Bizarre punishments from Ancient Rome (Part three)
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Never underestimate a human's capacity for cruelty.
Pisses me off when someone says they’re like animals. When humans are way worse than animals. Humans are the kind to create fucked up tortures to prolong pain and suffering as long as possible.
@@drelocs2878 you just capping bro
@@drelocs2878I'm sure you scream if a butterfly gets too close.
@@samuelkings9416look at these people
@@randomchocolateenjoyer5393whining
“He survived that fall? It must be a sign from the gods.. that he hasn’t suffered enough”
Dang blud needs to suffer extra
Actually laughed there. Well done.
the electric chair isnt working
im adding a dog monkey snake and rooster into my fortnite squad
Oop
Imagine drowning while a bunch of random animals are deperately violent while trying to escape as well. What a nightmare.
Especially for the animals, since they have no idea what's even going on. Shame how thousands of years later, humans still treat animals like expendable shit.
@@Kai0nTheMoon Oh no 😢😢😢😢
Crazy that they would involve and drown poor animals in this punishment.
@@chloetv1They literally skinned people alive and flayed people open, forcing them on racks where their body was ripped apart - yet the thing that surprises you is “animals being thrown in a sack”?? If they do the most gruesome things to people why would they spare animals?
@@Kai0nTheMoonshame that you compare life of stupid animal to humans one.
"If you killed a member of your own family, you would be given the death sentence" Romulus, founder of the roman empire, who killed his brother, Remus:
I mean, he killed his brother, not his dad
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola He was still a member of his family...
@@Someoneyou_usedtoknow and? Still doesn't fall under patricide rules
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola I feel like that's a bit of a lie seeing as how you kill a "family member" you get punished with patricide seeing as how he's his brother. Yeah it falls under the patricide rules because he is literally his brother and if you listen closely it states "If you killed a member of your family, you would be given the death sentence." So I think it does fall under patricide.
Patricide is dad, but the video said family, confusing viewers who don't know what patri is
"That's it. Get in the sack."
"You have vexed me for far too long Maximus!"😂😂😂😂
@@wmd13194 He yelled, into the sandy wind. His face scrunched, and expression mixed of annoyance and anger.
DEMETRIUS!! Fetch me a dog monkey snake and rooster 😂
@@wmd13194wdym also my new is maximus corlenone
“No, no, please not the sack! I’m sorry!!”
The Praetorian Guard had two jobs: 1. Protect the emperor 2. Kill the emperor
So who kill the guard?
Emperor: let me eat cereal *puts milk first* Praetorian: NOOO 🔪
They technically had more power than the emperor, they descided who was the emperor and when his time was over. And of course it depended a lot on if you paid them enough.
@@J.T.7 What about Julius Cesar? Was he most powerful?
Emperor: so yeah, here's your pay check for this month *hands a deed worth 10 grand from the treasury* Guard: *begins to pull knife out* Emperor: *frantically scribbles an extra 0 to make it 100 grand* Guard: *sheathes his knife*
Fun fact: the majority of the 23 stab wounds on julius' Caesars body were from writing styluses, that's why it took so many blows for him to go down
I'm impressed they were sharp enough to work in that case tbh
Looks like the pen really is mightier.
@@armaggedon390When the pen becomes the sword
@@armaggedon390 TWENTY THREE wounds were from writing implements. If the pen really WERE mightier, how many wounds from a sword would be required?! Logic. 😉😊
He was also a strong man for leader standards. He lived and fought with his men in battle and lived like his soldiers did for most of his service. His battle against the gauls for example when his forces were losing he charged alone ahead of his men and started slaying as many gauls as he could. Though those daggers were shit, but Cesar was tough which must have been horrifyingly painful to be stabbed like that with the final being a heart stab.
"How did the lions not eat you!?" Dr. Dolittle: "Well you see-"
This deserves more likes 😂👌
Dr Dolittle: I can talk to them; Everyone else: WHAT?
The lions were starved before the games so they would kill their victims.
@@pfranks75…
"You're next in line to rule Rome as Caesar.." "Nah, I'm good bro"
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Na you can……….just don’t be shit at it
@@giancarloferrara1583 you could be a good emperor but they would still kill you. The standards were very different to refer someone as a "good leader" if you didn't kill enough people you weren't a good leader. It's actually better not to become a emperor
Didn't work for Claudius.
😂😂
They were so nice to give her some bread and water before suffocating 💀💀💀
😭😭😂
To be fair, death from hunger and thirst is painful. Suffocation due to lack of fresh air is slowly losing consciousness and never waking up again.
@@DarkSol16 Do you not understand? It takes 3 days to die of thirst, 3 weeks to die of hunger, and 3 minutes to die of suffocation.
@TraceguyRune you are so understanding and wise.
@@DarkSol16I also think that it's not that bad like this... And I have the horrible fear from being burried alive 😅😅😅 (I want my family to burn my corpse to not risk this)
The buried alive one is the scariest for me
I have horrible fears of that 😢😭
me too--but at least i'll have some yummy bread to eat first
@@neverthesame7887 But the carbs😭
@@iwillnotcomplyistandformyf6642 Thet's why they began putting bells on a string in coffins, so that if you were still alive, you could pull on the string & they'd hear the bell ringing, hence ... 'saved by the bell' ... They employed night-watchmen at the cemeteries.
@@neverthesame7887 😋😋😋😋
"You killed your own family!! Punish them!" Romulus: *looks around nervously*
*SWEATS INTENSLY 😂
"When in Rome, leave Rome" - ancient times wisest man
".. but first sack rome then leave" - other wise men from northern europe
@@richmondvand147ez because every road leads to Rome. -someone
Sun Tzu said that or gahdhi or einsiten or something I keep forgetting
@@houser2094it was Jesus
@@michaelzheng8108 "My balls itch" -Me
The thing about Roman emperors is that if your personal guard doesn't like you, they can just kill you.
The importance of the Praetorian guard is overstated in pop culture.
@@trancendental5373May you elaborate?
@@trancendental5373 Explain.
So they’re like the Sith in Starwars?
With that logic any personal gaurd could kill their leaders, most just fear the consequences
"if you survived the fall dont worry" You totally wouldn't get beaten up to death my two men
It’s like Midsommar
“The most feared death in the empire” Crucifixion: “Holy my cross”
Funny thing is, you often got the exact same punishment for being a good emperor.
yeah, it's basically what happens following a successful coup, and coups were very frequent in Ancient Rome
@@harrabiwassim It's honestly astounding how long they managed to keep things going. I don't know if there were any peaceful transfers of power
I mean, at least they had an effective way of enforcing term limits in that regard
*They just liked to kill people, we get it.*
@@metroidhunter965 It certainly was effective.😂💀
I like the killing emperors thing. Like an imperial state member approached you implying "youre not doing a very good job these days" and taunts you with a knife.
Hed probably get executed for it. The plots were usually very secretive and most of the time didnt go to plan because the people taking power didnt have the confidence to go through
That is what America had in mind but with guns im pretty sure
Not a very good idea, considering that a Roman Emperor could kill anyone at will by giving an order.
Yeah but even if you were a “good emperor” you sometimes still weren’t spared the dagger
@@saxonflynn8885 sadly JFK is the one who died this way instead of George W. Bush
"When in Rome, go back home" - MF DOOM
This is why it was so revolutionary when the Americans added “nor shall impose cruel or unusual punishment” to their constitution.
"You are sacked" - my Roman boss
"You're telling me I'm fired?" Boss: *starts pulling out random animals* "not exactly..."
O dang I wonder if that’s where that expression comes from! - Looked it up.. unfortunately it’s not.
@@nikkired5584 Saved me a trip to google. Thx.
@@nikkired5584where does it come from
@@Im.definitely.not.cool- Before the Industrial Revolution - when men, women and even children flocked to the factories to make a living - it was far more common for workers to travel from job to job. Rather than joining a team, tradesmen, craftsmen and labourers would move around on their own, carrying their own tools and supplies, and find work where they could get it. The easiest way to lug their tools around was in a sack, which they would then leave with their employer for safe keeping. The origin of the phrase, therefore, starts to become clear. With no job security, contracts or trade unions, workers could be discharged at a moment’s notice. Once their services were no longer required, they were literally given their sack, before being ordered to pack it up and leave. (Sorry it’s kinda long i copy pasted the answer. 🙂)
They just put a bunch of random animals in and called it a punishment Edit: wtf why this blow up
They fight wildly inside of the sack, so it's not too plesent
Also you're gonna drown
Today they just fire you from your job.
The dog bites, the snake is likely venomous, the rooster stabs you with its spurs, and the monkey rips your hair, extremities, and grabbable skin off with its hands.
@@ska4dragons or all five unwilling participants drown and the exercise of throwing animals in the bag is as pointless as it is sadistic
Why did the last Emperor look like Mark Zuckerberg 💀
That's because statues made after Theodosius the "Great" looked like aliens, because, by then artisans didn't had enough mastery over classical style, which by the times of Julian were already very few, and that by the final Roman Empire split, the style was giving less impressive features to Emperors to not make them God-like.
Animals: So what are you in for. Guy: I killed my father. You? Animals: We have no idea.
As Romes newest emperor. I declare every dagger be smelted down.
The people will make one big dagger to do the job!
your private trainer can just strangle you in the bath instead
@@cross-eyedhollow So technically a sword or greatsword. Putting me with the few and maybe a quicker death.
@@derekfuqua1254 No its a BIG DAGGER
You would have gotten executed like those 30 who tried 😂
“Those damn barbarians and their savagery!” Meanwhile romans:
Well Romans were pretty savage and barbaric that’s why they were so succesful.
Well..the term barbarians is Greek. For Greeks even Romans were Barbarians..
Hey, make the punishment terrible and people will behave..or make good show. I applaud this system, except for those innocent animals put into sacks. In my country the daily expenses on prisoners are more than what baby gets from state, so...yeah, human rights to humans, the murdering stealing raping rest can have bread and water in coffin under ground.
@@Trissana281uhhh the woman in the ground simply lost her virginity and thats it, so she was killed... your brain half on?
@@Trissana281 You are laughably ignorant of how the real world works
Suddenly, Brutus killing Caesar doesn't sound so awful now, since it was a common trend 😅
“But don't worry there were men at the bottom waiting to finish the job”💀
Reminder to self: Do not apply for that emperor position!
I think you’ll be fine as long as your in a union ^^^ hope this helped
Here that, donald?!?🤣
The emperor with no clothes
@@OilRig-1 Lmao. Only the union is the Praetorian Guard and they're the ones who'll end up killing you!
I have no will to live, I will take it
The irony is that your father could kill you with 0 repercussions
That changed when rome became christianized. Filicide and infanticide is illegal according to the Bible
Depends on the chapter
in islam it's still like this if your father kills you he's not punished😂😂😂😂no wonder muslims are all aholes
Tossing live babies down the sewer was just considered family planning in Rome
@@jmurray1110 In which chapter is Infanticide reccomended
Videogames make you violent -our parents "The world before video games"
Really creative with the animation! Excellent educational material!
My toxic trait is thinking I could fight my way out of the sack
You probably could if your hands aren't tied and you smuggled a piece of metal to cut the leather. The real problem is whether the snake is venomous
Ngl that is a wildly toxic trait bro how can u look at that and think anything but a horrific death haha
Why are you toxic then? Sorry impulsive thoughts came through
@@Oooo-pe6jq the instinct of self-preservation isn't toxic
@@JimiMagnificentmaybe the monkey will get the snake first before turning on you
Romans; PEOPLE WHO KILL BROTHERS ARE MONSTERS Romulus: 👁️👄👁️ Edit: PLZ STOP LIKING 10K IS ENOUGH
Your honour. My client pleads oopsie-daisy
Nah, brothers are fine it’s the fathers you cannot touch
Romulus did a 'Merica. He murdered for a mere trespassing.
Fun fact: the romans actually thought of that so they made up a rule that if you crossed the pomerium you were sentenced to death, making romulus' killing of his bro legal
@@thevillager8339q
Imagine being burried alive all because you wanted some vitamin D
Quite an easy solution to that one. Don't become a vestal virgin. You can now get all the vitamin D you want. The Romans loved sharing vitamin D
Don’t forget that whole “human candle” thing Nero was so fond of
Which I might add probably is untrue
It wasnt untrue. He burnt the Christians :] just a heads up. Although i believe danielle has read a bit of rick riordian and thats the source of his info :]
@@oscarchoy9469 idk, I’d believe it. For one, that’s exactly how sadistic he was. It’s not like burning is any worse than eaten by dogs or crucifixion. This is exactly the type of thing he would do. It likely would have felt very appropriate after he blamed them for the great fire, it’s very eye for an eye. But secondly, there’s historical references not only saying he did do it, but also outlining how he did it. Tacitus is a well regarded historian who lived fairly soon after (close enough to get first hand accounts). If he believed it, that’s a pretty good source
@@danielleboon1543 I think you forgot that most of the sources we know about him are written by the senators who despised him and the Christians who he did persecute but most likely not to the same extent as presented not to mention he did not start the great fire of Rome he was not even at Rome at the moment
I think they call those "Roman candles"
"It's so weird. No one wants to step up to be emperor." Marcellus cleaning his dagger: "Yeah, what's up with that??"
LAMO THIS DESERVES MORE LIKES
@@motherschild5783no it doesnt
Cringe Kid
@@Sukuna12112Angry for no reason 💀
@@Sukuna12112 So you got upset at a joke that isn't directed at you, came into the replies, replied to people who liked it and then made a seperate comment to call it cringe. Sounds pretty cringe to me, lil bro 😬
imagine you get thrown into a sack with random animals, you give them a small nod and you work together to survive and swear revenge with your animal friends
I CANT WITH THE MELON PLAYGROUND SOUNDS 😭😭
I think it's worth mentioning in #3 that you don't actually need to be guilty to be punished. They're usually scapegoats when things go bad, like "we're losing the war? Must be those virgins breaking their oaths"
Also I get the odd feeling that they didn't make many an exception for sexual assault. Which while less likely under guard. I get the feeling probably resulted in at least one lady entombed.
The vestal virgins were some of the most politically powerful people in Rome, harming one in any regard was a death penalty offense. It's why wealthy Roman's paied to have their wills held at the temple of the vestal virgins, because they knew no one would dare try and brake in.
Oh @@pandaman2234
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder as far as I know vestal virgins were only really punsihed for willingly engaging in sexual activities I mean romans were cruel but from what I remember they don't really blame the victim
what about the punishment for Christian women
Ok, stop me if you’re heard this one. “A dog, a monkey, a snake, a rooster, and a human walk into a sack….”
Nope nope nope Pls No People that don’t know We need more ppl like u
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I genuinely don't get it
I don't get it?
Bro 💀
Fun fact: The cliff that traitors were thrown off of was called the Tarpeian Rock, named after Tarpeia. She was a woman who betrayed Rome by secretly letting enemy soldiers inside the city. In turn, Tarpeia would receive whatever the soldiers were wearing on their left arm, expecting to get expensive jewelleries and the like. Instead, the soldiers threw all their shields on top of her and crushed her to death, after which her body was thrown off the hill they were standing on. This place became the Tarpeian rock where all traitors would be executed.
Didn't mention that the penalty of the sack also included scorpions and poisonous snakes
The treason punishment has an elegance to it. "Look upon the land and the lives you turned your back on. Now the land itself will end your life and failing that, the people will finish the job."
its has cool deeper meaning
Hello
Well said!
I think kicking someone down the highest elevation of the land was still quite popular for treason into the middle ages. Read some historical novel, where the local noble had to execute a traitor, but in lieu of some cliff or quarry, he had to kick him off the donjon in front of his castle... and quite a mess was made direct in front of the door...
indeed
That woman buried alive looks like she’s thinking, “It was worth it.”
"10/10 Worth the death, would try again if I could"
@@goldngamer1365💀
Only an American woman would have those thoughts. Yall are the absolute worst.
"I may be underground rn but I got the vitamin D"
She's definitely reliving it :)
The emperor punishment is by far the least gruesome of all the punishments
The sack is terrifying when u hit the water and all of u fight for life against eachother
“Poisoners, Sorcerers and Christian Women” is the weirdest trio ever and I don’t see enough people talking about it
I came looking for this comment.
Ah yes, the good ol' days
As a Christian woman I’m glad I didn’t live in that era. God help all those martyrs who died such a horrendous death for their faith alone. 🙏🏻❤️ ✝️
@@assyrianreliefas a Sorcerer and poisoner, I'm also glad I don't live in that era. Spaguetis flying monster help all those martyrs who died such horrendous death 🪄 ✨ 🐍 🍷
@@sonya-c My fellow poisonous sorcerer you just made my day :)
Back in those days, people were killed even if they didn't do anything wrong. Socrates famously continued to lecture his students as he died, which just shows how he accepted that people were unfairly sentenced to death and there was nothing he could do.
I also heard he was the most annoying man for his times xD
"There is nothing we can do..."
Socrates was convicted by a jury of 500. 500? That's one hell of a large jury but that's how Greek justice rolled.
@@M.One.XJ6 Held a mirror to people's shallow opinions. It's one thing for someone to tell you that you're a fool and another for someone not to tell that you that you are a fool but to let you realise it yourself.
Not just "back in those days". People are still being wrongfully sentenced to death.
Poor dog, Monkey and Rooster. Not bothered about the other two 😂😂😂😂
This is so aesthetically pleasing!
The punishment of Treason is, to me, weirdly fascinating: Bring people to the top of the mountain that overlooks Rome. "Magnus. Do you witness the Glory?" "I do." "Remember what you witnessed, Magnus. Rome and her Glory will remain Eternal. As for you, you will die in front of this Glory."
The way the video phrased it, I thought it was going to be something like 'If you survived the fall, the city judged you as innocent/pardoned,' but no, just a couple of guys sitting at the bottom to kick your head in.
That was the kind of the point. Also so symbolically speaking it was so all of Rome could watch. They'd have done it on TV if they had it then
"Are you alive, magnus?" "Yeah." "Not for long beat his head in boys"
@@pollos-hermanos lmao
Very poetic.
"My brother tried to kill me so i defended myself!" "Too bad! Get in the sack!"
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LMAOOO W
I could have started my morning without this.
First one has a real "why shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane vibe"
RIP to those animals that was randomly thrown in a sack and didnt know what was going on and why.
RIP to them and to everyone else so brutally killed.
For the human: this is a cartoonishly severe punishment meant to maximize suffering as retribution for wrongdoing. For the animals: sorry it’s nothing personal
The animals also murdered their relatives
I feel so sad for the animals :(
Basically vegan teacher
"Timothy, you haven't been a very good emperor for the past few months. You know what happens now."
Nooo! Timothy!
SH$T BRO
Timothy?!
Bring these back
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love how they gave the PERSON BEING BURRIED ALIVE some bread and water so they dont die from starvation and ONLY die from suffocation. somehow very kind and very cruel at the same time
It’s to absolve them of guilt, man cannot kill a vestal virgin.
yo heres some bread bro
And a lamp, to make sure the good air got used up quickly. As ancient punishments go, that was probably one of the least cruel.
They would only die of suffocation anyway it takes 3 minutes
@@user-ht145efg Worst 3 minutes of all time I will take the cliff, thank you very much
That one dog in the sack: "I will never shit on the floor again if you get me out of here, man."
They add the animals Because then you have no way of floating on the top cause they will be clawing and freaking out
and because they're freaking out you're being killed by a thousand cuts aka painfully - the water is just to make sure you and the animals dont survive@@talkingweevil3172
That's a neat reason then. But still.@@talkingweevil3172
I like your animation style. Very cheerful.
You could be often killed for no reason at all in those carzy times. For ex. roman emperor Tiberius had a law called treason trial which was bought back by Caligula. According to it, one would be killed to dampen the image of Rome, ie, if you drive a dirty carraige, wear a stained toga, even mispronounce a word. Caligula killed thousands with this law and confiscated their property for empire's (personal) use.
those animals in sack: what the f we did?
No animal rights for them, I guess.
Freedom of speech was there.....
Freeeeewwwdoooom
Those animals also killed they own fathers
@@injanammanchey8748 yeah😂
“Wow!! What a nice view of the cit-“ “AAAGGGGHHHHH-“
"Hey, I'm alive! Oh shit..."
"and... there is nothing I can do"
I read this in Wilhelm scream 😂😂😂
Why did I read this in Mufasa voice
**dream on by Aerosmith plays in background**
That second one is epic... Especially if they kick you off the cliff...
We need to bring back #3
We need to bring back number #1 exclusively for the people who say “We need to bring back #3”
Just found out the entirety of Shakespeares “Julius Caesar” was basically just another day at the office
“ahh, what a great day. The Roman emperor getting stabbed 17 consecutive times with a dirty stone knife, and I can finally enjoy a nice plate of cake.”
@@Im.definitely.not.cool- Julius Caesar was never an emperor. It wasn't an empire yet.
@@niquel5831 let me enjoy making the joke
Lol, not even. Caesar was the OG. The man crossed the Rubicon and set the standard for getting assassinated.
@@drfarrinhe was a great man, expanded Rome and tried to save the decaying republic from a corrupt ineffective aristocracy that it became. Even showed mercy to the senators who assassinated him when he easily could’ve had his armies kill those cowards multiple times. All because they feared he would become a king and that they would lose their power. But alas they martyred him, a civil breaks out and Rome gets an emperor.
that lamp sure make the process faster💀
I'm not sure if the depiction of the small grave chamber is correct. I think to remember that it actually was more of a smallish room - think more of an air tight prison cell instead of a grave. Depending on its size it might take a time until the oxygene is depleted.
@@robertnett9793 and the lamp that is burning the oxygen in the room will make it faster.
@@Sennaxm71 True true - as said, it depends on how large the room was. But trie as long as it wasn't really big, chances are good, you'd die of asphyxiation long before hunger / thirst sets in...
@@robertnett9793 Slow death by asphyxiation sure is one of the most horrifying ways to go Like, imagine they make it last days somehow
Being buried alive would be unimaginable, definitely the worst of them all.
The 2nd one was probably the most mild one
Being thrown from the Tarpeian Rock is an incredibly significant method of execution. The symbolism of being found guilty of treason. The last thing you see before you die, is beloved Rome.
Really interesting additional knowledge as to why that form of execution was especially heartbreaking 💔 Thanks for a little more insight~
@@jeanneganrude8549it’s heart breaking because when you fall your heart shatters in 2 from the extreme vibrations of you hitting the ground.
If I had a buck for every time someone said something was 'significant'. Sigh.
"You're Christian!?... That's illegal!" "What will happen to me?" "You can get eaten my lions in front of hundreds of people..."
Good job at describing
Interesting to note the images of christ during those times were of Borgia. Was being a Christian a form.of treason ?
@@Golden_Girl7123the Bible talks about this
@@Golden_Girl7123 yeah, because it didn’t follow the way of the Romans.
I hear sometimes they tied people to two sticks and left them outside.
We need to bring some punishments back.
momma i ate your food "Thats it get in the sack" WHAT-
If only our politicians were held to the same standards
Trump would be the first to have to walk the plank for treason.
Surely many ancient people were wrongly convicted and sentenced to such punishments. You can imagine men and woman, being falsely accused of any number of things, just because they got on the wrong side of someone. Unfortunately there was not a presumption of innocence among the lower classes and/or during much of the timeline of the empire. Today people want to return to that same barbaric timeline, and get upset when cops aren’t given more power, or when courts are bent towards defendants, or when states get rid of cash bail.
Yeah we’d be in a much better place. Never give the power to someone who wants nothing else but power. That’s why we’re getting fckd. You have to be a sociopath early on to believe you have the shoulders to run a country. Sometime the best choice for a leader is the guy who absolutely DONT want to be in charge.
They are though. Look what happens when our politicians do something good for the people.
How come these methods didn't help Rome's politician? 😂
Finally, a history-related channel that ISN'T just an auto-generated AI get-rich scheme.
There are a lot of history KZhead channels that aren't AI... They've been here a while. ToldInStone, Invicta, Voices of the Past, NORTH02, and more
@@brixan... They are VASTLY outnumbered by the "CRAZY FACTS ABOUT HISTORY" AI channels.
maybe if you got off the shorts for once man youre addicted
@@DukeOnkled Maybe recently on KZhead Shorts? I was confused you said "Finally," because for years we've had Stefan Milo, Lindybeige, Thucydides, PBS Eons? Idk if you just mean human history, or general history
*Now "You should proud cuz you'll be like Cesar" will be my new line*
Being an emperor in other empires:😎🗿🔥✨✨ Being a Caesar: 💀💀💀💀
What’s so bad about the sack isn’t the drowning it’s being ripped apart and the sheer chaos inside the sack that you have to endure
I bet it was diabolical in that sack
Talk about your ULTIMATE FIGHTER
I’d eat every animal in that sack. I’m different though 🤷🏽♂️
@@drelocs2878 there wouldn’t be much time before there was no oxygen in that sack lol
@@drelocs2878noway man 😂 the animals will eat you
"5, being a s*** emperor" GOT ME DYING AND IDK WHY 😭
Probably because it’s relatable to your current situation
Maybe you were a s*** emperor
It got them dying too xD
The first pose in a first one is perfect
One of the 3 that weren’t taken out by dagger was Aurelian. One of the most successful Roman Emperors with one of the shortest reigns at 5 years. He died of poison, although it’s debated who actually did the poisoning.
Fun fact: they would sometimes even kill good emperors if they felt like it
Why the fuck were people in the past so inhumanely BRUTAL with their punishment.v mainly because most of these are torture related.
@@XanaxMilf Because they didn’t have any type of rules keeping them from doing such things. Morality as we currently know it is very much a modern invention created by abundance. Food, water, shelter, and transportation have always been commodities, and only recently have they been considered fundamental human rights.
@@peteryeeterson5766 Smart
@@peteryeeterson5766they still aren't considered human rights by an oddly significant amount of people...
@@XanaxMilfmost atheists and modern liberals alike try and bury this fact but christianity shaped the western values and the meaning of society and ethics, the last europeans to adopt christianity was the Norse and they was obviously savages during their viking age, christianity turned them around and now the norse are generally considered amongst the nicest most hospitable people in the world
Blood really said “put him in there with 1/4 of the OTHER zodiac”
1/3
@@yuryur4176 my bad, I didn’t even see I hit the 4 and not the 3, but since I did everyone must see what a dumbass I am 😂
@@iceman-cn5xx its ok...I was drunk.....jk
why u spelt blud like that you are not english cuz
"I've killed my father, what will be de punishment? Are you going to suffocate me? Drown me? Throw me to the animals?" "All three... Together"
That's an epic history!
If you don't get stabbed by your guards then you get poisoned by your wife.
Or strangled by your private trainer. 😂
Or the Senate 🤓lol
You can never trust a hoe 😤 even back then 🤣
Or die laughing at your silly little donkey joke
Aggrapina
People has been real silent after daniel walked out of that lion torture
Good one😭😌
is this one of those unproven Bible myths?
@@clown134 well do you think this is short is a myth or is actually real that will give you an answer
@darkedo9783 not sound logic whatsoever
Good thing it never happened 😂
It's crazy to imagine that your chances of living until old age were far far far greater than being a Roman Emperor.
Wish we could go back to the ancient days fr
bro really said "THIS IS SPARTA!" on that 2nd punishment
More like "This is ROME" :D
Sparta was a part of ancient Greece 😭😭
Death sentence today: Is it immoral? Death sentence in Ancient Rome: *YES*
One must imagine sisyphus happy
Because back then punishment was misplaced. What happens when slave (worse than life sentence) commits an evil act? How can you punish them? Because the prospect of life sentence back then was better than lives of the vast majority of people…. So, these barbaric punishments were designed not to enforce some morals, but rather to act as deterrence for the slaves to act out. Likewise, in medical times, witch hunts were invented to avoid consequences when raping somebody. A wealthy guy hits on a girl. The girl has no choice, and either has to be raped, or else the guy proclaims her to be a witch and she just… dies. Most of these punishments don’t exist because of some misplaced notion of morality - they exist at the very absence of it. Back then people could not care less about morality (at worst it was a mere afterthought and at best it was “following god’s will”), and would do anything to achieve their goals (easy workforce due to slaves, easy concubines due to inferior women). In modernity, when society exists in a semblance of order, morality has a much greater weight. It is not absolute, and atrocities or unjust laws still happen, but statistically less frequently). So, the lesson is that during the underdeveloped times, the focus was on coerced control and value they could obtain as a result of such control…. Not on some intrinsic value of human life. Humans back then were essentially objects/tools.
Imagine you get pushed off the edge and all you hear is: “Close” “Your eyes, you’ll be here soon”
This is the first time today that I've thought about the Roman Empire!
"You There! How'd you die?" "So i was placed in a sack-"
This one is untrue and fabricated by the video
Sounds like Horrible Histories 😂
@@weirdchickalert the sack one is untrue
@@williamgass9242 can you tell me more about this? More info plz
@@marigalante944 About what? The guy made it up for the video.
Man I just love the animation which makes the topic more entertaining lol
ikr😂
This is excellent!
Damn 3rd one was the scariest
The human capacity for the most hideous cruelties is limitless.
The human imagination is grand. We as a species have the choice to use that capacity to improve society, or to use it to create needless suffering and consequent entropy. I would love to see humans' collective intellect and compassion rise us above acts like we've seen in this video.
@@zoyadulzura7490it's a choice... You can be cruel or not cruel....No amount of intellect is removing that choice factor
@@jimohabdulqudus4283its emotions sometimes not just intellect
“The heart of man is desperately wicked, who can know it?”
This video isn't accurate