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We can only do that when we know how many years go by, though. Western History can maybe count back safely some centuries before that, but beyond that we find some calendar discrepancies, we’re missing some rulers and we know we have incorrect reign lengths, and depending one which one we pick, the whole thing shifts maybe a decade or two (short / intermediate / long chronology in Mesopotamia and Egypt), so that’s not ideal. Eastern chronologies aren’t any safer beyond 1000 BCE either. As you may say, people learned to write before they learned to count.

Even the Julian / Gregorian calendar counted back and was still off by 3 to 7 years.

He wasn’t alone at the top of one instant big army. He joined a lord who was already making his own kingdom, like several others, as the Qin were losing control of a lot of land. Liu Bang did become one of that lesser lord’s two top generals, and the other general, Xiang Yu, is the one who raced to the Qin capital and burned the palace.

Then Xiang Yu ordered the official split of the Qin empire into like a dozen smaller kingdoms, giving some of them to his friends, and then went around slaughtering them to reunite the land under his control, because that was his fucking jam (that was after having made his own former lord the new emperor, and then murdered him). Liu Bang was one of them, getting his own army, and ran around uniting people like smart tacticians and leaders with their own armies faster than Xiang Yu could kill them. He won that race, Xiang Yu got himself cornered and alone (and was so metal he cut his own head off in the middle of the battlefield when he was the last one standing on his side), and Liu Bang founded his dynasty with all the people who put him there.

DBZA, when Killing decides not to blow up 18 and to stand up to Cell so she can escape:

If we make it through this, I am going to rock his four-foot world.

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The OG does have her kiss him and then him get conflicted over blowing her up because he has the hots for her, and at the end, he asks Shenron to remove the bomb and she picks up on that, all of that is in the manga, she even blushes and says “see you later” before leaving. Abridged only changed the dialogues mostly, to have her actually call him cute. And that final “pwn counter” destruction scene.

Hollywood had a lot of influence back in 450 BCE.

Spartan wives famously grew very influential because they’d remarry when their warrior husband died in combat, and they’d keep inheriting land. Generations of Spartan widows put a handful of women in charge of much land, and by extension, of politics.

Virgil wrote the Aeneid just after the end of the Roman Republic though, under Augustus. Don’t know what the Republic proper thought about themselves on the subject. How well known was that myth before him?