Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. They would not be too happy with it as it is today.

2. Is this a tour of Assassin’s Creed?
   Not sure what is the point.

   1. How about just enjoying the great architecture? Sheesh.

      1. Why am I supposed to enjoy fake architecture? Much of purportedly Roman cultural achievements are figments of imagination of unscrupulous charlatans. For everyone with basic math skills, it is blatantly obvious that the logistics of purported Roman civilization was utterly impossible by a factor of 10-1000. I would rather enjoy real things.
         Assassin’s Creed glorified Islam and demeaned the Crusaders. Down with it! Give your head a shake, Kate!

         1. There’s always the door, if you feel underappreciated. Or you could donate on the order of $1000 a month to Kate so she’s an employee and want to keep you happy.

            Until then, please stop pissing on the rug.

   2. First thing I saw was the alabaster white statues and clicked off. AC: Origins is a beautiful game and if it gets people more interested in ancient history, great, but let’s not pretend it’s at all accurate.

      Somebody’s probably working on a mod for the PC version to colourize all the architecture.

3. Rome is a special place. And was. I have not been everywhere, man, but I’ve been there and if you haven’t you should go when/if you get the chance.

   1. I enjoyed Florence. Too hot in summer for Rome, turned east at Pisa. Dubrovnic was the same latitude and just as hot. Marble streets in the old town and no vehicles. Italy, under the Austrian border was a real pleasure in the early 70’s. Friendliest people I ever met, other than the Dutch.

   2. I totally agree with you Buddy. My sister and I were in Italy in late November 2008 – the weather was superb and I loved that Rome was a very “walkable” city.
      I love history and have done a lot of self-education. Last year I read a biography on Napoleon to better understand the aftermath of the French Revolution and the early 1800’s. This year I want to read a biography on Queen Victoria. School serves to help you discover what you enjoy learning. It is up to you to continue.
      I am in “awe” of the talents of someone who can develop these short videos based on historical records and ruins. Hopefully, it encourages a new generation to discover the joys of history. Sadly, mankind (or should I say “peoplekind”?) keep repeating the same stupid actions over and over. This Covid 19 hysteria will be like the Dutch Tulip Bulb mania in the late 1600’s. Future people will look back on this and think “What were they thinking?”

4. Neat. Better without all those noisy Fiats racing around.

5. Not enough horseshit. ( You know like modern capital cities except literal horseshit).

6. What did Ancient Rome look like?

   Well, to the people that lived there it looked like Modern Rome, contemporary Rome. They lived in the here and now just like we do.

7. They had a love affair with concrete and used it extensively from about 200 BC. Unfortunately after the Fall of the Roman Empire in 476 the formula was lost until the 1400s when it was rediscovered in a long lost manuscript.
   https://interestingengineering.com/19-greatest-inventions-of-the-roman-empire-that-helped-shape-the-modern-world

   1. I think most people believe that ancient people lived in hovels and eked out a living. They do not give enough credit to advances made in ancient civilizations, be it Egypt, Babylon, China, Greece or Rome.
      Most comforts available now were available to the upper class in the ancient civilization. I believe the biggest difference in the modern world is thanks to James Clerk Maxwell, who discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism (with his Maxwell Equations) which eventually led to the generation of electricity by a rotating magnetic field, and thence to the widespread availability of cheap AC electricity. That provides the power to run all the modern appliances, replacing the slaves in the ancient world. (Not quite ancient, Leonardo da Vinci left drawings of helicopters that would work, if he only had a powerful enough motor.)
      Rome definitely had first rate civil engineering, in their buildings, aqueducts, and roads. They developed mortars that would set underwater. They develop long nails that curve back to attach two pieces of wood without brackets. And of course we all know they built roads that are still in use.
      The Tang emperors built an elevated roadway of wood that could support speeding horses and chariots, between the capital of Chang’An and the hot springs 20 miles away, so as not be bothered by the hoi polloi (but that was good too for the hoi polloi not be bothered incessantly by royal procession.) The emperor before the Tang dynasty started the construction of the Grand Canal, which ultimately led to a waterway with locks that climb twice the altitude of the Panama Canal. But way before that, by 200 AD, the Chinese knew how to drive supporting dowels into cliffs and build roadways that support horses and wagons.
      The trouble is, as you pointed out, a lot of knowledge were lost and had to be rediscovered, sometimes many times. Established civilizations were overrun by barbaric tribes, and we keep restarting from square one. Except AC power. No one had that before Maxwell and the American engineers who developed the AC generator.

      1. Don’t worry, the environmentalists are opposed to electricity. Rather, like the Pope on contraception, they are not opposed ot electricity, just electricity that works.

8. That’s pretty cool.

9. Nice reconstruction. I would have liked to see some tennements and residential/shopping areas. I liked the fact they pointed out the use of colours; they could have used Roman music as a backdrop.

   1. My thoughts exactly. But I couldn’t help remembering the artists conceptions of the Bin Laden tunnels, after 9-11.. James Bond imaginings, with modern everything, which turned out to be rat-holes between the rocks. Everything with a grain of salt now.

10. The most beautiful sight I have ever enjoyed was looking at the Parthenon with a full moon. The translucent marble was just glowing. My thoughts were how ancient Athens must have looked. Rome had over a million people in it at its height. As all empires do they committed suicide as the people would not fight for it as our millennials won’t. Bread and circuses as Trudope destroys our economy along with the left.