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What did the Romans think about Race?
By: guest5 Date: January 31, 2021, 12:55 pm
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What did the Romans think about Race? DOCUMENTARY
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWi3_FMjno
Lost in Translation - How Rome's Multi-Ethnic Army Communicated
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfUeKsJGAE
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How the Roman Army Became the Byzantine Army
By: guest5 Date: March 4, 2021, 10:45 pm
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How the Roman Army Became the Byzantine Army
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFVpbJhawqk
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What was Varus thinking? - The "Fool" of Teutoburg
By: guest5 Date: April 5, 2021, 5:40 pm
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What was Varus thinking? - The "Fool" of Teutoburg
[quote]Was Varus really to blame for the disaster of Teutoburg
Forest?[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZW3cOFEfI
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Re: What was Varus thinking? - The "Fool" of Teutoburg
By: guest5 Date: April 5, 2021, 5:51 pm
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Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic Wars DOCUMENTARY
[quote]In our previous historical animated documentaries we have
covered the Cimbrian War, and although the Roman empire was a
clear victor, the conflicts between the Romans and the Germanic
tribes continued well into the imperial era. During the reign of
Augustus, the Romans expanded beyond the Rhine river and that
led to one of the most iconic battles in history - the battle of
the Teutoburg Forest[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imEyKWMDM2o
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Re: What was Varus thinking? - The "Fool" of Teutoburg
By: guest5 Date: April 11, 2021, 2:13 pm
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Deadly Moments - The Aftermath of Teutoburg Forest (9AD)
DOCUMENTARY
[quote]We examine the immediate aftermath of the Battle of
Teutoburg Forest between the Roman Army led by Varus and the
Germanic tribes led by Arminius. [/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Z2AnIpgOc
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Roman Road-Construction
By: guest55 Date: May 25, 2022, 2:10 am
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Roman Road-Construction
[quote]The construction technique of Roman roads. Roman roads
engineering.
Friends, there are other ditches along the road for drainage.
Those that are mentioned in the video are for the marking of
State property.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aFWtBXHII
Comments:
[quote]They really were remarkable feats of engineering,
especially for a pre-combustion engine age.[/quote]
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How Eastern Rome Established Cultural Supremacy over Eastern Eur
ope
By: guest78 Date: June 13, 2022, 2:34 pm
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How Eastern Rome Established Cultural Supremacy over Eastern
Europe
[quote]Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary
series on medieval history and history of religion and culture
continues with a video on how the Eastern Roman Empire
established cultural supremacy over Eastern Europe through
Orthodoxy and cultural dominance, creating what is now loosely
known as the Byzantine Commonwealth.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WN7GsgIH_k
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The Ancients Even Did Concrete Better...
By: guest78 Date: January 9, 2023, 2:25 pm
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This is not an endorsement of concrete, see also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/?message=17131
But, it is safe to say even concrete itself was done better by
ancient peoples than modern people:
Ancient Roman concrete could self-heal thanks to “hot mixing”
with quicklime
[quote]Mysterious lime clasts, dismissed as defects, turn out to
serve a useful purpose.[/quote]
[quote]The famous Pantheon in Rome boasts the world's largest
unreinforced concrete dome—an architectural marvel that has
endured for millennia, thanks to the incredible durability of
ancient Roman concrete. For decades, scientists have been trying
to determine precisely what makes the material so durable. A new
analysis of samples taken from the concrete walls of the
Privernum archaeological site near Rome has yielded insights
into those elusive manufacturing secrets. It seems the Romans
employed "hot mixing" with quicklime, among other strategies,
that gave the material self-healing functionality, according to
a new paper published in the journal Science Advances.
As we've reported previously, like today's Portland cement (a
basic ingredient of modern concrete), ancient Roman concrete was
basically a mix of a semi-liquid mortar and aggregate. Portland
cement is typically made by heating limestone and clay (as well
as sandstone, ash, chalk, and iron) in a kiln. The resulting
clinker is then ground into a fine powder, with just a touch of
added gypsum—the better to achieve a smooth, flat surface. But
the aggregate used to make Roman concrete was made up of
fist-sized pieces of stone or bricks.
In his treatise De architectura (circa 30 CE), the Roman
architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote about how to build
concrete walls for funerary structures that could endure for a
long time without falling into ruins. He recommended the walls
be at least two feet thick, made of either "squared red stone or
of brick or lava laid in courses." The brick or volcanic rock
aggregate should be bound with mortar composed of hydrated lime
and porous fragments of glass and crystals from volcanic
eruptions (known as volcanic tephra).[/quote]
Entire article:
HTML https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/ancient-roman-concrete-could-self-heal-thanks-to-hot-mixing-with-quicklime/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Imagine a modern person passing off something an ancient person
did intentionally as a defect just because the modern person
does not understand why it was done... ;D
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Rome was not racist
By: rp Date: January 18, 2023, 8:23 am
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Re: Roman Road-Construction
By: rp Date: February 8, 2023, 9:30 pm
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HTML https://twitter.com/TheognisOMegara/status/1622343660044967940
[quote]Roman-Jewish Wars happened because the Jews were racists
and the Romans were anti-racists[/quote]
Despite what he says later in the thread , I disagree with his
characterization of Hellenism as "Universalistic"
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