The Colosseum, a new 8-part premium documentary series, premieres July 17 at 9pm ET/PT on The History Channel. You might think of watermills as quaint constructions in countrysides - when in actuality watermills redefined work. In the Roman era, one mill could replace the labor of dozens of men! To explain this revolutionary tech, Sabrina creates a scale model of the 16 Roman watermills of Barbegal, a 300 CE construction that could create enough flour for 27,000 people. #HistoryRemadeWithSabrina Subscribe for more HISTORY: http://histv.co/SubscribeHistoryYT Check out exclusive HISTORY content: History Newsletter - https://histv.co/newsletter Website - https://histv.co/History Facebook - https://histv.co/Facebook Twitter - https://histv.co/Twitter HISTORY® is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive, and entertaining manner across all platforms. The network’s all-original programming slate features a roster of hit series, premium documentaries, and scripted event programming. CREDITS Executive Producer Sabrina Cruz Melissa Fernandes Taha Khan Producer Molly Williams Researcher George Lawson Craft Engineer Jade Codinera Writer Sabrina Cruz Host Sabrina Cruz Director Melissa Fernandes B-Cam / DIT River Shepperd Sound Edison Dietrich Production Assistant Gabrielle Augustin Story Editor Stephanie Castillo Editor Chase Madsen Animators Krisztina Varga Olivér Varga Executive Producers Sarah Walker Brian Huffman Executive Creative Director, A+E Networks Tim Nolan VP, Marketing Production, A+E Networks Kate Leonard VP, Brand Creative, History Matt Neary Music Courtesy of Audio Network Additional Footage and Photos Provided By Wikimedia Commons Pexels.com Freepik.com Metmuseum.org Library of Congress Produced by Answer in Progress for HISTORY® ©2021 A&E TELEVISION NETWORKS, LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. SOURCES: Stronger than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel, (1983) T Reynolds, The Johns Hopkins University Press. ‘Historical Watermills. Architectural, Mechanical and Hydraulic Heritage’ (2015) by M Centofanti, S Brusaporci, V Lucchese, in History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 31 The practical American millwright and miller, (1870) by D Craik, Cornell University Library. Available at https://archive.org/details/practicalameric01craigoog ‘Industrial Milling in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: A Survey of the Evidence for an Industrial Revolution in Medieval Europe’ (2005), by A Robert Lucas, in Technology and Culture 46,1. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060793 ‘Watermills in Byzantine Greece’ (2014) by Sophia Fermanidou, in Byzantion, 84. ‘The second century CE Roman watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the enigma of one of the oldest industrial complexes’ (2018) by GÜL SÜRMELIHINDI et.al in Science Advances 4,9. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/11/boat-mills-bridge-mills-and-hanging-mills.html Engineering and technology of industrial water power at Castleford Mills from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century (2015) by A Rollinson, Royal Society Publishing ‘Machines, Power and the Ancient Economy’ (2002) by A Wilson, in The Journal of Roman Studies, 92. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3184857 http://www.jesmonddeneoldmill.org.uk/, Newcastle University, Local Heritage Initiative, Heritage Lottery Fund. ‘Water-Mills on the Janiculum’, (2000) by A Wilson, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 45. ‘The Technical Development of the Horizontal Water-Wheel in the First Millennium AD’ (2015) by C Rynne, in The International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology, 85. ‘The Roman Watermill in the Athenian Agora: A New View of the Evidence’ (1987) by R Spain, in Hesperia 56:4 ‘Reconstructing the hydraulics of the world’s first industrial complex, the second century CE Barbegal watermills, France’ (2020) by C Passchier et.al in Scientific Reports 10. ‘The large roman water mill at Barbegal’ (1983) by R Spain, in History of Technology.