I never quite grasped how vast history is until I realised that the Pyramids were as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
I keep using Cleopatra for that quote, but I love that comparison.
Also: when the Great Pyramid was built, there will still mammoths roaming the earth.
Those “Vikings” intermixed with the French and were no longer Vikings by the time William I invaded. Also, the Angevin empire were completely French, being a French family from Anjou.
Northern Europe had many large urban centers with walls and stone buildings as far back as the 2000sBC. It's not a big one, but it's interesting how so much of modern historical "understanding" is completely devoid of any reference to reality and is just "some shit some dude made up to support his ideology".
>Northern Europe had many large urban centers with walls and stone buildings as far back as the 2000sBC.
Where were they? How large were they?
Not trying to debooonk you or anything. Genuinely curious.
The last US Civil War veteran lived to see: >the first ironclad warships >the widespread adoption of bolt action rifles >the first battleships >the first aircraft >the Great War >the first tanks >WWII >the first jets >nukes >the Korean War
I think most importantly, he saw his country go from being irrelevant and fighting a petty civil war over blacks to the strongest power on the planet.
By the time I die, America will go back to being irrelevant.
There were four independent states in all of Africa when the Cleveland Indians/Guardians last won a world series.
(Used to bring up the Cubs and the Ottomans for this but they finally won one)
and it was fucking beautiful.
>The Nintendo Wii is 17 years old, making it a retro console
so when are getting super paper mario threads?
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Christopher Columbus discovered America only 40 after the Roman Empire fell
I never quite grasped how vast history is until I realised that the Pyramids were as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
Significantly older. Sphinx is at least 11,000 yrs old
The Pyramids of Giza were built during the Old Kingdom period c. 2550 to 2490 BC, approximately 4,500 years ago.
The Earth is 6,300 years old tho
Caesar was closer to our time than the construction of the pyramids were to him.
I keep using Cleopatra for that quote, but I love that comparison.
Also: when the Great Pyramid was built, there will still mammoths roaming the earth.
The existence of Greek kingdoms and culture in the middle of Asia never cesses to amaze me
The Second Roman-Samnite War began in 326 BC, the same year that Alexander the Great's army mutinied at the Hyphasis and refused to march any further.
nintendo was founded 6 months after hitler was born.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the 4th of July.
Pre-Meiji feudal Japan coexisted with the USA in the same timeframe
Mozart was alive when the United States declared independence.
Medieval England was just a possession of French nobles.
All of these "French" were Vikings just a bit earlier. And somehow they settled in Normandy, Sicily and erected crusader states in the levante.
Those “Vikings” intermixed with the French and were no longer Vikings by the time William I invaded. Also, the Angevin empire were completely French, being a French family from Anjou.
Operation Barbarossa commenced on the same day that Napoleon began his invasion of Russia.
The Basques had permanent towns in NE America forty years before the Puritans arrived.
This is the first one in the thread that hasn't been posted 1000x before, gz
The Venetian Republic lasted longer than Roman Empire.
San Marino has lasted longer than the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire combined.
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Northern Europe had many large urban centers with walls and stone buildings as far back as the 2000sBC. It's not a big one, but it's interesting how so much of modern historical "understanding" is completely devoid of any reference to reality and is just "some shit some dude made up to support his ideology".
>Northern Europe had many large urban centers with walls and stone buildings as far back as the 2000sBC.
Where were they? How large were they?
Not trying to debooonk you or anything. Genuinely curious.
The last US Civil War veteran lived to see:
>the first ironclad warships
>the widespread adoption of bolt action rifles
>the first battleships
>the first aircraft
>the Great War
>the first tanks
>WWII
>the first jets
>nukes
>the Korean War
I think most importantly, he saw his country go from being irrelevant and fighting a petty civil war over blacks to the strongest power on the planet.
By the time I die, America will go back to being irrelevant.
There were four independent states in all of Africa when the Cleveland Indians/Guardians last won a world series.
(Used to bring up the Cubs and the Ottomans for this but they finally won one)
>66 years between the first flight and the moon landing
It's crazy that jetplanes are 1940s technology