My thoughts about the Roman empire are largely because we are the inheritors of all its baggage. Roman columns. Latin. The catholic Church. Etc

Every civilization is an honorary Roman empire. Except the Roman empire they're honorary Hittites.

Because the hanseatic league was a bunch of boring traders and didn't do cool forts and famous dick joke vandalism

There are definitely a lot of people who are interested in Roman history and are not fascists or racists.

Buuuuut it’s also true that Roman history sure does attract a disproportionate share of fascists and racists.

Source: I used to be a Roman history guy.

Rome was in the bible. Rome executed Jesus and then became a Christian state. Rome took over the entire Mediterranean. That's why they're memed so hard.

Imagine if this was a country today:

I thought you were going to mention the Sumer civilization. Or at least the Greek.

Sanxingdui 5ever. Free Bashuria!

I've always wanted to learn more about the Indus Valley civilizations

I just want more people talking about the Tartarian Empire and the mud flood that they're hiding the truth about

It isn't much better on our end where people only talk about the Mayans. There were other groups that outlasted them with their own fascinating histories, but the Mayans had pyramids and pyramids are cool.

i'm out here every day thinking about the goddang mongols

How often do you think about the Bronze Age collapse sea people?

The hanseatic league is the root of all evil

I got that Ea-Nasir #grindset