What Was Normal Life Like In Ancient Rome? | Absolute History
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- Rome would never have made it into the history books without the backing of its huge military apparatus. The life and the incredible luxury the ancient city of over a million inhabitants enjoyed was only made possible through the exploitation of its colonies, a course of action that never would have been possible without its troops.
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"They were dark and noisy, but the tenants were still forced to pay exorbitant rents". Sounds like San Francisco!
The most sad part of this video is hearing that the everyday life back then was amazingly a lot like the life in the big modern city. 4:50 . Have we not learned anything about how to organise society in a better way, apparently not.
@@reasonerenlightened2456 Yes, exactly. Human beings remain the same throughout the ages.
Even more so like New York because N.Y. has more people, less space and doesn't have the same restrictions on building heights as S.F., and thus packs its people in more tightly.
Sounds like a narrative downplaying the advance ancient world. Building cheap? Today we build cheap. Back then they build with brick and stone
Those cracks they speak of? Were not why the buildings fell appart. Those buildings were destroyed
Say gay!
So the landlord special is as old as Rome. Excellent.
Older. The Roman landlords had to learn it from somewhere.
I've learned more about history from these channels than anything I learned from grade school, middle school,high school and even college. This is how the modern world should handle schools
I could not agree with you more
Sure why not, I mean, might as well push em out and plop them in front of a TV.
The very reason why I home educate my children.
If you’re American, that’s totally not a surprise
@@DC-jk9ts well la de da..
11:40 that's so amazing! I'm sure the archaeologists working there are used to it, but seeing so much physical pieces of thousands of years old history is amazing!
The narrator, through attractive voice quality and careful emphasis, adds greatly to this presentation. Well done!
I actually understood some of the Latin! It's been half a century since I studied it. Miss Morgan would be proud.
So did I, but subtitles would be useful. I especially liked "in Colloseum Leonas expectat" when he was arrested.
Latin was the subject from elementary school I used the most throughout school and right thru the bar exam--learning that vocabulary proved useful for much of my life, even traveling and reading signs in foreign languages.
@@cyninbend same here with my nursing, and with many other uses throughout my life - Latin was effectively the most useful subject I took at school! 😊
I am an avid gardener and it is very useful there too.
@@GypsyGirl317 bonjour chère collègue. Indeed Latin can be useful as many botanics words are meaningfull...
The word ‘bankrupt’ comes from this time. A ‘bancus’ was the table on which a vendor displayed his wares. ‘Ruptus’ was to break. If the vendor broke the law his table was broken
The word "bankrupt" comes from the Italian spoken in Tuscany in the middle age (which evolved from Latin). The term is BANCAROTTA. Banca is the desk upon which merchants kept their business. Rotta means broken. BANCAROTTA = broken desk = the business is over.
The oldest bank in history was Monte dei Paschi di Siena. The business started with the money on a desk (BANCA, or PANCA) in the public market square in Siena (Tuscany), to be gathered from small savers and lended for an interest to those needing it (rich merchants, Kings, Nations).
The term BANCA, "bank" in English, "banco" in Spanish, is still used today.
I love these documentaries but still have to comment on the thick German accents of the actors; I just burst out laughing when Drusus started shouting at Petronius in his best führer style. Having said that, fair play to them for having to learn their lines in Latin, unlike your typical American produced show where they all speak English. A small detail in the scheme of things but says a lot about the care that went into producing this.
I thought the current consensus on gladiatorial combat was that it was rarely to the death, since gladiators were highly trained, specialized athletes whose skills took years to develop. Criminals and the like were put to death there, yes, but that was a different situation.
It was all the same to them though they were still forced to fight or die just like the gladiators and despite being highly trained eventually someone was going to better you whether you like or not, if not straight away cos you really didn't have what it took to survive, the mortality rate was very high even for them where they too called it a death sentence that is why they fought to escape eventually. 1 came along every now and then that were natural born fighters built for it and were so mentally strong and were actually really good at fighting some were already kind of trained when they got there... and it was the hardest for them cos they kept promising to free them but never did.
It didn't matter who you were that is where the majority of men went including roman soldiers caught doing something they shouldn't be despite the city forcing them down a wrong path in all manner of ways, the fear the city spread alone causes people to spiral in bad ways and that is why it's never fair and we know that from today's world. 99% of them didn't survive only 1 out of thousands continued to survive and that's why the greatest were only a couple, but there were thousands of men who didn't do anything at all... and were manipulated and tricked or just kidnapped just so they could put them into the arena for public amusement cos they had to keep a constant supply of men to keep games going, and that was really why Morpheus was sent there... not because of what he did but just to keep those running the games rich.
Most of the roman soldiers swindled and even pretended the taxes went up demanding more when it didn't... which they then pocketed, and it's exactly the same today with cops, people who go around town giving out parking tickets, littering fines, using speeding cameras to try and fine you, all kinds of fraud going on in every industry but most didn't get caught cos they were smart about it and use fear to make sure nobody rats them out... so there was no proper reason to end up in the gladiator pits.
I was watching a documentary about the history of the gladiators, and after that first gladiator rebellion, the gladiators were paid professional athletes. Meaning they agreed to work - fight - for so many years, and then they got paid. This was worth it to them, because most farmers, and other poor had such crap lives that the life of a gladiator was cool. Like pro-footbal, they got lots of women, good food, a lot of training at something they probably liked anyway, and if they made it, they were rich. So they might live through an event but be so wounded, they died lator. There were actually hammer men, who, when wounded gladiators were caried in, smashed the gladiators in the head to kill them quickly. It wasn't worth nursing the guy if he couldn't fight afterwards, and there was the added advantage that now they didn't have to pay him. Look at how football players are treated after they retire - American football - they are ignored to death. Same with the gladiators.
@@Hollylivengood If they got paid it wasn't very much but it's known that they always promised freedom but rarely gave it... cos they wanted to keep the games going, it's the reason they all finally broke out cos they were prisoners there and many there were innocent and tricked, it was only to benefit those that own the games, thousands of men died but they had to find a way to keep supplying them with men, not so great.
@@FlyingMonkies325 They got paid a lot, and we're given land. However,pay was different then, not like getting paid each week. They got paid at the end of their 7 year contract. They contracted to fight 7 years and get paid at the end. If they couldn't meet their end of the bargen by fighting, they could pay the amount of money the owner would have made on them, and go free, or train other gladiators. If they were too wounded to train other gladiators, they would go to jail for fraud, because they didn't fulfill their contract, and probably fight a lion. But they mostly died from their wounds, even if they weren't killed in combat, because no medical care was given, because if they died, no one had to pay them.
@@Hollylivengood The promise to get paid they might have kept their end on but setting them free was a 1 in a million chance they went back on their word on that 99.9% of the time cos they were earning them a lot of money, they thought Why let go of that? so eventually they just gave up hoping for freedom, it's why they had to break out, and that is why it was a scam to the gladiators too cos most weren't guaranteed to survive but the people running games made A LOT of money on bets, but rarely was anyone actually set free.
Absolutely love these documentaries
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Life wasn't so different back then, except without internet and information easily available to the masses.
And NO PLASTIC.
Imagine if Ancient Rome had TikTok 😆
Modern medicine and not drinking your own poop water also comes to mind
Oh life was VERY different back then
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
And no matter how far back you go it's always the same.
And THATS why we need to learn from history and not destroy it!
The more confused we get, the more oxymorons we come up with.
@@ellstark372 we don't destroy history they do. Same slaves different era.
We are just really just repeating history but the 1% are the real killers of today
Ain't that just the truth...the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and everything is for sale
Rome's history is written in blood? EVERY nation's history is written in blood.
Right I live in the US and our "now" is written in blood. Not that was are alone in that.
Maybe not Poland
@@kono5933ask the Jews about that.
I was in Rome and Pompeii and it was mind blowing. I say a lot of the places I was at.
GOOD show.
I would love to go one day ❤
If history in schools was taught like this kids would all have good grades and know a lot more
Some hope! All we got was a list of kings and wars, nothing whatever on how people actually lived. boring, Boring, BORING! I remember nothing except that while our Civil War was in the 17th century, in Scotland they waited another century before they had theirs, and of them all at the reformation calvin was the most depraved and vicious. How could anyone expect to get through their whole life without this ESSENTIAL information?
You have to pay extra college fees to know interesting things!!! All knowledge is locked up - very little ancient history is taught in public schools!!!
Perhaps. The most important part is for PARENTS to instill an emphasis on learning in their children though- that’s the biggest issue.
You want your local high school to produce historical content of the same quality as a TV show that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce? Uh, ok…..
Wrong
Eight minutes in he´s telling us how low quality the insulae (apartments) were built, with little concern for quality and tended to fall down, all while standing in one that has lasted two thousand years.
Its so funny to me how even back in these tenant buildings had the 'landlord special' where the "cracks in the walls were painted over, & not repaired.." , I guess we are not so different after all....
"None were so bloodthirsty than the Romans" except maybe all the other European tribes of people who practised ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial combat as part of their belief and justice systems, or the Carthegenians who sacrificed their own children. I think Romans were fairly tame compared to their contemporary counterparts.
But the Roman's literally practiced ritual sacrifice and gladiatorial combat too...
Rome did most of that as well. How were they tame?
But for the time it was normal so i gues it was normal. Things like mma are pretty normal right now so you see glatiators where like that for them.
@@akapasokopo They crucified dogs. Supplicia Canum
@@akapasokopo they absolutely did. Look up the Lupercalia festival
35:00 it’s crazy to think that the surgeons house in Pompeii was excavated in 1926 which feels like a long time ago but when you look at that 97 years relative to thousands of years that come before 1926 in Rome it’s nothing!
Short answer: better than the middle ages
I laughed harder than i should have at this. But ty
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slaves were slaves, though.
@@jacobmartinelli7496 well yeah, but still, generally speaking, better
@@sallymcherbi1996 it doesnt count if half the population are slaves and not considered people
“Harsh punishment awaits anyone who cheats the emperor” sounds like the IRS
nothing has changed!
Ancient Rome is giving me Night City vibes 😂
I'm very surprised no one has ever tried to recreate a perfect modern replica of the Colosseum & held televised reenactments of the "shows"
Andy Dick is "camping" with 'live-streamers' I would imagine it's like that.
It’s called football. 🤣
would you go to such an event? not sure I'd want to see it. CGI violence is enough for me
That's because there's reality TV now instead.
@@gangurobitch Really?
You don't think millions & millions of people would visit a replica every year & watch choreographed fake gladiator battles?
The building would pay for itself in a few months & it would be more popular than Disneyland.
& that's off of merchandising Toys alone
Thanks for the info!
Fascinating! Oil amphora smashed because they couldn’t be cleaned. As the Jewish law required wine to be put in new wine skins.
If some Roman had figured a way to use the amphora shards he would have had a continuous supply!
Cos it was all about profits just like today use and dispose, our society today is very much based on rome we're living just like them except they learned about the importance of hygiene. Governments are only just learning how wasteful it is and how bad for the environment it is.
Amazing historic city with so many buildings still standing. Well done doco
The most sad part of this video is hearing that the everyday life back then was amazingly a lot like the life in the big modern city. 4:50 . Have we not learned anything about how to organise society in a better way, apparently not.
Same cults in the shadows rule everything that's why
Thanks! Very interesting.
Thank you for the video.
Thank you.
A spectacular doco!
Studying this for Latin and I have learned more than I did in history lessons
I needed this Roman content in my life
52 000 dead gladiators during the 100 day openjng event at Colosseum! That’s almost one every minute, if they were going 10 hours/day. More like a massacre than any kind of sports event, and a massive effort just finding people to go into what must have been some kind of meat grinder, not to mention cleaning crews. Also saw the number 400 000 total dead gladiators at Colosseum ever, so 25% of those seem to have died during the opening event. IF the number stated in this video is true…
That’s one-eighth, not one-fourth
Great Video
'Contracts did not exist'
lolwut? romans *invented* contracts. they were a massively important part of how the state and economy operated
Crazy to ponder about how in a few thousand years the people living then will be searching through our garbage heaps and rubble looking for how our society works.
they will know... unlike the romans we document our current times immensely and our preservation techniques have improved vastly
what a wealth of information, if CD's and DVD's and computers can be played and used . fortunately, paper books are not going away any time soon.
They will see images of klaus shwab and assume everyone was reptilian.
Well... documentation wasn't a big thing then as it is now so that is why they have to sift through it all the gather information, they find some scrolls and tablets or wall art but they didn't actually document things for future generations to understand them like we do now, so i think they'll easily be able to understand how we live now especially now it's so easy to document digitally but it's nothing to really brag about... definitely not the state of our world and the artificial financial problems created for everyone then the rich making us poorer and poorer just like in rome, only the creative and technological aspects are interesting the good parts.
The most sad part of this video is hearing that the everyday life back then was amazingly a lot like the life in the big modern city. 4:50 . Have we not learned anything about how to organise society in a better way, apparently not.
Thanks!
This is a good topic, today life is better than the life in history
Splendid
SO very cool video
When we were visiting the Flavian Amphitheater someone asked our guide why the Italian government didn't rebuild it. He said that to do so would cost the equivalent of a second world countries Gross Domestic Product.
That's true! Also as a Roman historian I think it's so important to keep it as it is. It's journey over the past 2 millennium is so important to the Amphitheatre's story. If they were to rebuild it, it would destroy it's history and therefore it's historical value.
Beautifully done
well done
This video was not worth my time. There was little about the life of common people in Rome, although one of the archeologists working at another site sounded like he could’ve told us more, if allowed. The video jumped around in time and place and reiterated worn sayings about the Roman Empire as a whole. When one (archeologist?) toured a level of an apartment building 8 meters below the current surface, there was little to no explanation of which spaces were used for what, no site plan, & no evidence of which spaces were the purported (now empty) living quarters. There was a mention that poorer Romans did not have their own kitchens & so ate on the street, but then instead of explaining the various vendors of freshly cooked foods that were available to them, the narrator segued directly into saying that the criminals ate in the restaurants. There was also a storyline about some non-common people, including a tax-avoiding importer, a guard, and gladiators. I wanted to know about the ordinary people who lived in the apartment buildings, who weren’t criminals, poor or rich, who had to work (doing what?), do laundry, wash, etc. I didn’t get that.
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@@aka99 thx, I will
Well it gives you an idea of what the civilians had to deal with on a daily basis and looking at how imposing the roman soldiers are you can imagine the fear they definitely weren't as good as they look in this video they swindled everyone saying taxes went up when they didn't so they could pocket some money which is really how they were pretty wealthy, they got paid well but they did that on the side too.
It was FAR easier to fall into poverty too those who stayed wealthy wouldn't have done good things to keep it that way and most of them were traders where they kept putting prices up and up just like today, and they took advantage of the people when Caesar was putting rome into debt for his conquests and any war was a reason to put prices up, it shows the let down the city really was despite it's promise and they felt trapped there obviously.
Many sent to the gladiator pits didn't actually do anything and the roman soldiers lied saying a man did something when they didn't in order to keep a constant supply of men for the games, and at one point human sacrifices happened until they were stopped. Judging by how dirty it was though and throwing your oil, food scraps and urine onto the streets you can imagine how badly it stunk.
@@FlyingMonkies325 perhaps the video should've said some of that
@@cynthiawick216 If you need to research anything 1 video or website isn't gonna give you all the information not even the best ones definitely not with history with so much involved, so span out to different sources of info and videos to find all the details, that's how i know those things.
Amazing quality video
Ty ms cdf
Where is story of Drusus and Petronius from? Movie, novel?
Can you tell us something about Maximilian The Empirer??And Gobekli Tepe, in Turkey?
We are doomed to repeat history over and over again forever
Am I the only one who thinks the narrator is Linus Roache (King Ecbart in Vikings)... 😅🤷🏻♂️
The first 3 minutes of this video is something else. Gladiators weren't killed off en masse like the narrator stated. They had lengthy careers, were celebrities, and didn't kill each other off as often as people keep mentioning.
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Life wasn't easy in Rome, then or now.
It would be far less distracting if you were to dub the voices of the experts. Hearing a foreign language does nothing to authenticate the experts knowledge. Fascinating content, just that one small irritant.
just read the subtitles
@@shahdareabi5539 Obviously, but it distracts from the visual effects. I like to see the detail on historical documentaries.
@@shahdareabi5539 some of us listen without access to the screen. This makes the lazy use of foreign voices without translation a disappointment to another wise good documentary.
Impressive how the actors speaking latin fluently
Does anyone know why the comments are off for the Absolute History video uploaded after this one? It’s about pubs in Ireland.
Rome is the best empire and one of the most interesting🤩🤩🤩🤩
Carthage?
Great documentary but Jesus Christ you don’t need to put an ad every 5 minutes. It’s actually a joke that the ads added 5 extra minutes to this
History I like it. Get lost in pursuit of it. You forget how we are going forward. Keep that in mind. Thanks. As long as you remember the old days never existed.
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Petronius reminds me of someone I know.. LOL.
Wow a whole ship
Rome's greatest invention (cement) and they were great with Stone and Marble...
Which is aplenty in Italy..
Life in the Big City, then and now.
Time to keep our lamps full and wait on the Bridegroom.
Time to abide in our Heavenly Father that HE may abide in us.
Time to share the gospel of the Kingdom of GOD & be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
To be baptized by the Comforter the Holy Spirit..
Time to wait on HIM.
Time to trust, lean, seek HIS wisdom, understanding, knowledge.
Time to love unconditionally, forgive, & repent of all our sins..
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Renters:
we are not so different after all.
Cheap, small buildings where people get charged tons of money to live in it. My, how things have changed.
Did Romulus and Remus learn Latin from their wolf mother 😂
You can’t tell me that was not Pauly Shore getting whipped by Patronius on the floor. The weasel in the grain😂
It was good first time round but not for 2nd or 3rd.
Ox carts are that noisy at night? Why didn't they use pneumatic tires?
I bet the international archaeological students had a good time in the evenings
Yup
I just returned from Rome. They drive very small cars under crowded conditions with ultimate politeness. I did not see a single car with a dent.
What are you talking about? There are barely any cars without a small ding here or there.
The German Professor made a mistake. He states contracts were only oral and not recorded in any manner, thus necessitating " witnesses ". Not true. Contracts were recorded.
I'm sure there were plenty of oral ones but also recorded since the Romans recorded everything possible so he probably should have said both were correct. I mean FFS the Romans are where we get Soo much of what we have now. Even if the Romans stole it in the first place we didn't usually find that out until after we credited them.
"History consist of the lies everyone agrees with."
Napoleon Bonaparte....
52,000 died during the 100 day inaugural festival for the colosseum?
520 a day? Hardly
Wow
"These Romans are crazy!"
Obelix
I feel tha title is misleading and the show drags on about unnecessary parts without conclusion. For example the discovery of the sunken ship was lacking on details. The story line cuts in and out of a fictional situation but without connection to the excavation.
Try what really happened in Vietnam I was in the center Highland in combat you'd be amazed massive incompetence by leaders
The narrator sounds like the actor, Ronald Coleman.
Isn't it Ducky?
@@marcvanboxtel821 it is
7:27 😹😹
My only complaint is that I don't speak German, or Italian. I mostly listen to these documentaries, so it would be nice if you were to get some voice overs in English. Other than that, it's very interesting, Thanks for the upload.
Oh hell no. I hate voice overs so much. Especially if you speak the original language
There are subtitles though.
Subtitles are no good for blind people. My dad is subscribed to this channel as he loves history but sadly he doesn't understand anything other than English. It's a shame they don't take this into account and ensure all uploads are all fully inclusive.
I believe this channel is to entice you over to their main subscription site as was mentioned. Perhaps there are more inclusive options there.
@@indianahvgh203 Perhaps you would be kind enough to read out the subtitles to him?
How did Romans
construct buildings
wearing togas and sandals?
Exactly, no wonder it wasn't built in a day.
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Aw hell... I wanted to see Petronius become the lunchtime entertainment before the fights started up again. You choose the worst time to end your show, like so many others.
PLEASE tell me there isn’t going to be an ad every 5 f***in minutes
So how did they build those buildings with horse and buggy?
Assuming that the Romulus and Remus story is myth, why would anyone choose the story of a city's origin to be the result of fratricide? I'm trying to find the lesson or tradition in this fable.
Apparently the Romans themselves weren’t very sure. Most of the earliest writings that have survived to today referencing Romulus and Remus (like those by Cicero) are from the time of the Roman Republic which was a long, long way removed from the actual founding of the city and they were pretty darn uncomfortable with certain aspects of the story. Like, you know, fratricide and very convenient wolves. It really only makes sense when you consider that Rome spent a long time as an unremarkable town that attracted drifters and reprobates before it became anything close to a military superpower. By the time they were in a position to care about their origin mythology it was too late, they were stuck with it
Assuming that Eve's children is myth, why would anyone choose the story of humanity's origin to be the result of fratricide? I'm trying to find the lesson or tradition in this fable.
What about lazialus?
Wait ... Jerry Rice wore 80 and the Roman Colosseum opened in the 80?
Those lead water-pipes must have affected the health of those wealthy enough to have them delivering water to their houses.
The fall of the Roman Empire had a lot to do with lead poisoning--just as we fall now and learn that huge numbers of American cities have pipes like Flint, Michigan, poisoning their people, damaging their brains, lowering their IQs. Creating more Trump voters.
It probably contributed to the aggression and violence so prevalent amongst the elites back then.
*When Rome was conquering Europe your people lighted fire with stones.*
Is it only in modern days, people began to learn about history? Did people in the past try to learn history as well?
Amphoras ??? Surely you mean amphorae.
I don't get it. He says The Colosseum was inaugurated in 80AD and festivities ran for 100 days. During the festival 52,000 gladiators died. It seems like a overinflated number. If we multiply 100 days by 24 hours and get 144,000 minutes. You divide that by 52,000 and you get 2.7 minutes. It means if they fought 24/7 for 100 days, every 2.7 minutes 1 gladiator had to die. It seems fishy. I mean 24 hours of non-stop fight and festival?
It is possible that 20 were fighting at the same time - and there would be only one winner. I think that happened as well.
A+++
I was looking forward to see Atronius contribution too the games, but the story ended just before its crescendo. How disappointing. . .
This program is itself part of history. 20 years on, is there nothing more to add?
No.
I am all for conservation and preservation but all this cost a lot of money and I often think about how the very poor live in some of these countries and no money is there on call for them when they need it..but come across a historical site and all of a sudden money is no object..it is very disturbing