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The Romans sailed south to Zanzibar, north to the Hebrides, and east to China. This video surveys the most distant places they explored…
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:48 The world known to the Romans
2:37 ClickUp
3:50 Arabia
4:38 East Africa and the Nile
5:39 West Africa and the Sahara
6:58 The Canaries and Madeira
7:42 Britain
8:23 Thule
8:59 Around the Baltic
9:39 Around the Black and Caspian Seas
10:15 Central and northern Asia
10:55 India
12:20 China
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The Romans really were all over the world, weren't they?
Is it me or is the ”ad-gorythm” way off? Trying to watch a decent history vid and I get stuck watching some horrible google dance-bros ad
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Well duh! It's easy to explain how Romans traveled all the way to China. They're men. They don't stop to ask for directions.
Obligatory Cornish person correcting your pronunciation of Scilly, it's pronounced "Silly"
the roman merchants were after silk
Come on, people, Roman citizens did make it to China by around the 600s. These were Syrians, some from Persia, some from Rome, who founded some monasteries in western China and wrote some cool Taoist Christianity texts, known as the Jesus Sutras. They prospered there under the Han dynasty until around the 800s, when things got rough for them.
Excellent channel but dude your speaking is like listening to the same part of a song over and over. If you spent some time developing your storytelling rhythm and intonation, I could listen to this channel for hours. With all due respect, because I think your channels is very very good.
Sorry, but the map at 11:06 has lots of errors.
The river north of the Black sea labeled "Don" is actually Dnieper (or Borysthenes in Ancient Greek or Latin). Don is the river to the right of it, where Tanais is. "Tanais" is the Ancient Greek and Latin for Don).
Lots of river names are modern (such as Danube and Wolga), and lots of others are ancient (Oxus, Jaxartes, etc.).
Romans at least knew about Estonians. I think they called them Estes. Does anyone know whether they actually reached Estonia?
That's crazy I see Armenia on these ancient maps, but no turkey and azerbaijan. And they want to deny the genocide and call it their ancestral lands.
Thanks for the fascinating video! How do the frescoes at the Buddhist shrine in Iran indicate Chinese influence?
Hamburg isn't really at the Baltic sea. More the Northern Sea. There is the river "Elbe" from the Northern Sea to Hamburg but no river from the Baltic Sea. Did you maybe mean another city?
I like to imagine that someone did travel to north america during that time, but never documented or lost in time.
Scilly is pronounced Silly.
Damn Rev 13:10 looking sweet right about now 😭😂😂😂 .
Don’t make me bring out obidiah 😭😭😭😭
How were Romans able to speak Chinese?
"Scilly" (the Isles) is pronounced "silly" not "skilly."
10:20 lost Greek Bactria kingdom; 12:20 ~ 120 ships per annum
"Hanno the Navigator" – song by Al Stewart
I actually laughed out loud when I saw the Big Foot photo east of the Baltic. I enjoy the subtle humor you throw into your highly informational videos.
FYI Scilly is pronounced more like "silly" as it has a silent "c".
The most distant places one was Mongolia visited by a few roman scouts
Enhance!
@toldinstone what was the limit of the Roman understanding of the geography of the British Isles? How thorough was it? Did they know Ireland well? Great video thanks – I really enjoyed this as usual. Did you reach the Borges story The Immortal about a Roman centurion lost in Africa who travels through time?
Sunken roman ship was found off the cost of Brazil and than quikly covered up with sand…
I'm disappointed that you didn't review the rather solid evidence for sporadic contact between Imperial Rome and Central America, including for example the presence of New World plants in the kits of Roman military doctors, very clear depictions of the pineapple in some Roman mosaics, and one small Roman sculpture found buried at a Mexican archaeological site,
The Carthaginians circumnavigated around Africa and very possibly made it to the new world. The Romans definitely knew there was land past the Atlantic
Campampatese was truly a great traveler.
Spanish discovered Madeira islands? In fact, Portugal discovered the island in 1419, not the spanish.
I wish I was a explorer back then. Everythting now is discovered ..
Silent ‘c’ in Scilly Isles, silly!
It's crazy when u see how far some coins make it in the ancient world
Boring. Needs maps.
The Isles of Scilly are pronounced like ‘Silly’ FYI 🙂
Wherever Romans went, Greeks were there before…
A little known fact is a small military compound with holding cages was found in the middle of Africa with Roman coins found in close proximity.
It's reason for being there is a mystery but may have something to do with the trapping and storage of wild animals for the Roman games.
These games where massive business enterprises with millions of animals trapped and transported to Rome.Whole areas where cleared of wild animals which increased land which was cleared and that could be used for farming.
it's quite possible that local labour under control of Arab traders and supervised by Romans used these areas' for holding and transporting these animals.