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I got a question not greece/rome related, but ancient enough to qualify for this thread. How did Sumerians wage war? I figured they would use simple spears, but did they use phalanxes or chariots? And were there professional soldiers or did the local king just press gang a bunch a people with low quality weapons?
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Ras Het posted:No they weren't? But its such an outlandish and poetic explanation!
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Jul 5, 2013 01:33
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That is depressingly ironic. The guy who wanted to reestablish learning and literacy to europe couldn't learn to read.
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Aug 31, 2013 00:14
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Alekanderu posted:No ancient civilization had the means to kill literally every member of a nation/ethnicity/race, but then again that's not the definition of genocide either. So how many Iberian celts have you met? Or gaulish celts? Or Etruscans? Or sabines? or....
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Sep 18, 2013 19:46
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The pythagorians: Whats the deal with them? Is there any information about the out there other than "Crazy math cultists who assasinated people to keep knowledge of irrational numbers from spreading?"
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Oct 26, 2013 15:04
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I always get bit  when I remember that the Romans had advertisements almost exactly like modern ones.
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Nov 22, 2013 17:29
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I desperately want to see that in latin as some Ivy league schools motto.
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Nov 23, 2013 07:30
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Josef bugman posted:He's kept bloody quiet about it since his city burned down in that case. Mars was hungrier.
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Nov 25, 2013 02:07
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When you add in "Welp, will of the gods v v" as an accepted cause of death it gets tricky.
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Dec 4, 2013 19:31
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Amused to Death posted:e: I for one look forward to 4,000 years from now where after 6 more world wars the only surviving documents of this decade are from Glenn Beck and future historians ponder on what went wrong in American society to make them ever elected a communist-nazi dictator hell-bent on building FEMA death camps and implementing death panels and Sharia law. That's definitely gonna wind up creating some interesting theories. "I keep seeing this bizarre glyph appear in the old records. It appears to be a circle with 8 lines emerging from 2 sides, one of which appears to have a ring on it. What ever could it mean?"
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Jan 17, 2014 02:27
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I gotta wonder how it must have felt for the guys who were still nomadic, decide to go into a certain mountain pass and see a big rear end temple complex made of carved stone holy fuckballs.
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Jan 17, 2014 22:15
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Kassad posted:Also to be pedantic... You mean 'conquer', not 'civilize'. Rome liked to talk itself up but the other nations of the time weren't particularly backwards in comparison except when it came to FTFY
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Jan 18, 2014 16:31
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I really have to wonder what kind of royalty in europe actually takes themselves seriously anymore considering they stopped being relevant beyond ceremonial poo poo after World War 1.
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Jan 19, 2014 07:41
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So is there any word on whether or not his habit of staring at the sun played a role in his death?
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Mar 9, 2014 04:15
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Ancient Carthaginian Baal worship. 420 sacrifice children erry day 420 
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Apr 1, 2014 03:03
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:Yeah, and where is the sun on the British Empire now? "He who controls the plumbing controls the world" - Sun Tzu
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Apr 28, 2014 19:08
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Grand Fromage posted:Why do people go back to those gods? They were all giant assholes. I don't get the motivation. To be fair, Hades was pretty mellow compared to the other gods.
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Jun 14, 2014 20:11
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PittTheElder posted:The trick would be getting other people to believe you. Thats easy. "Yeah man im from [far off empire no ones been to]. I was with an trade mission as a [insert what your trying to get hired as here]. We got attacked by [local mythological beast], I poo poo you not. Only survivor too, but it destroyed all my [medical texts, mathmatical proofs, whatever]."
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Jun 28, 2014 19:31
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JaucheCharly posted:I think the bottomline of that whole conversation is, that if you manage to stay on a trail of an animal, you can chase it to death. You just stalk it until it drops from exhaustion. Works with deers et al. so I heard. Its called endurance hunting, and its still practiced today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
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Jul 9, 2014 22:15
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JaucheCharly posted:You could start by not feeding them. Pretty much this. They're lampreys they do 2 things, feed and mate. You dont have to go out of your way to get them to attack stuff.
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Jul 17, 2014 18:25
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We'll split it into two threads, that's always a good idea!
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Jul 28, 2014 14:48
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Jerusalem posted:The best old gossip, I wish we had an existing copy of,"Lives of Famous Whores." Im sad, because I know I'll never come up with a good a title as "Lives of Famous Whores".
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Aug 21, 2014 00:26
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Jerusalem posted:Cicero would be so disappointed in both of you Given he once won a defense by calling the plaintiff an adulterous slut, I doubt that.
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Aug 21, 2014 23:22
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Can you blame him? Agrippa 
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Sep 6, 2014 00:06
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so how many roman emperors has The Thing impersonated?
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Sep 24, 2014 20:11
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How are we measuring scientific advancement? Kilo-beakers (non-muslim of course)?
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Oct 2, 2014 03:05
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Did he at least have a beard magnificent enough to make people surrender to it?
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Oct 16, 2014 11:28
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Ras Het posted:So you just assume that things like coriander, cumin, fennel, thyme, oregano etc. ad infinitum weren't used? If i recall there was an herb the Romans liked so much that they over-harvested it to extinction. They even put it on coins in North Africa. Cant remember what its called though. Regardless, Spices can be pricey even now and days. Imagine how your average roman pleb is going to afford those in any meaningful amount.
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Nov 20, 2014 04:04
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Smoking Crow posted:Also, iirc, there was a contraceptive herb the Romans used to extinction Truly a golden age we can never hope to recover 
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Nov 20, 2014 04:08
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Doesnt that mean that literally every territory that was conquered by barbarians is a Continuation of the True Roman Empire? this is all rather byzantine.
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Nov 20, 2014 19:43
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euphronius posted:What is Rome. I am Rome. You are Rome. The Thread is Rome. All is Rome. Except Han China, they're too cool to be Rome.
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Nov 21, 2014 00:52
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You may substitute your quiz for a massive effortpost about cuneiform
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Dec 26, 2014 16:04
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Not sure whats a better summary of this thread, the Suetonis Tiddlers Theory or this Atlantis clusterfuck 
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Dec 27, 2014 01:52
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have u guys shouted PI at him really loudly??? What would the Pythagoreans do?
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Dec 27, 2014 06:37
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most of the thread
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Dec 27, 2014 22:17
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Maybe one day someone will find a copy of Lives of Famous Whores. 
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Dec 30, 2014 01:03
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Several. I dont know nearly enough to go into detail, but Central America had the Olmecs who were settled enough to carve giant stone heads, and north america had the Mound builders in the South East, who build massive artificial hills 1000 years before the Great Pyramids were constructed. The areas around Kentucky and Ohio also had cultures who built their own mounds and also lived in fort-villages. As far as I know there were cities like these up till European contact caused small pox to kill off 90% of their population; at which point they went WELP I GUESS ITS BACK TO SQUARE ONE, THANKS WHITEY which reduced the scale of their civilization to what people popularly think of.
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Dec 30, 2014 05:31
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Dalael posted:I'm aware that plenty of civilization lived everywhere throughout North America during different periods. What I'm wondering is, their level of development. I find it curious that none of them seemed to have reached the level of development reached by the Greeks, Persians, Egyptiens, Incas, Mayas and so many ancient civilizations... and I wonder why that may be. How do you define "Advanced"? To use your examples, what did they accomplish that the Maya, Olmec, or Pueblos didn't? North American civilization had pyramids by the dozens, astronomy and the mathematics to follow, and large cities (that are hard to excavate given many werent made of stone and have a suburb on top of them now).
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Dec 30, 2014 07:56
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Ynglaur posted:So...Jesus is Bolivian? That must be why there are so many Roman Catholics in South America! It...it all makes so much sense! Why not? We already know hes chinese, korean, and Ethiopian!   
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Elyv posted:Are you talking about the Codex Alera series, or is there another Jim Butcher author out there? Because Codex Alera was (loosely) inspired by ancient Rome but is unapologetically fantasy. He literally wrote it on a dare to cross pokemon with the lost legion how the hell can you be literate and think its meant to be a historical peace
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