Imagine a first date with no phone, no perfume, and your entire family watching. That's how humans dated for most of history.

In this video we travel through five eras of love, from a Stone Age campfire to a Victorian parlor, and find out how people actually flirted, courted, married and divorced. A Spartan bride with a haircut, a medieval Icelandic divorce over a shirt, the world's first dating coach in Rome, and the secret language of fans that turned out to be a sales trick.

By the end, you'll know exactly which era you would have survived on a first date. (Spoiler: probably none of them.)

CHAPTERS
0:00 A first date with your whole family
0:54 Stone Age: love around the campfire
3:18 Ancient Egypt
4:39 Ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta
6:02 Ancient Rome: the first dating coach
6:41 Middle Ages: love with paperwork
8:06 Victorian era: fans, chaperones and valentines
9:43 What we learned

Which era would you have survived on a first date? Tell me in the comments!

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