• Ashyr
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    8 months ago

    I mean, the Romans were just industrialized pillagers. Who cares what they would have thought.

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        8 months ago

        I mean, if you’re going to disregard the contributions of Viking culture because they were notorious for their pillaging, it’s only fair to disregard Rome, whose entire economy was based on systematized pillaging.

        Both cultures have contributions, but the wholesale massacre of other civilizations gets a pass when we discuss Rome for some reason.

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      8 months ago

      See, even in stuff that was just secondary to them, they were better!