Metatron, thanks so much for your videos, I have a late 19th century map of Sicily (printed as a part of a book, sadly, the book fell apart a long time ago), I would like to sent it to you. Do you have any PO box or anything where I can send it?
@@julianhermanubis6800 indeed you never said the Romans invented the hypocausts. On the other hand, you never said "the Romans did NOT invent the hypocausts"
The Romans probably didn't invent air-conditioning, but they likely used it as well. Buildings were designed to allow the breeze to swirl through the grounds effectively enough that things never got too stifling. The technique has apparently proved so successful that it's actually enjoying a sort of renaissance in modern green construction.
The most amazing thing about that “Roman” Army Knife was that it contained a fork. We are usually told that it was Eastern Rome in the Middle Ages (“Byzantium”) that introduced the table fork to the rest of Europe, but that item seems to contradict that idea.
If you can find photos of the fast food counters they excavated in Pompeii they are really mind-blowing. Stacks of bowls for customers to take and then heated pots containing various meats and vegetables to be ladled out. Maybe a little more Souplantation than Mickey D, but still pretty incredible that it was common for people to stop by and grab a quick bite. Now we just need evidence that they had Doner Kebabs.
go to any remote poor country and fast food without the need for any modern technology exists everywhere, i dont know why people are so amazed because they think the romans did it too. Rome was a big city. Big cities have food for people on the go, always have, always will do.
@@bestperson1234 I guess it's because people in modern times just find the Ancient World so alien and different to ours based on what they see in mainstream media, that they can't really conceive the notion that it would've had the kind of amenities we have today (aside from inns/motels), such as fast food.
I was at the Köln museum a time ago, and I was fascinated by their keylocks and in general keys and locks of any form. And their technique was so rational...
@@metatronyt hey sry to bother, you probably won't see this, but after the disappointment of Barbarians 2 could you watch the Last Kingdom and go over the historical accuracy of it, I really enjoyed the show and would like your input on it.
What I like about ancient roman grafitti is how there are a lot of really crass and vulgar examples of it. Just like the kind or scribbles you might find in a restroom at a bar or pub or in a school. 🤣 Now I don't condone vandalism of other people's property, but the similarities in crass and vulgar content to contemporary times kind of humanize the romans for me. They were literally shitposting 2000 years before the internet! 🤣
Inside a stone age burial mound on Orkney there is a piece of Viking graffiti which reads 'I love Ingebord' or something similar. Very funny and evocative to see.
Humans haven't changed---we have the same physiology and the many of the same physical realities. We are more advanced tech wise and our social contracts have changed over the years, but we are the same physical, sexual beings as the Romans were.
The cloaca maxima was such a feat of engineering...they actually booked excursions through it (this was also done to prove it was safe and clean, and since the Emperor was doing it the plebes wanted to do it as well). I wonder how well-received a sewer-cruise would be taken nowadays?
Always enjoy your videos. My grandsons were quite fascinated by your list----enough so that they're now patronizing the local library for books on the Romans.
0:13 Yep! Funny thing is that most history programs I've seen that really go into it indicate that fights to the death were not common for gladiator on gladiator bouts, yet so many shows today have lots of people "killed", sometimes in rather grizzly ways. Romans didn't have computers you say? Antikythera mechanism anyone?
Every culture ever has had a Calendar, it's just a human thing. I would like to see a fantasy where it's Ancient Roman Steam Punk, that would be baller as hell. I am pretty sure Italy even now is using Roman built Sewage at least in Rome and possibly in other cities though I do not recall at the moment.
I remember reading in one of my science classes about how a Greek inventor (possibly one of the famous ones) created a steam engine that could power a mill, but determined that there was no practical use for it since rivers were common enough and water wheels were so much cheaper and more efficient that no one would bother with a steam powered mill.
Another thing is that the Eastern Roman Empire had records and detailed accounts of the usage of _handheld flamethrowers_ in war, as well as specially made fire-resistant suits of armour used by soldiers using them and/or having to clear out fires. And while these accounts mainly come from the early middle ages, all the technology used would have existed in the classical period as well. The ancient world was a lot more steampunk than people think, they just didn't have the ability/need to mass produce most of these things.
In the US there are signs along the highways a few hundred yards before exits that advertise the fuel , food , and lodging available at the next stop . I've heard that in ancient Rome there were similar signs posted at intersections called Trivia . Tri Via is Latin for three roads . Coincidence ?
The Romans created an incredible organization of Government Bureaucracy which was extremely important and crucial to govern such an immense Empire from Rome.
Could you make a dedicated video to calendars? I am especially interested in the "year 0" for different cultures. I bet Romans didn't say in BC 800 that is was BC 800 same with Egyptians in BC 2500. What starting dates did different civilizations use?
Agree about the possible topic.. also considering that the Romans initially used the (presumably) Etruscan 8-day week. Interesting stuff. Just adding that the Western calendar doesn't have a "year 0". The calendar starts with "the first year", which is year 1. Just as January starts with 1, not 0.
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Yeah, the main reason the steam engine didn’t catch on was the lack of other infrastructure to take advantage of it (the years immediately pre-industrial in Europe had man or river powered mills, for example, that were very well suited for automation) and the fact that slaves were common and cheap.
@@gameragodzilla After all, why put in the work to gather sufficient quantities of iron, coal, and water so that a your grandchildren can have an automatic door when you have slaves right now?
What's most amazing is cranes being used to build roman bridges during warfare. I really find it amazing how adaptable the army was during probably earlier in the Roman republic, but at least during Gaius Jullius Caesars time end of the republic, of engineering brilliance. Making forts, bridges and stuff. Foraging food on site as well. It was the speed too that made it great. Like Pompey and Caesar racing to the build a war in greece in the civil war. That's just nuts.
Thanks Noble One for another great upload. This topic could turn into a whole series over time. I am eager for more. I have always been amazed by how many incredible things the ancient invented, not at least the Romans but also many before them. Especially those we tend to think we invented in modern or more recent times. I would have loved to take a "taxi" in ancient Rome confident that the *taximetre* wouldn't cheat me.
IIRC the Gregorian calendar has also been adjusted a few times. The problem simply is that one year can't be expressed with number of days within the Natural numbers. By now we know the duration down to fractions of seconds but we also have found different ways to define what a year is exactly. Those differ by minutes. So the rules for leap years have gotten more and more complicated.
I think it's super cool that the Julian calendar itself is only a few days behind. Only an adjustment in the 300s AD I believe was implemented, and it's still very close to the Gregorian calendar, by less than two weeks over two thousand years.
@@wes4736 Yeah, pretty close but still diverging. I'm not saying they did a bad job just that it's an incredibly difficult task. Would have been nice if our solar system had formed in a more convenient way.
Tbh I haven’t watched this channel in quite some time. It’s quality content like this video that reminds me why I fell in love with this channel. Well done Metatron. Looking forward to more content
Great stuff as always metatron. Although a historian claimed that ancient Egyptians used coin devices in their temples. Apparently they had statues with moving parts. Inserting coins made these function.
What would have been interesting to note is that some of the names of the months the Romans had back in their time still exist today: Juli, in honour of Julius Caesar, August in honour of Augustus, September, which includes the word septem, meaning the seventh, October, with octo meaning eighth, November with novem meaning the ninth and December, meaning the tenth month.
The same in Italy with the names of the day of the week: Lunedì stands for "the day of the (goddess) Luna-Moon" Martedì "the day of Marte-Mars" Mercoledì "the day of Mercurio-Merculy" Giovedì "the day of Giove-Jupiter" Venerdì "the day of Venere-Venus" Sabato comes prof "Sabbatum or σάββατον, and from ebraic Shabbat, that means "sabbatico" so the day of rest. Domenica comes from Christianity, but in English we say "Sun-day" because in Ancient Roman It links with "dies solis", so "the sun's day" o "giorno del sole invitto" (sol.invictus) Also the Saturday comes from Saturnus.
I've read multiple studies that point to the Cloaca Maxima, at least parts of it, going back to the 11th BCE. Just ditches flowing out to the Tiber, lined with brick eventually, and then in time (long time later) turned into the Cloaca. Like so much of Roman history, there is probably many hundreds, if not a thousand, years below what we know about that later Romans built on top of. I also hate that we call it the Gregorian Calendar. Imagine if we stopped calling it Newtonian physics because Newton had a few minor things wrong. Got it 99.9% right, then, I dunno, Planck comes along and disproves some tiny point and we call it Planckian physics instead. We use the Julian Calendar, dammit, it just has a Gregorian correction.
Thank you again Magister. I had mentioned several of these in a conversation elsewhere, so it is nice to be reinforced by your knowledge. I always like to refer to the Monty Python sketch on "What have the Romans ever done for us?" in relation to this topic. The Ancient World had many ideas, concepts and inventions we are now only recognising as such. Ancient societies were not as primitive as many would suggest. Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Sumer, were all extremely advanced, we just get blinded by our own conceit we must be better.
Not really an exclusively Roman thing, but something people don’t think about is that we’ve had conceptions of trains since antiquity by Horse drawn carts on wooden rails, like the Qin state or Ancient Greeks using limestone to carry ships over land.
Great vid as usual frater. Just a thing. It would be great if your videos have subtitles in different languages (too much if I suggest Spanish?) to could use them with my students. Thanks for teaching.
Modern man is the same, since at least 10.000 years. Probably longer. Someone living in prehistoric times would likely be very physically fit, while I wind for 30 minutes after running for 8. They would know what plant to eat and how to catch a rabbit, while I would have cramps. They did not have our tech, but certainly the fact that our culture today still relies on Greek and Roman lectures and insights speaks for itself.
not sure if its an army knife if you have all the tools for dinner and nothing else tho i am impressed they had a fork that early, thought that came a lot later
I think MMA is a really modern and unusual example of a gladiator analogy. Dog fighting or Chicken Fighting is much more common in the intervening modern period.
Nice Skyrim poster in the background. Mine's taped to my door and I also have the textured one, the one you got on pre order, stashed in a desk until I can get it framed.
The ancient Greeks discovered steam engine so the Romans could have them. The one I know of worked more like rotary jet engine than a cylinder engine, but it worked. And they (Greeks). Used it as a toy. A novelty. They had no incentive to develop the engine as they had slaves to do the job for them.
Heated floor was widespread across islamic world and I think it was Roman heritage there. Another interesting moment - archeologists find houses with heated floors even in Volga Bulgaria - muslim architects bringed it with another modern technologies. It was really necessary thing - winters in Middle Volga region is cold anough (down to -30 C and lower sometimes), but it of course was prerogative of the aristocracy, main population lived in semi-dugouts with a simple hearth.
The graffiti in Pompeii had me thinking about how restaurant and bathhouse owners must’ve hated graffiti since they’d have paint over or even redo the slab of stone. So I wonder if a lot of this graffiti there we see today would’ve disappeared had Vesuvius erupted a few weeks later. What an amazing snapshot of time.
Great ...I love my history, and you certainly bring it alive....thank you so much. But 45 years ago when I was last at school :) We were taught that messages were sent in bottles down the viaducts as this was quicker than runners, but I have never seen any further information on this minor subject.
13:11 - if, and only if, the Romans realized the measurement and force translation properties of the "Archimedes" screw, and then applied that to manufacture. All of the necessary prototype pieces were there, but no one put them together. So... no repeatable accuracy, no mass production of interchangeable parts, and no industrially useful steam engines. It is a pity... the Romans did make significant use of water mills for grinding grain, so if they had thought to use those same mills to drive a shaft which would then drive belts, they could made metal-capable lathes and milling machines and then have made the leap into industry some 1800 years ahead of the actual timeline.
pls sir can you do a video where you can explain us how knights really fought in war's cause i can not understand it yet and im very curious how in the middle of all the chaos of war they could manage to aim for their respective weak spots it must have taken hours than no? and also we've been braine washed by the tv shows and games like for example how the fight between mountain vs the viper in game of thrones went can you do an analysis of that fight i think its a great and educative concept ! and thank you iam a big fan of you're philosophy i must say
@metatron just curious. Have you ever heard of the show called Time Team Classics? It's a show out of the UK where archaeologists go around the UK doing digs on a large amount of Roman sites long buried and forgotten. They don't just do Roman. But a large part of their digs are related to Roman Villas, Forts, Graveyards, Etc. It's a very interesting show to watch. There's no plot or precontrived story. They just have 3 days to do digs and geophysics to reveal history. I'm sure you find it interesting
I can’t remember who it was (maybe Lindybeige?) who made a video about the greatest invention of all time being the engineering surface plate, i.e. a near perfect flat level surface. Everything after it was different because it enabled the creation of accurate measuring tools. No one could ever have industrialised without it.
Regarding graffiti, is it at least grammatically correct, or is like in 'Life of Brian'? 😄 "What's this then? Romanes eunt domus...People called Romanes, they go to the house?" "It says, 'Romans go home'." "No it doesn't."
Another benefit of heated floors in that design is that it pulls moisture with it making your house last longer; which is especially important if you have a wooden house like many barbaric tribes had and thus also used a verson of this system.
Great Video Metatron! Question: In your opinion, if the Romans managed to figure out how to properly harness the steam engine, what effect would that have had on the Roman empire? or even the world as a whole?
Depend on what use they would have imagined. Romans sometimes abandoned technologies acquired from annexed territories, because their only use was to reduce the number of worker required through the use of machinery, and the Roman just thought : "what's the point ? We have more than enough slave, and thus no need for this technology." On the other side, they have developed or improved lots of technology that they considered useful for them. Note that this is not unusual. All civilizations did it. Our modern world suffers from the same problem. Last century have seen the first cargo-ships with motors that don't emit any CO2 or particle. We deemed the technology useless in comparison to the more expansive but already well established oil engine, and so the technology was discarded. Now, we are working on it again, because our vision have changed, but most peoples think that this is a "new concept and it is strange no one tried it before". The same goes for a lot of technologies that seems fantastic... but only remain as prototype because no one care about them when they are first invented. At worst, they provoke fear and are eliminated. At best, they become a curiosity. Roman steam engines were a curiosity. So what would have happened if the Romans managed to figure out how to properly harness the steam engine ? Maybe their industries and transportation would have progressed much faster ? Maybe the technology would have been too expensive and restrained to a marginal use for hundreds of years ? Or maybe it would have been considered useless, and more or less forgotten until the 1800s, just like what happened in the real world... It is impossible to know how they would have reacted.
there are also the heating system they had for smaller houses in colder climates you have a normal fireplace but the airflow went around down and you know wherever it was needed
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Speaking of Hippocrates... How is the word "Hypocrite" related to Hippocrates? 🤔
They sound too similar to be a coincidence.
Metatron, thanks so much for your videos, I have a late 19th century map of Sicily (printed as a part of a book, sadly, the book fell apart a long time ago), I would like to sent it to you. Do you have any PO box or anything where I can send it?
Could you cover ancient Roman Hispania?
@@sevenproxies4255 I believe that the word " hypocrite " Is Greek for actor .
4th century Etruscan kings? I thought the republic was formed ca. 509bce.
I've seen a fair number of actual hypocaust floors built by the Romans, and I'd been impressed by how cleverly done they were.
I don’t know of I was aware of those! Another cool, amazing system that was used by the Persians was wind catchers to cool their houses.
As the very Greek word "hypocaust" denotes, the Greeks were using hypocausts long before the Romans!
@@ThomasGazis I never said the Roman invented them, but I think they did improve on the original design.
@@julianhermanubis6800 indeed you never said the Romans invented the hypocausts. On the other hand, you never said "the Romans did NOT invent the hypocausts"
@@ThomasGazis I never said they were invented by the Babylonians either. There are only so many things you can fit into a brief sentence.
This made me think of the Monty Python "What have the romans ever done for us?"
See the previous Video by Metatron for some Python contributions
What about Life of Brian where the centurions were making him correct the grammar of his latin in his graffiti
Yeah ...... What have the Romans done for us?
@@anthonyduffy6953 gave birth to you🗿
@@anthonyduffy6953 aquaducts, that's what!
Rome described in one sentences
"Romans took it and improve it"
The Romans probably didn't invent air-conditioning, but they likely used it as well. Buildings were designed to allow the breeze to swirl through the grounds effectively enough that things never got too stifling. The technique has apparently proved so successful that it's actually enjoying a sort of renaissance in modern green construction.
That kind of "air-conditioning" though is a Middle-Eastern / Mesopotamian invention!
The most amazing thing about that “Roman” Army Knife was that it contained a fork.
We are usually told that it was Eastern Rome in the Middle Ages (“Byzantium”) that introduced the table fork to the rest of Europe, but that item seems to contradict that idea.
Either way, it seems the Romans invented forks.
Favoritism is probably why. That and probably people not doing proper research.
The Egyptians were using forks millennia before the Romans!
@@ThomasGazis source?
@@i.fernandes WE WUZ FORKZ
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Lol I currently have 1 less comment like than Metatron himself, now I won’t kill myself
If you can find photos of the fast food counters they excavated in Pompeii they are really mind-blowing. Stacks of bowls for customers to take and then heated pots containing various meats and vegetables to be ladled out. Maybe a little more Souplantation than Mickey D, but still pretty incredible that it was common for people to stop by and grab a quick bite.
Now we just need evidence that they had Doner Kebabs.
go to any remote poor country and fast food without the need for any modern technology exists everywhere, i dont know why people are so amazed because they think the romans did it too. Rome was a big city. Big cities have food for people on the go, always have, always will do.
@@bestperson1234 I guess it's because people in modern times just find the Ancient World so alien and different to ours based on what they see in mainstream media, that they can't really conceive the notion that it would've had the kind of amenities we have today (aside from inns/motels), such as fast food.
I was at the Köln museum a time ago, and I was fascinated by their keylocks and in general keys and locks of any form. And their technique was so rational...
Thoroughly enjoyed this video Metatron! Thanks for making the video, and would love to see this same topic but for other eras!
Sure thing!
@@metatronyt hey sry to bother, you probably won't see this, but after the disappointment of Barbarians 2 could you watch the Last Kingdom and go over the historical accuracy of it, I really enjoyed the show and would like your input on it.
What I like about ancient roman grafitti is how there are a lot of really crass and vulgar examples of it. Just like the kind or scribbles you might find in a restroom at a bar or pub or in a school. 🤣
Now I don't condone vandalism of other people's property, but the similarities in crass and vulgar content to contemporary times kind of humanize the romans for me. They were literally shitposting 2000 years before the internet! 🤣
Inside a stone age burial mound on Orkney there is a piece of Viking graffiti which reads 'I love Ingebord' or something similar. Very funny and evocative to see.
If there is one thing uniting all of mankind, then is it's the universitality of the dick pic.
Humans haven't changed---we have the same physiology and the many of the same physical realities. We are more advanced tech wise and our social contracts have changed over the years, but we are the same physical, sexual beings as the Romans were.
My favorite one is in Pompeii. “ Chie I hope your hemmoroids rub together so much that they hurt worse than they did before”
@@laniusmaxon5281 savage
The cloaca maxima was such a feat of engineering...they actually booked excursions through it (this was also done to prove it was safe and clean, and since the Emperor was doing it the plebes wanted to do it as well). I wonder how well-received a sewer-cruise would be taken nowadays?
There are visits of the sewage system of Paris. So it's still a thing
Always enjoy your videos. My grandsons were quite fascinated by your list----enough so that they're now patronizing the local library for books on the Romans.
you should make this a series man! people will like seeing this
0:13 Yep! Funny thing is that most history programs I've seen that really go into it indicate that fights to the death were not common for gladiator on gladiator bouts, yet so many shows today have lots of people "killed", sometimes in rather grizzly ways.
Romans didn't have computers you say? Antikythera mechanism anyone?
Every culture ever has had a Calendar, it's just a human thing.
I would like to see a fantasy where it's Ancient Roman Steam Punk, that would be baller as hell.
I am pretty sure Italy even now is using Roman built Sewage at least in Rome and possibly in other cities though I do not recall at the moment.
Alot have, but I wouldn't say every.
French RUclipsr "AlterHis" did an utopian serie about this ! Subtitles are quite good to be watchable in english if you want !
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“So shut up-it counts!” That made me laugh out loud because that not the usual Metatron way. 😊
Your research is stunning, keep up the good work.
Thank you! Will do!
I remember reading in one of my science classes about how a Greek inventor (possibly one of the famous ones) created a steam engine that could power a mill, but determined that there was no practical use for it since rivers were common enough and water wheels were so much cheaper and more efficient that no one would bother with a steam powered mill.
Heron of Alexandra.
Another thing is that the Eastern Roman Empire had records and detailed accounts of the usage of _handheld flamethrowers_ in war, as well as specially made fire-resistant suits of armour used by soldiers using them and/or having to clear out fires. And while these accounts mainly come from the early middle ages, all the technology used would have existed in the classical period as well. The ancient world was a lot more steampunk than people think, they just didn't have the ability/need to mass produce most of these things.
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In the US there are signs along the highways a few hundred yards before exits that advertise the fuel , food , and lodging available at the next stop . I've heard that in ancient Rome there were similar signs posted at intersections called Trivia . Tri Via is Latin for three roads . Coincidence ?
Of course there was graffiti in Ancient Rome, like "Romanes Eunt Domus", famously painted by Brian the Great on the walls of Pontius Pilate's palace.
The Romans created an incredible organization of Government Bureaucracy which was extremely important and crucial to govern such an immense Empire from Rome.
The ancient Egyptians beat them to it…
Yes, they gave civil servants a good name.
Could you make a dedicated video to calendars? I am especially interested in the "year 0" for different cultures. I bet Romans didn't say in BC 800 that is was BC 800 same with Egyptians in BC 2500. What starting dates did different civilizations use?
Agree about the possible topic.. also considering that the Romans initially used the (presumably) Etruscan 8-day week. Interesting stuff. Just adding that the Western calendar doesn't have a "year 0". The calendar starts with "the first year", which is year 1. Just as January starts with 1, not 0.
They counted the years since the founding of Rome, in 753 BCE. Instead of AD, it was AUC, meaning Ab Urbe Condita.
The Romans didn’t have the concept of zero.
That was a later Indian invention.
The coin-operated machine is really interesting. Between that and the microorganisms for the most mindblowing, for different reasons.
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I think the palace in Knossos had heated floors way before the romans
Didn't Hero of Alexandria invent a simple steam engine? And isn't the Antikytherian device a fancy calendar?
Yeah, the main reason the steam engine didn’t catch on was the lack of other infrastructure to take advantage of it (the years immediately pre-industrial in Europe had man or river powered mills, for example, that were very well suited for automation) and the fact that slaves were common and cheap.
@@gameragodzilla After all, why put in the work to gather sufficient quantities of iron, coal, and water so that a your grandchildren can have an automatic door when you have slaves right now?
What's most amazing is cranes being used to build roman bridges during warfare. I really find it amazing how adaptable the army was during probably earlier in the Roman republic, but at least during Gaius Jullius Caesars time end of the republic, of engineering brilliance. Making forts, bridges and stuff. Foraging food on site as well. It was the speed too that made it great. Like Pompey and Caesar racing to the build a war in greece in the civil war. That's just nuts.
Thanks Noble One for another great upload. This topic could turn into a whole series over time. I am eager for more.
I have always been amazed by how many incredible things the ancient invented, not at least the Romans but also many before them. Especially those we tend to think we invented in modern or more recent times. I would have loved to take a "taxi" in ancient Rome confident that the *taximetre* wouldn't cheat me.
So basically their heated floors/walls are the same concept of the old gravity furnaces of the 1950's or so. Pretty genius.
IIRC the Gregorian calendar has also been adjusted a few times. The problem simply is that one year can't be expressed with number of days within the Natural numbers. By now we know the duration down to fractions of seconds but we also have found different ways to define what a year is exactly. Those differ by minutes.
So the rules for leap years have gotten more and more complicated.
I think it's super cool that the Julian calendar itself is only a few days behind. Only an adjustment in the 300s AD I believe was implemented, and it's still very close to the Gregorian calendar, by less than two weeks over two thousand years.
@@wes4736 Yeah, pretty close but still diverging. I'm not saying they did a bad job just that it's an incredibly difficult task. Would have been nice if our solar system had formed in a more convenient way.
Tbh I haven’t watched this channel in quite some time. It’s quality content like this video that reminds me why I fell in love with this channel. Well done Metatron. Looking forward to more content
Megatron, I really enjoy and look forward to seeing your work. You make history more interesting!
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Great stuff as always metatron. Although a historian claimed that ancient Egyptians used coin devices in their temples. Apparently they had statues with moving parts. Inserting coins made these function.
What would have been interesting to note is that some of the names of the months the Romans had back in their time still exist today: Juli, in honour of Julius Caesar, August in honour of Augustus, September, which includes the word septem, meaning the seventh, October, with octo meaning eighth, November with novem meaning the ninth and December, meaning the tenth month.
The same in Italy with the names of the day of the week:
Lunedì stands for "the day of the (goddess) Luna-Moon"
Martedì "the day of Marte-Mars"
Mercoledì "the day of Mercurio-Merculy"
Giovedì "the day of Giove-Jupiter"
Venerdì "the day of Venere-Venus"
Sabato comes prof "Sabbatum or σάββατον, and from ebraic Shabbat, that means "sabbatico" so the day of rest.
Domenica comes from Christianity, but in English we say "Sun-day" because in Ancient Roman It links with "dies solis", so "the sun's day" o "giorno del sole invitto" (sol.invictus)
Also the Saturday comes from Saturnus.
Imagine if the Romans had Twitter, the Empire would have fallen centuries earlier! 😅
Funny
I've read multiple studies that point to the Cloaca Maxima, at least parts of it, going back to the 11th BCE. Just ditches flowing out to the Tiber, lined with brick eventually, and then in time (long time later) turned into the Cloaca. Like so much of Roman history, there is probably many hundreds, if not a thousand, years below what we know about that later Romans built on top of.
I also hate that we call it the Gregorian Calendar. Imagine if we stopped calling it Newtonian physics because Newton had a few minor things wrong. Got it 99.9% right, then, I dunno, Planck comes along and disproves some tiny point and we call it Planckian physics instead. We use the Julian Calendar, dammit, it just has a Gregorian correction.
Heated floors were known also in middle ages for example Teutonic Order capital Marienburg had this type of heating.
I found roman graffiti at a former roman outpost in Germany. Something to the effect of "Flavius was here."
Reminds me of the first meme that was created in ww2 it's very similar
Known as Kilroy was here
Thank you again Magister. I had mentioned several of these in a conversation elsewhere, so it is nice to be reinforced by your knowledge. I always like to refer to the Monty Python sketch on "What have the Romans ever done for us?" in relation to this topic. The Ancient World had many ideas, concepts and inventions we are now only recognising as such. Ancient societies were not as primitive as many would suggest. Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, Sumer, were all extremely advanced, we just get blinded by our own conceit we must be better.
Not really an exclusively Roman thing, but something people don’t think about is that we’ve had conceptions of trains since antiquity by Horse drawn carts on wooden rails, like the Qin state or Ancient Greeks using limestone to carry ships over land.
Great vid as usual frater. Just a thing. It would be great if your videos have subtitles in different languages (too much if I suggest Spanish?) to could use them with my students. Thanks for teaching.
I love this channel because it contributes to end the narrative of ancient people being notably inferior to us.
Agreed. In some ways they were vastly superior
Modern man is the same, since at least 10.000 years. Probably longer.
Someone living in prehistoric times would likely be very physically fit, while I wind for 30 minutes after running for 8. They would know what plant to eat and how to catch a rabbit, while I would have cramps.
They did not have our tech, but certainly the fact that our culture today still relies on Greek and Roman lectures and insights speaks for itself.
Grafitti was common in Ancient Egypt, and probably in prior civilisations
Went to the baths in bath a couple of years ago ..what an incredible place ...love your videos metatron ..wish they were longer :)
4:56
*points at graffiti artist, then yells "Arwing Kaiser" before running off and calling the police*
A fun series, Metatron :D
Shut up, it counts. So saucy I love it
not sure if its an army knife if you have all the tools for dinner and nothing else
tho i am impressed they had a fork that early, thought that came a lot later
I want you to make an entire crossover with Centurii-chan
It would be a gold mine
I think MMA is a really modern and unusual example of a gladiator analogy. Dog fighting or Chicken Fighting is much more common in the intervening modern period.
How so for MMA?
@@altechelghanforever9906 as we know it today it really didn’t exist before the late 80s
@@thevictoryoverhimself7298 Oh, true, true. Well there was a Greek sport back then somewhat similar to MMA called Pankration.
Nice miniature collection you have back there. Great taste
Many Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian churches still go by the Julian calendar.
Nice Skyrim poster in the background. Mine's taped to my door and I also have the textured one, the one you got on pre order, stashed in a desk until I can get it framed.
Thank you for feeding my History addiction! Always exciting!
The ancient Greeks discovered steam engine so the Romans could have them. The one I know of worked more like rotary jet engine than a cylinder engine, but it worked. And they (Greeks). Used it as a toy. A novelty.
They had no incentive to develop the engine as they had slaves to do the job for them.
You made my day. Thanks!
Glad to hear that!
You missed a pretty strong one: A Republic (then a Republic, in decay)!
It would be so cool to learn more about Roman roads, agriculture, calendar and water clock. I can't believe they didn't have hour glasses
we need more metatron!!!! amazing video like always
Informative and Entertaining as Always. Grazie!
Heated floor was widespread across islamic world and I think it was Roman heritage there. Another interesting moment - archeologists find houses with heated floors even in Volga Bulgaria - muslim architects bringed it with another modern technologies. It was really necessary thing - winters in Middle Volga region is cold anough (down to -30 C and lower sometimes), but it of course was prerogative of the aristocracy, main population lived in semi-dugouts with a simple hearth.
Another great video Raff, some facenating facts.
Capsa means physician's bag? Interesting, in czech, kapsa means pocket.
What a coincidence.
The graffiti in Pompeii had me thinking about how restaurant and bathhouse owners must’ve hated graffiti since they’d have paint over or even redo the slab of stone. So I wonder if a lot of this graffiti there we see today would’ve disappeared had Vesuvius erupted a few weeks later. What an amazing snapshot of time.
I'm disappointed that you haven't even showed a picture from Monty Python Life of Brian graffiti
Ancient Roman graffeti just makes me think Life of Brian
I did enjoy this video!!! You’re amazing
Great ...I love my history, and you certainly bring it alive....thank you so much. But 45 years ago when I was last at school :) We were taught that messages were sent in bottles down the viaducts as this was quicker than runners, but I have never seen any further information on this minor subject.
Latrines as a social spot...
Just make sure you don't get the short end of the stick - that'd be the end with the sponge on it...
No, next time you see a kid making a graffiti, reenact that Romanes Eunt Domus scene
Side note: Ancient Persians had air conditioning even before the Roman republic was a thing.
"The Simpsons already did it" could be "the romans already did it"
12:01 I don’t know I’m pretty sure Big Macs are also made with rodent meat
13:11 - if, and only if, the Romans realized the measurement and force translation properties of the "Archimedes" screw, and then applied that to manufacture. All of the necessary prototype pieces were there, but no one put them together. So... no repeatable accuracy, no mass production of interchangeable parts, and no industrially useful steam engines. It is a pity... the Romans did make significant use of water mills for grinding grain, so if they had thought to use those same mills to drive a shaft which would then drive belts, they could made metal-capable lathes and milling machines and then have made the leap into industry some 1800 years ahead of the actual timeline.
11:30 when the other option is copping a squat in an alley, latrines become VERY popular.
pls sir can you do a video where you can explain us how knights really fought in war's cause i can not understand it yet and im very curious how in the middle of all the chaos of war they could manage to aim for their respective weak spots it must have taken hours than no? and also we've been braine washed by the tv shows and games like for example how the fight between mountain vs the viper in game of thrones went can you do an analysis of that fight i think its a great and educative concept ! and thank you iam a big fan of you're philosophy i must say
@metatron just curious. Have you ever heard of the show called Time Team Classics? It's a show out of the UK where archaeologists go around the UK doing digs on a large amount of Roman sites long buried and forgotten. They don't just do Roman. But a large part of their digs are related to Roman Villas, Forts, Graveyards, Etc. It's a very interesting show to watch. There's no plot or precontrived story. They just have 3 days to do digs and geophysics to reveal history. I'm sure you find it interesting
It always surprised me how many Roman era hypocaustums (hypocausti?) that old TV show "Time Team" used to find in Britain.
I thought for a moment you were going to say the spike was used to extract... information from the enemy 😂
My favorite example of graffiti found in Pompeii: "Everyone writes on the walls except me."
We are still using "cloaca" in Romania, same meaning. 😀
I'd be very interested into more about steam machines within Rome!
That’s actually where the Turkish bath comes from, from the Byzantines, which was Roman before.
So it’s the Roman bath
I can’t remember who it was (maybe Lindybeige?) who made a video about the greatest invention of all time being the engineering surface plate, i.e. a near perfect flat level surface. Everything after it was different because it enabled the creation of accurate measuring tools. No one could ever have industrialised without it.
Regarding graffiti, is it at least grammatically correct, or is like in 'Life of Brian'? 😄
"What's this then? Romanes eunt domus...People called Romanes, they go to the house?"
"It says, 'Romans go home'."
"No it doesn't."
Does VPN let you view BBC iPlayer if you are not in the UK?
I LOVE YOU MAN!! I'm in Philly, your one of the only ppl to understand graffiti started in the 215 and not in Brooklyn or France
People enjoy Gladiatorial Combat, it’s just that in modern times we decided that blades might just kill our favorite Athletes.
Can you review Aliakai's RUclips video "does the Bible recognise pagan gods" please, love the video!!
Another benefit of heated floors in that design is that it pulls moisture with it making your house last longer; which is especially important if you have a wooden house like many barbaric tribes had and thus also used a verson of this system.
Imagine how many memes we lost throughout time.
Carthago delenda est, always a good meme.
Great Video Metatron!
Question: In your opinion, if the Romans managed to figure out how to properly harness the steam engine, what effect would that have had on the Roman empire? or even the world as a whole?
Depend on what use they would have imagined. Romans sometimes abandoned technologies acquired from annexed territories, because their only use was to reduce the number of worker required through the use of machinery, and the Roman just thought : "what's the point ? We have more than enough slave, and thus no need for this technology."
On the other side, they have developed or improved lots of technology that they considered useful for them.
Note that this is not unusual. All civilizations did it. Our modern world suffers from the same problem. Last century have seen the first cargo-ships with motors that don't emit any CO2 or particle. We deemed the technology useless in comparison to the more expansive but already well established oil engine, and so the technology was discarded. Now, we are working on it again, because our vision have changed, but most peoples think that this is a "new concept and it is strange no one tried it before".
The same goes for a lot of technologies that seems fantastic... but only remain as prototype because no one care about them when they are first invented. At worst, they provoke fear and are eliminated. At best, they become a curiosity. Roman steam engines were a curiosity.
So what would have happened if the Romans managed to figure out how to properly harness the steam engine ?
Maybe their industries and transportation would have progressed much faster ?
Maybe the technology would have been too expensive and restrained to a marginal use for hundreds of years ?
Or maybe it would have been considered useless, and more or less forgotten until the 1800s, just like what happened in the real world...
It is impossible to know how they would have reacted.
Is that a map of Skyrim behind you, mate? I see you two are a man of culture 😆👌
7:15 "Cultri Helvetiae"? 🙂
Super !!!! Thank you sir 😊
You should make a whole video on the calendar topic I think
there are also the heating system they had for smaller houses in colder climates you have a normal fireplace but the airflow went around down and you know wherever it was needed