thanks, I usually start off the tours to give me a general idea of how to structure the video, then poke around myself and write down what questions I have, then research those to bring you all the answers.
Once again kudos to the game makers for the quality of their work, and to you for presenting this with scientific background. All the books, all the television programs about the ancient world just paint a pale, drab shadow of this. I have to wonder what it was like in other cities - was it similar, did it have local flavor, was it less impressive (or more)? About the reference to India, I don't recall if it was Michael Wood or Bettany Hughes but one of them said that if you want to know what life in ancient cities looked like then some places in India can give you a good facsimile of that.
There was very likely local variation: architecture and culture reflect the climate and materials available. A Greek living on the Black Sea or in the mountains would have had a different house and decorations to an Athenian or Cretan. As an example from later in the ancient world, Pompeii was noted for its liberal use of red paint on houses - something that tourists talked about at the time.
Life in the Indo-Greek Kingdom, modern Pakistan, 200 BC: "There is in the country of the Yonakas a great centre of trade, a city that is called Sâgala, situated in a delightful country well watered and hilly, abounding in parks and gardens and groves and lakes and tanks, a paradise of rivers and mountains and woods. Wise architects have laid it out, and its people know of no oppression, since all their enemies and adversaries have been put down. Brave is its defence, with many and various strong towers and ramparts, with superb gates and entrance archways; and with the royal citadel in its midst, white walled and deeply moated. Well laid out are its streets, squares, cross roads, and market places. Well displayed are the innumerable sorts of costly merchandise with which its shops are filled. It is richly adorned with hundreds of alms-halls of various kinds; and splendid with hundreds of thousands of magnificent mansions, which rise aloft like the mountain peaks of the Himalayas. Its streets are filled with elephants, horses, carriages, and foot-passengers, frequented by groups of handsome men and beautiful women, and crowded by men of all sorts and conditions, Brahmans, nobles, artificers, and servants. They resound with cries of welcome to the teachers of every creed, and the city is the resort of the leading men of each of the differing sects. Shops are there for the sale of Benares muslin, of Kotumbara stuffs, and of other cloths of various kinds; and sweet odours are exhaled from the bazaars, where all sorts of flowers and perfumes are tastefully set out. Jewels are there in plenty, such as men's hearts desire, and guilds of traders in all sorts of finery display their goods in the bazaars that face all quarters of the sky. So full is the city of money, and of gold and silver ware, of copper and stone ware, that it is a very mine of dazzling treasures. And there is laid up there much store of property and corn and things of value in warehouses-foods and drinks of every sort, syrups and sweetmeats of every kind. In wealth it rivals Uttara-kuru, and in glory it is as Âlakamandâ, the city of the gods."
I am Greek, living 2 hours away from Athens and I really loved this video and your talk over. You are so on point! And it is the first time I have a full visual conception of the interior of an ancient greek house. No matter how many museums I have visited, it's not the same.
The House of Pericles in AC Odyssey is not a good, or authentic representation of a home in Ancient Athens. First no home, however rich, would have had open yard space as real estate in a walled city was at a premium, and the Greeks just didn't build urban dwellings this way (with yards and lawns). Secondly, the interior rooms are way, way too large here. The only spacious areas of a Greek house were the courtyard and dining hall; the rest of the rooms were small and cramped. Lastly, which Invicta does mention in the video, this house has far too many windows, and they're far too large for a true Athenian home. In an urban environment where houses were built right up against neighboring homes, and back to back, and where the front door opened directly into the street without a yard to buffer it; windows were tiny and set high near the ceiling for letting in a little sunlight and ventilation, not for looking out. Greek homes looked inward to the courtyard, not outward to the street.
I'm also a bit puzzled about what he's saying about glass windows. Sure glass did exist during antiquity, but: see-through glass window ? hmm. I believe it became common only during the renaissance, in western europe.
This separation between men and women is mentioned in Camille Paglias work very often. It is such an important issue that has been going on for many many thousands of years and it gets ignored in the feminism debate a lot! It still informs our view on male/men and female/women! Good to see a prime example of that aspect.
Stuff like this makes me wish you didn't have to be some hack and slash assassin guy in this game but some humble farmer out in the sticks if you wanted to
Assassins Seed: Oranges But you're honestly right. I'm imagining a Harvest Moon game with the AC engine and on the low it would probably be a very serviceable and fun game. It could be like what the guys who branched off of black flag are doing with a pirate game but instead they could use the unity engine and make a farm sim.
Decus This guy had a courtyard surrounding his house. He must have been the wealthiest person in Athens. I mean, population density of ancient cities were in the tens of thousands per sq km. Living there for anyone but the extremely wealthy must have been hell!!!
Bitch Probably, I’m far from an expert on the subject, and urban history of Europe and the near east like in Mesopotamia is long and varied. But from my understanding, most people living in cities were the wealthy citizens and the people that depended on them for patronage, employment or support. Such as that there were no middle class like we understand it. The least wealthy of the citizens were still wealthy, and afforded their luxuries by living in big households with multiple families, like clans. Such way that a middle class didn’t really exist. There were the slaves, and the citizens, and then a few others that still inhabited crowded households with little to no comfort.
I imagine the very poor would be the sort working around in the filthy mud and tall grass. Waiting silently for the day when a wandering king and his knights wonder in nearby clopping odd shells from strange fruit together and then they will discuss/argue how strange women lying in ponds distributing swords do not constitute a system of high leadership.
LOVE this tour. Thank you so much for presenting this to us! Small request on behalf of the folks with motion sickness (like me): please try hard to avoid shaking the camera around when you're trying to draw attention to something in front of you. (eg: a doorway, the bread on the table, the loom, etc) It makes some of us rather woozy. I know you're probably accustomed to encircling something with a cursor to draw the viewer's attention but since there's no cursor present ... well, you're just kind of giving us a jostle. LOL Many thanks again for this immersive tour!
Ubisoft should have a special division that focuses hardcore on historical recreation. I love what they’ve done in the AC games and I appreciate that they’ve added some guided historical tours, but I still feel like they’ve only skimmed the surface of their potential in bringing history to life.
Hey! How about Military Garrisons, Ports, or Barracks. Yeah, sure, you get the manly men in their shiny armours but it would be nice to get a detailed vid on military garrisons. If not, check the Agora!
10:54 We see carrots on the table there but... The first evidence of carrot being cultivated as a food crop was in the Iranian Plateau and Persia in the 10th century AD !! Orange roots appeared in Spain and Germany in the 15th or 16th century!
This is completely wrong. Greek and Roman sources talk about how carrots can be grown, cooked, and eaten all the way back in the 1st century AD. Maybe you are thinking of modern, orange, carrots.
seriously, you need to watch some videos on how to make a video. Wide shot, pan, closeup. Take your time, give us time to take it in and understand what you are describing. I like your descriptions and content but please stop swinging the camera around. Thanks.
After reading other comments, I think I get it. This style would be appreciated by gamers and looks like it was produced as they produce video games. It and the voice over is positively manic, as is the style of video games (which is one reason I don't play them).
Very cool, guys. I heard the team was trying to be historically accurate with origins and odyssey which made me inner historical geek, well, geek out lol. I love that you guys are covering this.
*CHINA!!!!! PLEASE OH PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS ON CHINA!!!!* You can be a video on the Tang Dynasty and how it became the wealthiest civilization of its time. You can talk about particular Emperor's from that time. You can make a video about China's one and only Empress, Wu Zetian. Or a video on how the Tang Dynasty Imperial Court frequently hosted parties and discussed politics with leaders and political figures from places like Korea, Persia, Greece, Japan, and even Rome. You can make a video about the evolution of military technology overtime. Or you can make a video on the Japanese Wokou raids on China's southeast coast. A video on Ming Dynasty Imperial guards who guarded the emperor and acted as a secret police and Imperial assassins. You could do a video on Yue Fei, the most celebrated General and all of Chinese history and one of the greatest military commanders to ever live. Never lost a battle, and pushed back jurchen Raiders. The possibilities are bloody endless.
That‘s actually a myth. If anyone‘s interested in carrots; read the article “A high-quality carrot genome assembly provides new insights into carotenoid accumulation and asterid genome evolution” by Nature Genetics. (Tenzij je gewoon oranje bedoelde als kleur van het koningshuis en ik het te ver zoek ;)
@@RomanCourier not sure what you're saying is a myth here. Carrots in their natural form come mostly purple with some white and yellow ones here and there. The orange ones didn't become widespread until the 17th century with some human intervention.
@@RomanCourier Even the article you mention states "The first documented colors for domesticated carrot root were yellow and purple in Central Asia approximately 1,100 years ago with orange carrots not reliably reported until the sixteenth century in Europe." So, if it wasn't a human intervention, what explains the appearance of orange carrots in the 16th century? What evidence do you have to support that claim?
Hi Lonewolf, it was human intervention - there is just no convincing evidence to support that it was because of political reasons. I’ll be happy to be proven wrong, though! 😊
This video is freakin dope! I'm a art history geek and enjoy all things nerdy. I'm not really a gamer myself but I'm always fascinated and impressed with the graphics in games like Assassin's Creed. So cool! These scenes allow us to have a peek into history. So sun! Great video! Just subscribed.
I just discovered this video and I've been following for ages. I think we just reached the peak of vulgarisation and ease of access to historic information with this. Great content, thank you !!
Your videos are always so informative and beautiful. I didn’t realize that in upper class Athenian homes, they still did a lot of crafts and food production. What a beautiful home and architecture fit the needs and life so well.
I'm trying to think if you've done a video on Roman grooming and morning routines (You know, shaving, cosmetics etc), but if you've not, please think of making a video on that about how *How They Did It.*
Wow!! I love your tour guides of ancient Greece, I must say. I don't know if you've ever been there, but I noticed that the courtyard looks a lot like the 'cafe' area of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Striking similarity. Check it out, they have a website that displays some photos. Sort of a square shaped room, with a garden in the center (no roof above it) and tables all around it. They must have based their architectural basis from a Athenian mansion I suppose.
Once again, really enjoyable! This was one I was excited about because I really enjoy getting to look into the private aspects of ancient civilization since so much of what we learn is of the public things. Fun, fun, all around! The history lover in me is feeling so spoiled this week! :D
The strigil wasn't used/popular until 300-201 BC. The game takes place in between 431-404. Most likely why there wasn't one. I love this stuff, keep it coming.
In modern greek, the policemen is still called astinomoi Ancient Greeks didn't rest on the floor. They considered it to be a barbarian habit. They used chairs and sophas.
as a kid in Mexico i remember my aunt's home was built around a central courtyard i always thought that it was a strange design for a home cause you basically had to walk outside from one room to the next to get the restroom but now i know the reason for that design (it was a middle-class home so it was nice and all but i thought it was strange nonetheless). now i actually find the idea pretty great and wouldn't mind having a home w one.
How great it would be to create a 3D tour of the interior of Agia Sophia, the emperors palace, the hippodrome and the entire walked city & seas around Constantinople
This is fantastic. What a great learning tool for my students. I really appreciate this. I have only one suggestion, when you enter a space, could you consider pausing for a few seconds on each main view. It moves so fast that I felt kind of seasick as you pan around so much. Try holding a shot a little longer because it makes it hard to watch.
I'm not a gamer so I don't have access to an Xbox or anything (yes, even I have heard of Assassin's Creed), so this was very interesting to me. I wish, however, that the panning around would have been slower and less jerky - its hard to really take in the details of the house with so much moving around.
Compared to the discovery of the intricate wall paintings in Pompeii, I notice that there doesn't seem to be any wall paintings in the Athenian homes. Is that because of the evolution of later interiors under Roman rule? Great visually and informative. Thanks also for the narrative without a background musical score. Thumbs up.
The interiors of the roman houses, especially by the end of the republic, were much more lavish than the greeks a few centuries before. Both had paintings, mosaics and frescoes on the walls(the minoans already had it in the bronze age), but the romans used much more colours and ornamentations in its architecture.
love the hawk...the transitions are a bit jerky...the color and depth is wonderful...Brassieres are women's bras-- but Braziers (Brayzhieers) are grills for cooking...
That was great Thanks ! For those who wants to experience the visit of an amazing reconstitution of a Greek villa you can do so on the French Riviera , in Beaulieu - sur - Mer , built early 19OO by an archeologist , Villa Kerylos . The amount of work , details , craftsmanship is out of this world , no money today could buy what they did with this project , I visited it twice over the years and could hardly believe my eyes ... worth checking it out .
The things to heat up coals or wood are braziers not brassieres which hadn't been invented at time and are for holding things very different to hot coals.
I haven't had time to watch either of these yet. But I'm so excited to whenever I find the time! I don't have patience for these games personally, but I know there are amazing little nuggets packed into them.
I can't wait for 2050's videogames on ancient Greece, if we could see them now it would be like giving AC Odyssey to a Mario Bros player in the early 90s
I love your videos. Thanks for making them!!! One point, if I may: brazier is pronounced BRAY-shur or BRAY-see-ur, not BRAH-zee-ur, which might mean a woman's bra.
This is fascinating and I really appreciate it. One small request -- I find the zipping around a little unsettling. A little less jerkiness next time, please? That said, I learned a LOT -- this was great.
In a previous lifetime, I was a wealthy, well-traveled and influential Roman merchant. And I came here and stayed at this place and developed a great respect for these people, the Greeks, and their culture. I went back home to Rome and told everyone about this progressive place called Athens, and they agreed: We are impressed by them and will show it by emulating their best aspects, and learning from them. Why can't we be like that today toward countries other than our own?
Hi, it would be great if you made a tour trough Lavrion (or Laurion as it was pronounced by the french) to see where all the wealth came from. . It would be nice if you go into deatails on the slave system back in the day. For example: Near the mines, or even directly next to it you also have the ancient theatre of Thorikos, which is one of the oldest in greece. It hat seats for over 5000 people, while only some several hundred free citizens lived there. So also the slaves had been allowed into that theatre. Slavery back than is still slavery, but should not be confused for the system in the USA in the 19th century, as there are differences
I spotted the theatre of Dionysus at 00:20 anyway without the cave church Choregic Monument of Thrysallos which was built 4 B.C. on the cliff behind the theatre. It is far back from the odeon and the rocks in the south of Acropolis are actually not that close to the theatre. The stoas aren't there just some traces of corridor with pillars and statuettes. At 0:51 I see a very visible temple which looks similar to the Solomon's temple in the middle eastern style, I now see what it would look like in the Classical era
NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU... THIS IS A VERY GOOD VIDEO PRESENTATION! WOW. AND I TRULY APPRECIATE THE PROFESSIONAL MANNER YOU DISPLAY AND DISCUSS EVERYTHING... BRAVO, MAN! VERY INTERESTING SOFTWARE? OR WHAT YOU ARE USING. OR HOW YOU DID IT. I LIKE IT ALOT AND I LEARNED SOMETHING. THANKS .
Can you recommend any books that covers stuff like this? I absolutely love the videos you make that focus on the everyday lives of our ancestors. It's so easy to forget that they were human just like us and had hopes, struggles, dreams, fears, and ambitions.
Great subject; great renders. Not intending to criticize, but you may not be aware how neck-snapping those frequent & _extreme_ changes in angle are. This is something we do all the time when playing a game. But when we're trying to take in the views, it's really hard to relax and absorb the scene, when your viewpoint is getting yanked by 90° every couple of seconds. Consider aiming for smooth, film-making pans! Thanks.
I find this game really boring, but I always praised all its designers and the people that make the 3D world and characters, they are really good. I also think that first person view makes this Discovery mode much better. It lets you focus only in what is in front of you, and not around you. Cool.
To go back and actually walk those streets at that time. That would be wonderful. I walked the streets of Athens last September. The streets are dirty now. Lots of blight. The ancient section is clean, but other than that graffiti everywhere. Gum all over the sidewalks. Missing tiles on the sidewalks are not replaced. No maintenance what-so-ever. It's a run down city. If it were not for tourists that city would implode.
I enjoy your series very much. However I would suggest that the movements are not so abrupt in order to have time to focus the mind to te place more smoothly. I don’t know the difficulties involved in producing these views so take it as previously said, suggestions. Regards.
Poop and pee proper management must've been an important part of their daily lives I imagine (unless there was some sort of hole used as a cesspit inside the house's surrounding walls but outside the house itself, but then don't know what they would do when it got full).
Any architect here? why and when Greek architecture changed those internal outdoors for more modern traditional houses? I find it like a very good idea, we had a neighbor which house had a garden in the center. Everybody loved to spend some time there, she was very welcoming.
So, what's next everyone?!
The Greek fleet would be awesome! Ships don’t get the attention / love they deserve.
a fort or some other military structure would be cool. ancient greece had interesting military organization.
Invicta literally anything. I’m LOVING these discovery videos
It be cool if you covered some small settlement or town that's tucked away or not covered by the discovery mode. Really get out there you know?
Sparta obviously.
Suddenly I’m looking into Mediterranean real estate.
this needs more likes
You can get some cheap'ish houses in southern italy
Flatflo 😂
But..... We don't want any of you here 😂
@@s.durbar1294 not that cheap anyway. still need like 100k to get it all done and finalized. And yeah they don't want no one down there hahahah
>Your average Athenian home
>Pericles' mansion
hmmm....
SoukEye white people smh...
@Lord Farquaad Make Hellas Great Again
To me the houses don’t really look all that different than today.. maybe I’m trippin lol
They didn't render the inside of any of the typical Athenian houses for the actual game, I checked, so I guess they had to go with this one.
They had democracy all people had equal rights not like today
*Yo MTV, this is Perikles, and welcome to my crib!*
hahaha this is great
Most kids today won’t even know what you’re talking about sadly
Keeko Cheecho why is that sad?
that show was garbage
just rich people bragging
Kenetic Kups You missed the point entirely but you’re not wrong I guess
Coraru K every rapper
Assassin creed: *makes discovery mode*
History channels:"its free real estate"
This joke is older than Sparta.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki Malakeis
We wuz Athenians and shiet.
I actually really like you're covering things that aren't covered in the tours
thanks, I usually start off the tours to give me a general idea of how to structure the video, then poke around myself and write down what questions I have, then research those to bring you all the answers.
Hey, it's I Saw A Bear
Funny seeing you here
@@nemesis4665 its all aboot thw history man
@@InvictaHistory How come the floor in the kitchen was just dirt and gravel?
Once again kudos to the game makers for the quality of their work, and to you for presenting this with scientific background. All the books, all the television programs about the ancient world just paint a pale, drab shadow of this. I have to wonder what it was like in other cities - was it similar, did it have local flavor, was it less impressive (or more)?
About the reference to India, I don't recall if it was Michael Wood or Bettany Hughes but one of them said that if you want to know what life in ancient cities looked like then some places in India can give you a good facsimile of that.
There was very likely local variation: architecture and culture reflect the climate and materials available. A Greek living on the Black Sea or in the mountains would have had a different house and decorations to an Athenian or Cretan. As an example from later in the ancient world, Pompeii was noted for its liberal use of red paint on houses - something that tourists talked about at the time.
Life in the Indo-Greek Kingdom, modern Pakistan, 200 BC:
"There is in the country of the Yonakas a great centre of trade, a city that is called Sâgala, situated in a delightful country well watered and hilly, abounding in parks and gardens and groves and lakes and tanks, a paradise of rivers and mountains and woods. Wise architects have laid it out, and its people know of no oppression, since all their enemies and adversaries have been put down. Brave is its defence, with many and various strong towers and ramparts, with superb gates and entrance archways; and with the royal citadel in its midst, white walled and deeply moated.
Well laid out are its streets, squares, cross roads, and market places. Well displayed are the innumerable sorts of costly merchandise with which its shops are filled. It is richly adorned with hundreds of alms-halls of various kinds; and splendid with hundreds of thousands of magnificent mansions, which rise aloft like the mountain peaks of the Himalayas. Its streets are filled with elephants, horses, carriages, and foot-passengers, frequented by groups of handsome men and beautiful women, and crowded by men of all sorts and conditions, Brahmans, nobles, artificers, and servants. They resound with cries of welcome to the teachers of every creed, and the city is the resort of the leading men of each of the differing sects.
Shops are there for the sale of Benares muslin, of Kotumbara stuffs, and of other cloths of various kinds; and sweet odours are exhaled from the bazaars, where all sorts of flowers and perfumes are tastefully set out. Jewels are there in plenty, such as men's hearts desire, and guilds of traders in all sorts of finery display their goods in the bazaars that face all quarters of the sky. So full is the city of money, and of gold and silver ware, of copper and stone ware, that it is a very mine of dazzling treasures. And there is laid up there much store of property and corn and things of value in warehouses-foods and drinks of every sort, syrups and sweetmeats of every kind. In wealth it rivals Uttara-kuru, and in glory it is as Âlakamandâ, the city of the gods."
@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics wow that was very interesting to read thank you so much! :)
@@caitlinwest272 thanks for saying so! I'll look you up when I finally complete my time machine.
@@WasFakestCenturyAesthetics hahahaha thank you, can’t wait!!
I am Greek, living 2 hours away from Athens and I really loved this video and your talk over. You are so on point! And it is the first time I have a full visual conception of the interior of an ancient greek house. No matter how many museums I have visited, it's not the same.
modern greek have many islam structure
It's kinda weird for me to see Athenian home in first person after killing all Athenians few hours ago in Europa Barbarorum.
Athena Invicta, appearantly.
The level of detail in this game is stunning
The House of Pericles in AC Odyssey is not a good, or authentic representation of a home in Ancient Athens. First no home, however rich, would have had open yard space as real estate in a walled city was at a premium, and the Greeks just didn't build urban dwellings this way (with yards and lawns). Secondly, the interior rooms are way, way too large here. The only spacious areas of a Greek house were the courtyard and dining hall; the rest of the rooms were small and cramped. Lastly, which Invicta does mention in the video, this house has far too many windows, and they're far too large for a true Athenian home. In an urban environment where houses were built right up against neighboring homes, and back to back, and where the front door opened directly into the street without a yard to buffer it; windows were tiny and set high near the ceiling for letting in a little sunlight and ventilation, not for looking out. Greek homes looked inward to the courtyard, not outward to the street.
I'm also a bit puzzled about what he's saying about glass windows. Sure glass did exist during antiquity, but: see-through glass window ? hmm.
I believe it became common only during the renaissance, in western europe.
That was very informative. Thank you.
@@xenotypos but he did not say see-through glass, did he?
This separation between men and women is mentioned in Camille Paglias work very often.
It is such an important issue that has been going on for many many thousands of years and it gets ignored in the feminism debate a lot!
It still informs our view on male/men and female/women!
Good to see a prime example of that aspect.
Whoa didn't know Athenian homes had glowing beams of light all along the floor
Stuff like this makes me wish you didn't have to be some hack and slash assassin guy in this game but some humble farmer out in the sticks if you wanted to
EXACTLY. what you just described could be the next evolution step in games ...
Assassins Seed: Oranges
But you're honestly right. I'm imagining a Harvest Moon game with the AC engine and on the low it would probably be a very serviceable and fun game. It could be like what the guys who branched off of black flag are doing with a pirate game but instead they could use the unity engine and make a farm sim.
this mode has no gameplay
Wait till VR becomes cheaper and more accessible
I really like these, please do more
That's what she said.
@@typingcat what??
Would be nice to see this not just for the ultra rich, but also: the very rich, the moderately rich, the average, the poor and the very poor.
I think for the very poor, it's just like the ground near the trash dump or behind the stables.
Decus This guy had a courtyard surrounding his house. He must have been the wealthiest person in Athens. I mean, population density of ancient cities were in the tens of thousands per sq km.
Living there for anyone but the extremely wealthy must have been hell!!!
Bitch Probably, I’m far from an expert on the subject, and urban history of Europe and the near east like in Mesopotamia is long and varied.
But from my understanding, most people living in cities were the wealthy citizens and the people that depended on them for patronage, employment or support. Such as that there were no middle class like we understand it. The least wealthy of the citizens were still wealthy, and afforded their luxuries by living in big households with multiple families, like clans.
Such way that a middle class didn’t really exist. There were the slaves, and the citizens, and then a few others that still inhabited crowded households with little to no comfort.
@@matthewhemmings2464 This ''guy'' we are talking about is Perikles so hes bound to have a huge house
I imagine the very poor would be the sort working around in the filthy mud and tall grass. Waiting silently for the day when a wandering king and his knights wonder in nearby clopping odd shells from strange fruit together
and then they will discuss/argue how strange women lying in ponds distributing swords do not constitute a system of high leadership.
LOVE this tour. Thank you so much for presenting this to us! Small request on behalf of the folks with motion sickness (like me): please try hard to avoid shaking the camera around when you're trying to draw attention to something in front of you. (eg: a doorway, the bread on the table, the loom, etc) It makes some of us rather woozy. I know you're probably accustomed to encircling something with a cursor to draw the viewer's attention but since there's no cursor present ... well, you're just kind of giving us a jostle. LOL Many thanks again for this immersive tour!
Really brings home how recent the concepts of privacy and the nuclear family are.
Ubisoft should have a special division that focuses hardcore on historical recreation. I love what they’ve done in the AC games and I appreciate that they’ve added some guided historical tours, but I still feel like they’ve only skimmed the surface of their potential in bringing history to life.
last time i was this early, athena was giving us olive saplings
Last time I was this late, Dionysus slipped me a drug in my wine and I woke up pregnant with twins!
The details most people miss or just don't care about. To me, they are what I demand most in games - because it's what makes them great.
Hey! How about Military Garrisons, Ports, or Barracks. Yeah, sure, you get the manly men in their shiny armours but it would be nice to get a detailed vid on military garrisons. If not, check the Agora!
Exactly. I'd like to see Agora and Eleusinion up in the north of Acropolis. Does it have that map?
This mode really gives you the opportunity to take in the beauty of ancient greek homes. Nice video!
Absolutely love this game world. Probably my favorite ever created
10:54 We see carrots on the table there but... The first evidence of carrot being cultivated as a food crop was in the Iranian Plateau and Persia in the 10th century AD !! Orange roots appeared in Spain and Germany in the 15th or 16th century!
This is completely wrong. Greek and Roman sources talk about how carrots can be grown, cooked, and eaten all the way back in the 1st century AD.
Maybe you are thinking of modern, orange, carrots.
Game: *exist*
Invicta: History time!!
All that rapid swinging round of the graphics made me dizzy.
Agreed, had!!! to stop watching at 6:51. Otherwise amazing, if historically accurate.
Totally agree - ultimately found it unwatchable. For a post about beauty, I couldn't appreciate any of it.
Zin Exactly
seriously, you need to watch some videos on how to make a video. Wide shot, pan, closeup. Take your time, give us time to take it in and understand what you are describing. I like your descriptions and content but please stop swinging the camera around. Thanks.
After reading other comments, I think I get it. This style would be appreciated by gamers and looks like it was produced as they produce video games. It and the voice over is positively manic, as is the style of video games (which is one reason I don't play them).
Very cool, guys. I heard the team was trying to be historically accurate with origins and odyssey which made me inner historical geek, well, geek out lol. I love that you guys are covering this.
*CHINA!!!!! PLEASE OH PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS ON CHINA!!!!* You can be a video on the Tang Dynasty and how it became the wealthiest civilization of its time. You can talk about particular Emperor's from that time. You can make a video about China's one and only Empress, Wu Zetian. Or a video on how the Tang Dynasty Imperial Court frequently hosted parties and discussed politics with leaders and political figures from places like Korea, Persia, Greece, Japan, and even Rome. You can make a video about the evolution of military technology overtime. Or you can make a video on the Japanese Wokou raids on China's southeast coast. A video on Ming Dynasty Imperial guards who guarded the emperor and acted as a secret police and Imperial assassins. You could do a video on Yue Fei, the most celebrated General and all of Chinese history and one of the greatest military commanders to ever live. Never lost a battle, and pushed back jurchen Raiders. The possibilities are bloody endless.
My goodness. I never thought you'd type as much as this down. But yeah. All in!
An orange carrot?
Man Pericles must have loved Dutch culture
That‘s actually a myth.
If anyone‘s interested in carrots; read the article “A high-quality carrot genome assembly provides new insights into carotenoid accumulation and asterid genome evolution” by Nature Genetics.
(Tenzij je gewoon oranje bedoelde als kleur van het koningshuis en ik het te ver zoek ;)
@@RomanCourier not sure what you're saying is a myth here. Carrots in their natural form come mostly purple with some white and yellow ones here and there. The orange ones didn't become widespread until the 17th century with some human intervention.
@@RomanCourier Even the article you mention states "The first documented colors for domesticated carrot root were yellow and purple in Central Asia approximately 1,100 years ago with orange carrots not reliably reported until the sixteenth century in Europe."
So, if it wasn't a human intervention, what explains the appearance of orange carrots in the 16th century? What evidence do you have to support that claim?
@@lonewolf209 omg you both are saying the same damn thing! Shhhh.... You agree. Carrots were not originally orange. All us nerds know this. Shhhh...😘😄
Hi Lonewolf, it was human intervention - there is just no convincing evidence to support that it was because of political reasons. I’ll be happy to be proven wrong, though! 😊
This would be really good if it scanned more slowly. I actually started to get motion sickness with all the jumping around.
This video is freakin dope! I'm a art history geek and enjoy all things nerdy. I'm not really a gamer myself but I'm always fascinated and impressed with the graphics in games like Assassin's Creed. So cool! These scenes allow us to have a peek into history. So sun! Great video! Just subscribed.
I just discovered this video and I've been following for ages. I think we just reached the peak of vulgarisation and ease of access to historic information with this. Great content, thank you !!
That's amazing! Great attention paid to accuracy in regards to diet and lifestyle of the inhabitants of the villa.
Your videos are always so informative and beautiful. I didn’t realize that in upper class Athenian homes, they still did a lot of crafts and food production. What a beautiful home and architecture fit the needs and life so well.
Beautifully done, I could imagine living like that. the music helps soften it all.
Loving this series so far, especially as a gamer.
I'm trying to think if you've done a video on Roman grooming and morning routines (You know, shaving, cosmetics etc), but if you've not, please think of making a video on that about how *How They Did It.*
I do actually have one of my researchers looking into some research for "How They Did It - Getting a Haircut in Ancient Rome"
@@InvictaHistory Nice! Thanks.
@@oslonorway547 Its nice to see you here :)
@@thedoruk6324 Wassup?
@@oslonorway547 Quite good; My last term on the collage
This is the closest we get to time travel. Thank you so much!
Wow!! I love your tour guides of ancient Greece, I must say.
I don't know if you've ever been there, but I noticed that the courtyard looks a lot like
the 'cafe' area of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Striking similarity.
Check it out, they have a website that displays some photos.
Sort of a square shaped room, with a garden in the center (no roof above it) and tables all around it.
They must have based their architectural basis from a Athenian mansion I suppose.
Not many people use this video game for this so this pretty unique. Keep it up👍🏼
bro i cant believe its been almost 3 years since this video came out! these were some of the coolest videos i ever saw on youtube please do more.
Once again, really enjoyable! This was one I was excited about because I really enjoy getting to look into the private aspects of ancient civilization since so much of what we learn is of the public things. Fun, fun, all around! The history lover in me is feeling so spoiled this week! :D
This video is linked in my school's digital history book. Good job lad!
The strigil wasn't used/popular until 300-201 BC. The game takes place in between 431-404.
Most likely why there wasn't one. I love this stuff, keep it coming.
Actually I think there is one, just a few seconds before Invicta mentions it. Right side from the bathroom entrance.
This was thoroughly enjoyable.
In modern greek, the policemen is still called astinomoi
Ancient Greeks didn't rest on the floor. They considered it to be a barbarian habit. They used chairs and sophas.
Awesome! I love that they added the tours to the games. I wanted something like that since the first tomb raider game.
I love these videos! It's the closest thing we have to time travelling 😊
as a kid in Mexico i remember my aunt's home was built around a central courtyard i always thought that it was a strange design for a home cause you basically had to walk outside from one room to the next to get the restroom but now i know the reason for that design (it was a middle-class home so it was nice and all but i thought it was strange nonetheless). now i actually find the idea pretty great and wouldn't mind having a home w one.
you do not know how happy you made me
Respect from Greece ❤️
How great it would be to create a 3D tour of the interior of Agia Sophia, the emperors palace, the hippodrome and the entire walked city & seas around Constantinople
I'm in LOVE with this series!
The ammount of details in this game is just crazy
This is fantastic. What a great learning tool for my students. I really appreciate this. I have only one suggestion, when you enter a space, could you consider pausing for a few seconds on each main view. It moves so fast that I felt kind of seasick as you pan around so much. Try holding a shot a little longer because it makes it hard to watch.
I really enjoyed this. Very interesting! I do wish you’d move the viewer a tiny bit slower, though. I got a little dizzy with the sudden movements.
My profile picture is actually of me sitting on the Parthenon
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These discovery videos are great. Great idea and keep you up the good work
I will buy this Game because of your Videos!
It looks awesome
I really love these videos ! You add a lot of details and life in these visits and keep them very entertaining and interesting ! Can't wait for more !
I'm not a gamer so I don't have access to an Xbox or anything (yes, even I have heard of Assassin's Creed), so this was very interesting to me. I wish, however, that the panning around would have been slower and less jerky - its hard to really take in the details of the house with so much moving around.
Compared to the discovery of the intricate wall paintings in Pompeii, I notice that there doesn't seem to be any wall paintings in the Athenian homes. Is that because of the evolution of later interiors under Roman rule? Great visually and informative. Thanks also for the narrative without a background musical score. Thumbs up.
Game console memory limits, its impossible to fit everything, there are paintings in some houses... the same painting in all of them :)
The interiors of the roman houses, especially by the end of the republic, were much more lavish than the greeks a few centuries before. Both had paintings, mosaics and frescoes on the walls(the minoans already had it in the bronze age), but the romans used much more colours and ornamentations in its architecture.
Thanks for the info...much appreciated!@@Historicaladdicted
@@randomnickify Thanks
Even though its a 3rd person game, the amount of details in the environment is still good enough for a 1st person gameplay 🔥💯.
Imagine in 1000 years there would be a virtual simulation of an American household with the occasonal guitar riff playing in the background.
08:00 little known fact.
in Italy the entry passage to a building is known as 'androne'
love the hawk...the transitions are a bit jerky...the color and depth is wonderful...Brassieres are women's bras-- but Braziers (Brayzhieers) are grills for cooking...
That was great Thanks ! For those who wants to experience the visit of an amazing reconstitution of a Greek villa you can do so on the French Riviera , in Beaulieu - sur - Mer , built early 19OO by an archeologist , Villa Kerylos .
The amount of work , details , craftsmanship is out of this world , no money today could buy what they did with this project , I visited it twice over the years and could hardly believe my eyes ... worth checking it out .
The things to heat up coals or wood are braziers not brassieres which hadn't been invented at time and are for holding things very different to hot coals.
the life of a middle to upper class trader would be interesting
Orange carrots are an anachronism, orange carrots were cultivated by the Dutch in the 17th century as tribute to William of Orange.
so were they just like brown and purple?
@@InvictaHistoryYep, white, yellow and purple.
Very good work! Nice commentary and narration...appreciate your hard work! Please continue with more if able...Thanks
I haven't had time to watch either of these yet. But I'm so excited to whenever I find the time! I don't have patience for these games personally, but I know there are amazing little nuggets packed into them.
I can't wait for 2050's videogames on ancient Greece, if we could see them now it would be like giving AC Odyssey to a Mario Bros player in the early 90s
I hope you make more videos like this. These are great to watch!
Great descriptions of the details. Keep these tours coming.
great, now im gonna build the same thing in minecraft.
I love your videos. Thanks for making them!!! One point, if I may: brazier is pronounced BRAY-shur or BRAY-see-ur, not BRAH-zee-ur, which might mean a woman's bra.
This is fascinating and I really appreciate it. One small request -- I find the zipping around a little unsettling. A little less jerkiness next time, please? That said, I learned a LOT -- this was great.
In a previous lifetime, I was a wealthy, well-traveled and influential Roman merchant. And I came here and stayed at this place and developed a great respect for these people, the Greeks, and their culture. I went back home to Rome and told everyone about this progressive place called Athens, and they agreed: We are impressed by them and will show it by emulating their best aspects, and learning from them. Why can't we be like that today toward countries other than our own?
Hi, it would be great if you made a tour trough Lavrion (or Laurion as it was pronounced by the french) to see where all the wealth came from.
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It would be nice if you go into deatails on the slave system back in the day.
For example: Near the mines, or even directly next to it you also have the ancient theatre of Thorikos, which is one of the oldest in greece. It hat seats for over 5000 people, while only some several hundred free citizens lived there.
So also the slaves had been allowed into that theatre.
Slavery back than is still slavery, but should not be confused for the system in the USA in the 19th century, as there are differences
Loving the AC series! I can't wait for the next video :))
It must of been really hard work to get that big statue of Athena up onto the roof.
I spotted the theatre of Dionysus at 00:20 anyway without the cave church Choregic Monument of Thrysallos which was built 4 B.C. on the cliff behind the theatre. It is far back from the odeon and the rocks in the south of Acropolis are actually not that close to the theatre. The stoas aren't there just some traces of corridor with pillars and statuettes. At 0:51 I see a very visible temple which looks similar to the Solomon's temple in the middle eastern style, I now see what it would look like in the Classical era
NOW, I HAVE TO TELL YOU... THIS IS A VERY GOOD VIDEO PRESENTATION! WOW. AND I TRULY APPRECIATE THE PROFESSIONAL MANNER YOU DISPLAY AND DISCUSS EVERYTHING... BRAVO, MAN! VERY INTERESTING SOFTWARE? OR WHAT YOU ARE USING. OR HOW YOU DID IT. I LIKE IT ALOT AND I LEARNED SOMETHING. THANKS .
3:57 They had beliefs!!! I'm shooketh :O
03:45 are you sure? I thought the first glass windows were used in Roman Alexandria about 100AD?
Ok, you convinced me, I am buying the house.
Can you recommend any books that covers stuff like this? I absolutely love the videos you make that focus on the everyday lives of our ancestors. It's so easy to forget that they were human just like us and had hopes, struggles, dreams, fears, and ambitions.
I'm searching for books about this too... history of homes and the everyday life, but I haven't had much luck :(
Dude, the fact that they could take a dump anywhere in their house weirds me the F out. 😂
Imagine the possibilities!!! 😂
Great subject; great renders. Not intending to criticize, but you may not be aware how neck-snapping those frequent & _extreme_ changes in angle are. This is something we do all the time when playing a game. But when we're trying to take in the views, it's really hard to relax and absorb the scene, when your viewpoint is getting yanked by 90° every couple of seconds. Consider aiming for smooth, film-making pans! Thanks.
I find this game really boring, but I always praised all its designers and the people that make the 3D world and characters, they are really good. I also think that first person view makes this Discovery mode much better. It lets you focus only in what is in front of you, and not around you. Cool.
To go back and actually walk those streets at that time. That would be wonderful. I walked the streets of Athens last September. The streets are dirty now. Lots of blight. The ancient section is clean, but other than that graffiti everywhere. Gum all over the sidewalks. Missing tiles on the sidewalks are not replaced. No maintenance what-so-ever. It's a run down city. If it were not for tourists that city would implode.
I enjoy your series very much. However I would suggest that the movements are not so abrupt in order to have time to focus the mind to te place more smoothly. I don’t know the difficulties involved in producing these views so take it as previously said, suggestions.
Regards.
Many of us have said the same. The jerks distract from the watchability.
The house looks so cozy
Could you visit the Platonic Academy and also the places where government functions took place. That would be so very helpful for teaching.
These serie are perfect.good job and keep doing it.
Poop and pee proper management must've been an important part of their daily lives I imagine (unless there was some sort of hole used as a cesspit inside the house's surrounding walls but outside the house itself, but then don't know what they would do when it got full).
What if I tell you that they had a very basic sewer system ? Part of it you can see it today at the Athenian metro stations 😉
Such an enjoyable video.
Any architect here? why and when Greek architecture changed those internal outdoors for more modern traditional houses?
I find it like a very good idea, we had a neighbor which house had a garden in the center. Everybody loved to spend some time there, she was very welcoming.