I want to see people saying “That’s my Hanseatic League” or “How often do you think about the Oxus Civilization?”

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    My thoughts about the Roman empire are largely because we are the inheritors of all its baggage. Roman columns. Latin. The catholic Church. Etc

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    There are definitely a lot of people who are interested in Roman history and are not fascists or racists.

    Buuuuut it’s also true that Roman history sure does attract a disproportionate share of fascists and racists.

    Source: I used to be a Roman history guy.

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    Rome was in the bible. Rome executed Jesus and then became a Christian state. Rome took over the entire Mediterranean. That’s why they’re memed so hard.

    Imagine if this was a country today:

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      This means literally nothing to people who live outside of Europe. Congratulations they united the Mediterranean. China existed at the same time too and continued to exist for the next 2000 years with the same borders intact minus a few hiccups. Rome not only imploded it was also fucking backwards along with the rest of Europe and the people that inhabit it are fucking savages unlike the rest of the world. The Polynesians are the true civilization carriers of all of humanity, they colonize far off islands and shit peacefully, eat all kinds of fruit, fought giant birds, had the lowest working hours in history, I mean read some of the accounts they had of early Hawaii, shit was so efficient they got done working by noon and surfed all day, that is success and agriculturalists were suffering all day.

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        shrug-outta-hecks i’m just saying why rome gets memed. i didn’t say the reasons were good

        The Polynesians are the true civilization carriers of all of humanity, they colonize far off islands and shit peacefully, eat all kinds of fruit, fought giant birds, had the lowest working hours in history, I mean read some of the accounts they had of early Hawaii, shit was so efficient they got done working by noon and surfed all day, that is success and agriculturalists were suffering all day.

        yeah but you don’t get memed by relaxing and leaving everyone alone. you get memed by being messy and loving drama, like rome.

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    I thought you were going to mention the Sumer civilization. Or at least the Greek.

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    It isn’t much better on our end where people only talk about the Mayans. There were other groups that outlasted them with their own fascinating histories, but the Mayans had pyramids and pyramids are cool.

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      Theirs is the first name I curse when I wake up and the last thing I think about before plunging my room into darkness the way they plunged the Mediterranean into darkness.