Roman History 18 - The Roman World

This is from the podcast series The History Of Rome by Mike Duncan.
He currently does The Revolutions podcast

[jasonmccallum]

this podcast is the best thing on the internet

[dpavlovsky]

This was really great. Thank you for taking the time to do this for us.

[colonelcarrillo]

Hand's down my favorite episode, it was great listening to this whilst playing Witcher 3.

[chrisregg]

26:15 is when that Gawd awful ringing ends.

[olefredrikskjegstad]

Mike Duncan neglected to mention the small village on the North Atlantic coast, whose Indomitable Gauls made life quite awkward for the surrounding Roman garrisons :)

[latinmasschoir]

Brilliant. I love this man's style and content. Thanks mate

[adeelhussain]

Wow, the intense level of inequality is not often exposed or covered in-depth - I much appreciated understanding the socio-economic scale of the citizenry as often times we are primarily concerned with the economy as a whole in modern studies, which does not work in ancient imperial structures - as individuals and courts owned vast swaths of land.

[mhick]

The best history presentation i have ever heard and i was a history major

[mklopfer]

Turning pirates into "fowler-mouthed than average farmers" - love these subtle jokes!!! Keep adding them to Revolutions! Keep up the fantastic podcasting work!

[alclay]

I have actually been eager to get out of work so I can listen to your podcasts on the way home. How much time have I wasted listening to the same songs over and over lol

[stephenoconnor]

Hi - I just wanted to thank you for this series - a lot of effort from you but it’s just fascinating. My hoppy is ancient history and this has helped join the dots so much.

[jeffersonthomas]

the sound has a problem with ringing. A pretty bad problem that should not have been allowed to happen.
At the second section the ringing stops.. about 26:00 or so.

[alexandregoncalves]

Look at these maps ! (really great videos ...thank you so much for your time...)

[judaspriest]

I guess mike duncan doesnt realize that some people like me. Learn best through repetition. This is my 2nd time listwning to this series. Why? Because my memory is shit and i need to read and watch things a minimum of 2-3 times before i retain it. I would thoroughly thrive in roman school.

[stehfreejesseah]

The first segment really rings true, to this day.

[MrSaywutnow]

29:22 "Because the one major upshot of early Roman education was that it left its pupils intellectually incurious, distrustful of teachers, and generally glad to be rid of anything that reminded them of school, books, or learning in general."
The same could be said of Western education today, and the West is in decline much like Rome.

[Aristocles]

The Romans exported far more than just wine and olive oil to the rest of the world. India purchased things like coral, gold, clothing, silver, and other roman goods. Most of the supposed trade deficit was really about a decline in morals brought about by (supposedly) purchase of silk from China. Or rather, merchants who bought the silk cheaply in china, then resold it several times heading west, where the price was dramatically marked up by the time it got to the Roman Empire.

[jackthaone]

For me this is my favorite episode of this series.

[fartakiss]

1:11:35 I really don't see what people find so enduring about Cato... A man so jealous of Caesar, that he was willing to partake in a Civil War, just because he couldn't prosecute Caeser... People wanna spin that in to some high-mindedness about his love of the Republic... I think Cicero was more of a Patriot and genius then Cato ever was.

[fiddleriddlediddlediddle]

Having your curiosity beat out of you through mandatory memorization over a prolonged period of time is hitting too close to home.