I have to say, this has been one of my favorite episodes to research and produce. Its all these little things about the past which fascinate me and which we today take for granted. What sorts of other aspects of daily life you like me to explore next? Also, if you'd like to support these videos please consider checking out my Patreon: www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory. Thanks
8:31 "The past is full of clever people" Intelligence wise they are exactly the same as us, we just happen to be sitting on the combined works of thousands of geniouses.
We still have the same relative amount of geniuses to knuckledraggers. Nowadays the knuckledraggers are busy drinking soda while complaining about conspiracy theories regarding the geniuses.
There is no way for anyone to know if people were more intelligent back then or are more intelligent now because there is no data on intelligence back in that time. Also any measure of intelligence used with both groups of people (present day and back in that time) would have to be the same system of measurement otherwise it would be invalid. So any statement comparing the intelligence of present-day people with ancient people is pure speculation and opinion because there is no data to back up the statement.
I can tell the time by the sun pretty well, when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's I always broke watches falling off my skateboard so I didn't really wear them so I learned to tell the time by the sun so I didn't come home late and get my ass kicked. Loved the water clocks btw, very cool, very clever.
Christopher Rhodes in previous docs I’ve watched they do talk about them inviting a system that tracks time and the seasons. They invented it to keep track of the harvest and flood seasons.😊
@@lamaop3151 Because he uploaded it a few hours later? Theres no way you could put together and edit a video like that in a few hours, as well as researching the topic. I don't think anyway.
@@fourlamb1 perfectly possible he saw a french channel do it and thought, I can do that in English. Especially if he already knew the subject matter fairly well. Editing the video would be the longest part but good as his vids are, they are pretty simple from an editing stand point, hes not doing anything very fancy, just static images mostly.
Invicta, thank you man ! These particular videos of yours are so unique and handily even I can comprehend due to the clean and engaging visuals. You've done anyone with an interest in Roman life a real service - there are many videos from many channels that cover battles, emperors and eras, but what you've done is create a marvelous window into fascinating aspects of the lives these people lead and how they went about it. Again, thank you man, for all your hard work and dedication to quality !
The people of the late antiquity were very far in technology, never underestimate them. There is a reason the rennaissance is the age of discovering the past ancient technologies. And the rennaissance only started 500 years ago. Even in the 20th century we only rediscovered some techniques that were used 2000 years ago.
This is of course well-known amongst ancient peoples. A sundial excavated in modern-day Calais has inscribed on it in Latin: "WARNING: DOES NOT WORK IN BRITANNIA."
@@michelguevara151 - www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3560809/Hadrians-soldiers-writing-home.html We do have surviving letters from Roman soldiers stationed in Britannia. Which include requests to please send warmer cloaks and more socks.
This is a fascinating subject and I hope you will do more. I like the "How They Did It " series as it shows the practical everyday life of the ancients. Thanks for sharing this.
I love this, there is so little coverage out there on small but important topics and technologies like those you covered here. I for one would enjoy further exploration on the topic of time and timekeeping. Thanks and keep it up, you are awesome!
Can you make a video on how ancient people payed rent/ found housing? I know there’s not much on the topic. I heard ancient people who were traveling didn’t have hotels to stay at and so had to stay in the homes of strangers!
Nice Richard Carrier plug. I loved his books on ancient science and scientist. Just discovered the channel, and I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the good work.
Im a clock maker as a side hussle. Its a pretty neat thing. Mechanical clocks are pretty neat. Honestly surprised it took so long to invent. Not everyone in rome needed to be master inventors so its ok you wouldnt have been able to invent a water clock. But ancients at more idle time on their hands. When you have time and necessity you will invemt ways
I guess the sorcess on that topic are very rare. Its a social thing that doesnt have much "objects" and considering the money writting a book cost at that time there would be only a few of them. Also considering we lost like 95% of the roman books during the middle ages I dont think there is much tofind about this topic. I guess only religous parts would have sorcess survive, like the bracchus cult. :)
Loro .H they believe that people traveling through the city that didn’t speak the language would be able to just point at which service they wanted. However in the bath houses the nude/sex scenes there they believe are purely satire and to help them remember which cubby was theirs where they put their belongings while they enjoyed their bath house experience 😊
You described some of the more complicated ways of telling time at night but the easiest and most common way was to use two sticks and a star.Most people get the wrong idea about the bible verse in PS 23.where David talks about going though the valley of the shadow of death (aka nighttime) using a rod and a staff for comfort (aka knowing what time it was and how long until dawn).
Assuming you know your latitude and which way is north, you can make an equatorial ring sundial with your hands that is pretty accurate (I'm usually within 10 minutes of actual time). It's pretty cool!
Honestly, you could do an entire series on the use of hydraulics by the Ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Chinese, and Arabs.
I was fascinated by ancient water clocks as a child 40+ years ago. I often wonder how those whom have no 'ancient knowledge' would survive if an EMP event ever occured. I experimented widely with ancient techniques when I was growing up. there were even water clocks on ships in the mediterranean to make velocity calculations in conjunction with knots when commerce made it become necessary to know just how long a given traverse takes. lettuces, for example, were shiped from Nicea in Provence, France, to other ports along the coast, a highly perishable stock. water clocks would also be used for long journies. with a compass and good charts one can sail in a certain direction for a number of hours to put oneself on a course for a particular current of wind and water for specific destinations in best time. invaluable in business in the ancient Mediterranean world, and advantageous militarilly speaking.
I'm certain it gets wilder from here, because I'm aware of the spice clocks and flower clocks of the 1800s, and how each city had its own "local time."
@@Vulcanwoman To my understanding, sundials can be really accurate in places without too many overcast skies (such as closer to the equator), so that part doesn't really surprise me, though I'm curious about the engineering that went into water clocks with different scented waters.
@@Kraigon42 The Arabs had blueprints for such clocks. Modern historians looked at those blueprints and agree that some sort of gear system was used to ensure the accuracy of those water clocks.
@erni muja Taking my money? I've never even seen their show. Only reason I know they excisted is I've seen a couple of history channels talk about them.
No mention of sand timers... when did they become a thing? By the way, you mentioned the Western system of hours - but I once read some Asian countries has a different set of systems. Could you tell us anything about that?
Measuring soltices and equinoxes, which has a very long tradition going all the way to which is maybe the oldest "calendar" on Earth: Nabta Playa, a stone ring of Upper Egypt, from the time the Sahara was still green.
Even before egypt humans were tracking times of the year. It was done by looking the suns angle on the horizon. Humans are very observable species. Knowing how seasons work was a key to survival for even early humans. They may not have necessarily said 365 days it would have been more like tracking seasons and their transfer period
7:20 why did they think so complicated? even adding wax to alter the volume. why not just have a pot with 4 markings on the inside for the different seasons? that way you know up to where you will have to fill it with water to get an accurate hour...
They did use markings sometimes. But I think the cheaper ones were calibrated with wax in the first place and constantly had to be renewed, so it makes sense to change the timekeeping at the same time
They didn't think complicated, they actually thought of the easiest way to solve the problem. As shown, they had ones that didn't measure one single hour or any other set number of hours. It constantly measured hours by constantly being filled with water so it constantly spilled water. This would need a governor of some type to regulate the spilling so it constantly spills water at a faster or slower rate depending on the length of an hour (season). Marking lines wouldn't do anything since the water level didn't change, even while running. The other option would be to make a whole different device for every month or so. Wax seems a much easier solution than making a bunch of entirely new devices.
Most historians / historians of science: we can use a clock to keep times of appointments, set rates of pay, cook food reliably etc. Invicta: with a working clock can charge by the hour for sex in our numerous brothels.
I spent several years living in the wilderness in British Columbia. I don't talk about it much because few have the frame of reference to understand what I am saying but this video revived many interesting thoughts I had over those years. Yes the technology is cool however we all have a latent ability to tell time with enough accuracy to navigate a simple life. I always knew where the sun would set, when the next high tide would be and how high it would be as well as the phase of the moon. I would go months without seeing other humans but I always knew what time it was +/- an hour or so. Now that I live in front of a screen I never know any of the above. Because we have access to google we do not have to memorize things in the same way but remove google and our latent ability to memorize things will return.
Our ability of instant time telling has likely withered our overall sense of time guessing. Which is something we progressively get better at as we get older
Just looking up at the sun is sufficient enough precision for daily activities. I can usually tell the correct time, by looking at the sun, within 5-10 minutes of the clock time. After a bit of practice, you can easily predict correct time within 5 minutes. Problem arises when is cloudy :/.
Does anyone know how long a Roman soldier slept? Of course sometimes troops would march through the night and fight day in and out, but when the day was over and they were safe in a camp, did they get 6 hours? 8 hours? Did they lose sleep due to the watch? Did they take naps during the day?
PLEASE tell me what happened when the bucket with the floating hour indicator filled to the top! I've watched maybe 10 videos about this. NO ONE mentions that
Another way to tell time is listing to bird songs. Wont work at night or hourly but you can tell what part of the day it is. Iv noticed that most birds daily congregations take place around the same time of Islamic prayer times. Except the last one.
I love and hate you right now. I needed this information 2 days ago. You would have saved me hours of research. Thank you nonetheless. You were able to clear up some discrepancies for me.
@@InvictaHistory just a personal question. I was watching the Roman Empire Docuseries on Netflix and the actor playing Marcus Aurelius tells his son "Go. I'll be there in a *minute*." I thought to myself "were minutes used during the Roman Empire? Did they commonly tell time that precisely? Wouldn't itbe like quarter hours?" I paused it and jumped on google and was looking all of this up for hours winding down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. I knew it was creative liberty by the writers but it got me thinking. I learned a lot and you summed up a lot of my research into a ten minute video. Lol
This video goes to show that some things just flat out work. The longhunters and pioneers here in the US would break and stick a stick in the ground just to see and at night they'd use a method of crickets and other critters. Certain animals would start at the beginning of night and would stop and be taken place with a different one
I do have a question and apologize if this has been previously mentioned, but weren't candles used to determine time as well, based on how much has melted?
I have to say, this has been one of my favorite episodes to research and produce. Its all these little things about the past which fascinate me and which we today take for granted. What sorts of other aspects of daily life you like me to explore next? Also, if you'd like to support these videos please consider checking out my Patreon: www.patreon.com/InvictaHistory. Thanks
Pets.
Sex
Go deeper into politics ( not just power) how they did it.
You left an Capital "I" in DId on the title. And yes this is stressing me.
Good stuff since 2013
Hire me master. Teach me how to make your hobby your job!
Great video as always. :D
@@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 fixed! : )
"AT THE END OF THE DAY, such sun-based systems suffered from one fatal flaw" - I see what you did there =)
Sorry I'm late, my dog drank my clock.
The clocks drain, so the dog must have sabotaged it in the inverse way :)
Hey Relax, I tripped on my clock.
8:31 "The past is full of clever people"
Intelligence wise they are exactly the same as us, we just happen to be sitting on the combined works of thousands of geniouses.
We still have the same relative amount of geniuses to knuckledraggers.
Nowadays the knuckledraggers are busy drinking soda while complaining about conspiracy theories regarding the geniuses.
“Dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants” was a common Roman saying
pyropulse Proof??
@pyropulse Could you give us a source on that, if it's not just pulled out of your ass?
There is no way for anyone to know if people were more intelligent back then or are more intelligent now because there is no data on intelligence back in that time. Also any measure of intelligence used with both groups of people (present day and back in that time) would have to be the same system of measurement otherwise it would be invalid.
So any statement comparing the intelligence of present-day people with ancient people is pure speculation and opinion because there is no data to back up the statement.
I can tell the time by the sun pretty well, when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's I always broke watches falling off my skateboard so I didn't really wear them so I learned to tell the time by the sun so I didn't come home late and get my ass kicked.
Loved the water clocks btw, very cool, very clever.
I just had to be home when the street lights came on. Id come home randomly for drinks and stuff and my mom would be at grocery store or something lol
right..
Perhaps you could have a mini series of how time was measured, and call it something like "Time En Memorium" or something like that
*memoriam tempis
Christopher Rhodes in previous docs I’ve watched they do talk about them inviting a system that tracks time and the seasons. They invented it to keep track of the harvest and flood seasons.😊
Nobody:
Invicta: Just how the hell did the Romans tell the time?!
Kinda used wrong tho, this format is supposed to be used when the video is too crazy or absurd, wanting to know how the ancients tell time is neither.
I've just robbed you for your comment Kay, but slightly altered it, and made it worse 🤣.
Where's the urban cohorts when you need them!
@@lamaop3151
Because he uploaded it a few hours later? Theres no way you could put together and edit a video like that in a few hours, as well as researching the topic. I don't think anyway.
@@fourlamb1 perfectly possible he saw a french channel do it and thought, I can do that in English. Especially if he already knew the subject matter fairly well. Editing the video would be the longest part but good as his vids are, they are pretty simple from an editing stand point, hes not doing anything very fancy, just static images mostly.
Invicta, thank you man ! These particular videos of yours are so unique and handily even I can comprehend due to the clean and engaging visuals.
You've done anyone with an interest in Roman life a real service - there are many videos from many channels that cover battles, emperors and eras, but what you've done is create a marvelous window into fascinating aspects of the lives these people lead and how they went about it.
Again, thank you man, for all your hard work and dedication to quality !
And I have to say, this is one of the best vids you ever made. Thank You Invicta.
that clock animation was amazing. really cool video keep it up !
I never thought the Romans had devices as complex as that water clock, amazing!
The people of the late antiquity were very far in technology, never underestimate them. There is a reason the rennaissance is the age of discovering the past ancient technologies. And the rennaissance only started 500 years ago. Even in the 20th century we only rediscovered some techniques that were used 2000 years ago.
if you think that water clock was complex, you need to take a look at this: ruclips.net/video/4eUibFQKJqI/видео.html
I really loved the time stretching visual, that was great! Great job on this one!
I just found your videos 3 weeks ago (stylishly late to the ancient party) and am hooked! I LOVE history, and all of its facets. Thank you!
Please keep up with Ancient Rome! It's so fascinating.
One of your best videos so far. I LOVE the 'how they did it" seires. cheers!
'Sundials don't work at night or indoors'
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Aren't you forgetting Britannia, sundials aren't great here either.
This is of course well-known amongst ancient peoples. A sundial excavated in modern-day Calais has inscribed on it in Latin: "WARNING: DOES NOT WORK IN BRITANNIA."
@@andrewsuryali8540 I wonder if travel guides for Romans at the time had instructions to pack an extra woolen cloak and a water clock..
But... the sun NEVER sets on the British... Does this not mean they ALWAYS know the time?
@@michelguevara151 - www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3560809/Hadrians-soldiers-writing-home.html
We do have surviving letters from Roman soldiers stationed in Britannia. Which include requests to please send warmer cloaks and more socks.
Sure they do.. just light a candle! 😆😋
This is a fascinating subject and I hope you will do more. I like the "How They Did It " series as it shows the practical everyday life of the ancients. Thanks for sharing this.
Sponsored by Imper- oh wait 😅
Wrong channel lol
@@Joshua-yf5mh Viking war of clans then?
I love this, there is so little coverage out there on small but important topics and technologies like those you covered here. I for one would enjoy further exploration on the topic of time and timekeeping. Thanks and keep it up, you are awesome!
That is amazing that they’re able to come up with these!
Its great that You keep those in video ads short and at the end, not like greedy kings and generals. :)
This was far more fascinating than I thought it would be. Thank you!
I'm 19 years old and when I read the title of this I became a 75 year old substitute elementary school teacher in terms of unreasonable excitement
This is so fascinating. Thank you
Very interesting, thank you. Oh, and thank you for maintaining a wonderful channel.
These are my favorite kinds of videos, thank you so much for your hard work 🧡
"The past was full of clever people." It certainly was :)
Can you make a video on how ancient people payed rent/ found housing? I know there’s not much on the topic. I heard ancient people who were traveling didn’t have hotels to stay at and so had to stay in the homes of strangers!
"Our ancestors from around the world"... So true, so simple, and yet, sometimes clouded by nationalism and minor physiological differences.
This is amazing. Like really dude, great vid, great subject, great editing, great drawings.
You really mastered your craft over the years !
Nice Richard Carrier plug. I loved his books on ancient science and scientist. Just discovered the channel, and I'm really enjoying it. Keep up the good work.
How the hell did you do that amazing clock stretching and compressing effect?!
I have 2 thousand years of head start on these people and I would have never figured out inventing those complex water clocks.
You probably would if you never had access to electronic or mechanical clocks.
Im a clock maker as a side hussle. Its a pretty neat thing. Mechanical clocks are pretty neat. Honestly surprised it took so long to invent.
Not everyone in rome needed to be master inventors so its ok you wouldnt have been able to invent a water clock.
But ancients at more idle time on their hands. When you have time and necessity you will invemt ways
What about there love or(sex) life. Dating cheating. Did soldiers have picturse/drawing of there girlfriends
I guess the sorcess on that topic are very rare. Its a social thing that doesnt have much "objects" and considering the money writting a book cost at that time there would be only a few of them. Also considering we lost like 95% of the roman books during the middle ages I dont think there is much tofind about this topic. I guess only religous parts would have sorcess survive, like the bracchus cult. :)
@@noobster4779 There are some satirical poems about this topic.
Look up Mary Beard on RUclips. She’s got a few fabulous docs on the Romans. :)
In pompeii there are several grafiti covering the Sex live, for example a recommandation for a good hore in a brothel.
Loro .H they believe that people traveling through the city that didn’t speak the language would be able to just point at which service they wanted. However in the bath houses the nude/sex scenes there they believe are purely satire and to help them remember which cubby was theirs where they put their belongings while they enjoyed their bath house experience 😊
A great video, a must watch!
Great topic well explained, love this style of vid keep up the good work man
This is an awesome subject! Thanks for uploading! They did such genius shit and most of us all have no idea as to what that was
As a hourologist and chronologist, this is absolutely fascinating.
There's no shame in that, dear, we've all got to make a living
Really interesting video. Would love one on the topic of the roman calendar as well!
Very interesting, nice video yet again, as a history lover I love these!
I would really love it if you made more content about the everyday, like telling time, growing up or owning dogs. That's my favorite content.
I love the illustration artwork. Particularly the people.
You described some of the more complicated ways of telling time at night but the easiest and most common way was to use two sticks and a star.Most people get the wrong idea about the bible verse in PS 23.where David talks about going though the valley of the shadow of death (aka nighttime) using a rod and a staff for comfort (aka knowing what time it was and how long until dawn).
Your voice quality is wonderful. Diction & clarity could use a bit of buffing.
Assuming you know your latitude and which way is north, you can make an equatorial ring sundial with your hands that is pretty accurate (I'm usually within 10 minutes of actual time). It's pretty cool!
Do one about how the told time in the early middle ages please
Honestly, you could do an entire series on the use of hydraulics by the Ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, Chinese, and Arabs.
7:45 wait how was water added in to the In Flow Pipe?
I was fascinated by ancient water clocks as a child 40+ years ago.
I often wonder how those whom have no 'ancient knowledge' would survive if an EMP event ever occured.
I experimented widely with ancient techniques when I was growing up.
there were even water clocks on ships in the mediterranean to make velocity calculations in conjunction with knots when commerce made it become necessary to know just how long a given traverse takes.
lettuces, for example, were shiped from Nicea in Provence, France, to other ports along the coast, a highly perishable stock.
water clocks would also be used for long journies.
with a compass and good charts one can sail in a certain direction for a number of hours to put oneself on a course for a particular current of wind and water for specific destinations in best time. invaluable in business in the ancient Mediterranean world, and advantageous militarilly speaking.
Great episode. The water clocks are so cool
Love your videos and the animations. You just gained a subscriber.
You would need to keep water clocks clean.. Build up of crud on the inside of the outlet would over time reduce the flow of water ..
When are you finishing the siege of jerusalem?
ikr, takes half a decade to finish one of those things
That should become a meme for this channel.
I think roman soldiers asked that question of the generals multiple times during that seige
I'm certain it gets wilder from here, because I'm aware of the spice clocks and flower clocks of the 1800s, and how each city had its own "local time."
Really? Never heard of that! How crazy! I'm gonna look that up, thanks! I love history
The Arabs had water clocks that used a different type of scented water every hour in the 1300s. They had accurate sundials too.
@@Vulcanwoman
To my understanding, sundials can be really accurate in places without too many overcast skies (such as closer to the equator), so that part doesn't really surprise me, though I'm curious about the engineering that went into water clocks with different scented waters.
@@Kraigon42 The Arabs had blueprints for such clocks. Modern historians looked at those blueprints and agree that some sort of gear system was used to ensure the accuracy of those water clocks.
Another incredible video. Thanks!
2:59 - happens to be the mountain profile of devil peak, table mountain and lions head in Cape Town, South Africa, just fyi
These " how they did it " episodes are the best
03:08 is that Table Mountain in the background as a the sketch?
Man the Romans were so ignorant. They should have just invented the digital watch - Ashtyn and Jon 2.0
They are so dumb! They should have just checked the time on their iPhones.
@erni muja Taking my money? I've never even seen their show. Only reason I know they excisted is I've seen a couple of history channels talk about them.
You are NOT funny!
@@Petra44YT Gib me teh joke
"i feel bad for the african-americans"
This is such a good video
At 6:04 wax is mentioned. What sort of waxes would have been available to them?
Any kind really, id imagine bees wax since it was commercially available.
Do more "What it was like growing up X" videos, those rock
Invicta, when are you going to make "Total War History: The Second Punic War" like how you covered the first punic war?
No mention of sand timers... when did they become a thing?
By the way, you mentioned the Western system of hours - but I once read some Asian countries has a different set of systems. Could you tell us anything about that?
Sometimes I look up and I can tell the time with some astonishing precision.
I am truly awestruck at how far we've come as a species, we really do live in a New Age
I was JUST looking up this VERY subject recently, I was wondering how they could tell years were around 365 days ect.
Measuring soltices and equinoxes, which has a very long tradition going all the way to which is maybe the oldest "calendar" on Earth: Nabta Playa, a stone ring of Upper Egypt, from the time the Sahara was still green.
Even before egypt humans were tracking times of the year. It was done by looking the suns angle on the horizon. Humans are very observable species. Knowing how seasons work was a key to survival for even early humans. They may not have necessarily said 365 days it would have been more like tracking seasons and their transfer period
Of course, there was also one island that famously told time thanks to ticking crocodiles. :P
Mikeztarp Peter is that you? 😬
@@jo-vf8jx ... Did you mean Peta??
7:20 why did they think so complicated? even adding wax to alter the volume. why not just have a pot with 4 markings on the inside for the different seasons? that way you know up to where you will have to fill it with water to get an accurate hour...
Kommt von hinten...Hindsight....
They did use markings sometimes. But I think the cheaper ones were calibrated with wax in the first place and constantly had to be renewed, so it makes sense to change the timekeeping at the same time
They didn't think complicated, they actually thought of the easiest way to solve the problem. As shown, they had ones that didn't measure one single hour or any other set number of hours. It constantly measured hours by constantly being filled with water so it constantly spilled water. This would need a governor of some type to regulate the spilling so it constantly spills water at a faster or slower rate depending on the length of an hour (season). Marking lines wouldn't do anything since the water level didn't change, even while running. The other option would be to make a whole different device for every month or so. Wax seems a much easier solution than making a bunch of entirely new devices.
You're telling me brothels already charged by the hour back then!
As always, great video
"People were aware of the day-night cycle"
OH, I THOUGHT THEY HAD THOUGHT THEY WENT BLIND!
Great video! You sound a lot better in this video!
thanks for another great video!
this was really helful with my school work. thanks! :)
If you want to know more about this subject you should check historical chronology literature.
Ah, so this channel has survived the Coppa purge, good
Most historians / historians of science: we can use a clock to keep times of appointments, set rates of pay, cook food reliably etc.
Invicta: with a working clock can charge by the hour for sex in our numerous brothels.
I spent several years living in the wilderness in British Columbia. I don't talk about it much because few have the frame of reference to understand what I am saying but this video revived many interesting thoughts I had over those years. Yes the technology is cool however we all have a latent ability to tell time with enough accuracy to navigate a simple life. I always knew where the sun would set, when the next high tide would be and how high it would be as well as the phase of the moon. I would go months without seeing other humans but I always knew what time it was +/- an hour or so. Now that I live in front of a screen I never know any of the above. Because we have access to google we do not have to memorize things in the same way but remove google and our latent ability to memorize things will return.
@T OB Wow dark, quite the opposite in fact. I was young, idealistic, adventurous and in love with the natural world.
This is such a cool video. Thank you
Our ability of instant time telling has likely withered our overall sense of time guessing. Which is something we progressively get better at as we get older
Just looking up at the sun is sufficient enough precision for daily activities. I can usually tell the correct time, by looking at the sun, within 5-10 minutes of the clock time. After a bit of practice, you can easily predict correct time within 5 minutes. Problem arises when is cloudy :/.
is that table mountain @ 3:11 ?
Invicta, with all due respect, when are we going to see the Siege of Jerusalem series ending?
"Let's look at how our ancestors dealt with this problem" Cuts to advert for beer
Does anyone know how long a Roman soldier slept? Of course sometimes troops would march through the night and fight day in and out, but when the day was over and they were safe in a camp, did they get 6 hours? 8 hours? Did they lose sleep due to the watch? Did they take naps during the day?
PLEASE tell me what happened when the bucket with the floating hour indicator filled to the top! I've watched maybe 10 videos about this. NO ONE mentions that
Another way to tell time is listing to bird songs. Wont work at night or hourly but you can tell what part of the day it is. Iv noticed that most birds daily congregations take place around the same time of Islamic prayer times. Except the last one.
@LagiNaLangAko23 Really? Sounds interesting. Would you be willing to share a bit more?
@LagiNaLangAko23 Nice. Thanks for sharing.
I love and hate you right now. I needed this information 2 days ago. You would have saved me hours of research. Thank you nonetheless. You were able to clear up some discrepancies for me.
Out of curiosity, what were you working on?
@@InvictaHistory just a personal question. I was watching the Roman Empire Docuseries on Netflix and the actor playing Marcus Aurelius tells his son "Go. I'll be there in a *minute*." I thought to myself "were minutes used during the Roman Empire? Did they commonly tell time that precisely? Wouldn't itbe like quarter hours?" I paused it and jumped on google and was looking all of this up for hours winding down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.
I knew it was creative liberty by the writers but it got me thinking. I learned a lot and you summed up a lot of my research into a ten minute video. Lol
This video goes to show that some things just flat out work. The longhunters and pioneers here in the US would break and stick a stick in the ground just to see and at night they'd use a method of crickets and other critters. Certain animals would start at the beginning of night and would stop and be taken place with a different one
'Decima' would sound like 'detsima', not 'dekima', if to go by the words that are used in music as well (interval names)
3:00 Table Mountain in Capetown?
A guard post in ancient Rome .. "Flavius you idiot! Stop peeing in the time bucket, you're extending our shift!!"
Would the time telling cup be a pythagorean cup so that every time it filled up (made it to the 24th hour) it would reset the clock?
I do have a question and apologize if this has been previously mentioned, but weren't candles used to determine time as well, based on how much has melted?
I think candles were kind of expensive and definitely not as renewable as next day's sunshine or water.
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What happened to Roman candles? You know look like a barber shop pole except for black and white diagonal stripes?
Sun straight above you is 12 noon, go from there in 1 hour intervals is very easy by looking at the position of the sun adjustable for winter time.
great video!
Do a video about the history of the Roman calendar.
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