Comment on I Guess It Really Wasnt

cally@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Romans.

  There were a bunch of people living in the area, farming and worshipping the gods, who shared similar values and felt a certain unity. Those folks got together and started building a city.

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  • Sly2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they weren’t romans tho, they only became romans when someone called the place “Rome” So in order for them to be called romans, they mustve vuilt the place and then named it. Before that they were called sth else.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

      There were plenty of people living in the New England colonies before they started referring to themselves as ‘Americans.’

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• DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People build cities, buildings do not, so I’m going to vote for people coming first.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The question is if they were considered and/or identified as Romans before there was a city called Rome

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    • DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahh, but a better question is whether they were Roman before they had the name?

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What does that mean to you? What is the essence of being Roman that preexisted the name?

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