I dunno, i've met some pretty badass hookers. Interesting tidbit tho.

That's pretty interesting actually

Hm..

It was an actual animal.

Very interesting,thank you this and i think the later is more plausible 😅

That is an empire

@@lucylovic He didn't say it wasn't. He said it was far more. And he's right.

Romanians are not Italians. Wanna be s

N1tro Vile same

Same

ah yes me too

Same, I'm also having a mental breakdown because we have a 2-hour assignment with this.

N1tro Vile me too lol

I'm not so sure that anybody has discredited Rome as a super power. Rome left many things behind for us to remember them by; not just the latin alphabet, but Even that thing they call the pope (might be best compared to an anti christ), the mob/mafia, a variation of the modern sewer, system, air conditioning and corruption in politics and even commercialized prostitution and gambling!

And Indian decimals, possibly even Indian algorithims

@kevinthe hamster Which are of Indian origin.

@@nonyayet1379 but the title is misleading since Rome is historically the worlds second super power

@@seyamrahman1002 Who would u say was the first?

Ok. A pom English man is commenting

How did it go?😂

@@dianacastrodidi6837 can’t properly remember but i think i emailed my teacher saying i need just an extra day and got it so yay for me

'The Romans borrowed, stole and or absorbed their power and knowledge from others.' That's what great civilizations have always done. Even the Egyptians took a lot of their ideas from the Sumerians and vice versa. It's one of the main reasons why the Mediterranean and the Middle East produced so many great civilizations: they all learned from each other. In fact it was precisely their ability to absorb so much knowledge and so many techniques and ideas from other cultures that made the Romans so successful. Also, while they were not the greatest innovators (except when it comes to administration and law), they were responsible for many advances in many different fields of knowledge. I mean it's one thing to say that there are other great civilizations or that people put the Romans on too much of a pedestal, but to say that their civilization wasn't extremely impressive and advanced compared to most other civilizations at the time is ludicrous. You just need to take a look at the city of Rome at its peak: no other city could compare, it was the first real metropolis with over a million inhabitants and it would take almost a thousand years until another city reached that level again. Everything in the city was extremely sophisticated, the administration, the sewer system, the water supply, the architecture, its political culture, etc. And of course when it came to the management of their empire, Rome certainly was better than everyone else: while the other superpowers that came before them completely subjugated the people they conquered, Rome offered them the chance to become Roman citizens (although they certainly had to endure their fair share of oppression until then) which is one of the main reasons why pretty much every region that was a former province of Rome was massively influenced by it in almost every aspect of life. You can still see that influence today. Basically, Rome didn't invent most of the things they are known for, but they perfected them and brought them to a height that was completely unheard of at the time (China is, like always, an exception here). To claim otherwise reveals a lack of knowledge about ancient history. I also find it really weird how many people seem to have an attitude towards history and especially towards specific civilizations that is more appropriate in the context of sports teams: 'the Romans are fucking weak, the Egyptians are better', 'go Etruscans'.

hatchepsut was damnatio memoriae. wat r u talking about

Why do you keep acting as if you have more knowledge then centuries of writers, historians, and eyewitness? Where is your PhD, or doctoran in history? Where is your Noble Prize in finding all this new info. you claim? If you have none, you should stop saying "history is wrong, because I say so."

Ahh appeal to authority, fantastic logical fallacy youre displaying there.

Be quiet nitwit.

nice ad hominem, youre all logical fallacy arent you?

Keep on yapping, more people agree with me then you all all your idiotic posts. Try and save face and shut up.

Exactly! What about the first Etruscan settlers?

Romans are descendants of ancient latins..the founders of latium vetus in 2000 bc..and were much more older than etruscans

@@kokoskokso The first settlement of ancient latium were latins,not etruscans

@@matteoilromano873 I take it you live in Rome? Would love to go there again.. just know somebody in Vienna is jealous ahahah

You equate Rome with those primitive, backward brutes in Aztec?

@@futurethinking well they are incomparable but not because the Aztecs were ‘brutes’, why dont you try making an empire when the only domesticable animal on your entire continent is a llama. If the Aztecs lived in the old world, they would have no doubt could been just as advanced as Rome.

I think it is fairy tale

BC means Before Christ, AD is short for Anno Domini, After Christ.

Dictator incoming then !!!!

@@eddiesid1149 THis is exactly why I came to watch video. I must be some kind of profit.

America only has 4.5 percent of the worlds population.

Americans love comparing their country to ancient Rome. It's interesting

@Francesca Castrechini in a lot of ways modern America is way better than Rome ever was. Every citizen gets to vote- they didn’t get that. Also Roman society embraced slavery. And our military is the best the world has ever known.

China is a superpower though.

@@HorsiMusic Is it? Their economy isn't as strong as the US's. Military wise all they have on their side is numbers of troops.

china is fail

I don't understand. Triggered by what? I'm not a Europeans and I love this documentary and greatly admire Ancient Rome.

@mimun e europe didnt give..they robbed others of their resources

Although the SPQR is my favorite historical nation. Calling it the greatest and first super power is a stretch. The Persian and later the Greeks held the same amount if not more power than Rome.

im mexican american and i love the roman empire, why would i be triggered?

Sima Islamia they gave and they took. Persians took, Mongolians took, no nation or race is innocent, every group has a bad past.

Haha, aaah the great Empire of Romanians. Masters of begging.

Dave Laisure tea

Let me try and see if I translated it correctly (I didn’t use any translator): “the Eternal city of Rome is the capital of the world” Correct me if I’m wrong 😀

Maybe in Russia, Alex. Not where I live.

Lol Hows that????

@@samueljohnson1307 Most of the Empire was stretched all the way from the Balkans to Afghanistan, N Africa, Iran, Arabia, India and the outskirts of China. The silk road was established by the Greek Macedonians and later controlled by the Byzantines Orthodox or The Eastern GrecoRoman Empire.

Egypt was never a super power because they had little to no contact/ influence over the world which is the requirement to be considered a superpower but Rome still wasn’t the first, the first actual super power was the first Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great

Indeed. Other empires such as the Han Dynasty, Macedonian Empire, Mauryan Empire, etc are also contenders for superpowers that predates the peak of Rome's power during the late Republic and empire.

The Persian Empire was exclusionary. The Roman Empire was inclusionary.. which makes Rome a far more advanced Super power in terms of influence

Nah..The Persian Empire was exclusionary. The Roman Empire was inclusionary.. which makes Rome a far more advanced Super power in terms of influence

actually it was the Neo Assyrian empire.

Marshmallow Rome has no power in the east of the Mediterranean, so how is it a WORLD power?

exactly the documentary is bullshit.

Regional powers

Greeks werent a regional power. see India

Rome WAS the worlds first superpower peirod. At first they were ruled by divine kings, then they became a republic (perhaps their greatest period) before finally becoming an empire. How a group of farmers, who started off fending wolves to protect their livestock, eventually became the greatest empire in all history is the stuff of legends. Coupled with an excellent military and administrative system, the Roman Empire, or rather ancient Rome, is also one of the longest-lasting. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, technology, religion and language in the Western world. In fact many historians consider the Roman Empire to be a perfect empire - influential, fair, long-lasting, big, well defended and economically advanced. The influence of the Roman Empire is felt to this day, if for no other reason than the influence on the Catholic Church, which took much of its administrative nous and pageantry from it.

China and Persia!

Egypt didn't dominate anything apart from the area around the Nile. The Romans have done what not a single other power has ever been able to do since..... Control the entirety of the Mediterranean

Could be but if we do not know them then of course they are not part of our list. I do think Rome was the biggest because essentially the west came of it and I doubt that previous civilization have gone to the moon.

The first superpower was the first empire in history which was the Akkadian empire and the first emperor in history was Sargon of Akkad.

@@brandonbonas2761 most likely the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great

@@brandonbonas2761 historical superpowers include the British Empire,[6] Ancient Egypt,[13] the Hittite Empire,[14] the Median Empire, the Achaemenid Empire,[15] the Parthian Empire,[16][17] the Sassanian Empire,[18][19][20] the Safavid Empire, the Afsharid Empire,[21][22] the Hellenistic Empire of Alexander the Great,[23] the Roman Empire,[24] the Maurya Empire,[25][26] the Byzantine Empire, the Bulgarian Empire, the Russian Empire, the Han Empire, the Tang Empire,[27] the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate,[28] the Abbasid Caliphate, the Mongol Empire, the Ottoman Empire,[29] the Spanish Empire,[30] the Timurid Empire of Timur the Great,[31] the First French Empire of Napoleon,[32] Song dynasty, Ming dynasty, Qing dynasty, Gupta Empire, Chola dynasty, the Delhi Sultanate , [33] Rashtrakuta dynasty, the Mughal Empire,[34] Carthaginian Empire, Aksumite Empire, Almoravid Empire, Mali Empire, Inca Empire, Carolingian Empire, Holy Roman Empire and the Portuguese

@@yaqubleis6311 no its not "most likely" its a stated fact the Akkadians were the first and after them many others came such as the Egyptians, Babylonian empire (had many stages) and later in neo babylonian empire, the Assyrians and later on the neo Assyrians, the medes, the hitties and etc. There were many powers before Cyrus and he isn't the greatest he is among the greats but not 1#.

@@yaqubleis6311 that list u sent is pointless as that is not the point i made.

Haha what??

@Marshmallow yea but that Bible is the most important writings of all time

I'm here from my Latin teacher :/

Byzantine were Greek

If you were a Roman citizen, you weren’t discriminated, regardless of skin color. If you weren’t a citizen, you were a barbarian or a salve.

True, the Egyptians were arount WAY before Romans. However they NEVER had the scope and span of empire as Rome. The Egyptains were never a global (at that time) superpower. Rome was the worlds first super power period.

@@claywarner7429 I disagree, if you were to go back in time and observe the Egyptians for 3000 years, I'm pretty sure that you would say, they were the first world power...3000 years>1000+ years. But we can agree to disagree.

It does not matter, and no I wouldn't say that. What we know of our history, it is a fact that Rome was the world's first superpower. Just read any history book, or simply google it. The Egyptians didn't hardly leave the Levant. Just look at any map comparing the two empires and you will see. The Egyptians were more of a regional power, nothing more.

>The romans were in one region and you call it a global empire, When Scythians covered the entirety of Eurasia >The phoenicians actually travel the world and to you thats not a global empire >Egyptian mummies have been found with cocaine and nicotine in their, which are plants from the Americas. funny how you think Alexander and the greeks going all the way to India is Graham Hancock based history, at least hes willing to debate unlike the actual head of your standard egyptology Zahi Nawass. Standard history is bullshit because for centuries tards like you cant stop whimpering THE GLORY OF ROME to yourself while you jerkoff.

Well as you have stated here and in other treads, you obviously think what you want to, by whom ever says it. You have no true grasp of history AT ALL. Why not just say aliens did it all, it's the same as you grasping at straws. So their is no reson to even talk to "tards" like you. Grow up, learn more. Then speak.