We hope you have enjoyed the first episode of our "Historian Answers Google Questions' series! Let us know which over time period or topics you'd like us to cover in the comments below 👇

I absolutely loved this format! I feel like youtube is flooded with videos that are just repeating history over and over in that monotone sort of voice that makes you space out... great job!

Great to see Phil Collins is keeping busy

I really enjoyed this. The format is so engaging and Tristan is a delightful, knowledgeable presenter. Lots more like this please.

Of course, there was a central sewage system in Athens, and it came to our knowledge in 2003, when the Athens subway was being built.

This guy is phenomenally knowledgeable. So, so well done.

Yes! I dont think we talk about Greece enough, romans get all the hype

Facinating! More content like this please!! 👏

For the question on how ancient Greek music sounded there is some amusing reading to be had on that subject by Plato.

I admire the patience and politeness of this man as he answers the question about whether or not Aristotle existed. jc

Greek ancient civilization has something so special about it.

First off it's was so funny for the first thirty seconds of this video because I listen to Tristan's podcast "The Ancients" (I'M OBSESSED WITH IT) and I never realized until now I had never SEEN what Tristian looked like so when I saw him in this video I was only able to recognize that it was Tristian when he started SPEAKING LMAO. LOVED THIS VIDEO! Thanks History Hit & Tristan!

You talk like I do when I talk about things I'm passionate about, small tangents, the details, small storytelling etc. It made it extremely easy to follow and understand!

Dan Snow should do the same on Napoleonic era warfare

Can't recommend the Ancients podcast enough. Indeed, all of History Hit's podcasts are bangers, I particularly recommend Dan Snow's History Hit, American History Hit, The Ancients, After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds, and the Paranormal, and Gone Medieval. Dr Eleanor Janega is a frequent co-host or guest, if you know who she is you know how unbelievably engaging and fun to listen to she is. Treat yourself!

It was an informative , unique, and wonderful introduction about Ancient Greek and a great Hellenic civilization ... thank you 🙏 ( history Hit) channel for sharing

Very fun! I love getting little tidbits of genuine history in the middle of my day! 🤭

I understand symposia to be a sort of challenge to use logic and philosophy to debate while drinking. It was a way to establish status and recognition. Less a party than a sort of competition to show that you had the character and gravitas it took to remain rational while drinking.

6th grade, unit on Ancient Greece: my sweet old lady teacher was telling us all about “Perkules.” I’m looking at the word “Pericles” in the textbook and puzzling over this pronunciation. Eventually it hit me: She was assuming that “Herakles” was pronounced “Hercules,” and therefore “Pericles” had to rhyme with it. Bless her heart.

In regards to garum I really enjoyed (tasting history with max Miller) he made his own garum last summer and talks about it's history

Fascinating - thank you. Would love to hear more on greek 8nventions.

This was excellent. Very educational and made me want to read more about the ancient Greeks 😊👍🏼 Many thanks 🇬🇷

I'm starting to listen to The Ancients because I enjoyed Tristan's cameo on Betwixt the Sheets. It's really fascinating

I am quite impressed with your knowledge!

Great presentation. You make the information very accessible.🎯

This is a fun format. I’ve always enjoyed Wired’s version. But the sound effects and music were really distracting, especially when it was louder than the speaker.

Hey Tristan. Great job 👏

What an amazing video! I’m totally hooked! More please!!!! Hahahaha

Well done to the legendary Tristan, Hughes, big fan of his work, the Diadochi wars that he has worked on in the history channel the Kings and Generals is a gem

I’ve finally found an entertaining video about ancient greece. Really loved this format! Keep up the good work guys!!

Excellent mix of sociological answers for a very broad period of time. Looking forward to more like this, soon.

I listen to The Ancients obsessively just to hear his voice. Delicious.

Ok THIS is a great format for history. I’d watch this regularly.

Terrific video. I'll definitely check out his podcast.

Well after watching a couple of vids on this channel i like i subscribed,keep up the good work

Love this

I don’t “smash the like button” on many videos. But I do when History Hit has Tristan Hughes on. Hoping one day we can get The Ancients on UKposts. Also gonna need Mathew Lewis on to some extent🙏

Well done Tristan, some great answers to some interesting questions that debunk a few assumptions. What I found of interest was that the Greeks were not from a unified Greece and that they would fight anyone including each other. Other interesting points about the sanitation that was often something that credited to the Romans, well in the film 'The Life of Brian' anyway. Many thanks for sharing.

Excellent. Thanks

Awesome video!!

Regarding whether "ancient Greece was before the Romans", there's an additional complication besides the obvious overlap of Classical Rome and Greece. The "Byzantine Empire" is both a legitimate political continuation of the Roman Empire, but by the Medieval Era of Europe it was essentially a Greek state. For example, during the Crusades a common historical distinction is between the "Latins" (e.g. Franks, Germans, English) i.e. the Catholic Crusaders and the Greek Christians already in the Near East, generally affiliated with the Byzantine (aka Roman) Empire, which was still very much alive at the time. At least until the 4th Crusade lol. Anyway, in a sense, the "Greek Empire" both preceded and outlasted the Roman (Latin) Empire.

Very enlightening and educational. Love the video.

I would love you to talk about the traditions and religions of the most well-known cultures, such as Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, Viking, Inca, so on and so forth

I'd love to see a Google's Most Popular Questions video on contemporary history!

This was brilliant! Ευχαριστω για το σεβασμο που διχνεις στην πατριδα μου. 🙂

Thanks.

If anyone's particularly into Hellenic warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

I knew there was a special reason I loved the Greek music in Civ6 😄

Holy shit this video has a mobile vibrate sound between chapters and it's maddening

Loved it!

I'd love to know why the ancient Greeks where so good at discovering things. They can up with so many innovations, it seems more than most other cultures

Sylphium may not be extinct, and a professor in Turkey appears to have rediscovered a "botanical survivor". A lot of modern fish sauces are said to be derivatives of garum, and Max Miller from Tasting History recently made some using traditional methods.

Tristian did a talk for the AIA, and the rest is History Hit for me. :)

"Did Socrates, Plato and Aristoteles ever existed?" 🤣🤣🤣 it wins for the dumbest question of all...i wanna meet that person 😂

1. Basically, yes. They develop about the same time, and then Rome eventually conquered Greece. 2. Not the way we think of countries, no. Each city was its own state and there were hundreds of them. 3. Yep, although each city quite often had one main god. 4. Yep. 5. Food. :D Greece didn't have a huge corn agriculture, so they often imported grain. Olives, cheese, meats, fish... 6. Alexander conquered Persia, Egypt and parts of what is today Afghanistan and India. Before Alexander, Greeks set up several colonies around the Mediterranean. 7. Lots! They charted their way all around the Mediterranean as well as the British isles. They also discovered lots of mathematical, theatrical and philosophical ideas. 8. Clothes. Usually made from linen or wool. 9. Like people do today. 10. Yep, although the Olympic games that were re-invented in the 1800s were different. The first games in ancient times would just be the 192 m running race. 11. Yes, men did. There are several sources mentioning parties. For instance, Xenophon talks at length about Socrates attending a feast. 12. Sure, but "orgy" didn't mean orgy in the sexual way we think of them today. These orgies would be closer to wild drinking parties today. 13. Yes, although Socrates didn't write down anything himself, so what we know about him is from other sources. Some have speculated that it's possible that he didn't really exist but has been "invented" by these other writers, but that seems highly unlikely, given the source material. 14. Democracy varied greatly from state to state. Generally, however, they would be direct democracies where people voted on specific proposal. Only men would be allowed to vote. 15. Like most other people, by taking off their pants and doing their business. 16. Stone tablets and parchment can survive a really long time. When a civilization produces a lot of text, some of it has a chance of surviving. A lot of Greek text was preserved by Arabians or by Mediaeval monks. 17. There were temples, big and small. 18. Naked, by running, wrestling or competing. 19. Long lists of people; basically, all neighbouring peoples, at some point. Also, each other. 20. No autotune, that's for sure. A lot of string instruments like harps/lyres, flutes and drums, as well as singing.

That little sound effect when he explains the Greeks getting rid of their chamberpots 😂😂

Make an episode about Thracian and Dacian please, the most advanced culture at time according to Herodotus

Great content. The phone vibration noise every 5 seconds is pretty annoying though. Especially if you are just a listener

Interesting introduction to Ancient Greece. Loved it! All though I get the impression that pederasty is a carefully avoided subject here.

hey guys this is a great format i loved it but could you please position the mic closer and put a compressor on the audio 😭😭 it's uncomfortable to listen to this before bed

I loved Assassin's Creed Odyssey. How accurate is it?

Virtuosic. 👌

You simply have to do more videos like this.

16:04 My man said professor Michael Scott. 😂

02:30 I'd refer to ancient Greece as a cultural area similar to Europe in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Interestingly, it was the Roman conquest that would make Greece kind of a nation, under the name of Rhomei which means both "Romans" and "Greeks" which was basically the same in "Byzantine" times.

What is the song at 1:10? I fondly recognise it from somewhere

Just wanna say, I am a big fan of your podcast! More mythical gods, pls

my mom was born in Uzbekistan in a town called Bukhara..she told me that locals in the old days they found armors burried in the ground( like it was from some battle or something) and that in ancient times because of the mass mariages that Alexander the Great was condacting ppl actually asking "που είναι η χαρά?"( meaning where is the wedding, " hara" is joyous occasion) so the name kinda stack Bukhara..ofc that is just a myth passed down the locals dont know how true it is

I would love this series to cover ancient African history, lots of on told tales

There is no debate about what garum was. We have recipes and even know that the most expensive garum came from Spain. I've no idea why he would think that. It's one of the only things from that time that we have exact details on lol.

Went to UWGB and got to see Prof. Aldrete lecture.

Love these videos with Tristan, my only small complaint is the audio, the mic is too low and there's a lot of reverb. Put him in a tiny room, pet him, feed him, and poke him for history facts.

You mentioned my Goddess Hestia

Good aul Hughes he thought me more than history degree

Bring on Dawn Brodey for Pirate history!! Host of HILF podcast

To be fair, most of the Ancient texts we have were preserved by Medieval copyists. Most of the oldest copies of ancient historical and literary works come from codexes from the high Middle Ages (11th-12th centuries). The Bible is a certain exception, with large portions of it surviving on papyri from late Antiquity.

re - 4:35 It's funny you should say that, because that is the EXACT ideal beauty standard of modern Egypt. The women find men to be more attractive if they have a deep tan (but not black skin. Egyptians can be quite racist against people with black skin, commonly referring to them as "bar barry," meaning barbarian). Whereas the more pale a woman is, the more attractive. This ideal can even be seen in art from ancient Egypt, from the days of the Pharaohs. So it's either a mediterranean thing, or it's one of the very many things that Greek culture borrowed from the Egyptian culture.

Silphium has been found! It's being grown in small quantities.

I dont understand why the south of Europe has a reputation for being “very hot”. Maybe because people in northern Europe mostly go in summer but on an average day in an average part of Greece you would probably carry a jumper.

Need to bump up the volume - I can almost hear him

Mixelodian Scale, I've heard, was a Greek method - as opposed to the Pentatonic that is generally used today.

17:29 Hahahaha! 🤣

Re sports I enjoyed the sports at the funeral of Achilles as described by Homer. If memory serves someone fell face down in the huge cow pat left by the bull whem he was sacrificed.

I heard somewhere that the Greeks thought the voice is in their heads wasnt their own, but that of the gods. Hence intrusive thoughts/being told to do things was simply seen as just the gods telling you what to do.

The Indus Valley had flushing toilets before Zeus was a glint in the milkman's eye!

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What did ancient Greek conquer? Well when they stopped fighting between themselves.. Ancient Finns: unthinkable!

We need to bring back the ostracizing rule

Just me or does he remind you of the actor tom hiddlestone, voice and face especially

18:30 is false. Plato didn't make it as a literary device

Now do Rome!!!

Alexandria library didn’t burn down watch kaz Rowe

First toilet was India River Valley

Garam in Hindi means ‘hot’ so perhaps the word for the Roman fish sauce is proto-Indo-European ❤

25:19 Nothing byzantine about the image you chose here 😅

Going to disagree on the toilet aspect. It's very logically unlikely that chamberpots were thrown into the street on a regular basis (if at all). The cities would have been like medieval cities in that there would have been privies that would have been periodically cleaned as well as services to take waste away akin to medieval gong farmers either freemen or slaves. Several historians have talked about the chamberpots in streets thing as largely a total myth in regards to medieval times. There were specific laws and strict fines were enforced. A person was very unlikely to appreciate having to walk past a daily pile of poo right outside their own door growing bigger by the day. This would have quickly accumulated into dozens of pounds in a week per house and the smell would have been completely overwhelming. Cities also may have gone weeks or months without much rain. Having waste removal services was common across ancient Asia even without advanced sewage systems.

Got all these questions answered playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? 😂😂

For wild parties and maybe orgies(?) id look into Dionysus followers. I dont know much about it or if the greeks or the romans were more active in this case. I have a sort of vague knowledge that they drank and danced and both men and women could be followers but i dont have a solid knowledge of the subject

Apart from Olbia (near Mykolaiv), and Khersonesus (no relation to Kherson) and other Greek ruins in Crimea, Ukraine also has dig sites in Odesa. Which really makes russians mad as they claim the settlement is only 200 years old.

Great video, but the inability of the host to pronounce any words in Greek or other Mid-Eastern languages is astonishing.