Archimedes was the greatest mathematician and engineer of the ancient world. It's the combination of the two that truly set him apart. He was SO CLOSE to inventing calculus as well, but he was killed by a Roman foot soldier during the siege of Syracuse even though they had been ordered not to harm him..

@midosch7639

2 жыл бұрын

This soldier surely got crucified for killing ancient Einstein

@sameerthakur720

2 жыл бұрын

@@midosch7639 The soldier followed orders. They had been instructed to ask, "What is your name?" in Greek (though most common legionaries did not know Greek). The soldier asked the question to Archimedes. Archimedes (busy with his work) said, "Don't disturb me." in Greek. The soldier thought his name was "Dontdisturbme" and killed him.

@midosch7639

2 жыл бұрын

@@sameerthakur720 oh damn such a bad luck :(

@--novus-ordo-secrolum-un--8820

2 жыл бұрын

Pos we would have better mathematical instruments by now.. Smh😠

@sudhamishra6753

2 жыл бұрын

False

Hey! It's the simple history dude! Lol

@sharlondelosreyes2842

3 жыл бұрын

How many channels do this guy have... Hahahahahaha

@louisonggo1147

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was wondering why his voice was so farmiliar

@louisonggo1147

3 жыл бұрын

How many channels does this guy need

@eacio4548

3 жыл бұрын

Cool i the voice is familiar

@minnotmax65

3 жыл бұрын

I think so

Archimedes was that one guy who invented weird things that were surprisingly effective.

@jomangeee9180

Жыл бұрын

urbam myth! the claw of my azz

@jimmyohara2601

Жыл бұрын

What is weird about anything being effective ?? Maybe your thoughts are 😐🤐.

@giantdad1661

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmyohara2601 OH I'm sorry I didn't create a hammer that lifted ships out of the fucking ocean and drop them back down.

Archimedes' death ray wasn't a simple mirror. Even concave mirrors would lack the focus and range to track and lit up ships at a distance. He most likely used focus lenses, much like a telescope, on movable gears. Seeing the Mythbusters attempting to replicate that with a hundreds kids holding mirrors was quite funny though.

@Rig0r_M0rtis

Жыл бұрын

They did not have technology to create a lens that big - concave metal mirrors are the most likely.

@dominiccassidy9708

Жыл бұрын

Archimedes did not invent a death ray. it's a total myth

@aaroncapricorn5867

Жыл бұрын

i wouldnt bother watching mythbusters. those fools won't know anything and neither till we until we go back in time and see every little meticulous detail. these documentaries are good enough

@raymondready7496

Жыл бұрын

I've read that it was hundreds of mirrors held and aimed at one point. Multiplying the suns reflection.

@doowappable

Жыл бұрын

Even then theres no way to make a ship burn with that. It needs a still point, not a ship that goes up and down and back and forth. If you ever used a lens to make a fire you would know that it doesnt burn instantly, it needs to be exactly right on focus and then it still takes a bit. Even if that works once like a miracle, it would never work multiple times. If they ever had this device as the legend has it, it would probably be more blinding than doing any damage.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Wait a minute, i think i know this voice, IT'S THE SIMPLEHISTORY DUDE..!!! 😲😲

@nightzulu7615

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@markazain8996

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@terrorcop101

3 жыл бұрын

Thought so.

@elijahjamescomia6331

3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know a kaiju watches youtube

@kingghidorah102

3 жыл бұрын

@@elijahjamescomia6331 nah nah nah nah, titan, not kaiju

Thank you very much for this information. I had heard of most of these things, but it's very good to have them all together in one quick video like this. Thank you very much. Well done sir. God bless you.

This video was very interesting there needs to be more of these

The last siege tower used in combat was by the US Army in WW2 to re-capture Fort Drum from the Japanese in Manila Bay.

@donHooligan

Жыл бұрын

everything becomes illegal right after the USA gets away with doing it. 60 million indigenous taught Hitler how to kill 6.

Limestone is a popular building material. Vinegar can dissolve limestone, the Beotian Flame thrower opened up cracks to allow it inside the wall.

Wow, that was a really good video, I really needed this video because I need to do some essay about these siege artilleries. Thank you Top fives!

@dariuscommergnat6313

2 жыл бұрын

😊😉

Love the show!!

Ancient technology is awesome very amazing ancient tech and weapons.

The first one you mentioned was the modern day flamethrower and they love the trebuchet I love

As early as 17th) but as a Greek I m happy hearing almost entirely about Greek warfare😂

@vojislavdragic5090

3 жыл бұрын

eastern roman.. no such thing as byzantine empire

When I was a kid I thought that the battering ram mentioned in the books used to be a live or dead ram - goat thrown at the gates of fortresses.

@eziokill9112

3 жыл бұрын

Da mmm

@fullarmordiscernment2842

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, lol. I used to imagine a goat running full speed into a wooden city gate... It's all in the name, right?

@majorgear1021

2 жыл бұрын

then you saw Braveheart and realized the truth. Hey, I used to think Molotov cocktails were called Mazeltov cocktails until a Jewish friend corrected me.

I learned all these technologies from the game AOE II 😅

Great vid..thanks!

I hope everyone reading this is in good spirits and know that someone loves you .

@nicholasbaker7159

8 ай бұрын

False otherwise I wouldn't be hungry

All hail Caesar!!

Simple History man!

Having studied ancient warfare, I’m never surprised at the weapons men create to kill each othet

Really big fan of simple history and awesome voice 😊😄.

Very good, concise and informative. Your calm voice also helps delivering the message. I already subscribed. Btw what's the music on background?

Catapults are torsion engines and not counterweight though. So trebuchets aren't really catapults. They use the stored springy energy of coils of hair to launch projectiles.

👍😀 great video

The hand powered trebuchets most certainly evolved from staff slings. Despite the general depiction, I fully believe that the sling David used against Goliath, and indeed all shepherds used in their vocation, were simple thong slings fitted onto the ends of their shepherd staves as opposed to a hand sling. Indeed, the Greeks consistently used staff slings (or "one man trebuchets" to help you visualize it) as part of their missile barrages during engagements. Hand slings, although indeed formidable, are far outpowered by staff slings, and it would take nothing for a shepherd to use that instead. It's incredible how much a simple misunderstanding of what was common for a time can shape a tale thousands of years old into something other than it was.

at 16:18 this is Atkins hall in Cork Ireland, it used to be a sanaturium, now it is a rather nice appartment complex, I used to live there :)

This sounds like simple history's voice.... WAIT IT IS!

Wow the death Ray !

I've never even hear of the Claw of Archimedes, the Exploding Mill Wheel, and Archimedes' Death Ray, until now. That prehistoric Flame Thrower was cool to discover and learn. Scary how they used the Plague as a weapon. I hope people won't find a way to turn Covid-19 into a weapon. Greek Fire truly is a mystery, it makes me want to discover if it was truly made in Greece or why they called it Greek Fire. But hearing how dangerous it was, perhaps it's better that it remains undiscovered and a secret, for the safety everyone. The same goes for all the other ancient siege weapons.

@sameerthakur720

2 жыл бұрын

Turn Covid into a weapon. Many communist countries have had bio-warfare programs. The Chinese had their premier Virus research facility at Wuhan. They have been researching Coronaviruses at least since 2005. Put two and two together.

@valkyviktor3228

2 жыл бұрын

@@sameerthakur720 At least we now trying to fight back and have a staging ground against Covid, imagine Resident Evil game turn true and we have deadly undead instead of this

@johnscanlon2598

2 жыл бұрын

COVID already is a weapon

@tweakfreq1982

Жыл бұрын

Napalm was the closest modern man has come to equal Greek fire

@wesleyhobbs2332

4 ай бұрын

@@tweakfreq1982 And Napalm is far superior to Greek fire.

hoisted by your own Petard refers to sailors being hanged by use of the rope that held up their trousers which was called a petard.

@robotniqueee

2 жыл бұрын

This is entirely wrong.

@leeedsonetwo

Жыл бұрын

@@robotniqueee It is what I had heard and fits the facts. SO what is your explanation.

The sea claw device seems like it is a myth rather than a reality. It could only reach a little past the walls and there would be little reason for a galley to be cruising just over the submerged rocks right next to the walls. The ship cranes just did not have sufficient range to be an issue. Yeah, supposed those rising boarding ramps were in use but it shouldn't take long to figure out where to avoid the cranes.

Archimedes gotta be time traveler

Archimedes: because being nerd always had it's advantages. Since ever knowledge has always meant power.

KEEP IN MIND: there were no tutorial videos online for these

They recreated that Death Ray where hundreds of children carrying a mirror as large as them and then pointing refracted lights from the mirror in the same direction

This is simple history’s voice

Awesome

The big and small trebuchet were on wheels or on rails--it increased the range by about a third, and stopped the machine wrecking itself. ,

@renahernandez5120

3 жыл бұрын

War..a guy thing.

@MikeBanks2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@renahernandez5120 Nope--just applied physics. Action and reaction are equal and opposite--

@MikeBanks2003

3 жыл бұрын

@@renahernandez5120 Have you not heard of Queen Hatshepsut?

I love history

3:06 Is about ballista *continues to show Scorpio firing*

@godisforever7263

2 жыл бұрын

I mean they are in the ballista category so that counts I guess And crossbows are also mini ballista.

Interesting, greek fire was obviously the inspiration for the "Wildfire" in Game of Thrones.

Fun fact here in Serbia we call petarde firecrackers

Love it

The narrator sounds like Charlie Sheen and I cant unhear it

as a city defender, TY for circumvalation!!

Ancient war is very cool

Top Five:15 genius ancient saige weapons

Archimedes is a real madlad.

DAVID : HOLD MY BEER.

Archimedes invents death ray. Sun: Bye!

Siege towers were not used to put soldiers onto the walls (with some very rare exceptions). Ditches, uneven ground and other defenses would make it impossible to drag such huge structures close enough to the walls. They were simply platforms for archers enabling them to shoot down at the defenders.

@davefellhoelter1343

4 ай бұрын

Right? a Rope! and Tug? and Down she Goes! Had to stay out of that Range! maybe a ramp if the opertunity was there, but these dudes Lived and Died with their Smarts!

@riccardomulazzani7436

4 ай бұрын

You're wrong man... There are several ancient documents and images confirming... The siege tower or mobile tower is a war machine used to reach the defensive walls of a city or fortress during a siege. The siege towers were made of wood, pulled by oxen and with some walls covered with skins to protect themselves from enemy missiles. Inside there were several floors connected to each other with stairs. At the top there was a "drawbridge" which allowed access to the walls.[1] They had a square base and to ensure they were sufficiently stable, not only did they narrow in height, but the area of ​​the upper platform was equal to 1/5 of the base. They could reach considerable heights, as happened during the campaigns of Alexander the Great where one of these reached the measurement of 120 cubits equal to 53 meters. In Roman times we know that in Masada in 74, one of 60 cubits was built, equal to about 26 meters, also equipped with catapults, ballistae and a large ram. Greetings.

I remember siege towers from watching the mysterious cities of gold.

0:47 The fact that people nowadays still don't know exactly how the Greek Fire was made goes to show how excellent their military was at keeping top secrets.

What a cool and interesting video on an interesting topic, thx.

So in 420 dudes were blazing in war

Using an image of a hoplite phalanx from 500 BC when talking about Byzantine, Greek, fire....classic.

Several of these are not ancient, not siege weapons, or even neither -starting with the first one, greek fire- but the video is interesting nonetheless.

@kieranfogarty778

3 жыл бұрын

Also the Romans managed to take Syracuse

@Itsyrm8

3 жыл бұрын

Liquid fire

Caltrops, the simplest and most dangerous of all of them. That's because of the barbs. Hard to get loose without losing your feet. Especially in those times. Patards are still being used in IED's today. Btw, for those 'claws' you need huge counterweights to lift a ship out of the water, a very strong grip and beam, and be able to rotate. I've to see it before I believe it. Same goes for the "death ray". Back then, they didn't have mirrors. Anyway, interesting video. Thanks!

@DIREWOLFx75

Жыл бұрын

"Back then, they didn't have mirrors." Yes they did. First known mirror was from 6k BC or something. "Btw, for those 'claws'" My guess is that they exploited leverage far more than the vast majority of modern guesswork shows. I can come up with several options that should work at the very least. And if they placed them in optimal positions, they wouldn't need that many for them to be as effective as written, especially as they probably also surprised the enemy.

Caltrops were used by greeks against charging persian elephants

Coooool

People up until the 20th century: there's just no way we can comprehend the complicated engineering of the ballista. We aren't caught up. The ballista: BIG SLINGSHOT

Capt: Private it's your turn to ride the bellows. Me:😞

Archimedes Death Ray has many factors that make it unlikely to be true. Firstly it was never used again, even though many people were needed to pull off this strategy so therefore new how to use or make it, also the equipment to do it was not destroyed. Historians, scientists engineers have all tried to re-create the Death Ray using technology available at the time, but at best all they can achieve is giving a sailor a nice suntan!!

@wankawanka3053

Жыл бұрын

Nope they actually have recreated it

@muhtasimmustafiz7162

Жыл бұрын

@@wankawanka3053 Mythbusters proved it was impossible. Can you link where they did prove it?

Ballista is a giant slingshot

Myth busters tried recreating number 1 but came to the conclusion it wasn’t possible with modern engineering

@troydonclarke7863

2 жыл бұрын

finally someone that mentioned it! yeap proved even with modern tech its useless

I wonder how strong a spring loaded battering ram would have been.

@rhuonaChanel

2 жыл бұрын

Would have needed a really large spring and maybe some gears. Maybe a leaf spring design might be simpler. This is definitely an interesting idea

Anyone know the name of the site around 12:06 , first shot of "circumvallation"?

So many wars and battles we know so little of .

Correction: The Counterweight Trebuchet was also invented in China in the 4th century BC

They set water on fire!

I love how it's "Top 5s" but they always do 15

Hey this voice is familiar from simple history i subscribe on that channel

2:25 look closely to the longbowman on the right with the flaming arrow. [when you get friendzoned by your crush]

#5, if you can’t beat a wall, build a wall.

How was that ancient sailing ship in the beginning moving with its sails closed?

The greek fire was the first flamethrower cuz it shoots fire like a flamethrower

The battering ram really wasn't so genius. Testaments to siege warfare suggest that the battering ram was tried oftentimes just in case the enemy had forgotten to get a strong door for their fortress. And contrary to popular belief, siege towers were not often used to reach castle walls. They were instead used as an elevated firing platform for archers, and had the stunning speed of 1.25 meters per hour. I argue that the most important siege weapon was the shovel. Sieges did not demand the skill of knights, they demanded the skill of engineers. Things like trebuchets and circumvallations could not be made without the skill of siege engineers in one's attacking force, and it could take months to build a single trebuchet.

Nooooo i still think of the battle ram as the castle seige weapon not the hand held

the trebuchet's you show are by far the extremely rare excception to the rule. most of them where far far smaller. what do you call effective about those trebuchet's knocking down walls lord of the rings style or are you being more realistic ? same goes for the manjanel seige weapon (katapult) they never got as big as the one you show

Idea for a new channel: Top History. Its just this channel but with the style of simple history

Nah, English longbow is the best old world weapon in my opinion. People still use them for hunting even today, and it's English, it's badass, mate.

@TheT3MK4

Жыл бұрын

thats not even ancient era weapons longbow is from medieval era.

@amkhjogr5062

6 ай бұрын

The English longbow was effective only in that it was inexpensive and "easy" to make and when unstrung, doubled as a staff. It had less range and power that the recurve bow - and was too large to be used on horseback. As a "projectile weapon" is was very much inferior to the recurve bow. It is also a lesser weapon to the flatbow (Nth America) which is similar part from the "ends" (which do not taper - therefore adding just that little more tension). The main advantage of these masses ranks of longbow archers was not only in the bow - it was essentially in the men themselves - they were also armed with long knives and were more than effective as light infantry - especially effective against heavily armoured "knights" who'd been de-horsed (this was the real decider at Agincourt).

There are many techniques used in Indian sub continent not mentioned here

@mrvn000

2 жыл бұрын

Make your own channel and coment it.

Only one death ray existed.

Hi Simple History

Interesting that he calls it a "BA-LISS-TA" then a "BAA-Less- Stay"

@painfulorwhat8872

2 жыл бұрын

When he says "BAA-Less-Stay" he is using the plural of Ba-Liss-Ta as he is talking about many more than one of them.

@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N

2 жыл бұрын

first is singular, second is plural.

The Romans actually did capture Syracuse, and Archimedes was killed.

@elvenkind6072

3 жыл бұрын

Drawing circles in the sand, complaining about the soldier that came to stab him to death, were stepping on the formula.

@omaralaaeldeenelsadany5527

3 жыл бұрын

I was searching for u through the comments

@fifa4lifeunknow795

2 жыл бұрын

@@elvenkind6072 the soldiers had orders not to harm him, but Archimedes said he had to finish his work before he goes but roman foot soldier got mad and killed him

I love to play strong hold crusader 😎😍

@majorgear1021

2 жыл бұрын

great game!

ancient greek people inventing flamethrowers be like💀

This is the 2nd video I've seen from this channel and both are top 15 videos on a channel called top fives. What am I missing here?

And in modern times, when Archimedes “ray”’was “recreated”…….it just didn’t work no matter how much they tried. 🤔🇨🇺🇺🇸

Interesting

This is kinda like my dream 😁

Death ray is nice and all, but only until the clouds come.

I have been summoned from the depths of total war Rome 2

Nice video. However, don't forget to double your English system with Metric equivalent. Thanks.

15 genius ancient siege weapons.. Number 6, it failed the only 3 times we have on record, but we think it worked afterwards, even though we have no concrete examples..

Why post a thumbnail of something that isn't in the video. That is what took my interest and what I would like to have seen.

You know what this video needs? More adds... only 7 just won't do it 🤷‍♂️

@fed1108

3 жыл бұрын

True