How Far Did Rome Explore?

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10 ай бұрын

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Written and Researched by Dr Raoul McLaughlin: kzfaq.info/love/Gk9VXhk_l__aLVp4Yp90lw
Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext
Original Art by Alex Stoica
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
References:
McLaughlin, R. Rome and the Distant East (2010)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016)
McLaughlin, Kim & Lieu, Rome and China: Points of Contact (2021)
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00:00 The Edge of The Empire
06:38 West: Beyond Carthage (146 BC)
17:34 East: Hunting Mithridates (65 BC)
28:11 South: The Incense Trails (25 BC)
37:53 Further East: The Counterlanders (52 AD)
49:17 Further South: The Source of the Nile (61 AD)
01:04:35 North: The Forests of Germania (61 AD)
01:14:48 Further North: Advance and Engage! (43 - 85 AD)
01:23:46 Onward To Thule! (84 AD)
01:35:16 The Map (150 AD)

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@VoicesofthePast 10 ай бұрын

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@CubicPlanets 10 ай бұрын

First

@CubicPlanets 10 ай бұрын

@arnijulian6241 10 ай бұрын

Simply Marvellous! I knew a fair bit about this subject concerning Rome's exploration but such a complete well explained summery is impressive. You make the tosh they call documentaries on public television look as if rambled babblings by comparison.

@justadildeau 10 ай бұрын

I'm dreaming in Latin, please help

@johndeacon1496 10 ай бұрын

The folly and senseless brutality of war is still with us.

@vynvalor3723 10 ай бұрын

Its incredible how similar these frontiers are to those found in fantasy books. The world must have been so mystical back then.

@ItIsBlank. 10 ай бұрын

I was just thinking that. That's so true.

@xxxxxx5868 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes I wish I was born in the age where I could be a frontiersman and explorer. Dangerous but so worth it

@squintz21four 10 ай бұрын

Mystical = death

@MsBrookeWilcox 10 ай бұрын

@@squintz21fouryou have no sense of adventure, Squintz. The mystical comes from the unknown. Someone will always forge a path towards the unknown, in the search of knowledge, power, or freedom.

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

@@xxxxxx5868I'd prefer Imperator

@noahrotter 10 ай бұрын

Explores the north: “Too cold” Explores the south: “Too hot” Explores the east: “How is it both cold and hot??”

@yourguard4 10 ай бұрын

And the west was to wet :P

@maxis5427 9 ай бұрын

@@yourguard4Yes, the ocean is pretty wet indeed

@augustoreyes6031 9 ай бұрын

Funny 😅

@Ulfrich_Stormcock 9 ай бұрын

That poor Roman soldier in the video thumbnail hating his life lol. He’s seen some stuff and regrets military life

@macnico9987 9 ай бұрын

*Shaq bursts through the door

@GlidingZephyr 10 ай бұрын

A 1 hour and 45 minute long documentary about exploration of the Roman frontiers? Why yes, yes I will.

@-Patrick_Bateman 10 ай бұрын

😂

@GodwynDi 10 ай бұрын

Indeed

@johntrimble8335 10 ай бұрын

I'm saving it for my next walk

@jamess3241 10 ай бұрын

Me too, but you forgot the best part: ITS FREE!!!

@jonbaxter2254 10 ай бұрын

@@johntrimble8335 listening to it wfh.

@mr_metal. 10 ай бұрын

imagine living in an age where you can't tell for sure, where does the world end, and in which direction still lays what. which treasures, landscapes, creatures, folks can be found there where nobody ever from your nation walked... such an amazing feeling one might have amongst all perils, just the mere thought amber could have come further from a northern tropical territory passing albion and the northern frost, amazes me. the possibilities and the excitement these people have felt.. thanks also for this video. it is always a journey beyond time, morals, memories, emotions.

@tjwhitley5284 10 ай бұрын

We are similar to that with space

@satanwithinternet2753 10 ай бұрын

I feel like thats what ppl living in north korea feel

@literallynothinghere9089 10 ай бұрын

its same for us, just replace earth with space and it was as hard and challenging to become a master voyager with royal grants in those days as its to study in uni and become an astronomer today. So its not like 'anyone can do it' Voyagers needed massive royal grants for resources, mini armies for security and above all, some symbol showing that they were under the protection of X monarch

@jonbaxter2254 10 ай бұрын

And then you fight a Gorilla...

@mr_metal. 10 ай бұрын

@@jonbaxter2254 can't be much worse than 2m tall Germans with big ass axes

@stoopidapples1596 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if when Scipio saw Carthage ruined, knowing it existed for 700 years, he realised the mortality of his own empire.

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

@nuckingfuts811 9 ай бұрын

Didn’t give two shits.

@crockstonyt 9 ай бұрын

Maybe

@ecthelionnoldo876 9 ай бұрын

Yes he did, read Polybius who was there with Scipio. Scipio cried and recounted a line from the Iliad, reflecting on the decay of all things and how this would happen to Rome as well

@optimusprinceps3526 9 ай бұрын

@@ecthelionnoldo876 Carthago delenda est !

@ManiusCuriusDenatus 10 ай бұрын

I really appreciate how this channel mixes in primary sources. I've read a lot of the Roman primary sources, but listening to them opens up the stories to a much wider audience. Well done!

@gothicgolem2947 10 ай бұрын

Where did you read those sources?

@ManiusCuriusDenatus 10 ай бұрын

@@gothicgolem2947 Oxford World Classics puts out well translated paperbacks of all sorts classic literature as well as the literary Roman and Greek sources. Harvard prints the Loeb classics too, but those can be a bit pricey per volume. They are really nice hardcovers though. You can also find them for free online, but I prefer owning the books.

@Dkthearn 9 ай бұрын

The Vatican probably 😅

@speedyx3493 9 ай бұрын

@@gothicgolem2947 If you are looking to find them: 99% of times you can just google the name of a text and the 1st or 2nd result will be a page with just the text and nothing else, maybe some footnotes sometimes. If this doesn’t work you can just ask at some history forum, there are tons of really passionate experts that take their free time and help people find stuff. If you find a text so obscure that you can’t just google it and no one on the forums can link it then you get in contact with someone who specializes in that certain period and place and you start digging thru whatever uncategorized stuff you can get your hands on and pray you find something useful. Thankfully that doesn’t really happen nowadays, most of the hard work has already been done by other

@NuncNuncNuncNunc 9 ай бұрын

@@gothicgolem2947 Discussion of amber is in part taken from Pliny's Natural History chapter, Amber: The many falsehoods that have been told about it.

@intiorozco5063 10 ай бұрын

Those final words by Seneca sent shivers down my spine. Imagine if they had explored across the Western Ocean and contacted the Preclassic or Classic Maya civilisation.

@Damc_94 10 ай бұрын

Well maybe they have

@portland9880 10 ай бұрын

@@Damc_94they didn't lol

@Damc_94 10 ай бұрын

@@portland9880 I said maybe, I don't have evidence to prove that it happened, although I believe that in 400 years an unrecorded contact is not impossible. I'm not interested in changing other people's mind

@anirudh177 10 ай бұрын

@@Damc_94 Unlikely, naval technology was simply not developed enough to facilitate a safe crossing of the atlantic during the ancient period.

@abruemmer77 10 ай бұрын

@@Damc_94 Ancient sailors may have been surprised by storms while traveling in the Atlantic and driven westward by currents to the Caribbean or South America.

@namuzed 10 ай бұрын

2:17 It honestly sounds like he's describing icebergs. While he would have seen ice and snow in parts of Italy, seeing massive sheets of it over water might have been too strange for him to see it as the same thing.

@someoneelse3456 10 ай бұрын

To see icebergs that large to the point he describes it as "the land, sea and air merging together" he must have travelled pretty far north.

@exoticfanta 10 ай бұрын

@@someoneelse3456Thule was probably iceland and iceland is pretty Colt and traveling further is near antactica

@yoloswaggins7121 10 ай бұрын

@@exoticfanta I think it was Norway, not Iceland.

@alasdairhicks6731 9 ай бұрын

Probably the Norwegian coast

@imean5399 9 ай бұрын

@@someoneelse3456 I'm from the North East and this sounds like pack ice. Not an iceberg. Its basically when the iceberg melts into a bunch of chips that float in clusters. They're pretty large, heavy chunks of glacial ice individually. But when they're floating together along the waves... I can see it

@papasexy76 10 ай бұрын

This came out right at the daily time I contemplate the glories and downfalls of the Roman Empire. Thank you

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

and you know why that happened, right ?

@ZhangK71 10 ай бұрын

@@optimusprinceps3526People watched too much KZfaq

@justadildeau 10 ай бұрын

@@optimusprinceps3526ad fidelitatum

@je-freenorman7787 8 ай бұрын

They rule the entire world now Why dont you do this? Go look at the Besty Ross, the first Flag of USA and you might notice there are 13 stars? One for each colony? right , so , now go check the etymology of the word Colony and notice that it is referring to a Roman establishment, outside of Italy So, you really are not sure where you are and if you are in USA, then you are also in the Holy Roman Empire

@optimusprinceps3526 8 ай бұрын

@@je-freenorman7787 Especially since the USA is a Constitutional Republic, based upon the laws, foundations, and principles of ancient Rome

@adivshtein2054 10 ай бұрын

I watched the entire video in one breath. It is fascinating how the world used to be much bigger and much more mysterious and scary back then. It is really humbling to know the shape and approximate size of the world ,but despite that and all the conquests and expeditions understand that you know only a fraction of it.

@jeremytitus9519 10 ай бұрын

Dude your lung capacity is friggin CRAZY

@adivshtein2054 10 ай бұрын

@@jeremytitus9519 I know, right?💀 I meant like, without stopping it or getting distracted, but maybe I should marvel at my lung capacity.

@carloscifuentes5656 10 ай бұрын

I've never seen "approximate" spelled so wrong

@elilachappa3330 10 ай бұрын

@@carloscifuentes5656took me a minute to figure out what he was spelling ngl

@adivshtein2054 10 ай бұрын

@@elilachappa3330 bruh stop bullying me I was tired💀💀💀

@acchillin6813 10 ай бұрын

Romes warlike nature, and their reputation may have played a huge part in their inability to expand further. According to these accounts, they didn’t know and no one told them key information on surviving away from the Mediterranean and Greek colonized areas.

@JMEYER2090 10 ай бұрын

They didn't want them to know I bet lol

@jekyle1980 10 ай бұрын

"Their warlike nature"... I mean, I don't think they were any more warlike than the Gauls, Germans, Parthians, or Dacians. They were just BETTER at it.

@acchillin6813 10 ай бұрын

@@jekyle1980 oh absolutely. The countless adaptations and strategies they incorporated to not only fight on the field but organize at home was unmatched. True stability, which is why they lasted so long. Right? But, there’s a question that should be asked. If they transitioned to a more economically driven diplomatic approach, how would they have faired? Such as Britain, France or Portugal during their colonial phase. Hard to say I think, since most cultures in Roman times valued martial prowess.

@jekyle1980 10 ай бұрын

@@acchillin6813 You partially answered your own question. You can't really compare how nations treated other nations during say, the 16th - 18th century colonial phase compared to the Roman period precisely because the world was a very different place then. During the Roman period, might very much made right (and that's still not far from reality today), and EVERYONE was trying to expand. National identities didn't really exist (it was all tribal based) and even today, borders are always being disputed (look at Ukraine and Russia right now). So to fully and quickly answer your question- how would Rome have faired if, during the 1st century period, they had tried to focus on diplomacy and DIDN'T also have a powerful military? I think Carthage or the Gallic tribes would have erased them before they ever got a chance to become the superpower they became.

@acchillin6813 10 ай бұрын

@@jekyle1980 Right. Carthage and Gaul were major threats. On their own borders and then sphere of influence. I was thinking if they had transitioned post Trajan. Traditionally, once a “people”, nation or otherwise develop a hegemony, in Rome’s case post Trajan, they had choices. And Rome chose to continue its dogmatic view of the world. And again, you’re right. It my comments thus far have been very rhetorical. But it’s still important to ask the question to remind ourselves where “we” are going. Your example of Russia, and others like China and even the United States.. have core principles in their leadership style that dictate domination of others stemming from dogmatic views that they are better and know better.

@GunBreaux 10 ай бұрын

It's amusing to imagine the four pictures are the same poor Roman soldier on a miserable roadtrip.

@malegria9641 3 ай бұрын

“Ferrisius Buhlerum’s day off”

@bobskywalker2707 8 күн бұрын

@@malegria9641I’d watch it

@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 10 ай бұрын

I fear to imagine how fundamentally traumatizing it must have been for someone to understand and process the fact that they were being enslaved by a mortal enemy.

@longhairdontcare122 10 ай бұрын

@@MA_KA_PA_TIEI dub thee lord of the edge 😮.

@mikesmnell414 10 ай бұрын

@@MA_KA_PA_TIE🤓

@Goldenself 10 ай бұрын

Considering it was a common and accepted practice on both sides most of the time, it might not have been as traumatic as you'd think, though it would also depend on what status you had before capture and what kind of slavery you had to look forward to. In any case, it didn't necessarily come with the assumption that slaves were less than human. That's more of an American and European imperialism thing.

@naas_the_serpent 10 ай бұрын

amor fati

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

Where's my reparations ? 💰🌿🙂🌿

@ronkledonkanusmoncher564 10 ай бұрын

Being the first person from your civilization to see such things would bring a feeling of bewildered wonder and amazement that is surpassed by no other, I feel that it is in a humans heart to want to explore, to go out and seek new things and new places, new experiences and peoples and cultures.

@rvanhees89 10 ай бұрын

That, and greed

@calcifiedinnerbaldur 10 ай бұрын

No it's not in a human heart to experience "new people and cultures", the opposite is true. Anyone who was born & raised in a single culture doesn't want to deal with alien, foreign people's over being with their own people. On that note, not all cultures are created equally lol. Many cultures are objectively worse than others.

@peekaboo1575 10 ай бұрын

The narration is always so well spoken. This plus the fascinating subject means I can watch these videos all day.

@humboldtdoomer866 2 ай бұрын

because its a reading software. you can catch some spelling errors in the script that the software reads as if it were intentional.

@johnnychico7052 10 ай бұрын

The logistics to be able to do this is what I’ve always found the most interesting.

@v.ra. 10 ай бұрын

Yes! It would be curious to discover more of the material history aspect of conquest

@tavish4699 10 ай бұрын

Legions on the move lived of the Land what they couldnt forage thmeselves they bought from the acompanying civillians Behind the Legion was a train of civillians like smiths doctors professional hunters fishermen and so on

@BillGreenAZ 3 ай бұрын

I've wondered this as well. Not just the Romans, but some of the European powers that moved throughout the continent.

@chungusdisciple9917 10 ай бұрын

Pompey was not killed by his own officers as stated in the video, but by a Roman mercenary who was in the employ of the King of Egypt

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

You are correct 👍

@Georgieastra 10 ай бұрын

Technically correct... The best kind of correct

@isidroramos1073 10 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly he was an old officer of his, and his position in Egypt was... ambiguous. Pompey left a Roman contingent in Egypt, the so called Gabinians (because his original commander was called Aulus Gabinius) to support Roman interests, including supporting the Roman approved King Ptolemy XII Auletes. But after a seven years long stay in Egypt their loyalties became increasingly mixed and their status, unclear. They certainly seem to have fought for Ptolemy XIII against Caesar.

@Sirxchrish 10 ай бұрын

If only titus pullo and lucius vorenus did their damn duty...

@optimusprinceps3526 10 ай бұрын

@@Sirxchrish " He was a Consul of Rome ! "....

@mrbiscuits001 10 ай бұрын

I definitely think those "hairy humas" they encountered where chimpanzees or Bonobos. One of the giveaways was them throwing stones. I also think this because chimpanzees look much more human like than gorillas, who themselves look eerily human.

@NarlepoaxIII 9 ай бұрын

A full, feature-length documentary? Talking about moments in Roman history that are rarely covered these days? Providing plenty of primary sources? And having moments to talk about what it was like to be a Roman at the time in question? This is _such_ a good video. It's really hard to overstate just how good it is.

@albetroz_ 9 ай бұрын

This documentary is a work of art. The narration, the background art, the sources. Everything here is beyond fantastic.

@williams.vincent4235 10 ай бұрын

At age 62 I'm far more interested in history than I was in high school. Lol. The old saying that if one doesn't learn the harsh lessons of history, it's bound to be repeated. How true, even in the year 2023. I took notice that as Scipio watched Carthage burn, he wondered if this was the fate of all great empires. The answer is an emphatic yes! Great channel.

@BillGreenAZ 3 ай бұрын

Our history books were so much more boring back then.

@gangstalkerofgangstalkers 10 ай бұрын

Once again outstanding content. Real-life lore beats any fantasy lore hands down.

@nbeutler1134 10 ай бұрын

Other than Tolkien

@marbleporphyry 10 ай бұрын

@@nbeutler1134 That is real life lore

@GenericName23 9 ай бұрын

@@marbleporphyryschizo thinking

@theviniso 9 ай бұрын

Real life lore sure could use more dragons though

@je-freenorman7787 8 ай бұрын

@aurex8937 10 ай бұрын

The four legionnaires all look pretty miserable, which is probably historically accurate for explorers!

@hoonterofhoonters6588 10 ай бұрын

"My feet hurt. This weather is far from temperate Italy. These barbarians have no garum."

@einbenutzenderbenutzer 5 ай бұрын

@@hoonterofhoonters6588 Imagine having no garum... so uncivilized

@josephbianco8405 10 ай бұрын

To think back in the day a video like this would’ve been a huge special event on the history channel

@juliusnepos6013 9 ай бұрын

Yeah

@munckintattoolover24 10 ай бұрын

Imagine if the Roman’s kept going east or south east and setting foot in Australia! But in the sceam of things they got kind of close. I never knew they met with people from Sri Lanka too, fascinating video!

@juliusnepos6013 9 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@fafafafafafa6879 3 ай бұрын

I would like to see Romans thought about Austronesians. Seafarers people beyond Counterland.

@johnrichards7337 10 ай бұрын

Congratulations on a great piece of work. Well researched and well produced. Having written extensively about Rome myself, I am very familiar with most of the primary sources, but I am not ashamed to admit I learned something watching this.

@crapwithanopinion2919 9 ай бұрын

I have and never will get past Nero’s neck beard. You know that mf was unbearable to deal with just by that.

@rudyardwalker9113 Ай бұрын

😂😂

@simos7024 10 ай бұрын

I rarely comment on videos but I just have to say that this was an amazing watch and I really appreciate the effort you put into making these videos. Not just all the the information, but the visuals that go along with it were really well put together! Thank you.

@jasonstanley7326 9 ай бұрын

My favorite content creator, right here. These videos make me feel like I am sitting by a fireside at a Roman camp, listening to great stories passed on by older soldiers about the world at large. A true journey into the past indeed

@PIRAKAS666 6 ай бұрын

bro i cried...how can any man even dare to try reach the mindbogglingly purified manliness of Pompey?? What an absolute definition of an ALPHA CHAD!

@FragwellFam 10 ай бұрын

Such magnificent storytelling! What a mysterious and fantastical time it must have been to be an explorer. It almost feels like I am there, especially with the primary sources!

@pendragon2012 10 ай бұрын

And here I was trying to get through the weekend without thinking about the Roman Empire for a change....

@thebigksmoosey 10 ай бұрын

3 times a week at least

@ToyInsanity 10 ай бұрын

impossible

@juliusnepos6013 9 ай бұрын

Yeah

@tldr7730 8 ай бұрын

Wow! So much fascinating stories, that went missing in school. Imagine Roman troops exploring the the south Sudan, almost hitting the equator. A gem in history is the arrival of an embassy from Sri Lanka to Rome, well >1000 years before the "age of exploration".

@See_That_Game 10 ай бұрын

People used to live like in an elder scrolls game. When you reach the edge of the known world it tells you: "You cannot go that way".

@devinosland359 9 ай бұрын

I guess i never realised that romans didn't know what monkeys and gorillas were, thats gotta be a weird thing to see. You would think they were genuinely a different species of humans

@adammercer6004 9 ай бұрын

Well it's even more crazier than that considering that in antiquity that the term "Carried off the women" referred to taking women into enforced marriages and sexual slavery like how the Roman carried off the Sabine Women and they carried off 3 female Gorrilas so....

@RuthvenMurgatroyd 8 ай бұрын

@@adammercer6004 Think you're reading into that a bit. All the source says is that Hano and his men slaid them and skinned their hides.

@RuthvenMurgatroyd 8 ай бұрын

Also, Hanno was Carthaginian (the name should have been a clue if you happened to miss the context - Hanno, like Hannibal, is a Carthaginian name).

@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 3 күн бұрын

What's with all the Roman Civil Wars? It seems every 5 years they'd engage in Civil War.

@ghinion 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for including the cut-out parts of the script and dialogue in the captions! I know it was removed for the sake of time, but for people like me who appreciate minute details, it was a nice surprise to see them hiding in the CC. It's a great video too! While I was sketching I had to pause sometimes just to appreciate the backgrounds and story of it. Very informative, as most videos covering Rome choose to prioritize Rome's conquests and internal events. This was my first time seeing such an in-depth video of the external influence of Rome. Cheers!

@Argacyan 10 ай бұрын

Just as a safety fyi: It is not safe to go amber-hunting along the east sea coast (aka the baltic sea) nowadays as there is amber-lookalike pieces of phosphorous WW2 incendiary bombs still left. The use of phosphorous bombs in WW2, while not technically permanently, still has made this hobby & trade dangerous to human life at threat of being set on fire. Due to the nature of chance & lack of information on every piece of debris left in the wild, that threat will decrease over time, but never reach zero.

@felicityc 3 ай бұрын

nice, it's like amber roulette

@1wor1d 9 ай бұрын

2:26 That was fascinating, Strabo's comments on the "sea lung which suspends itself over the ocean". I interpreted it as one of those tales that was told by someone who had never actually gone to where they claimed, but when it was explained that this "merging and binding elemental matter" could be sea ice, wow I never interpreted that statement as that, but it makes a lot of sense.

@kochiyama 10 ай бұрын

There is something so incredible about the Roman explorers describing gorillas like they're some sort of alien society. Must have felt like it.

@normal1209 9 ай бұрын

The gorillas he was referring to were a tribe or something of africa. The animal was named after them.

@Titancameraman64 8 ай бұрын

We don't know their gorilla they could be chimpanzee or bonobows

@mrstopanimationguy 7 ай бұрын

The original use of gorilla that Hanno uses is in reference to human beings…The animal was named thousands of years after this excerpt.

@GreoGreo 5 ай бұрын

@@wewuzaryans Where's twin towers?

@deewesthill1213 10 ай бұрын

The fascinating details in this superb documentary have filled in gaps in my knowledge about the far-flung Roman Empire contacts that I'd been wondering about for many years. I'd read about something of this and watched other videos on Roman and world history, but yours had far more details, and I really loved the narration and artwork too. Thank you so very much.

@emperorofpluto 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video. Unfiltered historical accounts from primary sources - in their own words. This channel is one of the best.

@dianaavellanet8794 10 ай бұрын

I'd subscribed sometime ago. But, you're most current uploads, have taken this channel to new heights.🔥 Thank you for that! 🙌Many blessings.🙏🏻

@warrenny 9 ай бұрын

This is probably the best video I've seen from this channel and his other channels. All of his work is outstanding, but this was so captivating.

@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173 10 ай бұрын

North:theres a penguin in my boot. South: theres a snake in my boot. West: theres a Canary in my boot. East: theres a scorpion in my boot.

@claudiusraphael9423 10 ай бұрын

Topic at Prime Time level presentation and so focused and enfocusing the viewer on the actual content, guiding/gliding through the factettes of the wild waters of history .. just lovely. Thanks for sharing!

@horsebear1986 10 ай бұрын

Hanno’s account is EXTREMELY bizzare. Gorillas don’t use stones as weapons, their muslce structure doesnt lend itself to throwing things. Chimps, however, are stellar at throwing. So what Hanno saw was likely some kind of homonid not fully ape, chimp, or man!

@tabithiajones2511 10 ай бұрын

wild shit

@Rabbi-Jill-kews 10 ай бұрын

Lol can’t say I blame him! They do look alike

@TheHadMatters 10 ай бұрын

What's more bizzare to me than what the creature *is* is how they interacted with it. Let's not be KZfaq crackpots here and just stick to it being some sort of ape/chimp/monkey: Did the Romans really try to talk to them and tell them to cooperate after capturing them? And get disappointed when they did not listen to their words? They had their own translators there, so they must have fully understood the limitations of language barriers. So did they mime co-operation? Must have been such an absurd scene to watch. And likely reveals a lot about ancient thought processes/ideologies.

@heinrichb 10 ай бұрын

@@TheHadMattersIt wasn't Romans who encountered them, but Carthaginians. Hanno was one, and this happened three centuries before the fall of Carthage.

@beardedgeek973 10 ай бұрын

Apart from the fact that it is hearsay (what the Romans wrote, that is), there are (and has just within a few decades been confirmed by capture) wild gorilla-chimpanzee hybrids. If the genes randomizes the correct way I am sure they would be larger than chimps while being able to throw stones.

@markcreemore4915 10 ай бұрын

It's channels like this that explain why I'm always thinking about the Roman Empire.

@SensationalMr.Grayson 10 ай бұрын

Great visuals , captivating narration, hefty video length AND its topic is that of the far reaches of the Roman Empire?? Men of culture. We’ve stumbled upon a treasure. Subscribed.

@BlueBaron3339 10 ай бұрын

What a tour de force this is, and this channel has become over time. Outstanding!

@Bond.girl.007 10 ай бұрын

This is fabulous, thank you! The narration is just wonderful. You really bring the history to life! ❤

@MichaelJones-rg3hv 2 ай бұрын

Incredible video. You can tell there was a lot of work thst went into this. Thank you for your effort.

@leightonolsson4846 10 ай бұрын

Superlative content and, as ever, beautiful narration. A joy to the mind and the ear.

@PalmettoNDN 9 ай бұрын

This was a magnificent video. Thank you for all of the hard work that went into it!

@OTDMilitaryHistory 10 ай бұрын

Another great video. I love that the videos are based on primary sources. That warms my historian heart.

@grandmoff.alligator 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing video, would love to see some more longer videos like that. Very interesting too, learned quite a lot

@Pfuhler455 9 ай бұрын

You are my favorite history channel. This is incredible as always. Keep up the good work my man. You got my support

@theDEADLIESTwarrior7 10 ай бұрын

Getting a notification that this channel has a new upload literally turned my bad day around, thank you 😊

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 9 ай бұрын

This is one of the most impressive and fascinating historical videos I've ever seen on KZfaq. Amazing work!

@angusarmstrong6526 10 ай бұрын

These are just so well put together. Brilliant presentation utterly captivating and enlightening.

@lueisred6901 9 ай бұрын

I do often think of the Roman Empire

@Reg_The_Galah 9 ай бұрын

Moist indeed

@chug5136 10 ай бұрын

This channel is one of a kind, people who can truly appreciate your video’s will understand please never stop 💚

@Andy_Babb 5 ай бұрын

This is freaking awesome. I love the vids where we can hear the actual words written by the ancients but these full Length documentary are exceptional.

@enovasia 10 ай бұрын

Superb as always, David - bravo! And, a great many thank-yous

@TheSaneHatter 10 ай бұрын

". . . .these are the continuing voyages of the Imperium Romanum. Its ongoing mission: to explore strange, new lands, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no Roman has gone before!"

@jonwarland272 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! All of these explorers had incredible courage to leave behind the familiar comfort of home to pursue knowledge beyond the hostile frontiers.

@Moses_Caesar_Augustus 2 ай бұрын

I love how parts of the primary sources are narrated in the video.

@XlrationMedia 10 ай бұрын

Man, I love seeing Ettore's work on so many channels I sub to. Great work.

@FOWST 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your dedication. Always a pleasure to listen.

@aurenugeth 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! This was an amazing documentary. Very engaging and well done.

@coryfritz9198 9 ай бұрын

Unbelievably great video brother! Your video is what I dream about at night. Picturing the great exploring of the world's unknown. This topic I find fascinating but the sources you use are not looked at much nowadays. I appreciate the effort and voice used for this video. 10 out 10.

@Fvpigpen26 10 ай бұрын

Wow! What a well done presentation in every aspect, including your ad's.

@PersonalityMalfunction 10 ай бұрын

I love the idea of anber being chunks of solidified sunsets! And amazingly they were correct in that if you continue far enough north you'll eventually end up in hot jungle again, this time in Central America!

@mathiass1999 10 ай бұрын

This is why I think about Rome multiple times a day

@davidsurtees4439 9 ай бұрын

This is the part of ancient roman history I never knew in school that I would have loved to know, and maybe spurred me into a new path towards being a historian. This is so fascinating to me now than learning about the Romans back when I was back in school.

@beefymario88 10 ай бұрын

You can say what you want about Nero but if it wasn’t for him we wouldn’t have half this amazing video!

@malainfluencia126 10 ай бұрын

Pompey really liked doing side quests!

@AmadeusHortfrick 10 ай бұрын

Few years ago was discovered a roman purple factory in the Canary islands. This shows how far west and south they stablished. But more incredible is the recently finding of a phoenician farm from 1000 BC in one of the islands...

@ohlangeni 9 ай бұрын

There were no Phoenicians in Africa in 1000BC. Carthaginians first arrived in Africa in 753BC.

@eljanrimsa5843 9 ай бұрын

@@ohlangeni Carthage was itself a colony of the Phoenicians, and a late one. Gadir (Cádiz) has a traditional founding date 1104 BCE and lies beyond the Strait of Gibraltar. Tingis (Tangier), on the African side, has been settled since 10th century BC. An early Phoenician colony on the Canary Islands is not that hard to believe.

@ohlangeni 9 ай бұрын

@@eljanrimsa5843 If Cadiz in Spain was founded before Carthage then I am inclined to believe they could have discovered Canary Islands earlier

@budalanemac3115 9 ай бұрын

We credit ourselves more than we should. They were way smarter then we think. We know so little beyond pur phones. I bielove that knowledge was gained and lost with each empire gain and rise, and every empire fall and burn. Most of them are overlapping and always rediscovered with new empire or forgotten in between to be relearned again...

@bboi1489 5 ай бұрын

The canary current has been a burden for many years (A Malian emperor apparently was drowned by it, resulting in Mansa Musa's coronation). So I wouldn't give them too much credit.

@MysteriousSlip 9 ай бұрын

This was fantastically well done! And the ending quote was so apt.

@hernanifarias5356 9 ай бұрын

I greatly enjoy the detailed information and that you add context as well very informative.

@philiprife5556 9 ай бұрын

Quite educational. I didn't know that the Romans had explored so extensively.

@hermanoguimaraes6343 9 ай бұрын

8:48 one can only imagine how scipio felted at that moment. Maybe, as Oppenheimmer felt when the first atomic bomb exploded, Scipio must have felted as a world destroyer.

@dM_gH 10 ай бұрын

Wow! That was fascinating. Thanks so much for an informative and entertaining video.

@redeye4516 8 ай бұрын

I wonder why Pompey was silent upon exiting the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Jerusalem despite spending so long in there. Was it simply because there were no idols or artifacts to loot or destroy due to the fairly iconoclastic nature of their religion, leaving him with only disappointment or confusion? Or did he experience something in there?

@TrevorsMailbox 10 ай бұрын

Good grief. I love every single one of your channels. Thanks guys, seriously.

@nibirdtamuli8429 9 ай бұрын

What an amazing video hands down … Narration was just pure bliss

@theohyman-bockman3761 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for creating this piece of art. It instills a sense of wonder for a time when we knew so little that today’s ordinary seemed like magic and monsters. You’ve managed to tell a story that compels the viewer to imagine for themselves. I know I’ll be using this video as inspiration for DnD and creative writing. Bravo

@oak_meadow9533 10 ай бұрын

At the time of Christ, people often were born, lived, and died within 30 km. People who traveled long distance were a rarity. Roman administrators were often travels, and over a 30 year career might travel from Rome to the edges of a circle 1500 to 2000km in diameter. Sometimes a month or two was needed to get to a destination.

@nathan_408 9 ай бұрын

as a legionnaire you could travel a lot too, protecting the borders and living in barracks.

@markiec8914 9 ай бұрын

Merchants, diplomats, mercenaries and traveled through all the ancient routes known to the Hellenistic world since 320 BC..

@ayush21399 10 ай бұрын

Thx for uploading this, this is great work

@sashaalexander5892 10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Enjoyed every moment! Thank you!

@khalidalali186 10 ай бұрын

Unbelievably divine. Thank you 🙏 I always travel watching your videos. AC Discovery Tours and your work, are the closest things I have to a time-traveling machine.

@ClannCholmain 10 ай бұрын

What a great time to be alive, a golden age of information and my favourite narrator.

@juliusnepos6013 9 ай бұрын

Yeah

@unclebully1871 9 ай бұрын

You tube videos like this are pretty cool… but the way society is… well I don’t know how much longer you can say that for 😂

@ClannCholmain 9 ай бұрын

@@unclebully1871 went for a walk on the beach today, greetings from the west coast of Ireland 🇮🇪

@unclebully1871 9 ай бұрын

@@ClannCholmain I’m a kiwi 🇳🇿 should be a good game on the weekend if you follow rugby 🇳🇿 vs 🇮🇪 World Cup Quarter final… I have a feeling a lot of Guinness may be consumed after the game… 😂

@ClannCholmain 9 ай бұрын

@@unclebully1871 yes, being from Limerick originally means I absolutely won’t be doing anything else. Played my first game at tighthead in 1984, with Keith Wood at scrum half. Realistically, if history repeats itself, Ireland will disappoint again, but it probably will be a close run thing. Either way, let’s hope it’s a classic, and may the best team win on the night and best of luck for the remainder of the competition if it’s NZ. 🥃 🥃

@rifanifauzi3861 10 ай бұрын

Man.. The narration and illustration are TV-Worthy 👏

@Moses_Caesar_Augustus 2 ай бұрын

Such a well-made video! It just makes you understand how vast the world felt in ancient times. I don't know why but I feel strangely inspired by these historical accounts.

@RelayerTC 10 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation! Narration and visuals are very good. You have gained a new subscriber.

@markmuller7962 10 ай бұрын

It's so amazing that they didn't believe the Indian man story because India was considered too far and inaccessible, one of the most fascinating stories I've ever heard

@sciencefliestothemoon2305 10 ай бұрын

I think one of the interesing parts would be, that population density was relatively low during Polybius days that the risk of picking up malaria or yellow fever along the African coast must have been a lot lower then it was 1700 AD onwards.

@TheSpecialJ11 Ай бұрын

That and malaria existed in the Mediterranean at that time. Malaria is an interesting disease in that it stays with you forever, but a healthy immune system will push it to the background and you can continue life pretty normally unless something else goes wrong for you and the infection flares up. So many Roman explorers likely already contracted it and would be "immune". Later European explorers would have naive immune systems and be much more vulnerable.