In Latin class I remember translating a letter from one senator to another complaining wearily about “teenagers these days”, and how Rome was infested with gangs of idle youths who seemed to enjoy running wild thru the streets and kicking out the wooden props that held up the walls of Insulae, thereby causing the partial or full collapse of entire apartment dwellings.
@@larsrons7937 I also translated letters from Roman senators and patricians that railed about the fact that their society was in obvious decline, written 300 years before Rome fell. So, feelings that everything is getting worse were also common to every culture at all times. Christian’s been claiming the end times are here, continuously, for 2 millennia.
Me not know what world coming to. Young people no want to hunt cave bear with pointy stick, always looking at cave painting and playing with bow and arrow. We doomed.@@larsrons7937
Crassus came to a very bad end in the eastern edges of the Roman sphere of influence, while attempting to one-up the conquests of Julius Caesar. Competing for influence with Caesar, he thought he could take on the Parthians (eventual successors to the Persians Alexander had defeated a few centuries earlier). It turned out to be an almost complete military disaster in the deserts of what would now be eastern Syria(?), ending in a brutal, ignominious death for Crassus, his son, and the legions that were employed in his futile pursuit of a 'military glory', comparable to Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Crassus would've done better if he'd stayed in Rome. But, considering the corrupt life he'd led in Rome, his nasty denouement seems quite fitting.
@@brianedwards7142 gold was a replacement of the usual copper, it's a common, & far from the worst form of execution in Rome. considered merciful in fact, since, as molten metal nearly immediately destroys the nerve-endings. whilst there is a momentary spasm of agony, it's oddly, a fairly clean painless death... certainly, far preferable to having scolding olive oil poured down ones throat, where, one could suffer for a couple of hours before giving up the ghost....
Eh, he wasn't doing anything anyone else wasn't, he was just better at it. Even rebuilt his families wealth after other Patricians pilfered it via the proscriptions. A bastard among bastards.
Crassus was once accused of attempting to seduce a Vestal, his defense was that he was only trying to scam her of real estate. Needless to say all of Rome found that beyond reasonable doubt.:).
I don't know why but my brain never realized that Rome had multi-story rental apartments. I've seen images & drawings of Rome at various points, and the scale of things but just never connected the dots on there being 3 to 8 floor apartment blocks. For some reason I thought that was a modern thing.
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods. For that reason, I call my multi-story rental apartment my Divine Mansion. We even have a Cacofonix here. Modern version, into grunge music. I often feel like a cartoon character myself too.
@@worfoz Apartment homes in Rome already made an appearance earlier in Asterix, actually. I can't remember where, but I think it was the gladiator issue; it's been ages since I read that one, so that would check with my having only a vague memory of it. I remember it including a discussion of aquedacts. In any case, it was the first thing to immediately come to mind when I saw the title of this video. Asterix, for all that it plays with stereotypes etc., is surprisingly historically accurate in many respects.
I took a 101 uni class regarding Roman History. When we got to housing, we focused primarily on the noble house. I had asked about apartments and she said she doesn't have irrelevant information 😂
They didn't even MENTION him. The past of Pompey and Caesar was portrayed (when they talked about their past) as if it was only the 2 of them. Not a single word about Crassus. At least as far as I remember. That's what I mean by "cutting him of"
Fine video, informative. Interesting topic. Well presented. 🏰 _"A message from your scribe."_ Great intro! Ah yes, those good old days in "Stronghold", I loved that game.
Even if the buildings were made of stone the fire can fireset the stones and break them. The air pockets expand and crack it all up. It would fall in no time once the high temperature is exposed for long enough.
Anyway, saying there were "made of stone" likely glosses over the inclusion of ALOT of wood in the structures. I note that modern high rise is made of "steel and cement" but they still manage to burn quite fiercely at times.
They essentially invented urban living on a significant scale. It's unfair to blame them for not anticipating the downfalls. Modern people have no excuses.
The fact that you say this with absolute conviction just shows how ignorant you Roman fans are. If you look more closely into Roman social history (and not just it's glorified architecture), you'll see that in early Roman Republic history, many writers were sympathetic and even praised the poor for their humility. It was only during the later Roman Empire, particularly during Pax Romana, did writers expressed much more prejudice views on the poor, often comparing them to dogs and saying that they're places that harbor many slave revolters. Unfortunately, the Roman elite responded accordingly and there's many evidence that shows that impoverished communities were usually neglected and segregated from richer areas, probably intentionally so considering the viewpoints writers expressed at this time. Yet you say it's "unfair" to blame them? Yeah, if anything, it just goes to show that the issues we face today (where the rich oppresses everyone else) has been around for many thousands of years. In fact, I really believe that the rich today use the Roman Empire as their model for how they conduct themselves, seeing how some have expressed their love of Rome.
@@lastrationalist7890 wanna talk about what happens in America? The whole system is shaped around the idea that if you don't work, you are scum. And it doesn't matter if you, as homeless, are victim of that system. At that point you become invisible. All your rights of citizens are stripped away from you no matter what. But there's even worst. In States like California, that was one of the most prosper of the whole country, capitalism have literally transformed the local population in a bunch of zombies. Drungs, poverty, crime and every bad aspects of human society are not just present, but already deep entrenched in the society. All of this without having to deal with wars, invasions or economic crisis like what happened in the Roman empire. There are multiple cases of people shooting and killing harmless people just because they steal stuff, other about racism, others again due politics or just social inequality. And the only two options given by the government are leaving the State or just live in a state of deep degrade. So you think Romans has to be blamed because they wasn't able to figure it out how to fix their social problems. I can blame America and modern society for not being able of giving us a fxcking utopia. Especially America that is, said by many, "the strongest country in human history" and instead it sucks so much and so hard that living in America is comparable to live in a suburbia of Ctesiphon in the 3rd century AD.
If you apply Austin Coates’ graphical numerology to Roman names, you find they were self promoters, excellent at theatrical rhetoric, but lacking substance. In other words, it’s all a facade of civilization. Looks good, until it all falls down.
Medieval cities had extremely strict rules against littering or disposing of garbage on the streets. There were some heavy fines for that. It was extremely important to "fit in" and people learned this from an early age. Also all kinds of excrements were a valuable resource for agriculture and other industries and could be turned into some money, so you would not find that kind of "filth" on the streets. Those are clichés and not rooted in the evidence we have.
It depends. Human feces are not really good material for fertilizer because of our mixed diet. It was used in more primitive societies (minoan civilization for eg.) But never on a large scale, there is some good articles about that on academia, why human excrements may be even dangerous if used this way.
@@Your_scribe They were composted first, of course, but they have been used (and are to this day in other countries) until there was modern canalisation with water flushed toilets as we know it. That's when the cycle got disrupted. Anyways, referring to animal manour as well. We have letters from city councils threatening to "remove" someone's dung heap from the streets if they failed to do so themselves and "keep the profits".
This is exactly what's happening with apartments today. They are modern insula. Right down to the preference to build ever-taller dwellings if it means being closer to the city center
@@zippyparakeet1074 you interpret in a weird way,I didn’t say cavemen 2000 years ago Europe did not have sidewalks cafes. The construction of Rome was a marvel of engineering for the period with their invention of cement,buildings that are still standing today all over. Suggestion!..........get yourself a hobby!
part of the reasoning was a populist measure since the public rumor was owners were using extra-thick walls as a way to create artificial demand for apartments in a certain neighborhood... another reason (more among the senators) was, after the civil wars romans really feared insulae becoming impregnable urban fortresses.... some such "anti-castellation" clauses are still an active pain in the participle in some European towns.
Please note that in the title of your video, neither clause is a question (but statements joined by 'and') and, so, should *_not_* have a question mark. (In forming a question in English, the verb *_must_* follow the question word immediately, _viz.,_ "Why were Roman houses awful, and who should we blame for them?"
@@arisnotheles I too loved "Caesar III", but missed "Caesar II". On my Amiga, after "Cohort" (strategic live battles) I started the city builder series with "Caesar" (I), which could be played with "Cohort II" for the battles, as save games could be transferred between the two. I didn't feel need for better graphics or a few more options in the gameplay until Caesar III came out, its "3D" graphics being lightyears ahead of Caesar I & II.
@@arisnotheles Of the later city builder games from Impressions: _Pharaoh, Zeus_ and _Emperor_ (China) I have a soft spot for _Pharaoh._ The game's from 1999, I still play it.
@@arisnotheles The RUclips censor function work in mysterious ways. That was a funny way to the problems with the population pyramid. Creative. Zeus - I even bought the expansion. But after reading the game manuals I never bothered to even install the Zeus games. More or less for the reason you gave. Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002), while not my favorite of the series, had some interesting elements. Especially that different buildings had different Feng Shui elements that had influence on eachother, adding yet an element to think about as for building placement. Pharaoh is very dear to my heart. I love the cartoonish colours, the game is simply very pleasant to the eyes (to my eyes at least).
"...Where living conditions ( let's not be afraid to say it ) were deplorable". Today I learned that people in 2023 are afraid to speak out against living conditions in ancient Rome.
It’s a recognition of the significant errors in the original calculation that AD and BC were derived from. The best estimate is that it is between four and six years off.
@@bastobasto4866 Absolutely. The Before the Common Era was to remove Before Christ and CE was to replace Anno Domini, in the year of the lord. Yes, it's likely that is its a few year off, but that isn't the reason for the change and it's dishonest to claim otherwise.
What nonsense. If only we could still build roads and buildings to the same quality and caliber of the Romans. Especially after WW2 quality and materials have really gone down hill. One example - will anything that we are currently constructing still be around in 2,000 years time?? Don’t think so.
Well, the main problem is vehicle weight and speed. Roman cobblestone roads can’t handle modern vehicle traffic at all, they are too bumpy and would fall apart in a few years. Modern stone roads can handle light traffic at low speeds, with little maintenance done in the past century. But when maintenance is done on stone roads, it is very costly and complex. And traffic on most roads is much faster and heavier than when modern stone roads were built a century or two ago. The vibrations from highway truck traffic would be enough to quickly dislodge carefully laid stones, necessitating frequent and difficult repairs that just can’t be done as fast as patching a pothole in asphalt. That’s why you only see stone roads remaining in city centers, which have mostly slow, small vehicle traffic. We don’t build other structures the same way as the Romans did for the same reason; their methods just don’t meet our needs. The Romans relied on arches that utilize the compressive strength of stone, brick, or concrete. Arches work up to a certain scale, as you can see in the Roman aqueducts and dome structures like the Hagia Sophia. But the cost of materials is enormous, arches take up a lot of useful space, and the shape of structures is limited. Most modern concrete structures incorporate rebar to increase tensile strength, which allows us to build at right angles and have more useful space inside a structure than if we used arches. Unfortunately, rebar does corrode over time, such that most reinforced concrete structures have a lifespan of about a century. Some people say that the use of asphalt for roads and rebar for buildings is a form of planned obsolescence, and we should build longer lasting structures of solid concrete despite its drawbacks. I think some degree of planned obsolescence is actually a good thing, because it allows us to build newer and better buildings over time. For instance, the strength of modern concrete has been vastly improved by materials science in the past few decades, enabling us to build taller and safer buildings.
There's various underground nuclear storage facilities - one in Finland built with an expectation it will last at least a 100.000years. Even if the admittedly very clever Finns are being a little ambitious with their 100k guarantee it would be astonishing to find it gone in only 2 millennia.
Ok. Subject matter: Good. Speaker: Terrible. Bud, you need someone else to dubb your videos. Your accent is just bad, I had to put subtitles on to make sure I understood the words you were mumbling.
Yeah i know my pronunciation ain't perfect. Don't want to use AI voice and can't afford for professional on that. What i can say is that i'll try to improve it
In Latin class I remember translating a letter from one senator to another complaining wearily about “teenagers these days”, and how Rome was infested with gangs of idle youths who seemed to enjoy running wild thru the streets and kicking out the wooden props that held up the walls of Insulae, thereby causing the partial or full collapse of entire apartment dwellings.
I wish i had encounter this letter during my research. Would surely include IT in the video. Thanks for the comment!
It's funny, I think _"teenagers these days 🙄"_ has been a thing for at least 10.000 years.
@@larsrons7937 I also translated letters from Roman senators and patricians that railed about the fact that their society was in obvious decline, written 300 years before Rome fell. So, feelings that everything is getting worse were also common to every culture at all times. Christian’s been claiming the end times are here, continuously, for 2 millennia.
@@larsrons7937longer than that
Me not know what world coming to. Young people no want to hunt cave bear with pointy stick, always looking at cave painting and playing with bow and arrow. We doomed.@@larsrons7937
Crassus came to a very bad end in the eastern edges of the Roman sphere of influence, while attempting to one-up the conquests of Julius Caesar. Competing for influence with Caesar, he thought he could take on the Parthians (eventual successors to the Persians Alexander had defeated a few centuries earlier). It turned out to be an almost complete military disaster in the deserts of what would now be eastern Syria(?), ending in a brutal, ignominious death for Crassus, his son, and the legions that were employed in his futile pursuit of a 'military glory', comparable to Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Crassus would've done better if he'd stayed in Rome. But, considering the corrupt life he'd led in Rome, his nasty denouement seems quite fitting.
I never can make up my mind whether I respect Crassus for his hustle or just consider him an absolute bastard
I think they ended up forcing him to drink molten gold.
@@brianedwards7142 gold was a replacement of the usual copper, it's a common, & far from the worst form of execution in Rome.
considered merciful in fact,
since, as molten metal nearly immediately destroys the nerve-endings. whilst there is a momentary spasm of agony, it's oddly, a fairly clean painless death... certainly, far preferable to having scolding olive oil poured down ones throat, where, one could suffer for a couple of hours before giving up the ghost....
Eh, he wasn't doing anything anyone else wasn't, he was just better at it.
Even rebuilt his families wealth after other Patricians pilfered it via the proscriptions.
A bastard among bastards.
i find this comment quite amusing lol
Crassus was once accused of attempting to seduce a Vestal, his defense was that he was only trying to scam her of real estate. Needless to say all of Rome found that beyond reasonable doubt.:).
I don't know why but my brain never realized that Rome had multi-story rental apartments. I've seen images & drawings of Rome at various points, and the scale of things but just never connected the dots on there being 3 to 8 floor apartment blocks. For some reason I thought that was a modern thing.
Ancient Rome had 1 million inhabitants in a relatively small area. They weren't living in detached suburban houses, that's for sure.
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods.
For that reason, I call my multi-story rental apartment my Divine Mansion.
We even have a Cacofonix here. Modern version, into grunge music. I often feel like a cartoon character myself too.
@@MassiveChetBakerFanive seen estimates as high as 1.5 million during the reign of the five good emperors
@@worfoz Apartment homes in Rome already made an appearance earlier in Asterix, actually. I can't remember where, but I think it was the gladiator issue; it's been ages since I read that one, so that would check with my having only a vague memory of it. I remember it including a discussion of aquedacts. In any case, it was the first thing to immediately come to mind when I saw the title of this video. Asterix, for all that it plays with stereotypes etc., is surprisingly historically accurate in many respects.
I took a 101 uni class regarding Roman History. When we got to housing, we focused primarily on the noble house. I had asked about apartments and she said she doesn't have irrelevant information 😂
Crassus is such an interesting historical person. Cutting him off completely was one of the weirdest decisions the HBO series "Rome" has made
Crassus was already dead when the event of the series started.
Also his death- so ignominious (supposedly)
@@intractablemaskvpmGyand pale
Crassus died 4 years before Caesar marched on Rome.
They didn't even MENTION him. The past of Pompey and Caesar was portrayed (when they talked about their past) as if it was only the 2 of them. Not a single word about Crassus. At least as far as I remember.
That's what I mean by "cutting him of"
Fine video, informative. Interesting topic. Well presented.
🏰 _"A message from your scribe."_ Great intro! Ah yes, those good old days in "Stronghold", I loved that game.
Even if the buildings were made of stone the fire can fireset the stones and break them. The air pockets expand and crack it all up. It would fall in no time once the high temperature is exposed for long enough.
Didn't know that either - thanks!
Anyway, saying there were "made of stone" likely glosses over the inclusion of ALOT of wood in the structures.
I note that modern high rise is made of "steel and cement" but they still manage to burn quite fiercely at times.
A bit like 18th C Edinburgh, restricted by city walls, but in Edinburgh the tenements went even higher, up to 14 stories, mostly still standing.
Before there was Blackrock there was Crassus.
Marcus C? top shelf bait for history nerds! Dont hate the player! lol good one mate
They may have been 'awful', but let's be serious here: there wasn't alot of multi story dwellings in history prior to that point.
They essentially invented urban living on a significant scale. It's unfair to blame them for not anticipating the downfalls. Modern people have no excuses.
The fact that you say this with absolute conviction just shows how ignorant you Roman fans are. If you look more closely into Roman social history (and not just it's glorified architecture), you'll see that in early Roman Republic history, many writers were sympathetic and even praised the poor for their humility. It was only during the later Roman Empire, particularly during Pax Romana, did writers expressed much more prejudice views on the poor, often comparing them to dogs and saying that they're places that harbor many slave revolters. Unfortunately, the Roman elite responded accordingly and there's many evidence that shows that impoverished communities were usually neglected and segregated from richer areas, probably intentionally so considering the viewpoints writers expressed at this time. Yet you say it's "unfair" to blame them? Yeah, if anything, it just goes to show that the issues we face today (where the rich oppresses everyone else) has been around for many thousands of years. In fact, I really believe that the rich today use the Roman Empire as their model for how they conduct themselves, seeing how some have expressed their love of Rome.
@@lastrationalist7890 brain rot at its finest
@@lastrationalist7890 wanna talk about what happens in America?
The whole system is shaped around the idea that if you don't work, you are scum. And it doesn't matter if you, as homeless, are victim of that system. At that point you become invisible. All your rights of citizens are stripped away from you no matter what.
But there's even worst. In States like California, that was one of the most prosper of the whole country, capitalism have literally transformed the local population in a bunch of zombies.
Drungs, poverty, crime and every bad aspects of human society are not just present, but already deep entrenched in the society.
All of this without having to deal with wars, invasions or economic crisis like what happened in the Roman empire.
There are multiple cases of people shooting and killing harmless people just because they steal stuff, other about racism, others again due politics or just social inequality.
And the only two options given by the government are leaving the State or just live in a state of deep degrade.
So you think Romans has to be blamed because they wasn't able to figure it out how to fix their social problems.
I can blame America and modern society for not being able of giving us a fxcking utopia.
Especially America that is, said by many, "the strongest country in human history" and instead it sucks so much and so hard that living in America is comparable to live in a suburbia of Ctesiphon in the 3rd century AD.
lmao no they didn’t
@@lastrationalist7890Meaningless word salad from a college freshman.
If you apply Austin Coates’ graphical numerology to Roman names, you find they were self promoters, excellent at theatrical rhetoric, but lacking substance. In other words, it’s all a facade of civilization. Looks good, until it all falls down.
Medieval cities had extremely strict rules against littering or disposing of garbage on the streets. There were some heavy fines for that. It was extremely important to "fit in" and people learned this from an early age.
Also all kinds of excrements were a valuable resource for agriculture and other industries and could be turned into some money, so you would not find that kind of "filth" on the streets.
Those are clichés and not rooted in the evidence we have.
It depends. Human feces are not really good material for fertilizer because of our mixed diet. It was used in more primitive societies (minoan civilization for eg.) But never on a large scale, there is some good articles about that on academia, why human excrements may be even dangerous if used this way.
@@Your_scribe They were composted first, of course, but they have been used (and are to this day in other countries) until there was modern canalisation with water flushed toilets as we know it. That's when the cycle got disrupted.
Anyways, referring to animal manour as well. We have letters from city councils threatening to "remove" someone's dung heap from the streets if they failed to do so themselves and "keep the profits".
Wasn't construction of Insulae in ancient Rome like...
"Let's build it and if it doesn't collapse, we did a good job!" ?
I loved this! Thanks for showing us what a hustler Crassus was.
This is exactly what's happening with apartments today. They are modern insula. Right down to the preference to build ever-taller dwellings if it means being closer to the city center
This is the kind of info about Rome I love! TY! Subscribed!
2000 years ago? People were living in caves and straw huts...........Houses were awful?
2,000 years ago people were cavemen, really? 😂
What universe are you living in?
@@zippyparakeet1074 you interpret in a weird way,I didn’t say cavemen 2000 years ago Europe did not have sidewalks cafes.
The construction of Rome was a marvel of engineering for the period with their invention of cement,buildings that are still standing today
all over. Suggestion!..........get yourself a hobby!
@@zippyparakeet1074a million Chinese live in caves today. Learn.
Just seen your channel for the first time. The Stronghold profile pick and the intro are making me subscribe out of respect.
Moooooore wood is needed.
Wood stocks are too low, sir. 🪵
Can't place that here ma' lord
5:59 “More Stone Needed!” “People are Leaving the Castle!” 😂
If you're poor and can't afford a home, just get passive income bro.
Man the stronghold music is really nostalgic
🎉 im your 1k subscriber. Good video man
Ah yes the good old days without building regulations. /s
Ło kurde tego się nie spodziewałem, skryba po angielsku...
Nikt się nie spodziewał i nikt nie potrzebował :d
Jsksiejrkrkd sueue dor pwwkeodk
@@Your_scribe wszyscy potrzebowali!🔥🔥🔥
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Any reason why the thickness of walls couldnt be over 45cm?
Cost of materials + local tradition.
"My father and grandfather create it that thick! So, I should too!"
part of the reasoning was a populist measure since the public rumor was owners were using extra-thick walls as a way to create artificial demand for apartments in a certain neighborhood... another reason (more among the senators) was, after the civil wars romans really feared insulae becoming impregnable urban fortresses.... some such "anti-castellation" clauses are still an active pain in the participle in some European towns.
Social hysteria/pandemonium, the root of all regulatory law.
I am very unhelpful, I know.
I think He misinterpreted the source as I found this, *The walls had to be at least 45 cm thick.".
For years I wanted to assign blame but now I don't.
Thank you for putting up this video - great fun . Who knew! Not I. Thanksgiving weekend 11/23. USA
Next Soviet microdistrict vs USA suburb
Moe and Shemp ancestors did code Zonings
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They should use some/more of the population for colonizing purposes in the provinces.
czyli teraz robisz filmy też po angielsku ?
Sounds like my house.
1:48 are highways the same between colonies as in suburbs? Surely they would fill the gaps by sand
nice video but please for the love of god balance the audio. the intro is crazy loud and the actual VO is way quieter.
Romans invented soviet architecture.
Lol
amazing vid :)
Awesomesauce
Whom.
Great video. Subscribed.
The purpose of history is not blame.
Please note that in the title of your video, neither clause is a question (but statements joined by 'and') and, so, should *_not_* have a question mark. (In forming a question in English, the verb *_must_* follow the question word immediately, _viz.,_ "Why were Roman houses awful, and who should we blame for them?"
I already know all this man, I've played Caesar III 😁
Whoaaa. This is one of the classics i missed. Sorry guys :(
@@Your_scribe Never too late for a classic
@@arisnotheles I too loved "Caesar III", but missed "Caesar II". On my Amiga, after "Cohort" (strategic live battles) I started the city builder series with "Caesar" (I), which could be played with "Cohort II" for the battles, as save games could be transferred between the two. I didn't feel need for better graphics or a few more options in the gameplay until Caesar III came out, its "3D" graphics being lightyears ahead of Caesar I & II.
@@arisnotheles Of the later city builder games from Impressions: _Pharaoh, Zeus_ and _Emperor_ (China) I have a soft spot for _Pharaoh._ The game's from 1999, I still play it.
@@arisnotheles The RUclips censor function work in mysterious ways.
That was a funny way to the problems with the population pyramid. Creative.
Zeus - I even bought the expansion. But after reading the game manuals I never bothered to even install the Zeus games. More or less for the reason you gave.
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002), while not my favorite of the series, had some interesting elements. Especially that different buildings had different Feng Shui elements that had influence on eachother, adding yet an element to think about as for building placement.
Pharaoh is very dear to my heart. I love the cartoonish colours, the game is simply very pleasant to the eyes (to my eyes at least).
Is everyone an expert nowadays...even on subject they don't have a total grasp on ?
are you polish?
Yup
@@Your_scribe this was a good video on the insulae
7:42 faces are sad. Man has an alcohol bottle in his hand.
Sounds like living here in Mexico lol
Modern house aren’t so great
I don't know why this was going to be a Stronghold video lol
"...Where living conditions ( let's not be afraid to say it ) were deplorable". Today I learned that people in 2023 are afraid to speak out against living conditions in ancient Rome.
they were pretty good
The use of BCE and CE is a sign of historical dishonesty.
It’s a recognition of the significant errors in the original calculation that AD and BC were derived from. The best estimate is that it is between four and six years off.
@@allangibson8494 Don't be dishonest. The reason is people wanting to take Christianity out of the historic calendar.
Cry more, baby. Your religion is dying.
@@joseph1150 are you sure? I mean, it's hardly logical to say that Jesus Christ was birthed 4-6 years before Jesus Christ
@@bastobasto4866 Absolutely. The Before the Common Era was to remove Before Christ and CE was to replace Anno Domini, in the year of the lord. Yes, it's likely that is its a few year off, but that isn't the reason for the change and it's dishonest to claim otherwise.
Nice pictures - bad speaker.
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Roman houses were awfull and how were barbarian houses?
Likely better.
What nonsense. If only we could still build roads and buildings to the same quality and caliber of the Romans. Especially after WW2 quality and materials have really gone down hill. One example - will anything that we are currently constructing still be around in 2,000 years time?? Don’t think so.
Well the Roman’s didn’t have the problem of thousands of tons driving over their roads every day.
Our piles of garbage sure will be ;)
Well, the main problem is vehicle weight and speed. Roman cobblestone roads can’t handle modern vehicle traffic at all, they are too bumpy and would fall apart in a few years. Modern stone roads can handle light traffic at low speeds, with little maintenance done in the past century. But when maintenance is done on stone roads, it is very costly and complex. And traffic on most roads is much faster and heavier than when modern stone roads were built a century or two ago. The vibrations from highway truck traffic would be enough to quickly dislodge carefully laid stones, necessitating frequent and difficult repairs that just can’t be done as fast as patching a pothole in asphalt. That’s why you only see stone roads remaining in city centers, which have mostly slow, small vehicle traffic.
We don’t build other structures the same way as the Romans did for the same reason; their methods just don’t meet our needs. The Romans relied on arches that utilize the compressive strength of stone, brick, or concrete. Arches work up to a certain scale, as you can see in the Roman aqueducts and dome structures like the Hagia Sophia. But the cost of materials is enormous, arches take up a lot of useful space, and the shape of structures is limited. Most modern concrete structures incorporate rebar to increase tensile strength, which allows us to build at right angles and have more useful space inside a structure than if we used arches. Unfortunately, rebar does corrode over time, such that most reinforced concrete structures have a lifespan of about a century.
Some people say that the use of asphalt for roads and rebar for buildings is a form of planned obsolescence, and we should build longer lasting structures of solid concrete despite its drawbacks. I think some degree of planned obsolescence is actually a good thing, because it allows us to build newer and better buildings over time. For instance, the strength of modern concrete has been vastly improved by materials science in the past few decades, enabling us to build taller and safer buildings.
You clearly aren't living in Europe if you admire cobblestone streets so much. They look good and quaint, but they are terrible in use.
There's various underground nuclear storage facilities - one in Finland built with an expectation it will last at least a 100.000years. Even if the admittedly very clever Finns are being a little ambitious with their 100k guarantee it would be astonishing to find it gone in only 2 millennia.
remainings is not a word, just remains.
this vid is a bunch of archival photos with narration courtesy wikipedia. no real new insight
Blame? Have you lost your mind?
We are entitled to file a complaint, aren't we?
Damn, his accent is something
Living conditions were like Trump voters 😂
YOU HERETIC
its eithers trumps or putins fault lol jk
That accent is extremely distracting, if you for some reason want to become someone on RUclips, you should probably stop using your voice.
His accent is fine.
Try turning down the autism, see if it sounds better.
Have you been to England?
Not yet :(
Almost two minutes in and there’s nothing to do with what was supposedly the content.
Just nothing bud Yadda Yadda Yadda.
I can’t listen to this. If you can’t pronounce English yourself get an actor to read the script.
I find the speech to be clear and easily understood. I even found it made me listen more intently.
Ok. Subject matter: Good. Speaker: Terrible. Bud, you need someone else to dubb your videos. Your accent is just bad, I had to put subtitles on to make sure I understood the words you were mumbling.
Yeah i know my pronunciation ain't perfect. Don't want to use AI voice and can't afford for professional on that. What i can say is that i'll try to improve it
honestly i don't see an issue with the speaker. it's just an accent?
I had no problem understanding him. Listening comprehension skill issue 👎
@@Your_scribe You're fine bro.
@@Your_scribe You're fine, I'm french and I perfectly understood every word you pronounced