We hope you have enjoyed the first episode of our "Historian Answers Google Questions' series! Let us know which over time period or topics you'd like us to cover in the comments below 👇
I enjoyed this new format a lot. Well, for next instalment - about the Romans, I suppose - here's the most viral question: Did the Romans invent noodles or have we thank Marco Polo for them?
If you've ever gamed, and you mentioned "Civilizations," you should try Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and though it's fantasy, I'd like your take on how well the developers did. The architecture, name pronunciations, the topography of the different regions, the plants, wildlife, etc.
@@Mr.Glidehook I second that! Spent half of the game just walking around. It's beautiful. Also the TOUR session was amazing, with current photos of the ruins.
I absolutely loved this format! I feel like youtube is flooded with videos that are just repeating history over and over in that monotone sort of voice that makes you space out... great job!
@@murrayscott9546darn it, but you won. The endless monotone is just perfect for people with ADHD trying to sleep. This, however, is too interesting to sleep to.
There are many videos in this format and it's good but could be a little bit better. Those experts should have more time to go into details about those questions.
You talk like I do when I talk about things I'm passionate about, small tangents, the details, small storytelling etc. It made it extremely easy to follow and understand!
Can't recommend the Ancients podcast enough. Indeed, all of History Hit's podcasts are bangers, I particularly recommend Dan Snow's History Hit, American History Hit, The Ancients, After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, and the Paranormal, and Gone Medieval. Dr Eleanor Janega is a frequent co-host or guest, if you know who she is you know how unbelievably engaging and fun to listen to she is. Treat yourself!
6th grade, unit on Ancient Greece: my sweet old lady teacher was telling us all about “Perkules.” I’m looking at the word “Pericles” in the textbook and puzzling over this pronunciation. Eventually it hit me: She was assuming that “Herakles” was pronounced “Hercules,” and therefore “Pericles” had to rhyme with it. Bless her heart.
pronunciation is a battlefield. I am Greek and I have to really stretch my imagination to understand who exactly are people referring to when using English pronunciation and English letters. I don´t blame people when they say Greek is really hard to pronounce because Greek writing (especially ancient Greek) is really mirroring Greek speech. English letters just don´t work
I understand symposia to be a sort of challenge to use logic and philosophy to debate while drinking. It was a way to establish status and recognition. Less a party than a sort of competition to show that you had the character and gravitas it took to remain rational while drinking.
This is actually very accurately displayed in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. You attend a symposia and have some drunken philosophical debates. It's a lot of fun.
@@thebloodgod5885 Probably because the Romans built a massive centralised empire with infrastructure and a codified law opposed to the conglomeration of city states the Greeks hat.
Aeschylus is probably my favorite greek playwright. His words so beautifully stir the soul, even thousands of years later. For instance, his ramous quote "He who learns must suffer." Succint yet still wise. But the rest of the quote is often forgotten. "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
I would love you to talk about the traditions and religions of the most well-known cultures, such as Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, Viking, Inca, so on and so forth
I'd love to know why the ancient Greeks where so good at discovering things. They can up with so many innovations, it seems more than most other cultures
It's probably because Greek language, like English now, was international SO any Syrian, Egyptian or Libyan scholar would be considered Greek based on language.
True for a period of time, but other languages have often had the upper hand during different periods, like Acadian and Latin. I think it was more to do with the Greek approach to thinking
@@KasumiRINAyes, Greek was the lingua Franca for a while in the ancient world. Roman patricians learned Greek. Even Julius Caesar’s last words were in the Greek language.
my mom was born in Uzbekistan in a town called Bukhara..she told me that locals in the old days they found armors burried in the ground( like it was from some battle or something) and that in ancient times because of the mass mariages that Alexander the Great was condacting ppl actually asking "που είναι η χαρά?"( meaning where is the wedding, " hara" is joyous occasion) so the name kinda stack Bukhara..ofc that is just a myth passed down the locals dont know how true it is
Well done Tristan, some great answers to some interesting questions that debunk a few assumptions. What I found of interest was that the Greeks were not from a unified Greece and that they would fight anyone including each other. Other interesting points about the sanitation that was often something that credited to the Romans, well in the film 'The Life of Brian' anyway. Many thanks for sharing.
Regarding whether "ancient Greece was before the Romans", there's an additional complication besides the obvious overlap of Classical Rome and Greece. The "Byzantine Empire" is both a legitimate political continuation of the Roman Empire, but by the Medieval Era of Europe it was essentially a Greek state. For example, during the Crusades a common historical distinction is between the "Latins" (e.g. Franks, Germans, English) i.e. the Catholic Crusaders and the Greek Christians already in the Near East, generally affiliated with the Byzantine (aka Roman) Empire, which was still very much alive at the time. At least until the 4th Crusade lol. Anyway, in a sense, the "Greek Empire" both preceded and outlasted the Roman (Latin) Empire.
This in no way assisted with if Greeks were before the Romans. Everything you wrote was about succession not precession. If you spoke about maybe the Iliad, or maybe Mycenaean or Minoan era or culture that could have been “an additional complication”. And besides that, the Byzantine empire was essentially a continuation of the eastern Roman Empire. Culturally it held many Greek and Latin standards and by the time of the ottomans, much of the peoples with literature and arts of the empire flee to Italy and sparks the renaissance when Italians and the other western cultures are able to reflect on the Roman Empire and Greek arts and culture that had been otherwise forgotten. But by practice, I’m fairly certain the Byzantine empire spoke Latin. At least by majority…. Certainly business and politics most likely were carried out in Latin. Either way, none of that offers “complication” as to what preceded what.
@@lancehandy6648 this actually kinda supports my point, because you are incorrect. After around 600CE the Eastern Roman Empire was transitioning from Latin to Greek. For almost the entire period between the fall of the Western Empire and the Turkish conquest, the Byzantine Empire was Greek-speaking, its laws, rulers, and people primarily and generally only operated in Greek. The diaspora after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople was largely significant for the spread of ancient Greek and Greek language texts that had been lost or forgotten in Western Europe. A lot of Latin texts had actually been getting back to Christendom for a couple centuries prior to the fall of Constantinople, it was the largely Greek culture that had been operating in the Eastern Mediterranean that was the biggest shift in cultural transfer. I'm not an expert and obviously the Eastern Roman Empire was a blend of Latin and Greek culture and stuff, but when the empire divided it largely localized back into its native Greek culture with legacy Latin institutions. By the time the Crusades started (at the very latest), the Byzantine Empire was a Greek empire speaking and operating with the Greek language and run by people with Greek heritage. My point is basically that the period of "the Romans" was in between two periods where Greeks, speaking Greek and largely following the culture of their Greek ancestors, dominated the Eastern Mediterranean
@@lancehandy6648 the point of my comment and the information I was providing are super clear, sorry if it is so completely beyond your grasp to consider an answer or perspective about the topic that is one step beyond a simple either/or answer. I have no clue why you even bothered replying to me, either time, but you sound unbelievably uninteresting to talk to and without anything remotely worthwhile to say.
@@imperator9343 you can try to make it personal all you want. You’re trying to be “that guy” and seem like someone making additional points no one’s thought about, but it’s regarding something no one’s asking. I have nothing to offer because I’m sticking to the original topic at hand. You can try to make it personal all you want. It doesn’t surprise me, you doing that is another example of you bringing up something that is outside the point. Mentioning the continuation of the Roman and Greeks via the Byzantine empire has no bearing and changes absolutely nothing about their origins. Are you that dense? Anything that happens in the medieval era, dark ages to the fall of Constantinople does not impact who comes first. Does it mean Greeks don’t have an impact as early as 1200 bce? No it doesn’t. Does it change Roman origins? No it doesn’t. You literally are just trying to be “that guy” spewing irrelevant information just so you can have some sort of backward gratification. And it all is stated in your last sentence of your original comment. That is that the Greek empire preceded and outlasted the Roman’s. NO ONE IS ASKING WHAT OUTLASTED WHAT. You preceded the entire comment with your “revelation” that the insight you’re offering adds a complication and it literally doesn’t add any complication to what preceded what. Again…. Had you mentioned anything about earlier Greek civilization marks not mentioned in the video, that might add complication. Or that the Roman’s have a legend of being derived from refugees of Troy (I don’t personally believe that), but it might add complication to the question. What you’re getting at is like saying “ottoman culture was significantly impacted by local Greeks in due to rich history and culture and morphed ottoman into a Greek/turkish constant that lasts on, further complicating the question of their who comes first Greek or Roman.” Which is a ludicrous statement. It’s not that you’re wrong about your facts. You’re wrong about its validation amongst what’s being asked. You think spewing accurate facts makes you correct, no it doesn’t. It only makes your facts correct…. But it doesn’t change whatever reasoning you’re trying to add. To simply put it, you’d have a very interesting and intriguing comment had you just left out the sentence of it adding complication. Had you preceded with “an interesting fact to add on to the answer of this question” or something along those lines, your comment would be golden. But you’re so damn stubborn and easily offended all you can do is keep spewing more facts in an era outside the realm of the question and try to insult others giving you constructive criticism. Such a child.
Sylphium may not be extinct, and a professor in Turkey appears to have rediscovered a "botanical survivor". A lot of modern fish sauces are said to be derivatives of garum, and Max Miller from Tasting History recently made some using traditional methods.
To be fair, most of the Ancient texts we have were preserved by Medieval copyists. Most of the oldest copies of ancient historical and literary works come from codexes from the high Middle Ages (11th-12th centuries). The Bible is a certain exception, with large portions of it surviving on papyri from late Antiquity.
There is no debate about what garum was. We have recipes and even know that the most expensive garum came from Spain. I've no idea why he would think that. It's one of the only things from that time that we have exact details on lol.
The question was "How did the Greeks go to the bathroom?" Unfortunately, you didn't answer that question but focussed your remarks entirely on disposal of human excreta. So how did the Greeks go to the bathroom? Did they have showers? Did they use tubs? Did they bathe in groups or alone? Did they, like the modern Japanese, wash outside the tub and then soak in the tub? Was the water hot or cold?
hey guys this is a great format i loved it but could you please position the mic closer and put a compressor on the audio 😭😭 it's uncomfortable to listen to this before bed
re - 4:35 It's funny you should say that, because that is the EXACT ideal beauty standard of modern Egypt. The women find men to be more attractive if they have a deep tan (but not black skin. Egyptians can be quite racist against people with black skin, commonly referring to them as "bar barry," meaning barbarian). Whereas the more pale a woman is, the more attractive. This ideal can even be seen in art from ancient Egypt, from the days of the Pharaohs. So it's either a mediterranean thing, or it's one of the very many things that Greek culture borrowed from the Egyptian culture.
I'm an Ancients podcast listener and let me tell you, 100%, subscribe to it, listen to it, it's an amazing podcast. If you like this guy, there's bunches and bunches of content there, you'll love it.
Going to disagree on the toilet aspect. It's very logically unlikely that chamberpots were thrown into the street on a regular basis (if at all). The cities would have been like medieval cities in that there would have been privies that would have been periodically cleaned as well as services to take waste away akin to medieval gong farmers either freemen or slaves. Several historians have talked about the chamberpots in streets thing as largely a total myth in regards to medieval times. There were specific laws and strict fines were enforced. A person was very unlikely to appreciate having to walk past a daily pile of poo right outside their own door growing bigger by the day. This would have quickly accumulated into dozens of pounds in a week per house and the smell would have been completely overwhelming. Cities also may have gone weeks or months without much rain. Having waste removal services was common across ancient Asia even without advanced sewage systems.
@@benkane813 There's a video I watched that addressed the topic specifically. ua-cam.com/video/EnnHXtbct1E/v-deo.html Basically a number of towns had a recorded history of having very large fines for throwing chamber pot contents in the street. The people of the time weren't stupid. It would have been just as annoying for them as it would be for us.
02:30 I'd refer to ancient Greece as a cultural area similar to Europe in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Interestingly, it was the Roman conquest that would make Greece kind of a nation, under the name of Rhomei which means both "Romans" and "Greeks" which was basically the same in "Byzantine" times.
I am not a big fan of the aulos myself and yes I have heard reenactments of the flutes, they are on youtube, but it's just nope for me. And I want to add Silphium was also abortionet and contraceptive in the ancient world. I am surprised he didn't mention that. It was a major reason why it supposedly went extinct but that doesn't necessarily been the case.
Meh....Helios was a Titan. And he's a bit of a contentious pick, Okay? The different parallels between him and Apollo, the people can conflate the two. Helios is not a good example to use it's very complicated to explain Helios. He doesn't really fit that list. You could have said Pan, Aeolus, the winds, Khione....Goddess of Snow and Ice. Most people have never heard of her at all. In regards to asking if Greece was hot. Greece was pretty much the perfect climate then. It was very Mediterranean it was very tropical. But it also got snow as well you had the best of every type of weather in Greece. He could have elaborated a lot more there. Lions were there as well. They ate lion meat as well.
Re sports I enjoyed the sports at the funeral of Achilles as described by Homer. If memory serves someone fell face down in the huge cow pat left by the bull whem he was sacrificed.
Westerners don't get Athenian democracy; demes included rich and poor suburbs regardless of geographical proximity, so elected officials and representatives had their voters origin from all classes
There is absolutely no doubt that Karam masala was a fish sauce. There are recipes from the period for it and Alexander the great was massive and not Greek.
For wild parties and maybe orgies(?) id look into Dionysus followers. I dont know much about it or if the greeks or the romans were more active in this case. I have a sort of vague knowledge that they drank and danced and both men and women could be followers but i dont have a solid knowledge of the subject
Greece was united under Alexander the Great as a single country. Second mistake is that Greeks were not a single nation. How do you call people with the same language, same culture, same gods etc ? You must be more careful referring to that
Hi Tristan, huge respect to you mate. I gotta say smth, you said Ancient Greece wasn't a nation. I am a Greek and if you know ancient Greek you will see that hundred of times in ancient texts you will hear the greek historians talk about the nation of greece, how we must unify and stop fighting between us and how everyone knew they were greek and their NATION was GREECE and not for example athens. There is a difference between the state and the nation. Just like how Italy was a nation, and the Romans, samnites etc were just STATES. Also you mentioned the Thracians at the end. In Classical and Hellenistic AND Roman times we considered the Thracians as Greeks, except the north thracians north of bulgaria. One example is in xenophon's writings or for example plutarch when he talks about mr spartacus P.S gotta say thank you for recognizing Alexander as greek, so many degenerates around these years saying he was monkeydonian...
We hope you have enjoyed the first episode of our "Historian Answers Google Questions' series! Let us know which over time period or topics you'd like us to cover in the comments below 👇
I enjoyed this new format a lot. Well, for next instalment - about the Romans, I suppose - here's the most viral question: Did the Romans invent noodles or have we thank Marco Polo for them?
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If you've ever gamed, and you mentioned "Civilizations," you should try Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and though it's fantasy, I'd like your take on how well the developers did. The architecture, name pronunciations, the topography of the different regions, the plants, wildlife, etc.
@@Mr.Glidehook I second that! Spent half of the game just walking around. It's beautiful. Also the TOUR session was amazing, with current photos of the ruins.
Vikings!!!!!! So many myths!!?
I really enjoyed this. The format is so engaging and Tristan is a delightful, knowledgeable presenter. Lots more like this please.
More to come!
He's good, isn't he?! Really nice chap too.
But where is Iseult?
This guy is phenomenally knowledgeable. So, so well done.
I absolutely loved this format! I feel like youtube is flooded with videos that are just repeating history over and over in that monotone sort of voice that makes you space out... great job!
That format, admit it, is a cure for insomnia !
Appreciate the support!
@@murrayscott9546darn it, but you won. The endless monotone is just perfect for people with ADHD trying to sleep. This, however, is too interesting to sleep to.
There are many videos in this format and it's good but could be a little bit better. Those experts should have more time to go into details about those questions.
Maybe you should stick with something more your speed.
Of course, there was a central sewage system in Athens, and it came to our knowledge in 2003, when the Athens subway was being built.
For the question on how ancient Greek music sounded there is some amusing reading to be had on that subject by Plato.
You talk like I do when I talk about things I'm passionate about, small tangents, the details, small storytelling etc. It made it extremely easy to follow and understand!
Can't recommend the Ancients podcast enough. Indeed, all of History Hit's podcasts are bangers, I particularly recommend Dan Snow's History Hit, American History Hit, The Ancients, After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, and the Paranormal, and Gone Medieval. Dr Eleanor Janega is a frequent co-host or guest, if you know who she is you know how unbelievably engaging and fun to listen to she is. Treat yourself!
Thank you, and all the others for recommending these wonderful podcasts! I love history YT, but I’m more productive when I’m listening to podcasts 😂
Same! There's something right about listening to people telling stories about our ancestors and their struggles, victories and stupidity.
Are these on Spotify?
Dan Snow should do the same on Napoleonic era warfare
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Facinating! More content like this please!! 👏
You got it!
as a greek archaeologist I have to say that this video is very well structured and includes the most important parts of the Mycenean civiziation
6th grade, unit on Ancient Greece: my sweet old lady teacher was telling us all about “Perkules.” I’m looking at the word “Pericles” in the textbook and puzzling over this pronunciation. Eventually it hit me: She was assuming that “Herakles” was pronounced “Hercules,” and therefore “Pericles” had to rhyme with it. Bless her heart.
Perkules sounds like a cough syrup.
“You’re wrong, but it’s understandable why you’re wrong.”
Percules is what you call a powerlifter who comes back from an injury or surgery way too early because the pills have them feeling invincible
pronunciation is a battlefield. I am Greek and I have to really stretch my imagination to understand who exactly are people referring to when using English pronunciation and English letters. I don´t blame people when they say Greek is really hard to pronounce because Greek writing (especially ancient Greek) is really mirroring Greek speech. English letters just don´t work
@@YukiNoShinku I only recently started learning the correct pronunciation of Greek names, but I find it fascinating
I understand symposia to be a sort of challenge to use logic and philosophy to debate while drinking. It was a way to establish status and recognition. Less a party than a sort of competition to show that you had the character and gravitas it took to remain rational while drinking.
This is actually very accurately displayed in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. You attend a symposia and have some drunken philosophical debates. It's a lot of fun.
This was excellent. Very educational and made me want to read more about the ancient Greeks 😊👍🏼 Many thanks 🇬🇷
Yes! I dont think we talk about Greece enough, romans get all the hype
Amen to that. A lot of that though is probably because of how directly the Romans influenced various countries histories you know?
@@thebloodgod5885 Probably because the Romans built a massive centralised empire with infrastructure and a codified law opposed to the conglomeration of city states the Greeks hat.
What have the Greeks ever done for us?
@@Banquet42are you serious? If so, you’re really, really dense and ignorant
@@thebloodgod5885In Ukraine Greeks influenced us much more. Roman ruins are few and far between.
This was brilliant! Ευχαριστω για το σεβασμο που διχνεις στην πατριδα μου. 🙂
Aeschylus is probably my favorite greek playwright. His words so beautifully stir the soul, even thousands of years later. For instance, his ramous quote "He who learns must suffer." Succint yet still wise. But the rest of the quote is often forgotten.
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
Very fun! I love getting little tidbits of genuine history in the middle of my day! 🤭
I'm starting to listen to The Ancients because I enjoyed Tristan's cameo on Betwixt the Sheets. It's really fascinating
What an amazing video! I’m totally hooked! More please!!!! Hahahaha
Working on it!
I would love you to talk about the traditions and religions of the most well-known cultures, such as Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, Viking, Inca, so on and so forth
I'd love to know why the ancient Greeks where so good at discovering things. They can up with so many innovations, it seems more than most other cultures
It's probably because Greek language, like English now, was international SO any Syrian, Egyptian or Libyan scholar would be considered Greek based on language.
True for a period of time, but other languages have often had the upper hand during different periods, like Acadian and Latin. I think it was more to do with the Greek approach to thinking
@@KasumiRINAyes, Greek was the lingua Franca for a while in the ancient world. Roman patricians learned Greek. Even Julius Caesar’s last words were in the Greek language.
I would love this series to cover ancient African history, lots of on told tales
Very enlightening and educational. Love the video.
Much appreciated!
Excellent mix of sociological answers for a very broad period of time. Looking forward to more like this, soon.
my mom was born in Uzbekistan in a town called Bukhara..she told me that locals in the old days they found armors burried in the ground( like it was from some battle or something) and that in ancient times because of the mass mariages that Alexander the Great was condacting ppl actually asking "που είναι η χαρά?"( meaning where is the wedding, " hara" is joyous occasion) so the name kinda stack Bukhara..ofc that is just a myth passed down the locals dont know how true it is
Just listed to what an Aulos sounds like. It’s haunting. No wonder they used it on the battle field.
Fascinating - thank you.
Would love to hear more on greek 8nventions.
Thank you very much! Especially since you weren't feeling well - whether a cold or allergies. ❤😊
Hey Tristan. Great job 👏
Holy shit this video has a mobile vibrate sound between chapters and it's maddening
Well done Tristan, some great answers to some interesting questions that debunk a few assumptions. What I found of interest was that the Greeks were not from a unified Greece and that they would fight anyone including each other. Other interesting points about the sanitation that was often something that credited to the Romans, well in the film 'The Life of Brian' anyway. Many thanks for sharing.
Regarding whether "ancient Greece was before the Romans", there's an additional complication besides the obvious overlap of Classical Rome and Greece. The "Byzantine Empire" is both a legitimate political continuation of the Roman Empire, but by the Medieval Era of Europe it was essentially a Greek state. For example, during the Crusades a common historical distinction is between the "Latins" (e.g. Franks, Germans, English) i.e. the Catholic Crusaders and the Greek Christians already in the Near East, generally affiliated with the Byzantine (aka Roman) Empire, which was still very much alive at the time. At least until the 4th Crusade lol. Anyway, in a sense, the "Greek Empire" both preceded and outlasted the Roman (Latin) Empire.
This in no way assisted with if Greeks were before the Romans. Everything you wrote was about succession not precession. If you spoke about maybe the Iliad, or maybe Mycenaean or Minoan era or culture that could have been “an additional complication”. And besides that, the Byzantine empire was essentially a continuation of the eastern Roman Empire. Culturally it held many Greek and Latin standards and by the time of the ottomans, much of the peoples with literature and arts of the empire flee to Italy and sparks the renaissance when Italians and the other western cultures are able to reflect on the Roman Empire and Greek arts and culture that had been otherwise forgotten. But by practice, I’m fairly certain the Byzantine empire spoke Latin. At least by majority…. Certainly business and politics most likely were carried out in Latin. Either way, none of that offers “complication” as to what preceded what.
@@lancehandy6648 this actually kinda supports my point, because you are incorrect. After around 600CE the Eastern Roman Empire was transitioning from Latin to Greek. For almost the entire period between the fall of the Western Empire and the Turkish conquest, the Byzantine Empire was Greek-speaking, its laws, rulers, and people primarily and generally only operated in Greek. The diaspora after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople was largely significant for the spread of ancient Greek and Greek language texts that had been lost or forgotten in Western Europe. A lot of Latin texts had actually been getting back to Christendom for a couple centuries prior to the fall of Constantinople, it was the largely Greek culture that had been operating in the Eastern Mediterranean that was the biggest shift in cultural transfer.
I'm not an expert and obviously the Eastern Roman Empire was a blend of Latin and Greek culture and stuff, but when the empire divided it largely localized back into its native Greek culture with legacy Latin institutions. By the time the Crusades started (at the very latest), the Byzantine Empire was a Greek empire speaking and operating with the Greek language and run by people with Greek heritage.
My point is basically that the period of "the Romans" was in between two periods where Greeks, speaking Greek and largely following the culture of their Greek ancestors, dominated the Eastern Mediterranean
@@imperator9343 and my point is that your answering a question not being asked. It still answers nothing about precession
@@lancehandy6648 the point of my comment and the information I was providing are super clear, sorry if it is so completely beyond your grasp to consider an answer or perspective about the topic that is one step beyond a simple either/or answer. I have no clue why you even bothered replying to me, either time, but you sound unbelievably uninteresting to talk to and without anything remotely worthwhile to say.
@@imperator9343 you can try to make it personal all you want. You’re trying to be “that guy” and seem like someone making additional points no one’s thought about, but it’s regarding something no one’s asking. I have nothing to offer because I’m sticking to the original topic at hand. You can try to make it personal all you want. It doesn’t surprise me, you doing that is another example of you bringing up something that is outside the point. Mentioning the continuation of the Roman and Greeks via the Byzantine empire has no bearing and changes absolutely nothing about their origins. Are you that dense? Anything that happens in the medieval era, dark ages to the fall of Constantinople does not impact who comes first. Does it mean Greeks don’t have an impact as early as 1200 bce? No it doesn’t. Does it change Roman origins? No it doesn’t. You literally are just trying to be “that guy” spewing irrelevant information just so you can have some sort of backward gratification. And it all is stated in your last sentence of your original comment. That is that the Greek empire preceded and outlasted the Roman’s. NO ONE IS ASKING WHAT OUTLASTED WHAT. You preceded the entire comment with your “revelation” that the insight you’re offering adds a complication and it literally doesn’t add any complication to what preceded what. Again…. Had you mentioned anything about earlier Greek civilization marks not mentioned in the video, that might add complication. Or that the Roman’s have a legend of being derived from refugees of Troy (I don’t personally believe that), but it might add complication to the question. What you’re getting at is like saying “ottoman culture was significantly impacted by local Greeks in due to rich history and culture and morphed ottoman into a Greek/turkish constant that lasts on, further complicating the question of their who comes first Greek or Roman.” Which is a ludicrous statement. It’s not that you’re wrong about your facts. You’re wrong about its validation amongst what’s being asked. You think spewing accurate facts makes you correct, no it doesn’t. It only makes your facts correct…. But it doesn’t change whatever reasoning you’re trying to add. To simply put it, you’d have a very interesting and intriguing comment had you just left out the sentence of it adding complication. Had you preceded with “an interesting fact to add on to the answer of this question” or something along those lines, your comment would be golden. But you’re so damn stubborn and easily offended all you can do is keep spewing more facts in an era outside the realm of the question and try to insult others giving you constructive criticism. Such a child.
What did the ancient Greeks discovered..😅 this could be an entire documentary series
Sylphium may not be extinct, and a professor in Turkey appears to have rediscovered a "botanical survivor". A lot of modern fish sauces are said to be derivatives of garum, and Max Miller from Tasting History recently made some using traditional methods.
Loved this video....great info and well presented.
I'd love to see a Google's Most Popular Questions video on contemporary history!
I had no idea you guys had a podcast!! Immediate follow.
I’ve finally found an entertaining video about ancient greece. Really loved this format! Keep up the good work guys!!
Thank you! Will do!
I loved Assassin's Creed Odyssey. How accurate is it?
I am quite impressed with your knowledge!
The best-quality teachers for roman aristocrats were Greek scholars.
To be fair, most of the Ancient texts we have were preserved by Medieval copyists. Most of the oldest copies of ancient historical and literary works come from codexes from the high Middle Ages (11th-12th centuries). The Bible is a certain exception, with large portions of it surviving on papyri from late Antiquity.
Make an episode about Thracian and Dacian please, the most advanced culture at time according to Herodotus
There is no debate about what garum was. We have recipes and even know that the most expensive garum came from Spain. I've no idea why he would think that. It's one of the only things from that time that we have exact details on lol.
The question was "How did the Greeks go to the bathroom?" Unfortunately, you didn't answer that question but focussed your remarks entirely on disposal of human excreta. So how did the Greeks go to the bathroom? Did they have showers? Did they use tubs? Did they bathe in groups or alone? Did they, like the modern Japanese, wash outside the tub and then soak in the tub? Was the water hot or cold?
Well after watching a couple of vids on this channel i like i subscribed,keep up the good work
You mentioned my Goddess Hestia
Really interesting about the skin color symboligy back then. Never had heard about it before.
Hey that's me that got shot with the arrow at 12:09! Great video btw.
Great content. The phone vibration noise every 5 seconds is pretty annoying though. Especially if you are just a listener
An ancient greek walks into a tailor with a damaged pair of pants.
The tailor looks up and says "Euripides?"
The ancient greek says "Yes. Eumenides?"
16:04 My man said professor Michael Scott. 😂
hey guys this is a great format i loved it but could you please position the mic closer and put a compressor on the audio 😭😭 it's uncomfortable to listen to this before bed
Excellent. Thanks
Awesome video!!
Tristian did a talk for the AIA, and the rest is History Hit for me. :)
conflated "Discover" with "Invent" in the 7th question section, but otherwise, great vid.
re - 4:35
It's funny you should say that, because that is the EXACT ideal beauty standard of modern Egypt. The women find men to be more attractive if they have a deep tan (but not black skin. Egyptians can be quite racist against people with black skin, commonly referring to them as "bar barry," meaning barbarian). Whereas the more pale a woman is, the more attractive. This ideal can even be seen in art from ancient Egypt, from the days of the Pharaohs. So it's either a mediterranean thing, or it's one of the very many things that Greek culture borrowed from the Egyptian culture.
Silphium has been found! It's being grown in small quantities.
I'm an Ancients podcast listener and let me tell you, 100%, subscribe to it, listen to it, it's an amazing podcast. If you like this guy, there's bunches and bunches of content there, you'll love it.
He really sounds like Jude Law
Bring on Dawn Brodey for Pirate history!! Host of HILF podcast
Going to disagree on the toilet aspect. It's very logically unlikely that chamberpots were thrown into the street on a regular basis (if at all). The cities would have been like medieval cities in that there would have been privies that would have been periodically cleaned as well as services to take waste away akin to medieval gong farmers either freemen or slaves. Several historians have talked about the chamberpots in streets thing as largely a total myth in regards to medieval times. There were specific laws and strict fines were enforced. A person was very unlikely to appreciate having to walk past a daily pile of poo right outside their own door growing bigger by the day. This would have quickly accumulated into dozens of pounds in a week per house and the smell would have been completely overwhelming. Cities also may have gone weeks or months without much rain. Having waste removal services was common across ancient Asia even without advanced sewage systems.
Interesting. Can you provide a source for the 'specific laws and strict fines were enforced' statement?
@@benkane813 There's a video I watched that addressed the topic specifically. ua-cam.com/video/EnnHXtbct1E/v-deo.html Basically a number of towns had a recorded history of having very large fines for throwing chamber pot contents in the street. The people of the time weren't stupid. It would have been just as annoying for them as it would be for us.
Just wanna say, I am a big fan of your podcast! More mythical gods, pls
Great video, but the inability of the host to pronounce any words in Greek or other Mid-Eastern languages is astonishing.
02:30
I'd refer to ancient Greece as a cultural area similar to Europe in the 19th and first half of the 20th century.
Interestingly, it was the Roman conquest that would make Greece kind of a nation, under the name of Rhomei which means both "Romans" and "Greeks" which was basically the same in "Byzantine" times.
Thanks.
Virtuosic. 👌
Loved it!
Good aul Hughes he thought me more than history degree
Ancient Greece: the age before Spotify 😅
I am not a big fan of the aulos myself and yes I have heard reenactments of the flutes, they are on youtube, but it's just nope for me. And I want to add Silphium was also abortionet and contraceptive in the ancient world. I am surprised he didn't mention that. It was a major reason why it supposedly went extinct but that doesn't necessarily been the case.
I will fight this guy over Atlantis lol. Absolutely loved the video though
What is the song at 1:10? I fondly recognise it from somewhere
Meh....Helios was a Titan. And he's a bit of a contentious pick, Okay? The different parallels between him and Apollo, the people can conflate the two. Helios is not a good example to use it's very complicated to explain Helios. He doesn't really fit that list. You could have said Pan, Aeolus, the winds, Khione....Goddess of Snow and Ice. Most people have never heard of her at all. In regards to asking if Greece was hot. Greece was pretty much the perfect climate then. It was very Mediterranean it was very tropical. But it also got snow as well you had the best of every type of weather in Greece. He could have elaborated a lot more there. Lions were there as well. They ate lion meat as well.
The ancient Greeks were the apex of humanity. If only Alexander wasn't murdered, i mean died of an illness.
Re sports I enjoyed the sports at the funeral of Achilles as described by Homer. If memory serves someone fell face down in the huge cow pat left by the bull whem he was sacrificed.
Got all these questions answered playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? 😂😂
Westerners don't get Athenian democracy; demes included rich and poor suburbs regardless of geographical proximity, so elected officials and representatives had their voters origin from all classes
Except for the women and ειλωτες (home slaves) that couldn't vote. It was always classist.
What did ancient Greek conquer?
Well when they stopped fighting between themselves..
Ancient Finns: unthinkable!
Alexandria library didn’t burn down watch kaz Rowe
There is absolutely no doubt that Karam masala was a fish sauce. There are recipes from the period for it and Alexander the great was massive and not Greek.
Just me or does he remind you of the actor tom hiddlestone, voice and face especially
Garam in Hindi means ‘hot’ so perhaps the word for the Roman fish sauce is proto-Indo-European ❤
First toilet was India River Valley
Man sounds like Jude Law
16:24 why is that sad? Lmao
For wild parties and maybe orgies(?) id look into Dionysus followers. I dont know much about it or if the greeks or the romans were more active in this case. I have a sort of vague knowledge that they drank and danced and both men and women could be followers but i dont have a solid knowledge of the subject
Now do Rome!!!
Alexander was Greek
Macedonia is Greece
Everyone knows it ❤
Facts!
It sounded like the Greek men didn’t want thier women outside mingling 😂😂
Humph, bad microphone used
Dha Dha da da it's Blue Danube, i guess.
The text swipes sounded like someone was constantly sniffing up a runny nose. Did not love that.
He is so cute!
17:29 Hahahaha! 🤣
Hot dog! What a topic.
Greece was united under Alexander the Great as a single country. Second mistake is that Greeks were not a single nation. How do you call people with the same language, same culture, same gods etc ? You must be more careful referring to that
Hi Tristan, huge respect to you mate.
I gotta say smth, you said Ancient Greece wasn't a nation. I am a Greek and if you know ancient Greek you will see that hundred of times in ancient texts you will hear the greek historians talk about the nation of greece, how we must unify and stop fighting between us and how everyone knew they were greek and their NATION was GREECE and not for example athens.
There is a difference between the state and the nation.
Just like how Italy was a nation, and the Romans, samnites etc were just STATES.
Also you mentioned the Thracians at the end. In Classical and Hellenistic AND Roman times we considered the Thracians as Greeks, except the north thracians north of bulgaria.
One example is in xenophon's writings or for example plutarch when he talks about mr spartacus
P.S gotta say thank you for recognizing Alexander as greek, so many degenerates around these years saying he was monkeydonian...