Wow that's some comment from an American. I was recently thinking myself how the American ideal has been 'corrupted' in recent years.Don't get me wrong as I am a friend but it is a shame. I am British.
@@terintiaflavius3349 Uncle Joe Biden of the USSA.Uncle Joe Stalin of the USSR. Who would have thought that two polar opposites would change completely ?
Wonderful documentary, whose most important feature is to change the conceptions about the need of social reform in ancient Rome. The present day populists should study in indeed!
Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenian Empire. His empire, stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River, was the largest that had ever existed at the time of his rule … A brilliant military strategist, Cyrus vanquished the king of the Medes, then integrated all the Iranian tribes, whose skill at fighting on horseback gave his army great mobility.. 550 BC Roman empire founded 27 BC … again Roman empire not Rome …
We aren’t talking old. We’re talking powerful. Egypt took the levant and couldn’t hold it. Pushed Nubia’s borders a lil and were conquered by them. Rome held and exploited southern Britannia to Arabia and everything between Germania and the Sahara for centuries.
Let's talk old. The Sphynx and the pyramids were built thousands of years ago. The romans were not even recognized as a nation when Egypt was in power. Only ones who do not believe in the bible and simple bible research will never understand. Egypt by the leadership of Joseph,son of Jacob,had interpreted the Pbaroah's dreams and helped saved the earth from starvation during the 7 year famine. The amount of wealth that was generated could not be calculated as even the Egyptians themselves became enslaved after giving eveything that had to survive the famine. Before the famine a tax system was created and was kept after. There is evidence and strong possibilities that Joseph's eldest son,Mannasseh, had been the one who led Egypt to the Americas,well before the europeans had even imagined a trip of that magnitude. Most will not believe that Egypt had ships to make this journey as the only water they were near was the Nile. Historians had reconstructed their ships and concludes that they were a superior vessel that could even cross an ocean,also Mizriam,aka Egypt, was the grandson of Noah. So the idea that they never had ships is ludicrous. The evidence of these souls being in the Americas is in the pyramids and the statues in both continents,as such as the Olmec statues and the so called Mayan pyramids that dotted all of the south and central Amreicas. The possibilities that Israelites were the first is in the descedants of Mannasseh who during the enslavement of the Israelites during the time of Moses are known as the half tribe. Where is the other half? Right here in the Americas along with the Egyptians, as we commonly call them indegenious. The surprise of the spaniards seeing black people was probably disturbing to them as catholicism was there religion and they must have realized that this was bigger than that and must be destroyed to continue the lie that the catholics had been teaching.
@@_robustus_ sorry I did'nt respond sooner,I could'nt stop laughing. So a nation like Egypt had refined gold and silver,built the pyramids,built the sphynx,yet the historians claim they were in the bronze age. When the historians raided the pyramids,removed all of the gold and silved,why was their age not gold and silver instead of bronze? Why did'nt the european christians take the bronze too? When the thieves write the history,thats when you question the thieves intentions.
People getting way too caught up in the whole "first" super power thing. Everyone knows about the Egytians and Babylonians ect.. It's just a title, get over it.
Looks like a lot of people are lost. Let me dumb it down for you. Rome was the worlds first super power because she made the worlds first professional army. Got it? Get it? Good!
Yes but not necessarily. Rome was the world's first superpower because it had a large coalition system of government that allowed it to supply and maintain a professional armed forced.
Sparta was the worlds first superpower by THIS terrible definition. As, it was actually the Spartans who were the worlds first professional soldiers. They literally were training to fight at all times, they had slaves(Helots) to do all of the real work!
BECAUSE ROME CONTROLLED SO MUCH OF THE KNOWN WORLD. JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH NOTHING MORE. THEY WERE NOT KINGS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD BUT THEY CONTROLLED AND CIVILIZED SO A HUGE PART OF CROSSING MANY TERRITORIES. SPARTA , ALEXANDER THE GREAT, BABYLON, AND OTHERS BEFORE WERE MORE JUST CONQUERING ARMIES. NONE OF THEM HELD AND CONTROLLED SO MUCH FOR MUCH FOR SUCH A LONG TIME. SUPERPOWER ISN'T EVEN A TERM USED IN ANTIQUITY UNTIL NOW IN MODERN TIMES. NO ONE WAS CONSERNED WITH SUCH LABLES. IF ROME THOUGHT IT WAS WITHIN THEIR MEANS AND BENEFIT TO CONTROL YOU THEN THEY CONTROLLED YOU. THERE WAS NO KNOW REASON TO EVEN CONTROLL NORTHERN BRITAIN OTHER THAN TO SAY THEY CAN HOWEVER HAD THEIR BEEN A KNOW RICH GOLD OR SILVER MINE THEY WOULD HAVE WENT AHEAD AND CONQUERED AND CONTROLLED NORTHER BRITAIN . JUST A MODERN LABLE . NOT REALLY ACCURATE BUT IT INCITES DEBATE
People power against injustice. Today, even among police forces and the army, there lies sensible and rational people who would fight for a just cause against abuse and low-key tyranny.
An opportunity lost to make a beautiful visual feast - low budget is showing, and a forced 'stretch' into series, when the information presented could fit in a 1hr documentary. How long can one look at a spinning mannequin head or watch gameplay screen grabs?...
They were both regional powers at best. Persia couldn't even conquer a disparate collection of hodge-podged Greek city states, Rome planted the Eagle from Britannia to the middle east.
Kind of forgot about, Babylon, Egypt, medo-Persia/ Asia/Tataria, Assyrians/Greece, then Rome who just moved in to ancient constructed cities and claimed them and their achievements. The indoctrination continues.
Before the persians and babylonians, there were assyrians. They were the greatest mesopotamian empire. They lasted much longer than babylon as an empire.
Too many idiots in the comments section like you who do not understand the difference between a regional and a superpower. Get a life, Europe is the cradle of civilisation, nothing beyond its borders compares.
I don't know about you but I'm sick and tired of being lied to. Why can't they come clean? Especially now that it's just about ( game over) let us face the threshold knowing the truth.
There was no empire the size of Rome before. There were empires of course. Those didn't last nearly as long nor did they influence the future for the next 1500 years. Rome was different from Alexander's, Cyrus, Xerxes.....Egyptian, Assyrian....Chinese. Even the larger and equally stunning Mongolian empire wasn't a "civilization". Rome was the something new.
@@spilttaco3343 you are silly 🤣🤣🤣🤣 There were professional armies in many civilizations and superpowers before Rome. The Chinese had an army of 1 million, gar larger than Rome, 200 BC!!!!!
@tacotony24 no they were a superpower for their time. As well as the Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, First Chinese Empire and the Maurya Empire. Not to forget Carthago and the Hittite Empire. It is so ignorant to forget all these great superpowers.
Well as a tiny nation without any influence is amazing. It built some of the largest structures in the world at its time completely filled them with gold,silver and other treasures. Biblically it was a superpower as it managed to help feed and save thousands of people who were not Egyptian. If you do not believe the historical information the bible has to offer,then the roman empire was nothing but a blip in history also. Imagine building a structure so large and vast as the great pyramid that other surrounding nations would visit and produce trade. As a had said before this nation fed the earth during a famine and saved thousands who became loyal enoigh to make it even greater. Remember its art bad traveled around the world to reside in the americas and they carried it here.
Darker. According to facial reconstructions done by scientists in the early 1980s and reported in National Geographic, the average man looked not unlike the arabic people we see today in the middle east.
I'm not sure what you mean by "swarthy." There's really no need to speculate on what Romans looked like. There are lots of intact frescos from the Roman world that depict actual Roman people. You can search for Pompeii Frescoes and see lots of depictions of Romans. Like modern Italians, there's a range of complexions from very pale to quite tan. Also, according to historical descriptions, Emperor Augustus had blonde hair and grey eyes.
Claude Smoot We aren’t talking old. We’re talking powerful. Egypt took the levant and couldn’t hold it. Pushed Nubia’s borders a lil and were conquered by them. Rome held and exploited southern Britannia to Arabia and everything between Germania and the Sahara for centuries.
@@brainwashington1332 7th century,Rome was not at least as is being discussed in this doc. The Byzantine or eastern Roman empire. But not the Roman empire that controlled the entire Mediterranean. Swish two points✌
They couldn't hold the Levant and were ruled by nubians for a while. So yeah superpower they definitely were not,regional power at best. Sorry Isaac Newton 😆
