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It gets cold here. Should be good enough for them.
The Romans wore thick socks under their sandals in places with unbearably cold climates, like England. I don't know if they wore pants though... 🤔
They did when it got cold! Notably, when the Legions based at the German border came to Rome during the Year of the Four Emperors in 69 AD (nice), the population of Rome were shocked that the legionaries, their fellow Romans, were wearing TROUSERS!
A Roman does what he has to to stay warm!
Sound like german dad at bbq in winter.
Frater, ubi est penis tuus?
were pants even invented at that time? i thought they were relatively recent, like 1500 or so.
Isn't the joke that the Germans used them and the Romans didn't like the idea (of neither Germans or doing anything that they did)?
were germans even invented at that time?
Germans =/= Germanic tribes, but it's clear from the context.
ah germanic humor
There are only 4 humors and "germanic" isn't one of them. I could offer you some phlegm?
You're talking a lot of smack for someone who's in miasma range
But the ever-germane smack only allemannic engineering can offer
Celts and Germanic peoples wore clothing that were recognizably trousers (and not leggings).
Trousers saw a revival in Western fashion in the early modern period, but had 'existed' since long before.
oh interesting
leggings in that context aren't pants, they're basically loose legs that you tie to your belt.
~~stone~~ copper age garter belt stockings
Iron age
Iron age was 1200 - 550 BC, Ötzi lived ~3200 BC, which actually puts him in the chalcolithic/copper age (he even had a copper axe) or maybe early bronze age. So we were both wrong!
Sorry I missed that it'd moved from Rome lol
Most of the Roman history that's talked about here wasn't part of the iron age, either (depending on who you ask)! Antiquity is its own period, and its historic (people were writing historic accounts, inscriptions etc.) in contrast to the prehistoric (in most parts of Europe, though not the Near East) iron age.
yeah, calling rome "iron age" is kinda like calling us "industrial era"
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