I by Till Weber
Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period - Volume II by Till Weber
Samurai Armies 1550–1615 by Stephen Turnbull
The Samurai by Stephen Turnbull
War in Japan: 1467–1615 by Stephen Turnbull
Credits:
Research = Sophia Ware and Paul Liu
Script = Invicta
Narration = Guy Michaels
Art = Penta Limited
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:31 Historical Context
05:17 A Daimyos Kashindan
06:59 Systems of Recruitment
09:01 Troop Types
13:02 Ashigaru Go (Squad)
15:34 Samurai Go (Squad)
16:52 Ashigaru Kumi (Platoon)
18:30 Samurai Kumi (Platoon)
20:22 Sonae (Batallion)
21:09 Combat Units
22:17 Command Group
25:01 Banner Group
26:04 Baggage Group
27:35 Sonae Statistics
29:03 Sonae in Battle
32:40 Samurai Army
35:20 Outro
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