▲ 590 ▼ Those moutains are so quaint (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 weeks ago by negativenull@piefed.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 309 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] The_v@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) South America looks at both and snorts... "You call those mountains!!" These babies are started with the breakup of Pangea and are still growing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes First time I was flying into Santiago, I was amazed when we hit 3,000m and looked way up at the mountains out the window. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago They also have the only empire we know of that used mountains as its imperial core rather than as internal boundaries. Even Rome which was located in the famously mountainous Italy and was a land power treated the mountains as an inconvenience. But the Inca were just like "fuck you, we're mountain people" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago They also have the only empire we know of that used mountains as its imperial core rather than as internal boundaries. Even Rome which was located in the famously mountainous Italy and was a land power treated the mountains as an inconvenience. But the Inca were just like "fuck you, we're mountain people" permalink fedilink source parent
