Скачать или смотреть Fight for the Roman Empire begins - Battle of Bedriacum, 69 AD

🚩 In 69 AD, the Roman Empire tore itself apart. Nero's suicide ended the Julio-Claudian dynasty, plunging Rome into a year of chaos—the Year of the Four Emperors. Galba seized power, but his austerity bred hatred; Otho murdered him for the throne. Yet his rule was short-lived, as Vitellius, a brutish general from Germania, marched on Rome. Their clash at the First Battle of Bedriacum was decisive. Otho, defeated and despondent, took his own life.

But fate had yet another contender: Vespasian, a seasoned general commanding Roman legions in Judaea. His forces crushed Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum, dragging Rome out from the fires of civil war. Vespasian founded the Flavian dynasty, marking a clean break from the decadence of the Julio-Claudians.

This transition mattered. The Julio-Claudians ruled by birthright, often spiraling into tyranny. The Flavians rose through merit and military power, stabilizing an empire teetering on ruin. The principate was no longer the domain of emperors born into it — it was now earned by those who could hold it. Rome, bloodied but unbroken, had reinvented itself.

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion

🎼 Music:
EpidemicSound
Filmstro

📚 Sources:
The Histories - Tacitus (2009)
The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition - Richard Ernest Dupuy & Trevor N.Dupuy (1989)

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