What Was Normal Life Like In Ancient Rome?

What Was Normal Life Like In Ancient Rome? | Absolute History

Рет қаралды 890,497

Күн бұрын

Rome would never have made it into the history books without the backing of its huge military apparatus. The life and the incredible luxury the ancient city of over a million inhabitants enjoyed was only made possible through the exploitation of its colonies, a course of action that never would have been possible without its troops.
📺 It's like Netflix for history... Sign up to History Hit, the world's best history documentary service and get 50% off using the code 'AbsoluteHistory' bit.ly/3vn5cSH
This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries please contact: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com
#AbsoluteHistory

Пікірлер: 518

@artandminisbyvilma8116 2 жыл бұрын

"They were dark and noisy, but the tenants were still forced to pay exorbitant rents". Sounds like San Francisco!

@reasonerenlightened2456 2 жыл бұрын

The most sad part of this video is hearing that the everyday life back then was amazingly a lot like the life in the big modern city. 4:50 . Have we not learned anything about how to organise society in a better way, apparently not.

@artandminisbyvilma8116 2 жыл бұрын

@@reasonerenlightened2456 Yes, exactly. Human beings remain the same throughout the ages.

@egodominustuus9167 2 жыл бұрын

Even more so like New York because N.Y. has more people, less space and doesn't have the same restrictions on building heights as S.F., and thus packs its people in more tightly.

@devinglis3179 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a narrative downplaying the advance ancient world. Building cheap? Today we build cheap. Back then they build with brick and stone Those cracks they speak of? Were not why the buildings fell appart. Those buildings were destroyed

@PerspectiveEngineer 2 жыл бұрын

Say gay!

@melindaweasenforth4383 2 жыл бұрын

I've learned more about history from these channels than anything I learned from grade school, middle school,high school and even college. This is how the modern world should handle schools

@mikecushing7276 2 жыл бұрын

I could not agree with you more

@sailormoon2937 2 жыл бұрын

Sure why not, I mean, might as well push em out and plop them in front of a TV.

@DC-jk9ts 2 жыл бұрын

The very reason why I home educate my children.

@gregbors8364 Жыл бұрын

If you’re American, that’s totally not a surprise

@Starae336 Жыл бұрын

@@DC-jk9ts well la de da..

@SaysThisCat 2 жыл бұрын

So the landlord special is as old as Rome. Excellent.

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

Older. The Roman landlords had to learn it from somewhere.

@frereM 2 жыл бұрын

The narrator, through attractive voice quality and careful emphasis, adds greatly to this presentation. Well done!

@yankeetherebel Жыл бұрын

11:40 that's so amazing! I'm sure the archaeologists working there are used to it, but seeing so much physical pieces of thousands of years old history is amazing!

@tombruner9634 2 жыл бұрын

I actually understood some of the Latin! It's been half a century since I studied it. Miss Morgan would be proud.

@jurjenbos228 2 жыл бұрын

So did I, but subtitles would be useful. I especially liked "in Colloseum Leonas expectat" when he was arrested.

@cyninbend 2 жыл бұрын

Latin was the subject from elementary school I used the most throughout school and right thru the bar exam--learning that vocabulary proved useful for much of my life, even traveling and reading signs in foreign languages.

@GypsyGirl317 2 жыл бұрын

@@cyninbend same here with my nursing, and with many other uses throughout my life - Latin was effectively the most useful subject I took at school! 😊 I am an avid gardener and it is very useful there too.

@davidhocde007 2 жыл бұрын

@@GypsyGirl317 bonjour chère collègue. Indeed Latin can be useful as many botanics words are meaningfull...

@megret1808 2 жыл бұрын

The word ‘bankrupt’ comes from this time. A ‘bancus’ was the table on which a vendor displayed his wares. ‘Ruptus’ was to break. If the vendor broke the law his table was broken

@marcobassini3576 2 жыл бұрын

The word "bankrupt" comes from the Italian spoken in Tuscany in the middle age (which evolved from Latin). The term is BANCAROTTA. Banca is the desk upon which merchants kept their business. Rotta means broken. BANCAROTTA = broken desk = the business is over. The oldest bank in history was Monte dei Paschi di Siena. The business started with the money on a desk (BANCA, or PANCA) in the public market square in Siena (Tuscany), to be gathered from small savers and lended for an interest to those needing it (rich merchants, Kings, Nations). The term BANCA, "bank" in English, "banco" in Spanish, is still used today.

@v1e1r1g1e1 2 жыл бұрын

Rome's history is written in blood? EVERY nation's history is written in blood.

@cindygr8ce 2 жыл бұрын

Right I live in the US and our "now" is written in blood. Not that was are alone in that.

@kono5933 Жыл бұрын

Maybe not Poland

@lisbetsoda4874 5 ай бұрын

@@kono5933ask the Jews about that.

@UndeadPanda 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love these documentaries

@johnfox1991 Жыл бұрын

💖

@svetlanaandrasova6086 Жыл бұрын

If history in schools was taught like this kids would all have good grades and know a lot more

@tonybiddle6668 Жыл бұрын

Some hope! All we got was a list of kings and wars, nothing whatever on how people actually lived. boring, Boring, BORING! I remember nothing except that while our Civil War was in the 17th century, in Scotland they waited another century before they had theirs, and of them all at the reformation calvin was the most depraved and vicious. How could anyone expect to get through their whole life without this ESSENTIAL information?

@yvonneemmert904 Жыл бұрын

You have to pay extra college fees to know interesting things!!! All knowledge is locked up - very little ancient history is taught in public schools!!!

@saragrant9749 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps. The most important part is for PARENTS to instill an emphasis on learning in their children though- that’s the biggest issue.

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

You want your local high school to produce historical content of the same quality as a TV show that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce? Uh, ok…..

@randybobandy9828 7 ай бұрын

Wrong

@LauraSoly 2 жыл бұрын

I thought the current consensus on gladiatorial combat was that it was rarely to the death, since gladiators were highly trained, specialized athletes whose skills took years to develop. Criminals and the like were put to death there, yes, but that was a different situation.

@Hollylivengood 2 жыл бұрын

I was watching a documentary about the history of the gladiators, and after that first gladiator rebellion, the gladiators were paid professional athletes. Meaning they agreed to work - fight - for so many years, and then they got paid. This was worth it to them, because most farmers, and other poor had such crap lives that the life of a gladiator was cool. Like pro-footbal, they got lots of women, good food, a lot of training at something they probably liked anyway, and if they made it, they were rich. So they might live through an event but be so wounded, they died lator. There were actually hammer men, who, when wounded gladiators were caried in, smashed the gladiators in the head to kill them quickly. It wasn't worth nursing the guy if he couldn't fight afterwards, and there was the added advantage that now they didn't have to pay him. Look at how football players are treated after they retire - American football - they are ignored to death. Same with the gladiators.

@Hollylivengood 2 жыл бұрын

@FlyingMonkies325 They got paid a lot, and we're given land. However,pay was different then, not like getting paid each week. They got paid at the end of their 7 year contract. They contracted to fight 7 years and get paid at the end. If they couldn't meet their end of the bargen by fighting, they could pay the amount of money the owner would have made on them, and go free, or train other gladiators. If they were too wounded to train other gladiators, they would go to jail for fraud, because they didn't fulfill their contract, and probably fight a lion. But they mostly died from their wounds, even if they weren't killed in combat, because no medical care was given, because if they died, no one had to pay them.

@JS-wp4gs 2 жыл бұрын

No, the people who claim it wasn't frequently to the death have no idea what they are talking about and failed to do even basic research. They fail to understand there were two main kinds of gladiators, the ones that would be properly trained, treated well and have considerable expense put into training and keeping in good condition. Those are the ones who were kept alive as often as possible. Then you had the bargain bin gladiators that were mostly poorly trained slaves with the bare minimum of expense put into that got the short end of the stick and frequently were put into matches that ended with their deaths. That was the point, to give audiences the bloody fights that would keep them coming back without sacrificing your quality fighters to do it

@reasonerenlightened2456 2 жыл бұрын

@brotherjongrey9375 2 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to these comments. Everyone sounds like experts but NONE of them are. Just like the guy on the video. A ton of this is misinformation

@maxgreen8901 2 жыл бұрын

Life wasn't so different back then, except without internet and information easily available to the masses.

@Earthbound369 2 жыл бұрын

And NO PLASTIC.

@leonardli7397 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if Ancient Rome had TikTok 😆

@billa8083 Жыл бұрын

Modern medicine and not drinking your own poop water also comes to mind

@morten1 Жыл бұрын

Oh life was VERY different back then

@LindaCasey 2 жыл бұрын

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

@SandyNiki 2 жыл бұрын

And no matter how far back you go it's always the same.

@ellstark372 2 жыл бұрын

And THATS why we need to learn from history and not destroy it!

@MrLoobu 2 жыл бұрын

The more confused we get, the more oxymorons we come up with.

@lorilogan6785 2 жыл бұрын

@@ellstark372 we don't destroy history they do. Same slaves different era. We are just really just repeating history but the 1% are the real killers of today

@joycetaylor8057 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't that just the truth...the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and everything is for sale

@jaelge 2 жыл бұрын

Eight minutes in he´s telling us how low quality the insulae (apartments) were built, with little concern for quality and tended to fall down, all while standing in one that has lasted two thousand years.

@crystalcastillo7575 Жыл бұрын

Its so funny to me how even back in these tenant buildings had the 'landlord special' where the "cracks in the walls were painted over, & not repaired.." , I guess we are not so different after all....

@Basauri48970 Жыл бұрын

I love these documentaries but still have to comment on the thick German accents of the actors; I just burst out laughing when Drusus started shouting at Petronius in his best führer style. Having said that, fair play to them for having to learn their lines in Latin, unlike your typical American produced show where they all speak English. A small detail in the scheme of things but says a lot about the care that went into producing this.

@connorkanephotography5114 8 ай бұрын

“Harsh punishment awaits anyone who cheats the emperor” sounds like the IRS

@healthyone100 2 ай бұрын

nothing has changed!

@c.jameshansis6907 2 жыл бұрын

I was in Rome and Pompeii and it was mind blowing. I say a lot of the places I was at. GOOD show.

@tab8896 7 ай бұрын

I would love to go one day ❤

@tylerdrolc4652 Жыл бұрын

35:00 it’s crazy to think that the surgeons house in Pompeii was excavated in 1926 which feels like a long time ago but when you look at that 97 years relative to thousands of years that come before 1926 in Rome it’s nothing!

@sciencestuffs8978 2 жыл бұрын

Ancient Rome is giving me Night City vibes 😂

@real_hello_kitty 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Very interesting.

@reginaromsey 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Oil amphora smashed because they couldn’t be cleaned. As the Jewish law required wine to be put in new wine skins. If some Roman had figured a way to use the amphora shards he would have had a continuous supply!

@TaeSunWoo Жыл бұрын

I needed this Roman content in my life

@ItsACrazyWorld 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@LittleJerry-kr8il 7 ай бұрын

This is a good topic, today life is better than the life in history

@greatunclestroller7179 2 жыл бұрын

Short answer: better than the middle ages

@snowangell9100 2 жыл бұрын

I laughed harder than i should have at this. But ty

@desireedecerio7790 2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣😂🤣😂

@jacobmartinelli7496 2 жыл бұрын

slaves were slaves, though.

@sallymcherbi1996 2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobmartinelli7496 well yeah, but still, generally speaking, better

@upartas7738 2 жыл бұрын

@@sallymcherbi1996 it doesnt count if half the population are slaves and not considered people

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@mattmcintosh3939 2 жыл бұрын

"None were so bloodthirsty than the Romans" except maybe all the other European tribes of people who practised ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial combat as part of their belief and justice systems, or the Carthegenians who sacrificed their own children. I think Romans were fairly tame compared to their contemporary counterparts.

@sigurdrobertsson2231 Жыл бұрын

But the Roman's literally practiced ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial combat too...

@eddie142 Жыл бұрын

Rome did most of that as well. How were they tame?

@gerriekipkerrie6736 Жыл бұрын

But for the time it was normal so i gues it was normal. Things like mma are pretty normal right now so you see glatiators where like that for them.

@eddie142 Жыл бұрын

@@akapasokopo They crucified dogs. Supplicia Canum

@gamingvibes_youtube Жыл бұрын

@@akapasokopo they absolutely did. Look up the Lupercalia festival

@spiritualservicesgodbless7641 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@ironicallyvague1265 2 жыл бұрын

I'm very surprised no one has ever tried to recreate a perfect modern replica of the Colosseum & held televised reenactments of the "shows"

@ashleelarsen7765 2 жыл бұрын

Andy Dick is "camping" with 'live-streamers' I would imagine it's like that.

@mangle40 2 жыл бұрын

It’s called football. 🤣

@crabslayer6947 2 жыл бұрын

would you go to such an event? not sure I'd want to see it. CGI violence is enough for me

@gangurobitch 2 жыл бұрын

That's because there's reality TV now instead.

@ironicallyvague1265 2 жыл бұрын

@@gangurobitch Really? You don't think millions & millions of people would visit a replica every year & watch choreographed fake gladiator battles? The building would pay for itself in a few months & it would be more popular than Disneyland. & that's off of merchandising Toys alone

@janbarber7807 2 жыл бұрын

A spectacular doco!

@JS-wp4gs 2 жыл бұрын

'Contracts did not exist' lolwut? romans *invented* contracts. they were a massively important part of how the state and economy operated

@AustriaGermany 5 ай бұрын

Great Video

@mattiaselftorp5481 Жыл бұрын

52 000 dead gladiators during the 100 day openjng event at Colosseum! That’s almost one every minute, if they were going 10 hours/day. More like a massacre than any kind of sports event, and a massive effort just finding people to go into what must have been some kind of meat grinder, not to mention cleaning crews. Also saw the number 400 000 total dead gladiators at Colosseum ever, so 25% of those seem to have died during the opening event. IF the number stated in this video is true…

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

That’s one-eighth, not one-fourth

@user-kj3lg5dc2z Жыл бұрын

Studying this for Latin and I have learned more than I did in history lessons

@mvinch101 2 жыл бұрын

Splendid

@stevelauda5435 2 жыл бұрын

SO very cool video

@real_hello_kitty 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@2_thumbs_up_baby 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing historic city with so many buildings still standing. Well done doco

@reasonerenlightened2456 2 жыл бұрын

@Gnomes4u 2 жыл бұрын

Same cults in the shadows rule everything that's why

@kathyevans3251 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully done

@prestonphelps1649 2 жыл бұрын

well done

@suzz1776 2 жыл бұрын

Crazy to ponder about how in a few thousand years the people living then will be searching through our garbage heaps and rubble looking for how our society works.

@liam2386 2 жыл бұрын

they will know... unlike the romans we document our current times immensely and our preservation techniques have improved vastly

@alicenoyes4074 2 жыл бұрын

what a wealth of information, if CD's and DVD's and computers can be played and used . fortunately, paper books are not going away any time soon.

@lucialuciferion6720 2 жыл бұрын

They will see images of klaus shwab and assume everyone was reptilian.

@reasonerenlightened2456 2 жыл бұрын

@egodominustuus9167 2 жыл бұрын

@FlyingMonkies325 Documentation was just as big a thing then as it is now - probably even bigger, given how much importance the Romans placed on their ancestral heritage. They already had immense libraries and kept meticulous records of things such as taxation (did you not watch the video?) It's just that majority of the material on which that documentation was kept, papyrus, doesn't hold up over the course of centuries or millennia. The same can be said for our current civilization. If it collapses, do you really think our paper and computer chips will hold up for hundreds or thousands of years against the elements.

@whoeveriam0iam14222 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing quality video

@BELCAN57 2 жыл бұрын

When we were visiting the Flavian Amphitheater someone asked our guide why the Italian government didn't rebuild it. He said that to do so would cost the equivalent of a second world countries Gross Domestic Product.

@Romanenthusiast Жыл бұрын

That's true! Also as a Roman historian I think it's so important to keep it as it is. It's journey over the past 2 millennium is so important to the Amphitheatre's story. If they were to rebuild it, it would destroy it's history and therefore it's historical value.

@brandensloncik4403 2 ай бұрын

We are doomed to repeat history over and over again forever

@mariaefelices6543 2 жыл бұрын

Ty ms cdf

@cynthiawick216 2 жыл бұрын

This video was not worth my time. There was little about the life of common people in Rome, although one of the archeologists working at another site sounded like he could’ve told us more, if allowed. The video jumped around in time and place and reiterated worn sayings about the Roman Empire as a whole. When one (archeologist?) toured a level of an apartment building 8 meters below the current surface, there was little to no explanation of which spaces were used for what, no site plan, & no evidence of which spaces were the purported (now empty) living quarters. There was a mention that poorer Romans did not have their own kitchens & so ate on the street, but then instead of explaining the various vendors of freshly cooked foods that were available to them, the narrator segued directly into saying that the criminals ate in the restaurants. There was also a storyline about some non-common people, including a tax-avoiding importer, a guard, and gladiators. I wanted to know about the ordinary people who lived in the apartment buildings, who weren’t criminals, poor or rich, who had to work (doing what?), do laundry, wash, etc. I didn’t get that.

@aka99 2 жыл бұрын

Try the Videos created by the KZfaq channel toldinstone

@cynthiawick216 2 жыл бұрын

@@aka99 thx, I will

@cynthiawick216 2 жыл бұрын

@FlyingMonkies325 perhaps the video should've said some of that

@cynthiawick216 2 жыл бұрын

@FlyingMonkies325 I'm not doing research, just watching to learn

@reasonerenlightened2456 2 жыл бұрын

@Shervin86 2 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who thinks the narrator is Linus Roache (King Ecbart in Vikings)... 😅🤷🏻‍♂️

@yQaT735M 2 ай бұрын

The first 3 minutes of this video is something else. Gladiators weren't killed off en masse like the narrator stated. They had lengthy careers, were celebrities, and didn't kill each other off as often as people keep mentioning.

@reanukeeves5638 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive how the actors speaking latin fluently

@Mike-fj2ln 2 жыл бұрын

Life wasn't easy in Rome, then or now.

@johnkovacs981 10 ай бұрын

Where is story of Drusus and Petronius from? Movie, novel?

@jm9371 Жыл бұрын

Petronius reminds me of someone I know.. LOL.

@Rck10xx 4 ай бұрын

7:44 Renters: we are not so different after all.

@bradleypeters_dj 2 жыл бұрын

Great documentary but Jesus Christ you don’t need to put an ad every 5 minutes. It’s actually a joke that the ads added 5 extra minutes to this

@sisselhansen3915 2 жыл бұрын

Can you tell us something about Maximilian The Empirer??And Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey?

@golgumbazguide...4113 Жыл бұрын

Explore Golgumbaz with Guide Jahangir

@Neddoest 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know why the comments are off for the Absolute History video uploaded after this one? It’s about pubs in Ireland.

@cindygr8ce 2 жыл бұрын

If you want to know how to make Garum watch tasting history with Max Miller he's the greatest well one of them

@eldon1980 7 ай бұрын

52,000 died during the 100 day inaugural festival for the colosseum? 520 a day? Hardly

@patrickbarrett5650 2 жыл бұрын

It would be far less distracting if you were to dub the voices of the experts. Hearing a foreign language does nothing to authenticate the experts knowledge. Fascinating content, just that one small irritant.

@shahdareabi5539 2 жыл бұрын

just read the subtitles

@patrickbarrett5650 2 жыл бұрын

@@shahdareabi5539 Obviously, but it distracts from the visual effects. I like to see the detail on historical documentaries.

@spsink 2 жыл бұрын

@@shahdareabi5539 some of us listen without access to the screen. This makes the lazy use of foreign voices without translation a disappointment to another wise good documentary.

@ThomasBarsegian-co3du 23 күн бұрын

Rome's greatest invention (cement) and they were great with Stone and Marble... Which is aplenty in Italy..

@kelanmetzger3194 Жыл бұрын

Rome is the best empire and one of the most interesting🤩🤩🤩🤩

@Misses-Hippy 9 ай бұрын

Carthage?

@sirgeorge8522 2 жыл бұрын

I bet the international archaeological students had a good time in the evenings

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

Yup

@chelebelle2223 2 жыл бұрын

Life in the Big City, then and now.

@debrajarnagin7101 2 жыл бұрын

Wow a whole ship

@antipodesman2 9 ай бұрын

Did Romulus and Remus learn Latin from their wolf mother 😂

@orcvsivstitia7608 6 ай бұрын

Wait ... Jerry Rice wore 80 and the Roman Colosseum opened in the 80?

@HermicraftAddict 2 жыл бұрын

Cheap, small buildings where people get charged tons of money to live in it. My, how things have changed.

@doyleself6849 2 жыл бұрын

History I like it. Get lost in pursuit of it. You forget how we are going forward. Keep that in mind. Thanks. As long as you remember the old days never existed.

@janeknisely4383 2 жыл бұрын

I just returned from Rome. They drive very small cars under crowded conditions with ultimate politeness. I did not see a single car with a dent.

@lisbetsoda4874 5 ай бұрын

What are you talking about? There are barely any cars without a small ding here or there.

@philipcallicoat5258 2 жыл бұрын

"History consist of the lies everyone agrees with." Napoleon Bonaparte....

@lynnflynn5591 2 жыл бұрын

The narrator sounds like the actor, Ronald Coleman.

@marcvanboxtel821 2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it Ducky?

@davidbelen7199 2 жыл бұрын

@@marcvanboxtel821 it is

@marymcintosh4406 2 жыл бұрын

You can’t tell me that was not Pauly Shore getting whipped by Patronius on the floor. The weasel in the grain😂

@jennilocke Ай бұрын

Tiny living space in a city where rent is far too high? Sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it?

@foodtestingstrips 2 жыл бұрын

I feel tha title is misleading and the show drags on about unnecessary parts without conclusion. For example the discovery of the sunken ship was lacking on details. The story line cuts in and out of a fictional situation but without connection to the excavation.

@nils920 2 жыл бұрын

"These Romans are crazy!" Obelix

@chicagofineart9546 2 жыл бұрын

Ox carts are that noisy at night? Why didn't they use pneumatic tires?

@wm.h.9123 Жыл бұрын

PLEASE tell me there isn’t going to be an ad every 5 f***in minutes

@yvonneemmert904 Жыл бұрын

How did Romans construct buildings wearing togas and sandals?

@K-mj9qc 7 ай бұрын

Exactly, no wonder it wasn't built in a day.

@prestonphelps1649 2 жыл бұрын

The German Professor made a mistake. He states contracts were only oral and not recorded in any manner, thus necessitating " witnesses ". Not true. Contracts were recorded.

@cindygr8ce 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure there were plenty of oral ones but also recorded since the Romans recorded everything possible so he probably should have said both were correct. I mean FFS the Romans are where we get Soo much of what we have now. Even if the Romans stole it in the first place we didn't usually find that out until after we credited them.

@KhaoticDeterminism Жыл бұрын

mean girls x ♾️ legit game of thrones.

@TedBronson1918 Жыл бұрын

Aw hell... I wanted to see Petronius become the lunchtime entertainment before the fights started up again. You choose the worst time to end your show, like so many others.

@werrutkyupnext 5 ай бұрын

7:27 😹😹

@charlesxix 2 жыл бұрын

It was good first time round but not for 2nd or 3rd.

@simonf8902 2 жыл бұрын

Amphoras ??? Surely you mean amphorae.

@forgottenknowledge8917 2 жыл бұрын

So how did they build those buildings with horse and buggy?

@Esperia-ef9xh Жыл бұрын

Wow

@Baskerville22 2 жыл бұрын

Those lead water-pipes must have affected the health of those wealthy enough to have them delivering water to their houses.

@cyninbend 2 жыл бұрын

The fall of the Roman Empire had a lot to do with lead poisoning--just as we fall now and learn that huge numbers of American cities have pipes like Flint, Michigan, poisoning their people, damaging their brains, lowering their IQs. Creating more Trump voters.

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

It probably contributed to the aggression and violence so prevalent amongst the elites back then.

@alanfike 2 жыл бұрын

Assuming that the Romulus and Remus story is myth, why would anyone choose the story of a city's origin to be the result of fratricide? I'm trying to find the lesson or tradition in this fable.

@juliadagnall5816 2 жыл бұрын

Apparently the Romans themselves weren’t very sure. Most of the earliest writings that have survived to today referencing Romulus and Remus (like those by Cicero) are from the time of the Roman Republic which was a long, long way removed from the actual founding of the city and they were pretty darn uncomfortable with certain aspects of the story. Like, you know, fratricide and very convenient wolves. It really only makes sense when you consider that Rome spent a long time as an unremarkable town that attracted drifters and reprobates before it became anything close to a military superpower. By the time they were in a position to care about their origin mythology it was too late, they were stuck with it

@MrPesco Жыл бұрын

Assuming that Eve's children is myth, why would anyone choose the story of humanity's origin to be the result of fratricide? I'm trying to find the lesson or tradition in this fable.

@drdavidtee 2 жыл бұрын

he makes a lot of claims but provides NO evidence to back them up

@flynspaceball6445 7 ай бұрын

Is it only in modern days, people began to learn about history? Did people in the past try to learn history as well?

@floshi6519 Жыл бұрын

*When Rome was conquering Europe your people lighted fire with stones.*

@sue.F Жыл бұрын

This program is itself part of history. 20 years on, is there nothing more to add?

@keenannorris3309 9 ай бұрын

No.

@elmerduncan4932 2 жыл бұрын

A+++

@Mari-rz5sh 2 жыл бұрын

Time to keep our lamps full and wait on the Bridegroom. Time to abide in our Heavenly Father that HE may abide in us. Time to share the gospel of the Kingdom of GOD & be a disciple of Jesus Christ. To be baptized by the Comforter the Holy Spirit.. Time to wait on HIM. Time to trust, lean, seek HIS wisdom, understanding, knowledge. Time to love unconditionally, forgive, & repent of all our sins..

@mikecushing7276 2 жыл бұрын

Try what really happened in Vietnam I was in the center Highland in combat you'd be amazed massive incompetence by leaders

@munchinmomo Жыл бұрын

there was probably someone who was born in pompeii the day vesuvius erupted

@JuanAguilar-ly7di 10 ай бұрын

I don't get it. He says The Colosseum was inaugurated in 80AD and festivities ran for 100 days. During the festival 52,000 gladiators died. It seems like a overinflated number. If we multiply 100 days by 24 hours and get 144,000 minutes. You divide that by 52,000 and you get 2.7 minutes. It means if they fought 24/7 for 100 days, every 2.7 minutes 1 gladiator had to die. It seems fishy. I mean 24 hours of non-stop fight and festival?

@lisbetsoda4874 5 ай бұрын

It is possible that 20 were fighting at the same time - and there would be only one winner. I think that happened as well.