All history is cool. Roman history just has a lot to study.
To be fair, Roman history is really cool.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Agreed. But if you’re going to fixate on one era, you could do a lot worse than Roman history.
Other cool eras to fixate on:
- Joseon Dynasty and Sejong the Great in Korea
- Chola Empire - naval empire before navies were really a thing
- Ethiopian Empire - somehow survived with strong empire neighbors
There’s a lot of really cool history, Roman history is extra cool though since you can see so much of it in Europe.
DavesNotHere@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.
Bloomcole@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yes but I can’t let this chance go by to piss off the English and say they’re a German colony, the country they love to hate.
Speak a germanic language.
England, literally land of the Angle. Where are the Angle from? And who’s the other part of the Anglo-Saxons?
Ruled by…The Windsors? Doesn’t sound right.
Or did they change their Von Saxen-Gotha name for some mysterious reason in 1914?
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I can picture much of roman history in my mind and put into context. Asian history is almost like fantasy lore and no matter how much I learn about it I cannot wrap my mind around how recent tieping rebellion is even though christanity played a huge role in it.
TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 month ago
Taiping Rebellion is a mess.
Bloomcole@lemm.ee 1 month ago
True, but there is a lot of Roman history and some find it cool for the wrong reasons.