Honestly, compared to other places and times like Versailles, this isn’t that bad apart from the urine washing. At least these people bathed and had toilets
Not only that, the rich had central heating. They had specially built bricks that would channel heat through the floor from a fire stoked by a slave under the ground. Can you imagine what other cool things they might have had if Rome hadn't fallen when it did
even in modern day, i cant imagine how it smell down there, most western dont wash their genital and ass after poop and pee, and only wipe using tissue, not wash with water.
i actually think we as modern humans wouldnt be able to live amongst the ppl back then... They all smell like piss and the streets would stink so bad🤢🤢🤮
It's pretty weird to know they didn't use soap. Like soap is literally made from ash oil and water, and if I'm correct was already used in the Middle East. Please make a video on the history of soap, or cleaning agents.
Soap is as old as fire itself since wood ash mixed with any form of grease/oil makes soap. The Greeks themself had soap bars as early as 300 AD. In medieval times soap bares that were white, made from lime and olive oil. People would use plain wood ash to clean dirty dishes. Even by the time of colonialism, settlers knew about adding blueing agents to white clothes to keep them whiter to fight against natural yellowing and clothe washing was done with liquid soap made on the spot. I am ready to bet that the Romans knew about soap even at the time of Julius Cesar but for some reason preferred to wash themself with oil.
It may be that this simple and very brief video glossed over the soap issue. it did mention that they used oil as a cleanser for the body, then rinsed with water. I am certain that, in that world where soap was known, that the Romans did use it, and may have even perfumed it. Any human would know the difference between a foul body odor and a cologne, preferring the latter. The whole world knew about incense and the scent of plants and medicinal herbs. It defies logic to think the Romans did not use these things. Even after the Fall of Rome, people took pains to be clean and to have clean clothing. The Dark Ages weren't that dark. People didn't become generally filthy until the easy forest ran low around 1350, and the public baths built by the Romans fell into disrepair. Without easy firewood, the local washing rooms for clothing and bedding became more and more dependent upon coal and peat - which was not in great supply. The public washrooms closed down and people became dirtier. By 1750, Paris was said to be the filthiest city in the world. One could smell it 100 miles away in summer.
@@nunyabiznes33 well i don't think they would call it gay. They had no concept of gayness at all. The closes they had was a class base system for determining who was bottom. You could boink as many dude as you wanted but if your a senator who liked to be boinked, you would be laughed out of office for being a submissive bitch to the lesser then you since the only person above you socially was the emperor making him the only one that can boink you.
Watching these truly makes me so much more grateful to have lived this century. My mom told me horror stories of hygiene living in Appalachia. Ty God for everything you do for all of us and please help the less fortunate.
My grandfather told me horror stories about hygiene in Appalachia as well. My grandfather told me that his father (my Great Grandfather) would put bear grease in his ear if he had an ear infection. Apparently those old-timers from Appalachia had all kinds of crazy beliefs when it came to home remedies. They thought bear grease would help with ear infections. All that did was slowly cause my grandfather to loose some of his hearing in that ear. You’d also think that the bear fat would attract bugs and cause the infection to get worse. Anyways, he told me a whole slew of wild stories about how they would try and stay clean. Let’s just say that we’re all lucky to live in an age where we can stay clean relatively easy within the comfort of our own homes. Running water and electricity should NEVER be taken for granted.
Rome had better hygiene than the Appalachia, and weird history is misrepresenting ancient Romans and their hygiene. Romans were actually very hygienic folks, who remove hair and used perfume and took a bath regular. And even medieval people weren't as dirty as Weird history makes them appear.
I lived near the largest Roman ruins in the desert of Tunisia. Along with an intact colosseum there Was a building was the communal bathroom, with 8 seats carved out of stone and running water underneath. Some of the buildings had heated floors. We didn’t even begin to reach the sanitary levels of Rome until the late 1800’s.
I thought north africa continue practice of public bathing even after the roman rule in north africa ended while the roman have thermae islamic north africa have hammam
Depends on country and cultural practices. Maybe in Europe and the US which followed the European standard, but other places in the world had regular bathing practices that were consistent for hundreds or thousands of years. Also, rich people just tend to be able to afford bathing more. They've got the time and money.
@@Lill2895 Public bathing continued to be popular in Europe until the black plague which spread easily in bathhouses. In the 13th century, Paris had 13 bath houses and once a week they would be free for the poor. People were not as dirty as we think, even a farmer in a small village would have wiped themselves down with a cloth. And nobody was walking around with dirty faces like in the movies.
@@naysaynetwork5271 True, but many people suffered from fleas so they would have spread in places where people gathered. Plus they didn't realize it at the time that it was fleas, they believed it was due to bad air and having your skin exposed was seen as the cause of the plague. Bathhouses basically disappeared during the plague.
I remember when I was in college, I was learning germ theory. In Europe, before germ theory was discovered by Koch, London's pipes had animal feces, dead animals, waste from slaughter houses, and contaminated ground water from graveyards. All of it ended up in Thames River which was most of the systems drinking water. It caused Cholera in the villages. I can't imagine how awful that must be.
We have a scientific understanding of our hygiene that suggests otherwise. The futures science will be based on today’s science. Unlike our our science is not based on science from 2000 years ago.
I wonder if they were all in such great shape despite such lavish lifestyles, or they just had these sculptures made to depict them as such in the future.
most of the people were in shape (toned) or skinny at the least. being fat was only for the rich who didn’t do much. today our poor is fat from horrible diet eating things me or a scientist would not classify as food. and we are all so lazy
It was ancient photoshop, although they weren't out of shape, they certainly did not look like their statues. They were quite aware that people would be studying them in the future so they wrote their history that way.
i actually think we as modern humans wouldnt be able to live amongst the ppl back then... They all smell like piss and the streets would stink so bad🤢🤢🤮
Really? Cuz this channel taught me that glorification of the olden times are completely fictitious and help me appreciate modern plumbing and medicine lol
The “boring stuff” is usually important context for these little fun facts. If you actually want to understand history then you will have to study those things as well, unless you are content telling people half remembered trivia instead of actually being able to have an informed conversation on a historical topic.
As someone trying to become a history teacher, it’s not really the teachers fault they must teach the standard in school + they do provide context to the weird moments of history Though by all means, schools and teachers should try to make history more fun to learn (I was blessed with amazing fun history teachers). It’s a shame people often find history boring in school
To be fair, certain things are "boring" but are integral to human history. Caesar's hairline and Romans shitting as a community are not important points of Roman history, just fun trivia. What Caseser did during his life is MUCH more important to a history class than his hairline, sorry to say. Academia is not achieved by "fun facts" they're just a happy by-product
History is not fun. its not supposed to be. Its one endless bloodbath. In general it sprinkles some hopeful optimism in the end. And any teacher that tries to make it "fun" is doing kids a disservice. Because everything cannot be fun all the time.
I always like to the hygiene videos when I'm taking a bath as it reminds me to be grateful for every drop of water in the tub. I belong to a Health club that had a "eucalyptus room" a room kept a 50°F, eucalyptus oil pumped into the room, and a pool of cold water. I spent an insane amount of time in there and depressed when it was removed because not enough ppl used it. Florida is hot as hell so a cold room like this is like heaven.
Can u do a video on hygiene for the Egyptian's? I have always been intrigued by their history for Aldo the fact that I have read somewhere yrs ago that the royal or higher status Egyptian's would bath from 10 to 15 times a day but I'm not sure how true that is either so it thats why I would love to see a video on the full history of their hygiene routines. Thanks for the great films, education and narration 🙏
Fun fact - Gladiators used a strigil to scoop their sweat into jars, that would then be sold to the people, who believed that by ingesting it pure, or cooking with it/mixing it with drinks, they would absorb/inherit the strength and power of the gladiator. More modern, realistic fact - That shits just disgusting 🤮
When I was in Bath as a child they mentioned the natural spring water would also help with cleansing when they went in for a little while. Probably the same as the skincare Avene.
That Mexican music at the end was so random, lol. Speaking of which, you should do a video about the history of Mexican music and dance. Some of it was heavily influenced by German railroad workers, and in the case of the Mexican hat dance, it was at one point banned by the Spanish colonial authorities because it was deemed “too sensual”.
I thought it was just an accordion playing lol I didn't known it was actually Mexican music since he ended talking about Germany 😂 I wonder if they realized or if they just chose a song featuring an accordion and they picked a Mexican song. I love that lmao
Hey! check out Dr. Justin Sledge’s channel Esoterica. He and a friend of his have taken understanding and experiencing historical absinthe to another level.
should explore Hygiene in the palace of Versailles and how the king and the courtiers lived and dealt day to day life without bathrooms and toilets, very interesting topic
you guys should do a history video, or videos on the origins of the idea of message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea from the shore or off a dock or pier; , as well as the idea of message in a bottle when stranded out at sea , the idea behind it in each circumstance, the reasons people supposedly thought it was a logical option for communication, and other purpose, as well as the statistics, the likely-hood of a message in a bottle actually reaching other shores, along with , the likely-hood of it helping someone stranded out at sea be found because they tossed a message in a bottle from their stranded boat or life raft
Seems interesting 🤨 that both Japanese and Roman’s enjoyed public bath eventhough the two civilizations were so far apart. When I read novels on Rome, I usually pictured the strigils as some fuzzy harmless brush. Never realized it’s so sharp.
Suggestion, in the spirit of the holiday season. Different versions of/names for Santa Claus around the world. The only ones I know are Kris Kringle, Father Christmas and Papa Noel.🧑🎄🧑🎄🧑🎄🧑🎄
Just a little technical - Suetonius didn't leave us any reports about the Severan dynasty (Alexander Severus, Caracalla), because he died decades before their rule :-)
During Roman times, the Mediterranean was a bit more humid so people tend to experience sticky armpits. There were no deodorants back then so people smelled a little rancid and sour from their armpits sweat.
The Romans were probably much cleaner than most civilizations that came after them right up until the last century. It wasn't all that long ago that people used to take a family bath once a week using the same water. They would use towels and wipe themselves down at other other times. I'm sure some people smelled pretty ripe.
I have always heard that since there was no filtration system in the baths the water became gross enough for doctors to advise some patients not to use them.
I must say, never learned any of that in Purdue University. Thx for the supplemental intel. At least I didn't have to pay some PhD shmuck a few hundred bucks to learn this stuff. Well presented.
I feel bad for Caesar. I totally get being insecure about your hair loss (my male relatives on both sides lost their hair in their mid-to-late 20s). I wonder, if he’d have rocked the bald look, would we have more bald men today than men with wigs and comb-overs?
Funny how the music during the last few seconds immediately made me think of Mexican music (I'm not sure what the specific genre name is) and German music. Makes sense though
The fact that the old men at 4:40 just did exactly what the first guy did when they were trying to get some slaves out of him is hilarious to me. Not even trying to be subtle about it 😂
The romans were still pretty hygenic except the usage of communal sponges and public baths. We are way more hygenic than they are but use far more chemicals to clean ourselves
Romans grew beards until Julius Caesar came to power without a beard? Absolutely ridiculous. Romans were clean-shaven people throughout their entire history. They also bathe regularly. Their religious practices required both of these things.
Well clean shaven until Hadrian made beards popular in the 2d century. Even before that getting a clean shave wasn't trivial to achieve, so it was a mark of people of some distinction. Upper class people like Caesar had their personal barbers, while normal people had to go to barbershops and nicked and scratched with dull knives.
Barber: "So, what can I do for you gents today?" Gents: "Eeeeh, how bout you 'Slick Tony' us, mac. Classic look, yeah?" #yohadrian! **NOTE** Yes, I understand that the name is "Suetonius." It's a joke.
I'm sorry but the beginning of your story doesn't add up. First you say "through the first half of the first century Roman men commonly wore their hair and facial hair long'' but then you say that when Ceasar came into power he became a model for short hair. Ceasar came into power in 49 BC and was murdered in 44 BC, before this period you describe of Roman men wearing their hair long, which then according to you changed when Ceasar came into power, even though he would've been dead for about a 100 years by then... I take it someone forgot to add ''BC'' to the script? Also at 10:01, Severus Alexander reigned from 222 to 235, Suetonius could not have written about him cause he died in 122. Again at 11:06, Suetonius would have been dead for 70 years when Caracalla reigned. Seriously who wrote this script???
Yeah I immediately did a double take when I heart Suetonius being used as a source for Severus Alexandar and Caracalla. Like, it's impossible that he wrote those quotes which were used in this video, so who was the creator actually quoting?? Overall I liked this video and even learned a bit from it, but the inaccuracies are concerning and could easily mislead people
The other funny thing is these videos always depict guys that look more English or German than Italian. Southern Italians (and Spanish) in particular have been traced back to the original Romans in there DNA, so dark hair and olive to darker skin tones would have been what Romans actually looked like.
I'm from Corpus Christi, TX. (Basically close to Mexico, 3 hrs. to be exact), so when that Tejano music came on at the end, I quickly was taken back to memories of family house parties and uncles passing out drunk and aunts arguing and grandma yelling at the kids running around her house while leaving the door opened....ahhh, the sweet memories of a lovely Mexican family and smell of barbecue and homemade tortillas and chile con queso. Sorry totally forgot this was about Romans....hahaha. 😆
There's actually some studies showing that we bathe too much in our era. By that, I mean we strip our skin with harsh soaps and irritating perfumes. Hence why companies are coming out with gentler products.
Hey weird history videos I been following for a while and I think I’ve seen all your videos already, but I always wondered what the heck or what are those people from at 0:20 seconds on top of the subscribe button at the intro ??? They are like black and white and look like they have shapes painted on their stomachs
Basically, from the moment fabric (wool) was available, they used strips of fabric as a form of tampon or diaper. Same goes for diapers generally. After use they were washed, which was beeing rinsed in water and dried. That continued from a few thousand years ago til the 1950ies in a lot of countries. Yeah.....
@@birddabble2430 Haha I know it'll be bleak, even the modern tampon is a male creation. I'm reminded of NASA asking Sally Ride if 100 tampons were enough for 1 week in space. 🤦♀️ The stigma & misogyny behind periods & birth control is important herstory.
@@the_glitter_is What? Women in ancient Egypt would use papyrus as tampons so I don’t know where you get off saying a man invented it. More like came up with the commercial variety, but they didn’t invent the tampon. Just cause someone patents something that’s been around for thousands of years doesn’t mean they actually invented it. 😂 Unless you mean the applicator, which I could totally see some uptight man inventing that, “we can’t have these women putting their fingers up their own vaginas! That’s masturbation!” - Mr. Tampax, probably.
Honestly, compared to other places and times like Versailles, this isn’t that bad apart from the urine washing. At least these people bathed and had toilets
Not only that, the rich had central heating. They had specially built bricks that would channel heat through the floor from a fire stoked by a slave under the ground. Can you imagine what other cool things they might have had if Rome hadn't fallen when it did
Aztecs used to clean their teeth with urine. I guess it works.
it was used for centuries to wash clothes because of the amonia and worked well as a bleaching agent when in the sun
even in modern day, i cant imagine how it smell down there, most western dont wash their genital and ass after poop and pee, and only wipe using tissue, not wash with water.
i actually think we as modern humans wouldnt be able to live amongst the ppl back then... They all smell like piss and the streets would stink so bad🤢🤢🤮
I love how Caesar was insecure about his hair loss.
It sucks experiencing it lol
Thousand years later it hasn’t changed
@@AlejandroSanchez-pl6jw bwaha beat me to it
Very relatable lmao
He could conquer Gual but no one conquers time.
It's pretty weird to know they didn't use soap. Like soap is literally made from ash oil and water, and if I'm correct was already used in the Middle East. Please make a video on the history of soap, or cleaning agents.
Some natives to Britain 5000 years ago were using a moss as a soap with sanitizing properties
Soap is as old as fire itself since wood ash mixed with any form of grease/oil makes soap. The Greeks themself had soap bars as early as 300 AD. In medieval times soap bares that were white, made from lime and olive oil. People would use plain wood ash to clean dirty dishes. Even by the time of colonialism, settlers knew about adding blueing agents to white clothes to keep them whiter to fight against natural yellowing and clothe washing was done with liquid soap made on the spot.
I am ready to bet that the Romans knew about soap even at the time of Julius Cesar but for some reason preferred to wash themself with oil.
It may be that this simple and very brief video glossed over the soap issue. it did mention that they used oil as a cleanser for the body, then rinsed with water. I am certain that, in that world where soap was known, that the Romans did use it, and may have even perfumed it. Any human would know the difference between a foul body odor and a cologne, preferring the latter. The whole world knew about incense and the scent of plants and medicinal herbs. It defies logic to think the Romans did not use these things. Even after the Fall of Rome, people took pains to be clean and to have clean clothing. The Dark Ages weren't that dark. People didn't become generally filthy until the easy forest ran low around 1350, and the public baths built by the Romans fell into disrepair. Without easy firewood, the local washing rooms for clothing and bedding became more and more dependent upon coal and peat - which was not in great supply. The public washrooms closed down and people became dirtier. By 1750, Paris was said to be the filthiest city in the world. One could smell it 100 miles away in summer.
@@peter4210 Well if you think about it, Romans also knew what a sleeve is but preferred to go sleveless coz sleeves are "gae" according to them LOL.
@@nunyabiznes33 well i don't think they would call it gay. They had no concept of gayness at all. The closes they had was a class base system for determining who was bottom. You could boink as many dude as you wanted but if your a senator who liked to be boinked, you would be laughed out of office for being a submissive bitch to the lesser then you since the only person above you socially was the emperor making him the only one that can boink you.
I love these hygiene stories because they make me grateful for living in the 21st century. 😁
#ThePastWasTheWorst
Very well said!
I agree
Yeah, nothing like being a debt slave in the 21st century! Wonderful!
@@MrSupernova111 yeah, stress and frequently prescribed medical drugs won't fuck up my organs, mental state, (and specifically liver)
Watching these truly makes me so much more grateful to have lived this century. My mom told me horror stories of hygiene living in Appalachia. Ty God for everything you do for all of us and please help the less fortunate.
Lets see if god will listen
My grandfather told me horror stories about hygiene in Appalachia as well. My grandfather told me that his father (my Great Grandfather) would put bear grease in his ear if he had an ear infection. Apparently those old-timers from Appalachia had all kinds of crazy beliefs when it came to home remedies. They thought bear grease would help with ear infections. All that did was slowly cause my grandfather to loose some of his hearing in that ear. You’d also think that the bear fat would attract bugs and cause the infection to get worse. Anyways, he told me a whole slew of wild stories about how they would try and stay clean. Let’s just say that we’re all lucky to live in an age where we can stay clean relatively easy within the comfort of our own homes. Running water and electricity should NEVER be taken for granted.
Rome had better hygiene than the Appalachia, and weird history is misrepresenting ancient Romans and their hygiene. Romans were actually very hygienic folks, who remove hair and used perfume and took a bath regular. And even medieval people weren't as dirty as Weird history makes them appear.
2000 years from now they're probably saying the same thing
Go hump your Bible elsewhere, please. Bedroom maybe?
I lived near the largest Roman ruins in the desert of Tunisia. Along with an intact colosseum there Was a building was the communal bathroom, with 8 seats carved out of stone and running water underneath. Some of the buildings had heated floors. We didn’t even begin to reach the sanitary levels of Rome until the late 1800’s.
I thought north africa continue practice of public bathing even after the roman rule in north africa ended while the roman have thermae islamic north africa have hammam
Depends on country and cultural practices. Maybe in Europe and the US which followed the European standard, but other places in the world had regular bathing practices that were consistent for hundreds or thousands of years. Also, rich people just tend to be able to afford bathing more. They've got the time and money.
@@Lill2895 Public bathing continued to be popular in Europe until the black plague which spread easily in bathhouses. In the 13th century, Paris had 13 bath houses and once a week they would be free for the poor. People were not as dirty as we think, even a farmer in a small village would have wiped themselves down with a cloth. And nobody was walking around with dirty faces like in the movies.
@@mbern4530 black plague was transferred from fleas. Fleas dont like bathhouses. Soap and water was the cure for black plague, they didnt bathe.
@@naysaynetwork5271 True, but many people suffered from fleas so they would have spread in places where people gathered. Plus they didn't realize it at the time that it was fleas, they believed it was due to bad air and having your skin exposed was seen as the cause of the plague. Bathhouses basically disappeared during the plague.
I remember when I was in college, I was learning germ theory. In Europe, before germ theory was discovered by Koch, London's pipes had animal feces, dead animals, waste from slaughter houses, and contaminated ground water from graveyards. All of it ended up in Thames River which was most of the systems drinking water. It caused Cholera in the villages. I can't imagine how awful that must be.
In a 100 years time today’s hygiene would be considered filthy 😂
Yeah, the people of the future will be geneticall modified and predisposed to be clean without external effort.
Especially Americans using paper to wipe
We have a scientific understanding of our hygiene that suggests otherwise. The futures science will be based on today’s science. Unlike our our science is not based on science from 2000 years ago.
Nah, not really.
@Harv I assure you it not that difficult lol
I went to Perge in Turkey. The Roman bath ruins were massive. I can imagine them back in the day. Absolutely impressive.
The public bath houses of Rome may not have been as filthy as you think. They were constantly flushed with fresh water
:-)
And they were divided by hot water pools, cold water pools and normal pools. Probably very clean
Were they really though, the ones for poor people I mean
Public bathrooms are theoretically regularly cleaned today but they are rarely cleanly
Flushing doesn't matter if you're sharing body juice and filth with strangers. Disease and parasites don't care about flushing lol
@@Lill2895 ?? Disease and such are flushed away and replaced with fresh water.
@@idancemyassintothepaint7571 okay dude. Next time I want you to clean your house (especially your tub/shower) with just water, no detergent or soap
I wonder if they were all in such great shape despite such lavish lifestyles, or they just had these sculptures made to depict them as such in the future.
They had to walk everywhere and physically work for a lot of their resources. They also didn’t have the same diet we do now
most of the people were in shape (toned) or skinny at the least. being fat was only for the rich who didn’t do much. today our poor is fat from horrible diet eating things me or a scientist would not classify as food. and we are all so lazy
It was ancient photoshop, although they weren't out of shape, they certainly did not look like their statues. They were quite aware that people would be studying them in the future so they wrote their history that way.
The artist was most likely forced to draw them without flaws thats how insecure they were jn the days lol
They didn't sit around watching tv, sitting on a computer and eating processed foods.
I love how aware people are about the ridiculousness of some traditions during this time
i actually think we as modern humans wouldnt be able to live amongst the ppl back then... They all smell like piss and the streets would stink so bad🤢🤢🤮
Because of this channel i really want to have the ability to time travel and go back in those times and experience it myself
sometimes i dream about it lol
Really?
Cuz this channel taught me that glorification of the olden times are completely fictitious and help me appreciate modern plumbing and medicine lol
@@claytonhawk8512 this. Yeah I’m good on cesspools and plague on top of being property because I have a vajeen. Send us a post card.
No
...and watch the village try to stone you because your one sneeze killed the whole village. 😁😁
I want to thank weird history for discussing interesting topics of history rather in school boring topics are discussed generally
Agreed, Maybe if school history was like this I would’ve taken it
The “boring stuff” is usually important context for these little fun facts. If you actually want to understand history then you will have to study those things as well, unless you are content telling people half remembered trivia instead of actually being able to have an informed conversation on a historical topic.
As someone trying to become a history teacher, it’s not really the teachers fault they must teach the standard in school + they do provide context to the weird moments of history
Though by all means, schools and teachers should try to make history more fun to learn (I was blessed with amazing fun history teachers). It’s a shame people often find history boring in school
To be fair, certain things are "boring" but are integral to human history. Caesar's hairline and Romans shitting as a community are not important points of Roman history, just fun trivia. What Caseser did during his life is MUCH more important to a history class than his hairline, sorry to say. Academia is not achieved by "fun facts" they're just a happy by-product
History is not fun.
its not supposed to be.
Its one endless bloodbath.
In general it sprinkles some hopeful optimism in the end.
And any teacher that tries to make it "fun" is doing kids a disservice.
Because everything cannot be fun all the time.
I always like to the hygiene videos when I'm taking a bath as it reminds me to be grateful for every drop of water in the tub.
I belong to a Health club that had a "eucalyptus room" a room kept a 50°F, eucalyptus oil pumped into the room, and a pool of cold water. I spent an insane amount of time in there and depressed when it was removed because not enough ppl used it.
Florida is hot as hell so a cold room like this is like heaven.
The videos are churning out continously. Great and satisfying guys. You guys are fantastic
01:00 Cæsar is the answer to, "How would Squidward look if human?" 🦑
Can u do a video on hygiene for the Egyptian's?
I have always been intrigued by their history for Aldo the fact that I have read somewhere yrs ago that the royal or higher status Egyptian's would bath from 10 to 15 times a day but I'm not sure how true that is either so it thats why I would love to see a video on the full history of their hygiene routines.
Thanks for the great films, education and narration 🙏
Fun fact - Gladiators used a strigil to scoop their sweat into jars, that would then be sold to the people, who believed that by ingesting it pure, or cooking with it/mixing it with drinks, they would absorb/inherit the strength and power of the gladiator.
More modern, realistic fact - That shits just disgusting 🤮
Now it's just made directly into Gatorade.
🤢
And now people buy womens sweat lmao
The ancient version of gamer girl bath water 🤢
Eeeeeeeeew😥
When I was in Bath as a child they mentioned the natural spring water would also help with cleansing when they went in for a little while. Probably the same as the skincare Avene.
That Mexican music at the end was so random, lol.
Speaking of which, you should do a video about the history of Mexican music and dance. Some of it was heavily influenced by German railroad workers, and in the case of the Mexican hat dance, it was at one point banned by the Spanish colonial authorities because it was deemed “too sensual”.
I want a video on that
That music threw me off I thought my mom was blasting her tunes for a sec
for reals i was not expecting thathaha
I was thinking about los tigres del norte or something like that lol
I thought it was just an accordion playing lol I didn't known it was actually Mexican music since he ended talking about Germany 😂 I wonder if they realized or if they just chose a song featuring an accordion and they picked a Mexican song. I love that lmao
Can u do a video on the toxic history of cosmetics? I’ve heard that toxins like lead were common in Victorian makeup
And long before.
That's a great one!
Ik arsenic and mercury were used for make up back in the day.
They did one where they discussed this in terms of Elizabeth I it’s one of their most popular ones
they already have
Bruh, the old men trying to "hustle" the Emperor bit was hilarious!
I enjoy your videos very much Weird History, keep up the good work! Very interesting and informative always!
I would love to hear the history of Absinthe.
Hey! check out Dr. Justin Sledge’s channel Esoterica. He and a friend of his have taken understanding and experiencing historical absinthe to another level.
@@user-zr7qm7zf4o thank you 😊
should explore Hygiene in the palace of Versailles and how the king and the courtiers lived and dealt day to day life without bathrooms and toilets, very interesting topic
for those wondering, the outro song at 11:15 is Vengase Con su Papi - Fernando Rios Roman 🤣
I learn so much from this channel. I'm on a binge!
you guys should do a history video, or videos on the origins of the idea of message in a bottle and throwing it out to sea from the shore or off a dock or pier; , as well as the idea of message in a bottle when stranded out at sea , the idea behind it in each circumstance, the reasons people supposedly thought it was a logical option for communication, and other purpose, as well as the statistics, the likely-hood of a message in a bottle actually reaching other shores, along with , the likely-hood of it helping someone stranded out at sea be found because they tossed a message in a bottle from their stranded boat or life raft
@@koolmaaan LOL yeah yeah yeah yeah, i see what you just did there, , i get it, still have the album too ;-)
I just came across this channel today and I am so glad! It's fascinating. ✨
Such complicated lives nothing was easy, I guess they were still all learning. Thank you.
I block any TH-cam channel that tries to do weird history the way you do. Thank you for the awesome info. Thank you for what you do
Nice to hear Stephen Colbert educating me about weird history
This is the kind of video you find before you are about to go to sleep and think
“Ooh that looks interesting” so u end up never sleeping
Seems interesting 🤨 that both Japanese and Roman’s enjoyed public bath eventhough the two civilizations were so far apart. When I read novels on Rome, I usually pictured the strigils as some fuzzy harmless brush. Never realized it’s so sharp.
Corny
@@mgggg78897 ? Why not say something useful instead of useless
@@Pactastic042 go make some more videos on mustard packets
@@mgggg78897 🤡
@@Pactastic042 says the clown that’s reviewing mustard packs
Suggestion, in the spirit of the holiday season. Different versions of/names for Santa Claus around the world. The only ones I know are Kris Kringle, Father Christmas and Papa Noel.🧑🎄🧑🎄🧑🎄🧑🎄
Hygiene, one of the most difficult luxury to attain and maintain in that era
What a great video it has a lot of small pearls of history.
The mexican song at the end cracked me up by the way!
Thanks so much!
Just a little technical - Suetonius didn't leave us any reports about the Severan dynasty (Alexander Severus, Caracalla), because he died decades before their rule :-)
Love the tejano music at the end
I'd like to see a video of antient greek nutrition and fitness. Maybe workout routines even?🥰
ooo yess new video! cant wait to watch
During Roman times, the Mediterranean was a bit more humid so people tend to experience sticky armpits. There were no deodorants back then so people smelled a little rancid and sour from their armpits sweat.
I'm so glad I'm in the modern world, sooooooooo glad✨✨✨
The Romans were probably much cleaner than most civilizations that came after them right up until the last century. It wasn't all that long ago that people used to take a family bath once a week using the same water. They would use towels and wipe themselves down at other other times. I'm sure some people smelled pretty ripe.
After the pandemic, my mom can't live without her hand disinfectant. I'm sure she won't be able to live in Rome.
I was a bit thrown off by the Mexican sounding polka music at the end 🤔
Yes me too lol
Love ALL your videos - am an avid listener/watcher. Thanks 😊
I have always heard that since there was no filtration system in the baths the water became gross enough for doctors to advise some patients not to use them.
They changed waters constantly
Why the corridos at the end 😂 luv it
This is very insightful, I'll share it with my Roman neighbor.
These graphics are slaying me guys! lol Love!
I must say, never learned any of that in Purdue University. Thx for the supplemental intel. At least I didn't have to pay some PhD shmuck a few hundred bucks to learn this stuff. Well presented.
This TH-camrs tone/voice makes me think of Mr Peabody and I love it 👏🏼
The more I watch about history, the more I learn how urine was used for damn near everything
The music at the end was lit!
I feel bad for Caesar. I totally get being insecure about your hair loss (my male relatives on both sides lost their hair in their mid-to-late 20s). I wonder, if he’d have rocked the bald look, would we have more bald men today than men with wigs and comb-overs?
I would say today we have way more men that are bald then ones that wear wigs...
@@garretthumphreys952 there are transplants and toupees now, tho
Don't feel too bad for Cesar. He went on a genocidal campaign in France because he was having a midlife crisis lol
Funny how the music during the last few seconds immediately made me think of Mexican music (I'm not sure what the specific genre name is) and German music. Makes sense though
Tejano music. It takes a lot of influence from Polka
@@GeneralKenobiSIYE tejano if it's from the us. Regional mexicano or norteño if it's mexican
@@ec_tcb Don't tell me my own cultural music. Tex-Mex is every bit Mexican as American. Besides, if it had a German influence, it's Tex-Mex, Tejano.
@@GeneralKenobiSIYE lmao it's right there in the name tex-mex, it's more americanized.
- A Mexican actually living in Mexico
The fact that the old men at 4:40 just did exactly what the first guy did when they were trying to get some slaves out of him is hilarious to me. Not even trying to be subtle about it 😂
Holy Hell, I was not prepared to be frightened by Julius Caesar's terrifying eyeballs!!
I refuse to take a shower until I finish watching this. 😤
Don't forget your stridgel and olive oil afterwards🔪 🏺
@@IRosamelia think I'll stick to my loofah and a bar of soap lol
I can’t stop thinking about what their clothes must have smelled like
They smelled normal. You rinse out the urine
Not sure why but the hygiene videos are my favourite 👀
Same haha
You prolly watching pimple squeezing video when you can't sleep 😁
Morbid attraction, you pervs 😜
@@SuperChodot Nah that's too much for me 😂🤢
Well on the 21st century we are being told to wash our hands. Hygiene is still barbaric with some people.
🤣ha the music at the end 👍🏿
Right? Killed me 😂
I LOVE anything weird history
Tch tch tch
The last 30 seconds are gold
There is something
Fun fact: Romans actually used goat urine to clean their teeth as well. It helped whitening and killed bacteria that caused decay
After watching this I feel better, thank you.
Hi.
And I was told that Roman toilets were also unisex.
Don't think that's known with certainty or universally the case.
I like that you put Banda music in the end😂💪
do an episode about the weirdest food around the world.
That is a hard one. What is weird for one culture is normal for another.
Weirdest? Like seriously? Huh?
The romans were still pretty hygenic except the usage of communal sponges and public baths. We are way more hygenic than they are but use far more chemicals to clean ourselves
It's always good to be the Emperor.
Till you get brutally murdered by your peers
not really, many emperrors were assassinated or lived in constant fear of assassination
Please make a video about ancient Philippines.
Have you considered a video on hygiene on Roman naval ships?
I love the music right after 😂❤
Romans grew beards until Julius Caesar came to power without a beard? Absolutely ridiculous. Romans were clean-shaven people throughout their entire history.
They also bathe regularly. Their religious practices required both of these things.
Yep
Well clean shaven until Hadrian made beards popular in the 2d century. Even before that getting a clean shave wasn't trivial to achieve, so it was a mark of people of some distinction. Upper class people like Caesar had their personal barbers, while normal people had to go to barbershops and nicked and scratched with dull knives.
@@Oldwhiteguy i'm curious by people like you.. why do you even bother posting a comment consisting of just ''YEP''..
@@azharidris7092 yuup yup
@@azharidris7092 yup
i love the music at the end 🥰🥰
Barber: "So, what can I do for you gents today?"
Gents: "Eeeeh, how bout you 'Slick Tony' us, mac. Classic look, yeah?"
#yohadrian!
**NOTE**
Yes, I understand that the name is "Suetonius." It's a joke.
Very engaging content!
I'm sorry but the beginning of your story doesn't add up. First you say "through the first half of the first century Roman men commonly wore their hair and facial hair long'' but then you say that when Ceasar came into power he became a model for short hair. Ceasar came into power in 49 BC and was murdered in 44 BC, before this period you describe of Roman men wearing their hair long, which then according to you changed when Ceasar came into power, even though he would've been dead for about a 100 years by then... I take it someone forgot to add ''BC'' to the script? Also at 10:01, Severus Alexander reigned from 222 to 235, Suetonius could not have written about him cause he died in 122. Again at 11:06, Suetonius would have been dead for 70 years when Caracalla reigned. Seriously who wrote this script???
Yeah I immediately did a double take when I heart Suetonius being used as a source for Severus Alexandar and Caracalla. Like, it's impossible that he wrote those quotes which were used in this video, so who was the creator actually quoting??
Overall I liked this video and even learned a bit from it, but the inaccuracies are concerning and could easily mislead people
@@bm_wuratli6883 That’s not true, Romans were well known to have good hygiene.
The other funny thing is these videos always depict guys that look more English or German than Italian. Southern Italians (and Spanish) in particular have been traced back to the original Romans in there DNA, so dark hair and olive to darker skin tones would have been what Romans actually looked like.
I'm from Corpus Christi, TX. (Basically close to Mexico, 3 hrs. to be exact), so when that Tejano music came on at the end, I quickly was taken back to memories of family house parties and uncles passing out drunk and aunts arguing and grandma yelling at the kids running around her house while leaving the door opened....ahhh, the sweet memories of a lovely Mexican family and smell of barbecue and homemade tortillas and chile con queso. Sorry totally forgot this was about Romans....hahaha. 😆
The Mexican music at the end 🤣
@5:20 - "It is fairly easy to get".... You're hilarious.
I think there is a video for all ages and cultures for living standards and diet except for native Americans should do one on them
Great video! Can you make one about the castrati opera singers
Imagine the shit they'll say about us 2000 or 3000 years from now.
What is it?
@@abhinavdas98 I didn't come from the future, so I can't tell. I was hoping that was obvious.
There's actually some studies showing that we bathe too much in our era. By that, I mean we strip our skin with harsh soaps and irritating perfumes. Hence why companies are coming out with gentler products.
@@AC-ze1nh I call those phony studies bullshit.
@@AC-ze1nh Ok, that actually makes more sense.
My boy playing some corridos at the end of the video.
Can you do a video on " Hygene status of India during pre and post british colonisation"?
Oo I'd love this!
3:00 in is a picture taken from Bath, UK, at The Roman Baths (spent some time in the area) xo
Have many pics right there lol
The acne treatment would actually work, honey, aloe and vinegar are effevtive acne treatments
the music at the end had me lol.
Weird history instructed Blitzen to walk with a pimp limp around vixen.
Hey weird history videos I been following for a while and I think I’ve seen all your videos already, but I always wondered what the heck or what are those people from at 0:20 seconds on top of the subscribe button at the intro ??? They are like black and white and look like they have shapes painted on their stomachs
As a Mexican I approve of the music at the end ✅
😂 hyped me up
Most people in ancient Rome suffered from gastro stomach problems as nothing they ate or drank was sanitary.
I thought the music at the end was going to be Mexican music but then I realized it was meant to be German Polka. Lol.
Was not expecting the corrido blasting at the end but ok, go off
As a lady, I'd love to see some period positivity & learn how my foresisters did their thing pre-Tampex.
Basically, from the moment fabric (wool) was available, they used strips of fabric as a form of tampon or diaper. Same goes for diapers generally. After use they were washed, which was beeing rinsed in water and dried. That continued from a few thousand years ago til the 1950ies in a lot of countries.
Yeah.....
@@birddabble2430 Haha I know it'll be bleak, even the modern tampon is a male creation. I'm reminded of NASA asking Sally Ride if 100 tampons were enough for 1 week in space. 🤦♀️ The stigma & misogyny behind periods & birth control is important herstory.
@@the_glitter_is “herstory”… Jesus Christ, take a day off and touch grass
@@the_glitter_is What? Women in ancient Egypt would use papyrus as tampons so I don’t know where you get off saying a man invented it. More like came up with the commercial variety, but they didn’t invent the tampon. Just cause someone patents something that’s been around for thousands of years doesn’t mean they actually invented it. 😂 Unless you mean the applicator, which I could totally see some uptight man inventing that, “we can’t have these women putting their fingers up their own vaginas! That’s masturbation!” - Mr. Tampax, probably.
@@YourOwnDa Are you talking?
The music at the en had me like “wait a minute!” 😂😂😂😂