Aqueducts: Technology and Uses - Ancient Rome Live

[@mrssmigglesworth2756]

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]

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.

[@Chujoi0]

Nice Alt

[@vineetmishra8512]

@Marco Elon STFU dumb

[@amritathakur9008]

Binod

[@typingcat]

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

[@dolphszn2721]

More like without a level or osha lol

[@shastasilverchairsg]

And clumsy Roman numerals too.

[@DirtCobaine]

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]

@@DirtCobaine Ancient aliens. I knew it.

[@guyanaspice6730]

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]

Very helpful thank you for making it simple and easy.

[@chadcastagana9181]

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]

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

[@violetblue8216]

Only as Rome could, they went through the mountain.

[@matthewmelo3212]

???

[@amritathakur9008]

Binod

[@Spoutinwyze]

@@matthewmelo3212 !!!

[@laurasantini4731]

civilization brought me here

[@radDocu]

sameeee

[@jacksank98]

Very informative and helpful, thanks!

[@AncientRomeLive]

You're welcome!

[@rogeriolopes3562]

Nossa, que construção incrível!!!!🇧🇷

[@ConfortinDEADHORSE]

Awesome awesome video!!

[@language-n-learning]

Amazing video. Great work!

[@MorphingReality]

Informative :)

[@Ruouiji]

The genius of the Romans!

[@gaboseries5252]

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]

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

[@deleonacademy1409]

Cool!

[@longyu9336]

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]

They were, indeed, outstanding. And still impress today

[@Spoutinwyze]

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.

[@blackhillsbirder881]

Cool stuff!

[@marthaarya167]

wonderful

[@benpalmiere3539]

thanks

[@mohammedzulk8485]

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

[@TappanZee1234]

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

[@carlrodalegrado4104]

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

[@waleed9671]

Great

[@MomentsinItaly]

What a great channel!

[@AncientRomeLive]

Thanks !!

[@robertbogan225]

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

[@412StepUp]

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]

@@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

[@danielroque8504]

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

[@bruno7140]

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

[@amritathakur9008]

Binod

[@hopman8000]

you just said the same thing twice

[@Kino-Imsureq]

@@hopman8000 5/1000 = 0.005 not 0.005%

[@hopman8000]

@@Kino-Imsureq ohhhhhh ok i get it

[@mariaantonellabizzarri3812]

👏👏👏

[@AncientRomeLive]

CiAO!

[@CemeteryGates007]

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

[@dahliathereader2872]

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

[@toxict3mpz757]

Source?

[@ramenseie2481]

Source??? any peer review??

[@necorvartem6803]

Romans didn’t really understand physics.

[@deleonacademy1409]

Maybe not 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@guyanaspice6730]

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

[@anthonybarnes2355]

Far out man !

[@obamalastname34]

Monty Python has brought me here.

[@guyanaspice6730]

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

[@johnmarinoni5507]

Sirmione

[@mrcstm]

Definitely Egyptian

[@finn.blackk]

🥶

[@amritathakur9008]

Binod

[@finn.blackk]

Yeet

[@chelseabaker6272]

Yeet is the best

[@chelseabaker6272]

Yeet

[@wmcbarker4155]

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

[@brebuoch]

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.

[@ОвочеваБаза]

*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]

@@ОвочеваБаза Slaves having slaves? Slaveception.

[@TheSatisfactoryMeatstick]

Virtue signalling at its finest.

[@rougesify]

You must be American, filtering everything through American interpretative lenses

[@tammywhitson4164]

Boring!

[@antzzors126]

Then don't watch simple