@grozbeek mose no, but they did have vomitoria; which isn't what you may think by the name. These were passageways behind and below the tiers of seats, which permitted the rapid exit of the crowd of spectators.
I was fortunate enough to visit this magnificent place when I was touring Italy as a young lad, over 20 years ago now. I still remember standing inside it and thinking about everything that had taken place there. Amazing.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23. We are all sinners. We have all lied, or stolen, looked at women that are not our wives in a sexual way at least once before. Good deeds can't wash away what sins we have done. "10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:10-18. We are all sinners. We all deserve to go to hell. However, there is good news. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23. We have all sinned but since Jesus died for us and rose again, we can be saved. If we repent and trust in Jesus alone for our salvation we shall be saved. We must forsake our sins and not be hypocrites. We will not be sinless or perfect but we will get a new heart that hates sinning and desires to live a Holy life out of love and appreciation for what Jesus did. Repent and trust Jesus alone my friend. Trust that Jesus died for your sins, is The Son of God and rose again on the third day and now is sitting at the right hand of God. May Jesus Bless you, open your eyes and keep you.
Actually the roman gladiators didn't fight to the death cause they were celebrities so if they died people stopped watching. they fought not to the death but until they were tired It was only the prisoners who really fought to the death and died
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio As for prisoners, they were also used in theatric scenes of murder. So instead of actor acting, like they are being murdered, Romans could put prisoner and murder one for real.
How well they fight would save them if a gladiator in their first fight does poorly they probably wouldn't get a second one now if they went out lost but put on a great show they would be spared
I can’t imagine how many people and animals died during the 400 hundred years it was being used..!!! There’s gotta be many lost souls haunting the place..!!!
Jude Evans I'm positive!... how do you think the Titanic went down?... an iceberg?.. ha!.. right! its fairly obvious that ship was attacked by a whale, it used its retractable claws to rip it open like a cheap can of tuna, why do you think so many of the bodies were never recovered?
John Wayne. Wow we live and learn !!! It makes sense now. The sneaky whale was obviously hiding behind the iceberg just waiting to pounce. What a sly disgusting trick. Evil mammal !!!
Jude Evans Not just the Titanic either, every ship wreck in recorded history has been a result of whale attacks, its estimated that whales have killed more people than both world wars combined, but the illuminati has covered it up!
Great video, just a few comments : - Pollice verso : it was most likely more of a hand gesture than a thumb up or down - Crowds : Executions happened at mid day and most people would walk out from the heat and gore to have lunch. Only servants and slaves would remain - Bestiarii and gladiator combats were two separate shows, the former was hosted in the morning and did not involve gladiators - the "Ave Cesar, morituri te salutant" symbolic phrase was not custumary and was actually spoken only once.
I've been there, you get a really odd feeling standing in the middle, looking around at all that time that's passed, knowing the violence and death that happened there. It's just bizarre to be there in modern times, surrounded by tourists and dudes dressed as Roman soldiers who will let you take a selfie with them, for a modest price. 😁
That time. Little chilled :But, mommy, I want to see David's head after the fight. Mommy :Ya, ittll be a fun thing to see 2019. Mommy :Jesus christ, what kind of monster have you become because of roblox.
You're telling me that ancient Romans used to pack into a giant stadium to watch the Lions get killed? They still do that 8 Sundays a year up in Detroit!
You have now inspired me to do a short called “Caesar in the City” In it, Caesar will time travel to the modern era and will say how everything is so different and how he wishes he could go home and see “Lions get slaughtered by armor clad men and picked apart by the Ravens in a glorious stadium” The person he found who had been guiding him then says “Oh we can do that this weekend!” Quick Cut to a football game
@@beengreen5924 I understand that. That's why I said this. The joke failed because it didn't connect at all with the situation. You can't make the "original battle royale" joke on a thing that was nothing like a battle royale, being 1 v 1. Get it.
@@iamgem gladiators actually had meat on them though. They ate food that promoted weight gain..the more fat you had on you the less likely a weapon was to strike organs
@@hez859 Yeah, but gladiators. Most roman citizens(not the warring class, or aristocracy), would have been scrawny, not well fed, and small. Whether slaves, or free citizens ...theyd wouldnt take just everybody to be a gladiator...if nothing else watching some weakling get stabbed or eaten in under a minute wouldnt have been entertaining... its like having an anorexic heavy category wrestler. It just doesnt happen.
I would absolutely be a season ticket holder if we had entertainment like the Romans. You tell me right now this shit wouldn't be popular if it was around today.
The funny thing is much of our modern sports stadiums have adopted many things from the Roman Colosseum, except for free admission. But I would rather pay $20 or $200 for a sporting event today rather than see all the blood and guts spilling out
Days where technology ain't invented yet. One of my most memorable experiences here is when my uncles took me as a celebration of my 12th bday it was actually my first time seeing this,and a flying decapitated head started flying off,but I managed to catch it. It was one of the best experiences ever while watching these breathtaking fights to death with animals. There was also this one time where the gladiator dude that's muscular as fuck started wrestling a big ass Lion and a Hippopotamus. It was fucking insane,dude got his hands and feet chopped off but he actually manage to defeat those animals. But he died the next day,that dude was my favorite gladiator I still have an action figure of him in which his face is carved into a round piece of metal. He was actually one of the best gladiators ever in my time,such a shame he had to die after his best fight. There was also this one time,when the emperor almost fell off his seat because he got irritated by the gladiators running around and not fighting the animals,he was pointing at them ordering the other gladiators to kill them and he leaned so muc that he almost fell off. Because it's ancient Rome,we couldn't laugh. It's a struggle I was dying in holding my laugh,his face while almost falling down was goddamn priceless. Ah those times,I love it. Wish we could bring them back.
Seeing the painting of the naval warfare made me wonder how many people in the audience were hit by arrows during events and what would be done when it happened
"Used for four centuries". Now think of any modern building, and imagine whether or not it will still not only be there but also still be in use in the year 2400...
@@samuellazarov5599 not really a modern building in the sense that I was asking. I mean like one of the skyscrapers now being built. The Shard in London, the Burj Dubai, those kind of famous modern buildings.
@@ajdegroot1980 Notre dame is a modern building compared to the Colosseum, they have only a millennia difference. If buildings are maintained well they can be used for centuries. But very often maintaining a building is more cost-inefficient than demolish and rebuild, so... its durability depends on the initial cost and architectural value in my opinion...
@@samuellazarov5599 Notre Dame is modern when compared to the Colosseum, yes. But not in the senae that I meant. As I said "still be in use in the year 2400" and the discussion was about a building being in use 400 years after it was built I clearly meant a building built around the year 2000 (give or take say 50 years)
@@ajdegroot1980 Discussing life of a building in 2400 is like discussing life and appearance of our grandgrandgrandgrand etc. children. Nobody knows, and we may never know.
We don't know how the thumb of "mercy" or "death" worked, the so called "pollice verso". There are even some evidence pointing to it working the opposite way - "thumbs down" could have meant "throw the sword down". Also, in 1601 translation of Pliny, and John Dryden’s 1693 version of Juvenal’s Satires, the thumb described being bent back, not down, as the death sign. This shows how little we know about it and how later painting, like Jean-Léon Gérôme 19th-century painting, have influenced the mainstream thought of today. "From historical, archaeological and literary records it is uncertain whether the thumb was turned up, turned down, held horizontally, or concealed inside the hand to indicate positive or negative opinions." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollice_verso
I've been to the Colosseum, and climbed stone stairs so worn down they were at a slant. I would love to see an ancient day's "entertainment" just to determine the hard reality from what we THINK is the hard reality. There's something about the situation that seems as if it should be more fluid, but I can't pinpoint it.
Ok the weirdest part I ever learned about the colosseum is this: The statue, the colossos neronis, was supposed to be over 30 meters high, right infront of the entrance to the amphitteatre. Also it was way older than nero himself. (He just had it sculputred after him). So that itself is nothing weird. So far ateast. The weird thing is that no one knows when it was destroyed! I believe in the 9th century it was the last time it was mentioned (and thats just a guess because its not directly relating to the statue). But after that no proof of it whatsoever. No word of it having been destroyed or existing. It just vanished. No one knows what it looked like. But until the 1930s there still was the base of the statue infront of the colosseum, we know that because there are pictures. Mussolini destroyed it though for his road planning in rome though. The statue already was destroyed by then. Isnt that weird? A huge statue like that just vanished from space and time, and no one knows when. I have never heard of anything like that before.
Stands to reason that some pope had it torn down and melted down for some divine purpose, remnants probably adore multiple locations in the vatican, or were used for coins or the like. At least, that would be my guess.
@@Procrastinater That all could have happened. Or it was destroyed by an earthquake, or people needed resources. Or they didnt like it for whatever reason. The point is: Whatever happened - no one wrote it down for history. It just vanished, and no one knows why or even in which century.
Probably an earthquake did it in. The base with the huge feet was still there, to give memory to the place and a new name, while the broken down parts were carted away.
@@druidriley3163 The weird part is not that the statue was destroyed, its just that there is no mentioning of it whatsoever. You just guess stuff, but you have no proof.
This reminds me of IVONHOE and QUOWADIS And Gladiators I saw movies before 70 years Gorgeous it was it tought me to be brave courageous and victorious that is what I am today at 80 years I loved and liked Roman History and Roman Life and Roman Most Beautiful Women thanks for the video
I wish more US UA-camrs would understand that the rest of the world measures in cm/m. It's so easy to put both information in a graphic and adds so much value to videos.
I read once that Gladiator fights is the most well known entertainment of ancient Rome now. But, it wasn't the most well known entertainment of ancient Rome then - chariot racing was. That's e.g. because the Colosseum seated about 50000 people, whereas the largest Hippodrome, Circus Maximus, seated about 150000 people. And, there were also two other Hippodromes.
I visited the Colosseum back in 1983...I thought it was tiny...half the size of a football stadium..and it was overrun by feral cats...hundreds of them...the arena itself was great, and the history of it was awesome...but I still couldn't see how that many people could fit inside such a small arena...
Interesting video, with some things that you miss to mention that the times of the shows... the different amphitheater in the Empire would be nice and the money that was involved even between different gladiator schools!! The days of opening of colosseum was such a spectacular time too, with lots of dead
The ad at the beginning for people to subscribe to the channel has the channel listed at like 300k subscribers in which they currently have over 3+ million. They may want to update that
Idk about the Mayflower specifically, but I know ship travel in the 17th and 18 the centuries was very rough. I read somewhere that out of 100 settlers who set sail for the new world in that era, 70 would be dead within a year. AND THEY KNEW THIS WHEN THEY BOARDED. Those that survived the crossing faced hostile natives, cold winters, poor farming conditions, disease and injury. Yet they came anyway. How bad does it have to be where you ARE to accept a 70% chance of death to get away? There's a documentary on here called the Little Ice Age that talks about why so many northern Europeans were willing to take that chance. Conditions has deteriorated so much, they were literally starving and freezing to death at incredible rates. So it was worth it to at least try to go somewhere else. Brave folks, I'd never want to be that desperate.
Contrary to the movies and popular beliefs, thumbs up from the emperor meant death. Thumbs down wasn't a gesture. It was actually a closed fist with a wrap around thumb that meant mercy.
imagine being a roman kid, your parents finally bought you an action figure of your favorite gladiator, and then he gest killed in the first fight of the day.
Gladiators didn’t usually fight to the death. It was a display of different fighting styles. It was more like boxing or mma. The gladiators were heavily trained and worth a ton of money.
Yes. And then the timing to the music all the while would be also quite mesmerizing. With all of the free time they had training these guys for money I bet the spectacle would be pretty grand.
Optic500 what are you talking about? Of course it’s possible now, hell, hockey rinks are an example of this. We keep ice frozen year round, concerting to a basketball court is as little as 90 minutes. Many of the largest football stadiums have giant metal hatches that open and close depending on the weather/time of day. The video even stated the water was only around five feet deep. Do you really believe we can’t build a stadium like that? The ancients aren’t gods or mystical people better than us. They are simply our history, respect it, don’t glorify it
@@Alan-wj5zc Dragging POWs to arena right after capturing was not a common case. Captured soldiers selected for being a gladiator definitely were not exhausted by the moment of actual fight, they were treated and fed well, because there were no amusement in slaughtering dozen of weak enemies, unlike fight of two athletes. Fighting and defeating at least equally strong enemy was connected to core Roman values of respect to one's courage and willingness to fight. Spartacus is a good example how enslaved military veteran may become a successful gladiator, and then, a leader of rebellion
You would have to be really into violence.....maybe a serial killer.....or otherwise why take the risk? Of course, those times were violent in ways we probably can't imagine today.
Jaza people have always been people, we just like to think as ourselves as better maybe due to technology or maybe we have some weird sense that progress had to have been made from then till now idk. I think more often than not you’ll find the way people act today is more similar to the past than you’d ever think
If the Colosseum were still going today, the fate of a gladiator would be put to the spectators' decision. Each spectator would vote live or die on an app.
@@stevencoardvenice yes, a very stiff drink, and how about a massive Turkey leg to gnaw on as lions shoot from nowhere out of the ground to gnaw on a leg of their own. LOL euphoric!
obiwanfisher537 I did a reverse image search and it seems as though it is used at a tour or museum as an indication of where to stand whilst taking a picture so kids can pose like the Backwards hat kid is doing
Roman concrete is still a mystery today. Supposedly the mixture they used can last for thousands of years. Today's concrete only lasts a few decades at most.
@Adam Infinity not anymore! Turns out their secret ingredient is pretty much Quicklime. It would get wet from rain water and expand, filling in the gaps. Only problem is that rebar would get rusted from it...
not realy if average people enjoyed death humanity wouldnt have made it this fair. hmm who am i kidding these assholes invaded everywhere they could barbaric practice like these would of been illegal in most countrys much like today.
@@ridanann You have to think of the times though. The roman people saw death everywhere, whether it was from war or some disease, it was quite normal. So they decided to make death a bit of a joke and a frivolity in some ways, namely the Colosseum.
@@andirichards7371 deaths still everywhere u dont see the congo holding gladiator like public shows. that wee flag u got there looks familiar hmm see any battle footage on tv recently lol decadence makes life cheap
I say america will never reach PEAK America up until we purposely flood a football stadium and reenact the battle of midway. Mabey not full size ships tho....
The naval battles in the colosseum apparently weren't all that great. At least the Romans didn't seem to fancy them. They fell out of popularity within a decade and eventually the removeable wooden supports for the floor were replaced with permanent concrete supports. Which meant they would never be able to do naval battles again.
World of Warcraft, pvp arena, and the top 1% each season gets gladiator achivement next to their name on each server. And there's also professional esport arena
Collosseum: Road to Freedom on the ps2. You even fight Commodeus, the emporer who believed himself the reincarnation of hercules, along with all the other most famous gladiators like Flamma
What would be the best and/or worst thing about going to the Colosseum?
No worse thing. Almost everything here sounds badass!
having to go to the toilet, just to find 6k people in line in front of you, I guess... =)
Best thing? Absolutely hands down, no questions asked. The wolf nipple chips, they're lovely!
@@stick9078 LOL
Parking and no AC would be the worst but winning a island from merch would be the best
So you’re telling me they actually heard final boss music
Or a soundtrack to their own death
@Softy nah more like the actual Gladiator OST in Doom Eternal
@@partypoison9438 you made my day
Indeed. But it sounded like this - ua-cam.com/video/_B0CyOAO8y0/v-deo.html
Correct
I didn’t realize how advanced the colosseum was. The naval battles really took me off guard
Pat Mustard lmao
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@@patmustard8795 how
agreed i thought that was the coolest part
Man. Imagine if they hosted a navel battle at the super bowl 😍
It has been noted that the Colosseum could go from packed to empty in about 15 minutes; so efficient was it's design.
@grozbeek mose no, but they did have vomitoria; which isn't what you may think by the name. These were passageways behind and below the tiers of seats, which permitted the rapid exit of the crowd of spectators.
There are many inaccuracies in this video.
Ralph The Wonder Llama yea and if the lions got loose that could even go to down 12 or 13 !
The entire building consists of stairs and exits on every side so no one gets cramped in a main exit or what not
Ralph The Wonder Llama 🦙 🦙 🦙 🦙 Negative 👎 100% negative 👎. It took no more than 25 to 41 minutes. courtesy of, “Roman Italy Colosseum”
I was fortunate enough to visit this magnificent place when I was touring Italy as a young lad, over 20 years ago now. I still remember standing inside it and thinking about everything that had taken place there. Amazing.
Top row:
*”I can’t see sh*t”*
Mingle Dingle y the fuck dis you censor your own comenet
Same when you're trying to start a good fuck with a morbidly obese woman.
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Good one. 🤣
asian sumo wrestler to not get it deleted by UA-cam or hidden
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23. We are all sinners. We have all lied, or stolen, looked at women that are not our wives in a sexual way at least once before. Good deeds can't wash away what sins we have done.
"10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness: 15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood: 16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways: 17 And the way of peace have they not known: 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes." Romans 3:10-18. We are all sinners. We all deserve to go to hell.
However, there is good news. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23. We have all sinned but since Jesus died for us and rose again, we can be saved.
If we repent and trust in Jesus alone for our salvation we shall be saved. We must forsake our sins and not be hypocrites. We will not be sinless or perfect but we will get a new heart that hates sinning and desires to live a Holy life out of love and appreciation for what Jesus did.
Repent and trust Jesus alone my friend. Trust that Jesus died for your sins, is The Son of God and rose again on the third day and now is sitting at the right hand of God.
May Jesus Bless you, open your eyes and keep you.
Actually the roman gladiators didn't fight to the death cause they were celebrities so if they died people stopped watching. they fought not to the death but until they were tired
It was only the prisoners who really fought to the death and died
Yeah. The fighters are an investment not a disposable. Like modern boxers. Like knights.
@@BichaelStevens Best gladiators had rather good apartments, with food and stuff, as well as best doctors of the time to treat, if they got sick.
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio As for prisoners, they were also used in theatric scenes of murder. So instead of actor acting, like they are being murdered, Romans could put prisoner and murder one for real.
How well they fight would save them if a gladiator in their first fight does poorly they probably wouldn't get a second one now if they went out lost but put on a great show they would be spared
cyclone x your comment is giving me some ideas about Hollywood.
I just imagined a hungry lion making his way to the coliseum to Stone Colds theme song.
westnile21 - Or a hungry lion making his way to the colosseum on an office chair.
Or a lion on a four wheeler.
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"GET YOUR HOT CHIC PEAS!!"
Got any nuts?
They were probably over priced . Just like the food at any professional sorts stadium today !
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED"
Sorry, had to say it
Shark tale?
Wild Bill Hickok.
Was looking for this 😂
I can’t imagine how many people and animals died during the 400 hundred years it was being used..!!! There’s gotta be many lost souls haunting the place..!!!
Richard Ernst at least 6
@Idl You are probably right.
They fought whales?.... makes perfect sense seeing whales are fast on land, have razor sharp teeth, retractable claws, and are extremely aggressive🤔
Are you sure about the claws bit ??
Jude Evans I'm positive!... how do you think the Titanic went down?... an iceberg?.. ha!.. right! its fairly obvious that ship was attacked by a whale, it used its retractable claws to rip it open like a cheap can of tuna, why do you think so many of the bodies were never recovered?
John Wayne. Wow we live and learn !!! It makes sense now. The sneaky whale was obviously hiding behind the iceberg just waiting to pounce. What a sly disgusting trick. Evil mammal !!!
Jude Evans Not just the Titanic either, every ship wreck in recorded history has been a result of whale attacks, its estimated that whales have killed more people than both world wars combined, but the illuminati has covered it up!
Thanks for the warning John Wayne. No more cruises for me
Gladiators were expensive. They rarely fought to the death.
Great video, just a few comments :
- Pollice verso : it was most likely more of a hand gesture than a thumb up or down
- Crowds : Executions happened at mid day and most people would walk out from the heat and gore to have lunch. Only servants and slaves would remain
- Bestiarii and gladiator combats were two separate shows, the former was hosted in the morning and did not involve gladiators
- the "Ave Cesar, morituri te salutant" symbolic phrase was not custumary and was actually spoken only once.
Did Gladiators also have their own entrance music? If so, it would have been pretty cool.
ULATAN until they died.
Lol
I see what you did there.
asmr kitty good one pussy
AND HIS NAME IS SPARTACUS *LOUD TRUMPET NOISES*
Seems like the ancient humans and us aren't so different
Minus all the amazing Craftsman ship,discipline, courage, strength...you are spot on.
Yeah we just have made things like these more convenient and uh... Less dangerous
Evolution may not be real
@David Nduati This has nothing to do with evolution, dipshit.
@@TheHobofosho you think there aren't disciplined or good with hands people nowadays? lmao
I've visited the Colosseum and it's awesome!
in a past life
@@MrProzacmilkshake It's still there and it is still impressive. Imagine what it was like when all the other buildings were only 6 stories high.
I've been there, you get a really odd feeling standing in the middle, looking around at all that time that's passed, knowing the violence and death that happened there. It's just bizarre to be there in modern times, surrounded by tourists and dudes dressed as Roman soldiers who will let you take a selfie with them, for a modest price. 😁
That time. Little chilled :But, mommy, I want to see David's head after the fight.
Mommy :Ya, ittll be a fun thing to see
2019. Mommy :Jesus christ, what kind of monster have you become because of roblox.
Lmao i was expecting something gore but but u typed roblox :P
You're telling me that ancient Romans used to pack into a giant stadium to watch the Lions get killed? They still do that 8 Sundays a year up in Detroit!
You have now inspired me to do a short called “Caesar in the City”
In it, Caesar will time travel to the modern era and will say how everything is so different and how he wishes he could go home and see “Lions get slaughtered by armor clad men and picked apart by the Ravens in a glorious stadium”
The person he found who had been guiding him then says “Oh we can do that this weekend!”
Quick Cut to a football game
The Detroit Lions Silverdome stadium is very much like the Roman Colosseum.
THE ORIGINAL BATTLE ROYALE 🍸👌
It was 1 on 1.
Jonathan Allard Issa joke
@@beengreen5924 I understand that. That's why I said this. The joke failed because it didn't connect at all with the situation.
You can't make the "original battle royale" joke on a thing that was nothing like a battle royale, being 1 v 1.
Get it.
Loving this content
They were smaller, and slimmer though. So 50k back that would be about 75 percent of that much people now...
I wonder if those gladiators would see the people in today’s world what their thoughts would be. Walking land whales perhaps?
@@iamgem Wed be like warcraft orcs compared to them.
@@iamgem gladiators actually had meat on them though. They ate food that promoted weight gain..the more fat you had on you the less likely a weapon was to strike organs
@@hez859 Yeah, but gladiators. Most roman citizens(not the warring class, or aristocracy), would have been scrawny, not well fed, and small.
Whether slaves, or free citizens ...theyd wouldnt take just everybody to be a gladiator...if nothing else watching some weakling get stabbed or eaten in under a minute wouldnt have been entertaining...
its like having an anorexic heavy category wrestler. It just doesnt happen.
More like 50% compared to now
This channel's video's are stooopiiid. And I LOVE it. hahahhahah
aahhh, good ol days... no camera, no flashlight, no nothing, just everyone enjoying the show.
Idl dead af
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i like your fucking outfit
@@juanmaulana7141 jeez chill bruh
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I would absolutely be a season ticket holder if we had entertainment like the Romans. You tell me right now this shit wouldn't be popular if it was around today.
I always say this with the film running man, if it was real it would be huge
I love this channel! 😂 .....best on UA-cam @ the moment! 💯👌🏻
The funny thing is much of our modern sports stadiums have adopted many things from the Roman Colosseum, except for free admission. But I would rather pay $20 or $200 for a sporting event today rather than see all the blood and guts spilling out
nah I rather see free blood and guts
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?"
Thanks for sharing your informative and entertaining documentaries.
So the gladiators is pretty much ancient WWE? God I love history lmao
Ah good ol gladiator fights, only BC kids can relate.
Days where technology ain't invented yet. One of my most memorable experiences here is when my uncles took me as a celebration of my 12th bday it was actually my first time seeing this,and a flying decapitated head started flying off,but I managed to catch it. It was one of the best experiences ever while watching these breathtaking fights to death with animals. There was also this one time where the gladiator dude that's muscular as fuck started wrestling a big ass Lion and a Hippopotamus. It was fucking insane,dude got his hands and feet chopped off but he actually manage to defeat those animals. But he died the next day,that dude was my favorite gladiator I still have an action figure of him in which his face is carved into a round piece of metal. He was actually one of the best gladiators ever in my time,such a shame he had to die after his best fight. There was also this one time,when the emperor almost fell off his seat because he got irritated by the gladiators running around and not fighting the animals,he was pointing at them ordering the other gladiators to kill them and he leaned so muc that he almost fell off. Because it's ancient Rome,we couldn't laugh. It's a struggle I was dying in holding my laugh,his face while almost falling down was goddamn priceless. Ah those times,I love it. Wish we could bring them back.
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Congrats on the video and on the fun way of telling it! History is awesome!
wow I didn;t knew that Richard Tretheway was alive back then :D 0:27
🖐️I like your videos, and those jokes thrown through the video are just the best😊
Cool, it would be "fun" to battle in the different design of the matches, if everyone survived
Seeing the painting of the naval warfare made me wonder how many people in the audience were hit by arrows during events and what would be done when it happened
"Used for four centuries". Now think of any modern building, and imagine whether or not it will still not only be there but also still be in use in the year 2400...
Notre dame?
@@samuellazarov5599 not really a modern building in the sense that I was asking. I mean like one of the skyscrapers now being built. The Shard in London, the Burj Dubai, those kind of famous modern buildings.
@@ajdegroot1980 Notre dame is a modern building compared to the Colosseum, they have only a millennia difference. If buildings are maintained well they can be used for centuries. But very often maintaining a building is more cost-inefficient than demolish and rebuild, so... its durability depends on the initial cost and architectural value in my opinion...
@@samuellazarov5599 Notre Dame is modern when compared to the Colosseum, yes. But not in the senae that I meant. As I said "still be in use in the year 2400" and the discussion was about a building being in use 400 years after it was built I clearly meant a building built around the year 2000 (give or take say 50 years)
@@ajdegroot1980 Discussing life of a building in 2400 is like discussing life and appearance of our grandgrandgrandgrand etc. children. Nobody knows, and we may never know.
gladiators: *fighting and taking their enemy's organs off and swing the around*
emperor: "More music"
"I don't know about you but my bet is on the Spaniard."
We don't know how the thumb of "mercy" or "death" worked, the so called "pollice verso". There are even some evidence pointing to it working the opposite way - "thumbs down" could have meant "throw the sword down". Also, in 1601 translation of Pliny, and John Dryden’s 1693 version of Juvenal’s Satires, the thumb described being bent back, not down, as the death sign. This shows how little we know about it and how later painting, like Jean-Léon Gérôme 19th-century painting, have influenced the mainstream thought of today.
"From historical, archaeological and literary records it is uncertain whether the thumb was turned up, turned down, held horizontally, or concealed inside the hand to indicate positive or negative opinions."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollice_verso
Yes, I learned that "thumbs down" meant mercy
Thumbs down was mercy. Thumbs up was kill.
@@RamesesBolton
We don't really know that. We don't have a way to know that.
WELL DONE! MY MAN!!
I've been to the Colosseum, and climbed stone stairs so worn down they were at a slant. I would love to see an ancient day's "entertainment" just to determine the hard reality from what we THINK is the hard reality. There's something about the situation that seems as if it should be more fluid, but I can't pinpoint it.
What would you do if a Spector steals your Damnati Face Cream.
Ok the weirdest part I ever learned about the colosseum is this: The statue, the colossos neronis, was supposed to be over 30 meters high, right infront of the entrance to the amphitteatre. Also it was way older than nero himself. (He just had it sculputred after him).
So that itself is nothing weird. So far ateast. The weird thing is that no one knows when it was destroyed! I believe in the 9th century it was the last time it was mentioned (and thats just a guess because its not directly relating to the statue). But after that no proof of it whatsoever. No word of it having been destroyed or existing. It just vanished. No one knows what it looked like.
But until the 1930s there still was the base of the statue infront of the colosseum, we know that because there are pictures. Mussolini destroyed it though for his road planning in rome though. The statue already was destroyed by then.
Isnt that weird? A huge statue like that just vanished from space and time, and no one knows when. I have never heard of anything like that before.
Stands to reason that some pope had it torn down and melted down for some divine purpose, remnants probably adore multiple locations in the vatican, or were used for coins or the like. At least, that would be my guess.
@@Procrastinater That all could have happened. Or it was destroyed by an earthquake, or people needed resources. Or they didnt like it for whatever reason.
The point is: Whatever happened - no one wrote it down for history. It just vanished, and no one knows why or even in which century.
Probably an earthquake did it in. The base with the huge feet was still there, to give memory to the place and a new name, while the broken down parts were carted away.
@@druidriley3163 The weird part is not that the statue was destroyed, its just that there is no mentioning of it whatsoever.
You just guess stuff, but you have no proof.
@@obiwanfisher537 - the Romans had a gazillion statues. And everyone hated Nero. So there's that. Easy to forget him.
This reminds me of IVONHOE and QUOWADIS And Gladiators I saw movies before 70 years Gorgeous it was it tought me to be brave courageous and victorious that is what I am today at 80 years I loved and liked Roman History and Roman Life and Roman Most Beautiful Women thanks for the video
I will never drink Sprite again.
Yup, as Carlin said... People are worried about the local water quality, but drinking tons of sodas with lots of sugar and chemical additives.
TrangDB9 ikr
So the colosseum is like the ancient combat sport promotion
I wish more US UA-camrs would understand that the rest of the world measures in cm/m. It's so easy to put both information in a graphic and adds so much value to videos.
Why can't you cope with either?
I read once that Gladiator fights is the most well known entertainment of ancient Rome now. But, it wasn't the most well known entertainment of ancient Rome then - chariot racing was. That's e.g. because the Colosseum seated about 50000 people, whereas the largest Hippodrome, Circus Maximus, seated about 150000 people. And, there were also two other Hippodromes.
What is like life in period after world war 1 to world war 2?
Jubilation, followed by depression.
I would love to watch a show in the colosseum.
Alisson Lares with democrats killing each other
This channel is epic
8:10 Tokyo drift reference?!?!?!
Best. Narrator. Ever.
I visited the Colosseum back in 1983...I thought it was tiny...half the size of a football stadium..and it was overrun by feral cats...hundreds of them...the arena itself was great, and the history of it was awesome...but I still couldn't see how that many people could fit inside such a small arena...
15” seats helped to pack them in.
I had no idea they filled that place up with water and had mock naval battles.
when they say the people at the top couldnt hear. i thought the whole idea of an amphitheater was to project sound
I have a piece of the colosseum... of coarse I didn't steal it!... it just so happened to fall into my backpack😉
Interesting video, with some things that you miss to mention that the times of the shows... the different amphitheater in the Empire would be nice and the money that was involved even between different gladiator schools!! The days of opening of colosseum was such a spectacular time too, with lots of dead
Girls locker room: *Slapping and screaming*
Boys locker room:
No
Narrator is awesome subscribing now
Imagine going to gladiator school, expecting fame and fortune and then getting stomped on by a giraffe or swallowed by a whale.
I stood in the Coliseum, back in the 60s, if only the walls could talk
I'll never drink Sprite again. Ever 🤣🤣
Rome had everything. Baths, brothels, gladiator games, and chariot races. Life was good.
Modern society is boring.
The ad at the beginning for people to subscribe to the channel has the channel listed at like 300k subscribers in which they currently have over 3+ million. They may want to update that
I recall somewhere that thumbs down actually meant to return the sword to its scabbard, in other words, do not kill.
I'd like to hear history about what it would be like to travel on the Mayflower. Unless it's already been done then please link it in your reply.
Idk about the Mayflower specifically, but I know ship travel in the 17th and 18 the centuries was very rough. I read somewhere that out of 100 settlers who set sail for the new world in that era, 70 would be dead within a year. AND THEY KNEW THIS WHEN THEY BOARDED. Those that survived the crossing faced hostile natives, cold winters, poor farming conditions, disease and injury. Yet they came anyway. How bad does it have to be where you ARE to accept a 70% chance of death to get away? There's a documentary on here called the Little Ice Age that talks about why so many northern Europeans were willing to take that chance. Conditions has deteriorated so much, they were literally starving and freezing to death at incredible rates. So it was worth it to at least try to go somewhere else. Brave folks, I'd never want to be that desperate.
Contrary to the movies and popular beliefs, thumbs up from the emperor meant death. Thumbs down wasn't a gesture. It was actually a closed fist with a wrap around thumb that meant mercy.
Not one phone in sight, just people living in the moment.
ok tomber
@@thelonewolfproductionz1592 shut up loser.
And a good few dying
@@MultiKwolf Asians online, I swear.
@@nunothedude I think it's Japanese because of the middle character.
Ah. Those were the days
Hail Caesar
😂
That was way after your time buddy
And I remember them well
Gaius Julius Caesar 🤣 Caesar missing his Empire we all relate to this guys
imagine being a roman kid, your parents finally bought you an action figure of your favorite gladiator, and then he gest killed in the first fight of the day.
He'd be happy though his figure just when up in value by 400% lol
They didn't die so often. They were like athletes and were well protected during the fighting
They didn’t die a lot
Yeah.. maybe grab a book and educate yourself on Roman history.
Its how I felt with my Kobe figures around my desk at the office.
Nothing like watching a man get disemboweled to bond with the kids and wife.
get your hot chick P's hehe
Ah family bonding time
@@geph4444 stfu bitch
See that kids? That’s someone’s guts! :D
It would make the madam very excited and I would gladly walk her to the bed and bond with her.
It was pretty intense my grandpa took me when I was 11 good times
empty happily haha
best youtube comment I've read in a while
Yeah! Even though I was at the back, as a woman, it was fantastic! My neck hurt for days after it but darn, it was worth it!
@Matthew Mcmath r/woooosh
@Matthew Mcmath you couldnt tell it was a joke. Thats a woooosh
Imagine becoming a major fan of a gladiator only to have him die the next day.
*Big oof*
You had bought nearly all of his clay merch
It's still real to me damn it!!
Sounds like Game of Thrones
Gladiators didn’t usually fight to the death. It was a display of different fighting styles. It was more like boxing or mma. The gladiators were heavily trained and worth a ton of money.
@@baldwinslabThat is how Maximus was bought by Proximo who was a former Gladiator, he was loaded because of the fact.
*1000 years from now
“How going to a Football game was like”
Or how crazy FIFA fans were
Football game in cool
@@Htx.lunatic FIFA does soccer not football
@@techhelpportalextras3007LOL, I didn't say it was football. I was adding to the point.
@@thenamesjohny1490 The average football career is only 1 season because of all the injuries
But mommy, I want to sit in the splash zone!
Imagine ep 😂
Sorry just reminded me of Gallagher 🍉🍑
@@barrackhussein464 omg
Jacob Lyman lol
Street Jesus B I G L
Gladiator school: Ok class today were gonna be taking a test to see how well you can kill a lion
The best part is they don't need a permission slip
It's not going to be open book...
when you forget to study
@@a.ortega4505 😂
Could you imagine sitting at that place and watching them flood the entire thing and do a naval battle reenactment....incredible.
Yes. And then the timing to the music all the while would be also quite mesmerizing. With all of the free time they had training these guys for money I bet the spectacle would be pretty grand.
live action movie type thingie
yet in 2019 they dont have the technology to do that in a stadium
Optic500 what are you talking about? Of course it’s possible now, hell, hockey rinks are an example of this. We keep ice frozen year round, concerting to a basketball court is as little as 90 minutes. Many of the largest football stadiums have giant metal hatches that open and close depending on the weather/time of day. The video even stated the water was only around five feet deep. Do you really believe we can’t build a stadium like that? The ancients aren’t gods or mystical people better than us. They are simply our history, respect it, don’t glorify it
Id pay to see that nowadays. Unfortunately they dont have any shows even close to that in these days.
imagine majoring in Gladiator only to die first day on the job
I love the sarcasm in these comments 😂
Well i am assuming these people were actually well trained like soldiers, they'd have a better chance against thieves, bandits, or exhausted POWs
Years of academy training wasted
@@Alan-wj5zc Dragging POWs to arena right after capturing was not a common case. Captured soldiers selected for being a gladiator definitely were not exhausted by the moment of actual fight, they were treated and fed well, because there were no amusement in slaughtering dozen of weak enemies, unlike fight of two athletes. Fighting and defeating at least equally strong enemy was connected to core Roman values of respect to one's courage and willingness to fight.
Spartacus is a good example how enslaved military veteran may become a successful gladiator, and then, a leader of rebellion
You would have to be really into violence.....maybe a serial killer.....or otherwise why take the risk? Of course, those times were violent in ways we probably can't imagine today.
The colosseum was extremely advanced for its day in age, especially the huge shade.
Romans in general was very advanced for their time. Many things we have now are thanks to them. I'm proud to say i was born and live in Rome
the naval battles too
I still think the megalith structures around the world were beyond advanced.
@@madapigi1 ciao anch’io :)
Except for the primitive indulgence that makes the games attractive in the first place... like all sports- bloodlust.
They even sold "action figures" based on the most popular Gladiator for kids. With movable arms that the archeologist had found
Way too much like Today
@@JayzsMr well I am not surprised if Roman kids collected "cards" with popular Gladiators or Charioters just like today Soccer or Baseball cards.
That’s so dope. I didn’t know this!
Jaza people have always been people, we just like to think as ourselves as better maybe due to technology or maybe we have some weird sense that progress had to have been made from then till now idk. I think more often than not you’ll find the way people act today is more similar to the past than you’d ever think
Do you have a link? I did a google search but I only see modern toys of gladiators lol
Boomers: ViDEo GAmeS CausE VioLEncE
people who lived in Ancient Rome: *heavy breathing*
idiot
@Estrada Murcielgo please explain your response with text evidence
@@estradamurcielgo175 why such a jerk
back when sports were good
Boers 😳
Aztecs disagree
Haha
@@AnnhilateTheNihilist head football anyone?
i wonder what would happen if an athlete refused to stand for the anthem
The romans where doing gamer bath water before it was cool
Lmfao
Hey guys, want some roman gladiator bath water.
Now on Ebaylius only at the price of 20 denariuses for 50ml.
LMAO
DeadManWilly: I’m both Dead and Alive
My thoughts exactly
People have been enamored with the bodily juices of people for centuries. This is only the modern take.
*Belle Delphine has left the chat*
If the Colosseum were still going today, the fate of a gladiator would be put to the spectators' decision. Each spectator would vote live or die on an app.
Live die or get raped by a giraffe (I say that as an roman emporor killed a woman prisoner this way
Not a chance with all the modern day snowflakes
@@carnage5901 Bruh roman time people were snowflakes.
@woosh if gay Or may I mean they were just idiots not snowflakes
Modern day Danganronpa
"back in my day we watched the Lions devour men alive"
Troy Slyker and the Jets destroy cardinals
Troy Slyker That’s the way it was and we like it- Grumpy old man, SNL
Well I once saw priscis kill ten men with one sword blow
Ahhh, the good old days
I’m sorry but that is very unfactual people would not spend tons of cash on slaves to fight just for them to be eaten smh
Imagine the smell.
Hahhaha dude
🤣🤣🤣Ahhhh that's gross
jmgmarcus Sweat and horrible breath. They didn't brush their teeth or use soap back then
prolly wouldnt smell that bad lol and id only go in there drunk
@@ezra5788 yes the did they had big bath houses where people would go to bathe and what not Rome was very advanced.
If I could go back in time to witness any events in history, this would certainly be in my list of the Top 5.
lets hope its a round trip time vacation i wouldn't wanna get stuck there
Me too. I'd go for the whole day to see the executions and everything. I'd need a stiff drink though
@@stevencoardvenice yes, a very stiff drink, and how about a massive Turkey leg to gnaw on as lions shoot from nowhere out of the ground to gnaw on a leg of their own. LOL euphoric!
@@wolfeesmom Absolutely! Have no fear because after this we’re heading to Egypt to witness the pyramids being built. Haha
@@jsivna 😂😂😂😂
Time traveller at bottom right of screen at 4:00 wearing a backwards hat.
WHAAAAT :O Totally right. Anyone got a source on that pic?
And a backpack??
obiwanfisher537 I did a reverse image search and it seems as though it is used at a tour or museum as an indication of where to stand whilst taking a picture so kids can pose like the Backwards hat kid is doing
@@nicjade704 THank you very much.
This was the original Waldo.
It’s amazing to me that they built such gigantic structures. And even more amazing that many of them still stand after all this time.
Roman concrete is still a mystery today. Supposedly the mixture they used can last for thousands of years. Today's concrete only lasts a few decades at most.
Right?! I never knew about the awning on the Coliseum. That is amazingly impressive
@Adam Infinity not anymore!
Turns out their secret ingredient is pretty much Quicklime. It would get wet from rain water and expand, filling in the gaps.
Only problem is that rebar would get rusted from it...
Gladiator: i just killed ur best men what do you wanna do about it?
Emperor: *Pulls out thumb* Im about to end this mans whole career.
lol
Real fans up in the nosebleeds. Nothing changes.
My thought as well, but can you imagine going to an event that didnt have monitors on the side for the High seats? God that would suck
No joke haha
not realy if average people enjoyed death humanity wouldnt have made it this fair. hmm who am i kidding these assholes invaded everywhere they could barbaric practice like these would of been illegal in most countrys much like today.
@@ridanann You have to think of the times though. The roman people saw death everywhere, whether it was from war or some disease, it was quite normal. So they decided to make death a bit of a joke and a frivolity in some ways, namely the Colosseum.
@@andirichards7371 deaths still everywhere u dont see the congo holding gladiator like public shows. that wee flag u got there looks familiar hmm see any battle footage on tv recently lol decadence makes life cheap
I say america will never reach PEAK America up until we purposely flood a football stadium and reenact the battle of midway. Mabey not full size ships tho....
That would be cool asf
The naval battles in the colosseum apparently weren't all that great. At least the Romans didn't seem to fancy them. They fell out of popularity within a decade and eventually the removeable wooden supports for the floor were replaced with permanent concrete supports. Which meant they would never be able to do naval battles again.
@@benr.4238 it's bc they created maze with crocodiles
Ahh... Such a good old days, only kids from 1 CE will understand
But the colluseum wasnt opened till 80 ad
@@gavinlongbottom5901 yeah well I was 79 years old when I first watched a gladiator duel.
@Peter Griffin AM😇EN
Paul Toma ohhh
Great to see fellow ancient kids here
imagine smelling the armpits of the crowds
Your assumption might be wrong at least for the upper class.
where did this come from LOL
The whole place probably smelled like pits
I want to lick them
😂😂😂
Why haven’t any devs made a great Roman Coliseum game yet? There’s so much potential
Ryse son of Rome
World of Warcraft, pvp arena, and the top 1% each season gets gladiator achivement next to their name on each server. And there's also professional esport arena
@@xpirelli4765
ive played that game but is there a part where you are actually in the colosseum? (i havent gotten far)
Collosseum: Road to Freedom on the ps2. You even fight Commodeus, the emporer who believed himself the reincarnation of hercules, along with all the other most famous gladiators like Flamma
Blood and glory series