Why Do All Roads Lead to Rome? | WheelHouse
The Ancient Romans established one of the sophisticated civilizations in European History. One of their longest lasting legacies however, was their roads. Join Nolan as he explores how the sprawling Roman empire built it’s roads.
Hosted by Nolan Sykes
Directed by Ignacio A. Rodriguez
Edited by Alex Rodriguez
Animation by Chance Cole
Written by Joe Weber
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As a Canadian, I appreciate all of the metric measurements lol
@nautassendelft
4 жыл бұрын
Derrick Nykoluk For once we can actually understand
@bisken6547
4 жыл бұрын
As a litterally anything but the 300 million who live in america, so do i
@-avinash2344
4 жыл бұрын
Bisken but there are 1.3 billion in India who have never heard of miles
@bisken6547
4 жыл бұрын
@@-avinash2344 i... thats... what i meant
@ThomasFarquhar2
4 жыл бұрын
As a Brit, same bro
Nolan likes flexing on those with lactose intolerance.
@vka_carvedsix0979
5 жыл бұрын
Late those toddler ants
@MapleShrimp
5 жыл бұрын
Weird flex but ok
@MegaAsuku
5 жыл бұрын
I have mild lactose intolerance, but don't want to give up my milk. So I just power through the farts
@soumilbiswas1841
5 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Nolan has milk with or without sugar....
@datta1391
5 жыл бұрын
Melk
Yep in Europe we use the expression "all roads lead to Rome" a lot
@hauptmann25
5 жыл бұрын
Yep was honestly surprised its so unknown over the pond.
@TrackSol
5 жыл бұрын
It's just him. I heard it a lot growing up.
@marklion315
5 жыл бұрын
@@hauptmann25 He's likely not well read. It's used over here too.
@raywei8472
5 жыл бұрын
It's also used very often in China, but in Chinese obviously
@killeralltires
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah ive heard it a lot as a kid. Maybe not in the last 5 years though.
Wait until you check their water system uses to bring water from the mountain to the cities without pump. The calculation used were a league on their own.
@user-po6hn9id1t
5 жыл бұрын
Ereder and then the sewage system...
@DeeZeeGR
5 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha check their what??? Water system sewege system where all invented by ancient Greeks!!
@theovanbooma8508
5 жыл бұрын
@@DeeZeeGR so? He didnt say invented. Roman viaducts are way more famous than anything the greeces came up with
@DeeZeeGR
5 жыл бұрын
@@theovanbooma8508 When Greeks wrote Europeans where hanging from trees for fuck sake man!!
@acchaladka
5 жыл бұрын
King Whispa Yeah but the Egyptians had hydropower mills and roads long before the Greeks...and the Chinese Emperors had...etc etc
The dude who sold the Air Jesus 13’s took the same path as Judas! He lived near my ex in Germany!
@user-qx7tm5df8j
5 жыл бұрын
i know air jordans but what are those?
@phonzy
5 жыл бұрын
@@user-qx7tm5df8j the most impressive luxury leather soles and silky hemp rope sandals in the Roman empire.
@WelcomeToTheMadness
5 жыл бұрын
phonzy Thank you for ensuring the uninformed gets the knowledge they need!
@ImSoundzGFX
5 жыл бұрын
Why have I been seeing you comment on so many videos.. wow
@thatbluebricknose
4 жыл бұрын
I am confusion.
Do a vid for where widebodies came from and why are they so popular. Edited:didn't expect it to get this good
@gabrielmonteiro2134
5 жыл бұрын
Good idea!
@zxKrookedxz
5 жыл бұрын
ill tell you, people want wider wheels on their cars for more grip so they had to extend the car out to fit the wheel. we dont really need a video to explain that
@CyclingSJH
5 жыл бұрын
Mississippi; no idea why
@nuclearbeige3038
5 жыл бұрын
They said it's somewhere on here I don't remember what video but wide body kits we're inspired off of the Grand touring and rally cars of the 80s and 90s. Group b rally is one that comes to mind with wide bodies.
@soggybrick772
5 жыл бұрын
Widebodies aren’t popular xd
I think this is my favorite WheelHouse yet. Very well done! I was a student in Spain and witnessed Roman engineering firsthand (ie. roads, aqueducts). It was very impressive! Kudos, Nolan! Great job!
WheelHouse has quickly become my favorite segment on this channel. Keep it up, Nolan.
I don't know much of latim, but, being a portuguese speaker, I believe that "via" is pronouced like "veeaa". And 30 centimeters is about a feet.
@RidingWithGerdas
5 жыл бұрын
ee = i ?
@itsameyaboi
5 жыл бұрын
Don't know much english either, the singular is "foot", but maybe the metric english works different too
@Daviderubber
5 жыл бұрын
Sì , yes you are right .
@Phin_Again
5 жыл бұрын
In Classical Latin, its more of a "wee-ah" but the Latin used by churches is "Vee-ah"
@MrMikeJkay
5 жыл бұрын
Colin Ahearn singular = Foot, plural = Feet So in metric measurements it would be 1 foot or 3 feet. Hope this helped 👍🏻
Fun fact: I live very close to the Limes. The wall that seperated the Roman Empire from Germania. That wall is still visible today and it is very cool to be this close to something this important.
I live near a road that more than 3700 years old (we call it vadi millek) its the road which joshua (moses "successor") went to fight for his country, kna'an (Israel today) and the road used to transport stuff from Europe to Africa and Asia (and back). Edit: and yes it is a working road that recently was upgraded.
@Donut
5 жыл бұрын
That's crazy!
@user-po6hn9id1t
5 жыл бұрын
Donut Media even more crazy if you think that minoans had working water and sanitary systems... And a hell of a navy...
@jacob.s3619
5 жыл бұрын
BLgames Ooo fun fact, thanks for sharing, I'm going to go learn more about this road......and been raised catholic and Christian how have I never heard about Joshua😳.
@theovanbooma8508
5 жыл бұрын
@@jacob.s3619 youve never heard of Joshua? Never heard of the spies israel sent in canaan? How can people be Christian and not know some of the most important stories in the Bible ?
@amaanali9525
3 жыл бұрын
@@theovanbooma8508 wow what I can't believe is how anyone believes in christianity but yeah if you believe in Christianoty you probably should know that.
Now you feel the confusion of us when you mericans throw around those miles and pounds.
@KaitouKaiju
5 жыл бұрын
How are you confused? Brits invented those units in the first place.
@RazgulTheKind
5 жыл бұрын
British weights and measurements are a huge beautiful clusterfuck of metric and imperial. Milk and beer is sold in pints, every other liquid is in litres... except when you're measuring fuel efficiency in which case it's miles per gallon, despite gas being sold in litres at the pump. And that's just the beginning of the wonderful insanity. Every other European country uses strictly metric so wouldn't have much exposure to imperial measurements - just as the US doesn't have a whole lot of experience with metric.
@nautassendelft
4 жыл бұрын
xerosagas How do you know he’s British?
@bisken6547
4 жыл бұрын
@@KaitouKaiju not everyone who don't understand imperial are british though
@JuanSolo-ln8yq
3 жыл бұрын
You gotta also understand Americans are taught imperial young, and we only really know inches and pounds for our younger years
Ahhh man I'm glad you brought this up! I literally live in front of one of these ancient roads: the Via Aurelia. It runs all along the "Ligurian Riviera" and it's one of the most beautiful roads you can drive through on a nice summer day. Lancia actually named most of their beautiful cars with ancient Roman road names: the Appia, the Aurelia and many others. Please make an "Up to speed" about Lancia and remind us how great this company was. It doesn't deserve to be forgotten this easily!
one thing I found mind blowing is how the width of a standard guage railroad was set by Roman chariots. See the chariots would end up putting grooves in the roads, wagon makers would then match that width so that their wagon wheels would follow those grooves. The templates wagon makers used were passed down generationally and used in everything from basic wagons to the covered wagons that helped settle the western US. when railroads came about, rather than reinvent the wheel, railcar manufacturers used those same templates wagon makers used, therefore setting the gauge to the same width as roman chariots.
My two favourite subjects combined. History and Cars 👌👌👌
I live in Scotland and there’s a town near me with a sign to rome
Ive been watching Donut for a long time and its always been helpful. This episode talks about my college project!!! Donut helped me pass my class!!! Love Donut!
So now you know how we feel when you guys use the imperial system in every video... would be nice if you guys would but the metric numbers on screen or something like that.
I love❤️ a little taste of history in my donut 🍩
I wanted to say something witty but, this is just a really well constructed and informative video. Keep it up Donut, I'm almost done binging all of your videos so I'll need some more sweet sweet content.
This episode was..... awesome! Great job
4:24 this. is. great.
00:00 If you see the second image, you can see her dabbing.
@ivanlozoya6935
5 жыл бұрын
Nice
Keep it up man ! I love all these videos !
Great content as always!
Great episode. thank you!
One of y'all's coolest videos!
Thanks man! Great video!
very interesting topic i have to say. good choice. nicely explained. appreciate the effort.
great EP keep up with the history stuff ! :)
🙌 RAMCHARGERS 🙌
@JotaroKujo-gw6ng
5 жыл бұрын
Never gets old
@PhilhellenicAgori
5 жыл бұрын
stfu jokes over
@mythicbrotato4371
5 жыл бұрын
David W 🙌 RAMCHARGERS 🙌 DUUUUUDE
As a bridge engineer I must say: Alcántara Bridge is just an atonishing piece of engineering.
Great Video!
Next wheel house episode about history of crash tests. Up to speed: Reliant
You could talk about anything and id still watch! Keep it up good luck!!!
I am always impressed with the level of details you all put into these videos. There were so many Roman or Latin words that have been converted to modern use. It's amazing how much we really owe to ancient civilizations. I wonder what you all will come up with next. OH, and my mom's butt. LOL, that was good. I would hope no one wants to go thru that. ;)
I stay in Scotland and the main street in my town is called Roman road. It even has ruins of an old roman bathhouse you can visit that's nearly 2000 years old. They actually had central heating back then, they lit big fires under the building and there was a massive pan in the foundations they filled with water the walls were hollow so they filled up with steam and warmed the building. Its mad the stuff they actually had back then lol
My wife and I went to Rome for our anniversary. I loved it there. We walked the Appian Way. To be on the oldest road in Rome was a weird feeling. Cars are blocked and not allowed to drive on it where we were. The history that has walked down that road over all this time boggles the mind
Lmao. I litteraly needed this for my history class. Thanks alot
incredible!
Cool history lesson for the day.
I would have never expected Donut media making a video on Roman Empire
My favorite Donut show is the Wheelhouse
Keep it up !!!
Love the Nolan’s head cencoring
Donut is like the Discovery or Nat Geo of the car world. I learned more here than i did in school.
Frankfurt 😁 that‘s my city and i‘m proud of it being mentioned in donut media✌🏼👍🏼
I almost thought this was a Vox video. Shows how good your work is. Keep it up.
Aaaaan nyway! Love you guys.
Nice vid
I learn more from this show than at school
I remember when i was lost and i told my grandma she always said "all roads go to rome" and it cheers me up
I'm a Spaniard and when I go visiting my family I drive through Roman roads. Proud to be Roman's Sons!!
@liberty0758
5 жыл бұрын
So basically you're proud of occupation, oppression, murder, slavery and tyranny. Good on ya...
@alberto1311
5 жыл бұрын
@@liberty0758 stop crying plz
@liberty0758
5 жыл бұрын
Fuck off Spaniard, be proud of something else.
@alberto1311
5 жыл бұрын
@@liberty0758 I can also be proud of the Empire we had or of the fact that we were the country than treated the best the Indians in America, but you'll be very cynical and you'll try to apply modern thoughts to the XVI century's ones. I can also be proud of Spanish people since we are the country who makes more trasplants in the world. Where are you from?
@liberty0758
5 жыл бұрын
Casablanca...
5:37 Nolan, as a European, I'm in tears lmaoo
It was really cool meeting you guys at the Petersen
BGM is a bit loud
3:40 The Romans were building roads pretty much the same way as they are today, only difference is the layers of cement and cobble are replaced with asphalt. Pretty damn cool
Thank you for the Bandit Keith reference “In America!”
ima need this for my AP history class
Fun fact: the English word "street" comes from the Latin word for layer ("stratum"), exactly because they were made in many layers as described in the video.
Bandit Keith and the hamburglar.... hahaha dope
We need to bring back this road design.
I live in the middle of the UK. It is the furthest from the sea (Milton Keynes) and we use the roman roads still
Y’all should do an episode on the Mille Miglia
That was very interesting. Keeo this shit uo
What’s really cool is a lot of the roads especially in France are lined with trees. Like literally lined all along the roads. That was for the Roman armies marching from Rome. So that they would have shade from the sun on their long marches. True story and it looks really cool on the roads.
As an Italian, I love this video
7:44 I thought I was the only person on earth who preffered 'Famous Amous' over 'Chips Ahoy'.
I live near Rome and take the Via Appia almost every day to go to university 😎
@wiros
4 жыл бұрын
In Catalonia/Spain "Via Augusta" still one of the main roads, just become a highway (AP-7), but almost the exact path of the old roman road
Pumphrey and his dad are great.... But you actually tought me something here! Well done other dude from donut
82 views and 85 likes. GG Donut
I approve of donut media , they used uniteds logo for manchester
Love the shade thrown at Cali for our shitty roads. So true!
0:00 I spotted those split-second Nolans!
make a video on autosalon from 2000s and the history of car modfiying
Dope ass episode.
please make video on history of Nissan Cedric.......
"And every road you take, will always lead you home, always" - that paul walker dong from f&f7
@bisken6547
4 жыл бұрын
I MEANT SONG, FUCK
this is a weird video for donut but I like it
0:21 Yes in my country (Mali) the saying “All roads lead to Rome” is used a lot.
FACTS! The more you know
If we're being serious for a sec, Metric units, such as Centimeters, can be found on tires as standard for example. What I mean is that the "225/65 R17" numbering on a tire means 225 milimeters (22.5cm) wide. That's why a "300/45" tire for example, is a pretty wide ass tire. (30cm is around a foot for y'all Americans).
You guys should make an up to speed about the Nissan Cefiro
i live in falkirk scotland we got the Antonie wall with the roads heading up to it
Thats crazy I did not know that.
Donut should always show the metric or imperial numbers depending on what they're saying
Next Up To Speed : The Citroën Saxo
@mateuszzimon8216
5 жыл бұрын
Peugot 205
I own that flannel, bought it at target
is nobody going to talk about the songs on this video? 🔥🔥🔥
@michachylinski5863
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, im looking for a name as well ;-; anybody ???
Cool
good history
5:40, me, accustomed to the metric system, comprehends this and enjoys this video
30 cm is about a foot. 1km is just over half a mile
@guy_autordie
5 жыл бұрын
half mile is 800 meters. approx
@mateuszzimon8216
5 жыл бұрын
@@guy_autordie 1 mile is exactly 1609m land mile.
Nolan's the only part of this channel worth watching anymore.
@jaywhy225
5 жыл бұрын
Their fearless leader forgot that ego kills talent, and the other troll that does science garage is a complete bafoon.
Nice
Hey! What's wrong with Chips Ahoy?
@olaff9771
3 жыл бұрын
I think he's racist.
Do a up to speed on low riders
That song is Rainy Sunday's henyao
Regarding the metric system: 1 mile equals 1.6 kilometers. 1 yard equals 1.6 meters
6:28 Yeah, it's actually a common misconception that one pace = one footstep. It's really one footstep with the same foot so it's more like two regular footsteps, and yes, that equals about four feet. I know because I just measured it in my living room. *cue "the more you know" graphic