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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Man, I love unexpected comparisons like this!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Woolly mammoths walked the Earth while the pyramids were being built (well, one small corner of it).

Oxford university was teaching before the Aztec Empire began.

I think I read through an entire AskReddit thread of these. A few I came across on my own and was surprised by: Fibbonacci of the numbers fame could have met Ghengis Khan, Benjamin Franklin could have talked to Isaac Newton, and Galileo was literally the same age as Shakespeare.

[–] tetris11 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I need some dates on this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good article, thanks for the info!