I was literally typing how mediocre and useless this wall would have been then I heard him saying it was four times this size. I stand corrected and admit my naivety and stupidity 😂
Ross Turpin Ikr! Before I saw this vid, the only part of the achievement that impressed me was the 73 mile length. Otherwise I thought it was pretty much an overbuilt stock fence. Knowledge is a better thing...😅 🐑🐮
@dreaming of electric sheep rather picts than scots. the scots originate in ireland and came to britain much later, although they faced the romans as well.
At least the Romans unlike leftist in America knew that protecting borders was important to preserve their interest. That's why Rome existed from 753 B.C to the 400's A.D.
@@derf2170 It was influenced by Greece but they were still Roman in culture. Maybe not ethnically Latin but for all intents and purposes they were Roman.
Well quoted. The painful irony is that when Reagan declared that he had "won the Cold War" (as if it was a winnable proposition!), he essentially confessed that it was still vivid in his hubristic Gipper-esque zero-sum imagination, and that he had been fomenting the 'us-v.-them' conflict from Day 1. Some serious freudian projection.
ROMANS...UNBELIEVABLE... I just found out when they first got to england they established a port...that turned into a village...that turned into a town...that Turned into a city....that we call London today...!!!!
Actually the capital of Roman Britain was a town called Colchester in Essex, the Romans original landing site is in East Kent. Sorry to burst your bubble
Funfact when Brits came to India they established a small fort at the port which turns into a village Madraspatnam, which turns into a town and later turned into a city named Madras, we call it Chennai today.
@@mrrigatone9595 Not just the Romans but every ancient civilization!! Well most of the ancient Roman war tactics and architecture skills were inspired by Easterns.. So the Eastern World at that time was even more smarter than the Super Power of that age, and the most certified prove, is that when the Empire collapsed the Eastern one stood still and developed more through trading and exchanging culture..
I grew up a few minutes walk from Hadrian's Wall and the one thing that so many people get wrong is when they talk about Hadrian's Wall being the border between England and Scotland. It's not and never has been. A few facts 1. England and Scotland did not exist as countries when the wall was built. They came into existence centuries later. 2. The wall goes horizontally from west to east, from the Solway Firth, however from the same place in the west the England / Scotland border goes diagonally, so although on the west the wall is very close to the border, on the east the border is about 60 miles north of the wall. In the middle the Eng/Scot border is about 30 miles north of the wall. 3. This has always been the case, in fact it was an even more extreme diagonal as Northumbria, an Anglo Saxon Kingdom in the east went all the way up to Edinburgh, whereas now the border is about 30 miles south of Edinburgh.
They also Built the wall in central Scotland. They were basically trying to keep the Caledonii Tribe out not create a border between England and Scotland.
@@ultimateagent1784 The scots didn't arrive from Ireland until after the end of Roman rule in Britain so there were no scots and no Scotland, only the Brits (Pict's) on either side of the wall.
@@perthrockskinda2946 There was NO Scotland, the Scotti tribes didn't arrive in Britain until Long after Roman rule, there were only Brits and Britannia, No England, No Scotland.
Part of the reason for building the wall was to keep a bunch of soldiers employed and well-behaved and deserving of their pay. Romans always built roads and cities everywhere they conquered and were used to building infrastructure wherever they went. Once they realized they couldn't take scotland, but also couldn't dissolve the army or take it home, they had to keep all those boys busy
China :hold my corona virus/sars/h1n1/ insert disease here. cuz we have 0 hygiene and we like to build artificial islands on other country's territories
First impression when seeing it: can't people just jump over it? Then they say it was 20 feet, still no idea if that's a lot or not. Then they say it was 5 tims taller - okay that will do
Worth a visit, imo. As soon as you know that all you are looking at is what's left, you become very impressed. You can also see traces of the ditches on both sides of The Wall (yes, both sides, because ditches demarcated the military zone on the south side). Given that these would have been gradually filled in over the last 2000 years, they must have been massive in their day. And all done by hand.
When the Romans arrived in Britain they were only interested in the South and Midlands plus the West Country primarily for farming and mineral resources, securing these areas from those they weren't interested in was difficult and expensive so they identified the narrowest part of the country and built a wall there. This achieved a number of things firstly using the shortest distance from coast to coast required less materials and time, (so saved money), and secondly less Legions were required to man it. Its nothing to do with the tribes North of the wall being unconcerable in simple terms they weren't worth bothering about as it wasn't cost effective. I'd go further and say if a shorter distance was further into modern day Scotland they'd have built it there.
@@Dhb61 Clearly not a military man, if your securing an area which covers hundreds of miles it's difficult to stop raids/incursions, (in this case by northern Britains not just groups north of today's border), to counter this the Romans select an area where its cost effective to build a wall and man it which is what they did throughout their empire. Rome didn't invade countries for the fun of it, they scouted out lands and if they were deemed to be of value military campaigns were undertaken, the empire was about profit not spreading their ideology.
Most of northumbia too. Basically, the Romans overtook and pressured the natives northward, with the untamed regions of northern England and Scotland becoming difficult to take. This was much to do with the terrain as much as the resistance.
@@PODSMPSG1 Picts. Caledonians. Icenii. Etc etc.......... There were many tribes back then. Some conquered by the Romans, others united and some continuously warred.
I had heard of this wall in a game, Ryse Son of Rome. But never looked into it. Safe to say I'm fascinated, 20ft tall, 8ft wide, for miles! I know it's not the great wall of china but still. Impressive undertaking to say the least!
Good thing the camerman just happened to be there when these two gents just happened to run into each other next to a wall, out in the middle of nowhere. Then the first one is like, "Oh, look, a wall! Hey, is this HADRAIAN'S WALL?!?!?" and the other one is like, "Yeah, mate, that's Hadrian's Wall!" ALL CAUGHT ON FILM!!!
Hadrian’s Wall is the remains of stone fortifications built by the Roman Empire following its conquest of Britain in the second century A.D. The original structure stretched more than 70 miles across the northern English countryside from the River Tyne near the city of Newcastle and the North Sea, west to the Irish Sea. Hadrian’s Wall included a number of forts as well as a ditch designed to protect against invading troops. The remnants of a stone wall are still visible in many places. Contrary to popular belief, Hadrian’s Wall does not, nor has it ever, served as the border between England and Scotland, two of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. However, it does hold significance as a UNESCO World Heritage site and a major tourist attraction.
@@ronaldomadrebien7045 Well, racist hispanic supremicists want an open borders so "people who look like them" can invade the USA, get on our welfare, send the money home. They're looters. And they are happy their corrupt governments running their feudalist states can routinely dump their prisons out into the USA...why 1/3 of all prisoners in California jails are illegal aliens. But Trumps Maximus is building a wall to stop the racist hispanic supremacists from looting our country. So to me, a person who loves America he is Trumps Maximus. And to looters like you he is Trumpus Redickulas. See how that works? It depends if you are a racist, or a good person.
Lawrence Allen ..........Lawrence, it does indeed depend on what type of person you are, and you’ve nailed your colours firmly to the mast for all to see
@@ronaldomadrebien7045 You're just not accustomed to hearing the truth. The Truth is "Hispanic” is a contrived “race.” There is no “Hispanic” race. It is a made-up term that was created to define people who speak a particular mother tongue. Starting with the 1970 Census the term “Hispanic” was created to group people who come from Spanish-speaking countries, and more generally those who come from south of the US border, into one “racial” group. Problem is, this includes people like George Ramos of Univision TV who is as white as a Scotsman. Some so-called “Hispanics” are 95% white, 5% Indian. Some are 95% Indian, 5% white. Some are from African origins. Some are Japanese: yes, many Japanese professional gardeners and skilled farm-workers emigrated to central and south America in the 1800 to work plantations there. Nonetheless, in the 1970 census the fake racial term “Hispanic” was created and receives “protected minority” status, complete with their own claim to victimhood of “systematic racism” status. Why? If “Hispanic” isn’t a race, what is it? It is simply “people from Spanish-speaking countries.” Which is to say: So what? There are thousands of languages spoken around the world. So why not Mandarin Chinese? Or Hindi? We need to eliminate the term “Hispanic” and “Latino” from our census, government programs, immigration lexicon and legal status.
Another example of what incredible builders the Romans were. These days if you wanted to build that thing the six years it would spend at least six years just in committee.
I havent seen Clive for ages , he has got the listenable , likeable factor. 6 years and fifteen thousand men to build ,,hmm well thats were the expression comes from then Rome wasn't built in a day... those men must not have been on that job either. You have to admire the Romans .take care and stay safe .
And I bet it was undermanned for most of its history, as well as being manned by inferior levies or mercenaries. And it almost certainly was never seriously attacked during the entire Roman occupation. All in all more of a political statement than anything.
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I don’t live that far from the eastern end (handily called Wallsend) and what has always fascinated me is what did the locals think? I mean it must have cut someone’s territory in half or whatever. I doubt borders existed between the ‘tribes’ so imagine the next village suddenly being behind a wall? I walked this in 5 days and I can tell you it’s bloody hard going with the tendency to go up and down especially in the middle. The stones were as they say used to build barns, houses and the military road (aka the B6138). The ditches are just as impressive. You can see them following the wall in the farmers fields. Centuries of ploughing and they can still be seen (usually under cows and sheep!).
@@kane3825 If you have the time visit the Antonine wall which runs from west Dunbartonshire through to the east coast, The only good thing to come out of Edinburgh is a Glasgow train.
The wall wasn't about keeping people out, it was about controlling who and what came and went. As with anything, it was about commerce, trade, and business.
I have the feeling that it was also easy for the Northern natives to retake all of Britain if the Romans didn't build the wall. Most times Roman Legions went up the North, it was a slaughterhouse.
10,000 Roman legionaries absolutely destroyed 80,000-100,000 celts during the Boudican Revolt with like a couple hundred casualties. The Britons were no match for the Roman military juggernaut. What discouraged the Romans was the poor productivity of the land.
The wall was often amended over time - added to, removed, forts and milecastle plans and locations were also changed as they were being built. A lot of it was also widened once they realised the pre-existing portions of it weren't simply wide enough for their intentions, so what likely happened is that as the romans withdrew from Britain and the natives started hacking into it for the materials, they tore up the section added later on and had no need to completely consume the entire wall - bear in mind the communities in the area would still have predominantly built structures in wood at the time, and there's an awful lot of stone in that wall!
@Al Castill The Mongolians conquered China. They got all the way down to Vietnam. The Vietnamese actually circulated a pamphlet with tactics they helped them repel the Mongols, which they reprinted to take on the US hundreds of years later.
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Tnanks so much fof making thix video! It reminds me who I am, and what values are most worth cherishing. That wall was built because mighty Rome and its legions feared my Scots borderer ancestors. We stopped them, "and sent them homeward to think again."
@Thoreau . . . but they wanted us all the same, didn't they? They had gobbled up many "backward places" like Scotia--- good for collecting more slaves, if nothing else; but we were a race of warriors until The '45 and Cumberland's ethnic cleansing. Even now that we fight for the English, we still fight; I think it's just what we do. We're very good at it, and there's no shortage of business in these troubled times. Or any times, really . .?!
@Thoreau Dear Thoreau: It would be easier to take you seriously if you were a little less illiterate; i't work on that if I were you. On the other hand, it will probably be covered in 4th grade.
@Thoreau If too many Scots are on the dole, it is because Scotland is economically depressed and England as it has done since 1746 keeps her that way. And what wonderful things have come to us from YOUR ancestral land, hmmm? We invented distilled spirits . . ( you'll learn about those when you are older.)
Basically you're not getting it folks it was a wall yes but it was about the strong points in the wall and that would have contact with one another thereby providing a continuities front. I didn't have to be large it was essentially a static line that the troops could Patrol. Very simple actually!
Actually these guys were Picts, the Scotii still controlled today's Ireland which was called Scotia in the 1st to 5th century then later Hibernia and later Ireland ❤
The Caledonians would not be drawn from the hills,forests and mountains into an open field battle. The Roman's weren't ones for guerilla warfare so they just built a bloody big wall!
@@blootered1317 I am glad they stopped the pillaging. It is indeed a interesting wall. Because my ancestors past and near are from Scotland. I wish we had more documentation of the druids. I suspect they had a team based lateral equal say governance, with a yeoman appointee type leader at battle. We maybe would be better off in doing that structure today. More participatory... It is funny because our prez wants a wall is all. Troubles with his wall. Of course I too am hard to control. A independent thinker. Thanks julie
@@j.b.2263 The province of Dacia still existed. Yes, Aurelian pulled out of Dacia in the 3rd century but Diocletian pulled off a big brain move and created a new province in the south of the Danube and named it Dacia so he could point on a map and say "Look! We still have Dacia, see?! It's right there! Everything is going just fiiiine..."
Hi there! I'm not sure if you'll see this but someone else commented that restoration and tourist projects over the years levelled out the wall, because they wanted to make it even to make a footpath on top of it so you could walk from one end to the other etc. Something like that anyway. Apparently before the projects began it was very uneven and had holes etc, and bits that were higher and bits that were completely toppled. Hope that makes sense :)
I mean sure, but after Rome had seen its height of power centuries before. It is not as impressive to say that you 'defeated' an empire that was declining as it is to say you witheld or threw out an empire from your nation at the height of its power. It is a bit like kicking a dead horse.
I was literally typing how mediocre and useless this wall would have been then I heard him saying it was four times this size.
I stand corrected and admit my naivety and stupidity 😂
Ross Turpin
Ikr! Before I saw this vid, the only part of the achievement that impressed me was the 73 mile length. Otherwise I thought it was pretty much an overbuilt stock fence. Knowledge is a better thing...😅 🐑🐮
You weren't alone.
@@amandawilcox9638 It was definitely bigger when it was built that's for certain
@@TheRagingStorm98 True. Sounds like 15' taller, plus the forts. Yikes! 😱
same bruh
Filmed in the days when people shook hands...
No way I thought exactly the same thing. Scary how quickly a thing can change!
Well shake hands again. We shook hands after Ebola. We shook hands after Spanish influenza. God how dumb are we getting.
@@abubu3140 dumb enough not to understand sarcasm so it seems.
Hahaha
Would have been appropriate to throw up roman salutes
Fun fact: This wall is the inspiration for the Wall from GRR Martin's Game Of Thrones.
@dreaming of electric sheep rather picts than scots. the scots originate in ireland and came to britain much later, although they faced the romans as well.
Ah cheers mate. Thought it was the other way round.
@dreaming of electric sheep that is correct pal
And The War of the Roses
I knew it! It reminds me of GOT.
All I can think when looking at that structure with his head poking out is "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"
I get it! 😆
What are you doing in England?
Mind your own business!
Did the Romans make the Britons pay for it?
Yup
Yep except they enslaved them and pillaged their lands
At least the Romans unlike leftist in America knew that protecting borders was important to preserve their interest. That's why Rome existed from 753 B.C to the 400's A.D.
period byzantine empire was Greek not Roman despite what they called themselves
@@derf2170 It was influenced by Greece but they were still Roman in culture. Maybe not ethnically Latin but for all intents and purposes they were Roman.
Mr. Hadrian, tear down this wall!
Well quoted. The painful irony is that when Reagan declared that he had "won the Cold War" (as if it was a winnable proposition!), he essentially confessed that it was still vivid in his hubristic Gipper-esque zero-sum imagination, and that he had been fomenting the 'us-v.-them' conflict from Day 1. Some serious freudian projection.
I laughed out loud
ROMANS...UNBELIEVABLE...
I just found out when they first got to england they established a port...that turned into a village...that turned into a town...that
Turned into a city....that
we call London today...!!!!
Actually the capital of Roman Britain was a town called Colchester in Essex, the Romans original landing site is in East Kent. Sorry to burst your bubble
@Anglus Patria why are you so scared? You are off by a whole 10+% and less then 5% is arab
Funfact when Brits came to India they established a small fort at the port which turns into a village Madraspatnam, which turns into a town and later turned into a city named Madras, we call it Chennai today.
Karen McDonald well Caesar was the first to land in Dover where they built a fort and was built upon and is now Dover castle
@Anglus Patria please you can't actually believe there's some master plan to replace us 😂
Amazing how well built these walls were. Even today still in place. Ancient people were smarter than some would have us believe.
The Romans were smarter,yeah..
The Romans were the peak of European civilisation until the Industrial Age.
@@mrrigatone9595 Not just the Romans but every ancient civilization!! Well most of the ancient Roman war tactics and architecture skills were inspired by Easterns.. So the Eastern World at that time was even more smarter than the Super Power of that age, and the most certified prove, is that when the Empire collapsed the Eastern one stood still and developed more through trading and exchanging culture..
No less than we are today..
The Romans way ahead of their time with social distancing.
I grew up a few minutes walk from Hadrian's Wall and the one thing that so many people get wrong is when they talk about Hadrian's Wall being the border between England and Scotland. It's not and never has been. A few facts
1. England and Scotland did not exist as countries when the wall was built. They came into existence centuries later.
2. The wall goes horizontally from west to east, from the Solway Firth, however from the same place in the west the England / Scotland border goes diagonally, so although on the west the wall is very close to the border, on the east the border is about 60 miles north of the wall. In the middle the Eng/Scot border is about 30 miles north of the wall.
3. This has always been the case, in fact it was an even more extreme diagonal as Northumbria, an Anglo Saxon Kingdom in the east went all the way up to Edinburgh, whereas now the border is about 30 miles south of Edinburgh.
njpringle it was the land of the scots and the land of the brits, so technically it was the border between the Roman Empire and scots
Urien Rheged but the wal was used to keep the hostile northern dwellers, or the Scotti out
They also Built the wall in central Scotland. They were basically trying to keep the Caledonii Tribe out not create a border between England and Scotland.
@@ultimateagent1784 The scots didn't arrive from Ireland until after the end of Roman rule in Britain so there were no scots and no Scotland, only the Brits (Pict's) on either side of the wall.
@@perthrockskinda2946 There was NO Scotland, the Scotti tribes didn't arrive in Britain until Long after Roman rule, there were only Brits and Britannia, No England, No Scotland.
Part of the reason for building the wall was to keep a bunch of soldiers employed and well-behaved and deserving of their pay. Romans always built roads and cities everywhere they conquered and were used to building infrastructure wherever they went. Once they realized they couldn't take scotland, but also couldn't dissolve the army or take it home, they had to keep all those boys busy
By 2020 I would've expected you to cgi the wall back in for comparison
Sebastián Alegre they do that but it’s far less extravagant.
Romans: Let's build a wall
*China* : *Hold* *my* *brick*
Trump: hold my concrete
Hold my sticky rice brick
Hold my Corona virus
China :hold my corona virus/sars/h1n1/ insert disease here. cuz we have 0 hygiene and we like to build artificial islands on other country's territories
Turks and Monghols: *Laughs in going around the wall*
First impression when seeing it: can't people just jump over it?
Then they say it was 20 feet, still no idea if that's a lot or not.
Then they say it was 5 tims taller - okay that will do
You could probably clear it by pressing "A" while mid-air.
It lost some height after 2000 years
@freebeerfordworkers Don't worry. They can restore it again. If ever Scotland gains independence.
Worth a visit, imo. As soon as you know that all you are looking at is what's left, you become very impressed. You can also see traces of the ditches on both sides of The Wall (yes, both sides, because ditches demarcated the military zone on the south side). Given that these would have been gradually filled in over the last 2000 years, they must have been massive in their day. And all done by hand.
When the Romans arrived in Britain they were only interested in the South and Midlands plus the West Country primarily for farming and mineral resources, securing these areas from those they weren't interested in was difficult and expensive so they identified the narrowest part of the country and built a wall there. This achieved a number of things firstly using the shortest distance from coast to coast required less materials and time, (so saved money), and secondly less Legions were required to man it.
Its nothing to do with the tribes North of the wall being unconcerable in simple terms they weren't worth bothering about as it wasn't cost effective. I'd go further and say if a shorter distance was further into modern day Scotland they'd have built it there.
Yeah thanks for your idiotic protral. That's why they built a twenty foot wall, man with army's. To save money lol
@@Dhb61 Are you 6 years old?...'20ft wall, man with army's'...wtf!
If the clans North of the border were simply not worth bothering about. Why waste so much resources and man power "unconquerable" and no ill 13.
@@Dhb61 Clearly not a military man, if your securing an area which covers hundreds of miles it's difficult to stop raids/incursions, (in this case by northern Britains not just groups north of today's border), to counter this the Romans select an area where its cost effective to build a wall and man it which is what they did throughout their empire.
Rome didn't invade countries for the fun of it, they scouted out lands and if they were deemed to be of value military campaigns were undertaken, the empire was about profit not spreading their ideology.
tony james yay, someone else who also has good sense. I learnt this ages ago in one of my grandfathers books. No one believed me
The North is modern day Scotland, right?
And a little bit of england
Most of northumbia too. Basically, the Romans overtook and pressured the natives northward, with the untamed regions of northern England and Scotland becoming difficult to take. This was much to do with the terrain as much as the resistance.
@@sshep86 I think the people then were Picts.
@@PODSMPSG1 Picts. Caledonians. Icenii. Etc etc.......... There were many tribes back then. Some conquered by the Romans, others united and some continuously warred.
Look up segadunim its a great museum and roman fort its free entry and great if your into history
I had heard of this wall in a game, Ryse Son of Rome. But never looked into it. Safe to say I'm fascinated, 20ft tall, 8ft wide, for miles! I know it's not the great wall of china but still. Impressive undertaking to say the least!
Are You American?
@@dazdeluxe6672 For better or worse yes I'm an American lol
@Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders Yes, proudly so. Dutch and Norwegian 78% according to ancestry. Lol
Thomas Shelby Leader of the Peaky Fookin Blinders Thats a pretty well acknowledged fact among white Americans.
My ancestry came from Britain, wales region both on my father and mother's side!
That bad white walker dragon just had to go and knock it all down didn't it smh
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
With tons of history as well. It should be a global monument
🥁
In all honesty, one of my favorite periods of world history. That wall was originally 6 meters high right?
@Jerry Ilic They're not bricks!
C Rose neither was the lyrical mention of bricks in Pink Floyd’s song.
Simply amazing!!
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Good thing the camerman just happened to be there when these two gents just happened to run into each other next to a wall, out in the middle of nowhere. Then the first one is like, "Oh, look, a wall! Hey, is this HADRAIAN'S WALL?!?!?" and the other one is like, "Yeah, mate, that's Hadrian's Wall!" ALL CAUGHT ON FILM!!!
Hadrian’s Wall is the remains of stone fortifications built by the Roman Empire following its conquest of Britain in the second century A.D. The original structure stretched more than 70 miles across the northern English countryside from the River Tyne near the city of Newcastle and the North Sea, west to the Irish Sea. Hadrian’s Wall included a number of forts as well as a ditch designed to protect against invading troops. The remnants of a stone wall are still visible in many places.
Contrary to popular belief, Hadrian’s Wall does not, nor has it ever, served as the border between England and Scotland, two of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom. However, it does hold significance as a UNESCO World Heritage site and a major tourist attraction.
My Dad took me there in 1991, incredible rock skills
To think they made this without the technology and tools of today just amazing
If you imagine that this was built in just a few years...
They said Six years not a few and 15000 men, to me that seems slow
@@BigRed2 Faster than some road projects in modern times that span much shorter distances :^)
Our southern wall here in America is built by Trumpus Maximus.
Lawrence Allen .............I prefer to think Trumpus Redickulas
@@ronaldomadrebien7045 Well, racist hispanic supremicists want an open borders so "people who look like them" can invade the USA, get on our welfare, send the money home. They're looters. And they are happy their corrupt governments running their feudalist states can routinely dump their prisons out into the USA...why 1/3 of all prisoners in California jails are illegal aliens. But Trumps Maximus is building a wall to stop the racist hispanic supremacists from looting our country. So to me, a person who loves America he is Trumps Maximus. And to looters like you he is Trumpus Redickulas. See how that works? It depends if you are a racist, or a good person.
Trumpus Bigus Dickus
Lawrence Allen ..........Lawrence, it does indeed depend on what type of person you are, and you’ve nailed your colours firmly to the mast for all to see
@@ronaldomadrebien7045 You're just not accustomed to hearing the truth. The Truth is "Hispanic” is a contrived “race.” There is no “Hispanic” race. It is a made-up term that was created to define people who speak a particular mother tongue. Starting with the 1970 Census the term “Hispanic” was created to group people who come from Spanish-speaking countries, and more generally those who come from south of the US border, into one “racial” group. Problem is, this includes people like George Ramos of Univision TV who is as white as a Scotsman. Some so-called “Hispanics” are 95% white, 5% Indian. Some are 95% Indian, 5% white. Some are from African origins. Some are Japanese: yes, many Japanese professional gardeners and skilled farm-workers emigrated to central and south America in the 1800 to work plantations there. Nonetheless, in the 1970 census the fake racial term “Hispanic” was created and receives “protected minority” status, complete with their own claim to victimhood of “systematic racism” status. Why? If “Hispanic” isn’t a race, what is it? It is simply “people from Spanish-speaking countries.” Which is to say: So what? There are thousands of languages spoken around the world. So why not Mandarin Chinese? Or Hindi? We need to eliminate the term “Hispanic” and “Latino” from our census, government programs, immigration lexicon and legal status.
Some People: Walls don't work
Hadrian: Are you sure about that?
Ladder, rope and shovel: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
well if you plan to invade... that thing do cause a lot of slow down... which the whole point of it...
I'm from Rome
I visited the Hadrian wall is fantastic
And I visited also the London Roman ruins
Another example of what incredible builders the Romans were. These days if you wanted to build that thing the six years it would spend at least six years just in committee.
I havent seen Clive for ages , he has got the listenable , likeable factor. 6 years and fifteen thousand men to build ,,hmm well thats were the expression comes from then Rome wasn't built in a day... those men must not have been on that job either. You have to admire the Romans .take care and stay safe .
And I bet it was undermanned for most of its history, as well as being manned by inferior levies or mercenaries. And it almost certainly was never seriously attacked during the entire Roman occupation. All in all more of a political statement than anything.
I live right next to this wall. It’s a beautiful part of the world.
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I don’t live that far from the eastern end (handily called Wallsend) and what has always fascinated me is what did the locals think? I mean it must have cut someone’s territory in half or whatever. I doubt borders existed between the ‘tribes’ so imagine the next village suddenly being behind a wall? I walked this in 5 days and I can tell you it’s bloody hard going with the tendency to go up and down especially in the middle. The stones were as they say used to build barns, houses and the military road (aka the B6138). The ditches are just as impressive. You can see them following the wall in the farmers fields. Centuries of ploughing and they can still be seen (usually under cows and sheep!).
Going to visit that for sure in my trip to scotland/uk.
Why so=? whats wrong with the London
Just remember that it's in England not Scotland 😉
Ill keep that in mind, maybe flying straightly to Edinburgh then. Id love to see some local football too, not just the big ones.
@Anglus Patria thank you, Ive only got a Rebics Eintracht frankfurt jersey, but i have west ham's scarf though
@@kane3825 If you have the time visit the Antonine wall which runs from west Dunbartonshire through to the east coast, The only good thing to come out of Edinburgh is a Glasgow train.
This is just the border between England and Scotland incase Scotland Does a Third Brexit
Hermit Crab it’d not the border between England and Scotland muppet. And all those people who liked your comment are clueless
@@MisaloSloe *Compromises*
Modern border follows the Tweed river about 50 miles north of Hadrian’s wall and branches off north at Berwick which is on the east coast
@@lazuriidkwhattoputhere8719 Yeah... we'll compromise by taking back all of historic Northumberland, all the way to Edinburgh.
Good to watch very interesting 👍
I can watch those videos all day long just to listen to that adorable british accent..and I am much into the history of britain 😍
The romans said some walls and barriers pre-dated them.
“A bloody Big Wall”. Exactly what I wanted to hear
Love Hadrian's Wall videos!
Yeah was wondering about the height. Glad they addressed it first.
I love Clive Anderson. Bit of a TV legend on pre digital days of UK media.
Ah yes, THE Wall In The North
It is not the Wall in the North! It is the Wall in the south! The Antonine wall is way further North than Hadrian's.
Hadrian: We are going to build a Wall! And belive me, noone build walls better than me. AND we make The north pay for it!
The wall wasn't about keeping people out, it was about controlling who and what came and went. As with anything, it was about commerce, trade, and business.
I have the feeling that it was also easy for the Northern natives to retake all of Britain if the Romans didn't build the wall. Most times Roman Legions went up the North, it was a slaughterhouse.
Kunst Wunderkammer I mean I guess that’s why they built it then lol
Not true. Initially Rome lost one Legion in Scotland. Didn't take long however for the Romans to return and slaughter the Picts.
not really, taking and holding the north wasnt worth it as there would be little return. they smashed the picts multiples times
10,000 Roman legionaries absolutely destroyed 80,000-100,000 celts during the Boudican Revolt with like a couple hundred casualties. The Britons were no match for the Roman military juggernaut. What discouraged the Romans was the poor productivity of the land.
Human history. Beautiful
I understand how it shrank in height, but how did it shrank in width and still maintained its regular shape?
The wall was often amended over time - added to, removed, forts and milecastle plans and locations were also changed as they were being built.
A lot of it was also widened once they realised the pre-existing portions of it weren't simply wide enough for their intentions, so what likely happened is that as the romans withdrew from Britain and the natives started hacking into it for the materials, they tore up the section added later on and had no need to completely consume the entire wall - bear in mind the communities in the area would still have predominantly built structures in wood at the time, and there's an awful lot of stone in that wall!
Would have liked to have seen more of the wall at 3:23 than the rest of this clip
Wow, apparently Walls do work! Imagine that!
@daUser666 yes paying for a useless wall that can't even stand strong winds
@Al Castill LOL So just a roof on stilts?
@@maoinc13 according to CNN?
@daUser666 Best tax dollars I ever spent.
Yes they do! In 122 AD (ACE).
Did the wall really protect romans from the enemy?
Yes
Yepperrrss
@Al Castill The Mongolians conquered China. They got all the way down to Vietnam. The Vietnamese actually circulated a pamphlet with tactics they helped them repel the Mongols, which they reprinted to take on the US hundreds of years later.
@Al Castill and the jurchen tribes
No of course not, ancient peoples just built huge and expensive infrastructure like that with manual labor just for the fun of it.
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They say the legend of Arthur and excaliber was forged around the time this wall was in it's full glory. But who can tell 😉
There’s also a Antonine Wall further North but nature has nearly eaten that wall up
These people in Ancient Times know no limits
He wrote a pamphlet?! That's awesome.
That’s awesome!
Tnanks so much fof making thix video! It reminds me who I am, and what values are most worth cherishing. That wall was built because mighty Rome and its legions feared my Scots borderer ancestors. We stopped them, "and sent them homeward to think again."
@Thoreau . . . but they wanted us all the same, didn't they? They had gobbled up many "backward places" like Scotia--- good for collecting more slaves, if nothing else; but we were a race of warriors until The '45 and Cumberland's ethnic cleansing. Even now that we fight for the English, we still fight; I think it's just what we do. We're very good at it, and there's no shortage of business in these troubled times. Or any times, really . .?!
@Thoreau Do you have a Brexit hangover, little one? Aw.
@Thoreau Dear Thoreau: It would be easier to take you seriously if you were a little less illiterate; i't work on that if I were you. On the other hand, it will probably be covered in 4th grade.
@Thoreau If too many Scots are on the dole, it is because Scotland is economically depressed and England as it has done since 1746 keeps her that way. And what wonderful things have come to us from YOUR ancestral land, hmmm? We invented distilled spirits . . ( you'll learn about those when you are older.)
@Thoreau Go home, Littlle Troll, and learn some actual history. And some better manners --Over and Out!
Amazing .. !!!
Basically you're not getting it folks it was a wall yes but it was about the strong points in the wall and that would have contact with one another thereby providing a continuities front. I didn't have to be large it was essentially a static line that the troops could Patrol. Very simple actually!
Just goes to show .. separation has always been here.
What's more impressive is the Romans could handle the Germans and Greeks but not the Scots..
They could not handle the Germans which is why they built another huge wall.
Germanic tribes sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Well by Germans i mean Gaul i guess and yes Teutoberg forest and such.. I know
Actually these guys were Picts, the Scotii still controlled today's Ireland which was called Scotia in the 1st to 5th century then later Hibernia and later Ireland ❤
There was 2 walls. The second in Scotland was useless
This weekend we are celebrating the 1900th anniversary of the building of the wall.
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run just to take care of the northern part of the island? How much did that wall cost anyway?
Would love to reconstruct a mile of the wall
Fun Fact : later after the roman left, they using Stones from Hadrian wall to build a Castles.
hi bro you know the track at 0:35 it sounds amazing
@Urien Rheged leave that for now i have a better question what's the soundtrack at 0:35 ?!!!
Thanks Hadrian
As far as the later English were concerned, Hadrian had the right idea.
1:04 Dr Nick walked the length of the wall XD
its great that this whole wall is older than america! cracks me up
The Caledonians would not be drawn from the hills,forests and mountains into an open field battle. The Roman's weren't ones for guerilla warfare so they just built a bloody big wall!
Never fight an enemy that is bigger than you the Picts were the masters of the hit and run ❤
That wall looks very jumpable
It would be difficult to shift rustled cattle over that.
Fascinating!
Why would they need a wall on the top of a cliff? Just saying
Kept the Roman's from falling off the cliff 😉
Because people could still climb the Cliff. I imagine they also had a Tower over there
Upvoted for Clive.
Title: The Roman wall that split Britain in two
Me: which one?
Can anybody tell me if this is the full video or just a piece??
So everyone stole stones and all agreed to stop stealing at 5 ft? 💩
Lol they're such liars, i don't see any local villages nearby either
Grand observation.....so funny.....
Nope, they stopped when it was protected by the National Trust as a monument.
Jj Gogojag . Like Stonehenge and other historic sites Hadrians wall was listed about 100 years ago to be protected from damage.
@@blootered1317 I am glad they stopped the pillaging. It is indeed a interesting wall. Because my ancestors past and near are from Scotland. I wish we had more documentation of the druids. I suspect they had a team based lateral equal say governance, with a yeoman appointee type leader at battle. We maybe would be better off in doing that structure today. More participatory... It is funny because our prez wants a wall is all. Troubles with his wall. Of course I too am hard to control. A independent thinker. Thanks julie
The broght fighters from Dacia to defend the wall. Best of them!
There are Dacian names on some graves there.
Nope. Dacia was destroyed before the wall was built, they brought in an aux. Unit from what was then already a Roman Province.
@@j.b.2263 The province of Dacia still existed. Yes, Aurelian pulled out of Dacia in the 3rd century but Diocletian pulled off a big brain move and created a new province in the south of the Danube and named it Dacia so he could point on a map and say "Look! We still have Dacia, see?! It's right there! Everything is going just fiiiine..."
Im gonna build a wall so huuuge !!
2:38 WHAT IS THE MUSIC NAME GUYS PLEASE !!!!!!!
And where did they get all those stones...?
The Great Wall of Roman
You should change it to "Rome" sounds kinda bit cool too.
They all stopped taking bricks at 4 ft? Was there a limit? Like its even all the way across...
Hi there! I'm not sure if you'll see this but someone else commented that restoration and tourist projects over the years levelled out the wall, because they wanted to make it even to make a footpath on top of it so you could walk from one end to the other etc. Something like that anyway. Apparently before the projects began it was very uneven and had holes etc, and bits that were higher and bits that were completely toppled. Hope that makes sense :)
There was a lot of manual labor in the past
Slavery it was
@@NoobMachiavelli the roman legions built their stuff themselves
TOWER TOP
Roman soldiers built roads, bridges, walls and forts during peacetime, slavery was used but mainly in cities or for gathering raw materials
@@weisthor0815 but they also used slaves
hi could anyone tell me the name of the first track at 0:35
0:25 "AD 122". That's how you do it, not 122 CE. It's inaccurate to use CE on historical contexts and should only be used on Science.
Why
Because he’s obsessed with Christianity
Good to see Clive. So, Trump is roman
Trump is Roman,Hilarious!👏😆😅😂🤣
Nope TRUMP is a joke
Imperator Trompus
@@maoinc13 I know that,that goes without saying!👍But the comment itself is funny to!😏
@@maoinc13 The two statements are not mutually exclusive. 😵😷😝
Fun fact: This wall is bugged in the server and the devs are to lazy to fix or remove it.
It's a dream of mine to see this one day.
"The Roman Wall". There was 2 walls not one in Britian. Antonnies wall further north was built 20 years after Hadians wall.
Then Hadrian made the Druids pay for it, and like it?
And yet we still took it back for the romans
I mean sure, but after Rome had seen its height of power centuries before. It is not as impressive to say that you 'defeated' an empire that was declining as it is to say you witheld or threw out an empire from your nation at the height of its power. It is a bit like kicking a dead horse.
Tacticalshadow 04 Lol no.
The Romans left due to troubles in their heartland, or due to some Celtic tribes in the north.
Imagining 500 men per small post on a 20 x 8 foot wall 😬
The Romans didn't have balls to conquest Scotland.
They did but the picts went in to the highlands and scattered
saw a wall in AC Valhalla , wonder what that was,
so here it is
This must of been some sight when it was at its height full of roman soldiers