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How They Lived

Animated history documentaries about how ordinary people lived in ancient civilizations, medieval cities, and lost empires.

Every story begins with one small thing — a loaf of bread in Pompeii, a tulip bulb in Amsterdam, a clay seal from Mohenjo-daro — and follows it outward into the whole world that made it possible. How did people really live in ancient Rome, medieval London, Baghdad, or Edo Japan? What did they eat, trade, fear, and build? And why did it all end?

Here you'll find:
- What life was really like in history's greatest cities
- The rise and fall of empires and forgotten civilizations
- Strange objects that once shaped the world
- Unsolved mysteries of the ancient world

New animated history documentaries every week. Subscribe and step through the doorway.

📩 Business: howtheylived.history@gmail.com

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11:20

What Was Family Life Like in Hiroshima Just One Day Before the Atomic Bomb?

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10:32

How Did Ancient Indians Carve the Entire Kailasa Temple Out of One Giant Rock?

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11:02

What Life Was REALLY Like Inside Buckingham Palace (1840)

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10:34

What Was Life Like Building Titanic? The Brutal Truth

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12:15

What Was Life Like for Children in Medieval London?

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12:23

What Was Life Like for the Workers Who Built Machu Picchu?

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What Was Life Like for the People Who Built the Fortress of Sigiriya on a Giant Rock?

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11:06

What Was Family Life Like in Mughal Delhi (1650)

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10:31

What Was Life Like for a Woman in Ancient Rome?

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11:48

What Was Life Like in the Persian Empire (Persepolis, 500 BC)

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10:48

What Was Life Like for a Peasant Family Before the French Revolution? from 1789 to 1799

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10:46

A Day in the Life of a Janissary, the Ottoman Elite Soldier

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10:10

A Day in the Life of a Rich Merchant in Medieval London

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11:03

How 165 Farmers Humiliated Britain — Fort Griswold, 1781

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12:14

What Was Life Like In Medieval Paris?

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10:22

What Was Life Like in Ancient Athens?

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10:58

What If a Viking Family Woke Up in 2026?

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11:06

What If an Ancient Egyptian Family Woke Up in 2026?

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Shared 4 weeks ago

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11:13

What Was Life Like in Potosí, the Mountain That Ate Men?

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11:03

Could You Survive One Week as a Medieval Peasant?

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11:30

What Was a Wedding Day Like in Ancient Rome?

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What Was Life Like in Pompeii the Day Before It Vanished?

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What Was Life Like for an Ancient Egyptian Family? The Village That Built Pharaoh's Tombs

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