Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "The Lavish Eating Habits Of The Ancient Romans | Let's East History | Timeline" video.

Many people lived in single rooms with no cooking facilities and they ate out from food produced by street stalls. Probably only the rich had kitchens and cooked at home. They had slaves to do their cooking.
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The first European civilisation was the Greek civilisation. The Greeks had great philosophers and invented democracy. The Romans were very influenced by the Greeks in many ways.
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@gentlemanfarmer6042 I'm referring specifically to Rome, that's all. Rome actually had high rise buildings because they knew how to build with a form of concrete (called opus signinum). The dwellings inside were one room only. I have read a lot of books on Rome and the Romans and also taken part in archaeological digs on Roman sites.
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@gentlemanfarmer6042 I was just stating some facts about Rome. I don't know why you keep referring to medieval peasants. Medieval times were later than Roman times - such a basic mistake. The sites I was digging on were served with underfloor heating. No hearths. Anyway I've said as much as I'm going to now. A good series of books to read, to know more about Rome is the Roman set of novels by Colleen McCullough (if you have the stamina). She did an amazing amount of research which informed those books. They start off in the times of Marius (the father of the Roman army) and go through Sulla, and Julius Caesar as far as Anthony and Cleopatra.
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@gentlemanfarmer6042 My comment was 3 years ago. I will do some more research before stating whether I was wrong or right. I've got 98 likes so some people agree with me, but I will check the evidence. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing this on a TV programme about the Romans, but I can't be sure until I look into it. It was 3 years ago. I didn't say 'everyone', only 'many people'.
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@gentlemanfarmer6042 Have patience. I'm providing more sources and links. I'm not pushing any agenda or politics here. You are clearly some sort of obsessive so our discussion ends here for my part.
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I don't disagree with your Eric Moore, but I think the Greeks were a civilisation that influenced Western Europe most though, (democracy and certain aspects of philosophy and medicine). Their sculptures and architecture were influential beyond their time and influenced Western civilisation in the Renaissance and Victorian periods a lot. The Greeks influenced the Romans too and the Romans also influenced Western European civilisation a great deal, but the Greeks came first. Minoan ideas and civilisation didn't have as much effect on the development of ideas in Europe in later times, though they may have influenced the Greek civilisation. I'm not sure how much, so we may get some of their their ideas indirectly.
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Eric Moore. The Romans were brilliant at farming, architecture, engineering, sanitation, military tactics, strategy and conquest. Their strategy of "divide and conquer" was used very effectively, in particular by the British in creating their empire and even earlier in their conquest of Ireland (which was really a Norman conquest as the Norman kings were then ruling Britain) but the Greeks gave us (often via the Romans, admittedly) many of the ideas and ideals that still inspire us today. I wouldn't like to say which is the more important of the two . I was initially responding to the statement that the Romans were the first civilisation to influence Europe, but Herodotus Farmer has explained above why they said that and what they were trying to convey, and I understand their point.
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@gentlemanfarmer6042 The Roman dig I was on was at Wroxeter (in Roman times known as Uriconium) in the Summer of 1972 and 1973 under Phil Barker. My favourite 'find' at the time was a dupondius of Antoninus Pius. I have also been at a Viking dig at York also in the 1970s under Richard Hall. I also did an iron age dig on the Wrekin in Shropshire in March of 1973 I think (It was March anyway). I don't remember who led that dig but the Viking and Iron age digs are not relevant to this discussion. The underfloor heating (hypocaust) was under the remains of a bath house. I was not being 'false' in what I stated but stating what I was aware of from my knowledge and what I'd read. I don't claim to be an expert though. Do you?
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Yep. I accept what you say. I think if they are talking about civilisations that most influenced us Greek is up there and comes before Roman though the Romans influenced us a lot too.
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@ankhpom9296 Indeed. The simple life but there were plenty of public baths.
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