Archimedes was the greatest mathematician and engineer of the ancient world. It's the combination of the two that truly set him apart. He was SO CLOSE to inventing calculus as well, but he was killed by a Roman foot soldier during the siege of Syracuse even though they had been ordered not to harm him..
@midosch76393 жыл бұрын
This soldier surely got crucified for killing ancient Einstein
@sameerthakur7203 жыл бұрын
@@midosch7639 The soldier followed orders. They had been instructed to ask, "What is your name?" in Greek (though most common legionaries did not know Greek). The soldier asked the question to Archimedes. Archimedes (busy with his work) said, "Don't disturb me." in Greek. The soldier thought his name was "Dontdisturbme" and killed him.
@midosch76393 жыл бұрын
@@sameerthakur720 oh damn such a bad luck :(
@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--88202 жыл бұрын
Pos we would have better mathematical instruments by now.. Smh😠
@sudhamishra67532 жыл бұрын
False
@Aundrich3 жыл бұрын
Hey! It's the simple history dude! Lol
@sharlondelosreyes28423 жыл бұрын
How many channels do this guy have... Hahahahahaha
@louisonggo11473 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was wondering why his voice was so farmiliar
@louisonggo11473 жыл бұрын
How many channels does this guy need
@eacio45483 жыл бұрын
Cool i the voice is familiar
@minnotmax653 жыл бұрын
I think so
@andrew32032 жыл бұрын
Archimedes' death ray wasn't a simple mirror. Even concave mirrors would lack the focus and range to track and lit up ships at a distance. He most likely used focus lenses, much like a telescope, on movable gears. Seeing the Mythbusters attempting to replicate that with a hundreds kids holding mirrors was quite funny though.
@Rig0r_M0rtis2 жыл бұрын
They did not have technology to create a lens that big - concave metal mirrors are the most likely.
@dominiccassidy9708 Жыл бұрын
Archimedes did not invent a death ray. it's a total myth
@aaroncapricorn5867 Жыл бұрын
i wouldnt bother watching mythbusters. those fools won't know anything and neither till we until we go back in time and see every little meticulous detail. these documentaries are good enough
@raymondready7496 Жыл бұрын
I've read that it was hundreds of mirrors held and aimed at one point. Multiplying the suns reflection.
@doowappable Жыл бұрын
Even then theres no way to make a ship burn with that. It needs a still point, not a ship that goes up and down and back and forth. If you ever used a lens to make a fire you would know that it doesnt burn instantly, it needs to be exactly right on focus and then it still takes a bit. Even if that works once like a miracle, it would never work multiple times. If they ever had this device as the legend has it, it would probably be more blinding than doing any damage.
@marioacevedo50772 жыл бұрын
The last siege tower used in combat was by the US Army in WW2 to re-capture Fort Drum from the Japanese in Manila Bay.
@donHooligan Жыл бұрын
everything becomes illegal right after the USA gets away with doing it. 60 million indigenous taught Hitler how to kill 6.
@giantdad16612 жыл бұрын
Archimedes was that one guy who invented weird things that were surprisingly effective.
@jomangeee9180 Жыл бұрын
urbam myth! the claw of my azz
@jimmyohara2601 Жыл бұрын
What is weird about anything being effective ?? Maybe your thoughts are 😐🤐.
@giantdad1661 Жыл бұрын
@@jimmyohara2601 OH I'm sorry I didn't create a hammer that lifted ships out of the fucking ocean and drop them back down.
@kingghidorah1023 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute, i think i know this voice, IT'S THE SIMPLEHISTORY DUDE..!!! 😲😲
@nightzulu76153 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@terrorcop1013 жыл бұрын
Thought so.
@elijahjamescomia63313 жыл бұрын
I didn't know a kaiju watches youtube
@kingghidorah1023 жыл бұрын
@@elijahjamescomia6331 nah nah nah nah, titan, not kaiju
@elijahjamescomia63313 жыл бұрын
@@kingghidorah102 oww ok ok
@robhicks21173 жыл бұрын
Necessity is the mother of invention.
@watchthe13693 жыл бұрын
Limestone is a popular building material. Vinegar can dissolve limestone, the Beotian Flame thrower opened up cracks to allow it inside the wall.
@josiahscarrmusic67503 жыл бұрын
This video was very interesting there needs to be more of these
@chrisrnt25483 жыл бұрын
As early as 17th) but as a Greek I m happy hearing almost entirely about Greek warfare😂
@vojislavdragic50903 жыл бұрын
eastern roman.. no such thing as byzantine empire
@wren7195 Жыл бұрын
The hand powered trebuchets most certainly evolved from staff slings. Despite the general depiction, I fully believe that the sling David used against Goliath, and indeed all shepherds used in their vocation, were simple thong slings fitted onto the ends of their shepherd staves as opposed to a hand sling. Indeed, the Greeks consistently used staff slings (or "one man trebuchets" to help you visualize it) as part of their missile barrages during engagements. Hand slings, although indeed formidable, are far outpowered by staff slings, and it would take nothing for a shepherd to use that instead. It's incredible how much a simple misunderstanding of what was common for a time can shape a tale thousands of years old into something other than it was.
@pranit_33xa913 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I thought that the battering ram mentioned in the books used to be a live or dead ram - goat thrown at the gates of fortresses.
@eziokill91123 жыл бұрын
Da mmm
@fullarmordiscernment28422 жыл бұрын
Same here, lol. I used to imagine a goat running full speed into a wooden city gate... It's all in the name, right?
@majorgear10212 жыл бұрын
then you saw Braveheart and realized the truth. Hey, I used to think Molotov cocktails were called Mazeltov cocktails until a Jewish friend corrected me.
@davidodonovan16992 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for this information. I had heard of most of these things, but it's very good to have them all together in one quick video like this. Thank you very much. Well done sir. God bless you.
@caturbayu406 Жыл бұрын
I learned all these technologies from the game AOE II 😅
@dariuscommergnat63132 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was a really good video, I really needed this video because I need to do some essay about these siege artilleries. Thank you Top fives!
@dariuscommergnat63132 жыл бұрын
😊😉
@adrianaslund8605 Жыл бұрын
Catapults are torsion engines and not counterweight though. So trebuchets aren't really catapults. They use the stored springy energy of coils of hair to launch projectiles.
@yasiluck50562 жыл бұрын
I hope everyone reading this is in good spirits and know that someone loves you .
@nicholasbaker715911 ай бұрын
False otherwise I wouldn't be hungry
@twilightparanormalresearch1866 ай бұрын
Having studied ancient warfare, I’m never surprised at the weapons men create to kill each othet
@TheIceThorn3 жыл бұрын
Archimedes: because being nerd always had it's advantages. Since ever knowledge has always meant power.
@bigseven8227 Жыл бұрын
0:47 The fact that people nowadays still don't know exactly how the Greek Fire was made goes to show how excellent their military was at keeping top secrets.
@m1herrmann1603 жыл бұрын
Love the show!!
@donquijote7463 Жыл бұрын
DAVID : HOLD MY BEER.
@bluelionsage99 Жыл бұрын
The sea claw device seems like it is a myth rather than a reality. It could only reach a little past the walls and there would be little reason for a galley to be cruising just over the submerged rocks right next to the walls. The ship cranes just did not have sufficient range to be an issue. Yeah, supposed those rising boarding ramps were in use but it shouldn't take long to figure out where to avoid the cranes.
@jyzlslazyzyhc32863 жыл бұрын
Top Five:15 genius ancient saige weapons
@leeedsonetwo3 жыл бұрын
hoisted by your own Petard refers to sailors being hanged by use of the rope that held up their trousers which was called a petard.
@robotniqueee2 жыл бұрын
This is entirely wrong.
@leeedsonetwo2 жыл бұрын
@@robotniqueee It is what I had heard and fits the facts. SO what is your explanation.
@Itsyrm83 жыл бұрын
Caltrops were used by greeks against charging persian elephants
@karumovesV2 жыл бұрын
They recreated that Death Ray where hundreds of children carrying a mirror as large as them and then pointing refracted lights from the mirror in the same direction
@jamescharlesbutlerjr5519 Жыл бұрын
Ancient technology is awesome very amazing ancient tech and weapons.
@2ndamendmentsupporter7772 жыл бұрын
So in 420 dudes were blazing in war
@ozzylepunknown5512 жыл бұрын
KEEP IN MIND: there were no tutorial videos online for these
@dreamguardian83203 жыл бұрын
I've never even hear of the Claw of Archimedes, the Exploding Mill Wheel, and Archimedes' Death Ray, until now. That prehistoric Flame Thrower was cool to discover and learn. Scary how they used the Plague as a weapon. I hope people won't find a way to turn Covid-19 into a weapon. Greek Fire truly is a mystery, it makes me want to discover if it was truly made in Greece or why they called it Greek Fire. But hearing how dangerous it was, perhaps it's better that it remains undiscovered and a secret, for the safety everyone. The same goes for all the other ancient siege weapons.
@sameerthakur7203 жыл бұрын
Turn Covid into a weapon. Many communist countries have had bio-warfare programs. The Chinese had their premier Virus research facility at Wuhan. They have been researching Coronaviruses at least since 2005. Put two and two together.
@valkyviktor32283 жыл бұрын
@@sameerthakur720 At least we now trying to fight back and have a staging ground against Covid, imagine Resident Evil game turn true and we have deadly undead instead of this
@johnscanlon25982 жыл бұрын
COVID already is a weapon
@tweakfreq19822 жыл бұрын
Napalm was the closest modern man has come to equal Greek fire
@wesleyhobbs23327 ай бұрын
@@tweakfreq1982 And Napalm is far superior to Greek fire.
@sneakyturtle11173 жыл бұрын
This sounds like simple history's voice.... WAIT IT IS!
@mrrice633 жыл бұрын
This is simple history’s voice
@RonaldTrumpOfficial3 жыл бұрын
3:06 Is about ballista *continues to show Scorpio firing*
@godisforever72633 жыл бұрын
I mean they are in the ballista category so that counts I guess And crossbows are also mini ballista.
@MikeBanks20033 жыл бұрын
The big and small trebuchet were on wheels or on rails--it increased the range by about a third, and stopped the machine wrecking itself. ,
@renahernandez51203 жыл бұрын
War..a guy thing.
@MikeBanks20033 жыл бұрын
@@renahernandez5120 Nope--just applied physics. Action and reaction are equal and opposite--
@MikeBanks20033 жыл бұрын
@@renahernandez5120 Have you not heard of Queen Hatshepsut?
@thisiscrackedbro35672 жыл бұрын
Fun fact here in Serbia we call petarde firecrackers
@11_damaiteguhs.t_ximipa833 жыл бұрын
Archimedes is a real madlad.
@republicofnoobs7437 Жыл бұрын
at 16:18 this is Atkins hall in Cork Ireland, it used to be a sanaturium, now it is a rather nice appartment complex, I used to live there :)
@Dont_cry_my_guy2 жыл бұрын
The narrator sounds like Charlie Sheen and I cant unhear it
@misterivandespabiladeras10763 жыл бұрын
The first one you mentioned was the modern day flamethrower and they love the trebuchet I love
@alinvornicu77342 жыл бұрын
Archimedes invents death ray. Sun: Bye!
@hundun5604 Жыл бұрын
Caltrops, the simplest and most dangerous of all of them. That's because of the barbs. Hard to get loose without losing your feet. Especially in those times. Patards are still being used in IED's today. Btw, for those 'claws' you need huge counterweights to lift a ship out of the water, a very strong grip and beam, and be able to rotate. I've to see it before I believe it. Same goes for the "death ray". Back then, they didn't have mirrors. Anyway, interesting video. Thanks!
@DIREWOLFx75 Жыл бұрын
"Back then, they didn't have mirrors." Yes they did. First known mirror was from 6k BC or something. "Btw, for those 'claws'" My guess is that they exploited leverage far more than the vast majority of modern guesswork shows. I can come up with several options that should work at the very least. And if they placed them in optimal positions, they wouldn't need that many for them to be as effective as written, especially as they probably also surprised the enemy.
@KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain Жыл бұрын
I remember siege towers from watching the mysterious cities of gold.
@erikr968 Жыл бұрын
Siege towers were not used to put soldiers onto the walls (with some very rare exceptions). Ditches, uneven ground and other defenses would make it impossible to drag such huge structures close enough to the walls. They were simply platforms for archers enabling them to shoot down at the defenders.
@davefellhoelter13437 ай бұрын
Right? a Rope! and Tug? and Down she Goes! Had to stay out of that Range! maybe a ramp if the opertunity was there, but these dudes Lived and Died with their Smarts!
@riccardomulazzani74367 ай бұрын
You're wrong man... There are several ancient documents and images confirming... The siege tower or mobile tower is a war machine used to reach the defensive walls of a city or fortress during a siege. The siege towers were made of wood, pulled by oxen and with some walls covered with skins to protect themselves from enemy missiles. Inside there were several floors connected to each other with stairs. At the top there was a "drawbridge" which allowed access to the walls.[1] They had a square base and to ensure they were sufficiently stable, not only did they narrow in height, but the area of the upper platform was equal to 1/5 of the base. They could reach considerable heights, as happened during the campaigns of Alexander the Great where one of these reached the measurement of 120 cubits equal to 53 meters. In Roman times we know that in Masada in 74, one of 60 cubits was built, equal to about 26 meters, also equipped with catapults, ballistae and a large ram. Greetings.
@andonokusumajati96073 жыл бұрын
Archimedes gotta be time traveler
@ArishVanNikon2 жыл бұрын
Correction: The Counterweight Trebuchet was also invented in China in the 4th century BC
@thax3212 жыл бұрын
Using an image of a hoplite phalanx from 500 BC when talking about Byzantine, Greek, fire....classic.
@fernandes59863 жыл бұрын
Very good, concise and informative. Your calm voice also helps delivering the message. I already subscribed. Btw what's the music on background?
@mikeropaynus4103 жыл бұрын
They set water on fire!
@mordechaimandel81182 жыл бұрын
Rome, Rome, Rome. It's all fucking Rome!
@TheBlackjack542 жыл бұрын
Most of these are Greek? Some Syracuse too
@donovandelaney3171 Жыл бұрын
All hail Caesar!!
@edgardolorenzo17973 жыл бұрын
Great vid..thanks!
@trustjesusoursavior41793 жыл бұрын
Ballista is a giant slingshot
@alphawolffestudios11693 жыл бұрын
Myth busters tried recreating number 1 but came to the conclusion it wasn’t possible with modern engineering
@PeansINbetweens2 жыл бұрын
finally someone that mentioned it! yeap proved even with modern tech its useless
@OriginalCovfefe11 ай бұрын
Simple History man!
@bigbob16993 жыл бұрын
So many wars and battles we know so little of .
@Irishfrasa3 жыл бұрын
People up until the 20th century: there's just no way we can comprehend the complicated engineering of the ballista. We aren't caught up. The ballista: BIG SLINGSHOT
3 жыл бұрын
Several of these are not ancient, not siege weapons, or even neither -starting with the first one, greek fire- but the video is interesting nonetheless.
@kieranfogarty7783 жыл бұрын
Also the Romans managed to take Syracuse
@Itsyrm83 жыл бұрын
Liquid fire
@tektoastium7241 Жыл бұрын
The battering ram really wasn't so genius. Testaments to siege warfare suggest that the battering ram was tried oftentimes just in case the enemy had forgotten to get a strong door for their fortress. And contrary to popular belief, siege towers were not often used to reach castle walls. They were instead used as an elevated firing platform for archers, and had the stunning speed of 1.25 meters per hour. I argue that the most important siege weapon was the shovel. Sieges did not demand the skill of knights, they demanded the skill of engineers. Things like trebuchets and circumvallations could not be made without the skill of siege engineers in one's attacking force, and it could take months to build a single trebuchet.
@o.k.productions52023 жыл бұрын
#5, if you can’t beat a wall, build a wall.
@1wor1d3 жыл бұрын
Archimedes Death Ray has many factors that make it unlikely to be true. Firstly it was never used again, even though many people were needed to pull off this strategy so therefore new how to use or make it, also the equipment to do it was not destroyed. Historians, scientists engineers have all tried to re-create the Death Ray using technology available at the time, but at best all they can achieve is giving a sailor a nice suntan!!
@wankawanka30532 жыл бұрын
Nope they actually have recreated it
@muhtasimmustafiz7162 Жыл бұрын
@@wankawanka3053 Mythbusters proved it was impossible. Can you link where they did prove it?
@aaronharper12093 жыл бұрын
I wonder how strong a spring loaded battering ram would have been.
@rhuonaChanel2 жыл бұрын
Would have needed a really large spring and maybe some gears. Maybe a leaf spring design might be simpler. This is definitely an interesting idea
@Ccc.91254 ай бұрын
Really big fan of simple history and awesome voice 😊😄.
@eaxamed2462 жыл бұрын
Ancient war is very cool
@greenwave8192 жыл бұрын
as a city defender, TY for circumvalation!!
@gs72563 жыл бұрын
In other words:!!! Greeks invented first the majority of these things… I wonder really.. If these people were United and not fighting each other, what would have been… I believe that by far Greeks are the most smart, and they offered the biggest in human history in every aspect if life..Not only in war, but in piece, in mind, in sciences, in everything..everything we value today comes from them.. Huge respect.. We owe them everything…
@papasfritasduras2 жыл бұрын
Read "The Red Queen's Race" a Sicence Fiction short story from Isaac Asimov.
@tweakfreq19822 жыл бұрын
And as all things end, we can thank the romans
@t.r.44963 жыл бұрын
Capt: Private it's your turn to ride the bellows. Me:😞
@sadcharles48453 жыл бұрын
I love history
@robloxandgachalifemobileta99763 жыл бұрын
The greek fire was the first flamethrower cuz it shoots fire like a flamethrower
@hii78723 жыл бұрын
Love it
@magnussoevgaard80913 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@whitepony84432 жыл бұрын
Nah, English longbow is the best old world weapon in my opinion. People still use them for hunting even today, and it's English, it's badass, mate.
@TheT3MK4 Жыл бұрын
thats not even ancient era weapons longbow is from medieval era.
@amkhjogr50629 ай бұрын
The English longbow was effective only in that it was inexpensive and "easy" to make and when unstrung, doubled as a staff. It had less range and power that the recurve bow - and was too large to be used on horseback. As a "projectile weapon" is was very much inferior to the recurve bow. It is also a lesser weapon to the flatbow (Nth America) which is similar part from the "ends" (which do not taper - therefore adding just that little more tension). The main advantage of these masses ranks of longbow archers was not only in the bow - it was essentially in the men themselves - they were also armed with long knives and were more than effective as light infantry - especially effective against heavily armoured "knights" who'd been de-horsed (this was the real decider at Agincourt).
@JayM4093 жыл бұрын
The Romans actually did capture Syracuse, and Archimedes was killed.
@elvenkind60723 жыл бұрын
Drawing circles in the sand, complaining about the soldier that came to stab him to death, were stepping on the formula.
@omaralaaeldeenelsadany55273 жыл бұрын
I was searching for u through the comments
@fifa4lifeunknow7953 жыл бұрын
@@elvenkind6072 the soldiers had orders not to harm him, but Archimedes said he had to finish his work before he goes but roman foot soldier got mad and killed him
@TheBubblybobby3 жыл бұрын
Wow the death Ray !
@legionxcommanderdegurechaf85663 жыл бұрын
Idea for a new channel: Top History. Its just this channel but with the style of simple history
@jayav17383 жыл бұрын
There are many techniques used in Indian sub continent not mentioned here
@mrvn0003 жыл бұрын
Make your own channel and coment it.
@anyoneanywhere82123 жыл бұрын
Onager spam ALWAYS wins. No exceptions.
@Flintynicomod2 ай бұрын
imagine attacking a city in 214 bc and seeing a ray of light scorching your ship in seconds
@SherriRichLifeJohnson3 жыл бұрын
👍😀 great video
@adrianmedyanik88143 жыл бұрын
Rome won battle of Syracuse at 212 bc....thats how archimedes died
@wtfmanicanthaveaname3 ай бұрын
Interesting, greek fire was obviously the inspiration for the "Wildfire" in Game of Thrones.
@7ThePrimagen3 ай бұрын
If I remember much like the painting There was very lil info But I think somebody wanted to make a handheld version of it for normal troops The fuckin Greeks were about to set tranches ablaze a couple centuries before the Germans XD
@user-er5qu6wq5f4 ай бұрын
I love how it's "Top 5s" but they always do 15
@richardhawkins46212 ай бұрын
Most sieges was a case of surrounding the castle and then starving them out
@IIIAnchani2 жыл бұрын
2:25 look closely to the longbowman on the right with the flaming arrow. [when you get friendzoned by your crush]
@saristaa1 Жыл бұрын
*Most of these are siege weapons, not anti-siege weapons!*
@MrGufi-nf2jz3 жыл бұрын
The manganel is actually called an onager
@joshuafarmer34673 жыл бұрын
Interesting that he calls it a "BA-LISS-TA" then a "BAA-Less- Stay"
@painfulorwhat88723 жыл бұрын
When he says "BAA-Less-Stay" he is using the plural of Ba-Liss-Ta as he is talking about many more than one of them.
@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N3 жыл бұрын
first is singular, second is plural.
@MrHide-ty1qk3 жыл бұрын
Hey this voice is familiar from simple history i subscribe on that channel
@mustard47623 жыл бұрын
Humans are smart and scary
@molybdaen113 жыл бұрын
We were always good at killing.
@seanfoltz76457 ай бұрын
You used a screen scrape of Myth Busters proving the death ray didn't work as evidence of it working.
@trevorbourke362715 күн бұрын
the mithbusters made tested them all and they did what they were supposed to do.
@danieliglesias1669 Жыл бұрын
And in modern times, when Archimedes “ray”’was “recreated”…….it just didn’t work no matter how much they tried. 🤔🇨🇺🇺🇸
@michaelfox24333 жыл бұрын
What a cool and interesting video on an interesting topic, thx.
@MrOlgrumpy7 ай бұрын
Taking iron back to the bronze age is quite a feat.
@marcusmeins18392 жыл бұрын
so all age of empires 2 units are real
@KPrendo7 ай бұрын
ancient greek people inventing flamethrowers be like💀
@donovandelaney3171 Жыл бұрын
Only one death ray existed.
@ellagrant61902 жыл бұрын
15 genius ancient siege weapons.. Number 6, it failed the only 3 times we have on record, but we think it worked afterwards, even though we have no concrete examples..
@repentnowjesusiscomingsoon73562 жыл бұрын
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes.
@karlaitchison11593 жыл бұрын
Nooooo i still think of the battle ram as the castle seige weapon not the hand held