Aqueducts: Technology and Uses - Ancient Rome Live

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  • @mrssmigglesworth2756
    @mrssmigglesworth2756 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you for keeping it simple, I watched 4 videos before this one and stopped each less than halfway through because they went on and on as if I was a scholar and understood super scientific talk. I appreciate the simplicity of your answer to my question.

  • @SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1
    @SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 4 роки тому +60

    Bet the rulers and people of Ancient Rome would be proud about their societal structure, efforts and innovations having imprinted the world to such a substantial extent, still to this day. Very impressive.

  • @typingcat
    @typingcat 2 роки тому +18

    They did all this without using a computer or even a calculator.

    • @dolphszn2721
      @dolphszn2721 2 роки тому +2

      More like without a level or osha lol

    • @shastasilverchairsg
      @shastasilverchairsg 2 роки тому

      And clumsy Roman numerals too.

    • @DirtCobaine
      @DirtCobaine 2 роки тому +1

      Oh I’m sure they used some sort of calculators probably something like an abacus . We often underestimate just how advanced civilizations were in antiquity. I mean there’s a reason they call the period between the fall of Rome and the renaissance the dark ages for a reason. As much as scholars like to cite recorded history and dismiss oral histories, most of recorded history has been lost or destroyed so there’s no real way to know exactly what kind of technology these great civilizations had. But Rome consisted of the entire Mediterranean and most of Europe. And a lot of their monuments still stand today, I think it’s safe to assume they didn’t accomplish all of what they accomplished because they counted on their fingers and didn’t have precise technologies. Who knows what tools they had but I think we shouldn’t assume humans only now just decided to become clever.

    • @typingcat
      @typingcat 2 роки тому

      @@DirtCobaine Ancient aliens. I knew it.

    • @guyanaspice6730
      @guyanaspice6730 Рік тому

      Exactly
      For many Miles without even including Curvature in the gradient. Hmmm, earth does not have a curve. Think about that. What is Antarctica?

  • @drewpeters2309
    @drewpeters2309 3 роки тому +6

    Very helpful thank you for making it simple and easy.

  • @laurasantini4731
    @laurasantini4731 3 роки тому +3

    civilization brought me here

  • @violetblue8216
    @violetblue8216 4 роки тому +23

    Only as Rome could, they went through the mountain.

  • @chadcastagana9181
    @chadcastagana9181 6 років тому +35

    1:25 When the Romans built their aquaducts above ground, they did so for practical engineering purposes, not to make a "power" statement

    • @Yeahbuddy-yf2cv
      @Yeahbuddy-yf2cv 4 роки тому +8

      Chad Castagana actually they felt confident enough to do so because they feared no one that’s like leaving a nuclear power plant unguarded and open

  • @rogeriolopes3562
    @rogeriolopes3562 3 роки тому +6

    Nossa, que construção incrível!!!!🇧🇷

  • @jacksank98
    @jacksank98 3 роки тому +5

    Very informative and helpful, thanks!

  • @benpalmiere3539
    @benpalmiere3539 10 місяців тому

    thanks

  • @ConfortinDEADHORSE
    @ConfortinDEADHORSE 2 роки тому +1

    Awesome awesome video!!

  • @gaboseries5252
    @gaboseries5252 3 роки тому +6

    Aztecs had very similar aqueducts. Sure, they made them thousands of years later, but you can give then the same credit since they had no knowledge about anything going on in other continents

    • @macchernac8922
      @macchernac8922 3 роки тому +6

      Absolutely true. Many cultures came to similar inovations independently and should be given credit for their independent developments.

    • @deleonacademy1409
      @deleonacademy1409 2 роки тому

      Cool!

  • @longyu9336
    @longyu9336 3 роки тому +17

    I wonder how people in the dark ages (between 500 and 1000 roughly) saw these magnificent constructions. They must have even doubted if they were even built by humans.

    • @AncientRomeLive
      @AncientRomeLive  3 роки тому +5

      They were, indeed, outstanding. And still impress today

    • @Spoutinwyze
      @Spoutinwyze 2 роки тому

      well, idiots have always existed, so even seeing it in front of them with their own eyes. and using logic that it runs towards an existing city, they would say "fake news!" in disbelief.

  • @language-n-learning
    @language-n-learning 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing video. Great work!

  • @Ruouiji
    @Ruouiji 2 роки тому +2

    The genius of the Romans!

  • @mohammedzulk8485
    @mohammedzulk8485 4 роки тому +20

    Yet no stories of Rome’s enemies simply cutting off their water supply from afar.

    • @TappanZee1234
      @TappanZee1234 3 роки тому +11

      The Barbarians conquered Rome at its end by destroying the above-ground aqueducts.

    • @carlrodalegrado4104
      @carlrodalegrado4104 3 роки тому +1

      I'm sure the Roman Army has a garrison on that area since they also guard their supply lines on war as well

  • @danielroque8504
    @danielroque8504 Рік тому

    We cant even build a road without it a pothole in it!

  • @waleed9671
    @waleed9671 Рік тому

    Great

  • @MorphingReality
    @MorphingReality 6 років тому +10

    Informative :)

  • @marthaarya167
    @marthaarya167 3 роки тому +2

    wonderful

  • @blackhillsbirder881
    @blackhillsbirder881 3 роки тому +2

    Cool stuff!

  • @robertbogan225
    @robertbogan225 4 роки тому +5

    I wonder if they could be brought back. In a diffrent land

    • @412StepUp
      @412StepUp 3 роки тому

      We actually already have aqueducts. Water for New York and LA are brought in from 100s of miles away. They just don’t look like anything like this. They are just pipes now and most of it is underground.

    • @Spoutinwyze
      @Spoutinwyze 2 роки тому +1

      @@412StepUp not to mention lost of it is via pumps and pressures, not gravitational flow (ie a damned body of water has more weight above it creating more pressure to push that water, sometimes even uphill. other times engines or hydraulics are used to create additional force. the romans version using gravity and a slow decline form the source is so much more impressive, but takes up much more space and requires much more engineering skills, however it also required less maintenance thank modern conduits do (as engines break, require fuel, and pipes rust. stone is fairly durable and the old roman concrete was superior to modern cements lasting thousands of years vs our cheap cements that last decades

  • @bruno7140
    @bruno7140 4 роки тому +21

    5/1000 is 0.005 not 0.005% otherwise great video :)

  • @MomentsinItaly
    @MomentsinItaly 5 років тому +5

    What a great channel!

  • @dahliathereader2872
    @dahliathereader2872 3 роки тому +6

    The Persians were the first to create aqueducts. However, the romans took them to the next level

  • @obamalastname34
    @obamalastname34 3 роки тому +1

    Monty Python has brought me here.

  • @mariaantonellabizzarri3812
    @mariaantonellabizzarri3812 Рік тому

    👏👏👏

  • @CemeteryGates007
    @CemeteryGates007 3 роки тому +1

    USACE, please watch this. make an international waterway distribution/allocation!! we are flooding in the east and an inferno in the west. come on! 🤦🤷‍♀️🤦

  • @guyanaspice6730
    @guyanaspice6730 Рік тому

    Not a bit of curvature in gradient; flat earth
    Not so hidden now

  • @necorvartem6803
    @necorvartem6803 3 роки тому +2

    Romans didn’t really understand physics.

    • @deleonacademy1409
      @deleonacademy1409 2 роки тому

      Maybe not 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @guyanaspice6730
      @guyanaspice6730 Рік тому

      They and others Knew earth is Flat; hence, no curvature in gradient. Hope you understand that. Plus Italian Columbus never claimed Earth is a globe. He thought he found a new route to ‘Somewhere’. True
      Only Fake science came up with lies. Polish Copernicus 1543 heliocentric; Galileo ~ 1600 with round earth. Today, Italians will prove Flat Earth with Roman Knowledge

  • @johnmarinoni5507
    @johnmarinoni5507 3 роки тому

    Sirmione

  • @anthonybarnes2355
    @anthonybarnes2355 6 років тому +2

    Far out man !

  • @mrcstm
    @mrcstm 2 роки тому +1

    Definitely Egyptian

  • @finn.blackk
    @finn.blackk 4 роки тому

    🥶

  • @finn.blackk
    @finn.blackk 4 роки тому +2

    Yeet

  • @amritathakur9008
    @amritathakur9008 3 роки тому

    Binod

  • @wmcbarker4155
    @wmcbarker4155 3 роки тому +3

    built by talented slaves, just about everything was built by slaves.

    • @brebuoch
      @brebuoch 3 роки тому +15

      That's blatantly false. A large proportion of the Roman infraestructure was built by the Roman Army, who were most certainly paid for their work. To a lesser extent, locals helped the soldiers build the roads, acqueducts, and postal service stations, since it would benefit them. Slaves werr really not a big proportion, and the Roman Empire in general was not a slavery driven society.

    • @user-yh6je7nh3e
      @user-yh6je7nh3e 3 роки тому +10

      *TL;DR* don't project the newest history political and moral views on the times 2000 years ago. Slavery in the Ancient Rome was nothing like, say, slavery in the USA.
      Just to point it out, "talented slaves", as you say, during the times of Roman Republic and Empire, were secured from any hard labour, were wealthy, could possibly have their own (sic!) slaves, and generally had it much better than an average legionnaire, who was either a poor Roman citizen or a former Italic peasant who joined the army just to get some land and/or Roman citizenship, if he hadn't yet. Finally, the Roman slavery was nothing like the American slavery - even though slaves did not get money for their work, they had a right to sell their products and/or save up enough "gifts" to actually buy themselves freedom, become Roman citizens themselves with all the rights they had, and remain in a client-patron relationship with their former master. Again, most of the clients (technically free people) somewhere in rural Italy had it much worse with their patrons if they lost their harvest but still had to pay for using the patron's land.

    • @longyu9336
      @longyu9336 3 роки тому +1

      @@user-yh6je7nh3e Slaves having slaves? Slaveception.

    • @TheSatisfactoryMeatstick
      @TheSatisfactoryMeatstick 3 роки тому +2

      Virtue signalling at its finest.

    • @rougesify
      @rougesify 2 роки тому +3

      You must be American, filtering everything through American interpretative lenses

  • @tammywhitson4164
    @tammywhitson4164 2 роки тому

    Boring!