I remember telling dad that Greeks were amazing as I studied their history in school, and dad said "wait to see the Roman empire". Dad was right, love you dad ❤❤
Do you call a Greek subject of Rome in Alexandria Egypt Greek or Roman. So is the use of a steam engine to open Temple doors in Alexandria a. Roman invention or Greek invention, i'm talking about after the Ptolemies?
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Thank you. I do wish you had stressed that Roman concrete was of far higher quality than ours. It’s only been very recently that people far wiser than myself could figure out why it’s so much better than ours. And that knowledge will improve our own structures today.
The Romans had standardised table ware called Samian ware, not unlike our basic white earthenware plates and bowls, except they were orange. Basically the first mass produced table ware long before the Chinese or the British potteries of the Industrial Revolution.
In vindolanda, Roman fort in the UK. A piece of samian ware was found that a soldier had carved his name into it. I was just reading about it a few days ago in the book Gladius by Guy De La Bedoyere if you’re interested in Life in the Roman army I would suggest you read it if you haven’t done so already.
Great video Mike! There were quite a few intelligent cultures, Roman's, Greeks and Egyptians. I think they all learned from each other. If possible go to Rome, so much history. Please pay attention if you go to the coliseum, if they tell you not to go to certain areas, don't, as it is deteriorating and they are trying to preserve it. Take your gal to the Spanish Steps! Such a fun video! Keep the faith✌️
Who wants to tell him that the Toga was not rectangular? My brother had a Roman persona in a historical recreation society we were in growing up, and my mom made him a Toga for high feasting events, and there is a roundish scoop in the bottom to provide extra cover.
Good job. A couple of Little corrections : Gladiatorial flights and sewers were invented by Etruscan, the northern neighbours of ancient Rome. Romans conquered them in the 3rd century bC and, as they Always did, they welcomed all useful things and habits that Etruscans offered.
The t-shirt is fine, Mike, the Romans copied the Greeks in pretty much every way. Even renamed their gods! And "Hear ye, hear ye!" is "Audite auditis!" :)
Wow. Mike really lost a lot of weight since I last watched List 25. Sorry, I forgot it existed, due to pandemic redirection of RU-vid viewing habits. And I am serious on both counts.
I saw an article years ago that a Roman kit of metal cataract surgery tools in it's own special case was found. Yes, apparently they did cataract surgeries 2,000 years ago. Wow.
The cloth of a toga is semicircular. And one important reason is to signify that the bearer did not have to do much physical work, thus being important.
24 should be round stadiums, because the Greeks had ones like racing track, before the Romans had their round ones. The Romans also invented a form of roofing for their stadiums, that involved using awnings that could be folded, not unlike our modern stadiums' moveable roof set ups, like the roof of the new Central Court at Wimbledon, etc.
Roman numerals: the Romans didn’t have ZERO. Glass blowing: Go to the Corning Glass works in, simple enough, Corning, NY. It’s up in the finger lakes region. They do some fantastic glass blowing and glass art. Well worth the trip.
We get the word salary for the Roman word salarium because of salt they used to pay their soldiers with. Also the Colosseum's not only were huge but they had developed awning systems that they had men from the Roman Navy just there to pull them over when it was a hot sunny day. As well as giant naval battles even in the coliseum in Rome they would flood it and have ships in there for them to recreate battles with. We get the standardized form of the measurement of 12 in foot for a Roman soldier size regular foot. They also maximize the use of water-powered flour mills by using that to make multiple Hill formed Mills to feed the empire. Also the Romans stole a lot of things from the Greeks and improved them like they took imagery, statues, and ideas from them. Which if you think about it they had a major advancement from mud clay huts to arches which was kind of a giant leap in their technology.
The fact is that if it were not for the Roman Empire.. the world as we know it wouldn't exist. The simple truth is that for all its evils and "evils", there were as many benefits (in more than a few case more so) than what they are criticized. What and when it was evil is what makes any government evil: the marginalizing/scapegoating of those who refuse to give up their individuality.
When they invented apartment buildings they also invented Building regulations they found out that they couldn't build higher than 7 floors Because of stability any higher than that an the bottom floor would have to be so massive that there wasn't any living space or room for shops and restaurants and shit And in medical tools they apparently invented a device to fix Cataracts although it's claimed that they stole it from the Egyptians and further developed it ether way the did eye surgery 2000 years ago that's insane 😳 Just saying 🇧🇻
Most of these things are not STILL in use though. When the Roman empire fell, all of their culture went down with it, inventions and all. People forgot about them completely. Most of it was reinvented though, which is why we (again) have them today.
13 months. 28 days per month with, April First (fools day) being that missing day needed. That worked so much better, is why September, October, 9, 8 etc are where they come from
The Romans understood the importance of numbers. So much so that they couldn't fathom the number 0. An absolutely vital number. The Roman civilization was gone 152 years before the zero. They certainly had to have understood that if you have 1 snake, and that snake crawls away, that leaves less than 1 snake. Yet they had no number to represent zero. I say that Hindus understood the importance of numbers, while the Romans were merely fans of numbers. After all, we aren't currently using Arabic numerals because of the Roman Empire.
Leap year is every year divisible by four or four hundred years. 2000 was the first century since 1600 to be a leap year. If it is every four years, then 2100 would have a leap day, but it doesn't, neither does 2200 or 2300. It's also ironic you showed a clock face that has the wrong number 4. It's IV not IIII
Ah! Pause! Mike, you get 5 gold stars for pronouncing Samhain correctly! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐! And if anyone comes after you for the shirt, send 'em to me, for being agitators without a cause...
Hint Hint, Nudge Nudge 1. Our society today has improved the lives of people of all classes. 2. All members of our society have access to entertainment. 3. The Thesaurus ultimately led to the downfall of Rome as fewer and fewer people in Rome did anything and relied upon it to meet their needs....
I`ve been to Rome and i hated it. Crowded, none spoke english and the romans had a huge ego. I`ll not be back. Also, their cops was on a huge powertrip.
Books are not bounded, they are bound, which is the past tense of bind. And if the Romans learned glassblowing from their Syrian counterparts, it's not technically a Roman invention, is it?
Actually Mike Hercules IS roman his greek counterpart is heracles. As a major fan of greek mythology I find it so annoying when people call Hercules greek when he isn't
Actually.... You were incorrect at the beginning. About your shirt. Because you were correct. While the image came from Disney's animated movie named Hercules, Disney. Was. Wrong. It hurts to say those words, because I do, indeed love Disney. The Roman God was named Hercules. The GREEK God was named Heracles! Disney played a little too fast and loose with the mythologies, and it's really very disheartening to know that a whole generation thinks that the Disney version is the "correct" retelling of the stories. Look it up. The movie Clash of the Titans also did a great harm in their particular version of the stories.
Yeah but was there ever ever ever such a bunch of men so clever, if you want to know that answer, ask a Greek. Cool t shirt . Greeks invented sun dials, catapults, the Olympics and yo-yos, stage acoustics,and much more. The Romans invented lots granted including gladiator fighting, feeding people to lions and burning Christians, hey here's an idea for a video on Rome, Pope Alexander vi. Or emperor Caligula. Love to everyone
