Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-roman-soldier-robert-garland The year is 15 CE, and the Roman Empire is prospering. Most of the credit will go to the emperor, but this success wouldn’t have been possible
In ancient Egypt, the ancestor of the domestic cat was revered and became the companion of people. From the realm of the pharaohs, the first tame specimens probably reached today's Europe with Roman soldiers. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Spiegel TV/ Nanje de Jong-Teuscher, Kirsten Hoehne/Anja Schütze, Uli W
Trench warfare in the First World War was horrific enough, but mustard gas really sent it over the top. In this short video, Andrew Wallis, of the Guards Museum in London, exhibits the shockingly inadequate gas hoods that British soldiers relied on to survive the horrors of chemical warfare. Websi
The Roman historian Tacitus claimed to know what made the Germanic peoples tick: they are stubborn, sometimes in a bad way. Caesar thought they were chaotic, and therefore the complete opposite of his Roman soldiers. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah, Cristina Trebbi/Martin Ch
