Comment on Damn, if only I could guide Rome through thousands of years of history...

HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Are you counting the Eastern Empire? There’s an argument that our view of “Rome” is obnoxiously Eurocentric. The economic lifeblood of the Empire was mostly outside of Europe, and lots of wheat from Egypt.

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  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No shit, I came here to point this out. Like, wtf does the WESTERN Roman Empire part really have to do with anything?

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Uhhh, machine guns? Archimedes theorized a steam cannon, and a lot of other cool totally possible shit that was never built, 2nd century bc or so, though the Romans invaded and the sicilian greek city did not fully implement his ingenius ideas for the defense of the city state, he was teaching in class and a Roman soldier came in he ignored the soldier and kept teaching and the soldier stabbed him in the gut.

      They also had greek fire in byzantium, they figured fractional distallation of oil that comes to the surface around the black sea. Flamethrowers from ships, crazy shit for the day. Muslims still wiped the floor with them crusaders helping, and or looting constantsinople on their way through.

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      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dude, read the article, but I used quotes for just that reason, that being the evidence we have is some evenly-spaced holes in some walls with flechettes lodged in some.

        Where you got the idea I was just fellating the old empire from all that is beyond me, but at least I don’t have to give a damn which part of “the Ayatolla appreciates your efforts!” offends you exactly in return…

        Seriously, versus OOP, I’m here for the
        A E S T H E T I C . . .
        Can we set the Dick-measuring contests aside for like, a minute?

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    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sutton Hoo mecha made with Ulfbehrt steel. Unstoppable.

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    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Your source is bullshit. Sulla was a monster, like the us prez but younger.

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      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        My source was one of many, and only makes the Empire’s failure to endure look even more pathetic, but you get all butt-hurt about it as you like, I guess.

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  • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah well the byzantines lasted a lot longer but they were corrupt as shit, those greek whores.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Some say, it’s still falling to this day…

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