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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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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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[–] PugJesus 15 points 1 week ago

Explanation: After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Empire lived on. Only, uh, without Rome. Or the rest of Italy. For obvious reasons, this affected the cultural outlook of the elites and changed the populations they were drawn from, and the resulting successor state, which regarded itself simply as the Roman Empire of old, was largely Greek and oriented its foundation on a Christian religious identity. This successor state/continuation is commonly known as the Byzantine Empire, after the former name of its capital - Byzantium - then Constantinople - now Istanbul.