Ross Turpin Ikr! Before I saw this vid, the only part of the achievement that impressed me was the 73 mile length. Otherwise I thought it was pretty much an overbuilt stock fence. Knowledge is a better thing...😅 🐑🐮

You weren't alone.

@@amandawilcox9638 It was definitely bigger when it was built that's for certain

@@TheRagingStorm98 True. Sounds like 15' taller, plus the forts. Yikes! 😱

same bruh

No way I thought exactly the same thing. Scary how quickly a thing can change!

Well shake hands again. We shook hands after Ebola. We shook hands after Spanish influenza. God how dumb are we getting.

@@abubu3140 dumb enough not to understand sarcasm so it seems.

Hahaha

Would have been appropriate to throw up roman salutes

​@dreaming of electric sheep rather picts than scots. the scots originate in ireland and came to britain much later, although they faced the romans as well.

Ah cheers mate. Thought it was the other way round.

@dreaming of electric sheep that is correct pal

And The War of the Roses

I knew it! It reminds me of GOT.

Well quoted. The painful irony is that when Reagan declared that he had "won the Cold War" (as if it was a winnable proposition!), he essentially confessed that it was still vivid in his hubristic Gipper-esque zero-sum imagination, and that he had been fomenting the 'us-v.-them' conflict from Day 1. Some serious freudian projection.

I laughed out loud

I get it! 😆

What are you doing in England? Mind your own business!

Yup

Yep except they enslaved them and pillaged their lands

At least the Romans unlike leftist in America knew that protecting borders was important to preserve their interest. That's why Rome existed from 753 B.C to the 400's A.D.

period byzantine empire was Greek not Roman despite what they called themselves

@@derf2170 It was influenced by Greece but they were still Roman in culture. Maybe not ethnically Latin but for all intents and purposes they were Roman.

Actually the capital of Roman Britain was a town called Colchester in Essex, the Romans original landing site is in East Kent. Sorry to burst your bubble

@Anglus Patria why are you so scared? You are off by a whole 10+% and less then 5% is arab

Funfact when Brits came to India they established a small fort at the port which turns into a village Madraspatnam, which turns into a town and later turned into a city named Madras, we call it Chennai today.

Karen McDonald well Caesar was the first to land in Dover where they built a fort and was built upon and is now Dover castle

@Anglus Patria please you can't actually believe there's some master plan to replace us 😂

The Romans were smarter,yeah..

The Romans were the peak of European civilisation until the Industrial Age.

​​@@mrrigatone9595 Not just the Romans but every ancient civilization!! Well most of the ancient Roman war tactics and architecture skills were inspired by Easterns.. So the Eastern World at that time was even more smarter than the Super Power of that age, and the most certified prove, is that when the Empire collapsed the Eastern one stood still and developed more through trading and exchanging culture..

No less than we are today..

Sebastián Alegre they do that but it’s far less extravagant.

njpringle it was the land of the scots and the land of the brits, so technically it was the border between the Roman Empire and scots

Urien Rheged but the wal was used to keep the hostile northern dwellers, or the Scotti out

They also Built the wall in central Scotland. They were basically trying to keep the Caledonii Tribe out not create a border between England and Scotland.

@@ultimateagent1784 The scots didn't arrive from Ireland until after the end of Roman rule in Britain so there were no scots and no Scotland, only the Brits (Pict's) on either side of the wall.

@@perthrockskinda2946 There was NO Scotland, the Scotti tribes didn't arrive in Britain until Long after Roman rule, there were only Brits and Britannia, No England, No Scotland.

You could probably clear it by pressing "A" while mid-air.

It lost some height after 2000 years

@freebeerfordworkers Don't worry. They can restore it again. If ever Scotland gains independence.

Trump: hold my concrete

Hold my sticky rice brick

Hold my Corona virus

China :hold my corona virus/sars/h1n1/ insert disease here. cuz we have 0 hygiene and we like to build artificial islands on other country's territories

Turks and Monghols: *Laughs in going around the wall*

Are You American?

@@dazdeluxe6672 For better or worse yes I'm an American lol

@Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders Yes, proudly so. Dutch and Norwegian 78% according to ancestry. Lol

Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders Thats a pretty well acknowledged fact among white Americans.

My ancestry came from Britain, wales region both on my father and mother's side!

With tons of history as well. It should be a global monument

🥁

In all honesty, one of my favorite periods of world history. That wall was originally 6 meters high right?

@Jerry Ilic They're not bricks!

C Rose neither was the lyrical mention of bricks in Pink Floyd’s song.

And a little bit of england

Most of northumbia too. Basically, the Romans overtook and pressured the natives northward, with the untamed regions of northern England and Scotland becoming difficult to take. This was much to do with the terrain as much as the resistance.

@@sshep86 I think the people then were Picts.

@@podsmpsg1 Picts. Caledonians. Icenii. Etc etc.......... There were many tribes back then. Some conquered by the Romans, others united and some continuously warred.

Look up segadunim its a great museum and roman fort its free entry and great if your into history

Yeah thanks for your idiotic protral. That's why they built a twenty foot wall, man with army's. To save money lol

@@Dhb61 Are you 6 years old?...'20ft wall, man with army's'...wtf!

If the clans North of the border were simply not worth bothering about. Why waste so much resources and man power "unconquerable" and no ill 13.

@@Dhb61 Clearly not a military man, if your securing an area which covers hundreds of miles it's difficult to stop raids/incursions, (in this case by northern Britains not just groups north of today's border), to counter this the Romans select an area where its cost effective to build a wall and man it which is what they did throughout their empire. Rome didn't invade countries for the fun of it, they scouted out lands and if they were deemed to be of value military campaigns were undertaken, the empire was about profit not spreading their ideology.

tony james yay, someone else who also has good sense. I learnt this ages ago in one of my grandfathers books. No one believed me

And I bet it was undermanned for most of its history, as well as being manned by inferior levies or mercenaries. And it almost certainly was never seriously attacked during the entire Roman occupation. All in all more of a political statement than anything.

They said Six years not a few and 15000 men, to me that seems slow

@@BigRed2 Faster than some road projects in modern times that span much shorter distances :^)

Lawrence Allen .............I prefer to think Trumpus Redickulas

@@ronaldomadrebien7045 Well, racist hispanic supremicists want an open borders so "people who look like them" can invade the USA, get on our welfare, send the money home. They're looters. And they are happy their corrupt governments running their feudalist states can routinely dump their prisons out into the USA...why 1/3 of all prisoners in California jails are illegal aliens. But Trumps Maximus is building a wall to stop the racist hispanic supremacists from looting our country. So to me, a person who loves America he is Trumps Maximus. And to looters like you he is Trumpus Redickulas. See how that works? It depends if you are a racist, or a good person.

Trumpus Bigus Dickus

Lawrence Allen ..........Lawrence, it does indeed depend on what type of person you are, and you’ve nailed your colours firmly to the mast for all to see

@@ronaldomadrebien7045 You're just not accustomed to hearing the truth. The Truth is "Hispanic” is a contrived “race.” There is no “Hispanic” race. It is a made-up term that was created to define people who speak a particular mother tongue. Starting with the 1970 Census the term “Hispanic” was created to group people who come from Spanish-speaking countries, and more generally those who come from south of the US border, into one “racial” group. Problem is, this includes people like George Ramos of Univision TV who is as white as a Scotsman. Some so-called “Hispanics” are 95% white, 5% Indian. Some are 95% Indian, 5% white. Some are from African origins. Some are Japanese: yes, many Japanese professional gardeners and skilled farm-workers emigrated to central and south America in the 1800 to work plantations there. Nonetheless, in the 1970 census the fake racial term “Hispanic” was created and receives “protected minority” status, complete with their own claim to victimhood of “systematic racism” status. Why? If “Hispanic” isn’t a race, what is it? It is simply “people from Spanish-speaking countries.” Which is to say: So what? There are thousands of languages spoken around the world. So why not Mandarin Chinese? Or Hindi? We need to eliminate the term “Hispanic” and “Latino” from our census, government programs, immigration lexicon and legal status.

Why so=? whats wrong with the London

Just remember that it's in England not Scotland 😉

Ill keep that in mind, maybe flying straightly to Edinburgh then. Id love to see some local football too, not just the big ones.

@Anglus Patria thank you, Ive only got a Rebics Eintracht frankfurt jersey, but i have west ham's scarf though

@@kane3825 If you have the time visit the Antonine wall which runs from west Dunbartonshire through to the east coast, The only good thing to come out of Edinburgh is a Glasgow train.

Ladder, rope and shovel: Allow us to introduce ourselves.

well if you plan to invade... that thing do cause a lot of slow down... which the whole point of it...

The wall was often amended over time - added to, removed, forts and milecastle plans and locations were also changed as they were being built. A lot of it was also widened once they realised the pre-existing portions of it weren't simply wide enough for their intentions, so what likely happened is that as the romans withdrew from Britain and the natives started hacking into it for the materials, they tore up the section added later on and had no need to completely consume the entire wall - bear in mind the communities in the area would still have predominantly built structures in wood at the time, and there's an awful lot of stone in that wall!

It is not the Wall in the North! It is the Wall in the south! The Antonine wall is way further North than Hadrian's.

@daUser666 yes paying for a useless wall that can't even stand strong winds

@Al Castill LOL So just a roof on stilts?

@@maoinc13 according to CNN?

@daUser666 Best tax dollars I ever spent.

Yes they do! In 122 AD (ACE).

Kunst Wunderkammer I mean I guess that’s why they built it then lol

Not true. Initially Rome lost one Legion in Scotland. Didn't take long however for the Romans to return and slaughter the Picts.

not really, taking and holding the north wasnt worth it as there would be little return. they smashed the picts multiples times

10,000 Roman legionaries absolutely destroyed 80,000-100,000 celts during the Boudican Revolt with like a couple hundred casualties. The Britons were no match for the Roman military juggernaut. What discouraged the Romans was the poor productivity of the land.

Hermit Crab it’d not the border between England and Scotland muppet. And all those people who liked your comment are clueless

@@MisaloSloe *Compromises*

Modern border follows the Tweed river about 50 miles north of Hadrian’s wall and branches off north at Berwick which is on the east coast

@@lazuriidkwhattoputhere8719 Yeah... we'll compromise by taking back all of historic Northumberland, all the way to Edinburgh.

Nope. Dacia was destroyed before the wall was built, they brought in an aux. Unit from what was then already a Roman Province.

@@j.b.2263 The province of Dacia still existed. Yes, Aurelian pulled out of Dacia in the 3rd century but Diocletian pulled off a big brain move and created a new province in the south of the Danube and named it Dacia so he could point on a map and say "Look! We still have Dacia, see?! It's right there! Everything is going just fiiiine..."

Yes

Yepperrrss

@Al Castill The Mongolians conquered China. They got all the way down to Vietnam. The Vietnamese actually circulated a pamphlet with tactics they helped them repel the Mongols, which they reprinted to take on the US hundreds of years later.

@Al Castill and the jurchen tribes

No of course not, ancient peoples just built huge and expensive infrastructure like that with manual labor just for the fun of it.

Hi there! I'm not sure if you'll see this but someone else commented that restoration and tourist projects over the years levelled out the wall, because they wanted to make it even to make a footpath on top of it so you could walk from one end to the other etc. Something like that anyway. Apparently before the projects began it was very uneven and had holes etc, and bits that were higher and bits that were completely toppled. Hope that makes sense :)

hi bro you know the track at 0:35 it sounds amazing

@Urien Rheged leave that for now i have a better question what's the soundtrack at 0:35 ?!!!