How Ancient Romans Made Perfectly Straight & Durable Roads, Concrete Better Than Ours, & Much More

[@TodayIFoundOut]

0:00 How Did the Ancient Romans Manage to Build Perfectly Straight, Ultra Durable Roads? 17:35 What was It Really Like to Be a Slave in Ancient Rome? 31:14 How Did the Ancient Romans Make Concrete So Much Better Than Ours? 41:42 Were the Ancient Romans Really Wildly Debauched or Actually Prudes 53:45 Did Gladiators Really Live or Die Based on Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down by the Audience? 1:04:24 That Time a Farmer was Given Ultimate Power Twice and Changed the World By Walking Away Both 1:14:55 Fact From Fiction: What Really Happened on the Ides of March? 1:37:03 The Chickens That Decided Ancient Rome’s Major Events and Shaped World History

[@THE-X-Force]

Thank you for the chapters baked into the video .. please consider doing it for the rest of your channels ☮

[@ajblue90]

who the fuck is this guy

[@Pylon069]

Rome wasn't built in a day, nor was this video, thank you simon

[@TRIChuckles]

Thx

[@reviewchan9806]

We really need to let go of this false misconception that the Romans had better concrete, because they very much did not

[@simonvegas793]

Tapping into the 'long video for people to put on when the go to bed' market and I'm all for it!! 🎉

[@stephenmoore8293]

Me every night searching for a new Simon video lol

[@kkwatson8105]

I can't fall asleep to Simon. He's way too interesting so I end up staying awake. I have to settle for thunderstorms.

[@RobMoerland]

​@@kkwatson8105I always try to listen to his voice, not his story. Yes, his stories are interesting but I can always rewind to the point I recall.

[@ToxikDouche]

i feel real personally attacked considering thats why im on this video lol

[@nolongerblocked6210]

🎯💯 Nailed it!! The only problem is I wanna hear all the info, so I end up going back & watching/listening again while I'm at the gym

[@meltz87]

It's interesting how our voices change slightly over time.

[@mikimichael9729]

It must be so odd to hear your own voice on a regular basis. Would it change subconsciously, I wonder?

[@Cumdown]

Perhaps. But as a professional voice actor, listening, evaluating, and augmenting one's voice is grist for the mill in Simon's world

[@andyvanheule251]

I think it's a different microphone

[@Loralanthalas]

Voices is typically how I recognize people. Can't figure out a face to save my life but everyone has a unique voice.

[@petercozzaglio6070]

This video looks and sounds like it was recorded several years ago. Because his beard is much longer now.

[@djtigerstripes]

Difference between Simon then and now: Simon discovered Keeps for his beard.

[@marcbeebee6969]

*rotten turtle

[@cameronrmwarren]

weirdly young Simon

[@TodayIFoundOut]

We just rebooted his AI. Simon 3000 was starting to become self aware and the way it had started taking over youtube, we were beginning to be concerned it might expand beyond and take over the internet as a whole, and then the world. Certainly we'd all be more knowledgeable, and lord knows the world could use that. But Simon 3000's habit of chaining writers in the basement had us slightly concerned. Pros and cons. Luckily he had built in a reset switch. All good now. -Daven

[@cameronrmwarren]

@@TodayIFoundOut i do hope he's feeding Danny

[@iangoppert6564]

So is this version guaranteed not to chain writers in the basement? Or did you forget to account for that. ​@TodayIFoundOut

[@THE-X-Force]

@@TodayIFoundOut Check the mold in his closet. This could be a "Last of Us" / "Terminator" crossover.

[@Elias-f4y1x]

Best beard of all the simons

[@dbmail545]

Frank Herbert (author of Dune) wrote a short story where the difference between military roads (following high ground) and farm roads (following water drainage) was a plot device.

[@Manofvideos292]

That neon light hasn't worked in a long time. Lol

[@robertmyrick860]

beard hasnt been that short in a long time either lmfao

[@ChazzleDazzleVideos]

Yeah this had to have been recorded years ago lol.

[@mtgdreamer]

Wow, you win a prize I didn't even notice that.

[@marcbeebee6969]

😂

[@Narangarath]

If I recall the light worked for about 2 months and then quit 😂

[@williambrock3534]

I enjoy the longer compilations. Thank you

[@TodayIFoundOut]

You're very welcome :-) -Daven

[@mattj1192]

Ahhh Simon's two favorite things: old vidoes of himself and ancient rome 😂

[@marcbeebee6969]

And he loves his planes and tanks, does not mean he constantly confuses them 😄

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

Love both.😊

[@Octavian7771]

With regards to the 'Way Stations', The word 'Trivia' comes from the Latin 'Three Roads'. The Way Stations were located at the intersection of three (or four) roads, and the banter that occurred at these way station became known as 'trivia'.

[@willowhofmann7409]

I live in California. We have Weigh Stations. They're actually just spots along major highways where they stop and weigh igh multi-axle trailer trucks. I don't know why but I know that's what we have here now. Not sure if this has any bearing whatsoever on your comment. I just thought it was interesting way versus weigh

[@Octavian7771]

@@willowhofmann7409 The words 'way' and 'weigh' share a common etymological origin, both tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *wegh-, meaning "to go, move, transport in a vehicle"

[@forestxander]

@@willowhofmann7409 Weigh stations are not California specific. They can be found in most, if not all, states.

[@danehutchins3845]

Its baby Simon, he looks so innocent.

[@brandongeorge1004]

Great video as always bud. Thanks Keep it up 👍

[@EyesOfByes]

Brain Blaze really put a toll on Simon. Road pun intended

[@Shoelessjoe78]

Hard work, quality materials, proper time allotted to workers and Engineers... Basically the opposite of our current world.

[@NotMyActualName_]

More like survivorship bias, maintenance and "heavy rocks are durable". There's nothing that the ancient Romans could do that we can't do faster cheaper and better. But we don't build like that anymore because it doesn't make sense to build a building that will last 1000 years. Anyone who has ever lived in a 100+ year old house can tell you how difficult the maintenance is.

[@ludde8405]

@@NotMyActualName_I live in a house that turns 100 this year, sure maintained is more then a new house, but not that much. As long as you change to new environment, then you are good

[@reviewchan9806]

This is Dunning Kruger misconception needs to go. Roman works were not better, we just have the best kept examples left. Most of the Roman infrastructure crumbled, the only reason why we have it left is because they were considered art pieces and kept in good condition intentionally. Modern cement is much better, more flexible, and stronger. The difference is our modern infrastructure has to deal with a lot more load-bearing structure than the Romans ever did.

[@reviewchan9806]

​@@NotMyActualName_yeah seriously. We know what the Romans actually made their concrete out of, and if we knew that, we would just incorporate it into our modern infrastructure. But we don't. Because we know better.

[@dusfitz]

​@ludde8405 my house was built around 1790. I am currently working on replacing the sills and the dry laid foundation. There's alot of maintainance in houses that rely on the things the Roman's did... like really big stacked rocks for structural walls.

[@marinemarcusbradley]

That's not Simon. Simon has a viking beard from the halls of Asgard. 😆

[@alanhilder1883]

It must be one of his clones.

[@SeattleShelby]

The AI must have made a mistake generating his beard.

[@charleslisauskas9067]

I see you guys saw Spiff's video about abusing the KZbin algorithm. Very cheeky.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Yeah, because long videos are a new thing....

[@lynnkay417]

I love the longer episodes! 🎉

[@iTeerRex]

Hey Simon, tell us about your health regiment. You look 20 years younger 😁

[@marcbeebee6969]

Drink keeps 😄

[@Ben-j5f]

Thanks

[@TodayIFoundOut]

Thanks! :-)

[@shades9723]

Got a video for my drive and walk to the fishing spot! Love it! ❤🔥

[@marcbeebee6969]

Did you catch something good? And are you in driving distance of Frankfurt germany. Grill is in the car 😂

[@shades9723]

@@marcbeebee6969 just a bunch of bluegill, and I’m in eastern Washington. Wish I was near I would take you up!

[@marcbeebee6969]

@@shades9723 ok next time i show you a great place here on bad homburg for lachs Forelle. Google it. Its a awsome salmon Variant

[@stevewatha]

Top quality work, as always.

[@jimrf1137]

Can't get enough of your content. Thanks

[@jhosk]

Happy you mentioned the lime and how it heals concrete.

[@kamikazetsunami9137]

Simon loves talking about Rome!!!

[@robertmatch6550]

I learned of Cincinatus when I was quite young because I lived in Cincinnati. Great name for a town. I'm proud to be American for the stories and principles of moderation, self control, which allow us to get along and steadily improve ourselves and our conditions. It's not easy and it's not supposed to be easy. But it allows for love and happiness. 1:12:45

[@autaviafoster3711]

Cincinnati was the first to pop in my head, actually, when i heard his name. However, since this is a first me hearing of him and because i thought his name started with a "S"; I didn't connect the dots until i saw this comment. Hella, cool! 😄

[@autaviafoster3711]

I actually came down here to see how his name was spelled the further the video went on😅 Edit: Whoop, if i had just waited, sam mentions it in the video🤦‍♀️

[@billhayesiii]

Big brain! I love this video. You rarely comment. Although I also love your commentary

[@jeremyv2163]

At 13:00 you sat nero cut the price or corn??? They didn't have corn

[@1Bearsfan]

I was coming to say this! Corn didn't exist in the old world.

[@Martin_Daniel]

@@1Bearsfan Only North Americans anglophones call maize (mays) corn. In England corn is a variety of grains like barley, wheat and oats.

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

Yes, “corn” essentially means “grain” in the UK. What we think of as corn in the US is often called sweetcorn. Or at least it was in the late 80s and early 90s, when I visited there. I remember enjoying a prizewinning sandwich from Boots which had sweetcorn on it. I ate that thing almost every time I found myself at Boots around mealtime over my longest visit. . 😁

[@evertjan9479]

Corn is also used as an umbrella term for various types of grains. Barley, wheat etc.

[@brgorham68]

Since I grew up in Cincinnati Ohio I really appreciated his segment.

[@dalbalgbusc]

Walking the appian way was the greatest moment of my life

[@maranathaschraag5757]

New Casual Criminalist rule: Don't ignore the sacred chickens.

[@danieledwards4987]

Cheers mate, as always you got intrigued.

[@stalker-anoniem3515]

Hi there,👋 There are even remains of the Romans here in Nijmegen, the Netherlands also known as Noviomagus 2000 years ago. Greetings from Holland.🇳🇱

[@marcbeebee6969]

God save the king. Hi from your brothers 🇩🇪

[@rienkhoek4169]

Which is pretty cool, considering rocks or other hard wearing materials are rather uncommon in these areas.

[@marcmarc172]

17:30 HAHAHAHAHAahahah this transition from perfectly spoken in the old episode to an absolute smushfestalphfle in the new one.

[@sterlling1]

@todayifoundout I see what you are doing with these long format videos. I'm still here for it.

[@AnthonyRBlacker]

I had a crazy flashback to a Simon with a thin short beard, younger looking than I can even remember AND a blue neon light that - NOBODY can fix, sorry, that light is IMPOSSIBLE to fix. So.. YAY? A great blast from the past I'm guessing, we put together a nice long compilation video of the Romans and their AMAZING roads. AWESOME! I hope all is well with the family! (including all the writers)

[@Martinit0]

Great section about Roman concrete!

[@Grz349]

26:58 I wonder about how much the different origins of Slaves contributed to slaves not considering themselves as a single group.

[@BryanPacker420]

Simon uploading content so old his neon sign still works.

[@giannidcenzo]

Digital Simon is everywhere.

[@eakinnally]

Adorable! It took me two hearings of "Tarquinius Super-bus" to realize Simon meant "Superb-us."

[@alannitcher5001]

The farmer king. I guess this inspired the tale of the first king of Sendar. As told by Silk to Garen. In The Balgariad by David Eddings.

[@theresehopkins1581]

I prefer the younger Simon, with the more relaxed attitude and the perfectly manicured beard.😊❤

[@nathanirvine3007]

I listen to this Baker all the way to San Bernardino.

[@MoiraMcGill]

On the Chinese and the thumbs up meaning "number one" or "nice job", I can easily see the connection for it meaning "number one"/"the best" (the they can be said the same) because it's not uncommon for Asian cultures to start counting (on their hand) with their thumb. From there, I could see how it connected to possibly meaning something along the lines of "(did a) nice job". To us today, it would be the equivalent of it meaning "nailed it".

[@Straightarrow213]

Yeah, I don’t think the Romans had a 80,000 pound truck going over the roads on the daily😅

[@VIC-jk2qd]

I’m always down to watch, but hasn’t Simon made like 3 vids on this same topic?

[@MarcusfotosDe]

Wait what almost 2h even with simons speet in talking...that works out to about 4h in regular speech

[@Kangamoos]

Baby Simon!

[@Bonjour-World]

Question: you make two references to a people that both the Greeks and Roman looked down upon (around time code 45:00). The 'closed captions' read "Truscan" and 'Truskin'. Are these references to the "Etruscan civilization" that predated the Roman Empire ?

[@vitocattivo]

His beard is growing in reverse

[@Stopitrightnow9460]

He looks exactly like that decoding the unknown guy. Crazy

[@megaflamer]

Illuminati confirmed! the lizard people are infiltrating!

[@Namdrac]

Dang, I think this was before business blaze.

[@allisonfisher9304]

What year is it

[@balconoff]

Was it just years of being a toutuber that made Simon so much more gregarious or did his personality change with it?

[@thelloyd87]

How long ago was this filmed?

[@ScotChef]

i admire your bravery talking openly about our secret chicken overlords like this. The bearded egg disguise makes perfect sense now.

[@zampettedainsetto]

The Romans' art of making durable roads was clearly lost over time in Italy. The other month they tried to fix part of my street where the sanpietrini had been removed in order to reach the pipes underneath and the new patch of road lasted exactly 20 days before the sanpietrini started collapsing into the ground.🤦‍♀️

[@MrThhg]

Saviano tonk!!

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Italy doesn't 'do' roads or governments. Pizzas and churches, they're top notch . . .

[@DanPaulk]

50 seconds in and I’m already enjoying the slowed rate of speech

[@goreobsessed2308]

Many ancient cultures would judge overland distance based on how long it would take to march soldiers to the next point no tools necessary

[@BoysDayOfficial]

I dont mind David Hinskey videos, but he’s not the man I fell in love with, Simon ❤

[@moss1066]

What you done to your beard man? The guess who tile look rocked.

[@rogerstroklund6809]

"Malcolm McDowell, noted British person" Isn't that a South Park Christmas Special reference?

[@phildad4900]

Romans again Simon? That's great for me, I love Roman history. 🤣

[@coreymartin6363]

Et tu, Brute! I'm glad they didn't edit that out. It's humanizing.

[@ShimejiiGaming]

Fresh tech news :D 9800x3D i hope AMD does actually have some tweaks that do more then a few % on the 9800x3D.

[@Crioten]

Starfishes love you

[@lil.perkocet7102]

Dope

[@charlesbryson7443]

Rome spent the time and money. They didn’t cut corners. They took pride in their actual accomplishments.

[@masheroz]

Be careful of selection bias. All of the dodgy roads would have worn away, only leaving the good ones for us to see.

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

I guess getting a perfect line - they would have to cut a corner or two...

[@joelsullivan1248]

History of Simon’s beard

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

Way back machine Simon lol ❤😂

[@sywrexile3078]

Younger Simon here with his neon sign working. I feel like I'm back in Roman times hehe.

[@blairm3683]

beard looks better, and video is great

[@Tinomentoll]

How did Nero cut the price of corn?Was this a pre-new world "corn", because there wasn't maize/corn until post-Columbia 13:41

[@Rubix003]

Is this a re-upload?

[@charleslisauskas9067]

Sort of. It's a mega compilation of previous videos put together

[@simonvegas793]

Compilation

[@boyzinthewood1]

😮 the beard!

[@mr.z3664]

Part one: Young Simon. Part two: older Simon. Part three: older Simon after snorting a line.... The evolution is extraordinary.

[@toastychunk8752]

The blue chew ad before the video went like this: “Does blue chew actually work?” “Bro the first month is free”

[@markkinder6275]

In Huddersfield, a clinker is aka a winot, or a cling on.

[@jonahs.757]

"What the fuck?!" - Julius Caesar's last words

[@AnthonyCarlyle]

The crew: Simon we have another Rome video for you :) Simon: Gaaahh! I've already covered everything! Just clip-out what you need from the thousand other bloody Rome videos

[@cavramau]

Light on a hill visible for miles at night. Light travels in a roughly strait line.

[@anthonydefreitas6006]

Sacred chickens sounds like the work of Gustavo Fring.

[@christianhoffman7407]

24:56 "As you might imagine from this, slave *rebellions* did not tend to include all levels of slaves as these different levels of slaves often *competed* and *didn't see themselves as one class of people* . Why is that Simon - why would I imagine that? Is it because this scenario sure does sound familiar? So you would have slaves who were fed up and others who were content with being bootlickers and would sabotage the rebellions of the other slaves while actually siding with their oppressors even though it was so obviously *against their own interests* . Where have I seen this before?

[@jalbertseabra2283]

Nero was not unhinged. After Budicca's defeat, Resulting in a massacre of about 200 thousand briton warriers, General Suetonious, the Governer of the Britan, delt with anyone involved in the revolt with an extremely heavy hand. Nero replaced him by a more diplomatic governor. The Province was totally under control and Suetonious projected an excessive image of cruelty -- Nero found that conduct negative for Rome's prestige.

[@AlrightAndy]

Go 70mph down one… then let me know how perfect they are

[@marcbeebee6969]

We have some in germany. I bring the benz you bring a huge beer and we need a camera man.

[@ahabsbane]

Being a tradesmen who ALMOST can't find a tool i don't understand: i likely would is strings several angles of perspective. When this is used in long lengths, and overlapping measurement points, you can maintain a remarkable measure of straightness. Edit: ok i wasn't to far off.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY.

[@WilliamHaisch]

“Babe, how often do you think of the Roman Empire?”

[@Budsport_TV]

Anyone watch an entire one of these only to realize at the end you really didn’t care at all about the topic lol.

[@jilln1379]

Could some creative person please recreate the neon sign with LEDs? I forgot how much I liked it.

[@maleindividual7437]

Ah i see now why they liked Lincolnshire as much as they did, 'see that village 15 miles on the horizon mr engineerious? Built a road over there' 😂 ive often thought while driving on some of the roman routes just how soul destroying it must have been to walk them back in the day, just a straight line for miles

[@bobingabout]

This is a compilation of many old videos, isn't it? I mean, Simon keeps changing age.

[@thirstfast1025]

You mentioned that Nero "cut the price of corn" in the 1st century AD. I thought corn was a crop native to the Americas?

[@everennui1]

Now I know why the CD burning software I used to use was called Nero.

[@VictoriaEMeredith]

Oh my God. How did it take me until now to get that?

[@jrmckim]

Prechild Simon seems sooo young 😅

[@DanJanTube]

"Nero fiddled while Rome burned." - Kanyecus Westus

[@catman8965]

I walked down one of those roads until I came across a sign that said VII-XI. I stopped in for a GUPULOUS MAXIMUS. I'm sure there's a spelling mistake there.

[@johnnydub1985]

Modern traffic rates, that explains everything...

[@mikesandate3222]

Reupload?

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

I was reading this book that stated Gyms and baths and colusiums had to be shut down in modern day Isreal during the Roman times because these are the places were socialisers gathered and trained, and there was a time were so many youth were training their butts off and at the same time getting to many lectured and started to rebel against the empire.... Its a different world from this one when you learn they had to shut down workout centers due to them thinking they could rebel...