Current Events > I've been kinda impressed with the ancient world recently

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Yeah, human lifespan was very short back then and there was some awful stuff like slavery but their pottery was badass.

Also cool gods like Osiris and Ashur.

ImAMarvel posted...

I honestly think Ancient Egypt was pretty crazy. One of the earliest large-scale human civilizations that existed in some form for 3000 years, built some of the craziest engineering projects known to man that still stand today, and created one of the earliest forms of writing? Shit's pretty cray cray, man. I wish I could've seen what the Pyramids of Giza looked like in their time.

I've also become impressed by mathematics of ancient civilizations, including Egypt. It's so crazy what they were able to do without having calculators or most of our modern forms of math. Also incredibly interesting that a lot of them, egypt included, didn't use a system of base 10.

I feel the same. It's just crazy to think when the romans took over the pyramids were already extremely old.

Lifespans weren't really that much shorter. Infant mortality is what throws the averages off for any time before modern medicine.

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How bout gobecly tepi that shit is like the first trade community even older than Axiom which is at least as old as the pyramids.

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ZeroX91 posted...

How bout gobecly tepi that shit is like the first trade community even older than Axiom which is at least as old as the pyramids.

I've been really impressed with Gobekli Tepe too. The thing is, it will take a really long time to excavate all of it.

Its structures and some of its carvings are mindblowing for something made 10000+ years ago

Romans used sponges on sticks as communal asswipers in public toilets. Pull it out of the bucket of poo bits, rub it on your holes nice and good, and stick it back in the bucket for the next person.

I am not impressed.

Tenlaar posted...

Romans used sponges on sticks as communal asswipers in public toilets. Pull it out of the bucket of poo bits, rub it on your holes nice and good, and stick it back in the bucket for the next person.

I am not impressed.

Romans aint ancient that was only like 700 years ago.

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cousinvini posted...

I've been really impressed with Gobekli Tepe too. The thing is, it will take a really long time to excavate all of it.

Its structures and some of its carvings are mindblowing for something made 10000+ years ago

Lowkey belive we reset at some point, like i dont think its full on electricty like some of those nuts on the history channel think we hit Greek/Roman levels several times over tho.

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I dont think that human lifespan back then was "very short" either.

People like to meme about how making it to age 20 was like some extreme elder or something. But i dont think it was uncommon for people to live into their 70s or older.

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ZeroX91 posted...

Romans aint ancient that was only like 700 years ago.

I have seen the end of the Roman empire commonly used as the end point of "ancient."

The Ancient World is cool but most focus is put on Athens and Sparta, Egypt and the Roman Empire. Barely any attention is brought up to Syracuse which rivaled Athens or Achaemenid Persia which is often depicted as a decadent empire ruled by a tyrannical despot.

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Same thing with Ancient Angkor Wat, like entire grand civilization almost eaten and hidden by the jungle, theyre still finding stuff from that ancient civilization