A Day In History

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is one of the most horrific and shameful parts of human history. From 1525 to 1866, an estimated 2.5 million African people were forcibly taken from their homes and shipped halfway across the world to endure lives of brutality and abuse as slaves in the New World. Before they even reached the New World, however, 1 in 5 died because of the horrific conditions aboard the ships that took them across the ocean. We couldn't possibly sum up the tragedy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in one video, and it would be insulting to try, but today we're going to take a little look at life aboard one of these slave ships and the horrifying truth of what innocent African people endured because of the slave trade.

The Roman Empire is one of the greatest civilizations of all time. It gave us poetry, music, art and stories still told today. It produced new sciences, medicines and works of great minds like the ancient Greek philosophers: Socrates, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle… to mention a few. When we think of Ancient Rome, we think of the decadence and luxury of a civilization living lavishly. What we don’t think of is the slavery that made this all possible.

Long before Homo sapiens populated the earth, the Neanderthals lived in Eurasia. Now, paleoanthropologists in England and France are using new archeological methods to shed light on some previously unexplained Neanderthal mysteries.

Throughout history, China has been known as one of the most brutal places to suffer punishment for crimes committed. For examples of the brutality of the Ancient Chinese dynasties, you need to look no further than its code for criminals named the Five Punishments for Slaves.

When the Allied forces entered the camps at Auschwitz on January 27, 1945; what they found was a tragic scene of mass extermination the likes of which our world had never witnessed before. After Germany sparked WW2 and invaded Poland, the Schutzstaffel- more commonly known as the SS- would convert Auschwitz 1 into a prisoner-of-war camp. Later on, the construction of Auschwitz 2-Birkenau started which would become the site of countless atrocities.

Today we are going to be talking about the tyrannical and brutal rule of the third emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: Caligula.

Alexander the Great: tutored by Aristotle, undefeated in battle, creator of one of the largest empires in history, and one of the best leaders the world has ever seen. And all this by age 32.

A Brief American History of "The Perfect" Woman Body type Women’s bodies and beauty have been scrutinized across centuries, with each culture having different opinions on what the ideal woman would look like. Although the most real and most ideal version of beauty is being happy in the skin you’re in, historically, changing trends of physical appreciation can tell us more about the culture of the time. Today we’re looking at the ever-changing vision of ideal beauty throughout American history.

A Brief History Of Punishment In Ancient Persia Although the Persians are often seen as the kings of creative punishment, in reality across the ancient world, there was similar brutality in all civilizations. Ancient Persia has seen brutal punishments like Scaphism, Flaying, curicifiction etc. Unfortunately, the Ancient Persians just weren’t that big on writing stuff down. Which means we have to rely on historical accounts written hundreds of years later.

Did you know that Egyptians invented toothpaste and mints? Or that the Ancient Chinese believed bathing daily would invite sickness? Or even that the peasants of medieval Europe weren’t quite as gross as you might think? Hello and welcome to today’s video where we get down and dirty with the history of personal hygiene. Let’s go back through the centuries and find out how we’ve gotten on with our own personal stink.

Freak shows were traveling carnivals of people with physical disabilities and abnormalities. They would traverse the country, usually under an exploitative ringmaster, as acts for people to gawk and marvel at. Typical performers in a freak show would include: a bearded lady, conjoined twins, dwarves, heavily tattooed or pierced individuals, or anyone with an excess of body hair or deformed features.