Name: 古羅馬｜世界歷史｜可汗學院 (Ancient Rome | World history | Khan Academy)
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one of the most difficult things for me to understand is

how all of these ancient ruins fit together,

who has built an extraordinary video simulation

that allows us to move through this space.

First of all, that ancient cities are now in ruins

So even if you can visualize what the Pantheon looks like

What was everything else? Most of it is missing.

So the visualization is trying to put the whole city together

We're now flying low over the city, over the Tibre.

It's a good place to start because you know,

the Tibre does divide Rome into two parts.

And I see in the distance a very large temple.

That's the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

which was the main temple of the Roman state cult.

which because of this temple and some others,

was considered the center of the state cult

So what moment in Rome's history have you chosen?

certainly in terms of public architecture

the Emperor at this time was Constantine the Great

and after the Capitoline Hill we see the Palatine Hill,

another one of the seven canonical hills of Rome.

And the Palatine is obvious to anybody who visits Rome.

In fact, the word palace derives from the word Palatine.

The Romans, as time went on in their history,

said "where ever the emperor is, there the palace is,"

or the paletine. So, the term palace got detached

and came to just mean "a place where the ruler lives".

I see the imperial palace, it is so large.

It is literally enveloped the entire hillside.

where the emperor lived, and his family with him,

but it was also the center of the government.

between this enormous circus and the palace?

and the Emperor was a great giver of the circus games

and could easily come down to the Imperial box

he could watch the circus races at the Palace.

So we're not talking about Barnum & Bailey,

We're mainly talking about chariot races.

Think Ben Hur, the very famous chariot race scenes.

there were parades, religious processions,

So let's go into the city proper. We know that

Rome was this mercantile culture that has real markets.

We know about their hundreds of trades and professions,

We know about their diet, we know about their longevity.

The scholars have really reconstructed in great detail

that I'm seeing is this aqueduct, this highway for water.

Yeah, the Romans are famous for their aqueducts.

They kept this gravitational sytem working

by getting the sources up into the mountains,

and the valley which gave the force to the water.

a slope of even just 1 foot every 2000 feet,

We don't know how they could measure so accurately