© Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesEquestrian statue of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, 161-180, found in the collection of the Musei Capitolini, Rome.
A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire.
The app exploded as husbands, boyfriends, dads and friends revealed what they think about the era and its feats multiple times a week — if not every day.
TikToker Allie Ninfo (@allieninfo) posted a video on Sept. 16 asking her boyfriend how often he thinks about it.
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In the video, which has since been viewed nearly three million times, Ninfo's boyfriend admitted that he thinks about the Roman Empire about three times a week.
"A lot of cool s--- happened back then," he said. "I've got Marcus Aurelius' book ... I try to watch documentaries on it all the time. It's awesome."
He added that he's been thinking about the Roman Empire ever since he was a teenager.
Former "Bachelorette" Hannah Brown asked her fiancé, Adam Woolard, the same question in a TikTok video posted on Sept. 15, to which he responded that he thinks about the period "pretty consistently.""Every time I fight people, I think about walking into the Coliseum."
"Because I'm big into martial arts," he explained. "Every time I fight people, I think about walking into the Coliseum."
© Universal/Getty Images, Art Media/Print Collector/Getty ImagesRussell Crowe with a sword in a scene from the film "Gladiator" in 2000. The Colosseum, originally known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is a giant amphitheater in the center of the city of Rome.
Woolard went on to reveal what he thinks about the Roman Empire in terms of politics and society.
"Men, I think, to our core, were warriors," he said. "We have to be ready for battle at all times and the Roman Empire is all about battle. It's common sense."
Amy Briggs, editor-in-chief of National Geographic History Magazine, noted similar fascinations with the Roman Empire, which still endure thousands of years later.
"There are so many Roman feats that still resonate, I think because there are so many we can still see and interact with — aqueducts, roads, monuments, temples, theaters and stadiums, works of art, literature," she told Fox News Digital.
© DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty ImagesThe Temple of Jupiter in Ancient Rome is depicted in this image
Briggs suggested that men in particular are touched by the Roman Empire because of their natural interest in two factors: engineering and the military.
"Rome has those in spades," she said. "Rome marches across the vast territory, creates an empire and then plants large public works all over it that need to be defended."
The empire was filled with "big projects" such as roads and aqueducts, which not only required an "innovative design," Briggs pointed out, but also a "big, complex labor force."
© J Williamson/Culture Club/Getty ImagesThe Senate during the Roman Empire is assembled in a temple with council members wearing white tunics and togas.
The same thought process goes for military construction, Briggs said.
"How do you organize, discipline, arm, clothe and house your forces all over the Empire — sometimes in hostile territories?" she asked."This isn't some lost city or vanished people. The remnants of this culture are everywhere waiting to be devoured."
"If you were plunked down in the middle of the Roman Empire, how would you do it? What would your life be like?"
The history expert assumed that the accessibility of Roman artifacts is what keeps the empire top of mind for some people.
© J Williamson/ Culture Club/Getty Imagescolumn of Roman soldiers is shown advancing over a bridge.
She added, "And people have been obsessed with Rome for ages — so they've written a lot about Rome, too."
Even the Founding Fathers of the United States were "obsessed" with Rome, according to Briggs.
"They adopted Roman aliases when writing their 18th-century pamphlets and op-eds," she said. "For example, 'The Federalist Papers' were published under the pseudonym 'Publius,' after a founder of the Roman Republic."
America's founders also read Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," with Volume I being published in 1776, and "obsessively worried about being a parallel to the licentious Roman Empire," said Briggs.
© J Williamson/Culture Club/Getty ImagesDinner in the garden during the Roman Empire is pictured, including feasts, fountains, leisure, togas, flowers and double aulo instruments.
At the "heart of it," Briggs suggested the topic stays popular with both men and women because the Roman Empire is "full of good stories."
"TV and movies are full of them: 'Ben-Hur,' 'Cleopatra,' 'I, Claudius,' 'Gladiator,' HBO's 'Rome,'" she said. "Compelling situations, political intrigue, dysfunctional families, and a growing empire as a backdrop."
"Don't we all think about this stuff all the time in our fiction? Our history is full of it, too," she said.
"And I think it's all the more compelling because it's not made up. It really happened."
For more from National Geographic on the Roman Empire, visit natgeo.com.
So let's get down to business.
The Romans did not build the aqueducts, temples and churches that you can see in Rome. THIS is all a leftover from the Etruscans who originally built Rome.
The Etruscans were completely destroyed by tribes from the southeast who arrived there. In our country, they are commonly called Roma, and in Poland, they are called Gypsies (Cyganie).
They carried out a great migration, occupying the areas of southern Europe and stopping in Rome, although this city had a different name. ROMA read backwards gives the word AMOR, which means DEATH. Exactly from Chaldean it can be translated as A-MOR, which specifically means WATER DEATH.
Later, the new inhabitants of the city began to conquer all of Europe, but here we come to the commonly known history.
It is strange for me, a person living so far from you, that you see heroes among people who have devoted their lives to robberies, rapes and murders on a scale never seen before.
Similarly, I am surprised by your preference for the Catholic Church, whose history differs from that of the Roman Empire only in details.
It's worth knowing history, as true as possible, but you won't learn about it from National Geographic.
Regards