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Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages?
YouTube ^ | November 12, 2021 | toldinstone channel

Posted on 11/14/2021 1:28:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv

For centuries, concrete was everywhere in Roman Italy: in the awesomely durable breakwaters of artificial harbors, in the soaring vaults of great baths, in the foundations of the Colosseum, and - of course - in the spectacular dome of the Pantheon. But during late antiquity, concrete all but vanished from the Mediterranean world, and would not be used widely again until the twentieth century. This video explains why.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Understanding Roman concrete
1:29 Early experiments
2:25 The apogee
3:33 Squarespace!
4:19 Geographic limits of Roman concrete
5:00 The decline of concrete
6:28 Final notices
7:26 Not forgotten, but gone
Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages? | November 12, 2021 | toldinstone
Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages? | November 12, 2021 | toldinstone

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: concrete; geopolymer; geopolymerization; godsgravesglyphs; history; pozzolana; pozzolano; roman; romanconcrete; romanempire; rome; toldinstone; zeolite; zeolitebased
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To: SunkenCiv

They also forgot how to Wash during the Middle Ages


21 posted on 11/14/2021 2:19:47 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: SunkenCiv

Never mind the forgotten concrete. how did people forget about indoor plumbing, flush toilets, and baths during the Middle Ages?


22 posted on 11/14/2021 2:26:44 PM PST by Flick Lives (The future is a quiet world)
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To: PIF

I was going to say environmentalists....but muslims is the correct answer.


23 posted on 11/14/2021 2:30:08 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: thesearethetimes...

Yes it could set underwater. Made synthetic Zeolite and it worked fine for things like railroad ties but nobody wanted to pay the difference.


24 posted on 11/14/2021 2:31:11 PM PST by JeanLM (Obama proved melanin is just enough to win elections Trump proves being good is not enough..)
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To: butlerweave
They did not know Ancient Chinese Sakrete


25 posted on 11/14/2021 2:33:08 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Liberals were elected?


26 posted on 11/14/2021 2:37:32 PM PST by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: SunkenCiv
Why was Roman Concrete Forgotten during the Middle Ages?

Before the British Empire, the Roman Empire was the most advanced civilization in history, particularly in the fields of medicine and engineering. The Roman Empire was right on the edge of the industrial revolution, but didn't quite make it. In the middle of the second century the Romans invented prototypes of the first steam engine but did not figure out how to apply them in a factory, locomotive, or ship. Roman aversion to labor-saving devices is probably what held them back. After the breakup of the empire in the third century, it would take 1500 years for civilization to rediscover techniques and technology the Romans used.

27 posted on 11/14/2021 2:45:19 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: SunkenCiv

Christian navel gazing, internecine conflicts all over Europe in the vacuum left by the Romans, several waves of plague, and the fact that concrete isn’t a substance, it’s a whole technology that requires a variety of trained people, made it difficult to reproduce what the Romans did.


28 posted on 11/14/2021 2:48:14 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: thesearethetimes...

“ Interesting - hubby agrees - says it could set underwater?”
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Present day concrete cures underwater as well. The operative word is “cure.” 😊


29 posted on 11/14/2021 2:49:05 PM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: SunkenCiv

That video was interesting...thanks for posting it.


30 posted on 11/14/2021 2:50:48 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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To: PghBaldy

Islam didn’t start for a coule if hindred years or so after Rome fell.


the muslim invasions destroyed countless libraries and people with knowledge in their war on Christianity and other traditional religions. There remained only what some muslims thought useful to them. The rest was burned. There was nothing and no one to pass down knowledge after the fall of Egypt, North Africa, the Levant, and Persia. 200 years after the fall of Rome, which itself was sacked and burned. By 1500 AD people were just beginning to recover what had been lost, and it was not until the middle 1800s that large ship building recovered.

Why We Are Afraid, A 1400 Year Secret, by Dr Bill Warner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y

Bill Warner PhD: Half Truth of the Islamic Golden Age in Spain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDWvW-ITF7s


31 posted on 11/14/2021 2:51:28 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Flick Lives
Never mind the forgotten concrete. how did people forget about indoor plumbing, flush toilets, and baths during the Middle Ages?
Lingering, terrifying memories of the Roman dual-use of the tersorium as common toothbrush and toilet paper scared Europeans away from running water for two thousand (and counting in some places) years.



(Just kidding about the toothbrush... Romans just rinsed with urine.)
32 posted on 11/14/2021 2:55:05 PM PST by nicollo
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To: PIF

“The populace realized concrete was racist during the Middle Ages and stopped using it. Then we went backwards again later, and it’s only gotten worse ever since. Allahu Ackbar.”

-6th Grade History Schoolbook, 2021


33 posted on 11/14/2021 2:56:43 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (“There are no rules here – we're trying to accomplish something.” -Thomas A. Edison )
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To: SunkenCiv

Very interesting video. Slightly off topic is that many of the durable ruins in Rome today are the concrete and brick cores of buildings whose marble facing was recycled for the monumental buildings of the Renaissance. Likewise much bronze decorative work and the sheathing of the Pantheon dome


34 posted on 11/14/2021 3:01:56 PM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: SunkenCiv
For centuries, concrete was everywhere in Roman Italy

That's because the guys from Sicily had all of the cement contracts.

35 posted on 11/14/2021 3:03:46 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: pierrem15

Large populations with intense specialization allows all sorts of things you can’t do when people make their own shoes and grow their own food. Civilization took a huge “pause” after the Roman Empire fell.

Imagine the things we have today that we wouldn’t have if, say, a large portion of people are killed, by, say, a bad vaccine. Steel products. Cars. Gasoline. Cell phones. Kill off half of the world population, as numerous enviro-nuts and liberals want, and suddenly lots of things we take for granted just vanish. Coffee in norther climes. Cheap transportation. Electric power...just imagine the infrastructure required for that...

Our civilization is fragile. And, most of us wouldn’t recognize food in the wild. If it doesn’t grow naturally on a Styrofoam tray we’d starve.


36 posted on 11/14/2021 3:06:11 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Mark


37 posted on 11/14/2021 3:09:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: PghBaldy
Islam didn’t start for a coule if hindred years or so after Rome fell.

Modern historians hate specifically dating the "fall" of large, vague institutions like the Roman Empire. The fall wasn't so much a pinpoint event in time as much as it was a decline across the timeline. You know, just like U.S.

38 posted on 11/14/2021 3:17:53 PM PST by Brass Lamp
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To: PIF

torching the library at Alexandria wasn’t a good thing the ‘slims did? Who knew.


39 posted on 11/14/2021 3:39:44 PM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: SunkenCiv

Domus Depot stores all closed?


40 posted on 11/14/2021 3:42:11 PM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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