https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wp4awefC3c
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

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First, there was a high probability that if you lived in the Roman Empire you were a slave. About one in five people across the empire were slaves, and within Rome and the rest of modern day Italy that number was closer to one in three people. According to Ancient History Encyclopedia, you could end up enslaved by being a prisoner of war

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#historydocumentary #darkhistory #ancientrome The Roman Empire was an unparalleled civilization that once ruled over Europe, North Africa, and Asia, with a

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryWhatIf/comments/5waa8a/what_if_the_roman_empire_survived_into_the/
The Roman Empire (Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire) could have survived to the present day if it became a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire. If the Ottomans maintain their capital at Edirne and rule from there, it would still have produced similar events in the timeline. Being reduced to one city, the Roman Empire would be an

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Even after the Western Roman Empire collapsed. The East held on. Islamic Invaders and Crusades brought ruin to the Byzantine Empire but it still survived. Gradually losing its power it took 2000 years to erode it's power. Ottomons finally destroyed the empire in 1453.

https://historylearning.com/a-history-of-ancient-rome/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-in-ancient-rome/
An overview of the Ancient Roman Empire and its lifestyle, culture and general background heritage. ... Rome also had rich and poor living areas - poor people could only afford to live in wooden houses which unfortunately carried a high risk of fire, especially in Italy's hot climate. Rome did actually fall victim to fires starting within the

https://bigthink.com/the-past/ancient-rome-life-routine/
Key Takeaways. Historians have been able to piece together a startlingly clear picture of what daily life in ancient Rome was like. Romans woke up before dawn, finished work by noon, and spent the

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No other civilization in human history has fascinated the world quite like the Roman Empire. On the battlefield, the Romans were a force the world had never seen before, an unparalleled war machine that could sweep through cities and absorb entire countries into its borders. At the heart of it all was Rome, the epicenter of the world.

https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/life.html
Sweating it out in the city, they lived in shabby, squalid houses that could collapse or burn at any moment. If times were hard, they might abandon newborn babies to the streets, hoping that

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/637/roman-daily-life/
Population Movement. Outside the cities, in the towns and on the small farms, people lived a much simpler life - dependent almost entirely on their own labor.The daily life of the average city dweller, however, was a lot different and most often routine. The urban areas of the empire - whether it was Rome, Pompeii, Antioch, or Carthage - were magnets to many people who left smaller towns and

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-7/daily-life-in-ancient-rome/
However, everyday life in ancient Rome was far from glamorous for most of its citizens. The city of Rome itself was at the heart of a vast empire, but most people under its control didn't live there. At the peak of its power, Rome was a melting pot of cultures and classes. Patricians lived in luxurious homes, while plebeians and slaves often

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In Roman times thumbs up means bad, because the thumb is in this case the sword pulled out the sheath and thumbs down is good, because the sword goes back in the sheath 2 1y

https://www.worldhistory.org/collection/48/daily-life-in-ancient-rome/
Collection. The daily life of Roman citizens, at least in the big cities, was anything but dull. Assuming one could get away from one's civic duties and household chores, there were many activities available to distract and entertain. A trip to the baths was cheap and cheerful with the chance to catch up on the latest gossip with fellow bathers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/n0jv2o/could_the_roman_empire_have_survived_if_it_wasnt/
The sack of Rome was a shock, sure. The seat of traditional Roman power brought to its knees at the hands of barbaric invaders. However, the divide between East & West was more ideological than physical. In theory, the empire could have moved its capital to Constantinople and maintain claim to the western empire and Rome itself. The Byzantines

https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans//empire/life.html
Roman citizens depicted in sculpture As with many cultures, a person's quality of life depended in many ways on their rank within the social structure. Two Romans living at the same time in the

https://thehistoryace.com/the-3-drawbacks-of-the-roman-empire-being-so-large/
At its peak the Roman Empire had 3 major drawbacks from being so large. First, defending such a massive amount of territory would require a massive military. Second, the culture's across the Empire differed drastically which caused internal struggle. Third, eventually the Roman Empire became difficult to manage by the imperial system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qbBGtMswo
Death at the point of a razor tipped sword? Captured and executed by the enemy on some barren frontier of the Empire? Horrifically tortured for your faith? T

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Once an officer I would rise through the ranks and become a hero of the rome. I'd be undefeated in the field, there would be statues raised in my honour. Once I was at the pinnacle of Roman society I'd be betrayed by an ambitious lieutenant who would assassinate me on the orders of either a jealous general or senator.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/7345/why-were-the-romans-unable-to-conquer-germania
The Romans were able to "conquer" large parts of Germania, briefly. They were unable to HOLD it for any length of time. The reason stemmed from the region's "backwardness." There was no central government or central power through which the Romans could operate. There were no cities (except the ones the Romans built).

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/hc9wa0/youre_a_roman_citizen_the_empire_is_collapsing/
I've tried to research this, to try to see in an overarching way which parts of the Western Roman Empire prospered the most after the collapse, and

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https://www.patreon.com/Jabzyhttps://twitter.com/JabzyJoeLife in the Roman Empire, Daily Life of an Ancient Roman, Roman Empire, History of Rome, Colosseum,

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1:37 p.m. EDT. MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody. QUESTION: Good afternoon. MR PATEL: I don't have anything off the top, Matt, so if you want to kick us off. QUESTION: You have nothing off the top at all? MR PATEL: Nothing off the top. QUESTION: Okay. All right. Let's just start with the situation in the Middle East. And what's your understanding of where things stand at the moment?

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6wjnct/what_was_it_like_living_in_rome_immediately_after/
The sack of Rome in 410 (the first time in nearly 800 years) by the Visigoths hit the city hard. Estimates are that it lost 300,000 people (800,000 down to 500,000) in the years around the 3 the sieges that lead to the sack and the sack itself. The sieges that led up to that sack were in part bought off with a lot of the mobile gold and silver

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/b258jy/would_it_have_been_good_living_in_the_roman/
Slavery was common, of course, and stocks were replenished by war, offspring of slaves, and debt slavery. One study of Roman records estimated that the average age of death for a Roman slave was just over 17 years old. Slaves still only made up about 15-30% of the population, mostly involved in agriculture.