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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • DavesNotHere@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can also hear it every day if you’re an English speaker. The Roman conquest of England greatly affected the English language.

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    • Bloomcole@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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      • DavesNotHere@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Englishmen: We’ve been invaded and occupied for centuries by sooo many different nation states. Which one are you again?

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      • DavesNotHere@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ask them why they let their little island be conquered so many times. Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Normans. That we know of. Did they need an infusion of culture because they have none of their own? Was it a DEI thing? We may never know.

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  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • TwinTusks@bitforged.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Taiping Rebellion is a mess.

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