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The decline of the Roman
Empire begins at 15,000 feet,
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on some of the world's
most unforgiving terrain.
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Fifty-thousand barbarian warriors
from across the ancient world
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have united against
a single enemy.
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Leading them is a general,
bound by blood,
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to avenge his family honor,
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and destroy Rome
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before it consumes
everything in its path.
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History may regard the
Roman Empire as inevitable,
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but its rise was neither swift,
nor guaranteed.
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To achieve its goals,
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Rome blankets the continent
in blood and tyranny.ets the t
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Pillaging resources from the land
and the people who live there,
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dividing the
ancient world in two,
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Roman and barbarian.
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From the hordes,
emerge the unlikely leaders
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who will challenge
Rome's domination.
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Bandits,
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slaves,
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warriors, rebels.
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This is the story
of their rise.
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In the 3rd century B.C.,
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Carthage is the most powerful
state in the Western world.
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It builds its wealth
through trade,
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and uses its advanced naval force
to dominate the Mediterranean.
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Carthage really was Rome's
only competitor as an empire
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in the central and
western Mediterranean.
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There were no other great states
that could compete with it.
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Rome is a small but growing
republic with outsized ambition.
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It knows that to defeat Carthage
is to control the ancient world.
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The conflict between
Rome and Carthage
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escalated into a
life-and-death struggle
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between the two principle powers
in the western Mediterranean.
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When the two sides
clash over Sicily,
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Rome is the rising power.
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And it's also adaptable,
building a navy from the ground up
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that deals Carthage
a shocking defeat.
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Rome forces Carthage to sign
a crippling peace treaty
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in an attempt
to break its enemy.
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It's implications for
Carthage are pretty stark.
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Uh, among other things,
Carthage is effectively de-militarized
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or de-navalized.
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Uh, it is also subject to
paying a substantial indemnity.
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The defeat
is a personal humiliation
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for the Carthaginian General in Command,
Hamilcar Barca.
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His oldest son, Hannibal,
is only nine years old.
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Hamilcar forced his
young son, essentially,
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to dedicate his entire
life to one purpose,
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the destruction of Rome.
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The oath, Hannibal.
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I swear by the
deathless Gods
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that I shall not rest
until the heart of Rome
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bleeds dry on the
sword of Carthage.
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Again!
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I swear by the
deathless Gods
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that I shall not rest until
the heart of Rome bleeds...
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Again!
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I swear
by the deathless Gods
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that I shall not rest until
the heart of Rome bleeds dry
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on the sword of Carthage!
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Hannibal waits nearly two
decades for a chance at revenge.
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In 219 B.C., Rome makes
an alliance with Saguntum,
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a fortified city on
Carthage's northern border.
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Hannibal sees the move
as an act of war.
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Our neighbor
has been turned.
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Saguntum is on our
side of the border.
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Forget borders.
They're for politicians.
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Rome's alliance with Saguntum was
designed as a deliberate insult.
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And if we
don't respond?
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Who are we?
Cowards?
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You know the
answer to that.
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Then we fight!
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And avenge the vow
we made to our father.
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We take the city.
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Rome will have
no choice
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but to fight for
its new ally.
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We call her out.
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Draw her here,
to Hispania.
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Hannibal besieges
Saguntum for eight months.
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When the city falls,
he launches his master plan,
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to unite the barbarians of the
ancient world against Rome.
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Outside
of the great empires,
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the people of Europe are organized
into small tribal groups, essentially.
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They don't really have an overarching
national or ethnic identity.
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They are tribal societies,
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and often spend a lot of time
fighting amongst each other.
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Hannibal faced an enormously
difficult challenge.
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How to build an alliance with
disparate groups of barbarian tribes,
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who spoke
different languages.
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And they really saw no distinction
between Rome or Carthage.
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It's safe to say they hated
both of them equally.
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He had to give them
a good reason
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why they should
fight with him.
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And the good reason was,
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if we win, then
you will be free.
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If we lose, then
you will be slaves.
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Hannibal g
calls to arms tribes
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from Iberia, to Gaul,
to North Africa,
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and the Lusitanians
of western Hispania.
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The Lusitanians
were great warriors.
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They were fantastic fighters.
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And, um, they were
used to independence
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for centuries and centuries,
so they would never give up.
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The Lusitanians will
complete our army.
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It is said they have
no word for truce.
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They've never needed one.
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Well, they'll either
listen to us or kill us.
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The last time your people were
foolish enough to come here,
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they tried to conquer us.
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They failed.
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So, why have you
come back now?
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We face
the same great enemy.
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Rome.
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And it will not rest
until it's consumed us all.
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Rome is your enemy, not ours.
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And even if it were,
we fear no one.
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A good warrior never underestimates
the might of its enemy.
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Or himself.
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Carthage cannot
defeat Rome by itself.
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So if we fall to her legions,
you will be next.
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It already has eyes
on Hispania and Lusitania.
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But Rome can be stopped
if we fight together.
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Then perhaps we should fight with
Rome against you and Carthage.
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Go ahead.
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And see what happens,
when it uses you to destroy us,
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and then turns on you
and Lusitania.
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And you?
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And Carthage?
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Would reward you.
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With, uh...
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The riches of a republic
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whose wealth is
beyond imagining.
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When you pay tribute
to our honor,
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understand this,
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you are not buying it.
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Then it is settled?
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You are their creature now.
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And soon,
they will be ours.
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Let us hope.
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They will join us.
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If they do not,
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they'll all be dead.
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As Hannibal
waits for allies to respond,
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Rome gathers an army
of its own.
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The senate calls on the most feared
military family in the republic.
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Wealthy, powerful
and ruthless,
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Publius Cornelius Scipio commands a vast
army of highly-disciplined soldiers.
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Scipio is the greatest
general of the Romans,
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and has the full support
of the Roman Senate
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to take on and destroy
the army of Hannibal.
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The Roman fighting
machine was, um,
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an incredibly disciplined
and organized body.
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People were trained
systematically,
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they were formed up
in cohorts.
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Um, they knew how
to fight by system.
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They practiced their weapons.
These were professionals.
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Within seven months,
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Hannibal's barbarian army
grows to 30,000 men.
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But still, he waits
on the Lusitanians.
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Without them, Hannibal's favorite
kind of war is mobile war.
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He's not much given
to static warfare.
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And the Lusitanian's
epitomize mobile warfare.
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They're fast,
they have light cavalry,
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they're good at ambushes.
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So Hannibal and the Lusitanians
are made for each other.
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If you're right,
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and Rome is the greatest fighting
force the world has ever seen...
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I am right.
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Then you'd better have
something they don't.
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I do.
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And his name is Cumelios.
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The empire that will one
day rule the ancient world
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begins as a small but
ambitious republic,
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with designs on
absolute power.
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Power can either
be good or bad.
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Uh, what really matters is
who is wielding that power,
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what motivates them
and how they use it.
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But as Rome
spreads its culture by force,
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some rise up to fight back.
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Among them is
Hannibal Barca of Carthage.
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To challenge the Republic,
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he unites an army of disparate
barbarian tribes under one banner.
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And gambles on a bold strategy that
has never been attempted before.
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Military leaders who have become
great captains in history,
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have done so because
they had the ability
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to visualize
several moves ahead
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and plan for them.
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Each move is like
a separate game of chess.
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Rome will cower
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when they dock at Saguntum
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and see thousands
of us waiting.
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They won't.
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They won't come
ashore at Saguntum?
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They won't
see thousands.
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We're not fighting
in Saguntum?
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We're going to destroy
them on their own soil.
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I don't understand.
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We're going to march on Rome.
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Impossible.
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You only say that because
it's never been done.
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You're going to march an army
more than 2,000 miles?
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Have faith.
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Hannibal's force
sets out for Rome.
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But 700 miles
into the journey,
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his plan is disrupted
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when Scipio
decides to resupply
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on his way to intercept
the barbarians in Hispania.
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Hey!
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Romans!
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Half a day to the south.
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They have discovered
our scouts.
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They've smelled their prey,
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now they want
to hunt us down.
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We can face them now.
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Tell the lookouts downriver
and call out the men.
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Prepare the cavalry and get provisions.
We must leave tonight!
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No.
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We must strike camp
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and head east
into the mountains.
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But, Han...
Now!
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Strike the camp!
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Leadership is about
confidence,
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sometimes,
self-delusional confidence.
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I always think that
you've got to believe
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with such an unshakeable
amount of confidence
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that others might
think you're crazy.
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If you insist on
sticking to the plan...
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We'll look
like cowards!
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If we stay and fight
Scipio's army,
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we'd win a great
and glorious victory.
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Exactly!
But it would mean nothing.
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We'd win the battle
but not the war.
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They'd come at us
again and again.
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But, brother...
We strike at the heart of Rome.
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We scale the walls
of the Republic.
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Rome believes the mountains
are an impenetrable fortress,
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a natural barrier
protecting it from attack.
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Hannibal's plan to invade
by land is a blind side.
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And crossing through the Alps is a move
calculated to intimidate the enemy.
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The crossing of the Alps is
spectacular because it's unique
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in the ancient time.
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Nobody before him
had ever dared,
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not even to imagine
to do something like that.
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Hannibal's willingness
to take on this challenge
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to cross the Alps,
to go into the unknown,
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tells us volumes
about him as a leader.
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It's why he's recognized as one
of the greatest military leaders
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in all of human history.
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Hannibal seems to have completely
outthought Scipio at this point
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by the speed of his advance.
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The fact of the matter is
that Hannibal alludes him.
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Um, and had he not alluded him,
uh, the dream of invading Italy
253
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uh, might have been
prematurely halted.
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The mighty Alps.
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carved out of the landscape more
than two million years earlier,
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are the gateway to Rome.
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To this day, the Alps stand as a synonym,
as a shorthand if you will,
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for an impenetrable barrier.
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Hannibal's force begins its
ascent in October, 218 B.C.
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Thirty-eight thousand
barbarian warriors,
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twelve thousand African
cavalry and their horses
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and 36 war elephants,
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prized as Hannibal's
signature attack weapons.
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It's
apparently insane.
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And strange enough,
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he didn't wait for spring.
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He started the enterprise
in the fall.
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So he got ready
to cross the Alps
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in the worst
conditions possible.
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What begins as a grand
and glorious campaign,
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quickly becomes a nightmare.
272
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When Hannibal gets to
the high passes of the Alps,
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he's dealing
with an environment
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such as he's
never faced before.
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It's winter
in all its fury.
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It's ice, it's snow,
it's wind,
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It's avalanches,
it's ravines,
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it's frostbite.
It's just terrible.
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How many
more men have to die
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before you admit your mistake?
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You and your arrogance.
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Your visions of glory.
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You can't eat
glory, Hannibal.
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We've not lost yet.
285
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They'll sing songs about us.
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I promise.
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And what if we're dead?
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Especially if we're dead.
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For Hannibal,
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the darkest time
of his career,
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without a doubt, had to be when
they were bogged down in the Alps.
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Even when
you have doubts,
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you cannot reveal them
294
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because doubt could
become contagious.
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The leaders must use
a light of hope
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in the darkness of despair.
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It looked like he had led his
army into unmitigated disaster.
298
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Two titans
of the ancient world
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are battling for supremacy.
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By 218 B.C.,
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Rome has set out to conquer
the continent,
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00:22:36,589 --> 00:22:39,256
but Carthage is determined
to stop its advance.
303
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Hannibal recruits
a massive barbarian army
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to execute
an audacious strategy,
305
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an over-land attack
through the Alps.
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Caught in the high passes
of the mountains,
307
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Hannibal's bold gambit
is becoming a disaster.
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He loses 25,000 men
in a single month.
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When you look at these, um,
examples of strong leadership,
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it's not about them,
it's about the people who they are leading.
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It's bigger, um,
than any one of them as individuals.
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Mago was right.
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Who was I to
think I could
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do the impossible?
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You won't find the courage
to lead in yourself,
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you'll find it in the belief
of those who follow you.
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The great leader is able
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at the worst of conditions,
at the worst of times to continue on.
319
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The man who can conquer his own feelings,
thoughts and emotions,
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can conquer the world.
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Mago!
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Cumelios!
323
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Seven months
after leaving Hispania,
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Hannibal escapes the Alps.
325
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:47,718
But he arrives in Italy
with half of the army
326
00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:49,920
that marched
into the mountains.
327
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Only four of his 36 mighty
war elephants survive.
328
00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:58,328
Once Hannibal arrives
into the Italian Peninsula,
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00:24:58,397 --> 00:25:00,130
uh, he's in a bit of a bind.
330
00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:02,399
Because on the one hand,
his forces are depleted
331
00:25:02,468 --> 00:25:07,971
and he needs to recruit new
allies to supplement his forces.
332
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,774
But in order to do this,
in order to build up his rep,
333
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he actually has to start beating
the Romans on the battlefield.
334
00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:16,413
The crossing of the Alps had an
amazing effect on the Roman psyche.
335
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They didn't see this coming.
336
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He's taken them
completely by surprise.
337
00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:23,220
So now, they have
to face, unexpectedly,
338
00:25:23,322 --> 00:25:25,155
a hostile army
in northern Italy.
339
00:25:27,426 --> 00:25:30,560
Hannibal
sets out to conquer Rome.
340
00:25:30,663 --> 00:25:33,764
His barbarian army
leaves a trail of death
341
00:25:33,866 --> 00:25:35,832
as they head
for the capital city.
342
00:25:37,303 --> 00:25:40,437
They rout the Romans
in battle after battle.
343
00:25:41,140 --> 00:25:42,506
At Ticino,
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Trebbia,
Lake Trasimene.
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00:25:46,512 --> 00:25:51,515
With every victory,
Hannibal is one step closer to Rome.
346
00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:57,220
Determined
to press his advantage,
347
00:25:57,323 --> 00:26:00,457
Hannibal seizes a critical
grain supply at Cannae,
348
00:26:00,526 --> 00:26:03,627
to starve the Republic
into submission.
349
00:26:04,363 --> 00:26:07,597
The move forces a showdown.
350
00:26:10,436 --> 00:26:12,736
On the plains
outside the city,
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00:26:12,805 --> 00:26:28,919
the armies meet for
an apocalyptic clash.
352
00:26:28,988 --> 00:26:32,089
I swear
by the deathless Gods
353
00:26:32,191 --> 00:26:33,857
that I shall not rest
354
00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:37,761
until the heart of Rome
bleeds dry
355
00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:39,997
on the sword of Carthage.
356
00:26:45,104 --> 00:26:46,436
Sixteen legions.
357
00:26:46,872 --> 00:26:48,271
Eighty-five
thousand men.
358
00:26:49,708 --> 00:26:51,875
We're outnumbered
almost two-to-one.
359
00:26:52,811 --> 00:26:53,877
Good.
360
00:26:55,014 --> 00:26:57,748
Let them bring their
remaining men to this field.
361
00:27:00,819 --> 00:27:04,287
They'll fall right
into our trap.
362
00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:09,026
It was the barbarians who sought
to protect their own freedom.
363
00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:12,162
It was the barbarians,
so called,
364
00:27:12,264 --> 00:27:13,930
who opposed slavery.
365
00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:18,301
It was the barbarians
who refused to succumb
366
00:27:18,404 --> 00:27:21,271
to the efforts of Rome
to make them slaves.
367
00:27:22,674 --> 00:27:24,474
They were the earliest
freedom fighters.
368
00:27:27,746 --> 00:27:29,279
Two thousand
miles ago,
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00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:35,152
we could have stayed
and fought Rome in Hispania.
370
00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:39,990
But we didn't want to fight
just an arm of Rome.
371
00:27:42,394 --> 00:27:43,994
We wanted to wrap
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00:27:44,096 --> 00:27:47,931
our jaws around her neck
and bite off her head.
373
00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:52,135
A thousand miles ago,
we could have fought Rome again,
374
00:27:52,237 --> 00:27:54,504
but we fought the
mountains instead.
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00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:58,775
And the thousands
who stand here today,
376
00:27:59,945 --> 00:28:01,745
won that battle.
377
00:28:02,948 --> 00:28:04,114
Here,
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00:28:04,950 --> 00:28:06,917
on Roman soil,
379
00:28:08,554 --> 00:28:10,654
we are finally ready to fight!
380
00:28:10,923 --> 00:28:14,057
No more waiting.
No more walking.
381
00:28:14,393 --> 00:28:15,892
No more dreaming.
382
00:28:15,961 --> 00:28:19,996
Today, we will be victorious!
383
00:28:22,401 --> 00:28:25,502
Today, we will
take our revenge!
384
00:28:32,762 --> 00:28:35,396
Rome's power
is on the rise.
385
00:28:35,498 --> 00:28:39,700
But it has one formidable rival
for control of the ancient world,
386
00:28:40,236 --> 00:28:44,138
Carthage and its
great general, Hannibal.
387
00:28:44,941 --> 00:28:47,107
His barbarian force
scaled the Alps
388
00:28:47,210 --> 00:28:50,077
to strike directly
at Rome's heart.
389
00:28:50,146 --> 00:28:55,216
Now, two ancient armies
stand ready for an epic clash.
390
00:28:58,287 --> 00:28:59,553
On one side,
391
00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:02,389
eighty-five thousand
Roman soldiers.
392
00:29:03,392 --> 00:29:06,894
On the other,
50,000 barbarian warriors
393
00:29:06,963 --> 00:29:10,664
determined to stop Rome's
advance across the continent.
394
00:29:11,234 --> 00:29:14,768
Scipio imagines
a glorious victory,
395
00:29:14,871 --> 00:29:17,705
but he's underestimated
the barbarian commander.
396
00:29:19,141 --> 00:29:21,342
Hannibal has set a trap.
397
00:29:22,144 --> 00:29:27,314
Hannibal's plan for the Battle of
Cannae is absolutely brilliant.
398
00:29:27,984 --> 00:29:31,218
Strategists, tacticians,
ever since,
399
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,021
have striven to copy
what he achieved
400
00:29:34,590 --> 00:29:38,692
because it represents
tactical perfection.
401
00:29:41,163 --> 00:29:42,730
Hannibal's
battle plan hinges
402
00:29:42,798 --> 00:29:44,532
on three key moves.
403
00:29:45,067 --> 00:29:48,235
First, he concentrates
his infantry in the center,
404
00:29:48,337 --> 00:29:50,437
to attract the Roman advance
405
00:29:50,540 --> 00:29:52,907
and pull them inside
the barbarian line.
406
00:29:53,342 --> 00:29:54,642
It's
extremely important
407
00:29:54,710 --> 00:29:55,910
to Hannibal's plan
408
00:29:55,978 --> 00:29:57,811
that the frontline holds.
409
00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:01,282
If they break,
if the cohesion is lost,
410
00:30:01,350 --> 00:30:05,352
the entire plan is undone,
and the Carthaginians will be defeated.
411
00:30:06,155 --> 00:30:08,556
Then, two
bands of elite troops
412
00:30:08,624 --> 00:30:10,257
advance from the flanks,
413
00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:12,126
boxing the Romans inside.
414
00:30:13,195 --> 00:30:16,830
Finally, a surprise cavalry
attack from the rear
415
00:30:16,899 --> 00:30:21,135
surrounds them on all sides,
cutting off their escape.
416
00:30:21,437 --> 00:30:25,539
If Hannibal succeeds,
Rome will have nowhere to run.
417
00:31:12,488 --> 00:31:13,854
Hold the line!
418
00:31:16,993 --> 00:31:17,958
Hold!
419
00:31:20,296 --> 00:31:21,295
Hold!
420
00:31:28,671 --> 00:31:29,670
Now!
421
00:32:18,888 --> 00:32:22,389
The Roman Army is designed
to steamroll forward.
422
00:32:22,491 --> 00:32:24,091
That's what it does best.
423
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,426
And that's going
to work fine,
424
00:32:25,528 --> 00:32:28,929
unless, you deal with an
enemy who practices jujitsu.
425
00:32:29,031 --> 00:32:32,232
Who knows how to turn your strength
against you, and turn it into a weakness.
426
00:32:32,334 --> 00:32:34,435
And that's what
Hannibal can do.
427
00:32:37,540 --> 00:32:41,108
The result is slaughter
on an unprecedented scale.
428
00:32:41,777 --> 00:32:45,813
While only 6,000 barbarians
fall in battle,
429
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:48,982
Rome loses
a staggering 70,000 men,
430
00:32:49,985 --> 00:32:54,955
more than 80% of its troops
in a single day.
431
00:32:55,057 --> 00:32:57,958
The Battle of Cannae
was a bloodbath.
432
00:32:58,060 --> 00:33:00,728
And there were more people
killed in one battle,
433
00:33:00,796 --> 00:33:03,430
than all the Americans
killed in the Vietnam War.
434
00:33:06,702 --> 00:33:08,268
Such a defeat
on the battlefield,
435
00:33:08,370 --> 00:33:10,871
should lead to the
Romans seeking terms
436
00:33:10,973 --> 00:33:12,906
and the Carthaginians
imposing them.
437
00:33:14,877 --> 00:33:20,447
The Senate sends word to Hannibal,
seeking to negotiate.
438
00:33:22,518 --> 00:33:24,318
But Scipio has other plans.
439
00:33:24,820 --> 00:33:26,353
Why are we talking of peace?
440
00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:28,622
We lost.
441
00:33:28,691 --> 00:33:30,691
Now we await their terms to...
You dare...
442
00:33:30,793 --> 00:33:32,893
Dare speak of
surrendering to Hannibal
443
00:33:32,995 --> 00:33:35,696
and his army of animals,
of barbarians?
444
00:33:36,265 --> 00:33:37,664
It need not be over yet.
445
00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:41,869
A negotiated treaty is very different
from unconditional surrender.
446
00:33:41,971 --> 00:33:43,704
We agree to neither.
447
00:33:44,974 --> 00:33:48,976
Hannibal is waiting for us to
bow our heads in obedience.
448
00:33:49,078 --> 00:33:50,477
Well, we let him wait
449
00:33:50,846 --> 00:33:53,814
while we beat this great
general at his own game,
450
00:33:54,350 --> 00:33:56,483
by taking the fight
to Carthage.
451
00:33:57,620 --> 00:33:59,453
For the next 15 years,
452
00:33:59,555 --> 00:34:02,389
Hannibal and Scipio
battle for control of Italy.
453
00:34:03,459 --> 00:34:07,227
The rival powers fight
themselves into a stalemate.
454
00:34:07,296 --> 00:34:09,363
Hannibal never reaches
the capital city,
455
00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:13,734
and Scipio must constantly
keep the barbarians at bay.
456
00:34:14,937 --> 00:34:17,471
The Romans are very fast learners
when it comes to their military.
457
00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:22,042
They are very adept at taking the
best bits from their enemies,
458
00:34:22,111 --> 00:34:26,680
of analyzing their tactics and
their formations and their troops,
459
00:34:26,749 --> 00:34:30,517
and assimilating those
into their own tactics,
460
00:34:30,586 --> 00:34:33,153
and to turn the
enemy's strengths
461
00:34:33,222 --> 00:34:35,389
into Roman strengths as well.
462
00:34:36,959 --> 00:34:41,094
Scipio breaks
the standoff in 204 B.C.
463
00:34:41,197 --> 00:34:43,330
He invades North Africa,
464
00:34:43,399 --> 00:34:44,965
forcing Hannibal
to chase him
465
00:34:45,034 --> 00:34:47,968
across the Mediterranean
to defend Carthage.
466
00:34:48,037 --> 00:34:51,371
Their final showdown
takes place at Zama,
467
00:34:51,473 --> 00:34:54,441
where Scipio
defeats his nemesis,
468
00:34:54,510 --> 00:34:57,077
using the maneuver
Hannibal unleashed on him,
469
00:34:57,146 --> 00:34:59,847
at Cannae,
14 years earlier.
470
00:35:00,950 --> 00:35:03,617
One of the sad ironies of
Hannibal is that in the end,
471
00:35:03,686 --> 00:35:06,486
he ends up being Rome's
military schoolmaster.
472
00:35:06,589 --> 00:35:10,724
It must have been incredibly distressing
and frustrating for Hannibal
473
00:35:10,793 --> 00:35:13,827
to see that Scipio
had been able to use
474
00:35:13,929 --> 00:35:18,298
his own tactics against him
in this final conflict.
475
00:35:19,768 --> 00:35:22,769
It is Hannibal's
first and only defeat.
476
00:35:23,706 --> 00:35:26,073
If you look at
the record of great captains,
477
00:35:26,442 --> 00:35:29,877
um, they may win two times,
three times, four times,
478
00:35:29,979 --> 00:35:34,648
but they don't necessarily
always dominate forever.
479
00:35:34,717 --> 00:35:37,451
They have their day.
Someone else comes along
480
00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:41,088
and can do the same thing,
with more resources,
481
00:35:41,156 --> 00:35:44,491
better troops, new technology,
and their day's over.
482
00:35:45,427 --> 00:35:48,328
After his loss,
the great general retires.
483
00:35:50,132 --> 00:35:52,733
But Rome continues
to see him as a threat,
484
00:35:52,801 --> 00:35:55,168
long after he
lays down his sword.
485
00:35:56,772 --> 00:36:00,274
Hannibal is one of
the few figures
486
00:36:00,342 --> 00:36:02,643
who actually knocked
the Romans down.
487
00:36:02,711 --> 00:36:05,846
And he is the one that
comes closest to winning.
488
00:36:05,915 --> 00:36:09,249
He shows the world that it's
possible to take down this empire.
489
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,086
In 195 B.C.,
490
00:36:13,188 --> 00:36:16,823
the Republic demands that Carthage
hand over their old enemy,
491
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,561
but Hannibal
refuses to surrender.
492
00:36:21,630 --> 00:36:24,064
He volunteers to be exiled.
493
00:36:27,269 --> 00:36:29,469
Now in his early 60s,
494
00:36:29,538 --> 00:36:33,907
the man who is perhaps the greatest
soldier the world has ever known
495
00:36:34,009 --> 00:36:37,978
deals his mortal enemy
one final defeat.
496
00:37:30,499 --> 00:37:33,000
Hannibal's united army
won some battles,
497
00:37:33,102 --> 00:37:35,535
but not the war.
498
00:37:35,637 --> 00:37:39,239
And the next time the
barbarians stand against Rome,
499
00:37:39,308 --> 00:37:42,909
they'll need a new tactic
to defeat an enemy
500
00:37:43,012 --> 00:37:46,046
that's becoming unstoppable.
501
00:37:46,148 --> 00:37:47,681
With Carthage defeated,
502
00:37:47,783 --> 00:37:51,051
the Republic is free to
conquer the Mediterranean.
503
00:37:51,153 --> 00:37:53,086
By 150 B.C.,
504
00:37:53,188 --> 00:37:55,589
its borders stretch
from Greece in the east
505
00:37:55,691 --> 00:37:57,491
to Hispania in the west.
506
00:37:59,862 --> 00:38:03,797
But as the barbarians continue
to resist the Roman way of life,
507
00:38:03,866 --> 00:38:07,467
they learn the consequences of
rebellion against the Republic.
508
00:38:09,104 --> 00:38:12,406
Those barbarians that had aligned
themselves with the Carthaginians
509
00:38:12,474 --> 00:38:15,108
have to pay a price,
and they're gonna pay a terrible price.
510
00:38:15,778 --> 00:38:18,545
Tribes that allied
with Hannibal against Rome
511
00:38:18,614 --> 00:38:21,114
are the first to come
under the sword.
512
00:38:21,617 --> 00:38:22,783
The Lusitanians,
513
00:38:23,419 --> 00:38:28,055
Celtic warriors of western
Hispania are Rome's next target.
514
00:38:28,357 --> 00:38:31,358
The Roman action
had to be so terrible,
515
00:38:31,427 --> 00:38:34,428
so cruel to dissuade, uh,
516
00:38:34,530 --> 00:38:38,665
the rest of the Spanish
nation from resisting.
517
00:38:39,701 --> 00:38:42,402
Twenty-eight years
after Hannibal's death,
518
00:38:42,504 --> 00:38:44,671
Rome invades western Hispania.
519
00:38:45,507 --> 00:38:48,008
Governor Servius Galba
is granted authority
520
00:38:48,077 --> 00:38:51,078
to use force against
the Lusitanians.
521
00:38:51,346 --> 00:38:53,380
But he does far more.
522
00:38:53,615 --> 00:38:57,284
Galba summons the tribes to hear
the terms of a peace treaty.
523
00:38:57,352 --> 00:39:00,987
A deal that promises to
resettle them to new lands.
524
00:39:01,457 --> 00:39:06,226
What follows is a brutal
lesson in Roman diplomacy.
525
00:39:29,017 --> 00:39:30,083
Father!
526
00:39:30,185 --> 00:39:32,018
Viriathus!
527
00:41:05,331 --> 00:41:08,332
The barbarians of western
Hispania are under siege
528
00:41:08,401 --> 00:41:11,435
as Rome invades their homeland
529
00:41:11,504 --> 00:41:13,504
seeking revenge for their
part in Hannibal's war.
530
00:41:15,307 --> 00:41:17,808
Lured by the promise of peace,
531
00:41:17,877 --> 00:41:22,813
the Lusitanians instead become the
latest victims of Roman treachery.
532
00:41:22,882 --> 00:41:25,015
He gathers them together
and massacres them.
533
00:41:25,418 --> 00:41:27,351
Uh, it's an act
of great brutality.
534
00:41:27,420 --> 00:41:29,153
It's an act of betrayal.
535
00:41:29,255 --> 00:41:32,790
And it shows how little
respect he has for them.
536
00:41:32,892 --> 00:41:34,992
Thousands lie dead.
537
00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:36,860
The survivors are running
for their lives.
538
00:41:49,308 --> 00:41:52,242
Among them is a shepherd
named Viriathus.
539
00:42:08,794 --> 00:42:12,429
Thirty thousand are butchered or
enslaved in Galba's massacre.
540
00:42:16,969 --> 00:42:19,102
The few Lusitanians
who survive
541
00:42:19,171 --> 00:42:22,005
are hunted by
Roman death squads.
542
00:42:22,074 --> 00:42:24,775
When a military force rounds
up the women and children
543
00:42:24,877 --> 00:42:27,511
and eliminates
the population
544
00:42:27,613 --> 00:42:30,447
or attempts to do so,
that's genocide.
545
00:42:31,083 --> 00:42:35,385
Genocide can never
be 100% effective.
546
00:42:35,454 --> 00:42:37,855
And if it isn't
100% effective,
547
00:42:37,923 --> 00:42:40,724
it will simply generate
the desire for revenge.
548
00:42:42,194 --> 00:42:45,829
The overreaction of the
oppressor to the oppressed,
549
00:42:45,931 --> 00:42:48,031
removes fear.
550
00:42:48,467 --> 00:42:50,133
When their back's
against a wall,
551
00:42:50,536 --> 00:42:53,170
the oppressor
removes all options.
552
00:42:53,472 --> 00:42:56,540
Then the poor lash
out and they rebel.
553
00:43:08,187 --> 00:43:10,120
They promised
new lands.
554
00:43:11,891 --> 00:43:13,824
Said the soil was rich.
555
00:43:16,095 --> 00:43:17,995
Yeah, it is...
556
00:43:19,565 --> 00:43:21,398
with Lusitanian blood.
557
00:43:25,404 --> 00:43:27,204
You cannot stay here.
558
00:43:28,741 --> 00:43:30,974
Galba's murder squads
will return.
559
00:43:31,043 --> 00:43:34,645
But the children
need food, water.
560
00:43:37,049 --> 00:43:39,082
Scavenge what you
can from here.
561
00:43:41,587 --> 00:43:43,487
Use the cover of night.
562
00:43:44,490 --> 00:43:46,390
Keep to the low lands.
563
00:43:46,659 --> 00:43:48,392
You're coming with us?
564
00:43:52,765 --> 00:43:55,299
But we need you.
You're a fighter.
565
00:44:00,873 --> 00:44:02,139
I am a shepherd.
566
00:44:06,245 --> 00:44:07,778
I'm no fighter.
567
00:44:09,381 --> 00:44:10,914
Yet you fight?
568
00:44:13,385 --> 00:44:15,552
Do as he says,
Reburrus, go.
569
00:44:16,155 --> 00:44:17,154
Go!
570
00:44:26,699 --> 00:44:30,067
If you leave,
these people will die.
571
00:44:31,437 --> 00:44:33,236
We all die, old man.
572
00:44:53,626 --> 00:44:55,425
We all die, shepherd,
573
00:44:56,395 --> 00:44:57,861
but not today,
574
00:44:58,697 --> 00:44:59,963
not here.
575
00:45:31,263 --> 00:45:32,996
Will he live, Tagus?
576
00:45:33,732 --> 00:45:34,898
He will.
577
00:45:35,901 --> 00:45:37,434
Only wish he hadn't.
578
00:45:43,375 --> 00:45:44,908
The Republic now occupies
579
00:45:45,010 --> 00:45:47,144
more than 100,000 square miles
580
00:45:47,246 --> 00:45:50,280
of barbarian territory
in Hispania.
581
00:45:50,382 --> 00:45:53,316
Roman roads begin to
cut across the landscape,
582
00:45:53,385 --> 00:45:55,085
part of the
transportation network
583
00:45:55,187 --> 00:45:58,088
that ferries plundered
resources back to Rome
584
00:45:58,190 --> 00:46:02,192
and carries death squads
to put down any resistance.
585
00:46:03,462 --> 00:46:06,063
The Romans
built forts, encampments.
586
00:46:06,165 --> 00:46:08,632
Establishing roads,
lines of communications,
587
00:46:08,734 --> 00:46:12,602
buying supplies from
the local population.
588
00:46:12,705 --> 00:46:16,306
That's what enables
the transformation
589
00:46:16,375 --> 00:46:20,210
of a wilderness
into a territory
590
00:46:40,499 --> 00:46:41,865
Isn't much.
591
00:46:49,775 --> 00:46:51,775
You need it
more than me.
592
00:46:58,684 --> 00:47:01,184
Galba has these
territories surrounded.
593
00:47:01,854 --> 00:47:03,820
We are prisoners
in our own land.
594
00:47:05,657 --> 00:47:07,057
His men will return.
595
00:47:07,459 --> 00:47:08,859
They will not
stop hunting us.
596
00:47:09,595 --> 00:47:12,863
We strike camp,
move forward again today.
597
00:47:13,565 --> 00:47:14,865
Head for the mountains.
598
00:47:14,967 --> 00:47:16,933
We took what we could
from the village.
599
00:47:17,035 --> 00:47:18,835
No food, no blankets.
600
00:47:18,937 --> 00:47:21,138
No tools, weapons.
Nothing of use.
601
00:47:22,775 --> 00:47:24,541
These people will die, too,
602
00:47:25,043 --> 00:47:27,144
if we don't find food
and shelter for them.
603
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:29,913
Then
don't go forward.
604
00:47:29,982 --> 00:47:33,049
Go back to Galba's
killing field.
605
00:47:34,887 --> 00:47:37,154
Take what you can
from the bodies.
606
00:47:37,256 --> 00:47:38,522
We can't!
607
00:47:41,693 --> 00:47:43,026
You must.
608
00:47:45,063 --> 00:47:46,329
We must.
609
00:48:29,708 --> 00:48:32,776
Did you
find your wife and boy?
610
00:48:50,829 --> 00:48:52,929
Soldiers on the new road.
611
00:48:54,366 --> 00:48:57,834
Get them to the lowlands.
Follow the river west.
612
00:48:57,936 --> 00:48:59,536
I will find you.
613
00:49:02,374 --> 00:49:03,540
Where are you going?
614
00:49:04,743 --> 00:49:05,842
Hunting.
615
00:49:20,241 --> 00:49:21,808
Barbarian tribes
616
00:49:21,910 --> 00:49:24,444
living on the borders of the
Republic are thrown into chaos
617
00:49:24,546 --> 00:49:27,580
as the Roman killing machine
descends on their lands.
618
00:49:28,350 --> 00:49:33,553
But Viriathus, a shepherd,
decides to make a stand.
619
00:50:20,568 --> 00:50:23,202
Lusitania has a
message for Galba.
620
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,486
Viriathus'
message to Rome is clear.
621
00:50:41,489 --> 00:50:43,723
Lusitania won't surrender
without a fight.
622
00:51:02,010 --> 00:51:05,645
Get that bound again,
and get some rest.
623
00:51:06,381 --> 00:51:07,547
We move on at first light.
624
00:51:07,649 --> 00:51:09,315
Is this what
we've become?
625
00:51:10,552 --> 00:51:12,418
A nation of refugees?
626
00:51:12,921 --> 00:51:14,387
We must fight.
627
00:51:15,590 --> 00:51:19,659
If Rome wants this land,
then let us bury them in it.
628
00:51:28,403 --> 00:51:31,604
The sources tell us that
Viriathus was a shepherd.
629
00:51:32,507 --> 00:51:34,707
To survive as a shepherd, you
had to be a bit of a bandit.
630
00:51:34,776 --> 00:51:37,210
You were out there in the mountains,
you had to deal with wolves,
631
00:51:37,312 --> 00:51:40,646
uh, and other predators,
and you often had to deal with real bandits.
632
00:51:41,883 --> 00:51:45,184
So I think that Viriathus
has exactly the skills
633
00:51:45,253 --> 00:51:47,320
that the surviving Lusitanians
desperately need
634
00:51:47,422 --> 00:51:49,789
in order to continue
the resistance against Rome.
635
00:51:50,892 --> 00:51:54,160
Viriathus begins to transform
his band of survivors
636
00:51:54,262 --> 00:51:57,096
into an organized resistance.
637
00:51:57,165 --> 00:51:59,098
They use the forest as cover
638
00:51:59,167 --> 00:52:02,602
to launch small-scale raids
and escape undetected.
639
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,807
Viriathus knew very well
how to attack and retreat.
640
00:52:08,243 --> 00:52:09,742
And run away.
641
00:52:09,811 --> 00:52:12,812
This can be converted
very easily
642
00:52:12,881 --> 00:52:16,749
into a very effective
military action.
643
00:52:16,851 --> 00:52:19,819
This is what we call today
guerilla warfare.
644
00:52:21,623 --> 00:52:24,757
It's perhaps the
most ancient form of warfare,
645
00:52:24,859 --> 00:52:27,326
revived and rebooted
to play to the strengths
646
00:52:27,428 --> 00:52:29,729
of the outnumbered and
under-equipped tribes
647
00:52:29,797 --> 00:52:31,697
fighting for their freedom.
648
00:52:37,906 --> 00:52:39,505
The enemy was invisible.
649
00:52:39,607 --> 00:52:41,741
It would attack
and disappear.
650
00:52:41,809 --> 00:52:43,276
Hit and run.
651
00:52:45,547 --> 00:52:47,880
He's
going to their very psyche.
652
00:52:48,716 --> 00:52:50,082
He wants to create
the impression
653
00:52:50,184 --> 00:52:52,919
that the Romans are not
operating in friendly territory.
654
00:52:54,155 --> 00:52:57,590
This will become the signature
weapon of the barbarian resistance
655
00:52:57,692 --> 00:52:59,525
in the battles to come.
656
00:52:59,627 --> 00:53:04,463
And in Lusitania, it's a strategy
that catches the Romans off guard.
657
00:53:05,633 --> 00:53:08,367
Viriathus starts to
build a name for himself,
658
00:53:08,469 --> 00:53:10,603
and Rome takes notice.
659
00:53:11,439 --> 00:53:13,139
A rebellion is like a virus.
660
00:53:13,241 --> 00:53:15,207
You know, if you can get
it right when it starts,
661
00:53:15,276 --> 00:53:16,709
when it's in its infancy,
662
00:53:16,811 --> 00:53:18,744
you have a good chance
of eradicating it.
663
00:53:18,846 --> 00:53:20,980
But if you ignore it
or you allow it to grow,
664
00:53:21,082 --> 00:53:22,615
it's gonna continue to spread
665
00:53:22,717 --> 00:53:26,118
until it reaches a point
where you can't handle it.
666
00:53:36,631 --> 00:53:38,030
Who is this Viriathus?
667
00:53:39,367 --> 00:53:40,666
This ghost?
668
00:53:45,907 --> 00:53:48,941
And still the sound of
silence is deafening.
669
00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:08,127
Three years
into Viriathus' rebellion,
670
00:54:08,229 --> 00:54:10,663
Rome appoints a new commander.
671
00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:16,202
Gaius Vitellius is
Galba's former enforcer.
672
00:54:17,472 --> 00:54:22,041
He's handed control of Lusitania
with one simple mission,
673
00:54:22,143 --> 00:54:24,043
end the barbarian uprising.
674
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,420
You're the last
of your people.
675
00:54:35,390 --> 00:54:37,456
Tell me where
I can find Viriathus,
676
00:54:37,558 --> 00:54:38,958
and I will let you go.
677
00:54:51,706 --> 00:54:55,608
We take their weapons,
we take their land,
678
00:54:55,710 --> 00:54:59,145
we take their lives,
and still they fight back.
679
00:54:59,881 --> 00:55:01,480
They are a proud people.
680
00:55:01,716 --> 00:55:04,016
Then we will
take their pride.
681
00:55:04,085 --> 00:55:05,851
Let the men have him.
682
00:55:05,953 --> 00:55:08,521
When they've finished,
cut off his sword-hand and let him go.
683
00:55:08,990 --> 00:55:11,023
If Viriathus unites
the tribes?
684
00:55:11,125 --> 00:55:13,325
I cannot go back to Rome
without the head of Viriathus.
685
00:55:13,428 --> 00:55:14,727
The head of
your ghost, sir?
686
00:55:15,129 --> 00:55:16,662
We don't even
know who he is.
687
00:55:16,764 --> 00:55:18,264
Someone does, Marcus.
688
00:55:18,766 --> 00:55:22,601
And I will find him, and hunt that
bastard to the edge of the earth.
689
00:56:02,276 --> 00:56:03,743
You do not
need to fear us.
690
00:56:04,378 --> 00:56:05,644
We're not bandits.
691
00:56:10,985 --> 00:56:12,451
It's what they've
made us become.
692
00:56:12,987 --> 00:56:14,186
Scavengers?
693
00:56:14,789 --> 00:56:15,788
Survivors.
694
00:56:17,725 --> 00:56:21,026
My name is...
Viriathus, the shepherd.
695
00:56:22,563 --> 00:56:24,363
And you are?
696
00:56:24,632 --> 00:56:26,799
Ditalicus, last
of the Igeditani.
697
00:56:28,369 --> 00:56:29,568
The others?
698
00:56:30,071 --> 00:56:31,670
There are no others.
699
00:56:32,473 --> 00:56:36,542
Gaius Vitellius,
there were repercussions.
700
00:56:38,746 --> 00:56:40,079
From what?
701
00:56:41,449 --> 00:56:45,017
From your so-called rebellion.
702
00:56:45,119 --> 00:56:46,986
Something we see again
and again in Roman history
703
00:56:47,088 --> 00:56:49,889
is the tremendous dilemma
that faces rebels.
704
00:56:49,991 --> 00:56:52,558
Every success against the
Romans will lead to a reprisal.
705
00:56:52,660 --> 00:56:56,095
Every victory will lead to bloodshed
on the part of the innocents.
706
00:56:56,197 --> 00:57:07,306
So, those fighting against
Rome face a paradox.
707
00:57:07,408 --> 00:57:11,143
I am responsible for the
massacre of his tribe.
708
00:57:13,848 --> 00:57:16,315
Vitellius has murdered
his people, not you.
709
00:57:17,685 --> 00:57:19,018
My actions.
710
00:57:19,487 --> 00:57:21,687
How many more people has
your rebellion saved?
711
00:57:22,957 --> 00:57:24,223
It is a path that Rome
712
00:57:24,325 --> 00:57:26,425
has forced
you to walk, Viriathus.
713
00:57:27,328 --> 00:57:31,664
And there will be more Lusitanian blood
on your hands before this is over.
714
00:57:39,140 --> 00:57:40,706
Despite the danger,
715
00:57:40,775 --> 00:57:43,742
Viriathus must convince
new allies to join him
716
00:57:43,845 --> 00:57:44,877
to keep the fight going.
717
00:57:47,381 --> 00:57:52,585
The oppressed must never
surrender to suppression.
718
00:57:53,054 --> 00:57:54,720
They must resist.
719
00:57:55,223 --> 00:57:56,622
And that becomes
a great temptation
720
00:57:56,691 --> 00:57:59,225
when you become
weary and tired.
721
00:57:59,327 --> 00:58:01,260
"Maybe we can't win."
722
00:58:01,329 --> 00:58:02,361
And that's where leadership
723
00:58:02,430 --> 00:58:04,263
has to merge against
all these odds.
724
00:58:05,066 --> 00:58:07,233
"Yes we can,
we will, we must."
725
00:58:10,171 --> 00:58:12,538
I know what many of you
think of this fight.
726
00:58:12,607 --> 00:58:13,939
This war.
727
00:58:14,242 --> 00:58:18,344
I do not want war.
I do not crave it, but we need war.
728
00:58:19,146 --> 00:58:20,880
We cannot stop what is coming.
729
00:58:21,716 --> 00:58:23,148
We cannot hide any longer.
730
00:58:23,784 --> 00:58:28,654
We cannot run or watch as our
people starve at the hands of Rome.
731
00:58:28,723 --> 00:58:33,626
Do nothing as our children die,
as Lusitania dies.
732
00:58:35,329 --> 00:58:37,897
So I stand here
asking you to fight,
733
00:58:37,999 --> 00:58:39,999
not for me,
but with me.
734
00:58:40,902 --> 00:58:42,268
Look at us.
735
00:58:44,171 --> 00:58:46,272
We are an army of refugees.
736
00:58:46,741 --> 00:58:49,375
How are we supposed to take
on the entire Roman Army
737
00:58:49,443 --> 00:58:51,911
with a handful of
weapons between us?
738
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:56,448
If we fight Romans
like Romans, we will fail,
739
00:58:56,550 --> 00:58:58,918
so we must fight them
as Lusitanians.
740
00:58:59,921 --> 00:59:02,187
Without our fathers' swords?
741
00:59:03,291 --> 00:59:06,191
Yes, they took our
fathers' swords,
742
00:59:07,094 --> 00:59:09,261
but we still have
their weapons.
743
00:59:09,830 --> 00:59:12,932
The weapons our fathers
left us are here
744
00:59:14,201 --> 00:59:15,501
and here.
745
00:59:15,836 --> 00:59:17,436
We know this land.
746
00:59:17,838 --> 00:59:20,205
This terrain,
it is in our blood.
747
00:59:22,009 --> 00:59:23,742
Rome took our blades,
748
00:59:24,378 --> 00:59:27,179
but we still have the most
precious weapon of all.
749
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:31,166
The barbarians
of ancient Hispania
750
00:59:31,268 --> 00:59:32,434
have defended their homeland
751
00:59:32,536 --> 00:59:35,070
against invasion for
hundreds of years.
752
00:59:36,974 --> 00:59:40,409
But Rome is unlike any enemy
they have faced before.
753
00:59:41,979 --> 00:59:45,714
In Lusitania,
Vitellius cracks down on the population
754
00:59:45,816 --> 00:59:47,549
in order to crush
their rebellion
755
00:59:47,651 --> 00:59:51,887
and flush out
its leader, Viriathus.
756
00:59:51,989 --> 00:59:53,889
He intensifies
weapons collections,
757
00:59:54,358 --> 00:59:55,791
tortures captives
758
00:59:55,893 --> 00:59:59,328
and hunts down
refugees in hiding.
759
01:00:00,431 --> 01:00:03,465
For Vitellius, the pressure
is enormous.
760
01:00:04,535 --> 01:00:06,168
He has no alternative.
761
01:00:06,270 --> 01:00:09,071
There is only one
acceptable outcome.
762
01:00:09,173 --> 01:00:13,208
And that is, he returns
with the head of Viriathus.
763
01:00:14,578 --> 01:00:19,014
But despite the danger,
survivors flock to the rebel cause.
764
01:00:20,484 --> 01:00:23,352
The Romans expected that the
Lusitanians would give up, terrified.
765
01:00:23,454 --> 01:00:25,554
Instead,
it was the opposite.
766
01:00:25,656 --> 01:00:27,389
They were eager
for revenge.
767
01:00:28,359 --> 01:00:30,793
With followers
now numbering 10,000,
768
01:00:30,895 --> 01:00:34,897
Viriathus escalates his guerrilla
raids on the Roman occupiers.
769
01:00:37,201 --> 01:00:39,067
Viriathus
seems always to be
770
01:00:39,170 --> 01:00:41,970
one step ahead of Vitellius,
one step ahead of the Romans.
771
01:00:42,573 --> 01:00:43,605
He's a natural at this.
772
01:00:43,674 --> 01:00:44,973
He's been trained
773
01:00:45,042 --> 01:00:46,108
in dealing with
the countryside
774
01:00:46,210 --> 01:00:48,043
and living off the land
his whole life.
775
01:00:49,213 --> 01:00:51,313
Viriathus is
putting in motion a plan
776
01:00:51,415 --> 01:00:53,615
to deliver Rome a death blow.
777
01:00:53,951 --> 01:00:57,853
But success depends on his
ability to evade Vitellius,
778
01:00:57,955 --> 01:01:00,489
who has now launched
a full-scale manhunt
779
01:01:00,591 --> 01:01:02,191
to find the rebel leader.
780
01:01:19,410 --> 01:01:20,876
And he calls us
barbarians.
781
01:01:23,514 --> 01:01:25,147
Is what we've done
any better?
782
01:01:38,963 --> 01:01:41,530
There are more hidden
throughout the village.
783
01:01:52,309 --> 01:01:54,910
Vitellius chases
Viriathus for months,
784
01:01:54,979 --> 01:01:57,713
but is outsmarted
at every turn.
785
01:01:58,949 --> 01:02:00,182
When they're chasing a
fugitive or an escapee
786
01:02:00,251 --> 01:02:01,817
and they're in
their own backyard,
787
01:02:01,886 --> 01:02:03,986
you know, from our perspective,
it's like chasing a ghost,
788
01:02:04,088 --> 01:02:05,787
I mean, these guys,
they disappear,
789
01:02:05,890 --> 01:02:07,789
they get help from
people on the outside,
790
01:02:07,892 --> 01:02:09,091
they know the environment,
791
01:02:09,159 --> 01:02:11,426
they certainly know,
you know, their own backyards
792
01:02:11,529 --> 01:02:13,161
and where they feel
comfortable in hiding.
793
01:02:15,065 --> 01:02:18,634
Bribes of food and shelter
fail to entice the barbarians
794
01:02:18,702 --> 01:02:21,136
to betray their leader.
795
01:02:21,238 --> 01:02:23,138
Brutality also fails.
796
01:02:24,508 --> 01:02:29,278
Vitellius changes tactics and offers
the refugees a chance at peace.
797
01:02:30,447 --> 01:02:32,681
He travels from camp to camp
to spread the word.
798
01:03:02,079 --> 01:03:03,111
And you are?
799
01:03:12,890 --> 01:03:17,726
Gaius Vitellius,
Praetor of Hispania Ulterior.
800
01:03:17,828 --> 01:03:19,928
Supreme authority
in these lands.
801
01:03:21,098 --> 01:03:22,364
And you?
802
01:03:26,854 --> 01:03:29,555
Rome's aggressive
expansion provokes an uprising
803
01:03:29,657 --> 01:03:31,290
in the Lusitanians' homeland.
804
01:03:32,660 --> 01:03:34,293
Deep in the forest,
805
01:03:34,395 --> 01:03:37,129
Viriathus comes face
to face with the man
806
01:03:37,198 --> 01:03:39,165
who has been chasing him
for four years.
807
01:03:40,735 --> 01:03:45,504
If he's identified, it will mean
the end of the barbarian rebellion
808
01:03:45,573 --> 01:03:47,773
and of the Lusitanian people.
809
01:03:48,309 --> 01:03:49,375
And you are?
810
01:03:53,815 --> 01:03:58,317
Gaius Vitellius,
Praetor of Hispania Ulterior.
811
01:03:58,853 --> 01:04:00,553
Supreme authority
in these lands.
812
01:04:02,223 --> 01:04:03,489
And you?
813
01:04:07,562 --> 01:04:08,928
A shepherd.
814
01:04:09,764 --> 01:04:11,197
A Lusitanian.
815
01:04:12,100 --> 01:04:13,332
And a poacher?
816
01:04:14,035 --> 01:04:15,601
A free man.
817
01:04:17,672 --> 01:04:19,038
A shepherd?
818
01:04:19,941 --> 01:04:20,940
And yet...
819
01:04:22,844 --> 01:04:24,477
You lead these people?
820
01:04:28,416 --> 01:04:30,216
I do not lead
these people.
821
01:04:31,886 --> 01:04:33,986
You may need to tell
them that, shepherd.
822
01:04:37,959 --> 01:04:39,692
What do you want, Roman?
823
01:04:41,295 --> 01:04:43,662
I can grant
these people,
824
01:04:43,764 --> 01:04:44,763
your people,
825
01:04:45,133 --> 01:04:46,599
lands in our territories.
826
01:04:47,802 --> 01:04:49,735
They are not
your lands to give.
827
01:04:50,071 --> 01:04:54,106
Galba murdered our families,
he stole the land from us.
828
01:04:54,208 --> 01:04:57,176
Praetor Galba is
no longer in charge.
829
01:04:58,045 --> 01:04:59,178
I am.
830
01:05:00,214 --> 01:05:02,214
And now I'm offering
the lands back.
831
01:05:02,316 --> 01:05:03,349
At what cost?
832
01:05:03,985 --> 01:05:05,151
Silver.
833
01:05:06,154 --> 01:05:07,253
Iron.
834
01:05:09,056 --> 01:05:11,457
Whatever these
lands can provide.
835
01:05:13,961 --> 01:05:16,695
The Republic is expanding.
It needs grain.
836
01:05:17,431 --> 01:05:19,732
To feed the army that
comes to kill us.
837
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:21,534
War is an
expensive business.
838
01:05:22,236 --> 01:05:25,938
We require your people
to farm the lands again.
839
01:05:26,007 --> 01:05:27,673
And the Republic
will take a small tax.
840
01:05:28,009 --> 01:05:29,074
These are our lands.
841
01:05:29,177 --> 01:05:30,809
These are Rome's lands now.
842
01:05:31,612 --> 01:05:32,611
You have a choice.
843
01:05:34,282 --> 01:05:38,450
Stay in these camps
and watch your nation
844
01:05:39,153 --> 01:05:40,920
and your people die.
845
01:05:42,890 --> 01:05:47,092
Or take my offer
and live again.
846
01:05:48,062 --> 01:05:49,895
Speak with
the other tribes,
847
01:05:50,831 --> 01:05:52,998
many of them have already
agreed the terms.
848
01:05:54,635 --> 01:05:56,435
You have until dawn
to decide.
849
01:06:00,007 --> 01:06:01,540
And if we do not?
850
01:06:06,847 --> 01:06:08,480
You have until dawn.
851
01:06:25,166 --> 01:06:26,565
Ditalicus
led them here.
852
01:06:27,201 --> 01:06:28,200
I saw him.
853
01:06:46,120 --> 01:06:48,654
You've endangered us all
bringing them here.
854
01:06:48,756 --> 01:06:50,956
No more than you do
attacking them.
855
01:06:51,025 --> 01:06:52,758
You've heard them,
Viriathus, they offer...
856
01:06:52,860 --> 01:06:53,993
They offer death!
857
01:06:54,095 --> 01:06:55,327
We are already dying.
858
01:06:55,596 --> 01:06:56,996
They offer life.
859
01:06:57,098 --> 01:06:59,598
They bring more food
than can be said for your...
860
01:07:00,601 --> 01:07:01,834
My what?
861
01:07:03,004 --> 01:07:04,336
...rebellion.
862
01:07:04,772 --> 01:07:06,171
I fight for
these people.
863
01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:10,342
These people follow you
because they are lost!
864
01:07:10,411 --> 01:07:13,012
They are not soldiers.
865
01:07:13,114 --> 01:07:15,681
We cannot win this war.
You cannot win this fight!
866
01:07:17,518 --> 01:07:20,219
Are you going to kill me
for speaking the truth?
867
01:07:21,222 --> 01:07:22,955
You are more Roman
than they are.
868
01:07:26,327 --> 01:07:28,360
I know Gaius Vitellius
cannot be trusted.
869
01:07:28,429 --> 01:07:32,064
But what they offer us
is survival for our people.
870
01:07:32,166 --> 01:07:33,799
They offer us nothing.
871
01:07:34,702 --> 01:07:37,036
These lands are
our birthright,
872
01:07:37,138 --> 01:07:38,704
yet Rome takes them.
873
01:07:38,806 --> 01:07:42,141
They murder our people,
our traditions, our culture.
874
01:07:43,711 --> 01:07:47,246
This fight is a fight
for our freedom.
875
01:07:48,783 --> 01:07:50,616
You say you don't believe
in this rebellion,
876
01:07:51,886 --> 01:07:54,353
yet you did not tell
Gaius Vitellius my name?
877
01:07:56,157 --> 01:07:58,691
He would have
slaughtered us all.
878
01:08:03,798 --> 01:08:05,264
You do as you must,
879
01:08:06,967 --> 01:08:09,001
but I will make
no deal with Rome.
880
01:08:20,981 --> 01:08:23,048
Gaius Vitellius
wants an answer by dawn,
881
01:08:23,551 --> 01:08:25,217
we will give him one.
882
01:08:44,372 --> 01:08:46,638
I have a message
for Vitellius.
883
01:08:47,241 --> 01:08:50,008
This was my father's.
884
01:08:50,378 --> 01:08:52,444
As long as that bastard
lives or breathes,
885
01:08:53,114 --> 01:08:56,815
this is the last silver
he will take from these lands.
886
01:08:58,185 --> 01:09:00,119
There is a fire coming.
887
01:09:05,926 --> 01:09:06,925
Who are you?
888
01:09:10,297 --> 01:09:12,931
Viriathus, the shepherd.
889
01:09:16,953 --> 01:09:19,654
The barbarians'
battle for control of the ancient world
890
01:09:19,756 --> 01:09:20,889
rages on in western Hispania.
891
01:09:22,459 --> 01:09:25,326
Where after four years
of fighting in the shadows,
892
01:09:25,429 --> 01:09:27,262
the rebel leader Viriathus,
893
01:09:27,364 --> 01:09:31,499
has finally revealed himself to
the Roman who is out for his head.
894
01:09:35,972 --> 01:09:37,505
Crude, isn't it?
895
01:09:40,844 --> 01:09:43,478
The shepherd
is my ghost.
896
01:09:46,383 --> 01:09:48,049
And you allowed him
to escape.
897
01:09:49,419 --> 01:09:50,952
We will hit their
camp at first light.
898
01:09:51,054 --> 01:09:52,754
That camp
is already gone.
899
01:09:53,557 --> 01:09:55,190
I want you
to double my guard.
900
01:09:55,559 --> 01:09:57,125
Burn every refugee camp...
901
01:09:57,227 --> 01:09:59,094
But many will be camps we've made deals with.
We can't just...
902
01:10:00,664 --> 01:10:03,565
I'm renegotiating our terms!
903
01:10:03,667 --> 01:10:04,699
We will burn them anyway.
904
01:10:05,635 --> 01:10:07,135
Send word to Rome.
905
01:10:12,075 --> 01:10:13,541
If Viriathus
wants a war of fire...
906
01:10:16,413 --> 01:10:17,979
I shall give him one.
907
01:10:21,218 --> 01:10:24,686
With the elusive barbarian
leader finally revealed,
908
01:10:24,788 --> 01:10:29,958
Vitellius raises two legions,
as many as 10,000 men, to hunt him down.
909
01:10:31,795 --> 01:10:34,729
The Romans are playing right into Viriathus'
hands.
910
01:10:35,832 --> 01:10:37,899
He's planned
a full-scale assault
911
01:10:38,001 --> 01:10:39,734
designed to give his
fighters the advantage
912
01:10:39,836 --> 01:10:41,736
against Rome's
superior numbers.
913
01:10:42,739 --> 01:10:46,274
It's an evolution of the
barbarian's guerilla war.
914
01:10:46,376 --> 01:10:48,376
The campaign's
reached a crucial point now,
915
01:10:48,478 --> 01:10:50,645
and Viriathus
wants to end this.
916
01:10:50,747 --> 01:10:53,181
To annihilate his enemy is
basically the way that he thinks
917
01:10:53,283 --> 01:10:54,315
is the best to go forward.
918
01:10:55,018 --> 01:10:56,651
The paradox
of guerilla warfare
919
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:58,520
is that you can cause
the enemy great pain,
920
01:10:59,322 --> 01:11:02,123
but you can't win a war
with simply guerilla tactics.
921
01:11:02,225 --> 01:11:04,058
At a certain point,
you have to switch over,
922
01:11:04,161 --> 01:11:05,560
and put everything
on the line
923
01:11:05,662 --> 01:11:07,395
and risk everything
in a big engagement.
924
01:11:09,432 --> 01:11:13,301
The Lusitanians won't face
Rome on an open battlefield
925
01:11:13,403 --> 01:11:15,270
or in small
lightning raids.
926
01:11:15,372 --> 01:11:20,608
Instead, Viriathus engineers a series
of coordinated guerilla attacks,
927
01:11:20,710 --> 01:11:22,911
using the natural terrain
as a gauntlet
928
01:11:23,013 --> 01:11:25,713
that will give Rome no escape.
929
01:12:02,052 --> 01:12:04,419
This is the third
camp. Nothing.
930
01:12:04,754 --> 01:12:06,921
Tracks lead off
in every direction.
931
01:12:08,892 --> 01:12:10,858
The shepherd
gathers his flock.
932
01:12:10,961 --> 01:12:13,194
There has been another
Viriathus ambush.
933
01:12:14,030 --> 01:12:17,465
Only one guard dead,
the rest, they maimed.
934
01:12:20,270 --> 01:12:21,936
He pushes me, Marcus.
935
01:12:22,772 --> 01:12:25,106
He's evaded us for all these
years and now he shows himself.
936
01:12:25,842 --> 01:12:26,908
Why?
937
01:12:28,278 --> 01:12:29,877
He's trying
to distract me.
938
01:12:31,181 --> 01:12:33,214
What is it he doesn't
want me to see?
939
01:12:37,220 --> 01:12:39,320
The warrior shepherd
and his guerrilla army
940
01:12:39,422 --> 01:12:44,659
draws Vitellius and his force of 10,000
legionaries deeper into the forest.
941
01:12:47,864 --> 01:12:50,498
He aims to spread
the Roman line thin,
942
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,335
like a snake winding through
the ravines and gullies.
943
01:12:54,437 --> 01:12:56,704
Viriathus will
target the head.
944
01:12:57,707 --> 01:13:02,577
And 9,000 barbarian allies will
push the tail towards a deadfall,
945
01:13:02,679 --> 01:13:04,912
over the edge of a high cliff.
946
01:13:05,782 --> 01:13:08,916
The plan depends on
Vitellius taking the bait
947
01:13:09,019 --> 01:13:12,920
and chasing Viriathus
without let up.
948
01:13:29,973 --> 01:13:31,906
Viriathus let you live?
949
01:13:32,976 --> 01:13:34,075
Why?
950
01:13:35,211 --> 01:13:36,778
I do not fear death.
951
01:13:38,014 --> 01:13:39,547
Perhaps you should.
952
01:13:41,651 --> 01:13:43,117
Where is my ghost?
953
01:13:45,155 --> 01:13:46,554
Where is Viriathus?
954
01:13:47,724 --> 01:13:49,457
He runs for Tribola.
955
01:13:50,460 --> 01:13:51,959
The mountains.
956
01:13:52,762 --> 01:13:53,761
Where?
957
01:13:54,397 --> 01:13:58,599
I don't know,
but he knows you will follow.
958
01:14:00,904 --> 01:14:02,737
If this is true.
If...
959
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,909
If this is true,
Viriathus will be forced into the open.
960
01:14:09,279 --> 01:14:11,145
We will lead both
legions on Tribola.
961
01:14:11,948 --> 01:14:15,450
Crush the insurgence before he
can unite any remaining tribes.
962
01:14:15,719 --> 01:14:17,318
Viriathus is no fool.
963
01:14:17,821 --> 01:14:20,922
Even he would not lead his men
against an army of 10,000.
964
01:14:21,758 --> 01:14:25,026
You will lead the advance party,
lure him out.
965
01:14:25,862 --> 01:14:27,795
The legions will
back up our rear.
966
01:14:28,465 --> 01:14:29,497
And Ditalicus,
967
01:14:31,134 --> 01:14:32,533
shall I kill him?
968
01:14:35,672 --> 01:14:36,704
No,
969
01:14:38,475 --> 01:14:39,707
he may be of some use.
970
01:14:41,044 --> 01:14:43,277
Set him free.
971
01:14:43,613 --> 01:14:44,679
Forward!
972
01:14:58,895 --> 01:14:59,961
Formations!
973
01:15:00,697 --> 01:15:01,729
Formations!
974
01:15:04,467 --> 01:15:05,733
We cannot
wait for the legion.
975
01:15:05,835 --> 01:15:06,834
We must take the auxillia!
976
01:15:07,404 --> 01:15:08,970
Hunt that bastard down!
977
01:16:00,657 --> 01:16:02,423
Stay together!
978
01:16:15,271 --> 01:16:19,407
Vitellius leads his men
directly into a narrow gully...
979
01:16:19,509 --> 01:16:22,410
The Roman forces are
stretched into a thin line,
980
01:16:22,512 --> 01:16:27,448
two miles long,
on the edge of a deadly ravine.
981
01:16:27,550 --> 01:16:29,550
Nine thousand
barbarian warriors
982
01:16:29,652 --> 01:16:31,552
are poised to
descend from the forest
983
01:16:31,654 --> 01:16:41,496
and push the Roman line
into the abyss.
984
01:16:41,598 --> 01:16:42,980
Formations!
985
01:16:45,685 --> 01:16:47,152
In western Hispania,
986
01:16:47,220 --> 01:16:49,220
Viriathus and his
barbarian rebels
987
01:16:49,322 --> 01:16:52,424
launch a coordinated guerrilla
attack against the Roman legions
988
01:16:52,492 --> 01:16:54,759
that have brutalized them
for four long years.
989
01:16:56,196 --> 01:17:00,365
It is the most ambitious battle
plan they've ever attempted.
990
01:17:03,303 --> 01:17:04,402
Formations!
991
01:17:04,504 --> 01:17:05,770
Testudo! Testudo!
992
01:17:06,006 --> 01:17:08,239
The barbarian attack
descends from the hills,
993
01:17:09,142 --> 01:17:12,777
pushing the Roman legions back
towards the edge of a deadly cliff.
994
01:18:39,900 --> 01:18:41,199
Have you come
for this?
995
01:18:42,836 --> 01:18:43,902
No.
996
01:18:44,104 --> 01:18:45,336
Keep it.
997
01:18:45,438 --> 01:18:47,372
My father took that from
a dead Roman at Zama.
998
01:19:25,178 --> 01:19:27,078
Rome will pour men
onto this land
999
01:19:28,281 --> 01:19:31,416
until ever corner
of every field
1000
01:19:31,651 --> 01:19:33,718
is ripped from your hands.
1001
01:19:34,821 --> 01:19:35,920
Let them come.
1002
01:19:36,556 --> 01:19:40,658
For it is Rome who have united us,
and we will not be defeated.
1003
01:19:42,495 --> 01:19:44,095
Rome will never fear you...
1004
01:19:45,498 --> 01:19:47,031
shepherd!
1005
01:19:51,938 --> 01:19:54,439
It is not I
they should fear,
1006
01:19:54,541 --> 01:19:56,007
but the generations
to come.
1007
01:20:34,981 --> 01:20:37,015
Viriathus
and his guerilla army
1008
01:20:37,117 --> 01:20:39,684
slaughter 4,000 Romans
in the Battle of Tribola.
1009
01:20:40,687 --> 01:20:42,687
Thousands more are wounded.
1010
01:20:44,257 --> 01:20:48,626
Viriathus' ambush at Tribola
is a great shock to the Romans
1011
01:20:48,695 --> 01:20:50,962
and it's a great achievement
for him and his army.
1012
01:20:52,332 --> 01:20:54,732
Lusitania became
1013
01:20:54,801 --> 01:20:55,867
the Roman Empire's Vietnam.
1014
01:20:55,969 --> 01:20:58,002
Formations!
Testudo! Testudo!
1015
01:20:58,405 --> 01:21:01,372
They were on an
unknown environment,
1016
01:21:01,441 --> 01:21:03,441
unknown landscape,
1017
01:21:03,543 --> 01:21:06,077
unknown way of fighting.
1018
01:21:06,179 --> 01:21:07,712
This defeat of the Romans
1019
01:21:07,814 --> 01:21:11,883
at the hands of what were
effectively a small bandit nation,
1020
01:21:11,985 --> 01:21:13,785
sends a message to the rest
of the communities there
1021
01:21:13,887 --> 01:21:15,620
that they can make it
on their own.
1022
01:21:17,357 --> 01:21:21,059
The barbarians hold the upper
hand for the next eight years.
1023
01:21:21,628 --> 01:21:24,962
Being a successful guerilla warrior
is like walking a tightrope.
1024
01:21:25,065 --> 01:21:27,665
You know that it's very
difficult to keep your balance,
1025
01:21:27,734 --> 01:21:29,667
and you know how easy
it is for the enemy
1026
01:21:29,736 --> 01:21:31,502
to get to you
and how vulnerable you are.
1027
01:21:33,506 --> 01:21:37,041
Viriathus understood that he couldn't
keep fighting against Rome forever,
1028
01:21:37,143 --> 01:21:39,344
and that's why he eventually
decides to seek peace terms.
1029
01:21:40,513 --> 01:21:43,147
But Viriathus
makes a fatal error.
1030
01:21:43,249 --> 01:21:46,317
The Republic cannot be trusted
to make peace deals.
1031
01:21:46,419 --> 01:21:50,021
Using gold
plundered from Lusitania,
1032
01:21:50,090 --> 01:21:54,058
Rome bribes Viriathus' own men
to betray their leader.
1033
01:21:55,362 --> 01:21:57,161
Eight years after
his victory at Tribola,
1034
01:21:58,698 --> 01:22:00,064
he's assassinated.
1035
01:22:03,336 --> 01:22:08,639
Lusitania falls to Rome less
than a year after his death.
1036
01:22:08,742 --> 01:22:10,475
The Republic
seizes control
1037
01:22:10,577 --> 01:22:13,578
of all of the trade routes
across the Mediterranean.
1038
01:22:13,646 --> 01:22:16,981
It's now the unrivalled
superpower of the ancient world.
1039
01:22:19,819 --> 01:22:23,187
Rome uses the riches it plunders
from across the continent
1040
01:22:23,289 --> 01:22:25,356
to build its
wealth and influence,
1041
01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:27,792
while it slaughters
and enslaves
1042
01:22:27,894 --> 01:22:29,660
the barbarians in its path.
1043
01:22:32,198 --> 01:22:35,833
The tactics that Viriathus
used to defeat the Romans,
1044
01:22:35,935 --> 01:22:39,904
these guerrilla tactics,
this mobile nature, the hit and run,
1045
01:22:40,006 --> 01:22:42,573
is something that will
become part of the way
1046
01:22:42,642 --> 01:22:45,943
that the barbarians take on
the Romans in the future.
1047
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:50,415
But every time
the barbarians rise,
1048
01:22:50,483 --> 01:22:52,683
it chips away
at Roman power.
1049
01:22:53,420 --> 01:22:55,319
Freedom
is inevitable.
1050
01:22:56,489 --> 01:22:58,656
The arc is long,
the journey's long,
1051
01:22:58,758 --> 01:23:00,458
but it bends
towards freedom.
1052
01:23:03,763 --> 01:23:06,564
Next time on
Barbarians Rising...
1053
01:23:10,937 --> 01:23:12,069
You will regret
making enemies of us!
1054
01:23:15,508 --> 01:23:18,843
From today, we cease
to do Rome's bidding.
1055
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:23,147
From today, we go
to war with Rome.
1056
01:23:24,584 --> 01:23:27,752
I have something you have
never known, freedom.
1057
01:23:31,791 --> 01:23:32,890
They don't need to respect me,
1058
01:23:33,860 --> 01:23:35,059
they need to fear me.
1059
01:23:37,397 --> 01:23:38,763
We're no longer
the underdogs.
1060
01:23:40,166 --> 01:23:41,232
We're the rising power.
1061
01:23:47,807 --> 01:23:49,707
Nothing can save you now.
1062
01:23:49,809 --> 01:23:50,775
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