That t-shirt is so funny. I especially appreciate Tristan's clarification about his expertise, and what is theory, and what there's evidence for. I love it when historians clarify the degrees of certainty we have regarding what we know about the past.
Thank you, Tristan! I really enjoy these questions-answers sessions! An interesting period of change in British history! Lots of love to England and Great Britain from across the world! Cheers!
Brilliant stuff. There's a lot of myths and misinformation about Roman Britain that needs to be dispelled, this certainly helped. Fascinating to watch.
I usually watch all of the "Answers" videos, but this one has to be one of my favorites. Looking forward to seeing Tristan Hughes in more of these videos...
I used to live in York, or Eboracum as it would've been known then. They have a great museum with a Roman part. The amount of stuff found of the years is incredible. The Romans really did settle very comfortably in the area. The most amazing thing in there for me, is the remains of a fairly wealthy woman who originally came from north Africa. That level of connection is just so impressive to me. Someone from modern day Morroco lived and died in York. Edit: of course Constantine the Great was crowned in York! He has a statue just outside the Minster.
The ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’, I believe. Quite an incredible amount of information has been gathered from her remains from modern genome analysis. Also ongoing GPR and magnetometry surveys across York as we speak - no doubt some exciting finds to be announced in the coming years!
At 1:56 For me the only sensible way to define "Celts" is by language usage, and the evidence is overwhelming that the tribes of Britain and Ireland all spoke Celtic languages. At 17:56 I think many people make the mistake of considering Hadrian's Wall in isolation, rather than as part of Hadrian's Empire-wide policy to consolidate borders which included walls in Germany and North Africa. People passed back and forth regularly, and were taxed, so part of the function of these walls seems to have been regulating trade. Also, there were Roman forts north of Hadrian's wall, which people often overlook, imagining that the Wall was an absolute demarcation. At 20:51 there were cost/benefit debates about occupying southern Britain prior to the invasion and later as well, even with all the grain and wool and minerals flowing from Britain to the rest of the Empire. It was obvious to anyone that the sparsely-populated Scottish Highlands couldn't possibly provide enough income to Rome to offset the cost of occupation.
I suspect someone asking whether the Romans left their DNA in Britain was thinking more in terms of there being descendants of the Romans in Britain ? Not if there were Roman bones in the ground. Given "Romans" in Britain were often auxiliaries drawn from throughout the Empire (as many of 70% after about 150AD) I'm not sure there would be many people descended from "Romans".
Actually☝️🤓 if just enough romans had children (legitimate or not) with locals and said children lived there and themselves had descendants, after enough centuries of intermingling everyone on the country would be their (very distant) descendents. If you go back far enough in time you get to a point where every person native of a given geographical area in the present is descended from every who lived in the that area (and had children) at that point.
Yeah, unless I'm incorrect - many people joined the Roman military to gain citizenship after they completed their service when they would also receive land. I'm going to assume that they only went to Britain to gain citizenship which means they were not Roman citizens, and they would probably prefer to claim land somewhere in their home countries or closer to Rome. That said, there are plenty of Spanish, Italian, Greek and northern African people in the UK, who's ancestors were Roman citizens.
I think the question "Did Romans leave DNA in Britian?" referred not to DNA left in the ground but in the modern population of Britian. Do modern Britians carry the legacy of Roman occupation in their DNA? I suspect the answer is yes, but to a very small degree and one that's hard to disentangle from all the waves of subsequent invasions.
Regarding Caractacus, I well remember reading Pauline Gedge's historical fictional novel "The Eagle and the Raven" when I was a child. It is a fun novel and left me with an abiding curiosity about ancient Britian.
This guy should totally do reaction videos for you about the Punic wars videos from the UA-cam channel Oversimplified. he would have a blast, and your audience would definitely learn a lot
Comments on why Rome gave up on Scotland made me wonder. In reality, how firm was Rome's grip on other remote mountainous regions? Merely fortified key passes? If there were no concerted resistance using high places as a base, would it have been worth the effort to control, say, the Pyrenees?
That's a good question. We know that even provinces that were under roman control for a long time still had places, namely the mountain regions, that could not be occupied. Even at the times of Augustus places like the Alps and the mountains of Iberia were free of roman occupation
Possibly the Romans didn't bother with the Highlands of Scotland because there was nothing there that they wanted. Certainly no wheat, no tin, a bit of lead and gold but not as easily obtained as it was further south. So,what would have been the point?
Very interesting and well-presented. However, you give the impression that pre-Roman Britain was a strange and unknown place. Surely the Britons traded with other parts of the world, including Rome?
I don't think they traded direclty with Rome but Britain was certainly part of a vast, for the time, atlantic trade network that encompassed the shores of the iberian peninsula, gaul and other places
Britain was extremely expensive and troublesome (including usurpers) in military terms from beginning to end so I don't think it balanced out with resources
I guess, one of the reasons to abandon Britain at the begin of the 5th century was also a constant history of ursurpers from Gaul and Britain destabilizing the West, starting with Postumus, later Amandus and Carausius, continuing with Magnentius and culminating with Constantinus III. Britain was the province of the Roman Empire, that was the most distant from all others, and it wasn't easy to pacify Britain when you had a rebellion in Gaul or Germania.
I'm always skeptical about the word collapse when talking about civilizations. The governments/heads of state fall but people keep going. Personally I thing we are going through another 'collapse' right now. Governments are becoming less stable but we are still chugging along the best we can.
Well no, in the city of Rome the people actually did not kept going. At its peak it had over 1 million inhabitants. After the collapse it had only 50.000 inhabitants left for a long time.
@j.a.weishaupt1748 yes, a lot of people died but that happens all the time as we've just experienced. It's not great but it's natural and even happens when civilization are not collapsing. Population loss is not always tied to government.... best example was the black death
I can't see Hadrian's Wall being for the glory of Rome. More likely it's a response to raiding, rustling and low level, semi permanent warfare along the Stanegate road. Hadrian needed a more permanent and better frontier than just a road.
If it went against roman 'culture', yes. The massacre of the Druids at Anglesey for example. But the Romans believed that their culture was superior to all others. For the Britons, it was either convert to being a roman citizen and enjoy all the benefits it offered (baths, literacy, cities, trade, wealth; which meant giving up their own culture and religions), or be killed or possibly enslaved. Unsurprisingly many were reluctant to do so, hence the rebellions of Boudicea and Caratacus
The reality is that Britain was a peripheral province and the Romans considered it one of the poorest and less interesting. Their richest provinces were in the eastern parts of the empire: Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and all of the greek speaking countries. Italy, the Galliae (northern Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, western Germany) and Iberia was less developed but considered valuable. British islands, Germania, Partia, Lusitania, Morocco, Iraq, Numidia and other distant provinces were considered a net loss for their total absence of urban development in the way they meant. Romans tried to built colonies to make profitable the conquered land, but they were marginally interested to going further north. The focus shifted to the Mediterranean (Mare Nostrum, "our see") in which they see Rome as a prefect center to irradiate power to the rest of the empire. Britannia has never set an emperor to the throne, so we can say it was not considered as an important part of the empire, unlike the strongest province. I assume that the British empire in the '800 has led british historian to think Britain as the center of western civilization, when in reality the Anglo-Saxon world was really less valuable than usually perceived till the end of the Napoleonic age. During middle age and later, the "center" was always on the continent (France and Germany were the two universal power of Europe for almost 1000 years). Britain has emerged as a world hub only in the last 250 years, even if we can say that London is no more the most important urban agglomeration. Even if English speaking countries are still the Western world spine, we are returning to a world where Asia is the center of civilization, like it was 4000 years ago. Don't forget even the Romans known and contacted both Indian and Chinese and they were fascinated by them.
I loved the video but I have just one little peeve. The presenter kept calling pre-roman britons "iron age Britons" and BOY OH BOY there's so much water under that bridge between the end of the Iron Age and the first wave of roman invasions that... It bothers me. I understand the video has to be summarised and concise, but that really threw me off. Each time he mentioned Iron Age Britons to speak about the britannic population just before the invasions I went "nooo my friend nooo" But, overall, I loved the video. :) Best, An Annoyed Historian
25:45 Tristan could have pointed out _why_ this huge influx of people was happening. why suddenly all these people tried to move westwards. in the early 5th century (early 400s) the Huns were pushing into Europe.
Augustine of Canterbury IS a Saint. St. Augustine of Canterbury. The other St. Augustine you're thinking of is St. Augustine of Hippo, a place in North Africa.
If Roman Britain never became christian, from what did the christianity of sub-Roman Britain evolve? Were the Britons, St David and St Patrick, really christian outliers or part of an established native tradition?
I think his main "peeve" will be the allegation that the Romans had a "racial ideology". If you adopted Roman culture into your own your ethnic background didn't matter, aside from the Roman central authorities posting you as geographically far away from it as they could if you were in the Army. 🦁🔥🦉🐺⚡🦅⚡🐺🦉🔥🦁 🦁☀️🐝⚡🦅⚡🐝☀️🦁
*Says the Roman 9th Legion was almost wiped out in what is now Scotland. Then says that the Romans wouldn't have seen the value in controlling and consolidating the entire territory. *Does this while wearing a Teutoburg Forest t-shirt.
Ethnic Europeans, to include the real British, Irish, German, Polish, etc., were the first environmentalist. They knew monocultures of just wheat were a problem. They knew massive cities functioning as metal production centers, largely for warfare instruments were a problem. They knew heavy metals in water as a result of such cities were a problem. They weren't barbarians at all. Been waiting for something like this. Now, get into it for real. You'll find many similarities, cultural ties, and familial line inside of Africa, India, the Middle East, and Asia. People didn't like Romans telling them what to do at the end of a short sword. Stop tripping, read a book, go talk to the guy or gal you thought was crazy or in some kind of crazy anti-government gang or militia, and you might find out that they're well, well educated.
Usually love the content from this channel but why is he making mistakes in it and correcting him self with the right answer later on is it to keep us watching to see if he corrects himself because to be honest I nearly switched off but I knew surely he must know that Britons was a term first used by the Romans and that tattoos also probably didn't arrive untill the roman invasions and that the picts and iron aged people used woad to dye their skin
What can you possibly know about history if you release the film "Historian Answers Google’s Most Popular Questions About the Soviet Union" and then disable comments correcting this pile of pyramid nonsense?
Sometimes it was so difficult, as at Old Sarum, originally an Iron Age hill fort that eventually was abandoned in the Middle Ages and the town and church moved to where Salisbury is now.
if your not sure, say your not sure,,, not yes they did,, please say,,,, i dont know,, then we make our own minds up,,, love your vids,,, dont lead us down the garden path mate,,,
ahh come on, not the biased julius caesar takes about him having some superhuman ego. he invaded britain not because he thought he was destined for greatness (that's a plutarch invention), but for political clout. and it worked! even though his invasion was mostly a mess and close to a failure, he was the first roman to set foot on britain and write back about it to the senate, which was very exciting for romans at the time, and boosted his popularity among the citizens.
Britain was a backwater, an unimportant and unrelevant place of the earth and Europe overrall. A set of wild tribes and so on. Important to the roman empire? Meh, we dont know of many britons that did great in the roman empire.
while I agree it was at the time a backwater to say it is irrelevant is pretty silly. The romans wouldnt have tried 3 times to conquer it if it was irrelevant.
Yep, a good 1500 years before we colonised anyone we were technically colonised ourselves, several hundred years before the Vikings did too, people (who know) love to conveniently never mention this 😂
why? There are no questions about "woke" stuff and nothing in this video that is controversial or wrong. I would hope Metatron has better things to do with their time.
I don't understand since when metatron, a random Italian dude on the Internet, has become a greater authority than an actual historian specialising in ancient civilizations. Also, when he goes out of his comfort zone he is often wrong. But he doesn't correct himself. Because there's no peer review process on UA-cam.
Tristan love your videos but you do look a bit more relaxed/'tired and emotional' than usual...small baby at home? Flu? Pub? Just wondered, answers are not compulsory obs....
Love the Teutoburg Forest t-shirt. It was business, nothing personal. Love from Germany ❤😂
Barbarian 🤪
That t-shirt is so funny. I especially appreciate Tristan's clarification about his expertise, and what is theory, and what there's evidence for. I love it when historians clarify the degrees of certainty we have regarding what we know about the past.
Thank you, Tristan! I really enjoy these questions-answers sessions! An interesting period of change in British history! Lots of love to England and Great Britain from across the world! Cheers!
Brilliant stuff. There's a lot of myths and misinformation about Roman Britain that needs to be dispelled, this certainly helped. Fascinating to watch.
I usually watch all of the "Answers" videos, but this one has to be one of my favorites. Looking forward to seeing Tristan Hughes in more of these videos...
Every video you do is a joy Tristan. Thanks!
"Look Valerius, the Iceni are revolting."
"They certainly are."
Never get tired of the 'Golden Oldies'...😂
I used to live in York, or Eboracum as it would've been known then. They have a great museum with a Roman part. The amount of stuff found of the years is incredible. The Romans really did settle very comfortably in the area. The most amazing thing in there for me, is the remains of a fairly wealthy woman who originally came from north Africa. That level of connection is just so impressive to me. Someone from modern day Morroco lived and died in York.
Edit: of course Constantine the Great was crowned in York! He has a statue just outside the Minster.
York is definitely my favourite city besides my own to visit in England. Beautiful place
The ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’, I believe. Quite an incredible amount of information has been gathered from her remains from modern genome analysis. Also ongoing GPR and magnetometry surveys across York as we speak - no doubt some exciting finds to be announced in the coming years!
At 1:56 For me the only sensible way to define "Celts" is by language usage, and the evidence is overwhelming that the tribes of Britain and Ireland all spoke Celtic languages. At 17:56 I think many people make the mistake of considering Hadrian's Wall in isolation, rather than as part of Hadrian's Empire-wide policy to consolidate borders which included walls in Germany and North Africa. People passed back and forth regularly, and were taxed, so part of the function of these walls seems to have been regulating trade. Also, there were Roman forts north of Hadrian's wall, which people often overlook, imagining that the Wall was an absolute demarcation. At 20:51 there were cost/benefit debates about occupying southern Britain prior to the invasion and later as well, even with all the grain and wool and minerals flowing from Britain to the rest of the Empire. It was obvious to anyone that the sparsely-populated Scottish Highlands couldn't possibly provide enough income to Rome to offset the cost of occupation.
Great! I really enjoyed this. The format works well!
Nice one Tristan and team. 🌟👍
I'm sending this video to my daughters so they can know what kind of T-shirt I want for Christmas. Great video as always
I suspect someone asking whether the Romans left their DNA in Britain was thinking more in terms of there being descendants of the Romans in Britain ? Not if there were Roman bones in the ground. Given "Romans" in Britain were often auxiliaries drawn from throughout the Empire (as many of 70% after about 150AD) I'm not sure there would be many people descended from "Romans".
Actually☝️🤓 if just enough romans had children (legitimate or not) with locals and said children lived there and themselves had descendants, after enough centuries of intermingling everyone on the country would be their (very distant) descendents.
If you go back far enough in time you get to a point where every person native of a given geographical area in the present is descended from every who lived in the that area (and had children) at that point.
Yeah, unless I'm incorrect - many people joined the Roman military to gain citizenship after they completed their service when they would also receive land. I'm going to assume that they only went to Britain to gain citizenship which means they were not Roman citizens, and they would probably prefer to claim land somewhere in their home countries or closer to Rome. That said, there are plenty of Spanish, Italian, Greek and northern African people in the UK, who's ancestors were Roman citizens.
I will always listen to/watch anything from Tristan, but I absolutely NEED that t-shirt!!!
I think the question "Did Romans leave DNA in Britian?" referred not to DNA left in the ground but in the modern population of Britian. Do modern Britians carry the legacy of Roman occupation in their DNA? I suspect the answer is yes, but to a very small degree and one that's hard to disentangle from all the waves of subsequent invasions.
This was interesting & fun!
Found this informative and fun.
Regarding Caractacus, I well remember reading Pauline Gedge's historical fictional novel "The Eagle and the Raven" when I was a child. It is a fun novel and left me with an abiding curiosity about ancient Britian.
Great as always. Thank you!
Great stuff, thank you.
Really interesting, thank you 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Very interesting. Thanks
I live in Colchester nowadays, its crazy to know more about the history, I just wish the town was better managed :(
Good episode, and this guy is really likable and can present. As a fellow historian I would probably be way more nervous talking for a video :)
This guy should totally do reaction videos for you about the Punic wars videos from the UA-cam channel Oversimplified. he would have a blast, and your audience would definitely learn a lot
Comments on why Rome gave up on Scotland made me wonder. In reality, how firm was Rome's grip on other remote mountainous regions? Merely fortified key passes? If there were no concerted resistance using high places as a base, would it have been worth the effort to control, say, the Pyrenees?
That's a good question.
We know that even provinces that were under roman control for a long time still had places, namely the mountain regions, that could not be occupied.
Even at the times of Augustus places like the Alps and the mountains of Iberia were free of roman occupation
Very interesting
The shirt is a chef's kiss.
Hadrian's Wall was built to keep the White Walkers out
Fascinating. Cute fella too. More from this chap please.
Thank you.
Fantastic shirt Tristan !
Oh, and great video as well, but that's to be expected 😉
Cant wait for the new metatron video (:
Thank you
Possibly the Romans didn't bother with the Highlands of Scotland because there was nothing there that they wanted. Certainly no wheat, no tin, a bit of lead and gold but not as easily obtained as it was further south. So,what would have been the point?
Plus the locals were a bit onery, and the women weren't very good looking. Nothing has changed...
@@bipolarminddroppingsthat’s a bit harsh 😂😂
They failed and then got kicked out of Scotland.
No one conquers Scotland.
Not enough population to tax?
Deep-fried Mars bars are a valuable resource…
Interested to see if Metatron will enjoy or hate this one.
Very interesting and well-presented. However, you give the impression that pre-Roman Britain was a strange and unknown place. Surely the Britons traded with other parts of the world, including Rome?
I don't think they traded direclty with Rome but Britain was certainly part of a vast, for the time, atlantic trade network that encompassed the shores of the iberian peninsula, gaul and other places
First of all excellent thumbnail
That shirt is fantastic.
Emperor Hadrian defined the Roman Empire with walls, including in North Africa did he not?
Really good answers pitched at a good level 👏👏👏👏
11:48- Aww come on, not even a "what did the Romans ever do for us" edited in? 😉
i need to know where i can get that shirt!
Britain was extremely expensive and troublesome (including usurpers) in military terms from beginning to end so I don't think it balanced out with resources
I think the picture of Pythias you put up iactually strabo
The Teutoburg Forest quite lucky to get a 1 out of 5; could easily have been half a star.
I guess, one of the reasons to abandon Britain at the begin of the 5th century was also a constant history of ursurpers from Gaul and Britain destabilizing the West, starting with Postumus, later Amandus and Carausius, continuing with Magnentius and culminating with Constantinus III. Britain was the province of the Roman Empire, that was the most distant from all others, and it wasn't easy to pacify Britain when you had a rebellion in Gaul or Germania.
Mary Beard said Britain was Rome's 'Afghanistan'...
Are there any confirmed connection between the Brigantes and Brigantium (Roman name of A Coruña, Spain?
What have the Romans ever done for us? Romani ite Domum!
I'm always skeptical about the word collapse when talking about civilizations. The governments/heads of state fall but people keep going.
Personally I thing we are going through another 'collapse' right now. Governments are becoming less stable but we are still chugging along the best we can.
Well no, in the city of Rome the people actually did not kept going. At its peak it had over 1 million inhabitants. After the collapse it had only 50.000 inhabitants left for a long time.
@j.a.weishaupt1748 yes, a lot of people died but that happens all the time as we've just experienced. It's not great but it's natural and even happens when civilization are not collapsing.
Population loss is not always tied to government.... best example was the black death
@rosebroady6618 Well, something like the Phonecians, Akkadians, and Hittites as a civilization, culture and language is all extinct.
@@Ajaylix and one day our culture and language will be extinct
I wonder if the King Arthur myth was a remnant from Roman Britain
No questions about King Arthur?
I'm dissapointed.
I can't see Hadrian's Wall being for the glory of Rome. More likely it's a response to raiding, rustling and low level, semi permanent warfare along the Stanegate road. Hadrian needed a more permanent and better frontier than just a road.
Hadrian built a wall and best of all he made the Britons pay for the wall 😅😅😅sorry I couldn't resist 😊
Thank you.
Did the Romans seek to destroy Celtic culture in Britain, and if so, why ?
If it went against roman 'culture', yes. The massacre of the Druids at Anglesey for example. But the Romans believed that their culture was superior to all others. For the Britons, it was either convert to being a roman citizen and enjoy all the benefits it offered (baths, literacy, cities, trade, wealth; which meant giving up their own culture and religions), or be killed or possibly enslaved. Unsurprisingly many were reluctant to do so, hence the rebellions of Boudicea and Caratacus
Britain had a lot of tin in the south. I do t remember which area but it’s possible the romans wanted to secure military assets.
The reality is that Britain was a peripheral province and the Romans considered it one of the poorest and less interesting. Their richest provinces were in the eastern parts of the empire: Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and all of the greek speaking countries. Italy, the Galliae (northern Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, western Germany) and Iberia was less developed but considered valuable. British islands, Germania, Partia, Lusitania, Morocco, Iraq, Numidia and other distant provinces were considered a net loss for their total absence of urban development in the way they meant. Romans tried to built colonies to make profitable the conquered land, but they were marginally interested to going further north. The focus shifted to the Mediterranean (Mare Nostrum, "our see") in which they see Rome as a prefect center to irradiate power to the rest of the empire. Britannia has never set an emperor to the throne, so we can say it was not considered as an important part of the empire, unlike the strongest province.
I assume that the British empire in the '800 has led british historian to think Britain as the center of western civilization, when in reality the Anglo-Saxon world was really less valuable than usually perceived till the end of the Napoleonic age. During middle age and later, the "center" was always on the continent (France and Germany were the two universal power of Europe for almost 1000 years).
Britain has emerged as a world hub only in the last 250 years, even if we can say that London is no more the most important urban agglomeration. Even if English speaking countries are still the Western world spine, we are returning to a world where Asia is the center of civilization, like it was 4000 years ago. Don't forget even the Romans known and contacted both Indian and Chinese and they were fascinated by them.
Are those books real!?
I loved the video but I have just one little peeve. The presenter kept calling pre-roman britons "iron age Britons" and BOY OH BOY there's so much water under that bridge between the end of the Iron Age and the first wave of roman invasions that... It bothers me.
I understand the video has to be summarised and concise, but that really threw me off. Each time he mentioned Iron Age Britons to speak about the britannic population just before the invasions I went "nooo my friend nooo"
But, overall, I loved the video. :)
Best,
An Annoyed Historian
And, Tristan: I love your shirt! ❤️
25:45 Tristan could have pointed out _why_ this huge influx of people was happening. why suddenly all these people tried to move westwards. in the early 5th century (early 400s) the Huns were pushing into Europe.
Who are the Britons?
I could be wrong, but I don’t think Augustine of Canterbury is a saint. There is a St Augustine but I think it’s a different person.
Augustine of Canterbury IS a Saint. St. Augustine of Canterbury. The other St. Augustine you're thinking of is St. Augustine of Hippo, a place in North Africa.
Inb4 Metatron
My thought exactly
If Roman Britain never became christian, from what did the christianity of sub-Roman Britain evolve? Were the Britons, St David and St Patrick, really christian outliers or part of an established native tradition?
You’re a bit fit. Never thought I’d thirst for a ginger but here we are.
How long until Metatron reacts to this?
I think his main "peeve" will be the allegation that the Romans had a "racial ideology". If you adopted Roman culture into your own your ethnic background didn't matter, aside from the Roman central authorities posting you as geographically far away from it as they could if you were in the Army.
🦁🔥🦉🐺⚡🦅⚡🐺🦉🔥🦁
🦁☀️🐝⚡🦅⚡🐝☀️🦁
First…
Century AD
"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
Little Caesars Pizza, is the ONLY thing that comes to mind 🤔...
@@metalhigh0043 I thought it originated in Detroit 😉
*Says the Roman 9th Legion was almost wiped out in what is now Scotland. Then says that the Romans wouldn't have seen the value in controlling and consolidating the entire territory.
*Does this while wearing a Teutoburg Forest t-shirt.
So? He does know what he's talking about, and as for the t-shirt, that just shows he has a sense of humour
Uhhhhhhhh have you heard of hardcore history? I will check yours out though!
I want that tee shirt
Ethnic Europeans, to include the real British, Irish, German, Polish, etc., were the first environmentalist. They knew monocultures of just wheat were a problem. They knew massive cities functioning as metal production centers, largely for warfare instruments were a problem. They knew heavy metals in water as a result of such cities were a problem. They weren't barbarians at all. Been waiting for something like this.
Now, get into it for real. You'll find many similarities, cultural ties, and familial line inside of Africa, India, the Middle East, and Asia. People didn't like Romans telling them what to do at the end of a short sword.
Stop tripping, read a book, go talk to the guy or gal you thought was crazy or in some kind of crazy anti-government gang or militia, and you might find out that they're well, well educated.
...well, the first "European environmentalist hippie types".
‘The Roman Invasion was, after all, a Good Thing, as the Britons were only natives at the time.’
Usually love the content from this channel but why is he making mistakes in it and correcting him self with the right answer later on is it to keep us watching to see if he corrects himself because to be honest I nearly switched off but I knew surely he must know that Britons was a term first used by the Romans and that tattoos also probably didn't arrive untill the roman invasions and that the picts and iron aged people used woad to dye their skin
Looks like they couldn’t be bothered to be professional (editing, re-recording bits when needed, etc.)
What can you possibly know about history if you release the film "Historian Answers Google’s Most Popular Questions About the Soviet Union" and then disable comments correcting this pile of pyramid nonsense?
I want reparations from the Italians now
I'll just wait for the Metatron video to see if you are spitting facts or not 😂😂
Hillfords..... so 'How did they get their water, living up so high' ?
Hill forts
Sometimes it was so difficult, as at Old Sarum, originally an Iron Age hill fort that eventually was abandoned in the Middle Ages and the town and church moved to where Salisbury is now.
if your not sure, say your not sure,,, not yes they did,, please say,,,, i dont know,, then we make our own minds up,,, love your vids,,, dont lead us down the garden path mate,,,
Yeah by proud of not ever been invaded while uk invaded like 200 plus countries…
You've done it again, History Hit, you've written, and spoken 'AD' after the year. As historians, I'm surprised you make this error.
Welsh were the original britons.
Nope they are the original southern Britons
thats what the nationalists will tell you yes
Who came to Brittan first;The Vikings or the Romans?
122nd
The Romans left no genetic impact on the Britons…. This is something that is known, so What is this nonsense?!
Second
you certainly know your are pretty
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The loud lip smacking is brutal
ahh come on, not the biased julius caesar takes about him having some superhuman ego. he invaded britain not because he thought he was destined for greatness (that's a plutarch invention), but for political clout. and it worked! even though his invasion was mostly a mess and close to a failure, he was the first roman to set foot on britain and write back about it to the senate, which was very exciting for romans at the time, and boosted his popularity among the citizens.
Britain was a backwater, an unimportant and unrelevant place of the earth and Europe overrall. A set of wild tribes and so on. Important to the roman empire? Meh, we dont know of many britons that did great in the roman empire.
King Arthur lol
while I agree it was at the time a backwater to say it is irrelevant is pretty silly. The romans wouldnt have tried 3 times to conquer it if it was irrelevant.
I didnt even know roman britain existed in history 🤣
Yep, a good 1500 years before we colonised anyone we were technically colonised ourselves, several hundred years before the Vikings did too, people (who know) love to conveniently never mention this 😂
@metatron a new vid
damn u beat me u monkey
why? There are no questions about "woke" stuff and nothing in this video that is controversial or wrong.
I would hope Metatron has better things to do with their time.
I don't understand since when metatron, a random Italian dude on the Internet, has become a greater authority than an actual historian specialising in ancient civilizations. Also, when he goes out of his comfort zone he is often wrong. But he doesn't correct himself. Because there's no peer review process on UA-cam.
He looks so happy when he can review someone who's actually good. 😅
Tristan love your videos but you do look a bit more relaxed/'tired and emotional' than usual...small baby at home? Flu? Pub? Just wondered, answers are not compulsory obs....