Advice for Time Traveling to Ancient Rome 

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Of course you didn't, otherwise you wouldn't / couldn't have made the travel.

No you didn't. This an official summons from the time police regarding the protection fees due to agent AXD3231

@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib 3231? i dont recognize these symbols. stop impersonating roman officials, you barbarian.

@@murthyadivirk Sgt Voltron, we have here a time continuum infiltration named Adivi that doesn't recognize earth Region 3 standard. Have him vaporized 5 minutes ago please.

That's thinking like a time traveler!

Thanks for the advice! Hahaha!

Greetings from the future! Chariot driving certainly proved to be quite important, traffic in the Circus Maximus is terrible these days.

​@@eoghancronin2736*those days 😂

lol

Interesting point.

I'd assume if you could time travel you could also travel through space to the right spot

That depends on your mode of travel.

Gravitational Lock on your destination point

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That would be me 🤣🤣

Too bad you can't carry _that_ much ammunition. And you'll eventually have to sleep, when you can be assassinated.

That would be me too. But bruh, I’m Asian. I’d stick out . 😅

Would make a more interesting video..."What modern invention could one use to rule ancient rome in 1 week..." I would say copious amounts of quinine and a broad-spec antibiotic (penicillin, doxycycline, etc)

Sage words

Even (or especially?) if his name is Rincewind...

@@Lucius1958 Especially

@@Lucius1958 This, of course, suggests the intriguing possibility that the late, lamented Sir Pterry was...Greek?

Not even this Bayaz guy? He seems pretty helpful and cool

I wondered what it would be like if a mechanical engineer went back in time and now I can't stop thinking about Romans with steam engines...

@@supaF Well, as OP mentioned with the Aeolipile... the Romans DID have a steam engine, but its inventor in Alexandria couldn't think of any practical use for it (and slave labor was still much cheaper anyway), so it ended up just a fancy curiosity displayed in a temple.

You would be able to impress Romans if you used any punctuation at all.

​@@Onio_ I used multiple punctuation marks in my comment... I suppose you mean _commas_ though which I didn't use because it didn't need any and the Romans wouldn't have been impressed since they didn't use punctuation any and evencommonlywrotewithnnospacingwhatsoever.

@@llYossarian It's a joke.

I sure thought so

Same here. I also daydream about time traveling to Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs.

it's the Kingdom of Kush for me, the Lands of Meroe and Nubia seem so exciting

Also being black, standing out is what I like. Imagine being the first black person encountered by a culture. Assuming you can speak the language and have any knowledge which would be useful in context it would be neat to have the chance to be an ambassador. I know this is optimistic, but I think it would be neat.

Why not go to somewhere in Africa? I'm African so if I had a time machine I'd visit my ancestors firstly. Then I'd travel way back before the Bantu expansions and learn proto-bantu, that would be cool. If I had time then I'd visit Judea during the time of Jesus and (with camera in hand) debunk all of that mythological nonsense that has, unfortunately, infected my culture. Ancient Egypt during the time of the pyramid builders would be cool too. Finally put to rest all the theories of how they built the pyramids. Also, as an aside, multiculturalism is not the same as multi-racialism. A multicultural society doesn't have to be multi-racial and most of them haven't been. Rome, from what I understand, was multicultural but not multiracial so you'd stand out for sure.

@@mugikuyu9403 lol lemme go to ancient Africa just so my great grandma can call me fat and ask why i still don't have a boyfriend 🙃 i can buy a plane ticket and do that *now* All jokes aside ancient africa would be cool top 3 would be ancient egypt, nubian kingdoms, kingdoms of Uganda/Rwanda-rundi but the west and south african kingdoms look pretty cool too!

Glad you enjoyed it! Sometime in the early Flavian era would be great (you could meet Martial!), though I'd be careful to avoid the unrest of early 70 AD and the terrible plague that swept Rome during Titus' reign.

I just wrote the same before I saw your comment; see the Colosseum when it was new.

@@robertgiles9124 I understand many improvements were made to it, especially during Hadrian's time.

If you're hanging out in the Roman Empire during the reign of Titus, I highly recommend avoiding the Bay of Naples region for a while.

Yes thousands of times since I was about 10 years old.

Or a supressed sniper maybe? Phew there goes Brutus. Phew there goes Attila.

@@patrondonvito2249 Nah! Just a game base on real history. I'm pretty sure u can find your thing very easily. good lucky

@@albertobraga4809 assassins creed could do it great. If they made it more like ezio his story in ac2.

@@patrondonvito2249 I believe the video maker said in this Sci-Fi scenario you can't make any permanent changes that might cause a paradox or something.

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I just went forward in time and watched all 6 parts. Essential viewing!

@@Gainn Link please😊

@@classiccomedycinemaprogram1640 I need to know what sort of time machine you have. If I give you the wrong spatiotemporal coordinates and you could end up near a black hole or something (happened once, my hair still won't grow right)..

Glad to hear it! If I see enough viewer interest, I will certainly make more time travel videos.

Maybe he should just do Rome because it's probably gonna take a while...

@@toldinstone I know this is from 11 months ago, but I just found these videos and I am loving them. Your style of deadpan humor mixed with facts and legitimately good advice is endlessly entertaining to me, and IMHO a genuinely great and engaging way to teach history.

Very glad that you enjoyed the video (and that my voice was clear)!

he said it wouldnt be possible in the scenario

I've always thought as a modern day Herbalist and pharmacologist. I'd make my living as a physician bakc in history, which would absolutely change history. But I think I could make a better life for myself if I could time travel

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Still somewhat true today, at least according to most "Romans".

Yeah they’d definitely think you were a barbarian then

Idk what country you’re from, but I’m from the United States. It’s interesting to think about people in a few thousand years talking about this country in the same regards that ToldinStone talks about Rome!

It'd depend entirely on where you go. If you plan to travel to 2010's United States, you could probably get by anywhere as long as you know what clothes you're supposed to be wearing and can speak English.

@@raphaelwaggoner3200 an episode of Futurama has the crew traveling back to 1947 Roswell NM. The professor's zoot suit is 10 years out of date and for the wrong social class (he's an old white guy), and Leela's poodle skirt and cat's eye glasses are 10 years too early. The show's writers were (are, since none are dead yet) so smart that they certainly did this on purpose.

Nah dude, a pandemic followed by a war in Europe. Maybe only if a time traveler is fleeing from a nuclear war 😅

I mean even with everything going on almost anywhere in the world today is still safer than most of the world was historically, mostly because the big killers like disease have largely been addressed. However just like the Romans percieved their own time as being a relatively safe and peaceful one but we today see it as dangerous people in the future might scoff at the dangers we today take for granted. One thing I bet will sound insane in the future is the high number of traffic deaths and future time travelers might prefer to stick to relatively pedestrianized areas. Of course another big question is what exactly would time travelers find interesting and impressive about this period, would they see the internet similarly to how we see the Roman road system? Would they find skyscrapers or the LHC more interesting?

Glad you enjoyed it! I hope to make three or four more videos.

My pleasure!

Petronius, arbiter elegantiarum, would not approve!

@@michaelhoffmann2891 "Zigackly" as the noted scholar Obelix would say.

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 An Asterix fan! COME TO MY ARMS! Thash perfectly right!

@@michaelhoffmann2891 *hic

@@fabrisseterbrugghe8567 "hic"? Well you won't become one of Typhus' works of arts that way, that's for sure! (the term in the English translation is so pathetic.... "works of arts", really? The German uses the hilarious term "Zuckerpüppchen" (sugar dolls), which is far more fitting in the context. Don't know what the original French uses. Surely not "objets d'art"?)

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Glad you enjoyed it! Sorcerer's always a good one (and shades easily into astrologer). And I suppose that there are worse posthumous fates than being played by Jack Palance...

Get white sneakers and paint some brown lines on them so they look like sandals. I'm sure it will work.

@@PabloSanchez-qu6ib That's a great idea, LOL!

I’d walk around in neon colored, led lighted sneakers, you gotta be sneaky xD

Glad you enjoyed the video!

I sure hope so...

Glad I caught you!

Glad you enjoyed the video! Part two will appear next week.

Thank you, and welcome aboard! And yes, spices would be a very flexible and useful currency.

Bringing excess quinine would be more lucrative; Cure one prominant person with malaria, and you could write your own check...

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Delighted to hear it! Part 2 is coming in about a week and a half.

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Part II is coming soon...

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Thank you! Part 2 is coming soon...