How The Romans Would See Us Today

A time portal has just opened, from which 6 of Rome’s greatest leaders have stepped into our world. What would they think of us? How do our civilizations compare?

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The Pyre
Majestic Hills
Gregorian Chant
Teller of the Tales
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach]
Heavy Heart
Intrepid

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No. 3 Morning Folk Song – Esther Abrami
Checkmate

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[iamtrash]

Roman Noble "What is this?"
"It's sports"
Roman Noble "Why are they wearing clothes?"

[Klip]

Ah yes, the three pillars of modern society:
-Airplanes
-Tanks
-Toasters

[chocolate]

I imagine Caesar playing Total War : Rome and just speedrunning it like crazy.

[KOKOBC]

Imagine people in 4020 making videos on what if people from 2020 suddenly got teleported to the present

[rymdalkis]

One thing we know for certain is that Julius Caesar would immediately get a hair transplant

[toyotatacoma]

“Where are you from that they don’t have tomatoes?”
“Italy.”
This is hysterical.

[hybridhd]

You know for a fact that Caeser upon hearing of all that Augustus had done would be extremely proud of him. Augustus was basically the greatest leader in history. Never can forget the absolute epic bromance that was Augustus and Agrippa.

[Volvith]

Romans: "What's that?"
Army Boys: "That's a tank."
Roman: "Explain."
Army Boys: _"Turtle Formation go _*_boom."_*

[JonesCrimson]

"Everyone is wearing pants..."

"Yeah...?"

"Savages..."

[altairiel]

Augustus: You there, citizen! What is in this bottle?
Me: That's hand sanitizer. We use it to clean our hands
Augustus: It says it kills 99% of... GERMS?! WHERE IS ARMINIUS?! I JUST WANT TO TALK

[zac]

The Emperors being shown their statues: “how wonderful, tales of our conquests have lived through the years”

Marcus Aurelius, wandering into a bookshop: “MY FUCKING DIARY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE

[natem.]

Friends but it's 6 Roman Emperors in modern America

[gloriousphantom]

Romans looking at Europe
“So what you’re saying is...you have more than one nation around you and you HAVENT invaded them in an attempt to annex them and create a huge

[emilbruns]

Imagine the Romans learning of the rise of Prussia. They would probably be very impressed that such a relative small kingdom could built an army better disciplined than probably any other army in history including their own.

[pokemaniacqolem]

"You should not let such trivial incidents defeat you", damn man. I love this.

[peenplays]

Many different Roman figures would all react differently, but after studying Caesar for a ridiculous amount of years I feel confident in saying that after having modern systems of war explained and shown to him, he would undoubtedly figure out how to effectively utilize them extremely quickly - probably better than most current military leaders.

[erichtomanek]

Constantine: Christianity!!!
The 5 others: Christianity???

[uknwtheusername]

Caesar: Why does everyone pronounce my name wrong?

[stormevans]

My mind was blown when I was in Romania as a young teenager and I realized that the language I was hearing and the old road I was standing on had their roots in the Roman empire. I wish there was a good way to tie all this rich history together for people because most people have such a limited understanding of why things are the way they are, it's like they could only figure out how to teach so much in a short period of time while keeping it coherent..

[BrendanGeormer]

I imagine taking them to Roman artifacts in museums or things like the Parthenon (Greek, to be fair, but they would be familiar with Athens to some degree presumably) or the Colosseum, and showing where modern roads occupied the same routes that ancient roman roads once did, would be stunning to them.