What Did the Romans Ever Do for Us?

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  • čas přidán 26. 08. 2024

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  • @user-ff4lr2jj5r
    @user-ff4lr2jj5r Před měsícem +61

    You left out Roman Law, perhaps the most important thing Rome gave us. It firmly established the idea that a defendant was presumed innocent until found guilty...

    • @Pops1970
      @Pops1970 Před měsícem +1

      Because its not really the way it was then.

    • @marvigli993
      @marvigli993 Před 16 dny

      And HABEAS CORPUS

    • @Givemeabreak-56
      @Givemeabreak-56 Před 14 dny

      if you are a roman. Sounds a lot like being a Christian.

  • @orionfierro5115
    @orionfierro5115 Před měsícem +52

    Aside from the aqueduct, irrigation, roads, wine, medicine, public health, and public order What have the Roman's ever done for us

    • @keithjohnston5936
      @keithjohnston5936 Před měsícem +4

      Well they clearly didn’t teach everyone about the use of apostrophes.

    • @slyfoxx2973
      @slyfoxx2973 Před měsícem +4

      I'd add coconuts and the African Swallow.

    • @dianahaugh7521
      @dianahaugh7521 Před měsícem

      Ha ha hA

    • @darylb5564
      @darylb5564 Před měsícem +2

      Okay… but other than those things what did the Romans ever do for us! (Trust me, it’s funnier if you read it with a British accent)

    • @dianasaleh8605
      @dianasaleh8605 Před měsícem +1

      NOTHING !!

  • @RobertLidstroem
    @RobertLidstroem Před měsícem +16

    Whats impressive to me is that by the time of Augustus, Rome really was the wonder of the world. While here in Sweden we could barely build a wooden hut and ate blueberries and if lucky a rabbit....

  • @alberteinsteinthejew
    @alberteinsteinthejew Před měsícem +19

    Why do you forget the Roman alphabets that we are using at this very moment?

    • @packers2superbowl312
      @packers2superbowl312 Před 25 dny +2

      No you can thank the Greeks for that. Latin alphabet is a direct descendant of greek alphabet

  • @donsena2013
    @donsena2013 Před měsícem +10

    Besides the clock (from their immediate descendants), the calendar and the alphabet, Rome has bequeathed to us their concepts of a tripartite government (separation of powers with checks and balances),
    civil and highway engineering,
    dinnerware (knife, spoon & fork),
    newspaper journalism,
    social welfare,
    a well-developed system of law
    and, of course, the arts.
    Most importantly, though, they innovated what we all appreciate the most, the bikini swimsuit, as we can now see in those fantastic mosaics of bikinied Italian girls merrily tossing a beach ball around, as well as in those bikinied female gymnasts performing in the Roman circuses.

  • @manricobianchini5276
    @manricobianchini5276 Před 27 dny +10

    The Romans were awesome. Best culture of the ancient world. Without them, the world would be far different.

    • @jasonkinzie8835
      @jasonkinzie8835 Před 12 dny

      I don't know if it was all rainbows and sunshine. I suspect that the Romans may have had a dark side.

  • @marcoterranova3679
    @marcoterranova3679 Před měsícem +6

    You forgot the ''Roman right'', is the first chapter that is learning in any law school in the world.

  • @chriscripplercruz1833
    @chriscripplercruz1833 Před měsícem +7

    I still don't know how to use the 3 sea shells...

    • @shipsey2
      @shipsey2 Před měsícem +2

      This is the best comment ever

  • @kc4cvh
    @kc4cvh Před měsícem +2

    Decimation has made a comeback in the news media, since the latest stylebook was released. Just this morning I heard a journalist say Hurricane Beryl has 'decimated' the Texas coast.

  • @HailAnts
    @HailAnts Před měsícem +3

    "Brought peace?"
    "Oh peace! *SHUT UP!* "

    • @marcellogenesi6390
      @marcellogenesi6390 Před 28 dny

      No wars in Europe while was part of the Roman empire, but peace and advancement.

  • @LearningSpanishwithDrL
    @LearningSpanishwithDrL Před 26 dny +1

    Great video!

  • @user-wq1cf7ms5r
    @user-wq1cf7ms5r Před 21 dnem +2

    I was going to enjoy this until all this bce and ce stuff kept cropping up. Shut it down

  • @paultyson4389
    @paultyson4389 Před 22 dny

    Well done. Excellent presentation.

  • @kwamesmith3214
    @kwamesmith3214 Před měsícem +4

    Unshamed Gigachad Violence 😂😂

  • @19sept76
    @19sept76 Před 25 dny +2

    Why not just say bc instead and AD much simpler

  • @allengreg5447
    @allengreg5447 Před měsícem +2

    They sure know how to keep order!

  • @joeblowfromidaho3642
    @joeblowfromidaho3642 Před 24 dny +2

    They also gave us the use of a single, communal sponge on a stick to wipe themselves after crapping in a communal bathroom. "Pass the sponge, Maximus!"

  • @anthonyscully2998
    @anthonyscully2998 Před 18 dny

    There are fresco paintings in Pompeii that are almost identical to early renaissance art. It it wasn't for the dark ages the renaissance period would have started 1300 years earlier

  • @HarryGuit
    @HarryGuit Před 13 dny

    You always quote Old World predecessors. I‘d like to mention meso-american irrigation systems.

  • @jfrancobelge
    @jfrancobelge Před 20 dny +1

    What about romance languages spoken by hundreds of millions people?

  • @klip6440
    @klip6440 Před 19 dny

    That covers it from soup to nuts

  • @josemontilla5685
    @josemontilla5685 Před měsícem +3

    Roman Empire fell in 1453...... the Western Roman Empire fell over 1500 years ago

    • @Pops1970
      @Pops1970 Před měsícem

      Nope. They weren't roman at that point.
      This guy is. Correct
      The eastern empire don't count.

    • @josemontilla5685
      @josemontilla5685 Před měsícem +4

      @@Pops1970 I like how confident you sound while being 100% wrong. By that time Rome was over 1000 years old, being Roman was something they wanted to continue so they assimilated to their new home, they learned the local language and customs. They didn't force their way to the locals. Just like when the old Egyptian empire got conquered by another African Empire, and they wanted to be Egyptian as well. Once you know this it will explain why a French King Charlamagne would get the title Emperor of All Romans. And would also explain why Germany was Called the Holy Roman Empire. They still wanted to be Roman. They weren't but thats what they wanted to be. As to the byzantine empire. Nobody in that time ever called it that. They called themselves Roman. The term Byzantine was a term made up by Germanic Historians 100 year after the fall of the last Roman Capital of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. They changed it so they can say that the Germanic Christian people were the ones to take down the Romans and not the Muslim Ottoman empire. The Byzantine Empire was never a thing

    • @John-d7p
      @John-d7p Před 11 dny

      @@josemontilla5685 Correct. Byzantine is a derivative of Byzantium, the ancient Greek name for the city that became Constantinople, and later Istanbul. The Eastern Roman Empire considered itself truly Roman. By the timeof the ottoman Empire's incursions, it was mostly a Greek city, though, at odds with the Latin pope in Rome, from whom it recieved no help against the Ottomans in 1453. To this day, Greece and Turkey are at odds and have fought numerous wars, with the Greeks desirous of eventually re-taking Istanbul and re-naming it Constantinople. It'll never happen.

  • @patrickgallagher9069
    @patrickgallagher9069 Před 25 dny +1

    Drive semi trucks all day on those Roman Roads. They won't last the day. Modern roads are not to be "put to shame.:

  • @user-yu2wo2uj3z
    @user-yu2wo2uj3z Před 28 dny

    of all this, the one about the rabbit is the best one, 😂

  • @Sennmut
    @Sennmut Před 15 dny

    You left out the aquaduct at Caesarea in Israel. Built by Herod the Great to supply the city.

  • @CP-yg9mv
    @CP-yg9mv Před měsícem +1

    The aqueduct?

    • @CP-yg9mv
      @CP-yg9mv Před měsícem +1

      Brought peace…

  • @39lloydb
    @39lloydb Před 10 dny

    Very little.

  • @calemaine
    @calemaine Před 19 dny +1

    The politacal structure of thevRoman Empire may have fallen but uts civilization never did. What we call Western Civilization is actually Roman Civilization.

  • @JosephDeLuna-yj8vg
    @JosephDeLuna-yj8vg Před měsícem +1

    Lots!

  • @barbararicciuto-ns4xl
    @barbararicciuto-ns4xl Před 26 dny

    My ancestors were resouceful

  • @crash-symbols
    @crash-symbols Před měsícem

    How about toga parties?? Or was that the Greeks? I forget.

  • @greyarea3804
    @greyarea3804 Před 20 dny

    Teach us buggery😂

  • @stevecooper6473
    @stevecooper6473 Před 25 dny

    BCE -->BC. CE-->AD

    • @grahamb701
      @grahamb701 Před 24 dny

      Before the Christian Era = BCE, Christian Era = CE

  • @ziusthefirst5387
    @ziusthefirst5387 Před 17 dny

    19 BC

  • @jannarkiewicz633
    @jannarkiewicz633 Před měsícem

    AI

  • @timberwoof
    @timberwoof Před měsícem

    The most important thing the Romans gave us seems to be cheesy video effects that make videos look like someone added stupid inconsistent flickery grainy old-film video effects

  • @SergioGonzalez-ew2po
    @SergioGonzalez-ew2po Před 23 dny

    Democracy??...Nahh...the Greeks...Philosophy= Greeks...Theater= Greeks...and course..Yogurt😂😂

  • @DesertStacker
    @DesertStacker Před měsícem +1

    Rome was like a big cultural vacuum,take over a country take what you can use and call it your own

  • @arturovaldes546
    @arturovaldes546 Před 28 dny +4

    You lost me , when you are afraid of BC & AD. ARE YOU AFRAID OF CHRIST , OR IS IT SIMPLE HATE.

    • @grahamb701
      @grahamb701 Před 24 dny +1

      BC has been renamed BCE, in my world it means "Before the Christian Era" or should that be "Before the Common Error" (of excluding Christ) ?

  • @peterwolff9864
    @peterwolff9864 Před 25 dny

    In addition, the Roman's gave the modern western world the cult worship of a living human as a God. The Roman 1st century BCE established Augustus as a first living cult to be worshipped as a God. This Roman cult worship of a living person as God later spread east to the followers of Jesus who then also declared that he was to be worshipped as a living human as a God.

  • @countrymanvideos6006
    @countrymanvideos6006 Před měsícem +2

    yea you forgot to mention slavery rape & murder eternal wars coruption & depravity just to name a few

  • @ashtonhammond1302
    @ashtonhammond1302 Před měsícem +1

    Seek God, and The Follow Obey the KJV Bible! Hell is eternal so repent! Have a relationship with God. Have forgiveness for others by dealing with the ego issues, they caused!

  • @littlebigjohn69
    @littlebigjohn69 Před 26 dny +1

    you forgot to mention all those capital buildings that are used in todays government buildings.