Ancient Rome's Road System: The Rise and Fall of Rome

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[BIGJATPSU]

It is utterly mind blowing that with just 2 major but easily passable exceptions, the Bosphorus Strait and the Strait of Gibraltar, in 138 AD you could WALK ON THE ROADS around THE ENTIRE Mediterranean Sea and end up in Rome! 😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯

[sufianabuahmad]

I walked on the Roman road in Jordan as a child, even tied my shoes on remains of a pillar. Years later as an adult I wish I marveled at them

[jb]

Factoid: Roman roads played an important role in WWII. U.S. General George S. Patton was a lifetime student of ancient warfare. He actually visited and walked many of the ancient battlefields to study the lay of the land and the ponder their tactics. Gen. Patton knew the names of the generals, what forces they had, what they did, and why they won or lost. He also knew where the old Roman roads were and he knew that although they didn't look like much to the modern eye, they were strong enough to hold modern tanks and military vehicles in bad weather while all other roads were a sea of mud. He put this knowledge to good use during the march on Germany, moving east when other armies were literally stuck in the mud.

[hungrygrizzly]

"....the video about roman sewage is not particularly revolutionary to the modern mind but for some reason you guys really liked it!"

Hey man, its some interesting shit!!

[ignitionfrn]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - An empire of roads
2:50 - Chapter 2 - All roads lead to rome
4:10 - Chapter 3 - Foreign lands
5:25 - Chapter 4 - The laws of the road
7:20 - Chapter 5 - Types of roman roads
8:25 - Mid roll ads
9:55 - Chapter 6 - Cost & responsibility
10:55 - Chapter 7 - Building the roads
13:35 - Chapter 8 - Bridges
14:30 - Chapter 9 - Mile markers
15:15 - Chapter 10 - Maps
16:00 - Chapter 11 - Early waystations
17:00 - Chapter 12 - Postal service
17:40 - Chapter 13 - End of the empire

[noahshaffer]

You guys should also do the Roman Aquaducts.

[hillbillykoi]

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" - Reg

[currotrololo]

Here in Spain where the geography is a real problem into designing a road, the most important highways follow the way of the ancient Roman road. Even many bridges still in use

[thevillagesomalian]

Can you entertain us with a hypothetical break down of a space elevator? I loved the Dyson Sphere episode. PLEASE AND THANKS

[Foxxy_Steve]

It’s incredible that a logistical/ public works system established over 2000 years ago was so well conceived that it’s still used around the world today.

[kek]

It's amazing that the aquaducts always had a 0.1 degree decrease in elevation so the water could flow perfectly

[RedHeadForester]

The aqueducts in Rome are also really cool. Worthy of their own Megaprojects video!
(btw Simon, the promo code is spelled wrong in the description and pinned comment!)

[lrg]

Holy crap 63 days for the post to arrive in Roman times?!? That's like ... 4 days faster than today's postal services!

[brianthesnail]

When I was a child I lived near Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire, England. There was a wall stood next to the road outside the town. One day, somebody noticed it was Roman. It had stood there nearly 2000 years, never fell down, slightly weathered but solid as the day it was built. Astonishing builders the Romans. We still don't know how they made their cement.

[guillerbrady]

A episode on how the British dug out a mountain and turned it into a impenetrable fortress with submarine entrance. GIBRALTAR in Southern Spain 🇪🇸.
Love your videos.
Truly YouTube best Channels.

[marcusmanchester]

Can you do the Inca road system? Not only is it incredibly impressive in its own right, but it was built up in only century.
And your pronunciation of Incan names will be terrible.

[tommyodonovan]

"A beard you could hide a badger in"
-Black Adder

[ronmckee]

Definitely a good episode. Anything about Rome's exploits, technologies, daily life, etc, is appealing to learn about by not only those of us interested in History but also people who just find it interesting much like Egyptian History.

Not many other Cultures like those 2 that draw in the Masses to want to know, see, visit and buy in.

Episodes that deal in them should do well for you and we will enjoy them.

TY

[joeyanny]

Love the works. All of them. How about one on the Roman Aqueducts? I am an engineer by virtue of my undergraduate education.
I have always been fascinated by the Roman Aqueducts. To gravity feed the delivery of water over hundreds of miles all the way to Rome has amazed me my entire life.
Again, thank you for your works. They are extremely informative and artistically well done. Bless you.

[davidwootton]

At school we studied "The Roman Empire". In full. And now you have brought a very dry subject to life. I liked History. And did well at it. I have learnt more from the Internet in the past three years, than I did in ten years of normal school.Trade took over after the roads were built. And they also led to war as well.