Why You Wouldn’t Survive Living In the Roman Empire

Surviving during the Roman Empire was not for the weak of heart! Check out today's epic new video to see if you have what it takes to make it out of Ancient Rome alive!
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[@GlamorousTitanic21]

When you watch all these videos and realize that you are the living descendant of survivors through all time.

[@Ayodhya9439wijayaratne]

👍

[@bloxburgsisters3172]

Wow that feels weird to think about

[@A.D.540]

@@bloxburgsisters3172 really ha

[@JohnHausser]

Trump supporters be like : no, we are oppressed by Biden and his Liberal friends 😂 Cheers from San Diego California

[@abodieqwerty4678]

@@JohnHausser you liked your own comment

[@erikgilson1687]

Apparently the crowd very rarely wanted to see the gladiators killed which was a surprise to me. Kind of like how MMA fans don't usually want to see anyone actually really badly injured. Even if they were slaves they were still the biggest sports stars of the day and people preferred to see fun fights rather than just brute savagery

[@Terlin1466]

Gladiators trained and condition all year to have a fight. IF they were putting on a good show why would the mob want them dead? besides they got plenty of death threw out the day. A man who fights well should not have to die. Its a matter of Honor. Something that most people today do not understand.

[@TheLeemaVids]

Also - gladiator fights to death were quite rare because buying, training & maintaining a gladiator was quite expensive. It was a lot of wasted money if a gladiator died.

[@OptimusMaximusNero]

A pretty cruel fact about living in the Roman Empire was how hyped the population was once a cruel emperor died, hoping that the next one would be much better, when usually it was the complete opposite. For example, when Tiberius, a sexually depraved tyrant who massacred most of the senators for years, finally died, everyone expected with joy how the new and young emperor would bring prosperity and peace to the Empire. That new emperor's name was Caligula

[@harrietharlow9929]

Yep. At least after the Year of Four Emperors (after the assassination of Nero, they got Vespasian, who was pretty decent as Emperors went. At least he learned from the mistakes of Nero.

[@MibuInMalibu]

@@harrietharlow9929 Nero also wasn’t as bad as many claim and a lot of the history on him is very false which many historians have started to find out

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@MibuInMalibu No, he definitely wasn't as bad as some other emperors. He wasn't even in Rome at the time of the fire. He did come back one and also spent from his personal fortune to help. He also allowed those made homeless by the fire to camp in the Imperial Gardens and other areas until homes could be completed.

[@mikehajek64]

There were many great periods of great emperors too

[@ProudGirlDadX2]

Yeah we read about Caligula in school briefly and I just recently read the Caligula graphic novel and G**DAMN I had no idea. Dude was sick, sadistic, psychotic, evil, cruel and every other nasty word you can think of.

[@mikemclintock3893]

Do you know who else couldn't survive the Roman Empire? The Romans.

[@DMS-pq8]

The Eastern Empire lasted for over a thousand years, Not sure the USA will make 300

[@whitewolfcrowley6550]

They tried! Until 79AD AKA last day of rome I think it's called?

[@twu2293]

@@DMS-pq8 the us has been around since since 1492

[@DMS-pq8]

@@twu2293 Nope The United States was born in 1776 when the 13 colonies declared independence from England

[@juggernautarmory517]

@@DMS-pq8 Of course it'll make 300, way more than 300. This country is too rich and powerful to fall so soon.

[@Johikabob128]

Im not an expert but in regards to the punishments you mentioned, from what i’ve heard and read, a roman citizen couldn’t be crucified. That was only for slaves and non romans.

[@lezzman]

I did the old Wikipaedia test and, according to that, you are correct. The exception was slaves who could be crucified irrespective of citizenship. I recommend you have a read of the article. To say it's gruesome is an understatement. Sometimes the guards would nail the victims up in different positions just for their own amusement!

[@antoinelachapelle3405]

The execution methods for Citizens weren't much nicer. The tarpeian rock for example. Just chuck you off a cliff and let your mangled body in agony for days as others are thrown on top of you

[@Terlin1466]

They could be crucified but only in extreme cases. Army soldiers could be crucified as well. What they considered extreme we would not today so the culture barrier is hard to understand. Jesus case for instance The Jews them self's wanted this because of the matter of Religion. The Roman governor was taken back by it as it was a extreme punishment for a low crime. And ever since Christians understood that story they hated Jews and till this date Jews are hated because they refuse to understand the lesson lol.

[@viktorkolaric4156]

Yeah, Infographics usually has no idea what it's talking about.

[@Boyakishan]

Most gladiators were actually more like sports players, it’s basically like playing as a sport player but more easily open for whatever

[@Kraken9911]

Movies make it seem like it's always a fight to the death but how would you maintain the talent that way? They would normally go to first blood or stop on what would have been a killing blow to call a winner.

[@Boyakishan]

@@Kraken9911 I mean, it’s more fun and it does have more tension, but in most cases it would be like boxing or fencing today, knockout, give up or first blood

[@alexbelt1056]

I haven’t had cable since 2012 cause I just watch KZbin videos of random stuff and infographic show has been the best to learn random back hand knowledge, y’all keep doing what y’all do! Never be a day that I don’t watch y’all content! With love from Tennessee!

[@themetal5587]

KZbin>cable TV

[@MrPaulrael]

Looks like they should upload a video on grammar next

[@cd5433]

Same

[@underratedgod6899]

You don't need tv these days all you need is a phone and wifi

[@resm6035]

My school is actually having a unit currently in Ancient Rome so this really helps :)

[@ives3572]

"Great empires are not maintained by timidity." - Tacitus

[@akramgimmini8165]

I would love (but propably Regret) to visit Ancient Rome

[@ddc2957]

Imagine going in your current clothes & speaking no Latin. Anything is possible I suppose but I wouldn’t like your chances of coming back.

[@decker528]

Id like to have the opportunity to live a normal lifetime in multiple different time periods and locations. Die...just come back somewhere else

[@JuiceMyRandomness]

If like to go for a couple of hours but be armed with antibiotics and travel with a nurse and security lol

[@nmoney6655]

One thing about the Roman Empire is how advanced they were with their knowledge of hygiene and stuff like of course I know I’m supposed to wash my hands and stuff before I leave out the bathroom but weirdly enough most of my ancestors didn’t know that washing their hands was good

[@b.js.p.w5350]

BIG RESPECT for animators

[@atticuswoodhead3760]

I hope this is a joke

[@b.js.p.w5350]

@@atticuswoodhead3760 you always need HOPE

[@doggycatalan]

​@@atticuswoodhead3760LMAO 😭

[@smorphous8928]

Basically living in Roman is like living in game of thrones but it’s 10x brutal.

[@captainchaos1311]

I’ll just use my Latin skills to survive

[@captainchaos1311]

@@elsiesrifle ego pertinent in Roma, ego amore Romana historia.

[@captainchaos1311]

@@elsiesrifle thank you for correcting me, i am new to latin and i haven’t quite figured out the way words are used despite leaning a lot. If i did go back to ancient Rome the only thing I’ll get is confused looks 😂

[@zyairjames6758]

And Rome has a better ending

[@themetal5587]

@@zyairjames6758 they may've went down but still better than got, you are so right

[@YourLifeWasting]

Another great vid love how much I learn from you guys

[@jameshughes3721]

Love you infographic show!

[@glehappletonjr6565]

I love the videos like this that you guys make. I've been watching the infographics show for a long time. Hats off to your great videos, guys.

[@AuRoaraAnimations]

the next person that says public washrooms are disgusting just show them this

[@DMS-pq8]

Yeah but consider that the rest of the world at that time was still crapping in bushes

[@aguynamedbprod]

Informative. Cheers.

[@kebowalker246]

Survival is for the weak! An honorable death in battle is for the strong! ",It's not how you live.Its how you die that matters" Kebo

[@mrdave1716]

Julius Caesar:" Ahh, the good old days."

[@Human-vf3wz]

Dang I love these videos

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

Living in Sparta was even worse you were literally thrown from the cliff if you were demed as “weak” or sick and they would force you to basically Train and join the army at age 7

[@bloxburgsisters3172]

7??? 😵

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@@bloxburgsisters3172 Spartan children were placed in a military-style education program. At the age of 7, Spartan boys were removed from their parents' homes and began the “agoge,” a state-sponsored training regimen designed to mold them into skilled warriors and moral citizens.

[@alm5992]

Did this really happen? Seems like a good way to have a quickly diminished population.

[@onlyme219]

Says who?

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@@onlyme219 History

[@ashtonrussell7866]

I love how 1890s 20th century america still had people tossing there chamber pots out their windows.

[@francisdec1615]

In my part of Sweden we had local train toilets where you literally shat down on the rails until around 2000.

[@benjaminshiels1824]

Fascinating! 👍

[@cosmicop6798]

Half way through the video and it's so informative ☺️

[@SpecForcesNath]

I've been watching all of your Roman videos and then I see this that was basically just uploaded

[@twocvbloke]

And to think, the Romans had better toilets than most of Britain had until the 20th century...

[@lachauntiswashington231]

Nice. Can you do more yokai explains?

[@DMS-pq8]

2000 yrs from now will people look back and say how terrible our lives are?

[@7STB7]

They will. IF there's any human left.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@7STB7 Big if

[@eelchiong6709]

And say how disgustingly barbaric we were.

[@anthonybica529]

CaN you please make a story about Octavian fought and beat Antonius and Cleopatra. All around such a good story that I rarely see compared to all the other Roman history that gets atom of praise..

[@CloroxBleachCompany]

Watch the HBO series on Rome and see if you still feel the same…

[@thedreamtime3624]

Go to the channel "kings and generals" you'll thank me

[@thegitgudgrrl]

Shakespeare made a play about it, Rome on HBO and Elizabeth Taylor made the movie Cleopatra.

[@anthonybica529]

@@thedreamtime3624 thanks man

[@markanthony1004]

The simple truth is humans can adapt to almost any environment. Modern humans are no different. We just adapt better.

[@skyden24195]

The fact that I exist now is proof that I would've survived then. That goes for anyone else who is able to watch this video or read this comment, (& criticize either?) 😉😁 At any rate, interesting video... as the saying goes, "The past was the worst."

[@wweminehead5458]

It was an instant like when I heard the name Bibulus Flaccus

[@brokenbridge6316]

All of this makes me think. I wouldn't mind visiting ancient Rome for a day but I would never want to live there. Nice video.

[@Walter732NJ]

A lot of this just sounds like living in New Jersey. I doubt I'd notice much of a difference besides the lack of wifi.

[@arthurswanson3285]

Lol

[@thefreakmachine]

One must appreciate those ancient romans sense of humour!

[@dylancapps3487]

Hey Infographic show, is there a way you could do a video on the Navajo Code Talkers? We talked about it in class today and it seemed interesting that their code was never cracked during the war.

[@3DInnovations70]

Have you read the book “Code Talker” by chance? We have read this book in class and it’s pretty good.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

A video on the Choctaw code talkers of WW1 and the Navajo code talkers of WW2 would be great!

[@eelchiong6709]

Watch the movie Windtalker.

[@Eazy-ERyder]

"This is why many Romans prayed when they dropped the kids off at the pool" LOL

[@tristanclendenen6621]

Could u make a vid on the UFC fighter that pulled off the biggest heist in history in London

[@gungnir3926]

First thing i would do is avoid living in cities or at least buy a place for myself that i could build to modern standards or at least to my abillities and available ressources. You get far with the basics. You could just dig your own shitpit and if you build next to a stream you could have a fair bit of cleanliness.

[@CrownxMe7]

A big factor that people are missing is that they didn’t have a ton of chemicals in their food, drown themselves in coffee every morning and fast food didn’t exist. So I highly doubt many Romans had explosive diarrhea or a lot of constipation. Therefore sharing a sponge worked.. disgusting, but a completely different scenario than sharing one today.

[@thebroughamshow6985]

You are ignorant

[@francisdec1615]

They used lead oxide as a sweetener and as make up. Just sayin...

[@Caramelsomething]

Besides the video, that’s gotta be the funniest thumbnail ever, the dude’s just like “dude I’m definitely dead💀” like he already accepted his fate or smth

[@KgThaPhenom]

When you watch these videos and realize that we're such weaklings compared to our ancestors.

[@ddc2957]

If it makes you feel any better, that fact is merely circumstantial. You born in their era & they in yours, it would be reversed. You can really only be strong or weak in your own time.

[@KgThaPhenom]

@@ddc2957 good point. Adaptability was/is a matter of life or death, so that makes perfect sense.

[@nocopyright7957]

@@ddc2957 we get offended if someone stares rudely at us . we are snowflakes

[@eelchiong6709]

@@ddc2957 We can't even decide on our gender.

[@williamberry8895]

We have flamethrowers

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

The Roman empire was such a fascinating part of history

[@arandomdude9588]

Do a "what is the best place for a commoner through out history"

[@michael47359]

USA

[@yesyoucanTellme]

i am more impressed by their literature

As a creator myself, I'm impressed by how much time and effort you put into these videos. keep up the good work!

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

Bruh you are literally a spam bot

[@bloxburgsisters3172]

Lol

[@themanwhowouldbebrick]

Shut up

[@literallycantcomeupwithaname20]

@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 he's not tho

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@@literallycantcomeupwithaname20 He is, He spams the same BS

[@robertagu5533]

I'm sure there was plenty of anti rat measures including plenty of cats running around. An I'd imagine, that plenty, of security an quite a few work measures were around, if one looked enough. Or, back then, it was easy to find yourself in service to those you owed that can basically use you for any sorta tasks they wanted till you worked it off or they got what they wanted more. There's plenty things about Rome at it's height we realize, in addition to all this, that we absolutely got no idea about

[@rickoshay5525]

This is why in my daydreams and fantasies of time traveling back into the past and living there always involve ancient / medieval China or Japan instead of anything in the West. Sanitation was much higher in those places.

[@ronstewart4069]

Can’t find the book that is cited in this Infographic. Anyone?

[@chadhumphries1445]

The gladiator fights were definitely at least some what fixed or set up to be in favor of a particular fighter. They would sedate the lions and animals so a popular gladiator would win and like the video said they would have a armored gladiator fight a non armored person.

[@asherdavis6222]

Can you do a video about Russia vs the world like the USA vs the world

[@sinclairj7492]

Gotta appreciate the Bowmasters cartoons 👍🏽

[@ironside9128]

Bro said even the mice moved out , that sent me😂

[@LATVERIAN1]

You're right; I wouldn't have survived. ☹

[@corax5153]

We came along way

[@SlashinatorZ]

The new anime thermae romae novae addressed some of these problems

[@baligong3592]

NeckBeard Brother Nero lived behind a Rock , he grabbed his Pigeons and forced them to send messages and called them "tweets"

[@alexjamesgunn5756]

Dude reminds me of my juvie iykyk

[@rileywatson4422]

Amen

[@MatthewJackson-ff5yj]

Fascinating.

[@therealcryptorider]

‘Dump your load’ that means something different from where I’m from 🤣

[@swissball99]

The Roman Empire was actually very hygienic

[@dhairyanariani1321]

Did anybody else notice, at 13:05 he says radish, but there is a turnip on the tray

[@joanignace8684]

I'm so glad people like diss show peeps aren't so dumb but fr would survive In those days fr

[@Nitro_Joe]

Wow! Sounds like living in the projects in the 70’s.

[@meganehebi880]

Let's just agree it's good to be alive right now.

[@joeymonster5591]

I think I will just stay out of the cities and work in the vineyards near a small town

[@caseywebb410]

@6:24 "Charles Brosnan"? Is that Charles Bronson and Pierce Brosnan's love child?

[@ravagex8725]

You know, Sponge-On-A-Stick doesnt sound too bad at all during the days of pandemic toilet paper shortage. As long as you can keep it private.

[@ManuelPinner]

I'm glad that I live in this Century in America!

[@wood-wheel-wizard]

It’s definitely a jungle out here but the Roman jungle sheeeesh

[@shiblishadik2527]

Want a video about Roman's vs arab's vs indian's Socio-economic conditions at the middle ages.

[@chanchalnishanth8117]

Whao! Roman Empire is believed to have existed in 300 BC. Indus Valley Civilization which was existing in 3500BC had underground sewage.

[@Yomi4D]

I survived all Empires before, and after the Roman Empire! That's why I'm able to watch this video.

[@MCADES]

At first everyone will lose their minds but some would adapt by necessity.

[@rachelredden6682]

FIRE IN THE HOLE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@bobhope5078]

Can you do an African American bio please like a raw one nothing unturned please!!!! I beg of you guys you taught me so much and I know you guys would b able to point me in the right direction

[@bobhope5078]

Like thousands of years in the past

[@andreatom2669]

Rip poor him

[@starshiptrooper2354]

But compared rest of the European world.. had it pretty good. General Crasis was know for making a fortune in insurance fires. Suspected of torching some of his own buildings

[@murderthemassacre]

He got molten gold down his throat in the end

[@mikeseibert4889]

That's how it still is in the court system till this day your social status and 💰 will get you out of just about anything that unlucky poor people that would do the same thing and do 30 years for

[@hilossrt4]

My ancestors lived through it so my guess is that I would as well.

[@jason4275]

the Vandals, The Goths, German barbarians and Gaul's Sends their regards.

[@tpl608]

The ancient Romans did brain surgery and it was successful at times. It was not all crude as you state.

[@senjiduwub5437]

Why you gotta throw shade at us XD

[@NotUrAvJoe]

I wonder what to suicide rate was mainly the never ending work in the mines

[@TheBristolChannel]

Those toilets aren't that far removed from the longdrops at Glastonbury Festival

[@NapoleonBonaparteMAGA]

I pray before taking a dump idk why, I guess it's ancestral

[@sonofsocrates9899]

Listen ..I've seen the movie 300 a million times and this guy will survive " THIS IS SPARTA!!!!"

[@weirdguy9209]

Fact that people throw around "I'm Dead" for irony all the time nowadays 😂

[@Thesleepingheadquarters]

So going to war was like a vacation basically 😅 good or bad vacation depending lol

[@BrooksDunn]

They had a plant that supposedly was a cure all or good against any venom/poison. But the plant is extinct (if it was even real)

[@mikkel6391]

The global elite probably has it.

[@vnep5743]

And they used to say that the Empire fell because of lead in the water.

[@rome316ae3]

Thank God we are living in modern era

[@CCARS07]

After watching so many videos of different eras and their living I think we are aliens according to tech

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Hard to belive things only went downhill in the dark ages.

[@politicsuncensored5617]

Forget surviving 1,000's of years ago. I doubt many of us today would survive the 1,800's western period or even the early 1900's even without WWI. Shalom

[@kevinhull7925]

Also, considering how many people in Western countries are Christians, that could have gotten them in trouble with the authorities. (Jews also faced repression, especially after the failed uprisings 66-70 and in 135 CE.) It would be interesting to see how this would change in the later empire, after the empire was Christianized. (I know antisemitism survived Christianization and was blessed by the church.)

[@Brian-bq8tj]

If I ever go back In time to the roman days, I'm gonna drop off a couple Costco packs of febreeze, they'll thank me one day In a history book.

[@naadjamaglover6088]

Oh I didn't need to watch this to know I won't survive since I watched Spartacus