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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

    📚 Research: Dr. Byron Waldron

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    📚 Sources:
    Barnes, T. D. 2011: Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire, Oxford.
    Cowan, R. 2016: Milvian Bridge AD 312: Constantine’s Battle for Empire and Faith, Oxford & New York.
    Cullhed, M. 1994: Conservator Urbis Suae: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of the Emperor Maxentius, Stockholm.
    Hughes, I. 2020: A Military Life of Constantine the Great, Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
    Leadbetter, W. 2009: Galerius and the Will of Diocletian, London & New York.
    Nixon, C. E. V., & B. S. Rodgers. 1994: In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini, Berkeley.
    Potter, D. S. 2013: Constantine the Emperor, Oxford & New York.
    Weiss, P. 2003: The Vision of Constantine, trans. A. R. Birley, Journal of Roman Archaeology 16, 237-259.

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    1. 🚩 Let our sponsor BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you – all from the comfort of your own home. Visit https://betterhelp.com/historymarche and enjoy a special discount on your first month.

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    2. Please do gates of Vienna. I watched most of your videos on the ottomans Vs Roman empire but do not see gates of Vienna, hungry Poland alliance. Had to make an account to voice this.

    3. Thanks for using more historically friendly images for the figures in the video (ex: Constantine, Maxentius). Some of the previous videos have figures either strange in their entirety or off by centuries (armor).

    4. I have serious questions about this popular narrative. Firstly, at this point in history, there were very few Christians in the Roman world, and almost all of them were concentrated in the East, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem etc…not in the Western part of the empire, so why Constantine would be concerned with this obscure sect, and wanting to appease what certainly had to have been a miniscule part of his army, does not square. Also, even after Constantine allowed Christianity into the Pantheon, it did not become the dominant religion of the empire.

    5. Weird you try to say "well maybe it was the sun god". No, its pretty clear AND accepted historically that it was the Christian God, ….so why are you trying to diminish that or dismiss it?

    6. 9:50 Better help again? Paused and clicked off.

      It's not like you don't know that they sell patient information to law enforcement and advertisement agencies. It's old news at this point and judging from the fact that you keep deleting comments you are WELL aware of this. Deleting comments IS a form of interaction between you and your subscribers.

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    7. Hello. please make a material about it! The Battle of Berestechko (Ukrainian: Битва під Берестечком, Polish: Bitwa pod Beresteczkiem; 28 June – 10 July, 1651) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

    8. Everyone likes to point out the flaws with Christianity, but they don't think about how much worse Paganism could be.
      I, for one, am glad that Christianity prevailed over Paganism.

    9. I am not downplaying it, but Constantine really had no 'tactical advantages' here. Outnumbered, no flanks, on an open field, against soldiers who were similarly trained to throw spears, darts, and other weapons to fairly great effect; so even if you suppose his soldiers were stronger, projectiles are still going to take a some of them out of the fight. His soldiers were more veteran and they defeated more numerous soldiers from the front. It shows what veteran and better soldiers can do against lazy/untrained ones. However it's rare imo to 'get group cohesion' like that, and I think that's why Rome's legions are so famous, and same with Sparta in its original eras.. before they became more weak and decadent, and their soldiers didn't even train at that level. They actually won because of this 'against the odds' many times. "A few men" who are strong is pretty typical, mixed with levies and weaker men. "All men" who are trained as a cohesive machine or unit, defeated anything that was thrown at them. Even in the era of high casualties and gunpowder, Prussia's army was similarly trained, that is why they managed to exist while at one time attacked by 5 enemies. Even the video notes that Constantine could not bring even a large amount of his force, and even had to leave at least a few thousand to garrison cities as he went. However all things equal, the opposing side simply defeated themselves and also many of them drowned in the river. It's ironic because Constantine, even in this battle, allowed them to surrender, so almost all of those deaths at the 'actual Milvian bridge' were useless lol. The bridge itself was kindof useless except that it probably just saved Constantine some job of dealing with prisoners since they killed themselves trying to cross it.

    10. Fun Fact

      After the battle, Maxentius' body was fished out of the Tiber and beheaded. During the celebrations, his head was paraded through the streets of Rome for all to see. To prevent further resistance from Africa, Maxentius' head was sent to Carthage as proof of his demise.

    11. Weird how history always teaches Christianity just slowly taking over people's lives, instead there having been apparently multiple wars of religion. Which now that I've "said" it, doesn't sound so surprising…

    12. @HistoryMarche I challenge you to do one video or start a series about Native American as I am native and it’s all oral instead of written but it’s a big challenge and I understand if it’s to hard lotsa research plus networking with the local locals

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